Chiming in with my grattitude. I was able to get back everything I lost and more, in less time that I had spent gaining it back.  This sealed the deal on a great holiday weekend

 I hope you enjoyed at least of fraction of what you alotted us!

If it doesn't come up shortly, I might be down until 6am EST too.

At least you guys have seen something. Nothing's shown up on my list since it went down.

To answer, yes, I have seen 2 charms at the same time on trash mobs. You have to think though, it is going to be pretty rare to find that. It does 2 checks and both have to beat the odds and check=yes at whatever percentage it is at on both of them.

It warms my heart that someone eslse understands statistics!

As Xiggie already pointed out, each drop is an independent event, but if you really want, you could find out the chance that both events will occur simultaneously (in a row) by squaring the initial  probability. I don't recommend doing the calculation for LDoN charms (1/666), you might be sad. If you hit that, you should be hanging out at the craps table instead of playing EQ.

I'd certainly be for it and I don't think anyone would dare object. Sunday-Tuesday were my days off this week. Even with just one weekend day I could probably recoup my loss in charms.

But hey, it's a game, and as Cowtipper said, things happen. Thanks for getting everything back up and running!

Excellent! Looks like I might be moving into level 4 soon for my pally then, thanks for the heads up Hurls.

I agree that it's rough, but I think the current reply has been something along the lines of, "Working as intended, suck it up."

I haven't yet started farming my pally's oracle, but on my zerker I've been able to get the charm up to lvl 23 over the course of 10-12 days casually playing. Level 5 is great for card drops and I'd say I average a charm every 3 hours of on and off big pulls ( I take breaks, might get better results if you're poopsocking it), plus at least a charm in cards/tokens every 2-3 hours or so.

Like I said, I haven't done the numbers on the other floors, but if you're averaging less than a charm every 3 hours, it's probably better to just instance up,  farm level 5 and take the extra sorc charms as a 1000 token bonus.

EDIT: My time estimates were a little off on the cards. Still stands that it's probably better to go after cards/tokens on level 5, since in 8 hours you'd conservatively get at least 2 charms worth, if not more, there.

So if we're online, are we wasting our time with that error message or will the info be saved?

What's your strategy with farming pages for the 3.0 characters?

When I first tried breaking into HoH I had just a 3.0 Pally, 3.0 Zerker, and 3.0 Warrior. The warrior was practically useless when Stonewall was down, but since each avatar took me almost 10 minutes that wasn't such a big deal, lol. I had about a 50% death/success rate with this set up.

I farmed up pages JUST for the pally first; once I got one, I would move on to the next section. With a 3.5 pally and only a lvl 12 oracle charm, my survivability shot up quite nicely. I had maybe a 5-10% failure/wipe rate on some unlucky rounds, but my dps didn't improve much.

After the 3.5 on the pally, all my efforts went into getting him a 4.0 Book. Once 4.0'd I almost never wipe anymore due to lack of healing (maybe 2% of the time due to my own negligence). I also main tank with the 4.0 pally and off tank the adds with the 3.0 Warrior, keeping the zerker in between for AE Dmg. A 4.0 zerker didn't increase the dps dramatically (working on augs/sorc now), but a 4.0 mage is like night and day and is going to seriously shorten the page farming time for my other chars.

I also recommend nabbing pally stonewall cheaply in auction or from guildies if you can/don't already have it. That should take a back seat to 4.0 books, but it helps. I'll definitely need to buff my war up for t3/t4 armor mobs, but for now the pally centric strategy is working fine. I'm having a blast in t2/HoH with my current set up of  Pally/Mage/Zerker/Warrior.

Does the qvic worn focus effect actually improve clicky-summoned epic pets (3.0 etc.)? How noticeable is the benefit?