Pile of Gravel?

[Ravenswood]

From what I gather, this is the human tier 3 component. I've read that this may drop off of some of the Stone-xxx mobs in OOW; can anyone confirm? Any other sources that people have found?

[Scuzz Zilla]

Person I talked too was indeed hunting stone-xxx mobs in OOW for their piles of gravel. Don't know if they come from anywhere else.

[Duradam]

RCoD Catacombs or sewers is a good place for these, anywhere else?

Lots of races need these, bit anooyed at how a scarce component is required for so many races.

[Boleslav]

Forget the rarity of it for a minute and consider the difficulty of the zone the items drops in.

Pile of Gravel - Ruined City of Dranik

Small Brick of Yttrium - The Deep

Midnight Stone - Plane of Nightmare

Basilisk Tooth - ???

Let's ignore Basilisk Tooth for a minute, as no one seems to know anything about them.

Plane of Nightmare is easily grouped in the 50s and solo-farmed in the mid 60's. The same with The Deep. Midnight Stones are an uncommon drop, and Yttrium is a common drop off mobs that are plentiful in the zone.

Pile of Gravel seems to be a rare drop off of mobs in a zone that can be safely grouped in your upper 60s and solo farmed by a select few classes at 70 or a few other uber folks.

There is no balance between those components at all.

Now, back to Basilisk Tooth. Allakhazam does not have an entry for Basilisk Tooth. Lucy lists it, and also lists a submitter. This means that it dropped at least once on a production server. Magelo also lists it, showing the initial entry as July of 2004. So it has been in game for 8 months and no one knows anything about it. Must not be a common item, or even a rare item from at least an accessible mob.

Looks like there is work to do with these components.

Boleslav Forgheammer
Paladin of Brell in his 66th Campaign
E'ci – Sacred Destiny

[Jinyx Da Troll]

Im not sure on this but when I was working Lavaspinners last night the basilisks were dropping teeth (the ones mixed in with the drakes)

[greebmushroome]

in considering the zones they drop from, also consider how often those zones are hunted. many folks still hunt rcod semi-regularly, but no one hunts the deep any more.

[Ravenswood]

True, but like many people, I can solo the Deep. No so with RCoD; not even close. I seriously hope they make some adjustments because this really is way out of balance. Please use the /feedback in-game if you agree that this is a problem.

[Duradam]

I arrived in the deep, a 70 pally, to find a 70 rogue allready soloing thought horrors. I've been trying to find piles of gravel for sale and had no luck. As its been a solo/tradeskill week, and I haven't taken an exp group to rcod, I've had no luck at all with gravel, yet easily walked away with 2 stacks of yittrium for friends, from finishing my master quest in the deep.

There appears to me to be a large discrepency in the difficulty of obtaining masterials- erudites use drops of mercuty for the expert level combines. Seeing as how that can be made by a rogue for less than 5pp, I think they will find it a lot easier to skill on cultural than say, Vah shir with bricks of black acrylia, or trolls with globes of fear.

At the same time, a bit of variety is nice- I'm disapointed how master component are pretty much gravel or yittrium, and all gm components are metalic drake scales. So trying to make a balenced, yet varried materials list won't be simplicity itself for the devs.

[greebmushroome]

True, but like many people, I can solo the Deep. No so with RCoD; not even close. I seriously hope they make some adjustments because this really is way out of balance.

well, fwiw, i know a shammy who bots a cleric in rcod frequently (he got all his 66-68 spells for both toons that way, i think). that said, yes, rcod is a much more difficult zone than the deep.

as for the variability in expert-level combines (noted by a later poster), that doesn't worry me as much since those recipes all trival out at 222, which is the same as EVB for smithing, so not a whole lot lost, imo.

[Ravenswood]

I'm not asking for enough drops to make this a viable skill-up option; for starters I'd like to be able to make ONE piece. I have not personally, nor have I found ANYONE in-game that has been able to get their hands on a single Pile of Rocks one way or another. Granted, DoN is a bit more popular than OOW now, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get inot a OOW as easily as I used to.

[greebmushroome]

i've noticed a couple of piles of gravel in the bazaar in the last few days (they were exhorbitatnly prices, however... 30k and 45k on Aro... i'd wager from folks who notice the tradeskill tag, don't know what they're for/the value of them, don't see any others in bazaar, and assume it's for something extremely rare and drool-worthy).

[casala]

Saw one drop in The Nest zone. Came off of one the stone guardian type mobs that populate DoN.

[Balthozzar]

gravel

please don't consider this confirmed, as it was a couple weeks ago, but I do seem to remember them dropping in a stillmoon instance mission from the stone guardian type mobs. I knew I should have asked for those drops, but I hadn't finished reading up on what people had discovered at that time ><

[Jaradis Stormcaller]

[Thu Feb 24 23:41:49 2005] a baleful stoneworker has been slain by Vasarab!
[Thu Feb 24 23:41:49 2005] You gained raid experience!
[Thu Feb 24 23:41:49 2005] a baleful stoneworker's corpse lets out a low moan as it falls.
[Thu Feb 24 23:41:50 2005] --You have looted a Pile of Gravel.--

This was in RCoD.

[nightjackal77]

Seen quite a few drop of the Golems...there is a large bunch of them near Ungi the Swift camp and with a FD pull you can split them up.

Have fun!

Now back to looking for the dang Tooth's