What are "mobs" everyone is referring to?

[ParezE]

Everyone on the forums keeps mentioned to go kill mobs for items and whatnot.
What are mobs and where does one find mobs? Are they most common to drop legendary artifacts?

Thanks,

 

[Captn Norrington]

Mobs is a forum abbreviation for monster npc's.

So, when someone says "kill mobs" they mean hunt monsters and loot the items they have on their body.

 

[ParezE]

@Captn Norrington Are any monsters more predisposed to dropping legendary artifacts? E.g. Are monsters in cove at certain levels more likely to drop legendary artifacts?

 

[Captn Norrington]

@Captn Norrington Are any monsters more predisposed to dropping legendary artifacts? E.g. Are monsters in cove at certain levels more likely to drop legendary artifacts?

Nope, it used to be like that but an update to the game a few months ago that people call the "global loot" update made it so that every monster in the game drops the exact same type of loot items now (not counting bosses), including legendary artifacts. The only difference is that stronger monsters drop more items, therefore there is a bigger chance of getting a worthwhile item with a monster that drops 10 items, than a monster that only drops 2.

 

[ParezE]

@Captn Norrington So how does luck play a part in getting legendary artifacts and how much luck is usually suggested ? Does Luck increase the chance of likelihood of the magic item drops with a higher intensity?

 

[Captn Norrington]

@Captn Norrington So how does luck play a part in getting legendary artifacts and how much luck is usually suggested ? Does Luck increase the chance of likelihood of the magic item drops with a higher intensity?

The developers said that Luck increases the chance to get an item with a lot of properties, and can increase the intensity of the properties on items which usually also makes them legendary artifacts (which could be either good or bad, one bad property can make an item worthless but an item with a lot of highly sought after properties with no negative properties could be worth a fortune) however luck does not effect how many total items are on a monsters corpse.

As for how much luck to have, that is a hard question to answer since we have never been given an explanation from the developers specifying how much luck is needed to see significant improvement in items. All they have told us is that luck works in groups of 100, which means that having zero luck, and having 99 luck are weighted exactly the same. Same for 100 and 199 etc. Most people I have seen using luck tend to have about 2,000-3,000 total. There is a luck cap as well, the most anyone can possibly get is 3,400 or something around there.

If your going to be using luck you will definitely want to carry one of these around: 10th Anniversary Sculpture - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia

It can add up to 1,000 luck to your character just by clicking it, depending on the age of your account.