Morning dew rumors

[Zacatac]

So I get all excited over the story about mobs in Lfay now dropping morning dew. GREAT, no more paying a ton to foraging classes. I'll just go wipe out Lfay and get my own, then go to MM next door and get my moonlight essense.

Well after ONE HOUR of killing everything in my path, I had ONE morning dew drop from a fairie. I killed pixies, faires, brownies, whatever I happend to see really.

Now since I need 1 stack per week at least to do my smithing, I'd have to spend 20 hours farming morning dews.

/sigh

Back to the bazaar. . .

[Angelsyn]

My friends (haven't tried myself, Paladins don't make for great farmers) have had the best success rates for Morning Dew from the Brownies in their little town.

[Zaina]

My experience has been that paladins make *great* farmers--at least when you're talking about green mobs--because they don't need mana to kill and therefore don't have much downtime. The only classes I've had better results with are warriors and monks.

[Lady Ladinea]

I have only been able to get morning dew to drop off the brownies in the fort in LFay. They seem to be a rare drop. If I spend a full night there though I can end up with the same amount foraged as looted by nights end. Just need to have the time to hunt there.

As for the other mobs. I have not been lucky enough to see any drop from them. So I stopped killing them.

[Cigarskunk]

My experience has been that paladins make *great* farmers--at least when you're talking about green mobs--because they don't need mana to kill and therefore don't have much downtime. The only classes I've had better results with are warriors and monks.

Hands down the best farmers are the folks that can use a mega damaging 2H slasher - at 47 level my buddy's troll SK can kill most old world fur and silk dropping critters in a single swat with a wieghted axe.

[teamnoir]

Best farmer in my experience, (and having played about 12 classes), is mage. Pet kills, mage loots. No mana involved. Beastlord is close, as is necro, though those 100% weight reducing bags are super for farming.

Worst farmer... cleric. Dps sucks AND it requires mana. If it's really low level, (spiderlings), I can solo ae. Otherwise, it's melee time. /sigh. If my 33 beastlord can't farm it, my 64 cleric won't be able to either.

teamnoir

[Aleena]

Not to get into a "best" arguement but a high level ranger is very nice.

Aleena.

[Glatius2]

I've used a level 60+ Warrior using a 53/46 2hs to farm, its very nice against greens without a doubt. However I firmly believe my level 52 Beastlord is better. While the pet destroys the first target I can be looking around for the next one, sic the pet while I loot the first, no real pause between kills.

[Koneko Krystalpaw]

I'd have to agree Aleena, rangers rock on the farming front. Tracking, high powered range attacks, manaless damage, wolf form, Snare, lev, enough strength to carry large loads. I would imagine bards would be pretty good farmers too. But I wouldn't trade my hubby's ranger for any other class. Rangers make perfect tradeskill/farming partners. :mrgreen:

[Haldurin]

Morning Dew from Brownies

I have a shaman friend who has been slaughtering the brownie guards for AAXP this past week.

Between the drops (she claims they are dropping 1 out of 4 on avg - not a precise figure), and her foraging (she's Iksar), I now have 3 stacks of Morning Dew.

Can anyone confirm that the dew drops off the Faeries?

Since my faerie faction is slaughtered ... might as well sweep through them a few times to find out... :twisted:

[Turiya]

I can confirm that Dew drops off Faeries and that Dew is also a ground spawn, one location is near MM.

Edit:
Dew off of Pixies also, and the one spawn I saw was in front of MM zone by ruins.

Sorry I said "various locations" previously, seemed to touch a nerve with some that I was witholding info.

[Glasgoss]

Hehhe, made we should make a map of Dew ground spawn points

[Cavel]

Even with this change the Wood Elf and High elf smiths are still unbalanced from what I have seen in other cultural smithing. The only one that comes close to us is the Qeynos temper, none of the Elven smithing items (aside from Mithrial) are store bought.

Elven smithing uses Foraged or Farmed items for all subcombines and for the Temper, Qeynos cultural uses flasks of water for the subcombines.

I know this may belong more in the primal scream room AND I know that this dropping of morning dew makes it slightly better than before but I cannot help but wonder why the elven races did not get to use Elven wine.

OK I am done now.

Cavel
205 high elven smith
Tunare

[Meirril]

Ya know Elven wine is made with morning dew, right? No, I'm not kidding.
Main reason why the other cultural recipees are easier is that they were implmented way after Evlish cultural was. If I'm remembering correctly (and feel free to correct me) Evlish and Dwarvish cultural smithing were around and fairly popular before the big changes were made in cultural smithing that introduced all the recipees using blue diamonds. Elvish smithed items were actualy good enough to use, while the other races cultural armors were generaly considered sub standard to available dropped and tradeable armors. (honestly, elvish armors arn't that good, but chain on a wizard dose have a certain appeal, and the plate armor have a very unique tint to it.) The thing that made elvish cultural superior to the other cultural armors (and still makes it desirable to make now) it the step between chain and plate. You could reasonably move from banded armor to the elvish chain and continue working towards fine steel and then eventualy back to elvish plate to get to 250. Now of course the trivials on everything have changed but the lower grade elvish cultural still has some nice trivial ranges. Now if they would only put morning dew on a vendor somewhere...
anyways getting back to the main point (sorry about the wandering). Elvish cultural was amongst the first and they came up with this idea of elves using morning dew instead of water. Very good from a role playing stand point, nightmarish from a realistic standpoint. They learned their lesson and haven't repeated that mistake (which they didn't make with any other cultural smithing or tailoring, thankfully.), but that dosen't mean they are going to change what they have already established. And so, while high elves get possibly the best cultural armor to skill up on (trivial wise), they also get majorly shafted on the availability of water/morning dew to make all their combines.

hehe, gratz to anyone that actualy made it this far. That's got to be booring long winded stuff up above.

[Minta Rose]

Confirmed:

Morning dew from corpse of Pixie Prankster
Equestrielle does not always HT
Equestrielle is slower than Selo's