Waiting, Wishing, Hoping (for a gull)

**pharphis** · 10-07-2012, 19:45

A gem shrine. eh? Frequent gem shrines are always a good excuse to run the same target a bunch more!

Pyro mentioned them dropping from a rack. This reminded me of all of the potential dagger racks she can have in the tower cellar, so if you're looking for runes and have given up on your map I would give her a last ditch effort if you notice one or more of her weapon racks dropping daggers. your time commitment for gull specifically is better put to coldcrow.

**Jocular** · 10-07-2012, 20:33

Yeah, I've never really been a fan of racking; it's too precise and easy to mess up on. Plus, running the countess in norm always feels so useless :/ Especially on a sorc, where I don't really even need gear at all for norm...(except mf of course).

These last 50 runs have been discouraging, not one unique, but 2 set pieces. And of course, more rare daggers. I think I'm going to take a break and continue tomorrow.

**Pyrotechnician** · 10-07-2012, 20:34

Actually, I think I have a screen shot of the gull dagger when I got it from the rack, I was shocked when it happened so I had to screen shot it for fun.

http://s1150.photobucket.com/albums/...GullDagger.jpg

**pharphis** · 10-07-2012, 20:35

Originally Posted by Pyrotechnician

Actually, I think I have a screen shot of the gull dagger when I got it from the rack, I was shocked when it happened so I had to screen shot it for fun.

http://s1150.photobucket.com/albums/...GullDagger.jpg

Daayyyummmnnn.
I got one in LK before, I think :P Hell, of course.

**Solar Ice** · 10-07-2012, 21:05

Gull was iirc one of the last three TC3 grail items that I had to find (Bane Ash was the last one). Try farming Coldcrow in normal for one. The item, along with many S/U items in the game, requires patience to find. That is the nature of the whole concept of "Magic Finding"

**One nOOb to rule them all** · 11-07-2012, 06:17

I have 5 gull's. All from Raikinishu(spelling?) and tristram. Despite what atma's and gomule's calculator says about griswold in normal he drops items with level 8 not 5. Therefor he should be able to have a gull drop as well. I can not say 100% certainty I don't think any of them actually came from griswold, but I am just throwing that out there. I would think getting a stony field map with the trist portal close to the wp and hitting raikinishu, griswold, the champion pack in the town center, and the 1 or 2 unique packs that should be close by would be better overall and definitely faster than running coldcrow.

**twillight** · 11-07-2012, 16:52

Originally Posted by Solar Ice

Gull was iirc one of the last three TC3 grail items that I had to find (Bane Ash was the last one). Try farming Coldcrow in normal for one. The item, along with many S/U items in the game, requires patience to find. That is the nature of the whole concept of "Magic Finding"

Coldcrow can drop much more item, thus for Gull has much lower chance then Rakanishu + Griswold.

**pharphis** · 11-07-2012, 17:00

I think you mean she can drop less items :P But yeah, from what I remember her chance of dropping it is about 4 times higher than rakanishu/treehead.
I've never considered Griswold because he drops nothing but socketed/white/eth/blues for me.

**Pyrotechnician** · 11-07-2012, 18:04

I never get anything but crud from Griswold as well. I think the thought there is even though the chances are lower with those targets, they may be faster to find it since you are killing more enemies than just the one specific target in a run.

**Jocular** · 12-07-2012, 06:24

Large-ish update.

Still looking for the Gull! With ~170% mf, and 250 runs in, I still have yet to find it. I'm more impressed than sad, as my odds for finding it are relatively high compared to usual mfing. But don't worry! I'm not giving up, especially with all the great "loot" Coldcrow has given me. As follows:

The Loot

First, the Uniques, of course.

Biggons Bonnet: 1
Hotspurs: 3
Knell Striker: 1
Pelta Lunata: 2
Rixots Keen: 2

Next, the Set pieces (I wasn't as good at record keeping these)

Hsarus Buckler: 1
Arctic Furs body armor: 4
Arctic Furs belt: 2
Infernal Cranium: 2

And last, but definitely not least, the number of rare daggers I've found?

10

At this point, I almost wish it keeps going to 500. But then I don't because I'd kill myself. I thought grabbing a gull from Coldcrow would take 50-100 runs given how many threads I've read about Coldcrow dropping gulls like she just don't care. But she obviously loves to drop every other TC3 item instead. Going to do 250 runs tomorrow, and hit half a thousand! Hopefully the gull will drop before then, but who knows?