so i guess no more charcoal

vncanadian

vncanadian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

SSSJ

W/Mo

well i need charcoal bad so i dont have to pay 600-800 for deldrimor steel

and i need charcoal so i go one guild wiki look up what drop charcoal

and i remembered that hulking ele's drop them and wiki confirmed so i traveled down to ascalon and tried to kill i dont know say... 50 stone eles and :[ no charcoal has dropped so i stopped


does anyone have any info on this?
did they fix this in a update? because long time ago i got lots of charcoal but now i didn't get any so if u guys could helpme out on this :] it would be most appreciated

Megamanfan

Megamanfan

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

E/Mo

Beats me, but I know Fire Imps drop Charcoal.

fongfeifan

fongfeifan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

Dragon Bandits [db]

R/Mo

yup, fire imps dropped them but u can oso craft them at artisans for 10 wood planks and 200g.

vncanadian

vncanadian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

SSSJ

W/Mo

yeha i know RIGHT NOW i'm farming them haven't seen one yet :[

k ima die if i write anymore

Alicia of IGE

Alicia of IGE

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

S. Shiverpeaks mostly

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

W/

Some Christmas (Wintersday) Gifts will open up as a lump a coal (get it? Har)... The irony is it's actually worth the most (besides Candy Canes if you find the right buyer).

I thought I may have expert salvaged Glowing Hearts into coal before, too but I don't remember for sure.

And yes, I do believe a Stone Fury (slightly higher level stone elementals on the way to Grendich/Nolani) dropped a piece of coal for me during the Gargoyle Skull farming craze that was a few weeks ago.

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

Hulking elementals DO drop charcoal, it is just that about one in about ten thousand drops one.

Mercenary One

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

CT USA

The best place i have found for charcoal drops are imps that you find on the way to TOA, there's this one spot that had a sort of hole in the ground with 4 tall stone..umm statues/pillars i guess you could call it, think in the talmark wilderness, or on the way to fight the bone dragons in a zone below TOA, like running sorta to santcum cay, but more to the east, and over a bridge, they drops lots out there.

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Nater

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Illusion Of Skill

W/

I expert salvaged 55 Frigid Hearts that were from IDS farming in Mineral Springs.
I got 2 charcoal in the first 7 Hearts...and only ONE more from the next 48.

So, not only did I get 52 near worthless granite slabs, I spent over 800g in salvage kits, also short the money I could have gotten trading the hearts for collector items or just merchanting.

So my conclusion is, FRIGID HEARTS are no good for charcoal.

I'll go collect some Glowing Hearts to compare.

UPDATE:
Bad news:
Sample size was only 11 Glowing Hearts, 1 charcoal from expert salvage. Not worth it yet.

Good news:
3 dropped from the around 30 fire imps I killed. 2 from the same one even.

UPDATE#2:
Went on one more run just to see what would drop, only 1 lump of charcoal in all the imps out around the Stone monument Mercenary mentioned. 15 Glowing Hearts expert salvaged yeilded ZERO charcoal.

I'd say you're better off Griffon farming and buying your charcoal from the material trader. Anyways, I've got 8 in my inventory, PM me tomorrow afternoon and they're all yours, for a nominal fee of course

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

I've found the best place to farm for charcoal is In Stingray strand - there's a few groups of Imps in that area that drop them, but they are rare drops, maybe 1 charcoal in every 20 - 25 imps killed.

hilkos

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

The keeper Assassins

Me/Mo

hands of titan, fists of titan, basically all kind of monsters in the ring of fire drop "burned claws" or something like that. It can be expert salvaged into charcoal. I don't know about the other places but it is how i got my charcoal. Expert salvage anything that has burned or molten in front of it.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

Lion's Arch <-> D'Alessio's Seaboard, fire imps. Did few runs to get 25 coals I need to make deldrimor steel..

And what it comes for making 1 coal out from 10 planks & 200g at artesan... 1 coal costs around 200g at the rare material trader

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

I think charocal is one of the rarest drops also, as someone above said, expert salvage a million things to get 1 or 2.

What I did when I got my 15K Tormentor is just crafting it, that saved me a lot of headache trying to find or buy charocal. Its a lot easier to find wood.

twicefeuled

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

The elementals outside of Serenity Temple will occasionally drop charcoal as well. Sometimes when crafting parchement outside of Sardelac, I'll clear the map of elementals. I usually end up with one, sometimes two on a run.

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

ok this is gonna piss you guys off but charcoal is Easily obtained and VERY VERY cheap... Just go to fort ranik and go outside to the vendor there...

Charcoal is 200 gold + 10 wood. thats it... Not bad at all really... (DOH sorry 3 posts above me said already)

People Always forget the materials traders outside of the towns, and most of the time they have difeferent stuff for sell then in the towns...

Click the image attached for a SS of the vendor showing the Charcoal for sell and the Locked Set price. Not market driven...

ingram...

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

i have had stone elementals drop both saphires and charcoal (1 charcoal yesterday)

Nater

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Illusion Of Skill

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram
ok this is gonna piss you guys off but charcoal is Easily obtained and VERY VERY cheap... Just go to fort ranik and go outside to the vendor there...

Charcoal is 200 gold + 10 wood. thats it... Not bad at all really... (DOH sorry 3 posts above me said already)

People Always forget the materials traders outside of the towns, and most of the time they have difeferent stuff for sell then in the towns...

Click the image attached for a SS of the vendor showing the Charcoal for sell and the Locked Set price. Not market driven...

ingram...
It's 200g at the Rare Material Trader right now.

Wow. Sapphire & Ruby > Ecto right now.

ukali526

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercenary One
The best place i have found for charcoal drops are imps that you find on the way to TOA, there's this one spot that had a sort of hole in the ground with 4 tall stone..umm statues/pillars i guess you could call it, think in the talmark wilderness, or on the way to fight the bone dragons in a zone below TOA, like running sorta to santcum cay, but more to the east, and over a bridge, they drops lots out there.

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So right you are. I was trecking to The Wilds from ToA an hour ago and got 2 charcoal drops from the nasty fiery imps

T1Cybernetic

T1Cybernetic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Uk, Nr Earth

Alternate Evil Gamers [aeg]

N/

Personaly, my secret charcoal gathering is the sanctum cay mission!

Right at the start of the mission go kill all the imps, & then if you feel
like something else go kill the drakes and the giants to pass some time!

Seriously though, those imps have given me almost all my charcoal over time!

ange1

ange1

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

i'd just buy them, the time spent is better at farming something else

Jiao Yang

Jiao Yang

Lunar Rabbit

Join Date: Dec 2005

if it takes 25 imps to get 1 coal u may as well buy them as u can get way more GOLD from farming griffons in the same time then buying them.

but on the other hand i have seen many charcoal drop at the start of sanctum cay mission on those 6 or 7 imps.

Jay the Jake

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

central United States

BrotherhoodoftheChoosen

R/Mo

Fire Imps outside LA have dropped charcoal about 30-40% of the time for me

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Buy charcoal, sell wood. Cheaper then crafting charcoal and a lot less time then trying to farm it. Just my opinion. I do deldrimor runs when I have enough iron and glittering dust stockpiled.

Osi Ri S

Osi Ri S

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

N/

arent there material traders out in teh wilderness that make charcol for you? you just have to provide materials, i think it like 1 steel ingot and 5-10 wood planks or something like that.

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

thats for the material he wants to craft; the D Steel.

I use to make 15K a day (waaaay back) crafting D Steel and selling to Rare Material Merch.... took too much work to buy the huge amount of materials required...

Yesterday tho I killed maybe 8 or 9 ele golems and got a lump of charcoal; I kill them so I could get a moa bird... but yeah one time on my monk I went farming for them and no good drops over 12 runs... and I said screw it.

your better off crafting it or buyin from ppl; and maybe if trader is cheap.