Great Reptile Hide...

[filobeto]

GREAT REPTILE HIDE and VP

This past Sat night a group of four of us adventured into VP. We have long since finished the VP quests so hurting our faction was not much of a concern. Little did we know that 4 kills would take you from Ally to KoS

Well after the initial shock of faction loss, we explored a bit and set up camp around the Racnors, otw to Silverwing. In a little of an hour of killing there we had....

17 Great Reptile Hides.

...if I only knew of this back when I was skilling

If the drop rate of the raptors in CT could just be changed to match that of the racnors in VP, this would not be as big of a problem. Oh, and add more Raptors to CT....

[Tokkyl]

Doesn't this just point out the discrepancy even more though - and that it needs a major overhaul for some of the races and their Master level drops? The hides do drop - but in the WRONG zone!

Lets see:

(1) Requires access to a keyed zone (VP) of which if you don't already have can't see a reason to convince anybody to get these days.
(2) Group of 4 (assuming all level 70's) got 17 hides to drop in an hour. Many classes can SOLO a stack of Shissar Scales in one hour, so the drop rate still doesn't compare to some other races.
(3) Faction loss.

I know this is a lot of repetition, but figure if we keep hounding at it maybe will see a fix some day.

[filobeto]

Doesn't this just point out the discrepancy even more though - and that it needs a major overhaul for some of the races and their Master level drops? The hides do drop - but in the WRONG zone!

Lets see:

(1) Requires access to a keyed zone (VP) of which if you don't already have can't see a reason to convince anybody to get these days.
(2) Group of 4 (assuming all level 70's) got 17 hides to drop in an hour. Many classes can SOLO a stack of Shissar Scales in one hour, so the drop rate still doesn't compare to some other races.
(3) Faction loss.

I know this is a lot of repetition, but figure if we keep hounding at it maybe will see a fix some day.

1,2, and 3 - correct

My post was mainly to confirm that the hides drop in bunches in VP. Thus, if someone has a key and doesn't mind ruining their faction (and their friends), they could go there and farm the hides in quanity.

I think we've done a fair job at pointing out the problems with the drop rates, they have listened and are currently working to fix it.

Until that happens, if you are capable of killing in VP - you can get the hides.

[Tokkyl]

I know there have been a LOT of good changes to tradeskills this is just a sore spot atm as the RNG seems to hate me. Sorry if came off as a "rant" but just went through 2 backpacks of Othmir Furs (3 weeks of farming) and didn't get ONE skillup!!!! Been sitting at 278 forever now it seems and am creating trails through CS and WL on my way to the slaughtering grounds.

I've finished up 5 other tradeskills from 250 to 300 (only tailoring and smithing left) in the same time that it's taken me to get 2 skillups in tailoring (change of pace was Prepared Sporali Skin to 276).

Mentioned this in /gu to vent some frustration and a response was "Why don't you just do Master's armor to 300 it's EASY as I went from from 220 to 300 in just a few weeks". If they would of accepted a /duel I would of killed em on the spot!

[Droogie MalC]

SOE fixes TS problem... and starts the Rapture.

Sorry to be the cynic, but this is just the continuation of the @#%$ the Iksar game I have played for some many fun filled years now. Don't expect any changes in a positive direction relating to tradeskill if it has ANYTHING to do with Iksar, or for that matter shammy... and god forbid both. I suspect this is just part of the constant punishment for choosing a race with a hard difficulty rating, heck Iksar and trolls... so nice to still have the only exp penalty in game (watch out I have a couple more natural regen points then you do!), and the continuing tradition of the hardest most retarded tradeskill environment in the game. Yeah, the TS drop will get fixed as soon as Iksar blood drop is fixed and a vendor that sells water is added to east cabilis...

Hmm lets see, a minor fix to a non-existant drop occured during the expansion, we are now half way through two expansions later, yeah it's being looked at *wink*

MalC the Mad

[Bjart]

these do still drop in ct of dinos but are pretty rare, maybe 1 in 10

[Luvimt]

these do still drop in ct of dinos but are pretty rare, maybe 1 in 10

1 in 180 for me then i gave up on tailoring.

[Droogie MalC]

Nreth is out there....

Hopefully stalking this issue still.... though no reply since 2-22-06 .... so assuming this is still just as much a wait and see as it has been since the minor change from the non-existant Racnar to the nearly non-existant great reptile.

[KyrosKrane]

Ngreth's last comment was that adjusting all the cultural drops was still on his to-do list, but (at the time he posted) it wasn't his immediate task. He also said he wouldn't post anything further until he had some meaningful progress to report.

[Eggborn]

old thread bump, but a question:

I did confirm with some friends that Great Reptile Hides are decent drops in VP, but I want to be sure I can get my faction back. Is mistmoore still high level, and if so, how does one fix it?

I actually did a lot of smithing with great reptile teeth from this zone, since I had good faction. (no adds, but the basiliks) I would hate to give that up forever.

Has anyone tried HoT since the last poster in this thread? My faction there is bad anyway. If I get a chance I will try it too.

[KyrosKrane]

Mistmoore was reverted to the original lower-level zone. You can fix your Ring of Scale faction there -- but expect it to take quite a while if you're KOS. As to the rest, I have no experience with HoT.

[euridice]

if you are a pet class RoS faction is really easy to fix in a night, afk.
go to SK and kill a npc on a bard faction, he's alone next to little steps, once you're kos to him stand next to him, he will attack, pet destroy him quickly, it was real easy even with my enchanter pet to max faction that way. hope it helps

[KyrosKrane]

Of course then, you're KOS to bards everywhere ... And you're back to Mistmoore to fix bard faction.