Foraging skill level and item question...

[Grolyn]

I wasn't sure where to stick this one so I put it in general. Some foraged items are used in baking and brewing. I have a mid 50's bard with forage capped at 50 and I have spent quite a while in EJ looking for emerald orange. I have picked up a number of stuff but never the orange. Is there a minimum level to forage any oranges there or just bad run or rare?

I wanted to brew some quellious juice and orange are extremely rare in bazaar. I had a buyer up for 4 days with no bite on a 100 plat per emerald orange. guess no one likes to forage in EJ even if orange is only found there.

[Tellis Stormchaser]

Get a foraging machette

I wasn't sure where to stick this one so I put it in general. Some foraged items are used in baking and brewing. I have a mid 50's bard with forage capped at 50 and I have spent quite a while in EJ looking for emerald orange. I have picked up a number of stuff but never the orange. Is there a minimum level to forage any oranges there or just bad run or rare?

I wanted to brew some quellious juice and orange are extremely rare in bazaar. I had a buyer up for 4 days with no bite on a 100 plat per emerald orange. guess no one likes to forage in EJ even if orange is only found there.

There's a quest in Katta Castledom for a Foraging Machete. It's a bonus 10% foraging. It will help some. But his 50 skill is kind of bad even with bonus.

I am not sure about any 'trivial' on skills. I think having a higher skill only results is a greater chance to forage anything.

[Thalia]

emerald orange

Find a druid that is still working on their epic 1.0. You can help them hunt the corrupted gorrila in EJ and they can help you forage emerald oranges. Both parties are happy in the end.

[Kaaba]

Back during Kunark special forages required 100 skill.

[Froni Thunderpaws]

I had made a level one ranger a while back for a special event and foraged the no drop heartfruit and my iksar char routinely forages the specials as well. It just takes extra time. And you never get the forage you actually want quickly no matter what skill level - took me half of an hour to get a pitaya at skill 200.

One thing I noticed even though it just may be imagining things is that you only have access to part of the forage table at a time in at least the old world zones. If there were six things to forage in a zone I could only forage about four of them and if I rezoned and tried again it would be a different subset. You might want to try it - it works for me in EJ and WL even if it is make believe.

[Scuzz Zilla]

AFAIK
You cannot get special forages with skill below 100


UNLESS You have Natural racially granted forage AKA Iksar and wood elf(WoodElf Forage right?)

[mewkus]

I recall reading somewhere that the minimum of 100 for specials was removed and you can forage specials at any level. Dunno if it's quite the same, but i have an iksar who's foraged drake, dragon, and wurm eggs in parts of velious.

[Mukkul]

Iksars were always specially coded to be allowed to forage the rares at their low skill (takes a long long time though). I don't know if the same is true for Wood Elves and Bards.

[Varillian]

Bards get the special stuff, too - but it takes time or is at least total random. I have already forages Emerald Oranges, Dragon Eggs and other stuff. Alas, I still wish for some cap-increase AA like they did with bard-tracking.

[Scuzz Zilla]

Varillian, what race is your bard? Is it a naturally foraging race? aka W.E.

[Itek]

Oh my gods not this again....

Last YEAR we had this discussion and I nearly got BANNED over it.

Let me summarize (search / advanced search / by author name Itek / keyword forage in entire message, ... search is your friend) ...

It -used-to- be that you could NOT EVER get "special forages" below 100/101 skill.

Now those that get RACIAL FORAGE skill can forage special forages. And, guessing here, so can bards (capped at the racial number).

So if you want emerald oranges you can either get them with your bard (if you don't get any in 100 forages, then it's likely you can't forage them yourself) or buy them, or make a level 1 wood elf twink and have them racially forage for you. [or iksar twink, or insert your favorite here]

Personally I'd love to have definitive information that bards can or can't forage specials at 50. I'd also love to take the time to level up another forager without racial skill to level capped 50 and try but I just don't have the time, nor (really) care all that much.

OLD: Specials require 100.
Newer: Iksar couldn't get specials they needed so RACIAL FORAGE was enabled for specials. (Or, perhaps the skill level required was dropped to 50.)

To the best of my knowledge no NON-Racial forager of skill level 50 to 99 has ever come forward to definitively say yes or no on special forages.

[Varillian]

Varillian, what race is your bard? Is it a naturally foraging race? aka W.E.

Points at his sig...

[Bobaten]

The original rules were no one under 100 skill could get special forages (including the wood elf racial forage). When Kunark came out, Iksar racial forage was special in that they could get special forages. But then in November 2001 they changed the rules:

Foraging and Fishing will now result in a wider variety of items,
especially in zones that have unusual items available to forage or fish
(such as quest items). Quest and unique items were too common in zones
that had them, often making it hard to use those skills to obtain items
such as food and drink. These quest and rare items will now actually be
rarely foraged or fished, as they should have been. Such items will
still be available, even to those with low foraging skills, but they
will be more easily found by those who have practiced the skills.

After that patch anyone could forage the rare items, but the chance of obtaining the rares now goes up with skill.