JP Hunting Tips

[Magrath]

A quick question, are the Plant Shoots a rare forage?

They're not any more rare than anything else you'll forage in the zone, but you still won't see many simply because the forage table contains so many things that you'll get with the same frequency.

[Hobenroby]

My experience in JP

I have spent a lot of time there since it opened .. here's some of what i've learned in no particular order.

1. Anacondas - some are still dark blue at 60. They make the best animal pets in the zone. They also drop a rogue only sword, besides meat, exp and some plat.

2. Griffons/fawns: Drop meat, plat, a skull (?) wing, blood, down.

Timber griffons drop some (rare!) nice items:
Griffon earring: AC 6 agi +3 hp +15
Eye of the Griffon, range, wis +10, cha -20, hp +20.

If you see a timber griffon that glows at night (like bile shardwurms) it has the range piece on it. KILL IT!

3. Faction: the message that your faction with the jp animals could not possible get any worse is a bug. I have received the "not possibly worse" faction message after killing several panthers and then immediately conned a bear and it was warmly. The animals appear to be on one of the factions of JP. I am pretty sure it is protectors of the pine.

I am ally to residents of Jagged Pine. I am warmly to protectors of the pine.. Animals ( bears , wolves etc.. ) con warmly so that leads me to beleive that you CAN raise faction with the animals by killing poachers.

Wolf form WILL help with the animals agro.

4. Kill poachers for faction, exp and loot. You will get platinum and a high drop rate of quality pelts. Collect all four named heads for a decent saves ring "sigil ring of jaggedpine")

5. Be careful by the water. Potameids can be a pain.

6. Don't kill dryads. they are everywhere and losing faction with them will make hunting in JP a pain.

7. hmm where'd all the townsfolks go?
If there are no towns folks and or there are a bunch of angry gnolls in town this means that someone just killed Barducks Darkpaw. He is the Meanest gnoll in Norrath (15-20k hp darkblue to 60) and is deep in the gnoll caves to the north of town. Killing him starts a war where three waves of 40-ish gnolls invade jp town.

Barducks no drop head is the final kill for the Qeynos Badge of Nobility. His spawn is roughly 12 hours real time. No place holders.

Ill add more if I can think of it
Goodluck!

[Breathe]

Potemeids (sic?) are a pain to kill--they cannot be snared, rooted, stunned or mezzed, and I don't think they can be feared. (You get a message saying they're immune to movement change spells/mesmerization spells/the stun portion of your spell). All you can do is pull one, hope you get ONLY one, and when it's low on health hope you can kill it before it gets back to its friends.

[Linea]

thanks for this thread guys! ive wondered quite a bit about some of the hunting there

[Sethlic]

Ok I have one question.
Griffon Wings?
I there a way to make griffon feathers out of griffon wings?
I though Qeynos afternoon tea needed griffon feathers not wings.

[Alfhild]

Regarding the faction message: your faction with the jp animals could not possible get any worse. The Jaggedpine animals (bears, wolves, panthers) are on a Jaggedpine "critters" faction which is STATIC. If you are not a ranger, druid or beast-lord, you are innately KOS unless using a druid's wolf-form or chanter wolf-illusion. I cannot speak for a shaman's bear form. Therefore anyone killing an animal receives the message that it cannot get worse because it in fact cannot, being static. There is no known way to increase faction. Killing poachers does not improve your "critters" faction. Conversely, there is no known way to decrease your faction with the animals as well. By conservative estimate I have killed around a 1000 panthers. As a ranger I am still amiable/warmly depending whether I am in wolf-form or not. The adverse effect of killing animals is the faction hit against "Jaggedpine Residents" which are the residents of the human village. Having virtually soloed my way from 46 to 56 with 27 AA points in this zone, I can say that the hits from killing panthers are minimal (I started hunting them at 54) and I have maintained ally status by doing the occasional group in the Darkpaw caverns.

As for griffon feathers, these only drop from the griffawns. I have never looted one from a griffon.

Foraging: the pain of foraging plant shoots in this zone is that in addition to the standard global forages (veggies, berries, fruit, water, fishing grubs etc) there are also at least 7 (that I can recall) additional NODROP forages which are related to the Druid specific quests in the zone. I estimate that you can get a plant shoot somewhere between 1 in 15 and 1 in 20 successful forages. The nodrop is a real PITA since you can't just drop them from your cursor unlike fishing grubs.

[Dragonista]

The dryads are worth mentioning just to say that you shouldn’t hunt them. To the best of my knowledge they have their own faction. If you get on their bad side hunting in JP could become rather painful. They tend to pop up when you pass by one of their trees. So having bad faction with them turns much of JP into an active and minefield.

If you have a means of interupting casting, dryads make great solo fodder in the low 50s. I know they are a popular spot for beastlords, since you can trigger them and kill without fear of wandering animal aggro. I completely bottomed out my faction hunting them, and turned them all into yummy dryad pate. You get a good sense of where the dryad patches are once you hunt there for awhile.

Potameids work as well, I could pull the ones out of the river and my pet would chew them to bits. I then moved onto gnolls once those went lb.

Nysta
Lvl 59 Beastlord
and GM Shopper
Seventh Hammer

[Calabar]

Someone earlier in the post said that bear form would change the animal faction in JP, thus allowing shaman to hunt in the zone like druids and rangers. I questioned this, as bear form has not changed my faction anywhere else I’ve been. But JP animal faction is different than in any other zone so I figured it might be possible. So last night when I made a trip to buy some cheese, I coned a wondering bear in my natural form and in bear form. As an agnostic Vah Shir shaman the bear coned as threatening to me. And, unfortunately, it remained threatening to me in bear form. So unlike wolf form, bear form will NOT allow you to hunt in JP unmolested by the animal population.

[Balagar]

There is no known way to increase faction.

This isn't quite correct. Bards have a song (Level 11: Cinda's Charismatic Carellon) that will raise faction for themselves until they leave the zone. I leveled from 50-55 with 6 AAs included in Jaggedpine. As soon as I would zone in, I would track an animal and sing the Carellon. I could then run around the zone with no problems of getting attacked by any animal. Even after slaughtering Panthers all night the wolves and bears still wouldn't attack on sight.

Using Selo's and track, a bard can hunt very well in this zone.

[lyla]

Thanks

Hi!

Was wondering where to hunt, cause the mammoth in EW are turning light blue when I saw that thread...

I can know hunt for blue anaconda and griffon, while collecting their meat for my cooking (and maybe take a brake from hmp, sigh :shock: ), and foraging plant shoot

Don't know where the rivier someone was speaking is, but fond spot somewhere (dont ask where, im totally lost!)...