Foraging Question - Bamboo Shoots in Stoneburnt

[Cleric Taven]

The quest for Yuio's Illness rewards a nice 1hs proc blade.

My bard doesn't have the greatest skill at Foraging and yet as player I am very patient to just keep trying.

I've read numerous messages that speak about the rarity of these as well as their profitability of selling them because of that.

What I am wondering, given the they layout of the zone from the Gunthak boat upto the high Snow, if there is a paticular area or "hot spot" more likely to try or that it really doesn't matter as long as attempts are made in Stoneburnt standing anyplace?

One last thought thinking about the EQT Forums - I don't mind posting here on General TSD, but then with the recent revamp of the Forage & Fishing entries and associated lookups, would a new topic board help for these type of questions?

Everfaithful

[Artemisia]

as far as I have understood (unles something changed) foraging is completely random. So wherever you stand in SB it will give you a chance to forage these.

If you are on AB server give me a shout, I think I got a few of these left in bank

[Cleric Taven]

Always worth asking.

Thank you for the quick reply Artemisia.

I happen to be trying over on the Sleeper progression server, but again thank you for your kind offer.

For the longest time, I figured foraging in the Town's Garden in Rivervale would offer me the best chance to find any vegetables or other such random items. I have learned over time and read since then, that some of the items such as roots and berries are generic to all zones as described above in the revamp message.

[Unapuma]

There's some word that if your toon is thirsty or almost out of drinks, you'd forage more water. Same with food. So keep your toon well stocked with food and drink, this should help favor the random side more than the common forage side.

[Artemisia]

Thank you for the quick reply Artemisia.

I happen to be trying over on the Sleeper progression server, but again thank you for your kind offer.

For the longest time, I figured foraging in the Town's Garden in Rivervale would offer me the best chance to find any vegetables or other such random items. I have learned over time and read since then, that some of the items such as roots and berries are generic to all zones as described above in the revamp message.

You are very welcome.

below another post I made about foraging, it contains some info you will already know about but, do you know about the foraging machete? I highlighted that part. Not sure if Katta is already accessable on your server but if it is, it's truly worth working on, and maybe you can find the ingredients in the bazaar.

Not sure how you mean "how does foraging work" but I will tell you what I know about foraging hoping it answers your question.

Foraging is a skill that certain classes and races get, it allows you to 'pick up' all sorts of interesting goodies from the floor. You should have an abilitities button for foraging and clicking it will pick up something, what, that is always a suprise.

Each zone has standard items you can forage, fruit, berries, fishing grubs, vegetables (am I missing any?) and then most zones also have specific things that can only be foraged in that zone for example your sylvan berries.

My foraging has been maxed as soon as it was possible, so take the following with a pinch of salt as I am not 100% sure this is true, but some say it is.
The higher your foragig skill the less time there is between forages and the more your change of getting the unusual forage such as your berries. Some also say that the higher your skill is the more you will forage the rare item.

In Katta Kastellum there is a quest you can do to obtain a machette that has 10% to forage, if you check the quest section here I think it lists there what to do to obtain it.

Not knowing what level you are (and not remembering if the skill increase of foraging is linked to your level) you might want to do the quest to give yourself an extra 10%. A good idea is also to link your forage button to one of your movement keys (keyoard) so you forage by just moving about.

Ok thats some titbits about foraging, hope it covers your question.

Good luck with the berries

[Cleric Taven]

Found a Bamboo Shoot & Completed Quest

As far as both Progression servers, yes Luclin is open so Katta would be available.

An excellent suggestion - in fact any TS stat item is recommended.

We still don't have the trophy contests as they were added in a later expansion; although, tinkered geerloks would be possible. I haven't seen them widely available, but then I know they are not an easy trivial for gnomefolk.

Meanwhile, while perhaps more a /roleplay of my belief that standing in the garden gave the best chance to find vegetables in Rivervale, I found a spot amoungst the tall standing foliage up the beach from the Gunthak dock that looked promising. As I first mentioned, my bard's skill hasn't reached Average, but with patience and a macro to stand, forage, /autoinventory and then to sit once again, he happily practiced with his flute to remain invisible to the passing felines. Success came after about an hour and roughly 4 skillups later.

[Elyssanda]

As I first mentioned, my bard's skill hasn't reached Average, but with patience and a macro to stand, forage, /autoinventory and then to sit once again, he happily practiced with his flute to remain invisible to the passing felines. Success came after about an hour and roughly 4 skillups later.

hun, bard forage caps at 55.. sad sad fact of life.

[ChaseFV]

Another point is that because the bamboo shoots are used in cultural tailoring (LoY era), they also drop from mobs. If memory serves, the pandas in Stonebrunt drop these. If you're inclined to hunt while you spend time in Stonebrunt rather than practice musical skills, it's another way to add to the stack.

[andyhre]

The use of bamboo shoots for LoY robes is the only reason they ever had any real value.

Are there a lot of Erudite tailors on the progression server? If not, you'll probably make more plat elsewhere, as that's the primary demand-driver. Yes, anyone can make the ribbons, but there are much easier forages in other zones (sylvan berries and lichenclover spring to mind) for general usage.

[gggrant]

Some information (mis-information?, either way take this with a grain of salt) from a ranger with a skill of 200.

Foraging tables are zone-wide. That means that where you are in a zone has little impact on your foraging. I do like your role playing perspective though.

A greater skill in foraging will not significantly affect the refresh time of the forage button. What a greater skill does do is increase your chances to actually forage something. At a skill of 200, you will always have something pop up on your cursor when you hit the forage button. At a skill of 50, you can expect to see, "You did not find anything." most of the time. A greater skill also gives you a chance to pick up that "rare" forage.

Which leads us to foraging rare items and your bard being on a progression server. The forage tables can be thought of as tiered. As an example (this is just an example, I am not saying this is exactly the way it is), tier 1 would be where you would find the roots and pods of water. Tier 2 you would find fruits and berries. Tier 3 you would find your bamboo shoots. Originally you had to attain a certain skill before you could forage at a higher tier (i.e., anyone with a forage skill less than 25 could only get tier 1 forages, less than a 75 skill could get tier 2 forages, anyone with a skill greater than 75 could get tier 3 forages). Back in the dim past this was changed. Currently, anyone that can forage has a chance to score that "rare" forage even with a skill of only 1. A higher skill will improve your luck in getting the rares but is no longer required. The Progression servers are not "exactly" the way it used to be. In many cases SOE decided to implement newer back end processes. I have no idea if foraging on the progression servers uses the new rules or not. If not, your bard may never see those bamboo shoots until the new code is "unlocked". If they are using the new code you do have a chance to forage a bamboo shoot, but because of your classes restricted maximum skill it probably take a loooong time. Of course, the RNG may smile on you.

Whether foraging is using the new code or the old code on the Progression servers, I think the fastest way for you to get bamboo shoots would the the mass slaughter of pandas as has already been mentioned.