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So I'm working the poacher camp in JP with a buddy the other day - we're both 51 SKs so we're really making some very nice XP for our levels (cash wasn't half bad either - paid for our KEIs atleast).
Unfortunately, we came across two seperate folks who gave us pause to wonder about EQ players.
The first gent was a 59 bard who seemed to think that the entire poacher camp site (all three tents plus the fire) was something that he could call camped. I really have no idea what this guy thought he was doing even working that camp - the mobs all had to have been green to him, there were no loot drops that he could use personally and nothing that was going to sell in the bazaar for enough plat to warrant his time and while the individual poachers can drop up to 4 plat each, 2 plat is the norm - hardly good money even if he did have the entire camp site.
We ended up splitting it up (each of us took two of the four camps) by the shear fact that we were able to hold onto our pulls and keep control of our spawn points (never underestimate a pair of competent SKs) - never found out why he was there, but eventually he left.
The second guy was alot more polite, but still very puzzling. He was a 63 ranger who said he was farming the poachers for pelts to skill up his buddy's (a cleric) tailoring. Now the poachers do drop some pelts on oaccasion - LQ, MQ and HQ of bear, cat and wolf - but they certainly don't drop enough to warrant farming for skilling tailoring - in three hours of hard and fast pulling, we got 36 pelts between us - 2 were HQ cat, none were HQ bear - so 34 leather paddings.
When I asked the ranger why he wasn't farming EK (my buddy averages a stack of HQ cat and silk swatches per SOW potion charge - yes, the other 51 SK) he said he couldn't because of his cleric buddy - not sure what that was supposed to mean though.
I guess the point of my rant is that even at 51, you've still gotta worry about lazy higher level characters comming in and turning your XP camp into a farm.
Unfortunately, we came across two seperate folks who gave us pause to wonder about EQ players.
The first gent was a 59 bard who seemed to think that the entire poacher camp site (all three tents plus the fire) was something that he could call camped. I really have no idea what this guy thought he was doing even working that camp - the mobs all had to have been green to him, there were no loot drops that he could use personally and nothing that was going to sell in the bazaar for enough plat to warrant his time and while the individual poachers can drop up to 4 plat each, 2 plat is the norm - hardly good money even if he did have the entire camp site.
We ended up splitting it up (each of us took two of the four camps) by the shear fact that we were able to hold onto our pulls and keep control of our spawn points (never underestimate a pair of competent SKs) - never found out why he was there, but eventually he left.
The second guy was alot more polite, but still very puzzling. He was a 63 ranger who said he was farming the poachers for pelts to skill up his buddy's (a cleric) tailoring. Now the poachers do drop some pelts on oaccasion - LQ, MQ and HQ of bear, cat and wolf - but they certainly don't drop enough to warrant farming for skilling tailoring - in three hours of hard and fast pulling, we got 36 pelts between us - 2 were HQ cat, none were HQ bear - so 34 leather paddings.
When I asked the ranger why he wasn't farming EK (my buddy averages a stack of HQ cat and silk swatches per SOW potion charge - yes, the other 51 SK) he said he couldn't because of his cleric buddy - not sure what that was supposed to mean though.
I guess the point of my rant is that even at 51, you've still gotta worry about lazy higher level characters comming in and turning your XP camp into a farm.
. Retired
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