Acorns

[Antoin]

I've found that Potameids rarely drop Plant Shoots. If that's not common knowledge, someone put it where it needs to be seen.

[Neckwringer]

Foraging works sort of like mobs in a zone. The items in a zone POP just like certain mobs do. To forage misty thicket heres what you do. Go to the berry spawns and pick them all up. Keep your sweetened mud roots in your inventory or make sure they are deleted. When you foraged sweetened mudroots delete them. You need to empty the zone of sweetened mudroots.

Ok there are spawns of acorns in the zone some of which can be seen and picked up and some of which are invisible and have to be foraged.

The best way to get acorns is to go into the zone when it's been reasonably empty of foragers for a couple hours. Pick up all the berries and ground spawns of acorns. Forage all the hidden ones. Once you foraged twice in an area that covers about as far as you can see if you dont get an acorn in that area forget it. It's cleared.

The trick to foraging is to treat it like spawning. You can't go to an area and destroy every cat in the zone and look around at all the spiders and orcs and whatever and wonder where all the cats are.

Misty acorns have a spawn time that seems to be about 30 to 40 minutes for every area around where they ground spawn.

But since you can't see your target when foraging you need to clear out all the lore items etc. Acorns will be top of the list for what you will forage if there is one around. If it's not your going to get water or rabbit meat or roots. The problem is that zones like karana can pump out tons of tea leaves and plains pebbles while misty spawns about half to a third as many acorns as karana does tea or plains pebbles. Yew leaves are on an even slower timer.

So basically if your on a really populated server with alot of people trying to get acorns you're pretty much bolted, welded and screwed.

[Faymar]

ground spawn

Acorns are a pain (and I spent quite some time saying the same as you... "I must be doing something wrong").

Basically, I take a forager and then run all over the zone, over and over again, avoiding paths (yet to see one on a path), staring straight down. Don't use sow, you'll run right over them.

I tend to do this on PC2 during downtime on my main character (waiting for raid to start is a good one). I usually find more on the ground than I forage (not that that is saying much). They are there, just a real pain to find.

One word of advice: skip Brute hides. There are easy enough other combines at that skill level and you will need acorns for the rest of your tailoring life (Imbued Vale, Karana Cultural, Haversacks). Don't waste those little *%$£%£ on the easier skill levels.

[Mahlig]

Hopperr - you have PMs turned off. Will tell you what I have found out.

I created a new halfling ranger. On a Viewsonic Flat Panel with a Radeon 9700 video card, the ground spawns show up *very* well. I have gathered about a dozen on my new ranger, so I will try to log my forager on that PC for you. I will try to contact you tonight in game.

[FeilynnRN]

In my thinking, I would think that with as many trees that Misty Thicket has *cry* that there'd be more on the ground than what I saw. (none)

I think I will sulk now. Thanks.

*edit*

I got the Foragers Machette that provides a 10% mod to foraging, hopefully this will help with the scarcity of the acorn forage... and also the tufts.

[Skinnyminnie]

Hobbit boy.. remind me when you see me on to head to Misty and forage when I'm not busy. You know my memory, and I'm happy to help where I can!

Skinnyminnie, 61 Hobbit Druid
Lilbitbad, 61 Drow Enchanter