For those curious about the Blackburrow Gnoll Fang nerf

[BarackObooma]

I spent a lot of time in Blackburrow leveling alts over the years. Since the last patch nerfed the experience of the gnoll fangs, I thought it'd be interesting to determine just how much it was nerfed.

Before nerf: 20k exp per fang
After nerf: 8k exp per fang

It's still not bad but was nerfed 60% so it is pretty much a ghost town now.

In case you were curious how many fangs you would get if you PB AOE'd the entire zone at once, it averages 30 fangs.

Blackburrow has a 24 minute respawn rate I believe. Rounding up all the gnolls (make sure the zone is empty) could take 6 minutes so you're looking at two full pulls an hour.

60 fangs x 8000 exp = 480,000 experience an hour. (This would take you from level 1 to almost level 9 as a Dwarf Cleric for example)

If you were broke and needed to PL your own toon, this would be an okay way to do it if you do it late when no one else is in the zone but not a super efficient method. Especially when you consider you have to run to Qeynos and turn them all in which burns a lot of time. You'll also be a fizzle/whiff king/queen.

You can use this neat tool to determine how much experience you need per level based on your race/class.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020612225100/http://eq.stratics.com/crmaps/eqexp.html

[Tankdan]

Gnolls fangs are still great exp, but not so much level 16+. For 4-16, Blackburrow is great.

[Swish]

Still people farming greens for gnolls in BB, nerf in line with the scorpion pincer quest nerf (FoB) ;)

[Velerin]

Before the nerf you could actually get pretty decent exp all the way to mid30s. Early mornings when it was empty I tested it out. About 30 per clear was right. Every 20 would give you 3-4% exp in 35. 60/hour = ~10% exp per hour in 35. Not bad for 0 risk. Noticed a lot of people never did the QH gnolls much also. There's actually a circuit of ~10 gnolls on 6 min timer you could do also.
2 near Qeynos zoneline, 1 near guard tower, 2 at BB entrance, about 5 stationary and 1-2 wanderers in the area too.

[BarackObooma]

The Qeynos hill circuit was great because you could add in the rabid grizzly and two rabid wolves for extra $ and experience. You could also do the gnoll hunter staff part quest too.

The grizzly was awesome as it had a high drop rate of grizzly bear pelts (40-50pp), HQ bear skins (30pp), low/med quality bear skins (2pp ea) and well as getting about 4pp for the pelt turn in and reward spell vendor.

[Samoht Farstrider]

I leveled a couple of alts with the QH circuit including the rabids before the nerf since BB was so camped by PLers. The Grizzly Bear Skin sold pretty good too before they fixed the Potion bag. Also, if you have a magic weapons, there are wisps along the road between the rabids and gnolls that you can get GLS from.

[webrunner5]

Is the nerf sort of along the lines of Classic or did they nerf it to avoid the Cluster F--k there? :confused:

[BarackObooma]

From the old posts I found, even with the nerf the experience is still about double what it was on live. It was about 5x as much!

[bloodmuffin]

You know what's really funny? They didn't do shit about this for years, up until the point when abacab started streaming it. I watched as he went from 10-25 doing fangs in BB.

Mega butthurt people then enter the stream and people start bitching about how much exp it's rewarding, a week later and it's the nerf bat.

[BarackObooma]

They just nerfed this on the last patch. Is Abacab back? I thought he left a year or two ago.

[bloodmuffin]

They just nerfed this on the last patch. Is Abacab back? I thought he left a year or two ago.

I believe he was banned for something according to his chat stream. Left for a couple days due to work and returned to him doing stupid shit on EQEmu or something lame that wasn't p99. Didn't bother to ask, he wasn't streaming p99, fail.