No more drake hunting. Now what to do for item hunting?

As of yesterday they took out drake hunting since everyone abused it.. friend got 3 golden items in 40 minutes of drake whoring.. so they drop fewer rare items so it's probably pointless to go drake whoring unless its for XP..

Any suggestions as to a new location?

W/MO20 btw.

Wonderful...

they drop the same for me 1 rare and 3 to 4 purples a run and usally few magic's to on one run so i dont know.

I was looking at the creature beastiary here at gwg and noticed that no one mentions the level 5 river drake in pre searing. I have been whoring this thing for days...

A party of people, yourself solo, or yourself + henchies?

I can easily do drake runs with henchies but i rarely ever get anything, aside from maybe a normal blue sword here and there thats Precious

The one purple item I got was with a party of other human players ;\ but then the loot is so split aganist you the chances of getting something are crap

I found that the stone summit beastmasters lvl 13 in the frost gate mission droped quite nice stuff usualy I've got several purple and gold items off them

wheres he at? ;p

The loot is also split to henchies, it just doesn't show that any fell if it's gets assigned to them. So the odds are the same whether you're with henchmen or a RL group. Best setup is go with a group of friends/guildies who can trade out if an elementalist gets a nice axe or a ranger gets a sweet fire staff.

The ideal solution, of course, is to dynamically adjust creature drops to match hunting pressure--if a herd of people heads off to the 'rich' hunting ground to get their goodies, then the goodies drop off dramatically (and show up elsewhere in the world instead).

Keeps people spread out and not camping one spot.

Hmm if the dragons are suddenly poor, perhaps the devs have already done it...

I didn't have the heart to w hore that poor drake. It looked awful in that tiny dress and the go go boots just weren't cutting it. The guards wouldn't pay full price for 'er either. Cheap b*stards.

Tantric Bo [E/Me]
North Fox [Mo/E]

edit: cause they apparently won't let me type w hore

why are you wasting your time item hunting?

this game is designed so you don't have to do that to have awesome equipment.

item farming is for those other games.

I am glad they did this. There were a bunch of players who would pretend they were doing the mission, when all they ever planned to do was farm drakes. This was very annoying to those who were actually trying to do the mission.

Yes... in fact, we had a guy named Over Duw who I've been telling people not to party with just because he would come along with us just to farm items - and he kept us from finishing the mission when we had spend an hour on it already and gotten within inches of winning it all because he wanted more items.

wtf was all that about? LMAO

Go towards the skale brood callers, like going to the devourer egg caves from the ASCALON side, not the village side. I am not in game, and i am therefore dumbassed -5 on the north south east west bs....its the river where it opens out into that massive lake, and the drake is standing there licking its nuts.

It dropped a yellow shield for me 2 days ago

see, we want those so we can Expert Salvage them for weapon parts and runes so we can either use them or sell them to the highest bid.

One needs da money teh further their adventures healthily.

I have a personal rule, acquistion method notwithstanding:

i never sell a blue, purple, or yellow item. EVER. If I find it. It belongs to me

i don't sell anything to players, i don't grind, i don't crap hunt, i'm not wanting for anything, have about 10 plat, have resources coming out of my but, and i just hit 20...i've also pimped out 2 alts with fantastic gear.

so why the hell does anyone need to farm anything or spam the trade channel peddling crap?

Are they just sitting on mountains of gold for the pure joy of hoarding it?? Or are they such impulsive buyers themselves that they are constantly upgrading their equipment when they don't really need to, and have to do this just to support their habit of buying crap??

Play how you want, but i just don't understand why people want to waste their time in this game grinding, farming and spamming when it's completely unnescessary.

I think these people may have just been brainwashed into thinking crap farming was fun by all those other games, and now can't break out of the habit.

uhmm, farm to get items, then to sell? people farm to get money, theres nothing wrong with that.


farm to get

Pretty much. Some people enjoy merchanting. Some consumers are fools (who think things operate here the same as in other games, where lewt is king).

Habits are hard to break.