BCNM QuestionFollow

When you enter a BCNM such as BCNM30, you can only bring 3 party members into the BCNM fight. This is understood, but does that prevent you from having a larger party overall. For instance, if I have a party of six, can I send three of my party members in to fight the BCNM while keeping 3 party members outside? The reason I ask is because each person added to the party increases the odds of getting a drop. So, for BCNM30, I could have a party of 6 people... 3 for fighting the BCNM and perhaps 3 thieves also in the party but not participating in the fight. Obviously, if possible, this would be a huge benefit when trying to get rare drops from BCNMs. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks. -- Malidar

That's actually not true, it was a rumor that started out of a misunderstanding of one of the theories on TH in the thief forums. It's fairly easy to disprove. The theory is that each person gets a chance at the drop, so the amount that the odds would go up by adding a person would be very, very visible on items with fairly high drop rates. You can wander out and go farming for a couple of hours and show that it doesn't change at all, though.

From my understanding, TH doesn't help with drops in BCNMs, I think it's just completely random what you get. On the offchance that it does...well then my TH would need a severe overhaul then....and lol, it's bad enough that we're TH whores endgame....now we're being considered for TH whores on BCNMs....



Edited, Jun 7th 2006 at 7:46pm EST by SKPohina

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I don't know that I'd call it THF whoring. I just don't want to sit for days camping certain NM's and struggling to find parties to do BCNM's. If I can find a better way to ensure drops, then that's what I'm going to do. I refuse to buy gil from gillsellers which is why I'm broke right now. I can't afford a 3 million gil pair of boots. I wouldn't be doing BCNM's for gil anyway. I don't have the beastman's seals to do them for both gil and necessary equipment. I've killed leaping lizzie over 20 times with no drop so I'm getting very frustrated. Consequently, I am leveling THF as we speak.