Easiest Dye component to Obtain?

[Aryse Andenter]

The crused clovers seem to drop a lot in OT, I saved them up while I was xping there (you can do a lot of levels there) and never had to find anyone to forage for me. My guildies leveling there were also happy to just give them to me, they drop off of all the cactus-type things which seem the easiest mobs to fight anyway.

[Kellaen]

Steamfont water is the common one on xeg. There's sometimes plant shoots for jagged dye sold, got lucky and snagged 3 stacks @ 4p each about a month ago.

Enjoy the ribbons, after 187 tailoring sucks big time.

[Tweedledea]

Been working on a Norrath-wide dye component chance survey

Here's my data so far (includes items I have noted foraging... there may be omissions as I didn't spend a long time in each zone - I'll add them later.)

Steamfont (Spring water) : Dye ratio 1:6 (6 'junk' forages - Veg, water, grubs, fruit, roots, berries)

Lavastorm (Ashweed) : 1:6 (Fruit, veg, water, grubs, roots, rabbit)

Dagnor's Cauldron (Cauldron prawns) : 1:5 (Berries, fruit, rabbit, roots, water)

North Karana (Plains roots) : (very incomplete) (Plains pebble, water)

Firiona Vie (Lichenclover) : (very incomplete) (Roots, veg, rose)

Swamp of No Hope (Maneater bud) : 1:8 (Water, berries, muchfish, veg, willow moss, moss root, grubs, fruit)

Overthere (Cursed clover) : 1:5 (Water, cracked shell, grubs, berries, veg)

Lesser Faydark (Sylvan berries) : 1:6 (Roots, fruit, rabbit, water, grubs, morning dew)

Stonebrunt (Bamboo shoots) : 1:7 (Grubs, water, palm fruit, veg, berries, roots, fruit)


The Swamp seems to be a very bad place to hang out for dye components! Lesser Faydark has the bonus of morning dew being quite desirable to wood elves.

[drtyaty]

Originally posted by Tweedledea
Been working on a Norrath-wide dye component chance survey

Here's my data so far (includes items I have noted foraging... there may be omissions as I didn't spend a long time in each zone - I'll add them later.)

Steamfont: Dye ratio 1:6 (6 'junk' forages - Veg, water, grubs, fruit, roots, berries)

Lavastorm: 1:6 (Fruit, veg, water, grubs, roots, rabbit)

Dagnor's Cauldron: 1:5 (Berries, fruit, rabbit, roots, water)

North Karana: (very incomplete) (Plains pebble, water)

Firiona Vie: (very incomplete) (Roots, veg, rose)

Swamp of No Hope: 1:8 (Water, berries, muchfish, veg, willow moss, moss root, grubs, fruit)

Overthere: 1:5 Water, cracked shell, grubs, berries, veg)

Lesser Faydark: 1:6 (Roots, fruit, rabbit, water, grubs, morning dew)

Stonebrunt: 1:7 (Grubs, water, palm fruit, veg, berries, roots, fruit)


The Swamp seems to be a very bad place to hang out for dye components! Lesser Faydark has the bonus of morning dew being quite desirable to wood elves.

Might add which dye component drops in the zones you have listed

I apologize if I missed it.

[eniamn]

as an erudite would it be worth it to get the dyes for my cultural robes so that i dont have to eat as much of the ribbon cost? the dyes for erudites are 2 of the most annoying i hear and was wondering if it would be worth skilling with my own to reuse the ribbons later instead of checking them like i would do with another dye. kinda poor so recycling appeals to me.

ps. please dont tell me to forage. i forage just as much as any HIE or dwarf ever has.

[Tweedledea]

Originally posted by drtyaty
Might add which dye component drops in the zones you have listed

I apologize if I missed it.

Sorry, I made the assumption that if you go to forage in a particular zone, you have a good idea of what you WANT to forage

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[Mahlig]

As an Erudite tailor myself, go to Stonebrunt and kill pandas of all ages. They can all drop bamboo shoots. That is what I did.

[Kelandra Kindheart]

Plains roots are by far the hardest to come by. They are foraged in West Commons but none of the mobs in the zone drop them. The bug type mobs in North Karana drop them rarely but they're not foraged in the zone.
For human tailors skilling up on robes the robe of concussion is the best to make after robe of scent trivials at 222. I vendor dive for concussion runes and have around 300 saved up but getting the plains roots is hard. I also check the bazaar and ooc in those 2 zones that I'm buying plains roots but rarely is there anyone actually hunting in those zones.

[Aeryon]

Easiest one IMO is Sylvan Berries in LFay. I've been farming those with my druid lately (I'm skilling her up on Tailoring), and they come pretty quickly. The nice thing is that the orcs drop them too and quite frequently at that.

I tried the Steamfont kobolds as well, but a couple of clearings of all the kobolds in the camps gave maybe 1 or 2 spring waters. The berries' droprate on the LFay orcs seems a lot better.

[drtyaty]

Pandas

Originally posted by Mahlig
As an Erudite tailor myself, go to Stonebrunt and kill pandas of all ages. They can all drop bamboo shoots. That is what I did.

How frequently did the pands drop them Mahlig? I have heard others say the drop rate was pretty horrendous.

I never personally killed the pandas to obtain the bamboo, but instead used a friend's druid to forage them while I was raiding or playing with my main; same was true for the seahorse roe, although I did kill spiders and snakes with him, and found the drop rate to be fairly good on the Roe.

[Mahlig]

I think I get about 1 every 10 or 15 pandas. Yes, it is a terrible drop rate, but it is not a lot worse than any others. The difference is the density of the mobs. Kobalds are densely populated. Pandas are spread considerably. They also have many more hit points than the Kobalds. Therefore, they take longer. And since they wander, they are harder for a non-tracker to kill (and a much bigger pita). But the drop rate is not much worse.

[DeegerStormcrow]

Originally posted by Tweedledea
North Karana (Plains roots) : (very incomplete) (Plains pebble, water)

Plains roots are foraged in W. Commonlands.

[Tweedledea]

Ah, I get it now.

Foraged in WC, dropped in NK by beetles.

I was wondering why the forage rate was so lousy.

[Fin]

In Steamfront, the Steamfont Spring Water dropped off "A Minotaur Slaver" too (yeah, and the kobolds).

Apart from NK (beetles), and DL (chickens, dogs, giants), what are the other options for non-forage classes?

I know it's quicker to farm cash to buy stuff off the bazaar, but I would prefer to farm stuff at my own leisure.

-Fin

[Aeryon]

Apart from NK (beetles), and DL (chickens, dogs, giants), what are the other options for non-forage classes?

Like I mentioned earlier, Sylvan Berries in LFay drop off the orcs there (my favourite dye component so far).

For foragers I found that Nedaria's Landing has a forage rate for Plant Shoots that's not too bad. I haven't tried Jaggedpine yet though so I can't compare the forage rates of the two zones.