MMO player hits the lottery to become the second-ever person to claim a 1-in-100,000,000 drop in a staggering 7 years
Jan. 8, 2024This Old School RuneScape gem is one of the rarest MMO drops of all time
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For only the second time in seven years, a lucky player has claimed one of the rarest MMO drops ever: a 1-in-100 million gem in Old School RuneScape.
I asked beloved Jagex community figure Mod Ash about Coti’s drop, and sure enough, he confirmed that it’s real. “Coti got it just before midnight UTC on 7th Jan on [world] 354,” Mod Ashtold me.
There are a few caveats to this feat of RNG, but none of them undermine the mind-boggling rarity of the drop. Firstly, uncut onyxes aren’t actually that rare or valuable in OSRS, and the jewelry crafted from them is fairly common among high-level players. Lots of bosses drop onyxes, for instance. It’s just that getting an uncut onyx in this exact way is a total moonshot.
Secondly, while every instance of gem bag loot has a 1 in 100 million shot at being an onyx, you get 40 gems from each bag, which means the practical onyx drop rate per bag isonly1 in 2.5 million. However, using the same logic as drops from OSRS bosses or clue scrolls that award multiple items at once, I’m still willing to call this onyx the rarest drop in the game,as the OSRS wiki does. In fact, with just two confirmed recipients, it’s one of the rarest drops in any MMO, and indeed all of video games.
Last year, another OSRS player hit a triple dropso rare that people struggled to even calculate the odds.
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