Let me start by saying I absolutely adored the quest, but the area of Vampyrium feels pointless. As it stands once I get the uniques from the Maggot King I will never return to Vampyrium other than to ocasionally collect some sap for Seeker Arrows. The Hunter method is interesting but the reward from it is feathers to kill venators which assumes being able to kill Venators is in itself a reward (spoiler alert: it isnt). The Maggot King droptable as everyone knows is terible and part of the reason for that is that it also assumes killing Venators is in itself a reward by having feathers as well as the bait to hunt for more feathers on its droptable. Both the Maggot King droptable and the Hunter method bank on Venators being really worthwile to kill. Problem is that Venators drop table sucks despite being an exclusive monster requiring you to spend 10s of hours hunting/killing Maggot boss or by being on task. Venators have trash drops like fish offcuts, hard leather, jugs of wine and grapes. Compare Venators to Brutal Black Dragons for example (which is a monster you can kill with no restrictions) and its night and day. Every single Brutal Black Dragon you kill gives you Dragon Bones and Black Dragonhide with the worst drops you will get alongside those being Javelins. I remeber people saying Venators will be a way you can grind Dragon Arrows/Darts but funnily enough killing Brutal Black Dragons is still a better way to grind for those. Venators drop 15-30 Dragon Dart as a 1/43 drop whereas Brutal Black Dragons drop a flat 40 Dragon Dart at a 1/42 droprate. Now you might think Brutal Black Dragons take longer to kill but you’d be wrong as both these mobs have similar hp pools above 300. Jagex wants me to earn the right to kill Venators by engaging in content around Vampyrium when killing Venators is simply worse than killing a mob with no restrictions outside of Vampyrium. The funniest thing about all this is how you need 30 feathers for 1 Venator kill. Before I found this out I actually liked the feather drop from Maggot King. When I saw I had got 130 feathers from Maggot King I thought oh thats nice I can go can kill like half a slayer task worth of Venators off task… How wrong I was. The drop is completely useless. I honestly think Vampyrium as a whole would be a lot better if they massively buffed Venators droptable and removed Venators as a slayer task and balanced them around earning the right to kill them through getting feathers from activities on Vampyrium. Oh and make it not ridiculous with you needing 30 feathers per 1 Venator kill… submitted by /u/TheSlapFight
Originally posted by u/TheSlapFight on r/2007scape
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