Talk:Recipe Drop Pools

o.o do we still not have any idea what you get costume pieces and the temp powers from? they really should be up on this page. --Sleepy Kitty 20:44, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

All the costume pieces and temp powers are Pool A. It's stated in their own article I believe. This article is for enhancement recipes only. -- Leandro 20:47, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Earlier, I was wondering the same thing as sleepykitty. I looked around and couldn't find the information in any of the articles I checked (though I admittedly only skimmed), and I also couldn't find the answer on the forums. This article here seemed to me the logical place for it to be -- nothing in the article says it's restricted to set enhancement recipes. Perhaps we can add a note explaining that Pool A also includes the standard IO enhancement recipes, the temp power recipes, and the costume recipes (if someone can confirm that that's all true, that is--is it?). -- Sekoia 22:09, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Sure, why not. I'll add those recipes in a second. -- Leandro 22:12, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

Would you guys mind if I compressed this article a bit by saying "set-name: all enhancements" instead of listing out every enhancement in a set, when they're all in the same pool and rarity? And if only part of a set is present, using one line per set, like "set-name: enh1, enh2, enh3"? --Lin Chiao Feng 15:45, 27 May 2007 (EDT)

Eek, sorry, I had the same idea and am too used to Wikipedia's [Bold Policy] so I just dove in and did it before even glancing at the discussion page.WolfWings 23:05, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

Compressing sets

There was still some inconsistency with some sets having multiple lines and some being listed on the same line, so I cleaned it up a little and put all the sets on the same line in the same categories. That was all my edits did so if you want to undo it just reverse my changes. MoonRoach 19:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Unknown Pool Recipes

I just got an Unspeakable Terror: Fear/Range from completing the Cavern of Transcendence Trial. It's an uncommon (yellow) recipe, and right now it's in the Unknown Pool, so should it go in the Pool D and the Uncommon list or just the Pool D list? How does that work exactly? MoonRoach 23:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Answer:

Each structured event that triggers a recipe drop draws from 1 pool. Some activities have been deliberately flagged to use a pool other than the one you'd expect. Specifically:

Trial pool recipes are obtainable from the 3 respec trials, and from Hamidon. The hero-side "Trials" other than respecs all pull from other pools, either Mission Complete (for Cavern of Transcendence) or Task Force for the others.

The preceding of course illustrates when Mission Complete and Task Force pools may award outside those circumstances.

In addition to event drops, defeated mobs can drop from multiple pools. There's a basic mob defeat pool, then there's a costume parts only pool that only minions also draw from, and there's an Ultra Rare for Fifties Only pool that level 50 and higher creatures drop from (though reports are that it's bugged and actually level 47 and up critters can drop from the purple pool).

(Thank you to Erydanus, Catwhoorg and MadScientist of the CoH forums for answering my question.)