Griffey Wind is an item needed to complete the job quest that grants ninja storm. Over the last two weeks, I have been dwelling in Griffey's nest to acquire a griffey wind but to no avail. 1. I think this all comes down to two concurrent possibilities. Griffey Wind drop rate is absurdly low and I've had no luck. Instead, I've gotten a bunch of griffey horns (a snapshot is included). Assuming the drop rate of griffey horn is around 50%(maybe more), I've killed at least 20. I'm sure I've killed more than that. 2. Personally, I think Griffey is one of the hardest bosses to kill in proportion to the rewards and experience gained. In this server, this boss gives us 54,000 exp and the drops are full of junk(defense) scrolls. This boss has only three attack skills and kicks NL's asses. First skill dispells and does over 3.6k damage. Second skill stuns which lasts for 5 seconds. Thirds skill brings HP/MP to 1/1. Along with spam spawns of kentarus's, it has to be arguably one of the 'pain in the ass.' 3. I understand nobody wants to see a comparison between GMS and Maple Royals because Maple Royals operates very differently. But coming from GMS (10 years ago), getting this skill was not as hard as how it is now in Royals. 4. In the course of two weeks, I've gotten pretty efficient in killing Griffey. The trick is to get kentaurus's to spam attack you so that Griffey's attack is negated. Despite the low experience and bad drops of Griffey, I've gotten a godly thief pants from killing thousands of kentaurus's. But I'm here for the wind and I don't think it will drop any time soon, if at all... With that said, here is my proposition. Something has to change with Griffey to improve this, or to get the quest going; I'm stuck as hell. Or I just haven't killed enough Griffey's?
As hard is it is to believe, the drop rate actually is that low. I'm sure I killed well over 20 to get mine too. I doubt they magically broke that single drop during a random patch, so it's safe to assume it still drops... It's just rarer than it needs to be.
Griffey Wind is really rare and at some point I thought the drop was bugged as well. I've completed the quest two times so I kinda know how painful it is to get one, got my first Griffey Wind at ~56 kills, the second at around ~24. Making the drop juuust a bit more common wouldn't hurt anyone.
I tried to get griffey wind a few months ago and gave up after about 30 kills with no wind. They're a pain to find a kill since they have a fairly long spawn time you need to be waiting around and checking spawns pretty quickly after they spawn.
maybe this can give a good idea of what the Griffey Wind drop rate is back in '14-'15 i used to kill Griffey at like every spawn oops, so i've probably killed way more than the amount of horns that i have (npcing, dropping) may the odds be forever in ur favours.
After 77 kills... I'll never look back. I will spend the rest of my mapleroyals erasing the memory of hunting down griffeys. Will never come back to kill griffey ever again.
._. They should just implement skillbook NPC. Some of the current patch's skill unlock requirement is just painfully tedious. It's really absurd and gives you nightmare.
sb npc would make it too easy. I'm ok with monster drops but the current drop rates are beyond ridiculous. It is more difficult to get sb in royals than it was in GMS.
Reading over this while thinking "wow... and my first griffey dropped multiple winds" This was several months back though, and the other 2 items required dropped in large amounts too(thanatos black tornado dropped 6 from 1 mob) guess it got nerfed A LOT since then
Other 2 etc's dropped in multiples instantly for me too. It's the damn wind that took me a month to get.
