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Decided to take a break from Minotaur Hero's Brew to put a few points into smithing. Did some fine plate combines, had a fairly good success rate so I didn't lose too much money on buying the ore. Decided to take a ride out to OOT to try to score some sea foams so I could give some low-end Freeport cultural pieces a shot.
Normally when I go out to get foams it is terribly slow-going. There are only 3 mobs that I have found that drop Mugs of Sea Foam (all in OOT):
1. Cyclops
2. Seafury Cyclops
3. Goblin Chieftain
I also *assume* the other 'clops in the zone (Quag, Tainted, etc.) have the chance to drop it, but since I have never killed them and because the foam is uncommon at best I can't confirm this theory. Anyhow, as has been mentioned in previous threads I'm not quite strong enough to farm the Cykes with any real efficiency. I mean, I can kill them solo...thats not an issue, but at my current level/skill doing so puts me out of action for quite awhile (medding and resting). Couple that with the not-so-common drop rate of the foams, and I am looking at 1 foam/hour...two if I'm lucky. 3 if the stars are aligned.
So what I usually do is head over to Goblin Island (directly south of the Sisters Island). There is a tent at the top of the island that always has either a Goblin Wizard or a Goblin Chieftain. The chieftain will drop foams on occasion. The spawn timer is fairly quick and reliable. One of those two gobbies will pop there around every 10 minutes or so (I haven't actually timed it, just estimating...seems reasonable). So I run up to the tent, mow down the whichever goblin is standing there (hopefully chieftain), loot foam if it drops, then run down to the shore and fish for 10 minutes (need seaweeds for the cultural temper as well). Also, every 20 or 30 minutes I will /ooc to sea if anyone has any foams they'd be willing to sell.
After collecting a few foams from the Chief someone sends me a tell saying they have a foam. Wheee. Ok. I swim (in full plate of course) across the ocean to the AC camp where the fellow is. He sells me 2 foams (he had just picked up another on my trip over). Groovy. I start fishing again and get another tell for foam. I head over to the Gornit camp and the fellow just gives me the foam! I tried twice to pay him for it but he just told me that he never found a use for them and he got them frequently, so I could just have it. Sweet. Thanked him and headed back to fish.
{Intermission in Foam Gathering: Low level player gets himself lost and needs to find the spells vendor on AC island. Doesn't know how to navigate by /loc and doesn't have the zone map in the LoY mapping system apparently. I do my good deed for the week and swim the entire cross-length of the ocean (he was down on the far SW island by the fishing vendors) so that I could lead him back to where he needed to be. Bonus #1 to this was that I got to see Alizwesaur for the first time. Thats one big lizard. Lead the fellow back to AC Island (mind-numbingly slow, I'm swimming in circles to allow him to catch up. About half way on the trip back he tells me "Hey! I got better at swimming (17)!"). Bonus #2 - when I finally get him to the AC Island spells vendor, he helps me out by looking to see if she has some foams on her (she won't sell to me). She didn't, but it was worth a look.}
I head back to fish (I've built a decent collection of seaweeds by this point). Am just about to pack up and wait for the boat to leave (I forgot to make a new thurg gate pot after I used the last one, dernit) when I get a third tell from a fellow saying he has foams. Cool. I'll take the next boat. I had over to Seafury island and find the guy. This guy hands me 26 freakin' foams! I was stunned. He must have been mulching Seafuries like nobody's business. I paid him (got a good deal too, real cheap since he too apparently didn't know what they were for) and went on my way. Between the Chieftain and the three tells I got it was probably the most foam-efficient trip to OOT for me to date. I hit the boat and parked myself by the beach in Butcherblock. Fished for a while, but didn't get any Stonefish (might as well see if I can pick some up for racial needles while I'm there, right?). Logged out.
Tonight when I get home I plan on fishing for a bit. If the Stonefish aren't biting I'll book back to Freeport and put together some of the low-end cultural stuff and see if I can get some skill-ups out of it. There is no real point to this story. I was just happy with what I consider to be a windfall of Sea Foams. Was a nice change of pace as well. Seeing Alizewsaur was officially "Neat". Ok, thats all. Just wanted to share. Keep banging away at those forges people. Some days really are better than others. =)
Normally when I go out to get foams it is terribly slow-going. There are only 3 mobs that I have found that drop Mugs of Sea Foam (all in OOT):
1. Cyclops
2. Seafury Cyclops
3. Goblin Chieftain
I also *assume* the other 'clops in the zone (Quag, Tainted, etc.) have the chance to drop it, but since I have never killed them and because the foam is uncommon at best I can't confirm this theory. Anyhow, as has been mentioned in previous threads I'm not quite strong enough to farm the Cykes with any real efficiency. I mean, I can kill them solo...thats not an issue, but at my current level/skill doing so puts me out of action for quite awhile (medding and resting). Couple that with the not-so-common drop rate of the foams, and I am looking at 1 foam/hour...two if I'm lucky. 3 if the stars are aligned.
So what I usually do is head over to Goblin Island (directly south of the Sisters Island). There is a tent at the top of the island that always has either a Goblin Wizard or a Goblin Chieftain. The chieftain will drop foams on occasion. The spawn timer is fairly quick and reliable. One of those two gobbies will pop there around every 10 minutes or so (I haven't actually timed it, just estimating...seems reasonable). So I run up to the tent, mow down the whichever goblin is standing there (hopefully chieftain), loot foam if it drops, then run down to the shore and fish for 10 minutes (need seaweeds for the cultural temper as well). Also, every 20 or 30 minutes I will /ooc to sea if anyone has any foams they'd be willing to sell.
After collecting a few foams from the Chief someone sends me a tell saying they have a foam. Wheee. Ok. I swim (in full plate of course) across the ocean to the AC camp where the fellow is. He sells me 2 foams (he had just picked up another on my trip over). Groovy. I start fishing again and get another tell for foam. I head over to the Gornit camp and the fellow just gives me the foam! I tried twice to pay him for it but he just told me that he never found a use for them and he got them frequently, so I could just have it. Sweet. Thanked him and headed back to fish.
{Intermission in Foam Gathering: Low level player gets himself lost and needs to find the spells vendor on AC island. Doesn't know how to navigate by /loc and doesn't have the zone map in the LoY mapping system apparently. I do my good deed for the week and swim the entire cross-length of the ocean (he was down on the far SW island by the fishing vendors) so that I could lead him back to where he needed to be. Bonus #1 to this was that I got to see Alizwesaur for the first time. Thats one big lizard. Lead the fellow back to AC Island (mind-numbingly slow, I'm swimming in circles to allow him to catch up. About half way on the trip back he tells me "Hey! I got better at swimming (17)!"). Bonus #2 - when I finally get him to the AC Island spells vendor, he helps me out by looking to see if she has some foams on her (she won't sell to me). She didn't, but it was worth a look.}
I head back to fish (I've built a decent collection of seaweeds by this point). Am just about to pack up and wait for the boat to leave (I forgot to make a new thurg gate pot after I used the last one, dernit) when I get a third tell from a fellow saying he has foams. Cool. I'll take the next boat. I had over to Seafury island and find the guy. This guy hands me 26 freakin' foams! I was stunned. He must have been mulching Seafuries like nobody's business. I paid him (got a good deal too, real cheap since he too apparently didn't know what they were for) and went on my way. Between the Chieftain and the three tells I got it was probably the most foam-efficient trip to OOT for me to date. I hit the boat and parked myself by the beach in Butcherblock. Fished for a while, but didn't get any Stonefish (might as well see if I can pick some up for racial needles while I'm there, right?). Logged out.
Tonight when I get home I plan on fishing for a bit. If the Stonefish aren't biting I'll book back to Freeport and put together some of the low-end cultural stuff and see if I can get some skill-ups out of it. There is no real point to this story. I was just happy with what I consider to be a windfall of Sea Foams. Was a nice change of pace as well. Seeing Alizewsaur was officially "Neat". Ok, thats all. Just wanted to share. Keep banging away at those forges people. Some days really are better than others. =)
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