hides for padding

[Fearchar]

I have been away for a while. I have a backpack full of threads, but I need some LQ hides. I just read a guide that recommended Stonebrunt Mts. for cat hides. The guide said that there was a new shortcut for getting there, but that is all they said. Can anyone please give me directions? Or, do you know a better place for hides? Thanks --- Fearchar

[Bennan]

If there is a better place its maybe on Lucilin somewhere, Stonebrunt is still a wonderful place for Hides, and the place I use.

As for shortcuts, I could only imagine the author was talking about the new port to Stonebrunt, or using the book portal to appear in Tox Forest just near the entrance to Paineel...

[Fearchar]

That must be it. He did talk about a port. I thought he might have meant the books, but that does take you to Tox, which means a big trip though some zone I was never in. Who has the ports, Wiz or Dru ?

[Diania]

both wizards and druids get the stonebrunt port, which lands you near the southern coastal area (more or less, it's been a few months since I've actually played last, so my info might be off abit)

[Fearchar]

Thanks.

[Aluaeia]

Marus Seru greyhoppers, always drop either an LQ rockhopper hide (which is usable with either a silk thread or a shade silk thread to make padding) or a greyhopper hide that you can sell to aspiring tailors (about 1/4 drop rate on the greyhopper though)

[Silound]

Personally, I would save Greyhopper hides if your tailoring is below 65, beacuse at 65, padding fails a LOT less than at 31. And easy way to get that skill up to 95 wihtout spending too much (pattern cost is all).

Silound
Minstrel of Prexus

[Fearchar]

I ended up heading to Marus Seru. I figured it was a much easier trip. I can't imagine the drops being any better. In the fist hour I got a stack of LQ hides and 6 Greyhoppers. Later I came back and got 2 more stacks of LQ and 24 more Greys. I was figuring on skilling up my tailoring with the Greys, although I am only 31 now, and that is a big jump. But, like you said, the patterns are cheap. Right now I am getting 2 LQ for each Grey. I'll just have to see if this continues. Every once in a while I end up with an egg or blood instead of a hide, but that doesn't happen too often. Thanks again all.

[Fearchar]

This is working out better than I ever expected. Even with only 31 in tailoring, I took my 33 Greyhopper hides, and made gorgets. I had 7 successes, and 5 skillups. So now I am at 36, and I even made a little money in the process. I have a long way to go yet, but it looks like it will work. :>)

[Ainthur Hammurfist]

MS is by far the best for the LQ hides. You can farm massive quantities in no time at all, in fact you can often have the 20-30 level characters in zone collect them for you in return for buffs. The greyhopper hides drop at about a rate of 1:2.5 of the LQ hopper hides.

[Fearchar]

Yes, that is definitely a great place to farm. The Greyhopper hides got my tailoring up to 95. I don't need the leather for myself any more, but I am hunting lesser shades for the Swiriling Shadows. I end up with about 4 stacks of shadling silks for every stack of shadows, so I run over to MS for an hour or so, get a couple stacks of LQ hides and sell the leather in the Bazaar. I make easier money this way than I ever did hunting Hill Giants, and I don't have to fight the crowds. :>)

OOPS, I shouldn't have said that, until after I hit 250 -- ha ha

So far I have had one skill up in 33 combines of Shadowscream :>(