cobalt and tungsten ores: Where are you?

[bigtooth]

I have 300 smithing and trophy is up to 20%. I would like to max out the trophy. Cobalt and tungsten seem so rare on my server, never anymore than 6-8 in bazaar it seems, and those people want 1k or more generally. I have been trying to find somewhere to farm, but never getting anymore than maybe 1 per hour. While at the same time, I have superb silk piling up. Tailoring is already 300, with trophy fully evolved, don't need the stinkin' silk.

I know it's gonna take some work to evolve the trophy, but this seems impossible so far. Even on guild raids, seem we get silks and pelts alot, and maybe 1-2 ores a night.

Any suggestions as far as where you have seen cobalt/tungsten drop would be appreciated.

[Magnoliae]

I went through my raid log file & cobalt ore has been looted 105 times in Solteris, Ashengate or Frostcrypt. & I've loote 18 cobalt ore in PoFire farming molten ore. Seems like 65-70+ exp zones seem to be the best droppers. As for one certain zone? I've heard a kiter friend is getting "lots" from Icefall kiting sessions.

[Yther]

Lot of Tungsten from Gnolls in the Steppes and Most of the Cobalt I've seen has dropped in Katta missions in Thalassius (sp?).

Yther Ore.

[Zopharr]

Lot of Tungsten from Gnolls in the Steppes and Most of the Cobalt I've seen has dropped in Katta missions in Thalassius (sp?).

Yther Ore.

Can confirm that TBS humanoids seem to drop it fairly well.

Ashengate Golems may as well, haven't tried them out yet.

Garshok

[Zolina]

The shadowmanes in Stoneroot drop Tungsten fairly frequently, occasional cobalt too.

I got a nice pile of cobalt from the black legion camp in Direwind. Humanoid mobs seem to be the best droppers.

[cibby]

freeding the elder is great place to get all of the tradeskill stuff and esp tungsten and cobalt.

[Zandramadass]

Humanoids have a chance to drop all components not just the ore/loam I'm after so prefer to avoid those camps as the loot table is further dilluted with the other drops, but thanks for the suggestions so far and keep them coming.

Can confirm Ashen golems as dropping cobalt frequently and Tungsten more rarely.

Out of over 20 hours kiting in Icefall on slayers, mammoths, bears, goblins I have only seen 2 ore drop tho.

[Aldier]

Humanoids have a chance to drop all components not just the ore/loam I'm after so prefer to avoid those camps as the loot table is further dilluted with the other drops, but thanks for the suggestions so far and keep them coming.

Can confirm Ashen golems as dropping cobalt frequently and Tungsten more rarely.

Out of over 20 hours kiting in Icefall on slayers, mammoths, bears, goblins I have only seen 2 ore drop tho.

Ore/Loam drops from "golem" types. There was another thread where Ngreth listed what those mobs were. Those would be the best place to start for pure ore/loam drops. Humanoids are the other option because you could perhaps trade or sell the silk/animal pelts and then buy ore/loam.

[Zandramadass]

Ya, I mixed this thread up with the one I started and cross posted.

[Zandramadass]

Gnolls in Steppes are not a recommended path for farming ore. Their loot table includes all drops so this should put them in with Human models which have a diluted loot table due to other tradeskill drops. They do frequently drop tradeskill items but in 2 hours there I only had 2 ores drop... both tungsten which is the correct lvl range but not the spot to camp for purely ore's.

Had more luck in the non instanced Thundercrest. Upper right hand corner of map... was able to invis nearly the entire way there with only 1 or 2 see invis in the path. You will hit a room with 10 or so wandering sentinels/gaurdians clearing this room and wanderers I was able to avg 2 per rotation which sucks when your farming but is decent for grinding and getting as a bonus.

Still have not attempted the shadowmanes but is on my list to try out.... stoneroot and the SD instance... will update once done.

[Thurvok]

Hunt in Ashengate and you will be overflowing with cobalt

[Zandramadass]

Aye already set up for there... but since I deteste pick up groups I have to limit myself to those i trust which is limited by time restraints and availability... still Cobalt shouldnt be an issue...

[Alcuin]

I find myself many nights having to box on my free time since its the lull before new expansion and many of my groupmates have been playing LoN. I have tried many zones and the best drop rate zone for cobalt I have found so far duo'ing a paladin and cleric is in Plane of Fire at the tables camp.

[Spirtwalker]

Ore/Loam drops from "golem" types. There was another thread where Ngreth listed what those mobs were. Those would be the best place to start for pure ore/loam drops. Humanoids are the other option because you could perhaps trade or sell the silk/animal pelts and then buy ore/loam.

I have searched and searched and can not find a list of what are golem types.

I have killed stuff in every zone I can think of and can not find golem types at the rhenium level. There are a bunch of mobs that should be golem types in PoP but they seem to be classified as humanoids as I guess the reasoning is you are on the planes and we are the unnaturals there.

With regard to Tungsten:

I farm it in Yxtta, the puzzle that leads to the Primals cave. There are 14 stoneworkers there that drop the Tungsten tier smithing and jewelcraft drops. If you clear those too fast you can fight through the broken down building and there are more golems in the pool area.

Oh and if you take a crew and can handle 3+ unmezzable mobs that hit fast for > 2k and all rampage, then you can fail the puzzle there and that spawns those golems as extras to farm.

[Gorse]

I did a 69.1 hard mission last night. At level 78 the mobs are still Dark Blue.

We had Colbalt Ore, Tungsten and even Titanium drop during the mission.

We also had an Alkalai Loam drop. =)



Gorse