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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / EverQuest / October 2003Mages newbie armor problems
Hi I have a terrible time finding the Giant Wasp Warrior/Drone/Worker pollen needed for the Art Keepers armor. I've killed a bunch, but no pollen dropped. Since it's no drop, I can't buy it from someone. Are the giant wasps only to be found in Greate Faydark? Or are there other spawn places? Belgicana (14th Season female magician on Antonius Bayle) > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Belgicana (14th Season female magician on Antonius Bayle) The newbie armor quests are a pain in the butt, for many of them the prime ingredient is a fairly rare drop, and some of the other ingredients are even rarer drops. You just have to kill boatloads of them to get the drops you need. I ran into the same problem with the newbie Gnome wizard armor quests.  SignatureOn Erollisi Marr in <Sanctuary of Marr> Venerable Graeme Faelban, Barbarian Prophet of 65 seasons Tainniel Fleabane, Halfling Warrior of 30 seasons Giluven, Wood Elf Druid of 25 seasons Graeniel, High Elf Enchanter of 25 seasons On Test Emgraeme, Gnome Wizard of 25 seasons > > Hi > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > drops you need. I ran into the same problem with the newbie Gnome wizard > armor quests. The Gnome quests are now a piece of cake as the drop rates have been increased tremendously. We must have done the quests back when the kobold items were rare indeed, as I remember my Wizard's quest being very frustrating. Now they are common drops and kobolds no longer agro. The GFay quests are as difficult as any can get. In 3 weeks playing our "fun" newbie chars on Stromm, myself and 3 friends have seen ONE Giant Sylvan Bat Fur drop. Add the fact that most items are nodrop. In Feerrott, Yellow lizard scales are infuriating to get. Our guild killed the zone for 3 hours for a beastlord and 3 dropped. Beastlords need 8 I believe. Barbarian quests involve visiting the vendors, buying the items and off you go. Balance? The word doesn't seem to exist in EQ developers' vocabulary! Too easy is no fun, to difficult and mobs are green long before armor is complete. I applaud newbie armor quests, but please Sony, have a look at them as a whole. Why such a divergence in difficulty? > The GFay quests are as difficult as any can get. In 3 weeks playing our > "fun" newbie chars on Stromm, myself and 3 friends have seen ONE Giant > Sylvan Bat Fur drop. /agree There was a desolute warrioir in crushbone (was there with my ranger just making sure my faction was bottomed / topped :P), as they couldnt get arborean sapling sap, I said I would help. I have max tracking, in 3 hours, we killed maybe 8 saplings and he / she (female avatar) got ONE sapling... The quest I did for jeweled quiver of the hand was a better item and far less infuriating than this. Im not sure how I ever managed to finish my rangers newbie armour (TWICE, I restarted when I changed from a PCG account). > > The GFay quests are as difficult as any can get. In 3 weeks playing our > > "fun" newbie chars on Stromm, myself and 3 friends have seen ONE Giant [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I have max tracking, in 3 hours, we killed maybe 8 saplings and he / she > (female avatar) got ONE sapling... Eight kills? It they're desolute now, call the suicide watch immediately! My log as of an hour ago, shows 52 Giant Sylvan Bat kills. One fur. My three other friends have yet to see one, and their kill numbers must be somewhere close to mine <sigh> > The quest I did for jeweled quiver of the hand was a better item and far > less infuriating than this. > > Im not sure how I ever managed to finish my rangers newbie armour (TWICE, I > restarted when I changed from a PCG account). > Balance? The word doesn't seem to exist in EQ developers' vocabulary! > Too easy is no fun, to difficult and mobs are green long before armor > is complete. I applaud newbie armor quests, but please Sony, have a > look at them as a whole. Why such a divergence in difficulty? The Iksar and the Vah Shir don't even have class-designed newbie armor quests. :/ The Vah Shir have the Shadeweaver's Thicket quests, though I hear the BP is very difficult to get the drops for. The Iksar have curscale, which doesn't even have a graphic, and the necros can't wear it. Oh, monks have sparring armor, but each piece requires getting broken slave shackles, and of all the time I've spent in the Swamp of No Hope, I've only ever seen ONE escaped froglok slave. And never a "Froglok Escort" (just the minor "a froglok escort" ones). My scaley monk spent her lowest levels in the Qeynos newbie zone and used the plat to buy several pieces of Wu's Fighting Armor. Much better, but less satisfying somehow. Time to start my shackle quest series, I think. > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Belgicana (14th Season female magician on Antonius Bayle) While your gender is irrelevant to this question, your race -is- relevant. Funny how Real World pay scale uses exactly the opposite approach, isn't it? OK, not highly relevant, since you are hunting in GFay, there are no Woodie mages, so you are almost certainly a Milkie. I had a lot of trouble like you are having getting Gnomage armor on the Firiona Vie server. While I don't have any specific answers to your problem, I can say that there were a lot more of the drops I needed on higher level versions of the same mobs in Steamfont; killing the little cats over in the tiny newbie area didn't work nearly as well as their bigger level 10ish brothers over near the windmill, so on and so forth. I think that the quests are designed to be completed either in groups where the different people want different items off the same mobs, or so that you have to keep hunting when the mobs are green; I just don't see how its possible to get all the drops you'd need without one or the other, exp is too easy to come by. On Firiona Vie, many of the items don't drop once the mobs are green, so its a real scramble to get the whole kit complete if you want to do that as a challenge. Splendid One Still wearing his full set of Collective armor at level 40! >Hi > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Are the giant wasps only to be found in Greate Faydark? Or are there >other spawn places? Art keepers makes you highelf right? yes the wasps will be there but you ned to kill the right kind of wasps for the right kinds of drops the drones and workers are generally common wasps the drones the most so, the drops you need are fairly common except the warrior stuff I found. When they first introduced these quests on test, I was a ranger, and I wasted my birthday about 18 hours of it, trying for an ulna bone, in the end a GM felt sorry for me as Id been trying for a week.. |
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