Miscellaneous: Giant Fire Beetle Leg drop

[Kagatob]

Originally Posted by maximum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's uncommon. The wiki page was mostly copied from Allakhazam (2012 era EQ). Feel free to edit it... anyone can.

I know, I wasn't sure though, I didn't want to edit a source of information adding information I wasn't sure about. Like I said, I didn't know if the database's droprate was wrong or if the wiki was wrong. Now I know though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[rsloans84]

The site or any site says drops off all mobs westkarana 1 doesnt even drop anymore as well as giant fire beetlr in toxx havent seen any.. Klaknak in kith is clearly not dropping if u can camp for 2-3 days and not get

[rsloans84]

I was reading peoples posts in 02 and they were saying how easy it was to do quest so yeah lol... It needs fixed just saying : Attunement- bard

[rsloans84]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=3461 look at dated post of players just because says site was updated doesnt mean drops/ mobs in certain zone have

[maximum]

rsloans84,

http://web.archive.org/web/200012051...llakhazam.com/

Currently, the P99 Blue timeline is in the year 2000.

[Ele]

From Maximum's link via archive.org

The Nov 19, 2000 capture of West Karana bestiary doesn't even list "a giant fire beetle". It has regular "a fire beetle" and "a giant beetle".
http://web.archive.org/web/200011190....shtml?zone=22

There is a July 27, 2000 comment (reflected on the current version of ZAM) concerning a change in the loot table for "a giant beetle" converting it from regular "fire beetle legs" and "fire beetle eye" to "giant fire beetle legs" and "giant fire beetle eye".

http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http:...2692&mid=14000

A while back these beetles gave only regular fire beetle eyes and legs, now they loot a giant kind which sell for 10 times as much, around 2gp for eyes, and a little less for legs. Now they give decent loot and I won't come out of the karanas broke.

Post about Queen Klicknik in Qeynos as early as April 14, 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/200012150...=3784&mid=5578

The eye casts Enchant: Silver. Note: You do not need silver to cast this; it will summon the enchanted silver. Legs sell for a gold or two at the vendors, I believe. Great for all the young wanna be enchanters.

Another comment from 2000 under the Bug Collection Quest.

Nice quest.
The eyes aren't hard to come by and neither is the silk.
As for the egg sack and wasp wings:I suggest shouting around in Misty for them. They arn't too hard to come by.
The GIANT fire beetle legs however are a little tougher: they can be found on they queens, as discribed above, but they can also be found on GIANT beetles in West Karanas (who are a pretty low lvl commen spawn.
This has been double-cheked and verified by myself.
So happy questing everyone!

[rsloans84]

Thx for replies its hard for me to copy and post stuff from sites when im at work i hope they fix it soon

[nilbog]

More on this from everlore:

Submited by: Fevers On: 7/27/2000 2:21:22 PM
The loot for Giant fire beetles has changed, they now drop giant fire beetle eyes and giant legs. Eyes go for 2.1-2.6gp and legs go for 1.7-2.1gp. So now they're worth killing for exp and loot. You can pick up as many as 2 eyes and 2 legs from 1 beetle.

Submited by: DARAAN On: 9/15/2000 1:39:55 PM
YES YOU GET GIANLT FB EYES AND LEGS

Submited by: Anonymous On: 2/23/2001 3:38:05 PM
the loot of these beetles was changed...they have dropped GIANT fire beetle legs and eyes for a while. THese sell for almost twice as much as regular ones.The Giant Fire Beetle legs are also used for the Bug Collection quest in Misty Thicket (GOOD QUEST!!)

http://web.archive.org/web/200105220...=show&BID=1430

Pending update:

-giant fire beetles of west karana are now giant beetles
-giant beetles drop giant legs and eyes beginning with the release of the hole (june2000, affects both servers currently). prior to this, they will drop regular fire beetle loot

[Veritas]

Just started playing a week ago and have been working on the quest Bug Collection (Misty Thicket)

http://wiki.project1999.org/Bug_Collection

Still missing the Giant Fire Beetle Leg that is called for in the list from Blixkin.

http://wiki.project1999.org/A_giant_fire_beetle

I can confirm the 2 western-most spawn points listed on the wiki page in WK do pop Giant Fire Beetles. I have killed a couple dozen spawn and got lots of legs, even 2 at a time, but no GIANT legs. FYI - the spawns were ALWAYS Giant Fire Beetles so no wasted spawn times on wrong mobs. Will keep trying for a bit but a couple hours on this 1 quest item seems waaaay more than the rewards worth. It is a L10 quest after all. (And the reason check for having them drop at all is that if they weren't supposed to, then there shouldn't be a quest asking for them.)

I suggest upping the drop rate on the Giant Legs or change the quest to take regular legs.

[Ele]

This was posted fixed pending update on February 22, 2013.

The last patch was February 18, 2013.

Camp the Queen in Qeynos until the next patch is my advice.