happynoobing wrote:Elemental wrote:This is a sos bow drop I just got grinding on chakjis on my noob. Lucky too cause it is a lvl 20 archer, 4 more lvls and i can use it. No alchemy has been done, it dropped with those blues

i thought monsters cannot drop items higher lvl than they are...
mobs drop sos stuff that is the same degree or a degree higher
i remember back in the day farming at bandits, i got some 3rd degree stuff and a lvl 24 shield...
some friends of mine got 8th degree sos drops at penons and sonars... and one got a 7th degree sword at penons.. so sos drops are more of a range... not sure how the range works for som/sosun tho.. but i'm not sure i've seen a som drop that's higher than the mob. I could well possibly be wrong. sosun, from what i've heard, only comes from mobs higher than the item. my friend picked up a lvl 1 sosun ring from bandit archers...
oh.. and re: stones for the bow
i'd have to say durability is the MOST useful for a lvl 16 farming bow... even if you're lacking on a bit of the str/int bonuses... nothing sucks more than having to repair really soon after getting to the den. I've farmed a few times with a 110 durability bow until it was down to 1....