Drop rates of high quality pelts in Eastern Wastes
 

After camping some of the high quality parts for the first few coldain rings, it seems that the high quality pelts are absurdly rare. According to my logs:

Snow Cougar: 64 killed, 0 high quality pelts, 2 needed for 1st ring

Tundra Kodiak: 92 killed, 0 high quality pelts, 2 needed for 1st ring

Walrus: 128 across 2 characters, 1 high quality pelt, 1 needed.

This is the result of ~5 hours of killing shit with a 60 bard / monk, both very well geared.

The wooly rhino horn only took me 14 kills to get, but its not worth it for me to spend another 20 hours farming just so I can test the first ring combine / turn in. I will try to find more information about drop rates, but its hard to search through the internet spam of cougar pelt. I leveled at the Ry'gorr fort on live, and I do not remember the HQ pelts being that rare, but they could immediately fetch some decent pp.

- Trav

rare is good. this aint wow

http://web.archive.org/web/200108230...e=35&id=324027

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=934

2002
Magelo shows 12% on cougar, 3-4% on kodiak

http://eq.magelo.com/item/30030/High-Quality-Cougarskin
http://eq.magelo.com/item/30077/High...ra-Kodiak-Pelt

They both work.

The drop rate on pelts, horns, and walrus skin did seem to be rather low though.

Took me some 4-6hours worth slowass SK farming (I was clearing kodiaks+cougars slightly due west of the dragon bridge in EW), which sounds about right imo. Methinks you're just having really bad luck judging from those numbers.

The drop rates felt Classic to me.

I did some rings for sell the MQ in live, i dont know the exactly rate drops but druid 60 + bard 60 until ring 6 take us 4 hours or so. The first steps for farm the quest items in a bad day max 1,5 hours, usually less

Took me hours upon hours to get all the HQ Skins, Walrus Hides, Rhino Horns..it's not supposed to be fast.