LoY ribbon dye component foraging/farming

[greebmushroome]

I've been combining numerous types of ribbons to raise tailoring. Suck thing is plat ribbons cost 104pp and resale of combined ribbon is 23pp... They sell like hotcakes in bazaar too... NOT
so be prepared to take a 75% loss unless you are making ribbons you or a friend can combine into a robe.

I've had my platinum ribbons of various colors up on my trader (on Ayonae ro) for probably a month or more now. They sell _very_ slowly, but they do sell. One thing to realize is that no one does skill-up combines (e.g., in mass quantity) on the platinum ribbons because the swatch components are so rare or sell for so much (since they're the components for lvl 60+ spells). Folks do one or two combines as they come across the swatch components. So, I sell two or three platinum ribbons at a time -- it saves someone the time and effort of collecting the dye components, I've already taken the chance of failure on the ribbon combine, and I'm selling them at cost. But they only buy a few at once.

Now, if I could just figure out a way to move 30 Robes of Tears and 40 Imbued mithril armor pieces.... Isn't there a Sam's Club in Freeport somewhere???

cheers,
-Greeb.

[treehugger]

> Has anyone had any success with lichenclover drops from mobs there?

Giants (roamers or those in the fort) will occasionaly drop a Lichenclover (may be 1/10 giants will drop one)

[Narith]

Ok skilling up on robes into the 200+ range and having a 53 ranger to hunt and forage for me helps a little so will give you a few bits of info I have learned about mob drops.

Only one type of mob seems to drop the dye component in most cases (a few like seahorse roe drop off more than 1 type).

Ashweed - ashweed drops very rare off the imps (none off sprites so far) which is next to impossible to get ashweed with a non forager as imps are KoS to fire elementals and goblins on top of being an extremely rare spawn in zone as is. Add in that I see about 1 weed in 10 imps it is just much easier to forage.

Cursed Clover - One of the more common forages in OT, but also drops at a semi-decent rate off any mob with the cactus model. I average about 1 clover every 5 cacti. Deffinatly one of the better options for non-foragers, however unlike ashweed the a lot of the cacti remain blue up til late 40s (imps green out around 20).

Plant Shoots - For a decently twinked ranger these are a very easy item to get while soloing for xp in the upper 40s to low 50s levels. They drop off Potmieds (sp?) light blue to dark blue at 53 most are unslowable, all are unrootable/snareable, but they hit for under 100 for the ones out side the cave so easily tanked. While killing for xp you can forage as well, usually seem to forage about a stack every hour or two. Drop rate on plant shots off Potmieds is horrendous, about 1 in 30.

I am still trying to figure out what drops plains roots, I was thinking dervs or orcs, but tried both and notta after 4 clearings of their camps... also tried zombies, willowisps, and ghouls... I am starting to wonder if they drop off the druids at the rings, if so that leaves any non-evil race/class out of a way to farm them from mobs (unless you are not worried about faction).

[Ymmi]

Velurian,
I read that if you go under water completely and forage, the seahorse roe forage rate is MUCH MUCH better.

NOTE: This has not been tested nor confirmed.

[Daergon]

Ashweed

Ashweed drops from the fire goblins in Lava as well. Managed to get one every other time I cleared both spawns (near Najena and near SolB). Fast repop on them too.

[Bartox]

plains root drops unccomonly from any beetles in North Karana

have not got any from lions, wolves, griffons/fenne/fawns, hill giants

[Velurian]

Velurian,
I read that if you go under water completely and forage, the seahorse roe forage rate is MUCH MUCH better.

NOTE: This has not been tested nor confirmed.

I'll try anything once.

Time to get my druid an EB item...

[NappyOne]

Sylvan Berries: I looted one from an Orc Centurian in Lfay. I kept getting jumped by Brownie Scouts and having to kill them too. I got a sylvan Berry off one of those. I killed about 7 scouts.

Seahorse Roe: I am trying to determine if there is a difference above and below water foraging. I foraged about 90 min on land and got one. I went to kill seahorses and forage underwater. No roe on the seahorses (that would make too much sense) but in 20 min I got two roe foraging. Could be coincidence.

Edit: Finally got one off a seahorse after killing 20. They do spawn quickly, however.

Dyole
Xev

[Mahlig]

I took my little 26 druid to forage Seahorse Roe. I foraged more on land than I did unerwater. However, this is a very limited sample size (10 Roe...1 from spider, 4 foraged on land, 3 from sea horses, 2 under water). Lots of forages though.

[Bregalad]

Coerced goblins in Dalnir drop lichenclover. And not that rarely either.

[Velurian]

On the Seahorse Roe underwater/above-water question:

It's not nearly enough of a sample to be conclusive, but 45 minutes of underwater foraging yielded seven Seahorse Roe (also got four more from killing seahorses during that same period), where a similar period foraging on the docks above water (my usual spot, since I can also easily fish there) would have usually yielded two if I was moderately lucky, three on a really good day.

So preliminary testing would seem to indicate that this theory is not without merit. Or I may just have been really, really lucky...

Edit the next morning: went back for a little while this morning and got one in 25 minutes, which is more in line with what I would expect. Take this for what you will...

[Andara Lan`Gstrom]

Lichenclovers drop relitively commonly off of Drovlargs in FV. Drolvargs also drop honey berry, but probably at about a rate of 1/20 or 25 kills

I've given up on sylvan berries lol.

[Sulkano]

Ive farmed fairly extensively for parts for the Iksar robes, and this is what I've found:

Lichenclover can be foraged in FoB, and also has dropped off of Giants in FM, Drolvargs in FV and DM, and higher lvl frogs (tuk knight,etc) in SoNH.

Honeyberries can be foraged in FM and DL, and can drop off of Giants in FM, Giants and Drolvargs in FV, Giants in DL.

Maneater Buds have (so far at least) come only from SoNH as an uncommon drop off of plant type mobs or a rare(ish) forage.

[Itzena]

Seahorse Roe also drops (surprisingly enough ) from seahorses in Erud's Crossing. The seahorses are on a 5 minute or less spawn and spawn in a group of three just off the point where the named Kerran stands.

Drachnids in FV drop honey berries - I got about half a dozen in the same time as it took for 6 stacks of silk.