Rare Items Online vs. Offline in PSO

[pcwzrd13]

Is there any difference between finding rare items online vs. offline in PSO? I just went through the mines in VH mode offline and found all these rare items:

M&A60 VISE +2
M&A60 VISE +4
Ultimate Barrier
2x Divinity Barrier
2x VARISTA +2
VARISTA +4
8x DB's SABER
VISK-235W
CLUB OF LACONIUM +1
3x BLADE DANCE +1

I've played through the mines many times online and never found this many rares. So do you have a better chance of finding them offline than online? Am I extremely lucky or are these items not as rare as I think?

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

In normal and hard they may be rare drops, as in the rarest item a specific enemy can drop (it can be just about everything, from mags, scape dolls and star atomizers to sacred cloths, green rings,...)
In later hard, vhard and ultimate, many of the items you mentioned become common, pretty much all enemies and boxes have a chance of droping it.

There is no difference from online and offline exept the fact in online, you can ask someone else with a different id to make the game, that changes the drops avaiable, but many of the items you mentioned will still drop frequently.
Later on (ultimate difficulty) these items become avaiable on the shops with a max comulative % of 90 (30/30/30/0, 50/0/0/40, ....)

I have reached a point where i rarely pick these common 9 star items and only keep the strongest one in the bank.

Still, some of items there are still usefull in some rare ocasions.

[pcwzrd13]

Ah ok. Thanks KIREEK. I just found it weird as I've never found that many in only one trip through the mines. I usually play it online so I thought that might make a difference. I guess it was just a coincidence.

[game_player_s]

From my own play experience, item drops for online are different from offline, but then you have already experienced this as well. I know of one item in paticular that I never found while playing offline that I could find with predictable frequency when playing a certain level in Hard mode online.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

Alone or with someone else with a different id as the game leader?