Hi there, this topic is to share your unluckiest moments in AO.
Remember to follow the rule of 4Ds: Don’t derail, and don’t disrespect.
I’ll start with mine that happened just now:
I only obtained 1 wolf pelt cloak after nearly 400 kills (it’s 1/4-5 drop from a 1/10 drop chance enemy).
To figure out how unlucky that is, we’re going to use this formula: (chance-rolled/total-chances)^attempts*100 (39/40)^399*100 = 0.00410054576898768359122630291435% (or a 0.00010251364422469208978065757285886% chance of getting it on my 400th kill)
for reference, you have a 0.025% chance of fishing up a sunken.
I don’t have a specific % chance for this one, but one time I was in the dark sea and I accidentally activated my dodge reflex on an island, falling into one of those pools of lava and losing like 30 dark sealed chests =(
Join game.
Immediately go to Dark Sea, loot for ~15 minutes in I0
Sail back to Ravenna
I can see the island
“Your connection has been lost”
Okay then
Rejoin
Dark sea for ~5 minutes this time (pretty sure I was looking for an agile scroll, so I was looking for sealies)
Sail back to Ravenna
Dock my ship
Run up to the shipwright
“Your connection has been lost”
Scream in the middle of the school library
My wifi wasn’t even that bad??? I play in the same spot every day and I can usually go an hour without disconnecting.
be me
halloween event with the candies
at forests grinding maria
maria is dead so i tjump and try to get to the top
maria respawns
i hit maria with spirit blast
get combat tagged
go down
“wtf? i cant select mah flintlocks”
5 seconds later
DISCONNECTED. PLEASE CHECK YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION BEFORE TRYING AGAIN
i had 441 items in my ship storage
worst of all its the type of internet disconnect that usually connects fast enough to the point where you just… dont disconnect and it would just look like a really bad lag spike
Was on the return trip from a Dark Sea run with my Magic Savant; had about 50 Dark Sealed Chests. Finished looting a Siren Rock, and after reaching for my ship to sail away, got hit with a disconnect.
I jumped in water to get some lost cargo that was nearby, I got hit by a shark and about 1 second later the game shutdown.
It wasn’t one of those scheduled ones but it had a message that showed it was some sort of shutdown/server closing
1- I’m in the dark sea and I get pulled into a tornado while under a mushroom, I get trapped and I keep taking damage by the tornado until I die.
2- I’m in the dark sea going back to the bronze sea and my ship stops, I assume it got stuck on lost cargo so I jump in the water, it was an invisible whirlpool and I get eaten by a lurker.
3- I’m in the dark sea and I get struck by lightning ~4 times in ~10 minutes, a tornado spawns on my ship around ~2 times and a tornado spawns on me once. I didn’t die this ds run but it was weird.
4- I sailed near a claimed island once and they had mortars, my game froze and updated every ~1 minute for like ~20 minutes while my ship very slowly got sunk and I drowned
Killed captian maria on a warrior slot over 70 times and got every item from her except the single item I wanted which was the plunderers.
Also once went into the dark sea for 30 minutes, got struck directly by lightning 7 times, and had an acid tornado somehow spawn directly on top of my ship.
I’m pretty sure that’s the norm considering that it’s a 1/42 chance to get the plunderers.
Math says that it’s an 18.5% chance to not get plunderers for 70 kills (it becomes a wee bit too complicated if we include other items).
If you wanna trade, I got everything from her except the item I wanted too (chestpiece) (I’ve probably killed her 100+ times at this point, I’ve gotten 6 thalassi and 3 plunderers among other things)
