If so, any other suggestions for good places for xp/loot for a ranger around
40 lvl?
They never have been very good money, all the idiots just get sucked in by
the "OMG he drops a lot of plats" factor, there's a bazillion better ways to
make money out there. Such as crystal caverns geonids, or just hunting
normally to get levels so you can hunt in places like Chardok, Sebilis and
Karnors for the rareish drops and make 4k at a shot selling them.
-M
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>but
>I agree with the others here, better ways to make plat that is MUCH less
>competitive with others...
What's the best way for a lvl 32 Druid (with relatively low-mid WIS)
to make some plat?
Where's the best loot (in a place where I could survive)?
Thanks for any info you can give!
The thing about Gornit is that he's a resistant assed bastard, I had trouble
soloing him at 40 as a druid with above average gear, he'd resist about 75%
of my roots (mana free though,so not that big a deal, just annoying as hell)
and without Ro's fiery sundering he resisted about 40% of my Immolates
(don't even ask about nuking him) and since I can't debuff MR, he resisted
maybe 25% of my Drones of doom (cast, since I'm too low to use my ES arms),
at least he didn't take so long that ensnare wore off though.
Needless to say, it took a LONG time to kill the bastage (as in about 8
minutes) and then med til he spawned again only got me up to 4 bubbles of
mana, so I had to wait with him sitting there to engage again, and keep
getting worried one of the seafurby hunters would gank him.
Oh, not to mention that he kept dropping gimp ass loot (3pp!! w00t!).
Anyway, I've found that the highest end animals in Stonebrunt (Mature/Elder
pandas especially) have about a 25% chance of dropping a very nice gem, I've
gotten black pearls, fire opals and star rubies off of them.
Well, either get a group for geonids (don't even think about soloing one),
or group for HGs in Rathe, it may not be great but it's money.
Or better yet, just level normally, loot what you can get, and then make
money later.
Or my method, buy cheap shit in EC and sell it for exorbitant prices. (I
love it when idiots sell coldain skin stuff for 1500) the hot sellers that
I've found recently are: (with prices on Tarew Marr)
Cobalt, any piece, especially bracer and boots for the non-rare pieces (IE
the BP and legs) (approx 3-5k per piece on gloves/arms/boots, 5-8k on bracer
and helm, 60-80k on BP, and the legs are NOT sold due to the invis effect,
thus essentially priceless or pay your first, and second born for one if
somebody is selling)
Coldain skin gloves/boots (3k each)
Eboots (slightly tapering off though in demand in the last week or 2) (can
get 3k but usually offers are about 2500)
Fungi tunics (were up to 27k after luclin "nerf", now back down around 22k)
Jade reavers (epic ripoff bastards) (every time I've seen one for sale it's
been around 30k or more)
Jaundiced bone bracer (JBB)(if you have one, ask as much as you can) (I've
seen them as low as 12k, and up to 30k)
Elder Spiritist Arms (ES arms)(paid 2k for mine, I don't trade these, too
rare to buy regularly and I plan to use mine as soon as I make 45)
Centi swords (long or short) also tend to be easy to sell, although they've
fallen a LOT in price lately
At any rate, my equipment is listed at
http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=39316
I have no higher level characters, I don't do long camps for rare items, and
the only things that I've been given were the veil and nathsar bracer (the
same person that gave me those items gave an RL friend of mine a sash of the
dragonborn), and I looted the Elder wolf hide and totem of warrior spirit
personally, everything else droppable I've bought in EC. (Granted though, it
does help to have friends who loan you money for quick upgrade buy new
stuff/sell old stuff)
LMAO!!!!
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Valien Stillwater
Disciple of the 52nd Drunken Bout
Brother of the Lost Circle
<Elementals of Tomonari>
Innoruuk
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"[He] lacks the wit and understanding of irony that separates cantankerous from crackpot."
- - Arolpin
750pp per hour? Let's assume 20pp off your average hill giant (there are
lot of poor HGs remember). That means you're killing 37.5 HGs every hour or
one every 96 seconds. Do HGs even spawn at that rate? And it can be done
in competition with all the other little doggies and finger wigglers running
around the mountain top, not to mention the exp groups?
>FWIW, I dropped three hill giants in rathe mountains last night...each had a
>fine steel weapon, either a rune or words, and an average of 2pp each...same
>I could get from ulthorks WAY easier, or even the myriad giants in great
>divide...not worth it in my opinion.
I dropped two giants they other day, and both of them dropped 30ish
plat and a FS weapon. From my observations, they tend to drop plat in
streaks. You'll go for half an hour only getting 3 or 4 plat a kill,
then blammo, they all start dropping 30.
The only problem I see is that if you play during peak hours, Rathe
Mountains are way to competitive. And if a necro is in the zone,
forget about it. One high level necro and two high level druids can
keep the whole HG area totally clean.
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Brian Hance
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"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Humphrey Bogart from THE BIG SLEEP
>750pp per hour? Let's assume 20pp off your average hill giant (there are
>lot of poor HGs remember). That means you're killing 37.5 HGs every hour or
>one every 96 seconds. Do HGs even spawn at that rate? And it can be done
>in competition with all the other little doggies and finger wigglers running
>around the mountain top, not to mention the exp groups?
Well, there seems to be about 5 HG's up at any given time and they're
on a 6 minute timer (I think!), that would be 40 to 50 HG's an hour.
If you play VERY late it is possible to be the only one there
occasionally.
Now, my druid can't kill all the HG's at once (I haven't tried
quadding them yet..... hurm....) but I've seen necro's do four at a
time without breaking a sweat and ending the fight at BETTER than 50%
mana.
Friggin Necro's.
;-)
Yeah, until someone who knows how it works comes along and the necro and
both druids run screaming to the zoneline with too many HGs for them to
handle in tow. :)
DAMN, wish cobalt was at those prices on my server. Gloves/arms/boots
are 3-5K, and got those for my warrior, am looking for bracer at the
moment, auctioning 12K cash for them, then had a guy trying to get 30K
fo them, thats WAY over what i wanna pay for a bracer (single one, not a
pair).
> Fungi tunics (were up to 27k after luclin "nerf", now back down around 22k)
Had to pay 30 for mine, still sell for 30-35 on my server. Still dont
think that a small "nerf" like that should warrant a 10K price increase,
but what the hell, needed one.
> Jade reavers (epic ripoff bastards) (every time I've seen one for sale it's
> been around 30k or more)
Hehe, seem them for 18 on my server, but still a lot of money for a epic
drop that are reasonably easy to get.
Just need to convince my guild to go to CoM (hehe, need 4 epic pieces
now, jade reaver one of them, believe it or not).
--
Hesten Gnyffa
Level 52 druid
Member of Sceptered Isle
Veeshan server
Basically everything that wanders around on the top of the hill in the
middle of the Hill Giant valley (Rathe Mountains) is a Hill Giant
Placeholder. Basilisks, lizards, giant skels, cyclops... If somebody
kills those, there will be plenty of Hill Giants spawning. If nobody
is killing those, then the Hill Giant spawns will peter out.
I spent some time there with my level 60 ranger leveling my low-40's
druid. I just wandered around on the top of the hill killing
everything that moved, and plenty of HG's spawned. Plenty for me and
for the other hunters in the zone.
As I recall when we used to hunt there in my 30's-40's, it was a real
pain to try to kill the basilisks and lizard men, because they would
run and randomly teleport around the zone. I think the pathing in
that zone has been fixed since then, though, since I didn't have any
trouble (granted now they don't really have time to run, since they go
down in a couple swings ;-P
Anyway, the HG spawn rate isn't really a function of how many people are
hunting them, it's a function of how many people are killing the
PH's....
Nancy
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Nancy Durgin
Stanford University
n...@cs.stanford.edu
Hmm it's possible certain spawn points always spawn a hill giant or
something, or that they have a really high probability of spawning a
hill giant. I do know that killing the PH's definitely results in a
larger supply of HG's than not killing them.
Rathe is fine if I need say 200pp NOW, but for long term plans, I make
around 100 - 300 an hour just hunting (low end usually when solo, higher
with a group). I actually make less than that *trying* to hunt HGs because
of all the fucktards running around on top of that hill.
Besides, on Tarew Marr, Rathe is always filled with a bunch of gimp assed
bastards who feel the need to root every giant up on the hill so no one else
can pull one.
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"Ben Haddick" <bhad...@SPAMISBADhotmail.com> wrote in message
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I think you're forgetting the fine steel drops. Granted, as a Troll I
had a convenience advantage because I could bank/sell in Ogguk, but I
would keep all the FS for our group in weight reducing containers, and
also keep all the gold (not just plat) and sometimes even *silver* that
dropped. Then, when I was totally overweight, just jog over to Ogguk
with Sow and dump all the weapons on a vendor and change everyone's
silver/gold in for plat at the bank. 750 PP per hour might be a tad high
for our experience there, but three of us often would take home over
1000 plat after a few hours in one session.
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Braellaen: "Does anyone know the approx hit points of a rhino?"
Kirstin: "7. But they're *big* HP."
Thurgadin Quest Armor Guide:
http://myweb.servtech.com/~thegeorg/eq/thurgadin.htm
Not exactly, but close. Instead of given the HG's backstab, they gave
them pickpockt. Now, not only will they drop only copper, they will pick
up to 20 plat and other small coin off you during the fight. Then they
won't drop it back when you loot them either.
LOLOLOL Riiiiggghhhtttt....
You must have us confused with some girly types like rouges, warriors,
wizzies and the like.
And how many HG would that be to send us screaming to the zone???
3? 4? 5?
Have handled 3 perhaps 4 would be better and thanks for the free pull,
Unless of course they dont bite on the bait and kill you instead.....
That would be nice entertainment
My 52 paladin with ghetto gear can make about 180pp per hour farming HGs.
And there's almost always competition on my server, even during off-hours.
He can make up to 150pp per hour crawling in Sol A, that's the only other
good spot I've found (having a merchant to offload all that FS and ore helps
immensely). I still think 20pp, including FS, words, and other loot is
about average for HGs but I admit I haven't collected statistics (I'm also
destroying silver and copper and converting the coins to rubies with the gem
merchant in zone so I lose some money there; you druids can just port to
Misty and have a banker right near by :p).
As a non-troll you would have had the advantage of using in-zone
vendors, assuming we are still talking about Rathe Mountains =) They
also sell peridots which are useful for 'banking' silver/copper/gold
even at only a small loss.
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Larry Lard
Replies to group please.
Oh I've seen a high level necro getting pounded and drop dead a few feet
from where I was because someone was killing a lot of PH's.. Tainted plus
about 6 HG's were there..
/em considers those lizards just shooting practice...
Rhand
And why would they kill me? And why would that, even if it were possible,
entertain you?
You have issues.
I have no problems with the furbies, its just that gornit himself doesn't
like to die all that fast.
And actually I prefer to sit at the little peninsula just down shore from
the pirate camp, and look across the water to Gornit's spawn point, then
just take a step forward to stand in the water and engage Gornit with snare.
Heh weird, my magician finds Gornit much easier then the furbys.. hmm maybe
I'll give them a shot when I next log him on, when I have somebody with me
to bail me out (getting a rez in oot sucks ass!)
-m
brother grandmaster
prexus
Silly Jazz. EVERYONE knows pickpocket loot isn't taken from the player's
loot pool!
James
I can atest to this as well. I joined a group of friends in RM one time
and asked them how the loot was going and they all complained that Verant
'must' have nerfed the giant spawn because they were geting very
few giants. I do a /who all and see there are about 20 people in the zone,
hmm, then I look around and see about 30 trash mobs walking around the hill.
"Hey guys lets take out the trash and see if the giants spawn more" So
we begin a whole sale slaughter and Lo and Behold more giants start
popping! =)
It may have been a coincidence but it at least passed the time between
HG waves if it didn't. Besides those lizards drop bronze weapons. I am
a loot whore and sell everything. With charsima gear and buying and
selling items to the vendors in the zone to convert the copper up I bet
I make 10-15% more money than most people.
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When I was around level 19 or so, I discovered that I could easily solo the
basilisks in HG valley with my pet. Great experience, and was just the
booster I needed to start playing the enchanter more often.
The fun thing was that after I'd been doing it for an hour or so, the hill
giants started getting more and more common. People in the zone were
actually /shouting about the amazing number of hill giants.
Joe D
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Everything is a figment of your imagination...
I can tell you that gornit averaged 25pp (includinge PP, GP and
FS, all silver and other junk destroyed). I averaged 9 gornits
an hour (less than 1 min kill time) I was there long enough to
put together 6k for my T-boots. I averaged 225pp an hour.
As I side effect I went from 1/2 bub into 44 to 3.5 bubbles into
45.
Er, actually I meant I had no problems evading the furbies, I don't bother
killing them, the loot isn't that remarkable.
I've been hunting the seafuries recently and the loot _can_ be quite
good. They'll drop those 50+ pp gems or jewelry maybe one time in six
(rough guess). Get lucky and you'll come away with a nice chunk of
change.
Ahem. At 51 my Wizard could quad them. I hate the terrain though and it's
often too crowded.
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