Question About Knives/Pickaxes and the such.

[Almea]

I can understand knives, saws and that that have a chance to give RARER drops...but why on earth would I waste a resource like Red Ore on getting 2 extra drops from a creature for a single adventure? I've been adventuring in Normal Mode areas for over half an hour and not even found a single one despite saying it can be found there.

It's just practically 2 extra common drops. You may as well just adventure twice, it doens't cost too much for a single adventure, and there's no "limit" of any sort. Why on earth would I use it?

[Daonitre]

2 extra common drops would be like running 3x for each time you run. it saves runs, which saves wages and time. I have a preference for robbery with skill fever to avoid using materials on a consumable but knives + eye for monster + robbery + skill fever + Clyde would be insane amounts of materials each run.

[Almea]

Originally posted by Daonitre:

2 extra common drops would be like running 3x for each time you run. it saves runs, which saves wages and time. I have a preference for robbery with skill fever to avoid using materials on a consumable but knives + eye for monster + robbery + skill fever + Clyde would be insane amounts of materials each run.

Even if I get ALL MINES and nothing else...2 extra drops only gives me 5 instead of 3. That's not even running twice. And agian, that's assuming I came cross ONLY mines

[Ansalem1]

Originally posted by Billy Mays:

Originally posted by Daonitre:

2 extra common drops would be like running 3x for each time you run. it saves runs, which saves wages and time. I have a preference for robbery with skill fever to avoid using materials on a consumable but knives + eye for monster + robbery + skill fever + Clyde would be insane amounts of materials each run.

Even if I get ALL MINES and nothing else...2 extra drops only gives me 5 instead of 3. That's not even running twice. And agian, that's assuming I came cross ONLY mines

That's what the skill eye for monster is for. It makes it almost all monsters, sometimes it actually is all monsters with the level 2 skill. You should always run with the skill when using knives. You should always run with the eye for mines when using pickaxes too, for that matter. The skills are pretty great.