Items Just Not Worth The Time Spent Camping

[Gumbo]

I thought of this topic when I was in hour five of waiting for Hadden to spawn in Qeynos Hills and hoping it wouldn't all be a waste of time... My reward, a fishing pole and 1 platinum. Hadden, who has the Fishbone Earring only spawn everything 6 hours and if not killed within 20 minutes, despawns. But if you do fight him when he spawns, there is the chance he won't even have the Fishbone Earring. I wasted six hours for nothing... I could made 3K and just bought the damn item from someone who was lucky enough to waste all their time and just happen to get it.

What other items besides the Fishbone Earring is just not worth getting because of the wasted time and very slim chances of the item dropping?

I was thinking of the Goblin Gazughi Ring. Great item to use when animal charming but I did all my levels without it and had no problems with animal charming. I might get it if I decide to hit the Polar Bear caves in Permafrost but I can always buy it now.

[GinnasP99]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Wurm_Lord_Shawl

[Gumbo]

I forgot to add before people decide to bitch me out about why I wasted all that time on Hadden.

I ran into Qeynos Hills and anytime I zone in. I'll run past and see who is camping Hadden. This time when I did, no one was there. So, I stopped for a minute and the directors cut of Alien came on Cinemax, followed by Aliens. Next thing I know... Close to five hours went by and thats when I asked myself, what in the hell am I doing?

[branamil]

I was thinking of the Goblin Gazughi Ring.

Me too. It can easily take 10+ hours to get one. Much easier to farm 7k in that time.

Also, Glowing Black Stone. You'd probably go insane trying to camp Pyzjin.

[Jimjam]

The technique to Hadden is to leave a character AFK at his spawn point for 6 hours, e.g. while at work or whatever you do with your day/night.

Your logs should pick up when Hadden was killed (and by who) so you can attempt to lock down the next spawn.

The earring is a 1/4 drop, so besides the original AFK to capture the respawn time it doesn't need to be a big time investment.

Hadden is also pretty low level, so you can park an alt in the 30s there to switch & kill once he is due. As such camping Hadden will not necessarily make a significant negative impact on your main plat farmers inflow.

Edit: ah you ninja'd me, well at least you had your movie :P.

[commongood]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Wurm_Lord_Shawl

This is a good shout out but at least you will get some meh money drop items while farming for this. But yeah... been there on and off for maybe 30 hours so far and have not gotten one.

[Jimjam]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Wurm_Lord_Shawl

I want to make a big shout out to my man Maliant who has often let me AFK leach xp on my characters while he locks down this camp.

Did you get it yet?

[Akinero]

Just my 2c but Ive made some great money camping the gobby gazughi ring. Pretty simple to do and can normally snag one within in an hour or 2. If i haven't gotten one in that time ill walk away and try again later.

Pyzjn is also very easy to spawn if you know how to, the GBS just isn't as sought after much these days.

With that out of the way i would say I have spent countless hours trying to get a staff of dreaded gaze from xalgoz that i could have bought a few from gob ring sales.

[Maliant]

Nope, Ginnas linked the #1 contender, man is that item rare. Used to see Ginnas there all the time too, did you ever get yours Ginnas?

Another contender is Staff of the Dreaded Gaze which I spent way too much time camping for when I could have got the plat from seafuries in under 1/10th the time. But the Wurm Lord Shawl I spent probably 10x as much time and still haven't seen it. I have got all of the ultra-rare drops many times and capped out 60 and sacc'd myself I think 10 times. Keep in mind the exp is horrible because I FD every kill and pet takes most the exp. It's by far the rarest item I've ever encountered (not encountered) in any game.

[dude]

Gatorscale Leggings sometimes luck is not on my side. 4 days lots of sleeves lots of gators before I got one to drop.

[Cambiant]

The shroom in guk for paw of opolla. Had the worst drop/value ratio on Fippy of pretty much anything I've camped in EQ.

[Lhancelot]

The Goblin Jacuzzi ring no doubt for me. I spent 4 different days on different toons, got courier to spawn no problem. He never, ever dropped the Goblin Jacuzzi ring!

Always drop goblin spirit ring to tease me though.

I hate how you got to watch the quick spawns too, look away for half a minute and miss wandering spawned mobs and you got to round up everything again and destroy.

Just a PITA camp imo.

[maskedmelonpai]

i don't liek camping things because it take a lot of time for maybe nothing. also, it usually something you do alone, which make it less fun. if i going to sit alone, i gonna do something else, liek meditate or read or write or draw or stretch or, well that about it.

[sfc]

Goblin Jacuzzi, absolutely. 8 10-slots full of spirit ring, carpal tunnel, and no ring after hours and hours of camping. It's a bargain at 7k.

[skarlorn]

i don't liek camping things because it take a lot of time for maybe nothing. also, it usually something you do alone, which make it less fun. if i going to sit alone, i gonna do something else, liek meditate or read or write or draw or stretch or, well that about it.

Up Danks but u did forget master baiting

[GinnasP99]

did you ever get yours Ginnas?

I'm sad to say somewhere between 300-500 hours in SS, and I have yet to get it

[GinnasP99]

I have probably made like 100kish from there tho, so /shrug

[skarlorn]

I'm sad to say somewhere between 300-500 hours in SS, and I have yet to get it

yikes dude :o I can write a first draft of a book in that time

[Loke]

I really want an eye patch of plunder for my warrior, but just can't bring myself to waste that much time over pixels these days. I think a friend of mine summed it up best when he was talking about stormfeather. Paraphrasing here, but it was something like, "I thought that I'd be really excited when I finally got stormfeather, but when it happened I thought about how much time I wasted doing it and just got sad."

Haste clicky just ain't worth staring at an empty screen for hours, especially when you have to wait in line for the priviledge of staring at a screen for hours.

[Tecmos Deception]

I'm sad to say somewhere between 300-500 hours in SS, and I have yet to get it

Makes me glad I opted for a neriad shawl instead... heh.

[skarlorn]

I really want an eye patch of plunder for my warrior, but just can't bring myself to waste that much time over pixels these days. I think a friend of mine summed it up best when he was talking about stormfeather. Paraphrasing here, but it was something like, "I thought that I'd be really excited when I finally got stormfeather, but when it happened I thought about how much time I wasted doing it and just got sad."

Haste clicky just ain't worth staring at an empty screen for hours, especially when you have to wait in line for the priviledge of staring at a screen for hours.

this is why Filbus barely has any velious loot. At one point i was sick enough to do that shit. not again.

[Spyder73]

this is why Filbus barely has any velious loot. At one point i was sick enough to do that shit. not again.

Velious armor in general is a pretty sh!ty proposition. I have full White Lotus from HoT on Tekilya but it came at a cost - 100s of hours in HoT, 10's of thousands of platinum for gems, hours of faction grinding, hours of getting lost in the piece of sh!t that is Sky Shrine, hours grinding in Velks trying to get more gems. The whole thing was fun once but I will never do it again

[maskedmelonpai]

Up Danks but u did forget master baiting

baiting not a solo activity though. gotta have someone to bait or bait you. i think it best when you bait one another though and most preferably have a audience. it become a game of strategy, a meating of minds (*^^*)

[skarlorn]

*nods gravely and places his hand on Tekilya's jacked up back*

i too have been cucked by HoT

[Zentile]

Tserrnia's Robe.

This camp broke me last year and I had to take 3 months off EQ afterwards. When I came back I deleted my 40 necro so I wouldn't be tempted to go back. And it never dropped.

This experience led me to creating an EQ rule for myself: never camp a rare drop off a rare mob.

Zen

[Kaedain]

trying to camp Lord Grimrot and hoping the undead version will finally spawn

[Legidias]

mage epic as people have spent literal years camping it to never see it yet

[Canelek]

I'll never do this one on p99. I believe it was about 19 hours for me on live.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Second_part_of_an_Iceclad_Map

The eyepatch of plunder is pretty slick, but that camp is torturous. Your eyes start to play tricks like when the damn boat flips its sternwheel thing.

[Kuch7]

Pyzjn is also very easy to spawn if you know how to, the GBS just isn't as sought after much these days.

Easy to spawn in terms of technique and level, but the odds of spawning are very low as are the chances of the stone dropping.

[Vallanor]

trying to camp Lord Grimrot and hoping the undead version will finally spawn

Was this quest easier once upon a time? I did it on my paladin probably 4+ years ago and don't remember it being a pain at all. I've heard nothing but horror stories recently though. Maybe the spawn changed?

[Jaxon]

After spending 60 hours camping my last pained soul I decided that it's better to pay someone else to be lucky.

[skarlorn]

I camped the erudite on a level appropriate rogue for probably 24-48 hours total. Luckily in that time I was mostly AFK, or if I wasn't AFK, was farming wisps for riches.

Never got an MR earring. I guess that was the worst camp I did.

[jackd104]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Staff_of_the_Dreaded_Gaze

#1 waste of time ever

[Foxplay]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Verina_Tomb

[nilzark]

dark forge armor

[Tecmos Deception]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Verina_Tomb

You value your game time pretty fucking highly to not think mana-free hastes and chanter epic stats on a non-tov primary slot are anything short of "priceless."

I mean ... has anyone EVER sold VT loot rights? At least mage and wiz and sk and warrior epic cockblock pieces are available, if expensive.


On that note though, when I eventually snag a VT, I'd probably sell loot rights for a puppet strings.

[Gumbo]

I gotta say that I thought sitting around for six hours for a chance at an earring was a long time but after reading some of your stories - :eek:

I've never had any luck with items dropping like a Fungi Tunic but I have won smaller items with a random role in giveaways.

[SyanideGas]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Staff_of_the_Dreaded_Gaze

#1 waste of time ever

So true. Gonna end up buying mine for my necro twink :(. Camped it for like 8 hours and was like "fuck this"

[skarlorn]

So true. Gonna end up buying mine for my necro twink :(. Camped it for like 8 hours and was like "fuck this"

It was more than that dude don't lie.

[thedewd]

Another contender is Staff of the Dreaded Gaze which I spent way too much time camping for when I could have got the plat from seafuries in under 1/10th the time. But the Wurm Lord Shawl I spent probably 10x as much time and still haven't seen it. I have got all of the ultra-rare drops many times and capped out 60 and sacc'd myself I think 10 times. Keep in mind the exp is horrible because I FD every kill and pet takes most the exp. It's by far the rarest item I've ever encountered (not encountered) in any game.

Staff was ez pz XD

Shawl on the other hand....it dont exist

-Bloodsip

[SyanideGas]

It was more than that dude don't lie.

I've lost track of the days...Sanity slipping...Hope gone. Send help.

[Maliant]

Staff was ez pz XD

Shawl on the other hand....it dont exist

-Bloodsip

pfft. You got lucky with staff. But yeah the people complaining about staff have never even started the SS grind yet =) At least the staff I have clicked thousands of times on my quest for the shawl, and the shawl isn't nearly as useful as the staff anyways which is part of the necro trifecta. I am 2/3rds complete in my goal, VP staff will prove to be the hardest part by far, took me a year to get the VP key and probably be another 5 years before I can complete the trifecta =D

[Droog007]

I have an aversion to EC and I play on dual monitor rig. I "waste" lots of time in EQ. It's how the game was meant to be won.

[clstrider]

Nope, Ginnas linked the #1 contender, man is that item rare. Used to see Ginnas there all the time too, did you ever get yours Ginnas?

Another contender is Staff of the Dreaded Gaze which I spent way too much time camping for when I could have got the plat from seafuries in under 1/10th the time. But the Wurm Lord Shawl I spent probably 10x as much time and still haven't seen it. I have got all of the ultra-rare drops many times and capped out 60 and sacc'd myself I think 10 times. Keep in mind the exp is horrible because I FD every kill and pet takes most the exp. It's by far the rarest item I've ever encountered (not encountered) in any game.

Alezor+Phiren both got 1 in the same day. But this is after i leveled a toon from half way in to 58 to 60 in that camp.

[eudaimonia_etc]

And I thought my ~125 hour camp for the Wyrm Lord Shawl was bad. Damn, Ginnas!

[Kaedain]

lord grimrot is kinda like the hadden camp OP had mentioned, a long respawn timer for potentially nothing, and even then the final reward nowadays is basically a collectors item

[Baler]

wow how did I miss this thread. There are so, so many items on this list.
But to summarize...

If the item you're camping to sell is worth 1000 plat and it takes you longer then 1 hour to obtain. It's not worth it. So if an item worth say 6k takes you longer than 6 hours,.. It's not worth it.
A popular example.. Jboots MQ ~6k,. if it takes you longer than 6 hours. You're wasting your time.

You can farm 1k+ plat per hour, outside of raids at several locations. And that's where I set the bar. The number of places you can farm between 300-600 plat per hour is common.

[Alanus]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Driftwood_Treasure_Chest

I spent a bunch of levels in the patriarch and frenzy room, and never saw that thing drop. Saw ferocious spawn about 10 times, never had the damn chest

I wasn't specifically camping it, but it's very rare. I did see one drop on live, though!

[Maliant]

That's a good point Baler. That is why I wondered why I always wondered why so many people camped for Staff of the Dreaded Gaze. That was another crappy part about it is often you would show up and it would be camped by someone looking for the staff, I always wondered why. It is about 1/100 chance of dropping as an ultra-rare drop, Xalgoz is 50/50 spawn on a 30 minute timer.

Average time to get the staff Is 100 hours (I think it took me 150-200 hours) and it sells for 20k, so an average of 200 plat an hour. This is why I was so sick as I camped this on my 60 necro who was previously making 1.5k an hour at seafuries average. A wise necro named Nekroman told me it wasn't worth it and I just didn't have the wisdom at that point to listen to him. Since then I have warned others camping staff it's not worth it and many of them are naïve as I once was and camp it anyways, most give up eventually. Always possible to get lucky, when I finally got it I logged in one morning and he was up and had it and I'm sure that has happened where people have got there first kill, RNGquest and all. But I'd say there are far more people who camped it 100+ hours and gave up.

[Baler]

Malient,. some people enjoy the gamble. I myself do not gamble. So, yeah.
Gambling is an addiction and video games can be just as bad as gambling irl.

[Maliant]

True and just like real life most people don't realize how heavily the deck is stacked in the house's favor.

[ziffiz]

wow how did I miss this thread. There are so, so many items on this list.
But to summarize...

If the item you're camping to sell is worth 1000 plat and it takes you longer then 1 hour to obtain. It's not worth it. So if an item worth say 6k takes you longer than 6 hours,.. It's not worth it.
A popular example.. Jboots MQ ~6k,. if it takes you longer than 6 hours. You're wasting your time.

You can farm 1k+ plat per hour, outside of raids at several locations. And that's where I set the bar. The number of places you can farm between 300-600 plat per hour is common.

Im only level 48 but I hope to learn about these spots oneday. Im earning about 25p per hour exping in the Dreadlands currently. Of course I know about the much discussed and recently nerfed Seafuty Cyclops.

[Baler]

Im only level 48 but I hope to learn about these spots oneday. Im earning about 25p per hour exping in the Dreadlands currently. Of course I know about the much discussed and recently nerfed Seafuty Cyclops.

You're perfectly within range to start tasting some of these camps/ spots. Don't sweat it Classic EQ is about the journey not the sprint. It took me a while to catalog the camps I know now-a-days.. Though don't except people to feed you info.
If you're in a guild,. enjoy grouping with the people who learned later than sooner about these meta camps.

[Maliant]

What class are you Ziffiz? Geonids are pretty good, even my level 40 mage was making good plat from the ones in Crystal Caverns, I don't think 1k an hour but in a few levels there and maybe 10-12 hours I made 7k on him I think which isn't bad at all for a level 40. I think the ones in Wakening Lands are even better and there are more of them. Solo ench in NG probably makes 2k an hour in gems? Tons of good spots outside of sea furies for strictly plat / gem farm.

[Kesselring]

Cost per hour at minimum of 2k?

Pyzjin without a doubt.

First of all you gotta figure out how the fuck to spawn her if it's your first time. That means spending time reading the wiki 1000 times during the in-game day, and running around like a chicken with your head cut off during in-game night. Now it wouldn't be so bad if you just stood in one spot killing the same mobs over and over but that's not the case, oh no sir. Then when pyzjin doesn't spawn at night and its in-game daytime again, you go over the wiki/pyzjin spawn technique pages again re-reading over and over trying to figure out what you did wrong. Cut back into in-game night time, youre running around like a chicken with it's head cut off yet again, just kill everything who cares.

Then when she finally spawns she doesn't have jack shit. Because this game is loads of fuckery and so is that spawn. I had more fun killing brewers in blackburrow for 2 hours trying to get a rare item just to turn it in for a +2 mana earring or whatever the fuck it was.

[Tuurin]

My advice- don't do anything in this game that isn't fun. Treating eq like some kind of part time (FT?) job is the road to perdition for many a folk.

[heyokah]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Driftwood_Treasure_Chest

I spent a bunch of levels in the patriarch and frenzy room, and never saw that thing drop. Saw ferocious spawn about 10 times, never had the damn chest

I wasn't specifically camping it, but it's very rare. I did see one drop on live, though!

I camped this thing for a solid week 4-6 hours per session in kunark. It never dropped. Course you can run around and clear other PH's, so you are still making plat. After a while i didnt even want the god damn thing because it actually sucks, its weight is 10 stones.

[Tnair]

Baler, re: gambling and Everquest

http://www.nickyee.com/eqt/skinner.html

Interesting little undergrad-esque blurb about addictive traits/mechanisms common to MMORPGs and gambling both. He's a little stuck on the manipulative aspect of design, and does not acknowledge that people can greatly enjoy these mechanisms without overindulging to the point of real life harm, but still neat.

I love Everquest and am not overly concerned by the overlap of gameification and addiction...but maybe that's cause I'm already addicted to gaming in general and would not stop if Everquest were not available ;p

[Pokesan]

slime crystal staff

xorbb is like pained soul, except 1/4 droprate, and the item is worthless

[Kesselring]

Not sure why pyzjin is here. Shits easy and not time consuming at all.

Keep a tracker in the hills. Night comes. Log in, track. Pyzjin up, kill. Pyzjin not up, go back to your other char and continue playing.

Only fuckin weirdos sit there trying to spawn her all night.

Now a Solist's icy wand? Yea good luck with that. I've only ever seen 2 drop in the entire 18 years I've been involved in EQ.

keyword in the thread title, camping. Not just logging on periodically to track. Two completely different things.

[Gumbo]

You can farm 1k+ plat per hour, outside of raids at several locations. And that's where I set the bar. The number of places you can farm between 300-600 plat per hour is common.

Farming 1K+ plat per hour? You talking about just coinage or is this coin/weapons/vendor junk?

I've never done this much before but I do solo a lot so sometimes it is slower...

[Kesselring]

Farming 1K+ plat per hour? You talking about just coinage or is this coin/weapons/vendor junk?

I've never done this much before but I do solo a lot so sometimes it is slower...

one place to do it is highkeep, killing guards. You wont get nearly as much from ears. You can sell the swords the guards drop for 5p each to a merchant who banks to any race in zone.

[Murri]

you can bank anywhere even if they attack you.

[maskedmelonpai]

slime crystal staff

xorbb is like pained soul, except 1/4 droprate, and the item is worthless

i got one though :3 but it not from xorbb. mine dropped in ec for 50 platinums ^^

[skarlorn]

slime crystal staff

xorbb is like pained soul, except 1/4 droprate, and the item is worthless

gawed blesse u

[Gumbo]

one place to do it is highkeep, killing guards. You wont get nearly as much from ears. You can sell the swords the guards drop for 5p each to a merchant who banks to any race in zone.

Highkeep is nothing but a Necro and Monk convention of killing guards... You know it's a major killing zone when the merchant has over 3,000 fine steel swords to sell.

[fiveeauxfour]

Iksar Scaled Gloves, Hero Bracers, Splitpaw Hide Gloves, Gatorscale Leggings, Opalline Earring, etc, etc etc

items like these are literally always being sold in EC and often people will just give them to you...don't go camp these, folks!