Hill Giants

William_Munny15 · #1 08-17-2010, 06:59 AM

How come Hill giants only drop like 10 gold and a few copper and silver? it used to be boat loads, i remember soloing as a druid and buying ruby's to take the weight off and sell them back, i even bought a charisma gear set to sell them back for almost the same as purchased.

Emoqq · #2 08-17-2010, 07:01 AM

Are you killing HG's in Rathe Mountains?
Have you killed more then one HG?
Are other people experiencing this same issue?

guineapig · #3 08-17-2010, 08:04 AM

I've yet to see an HG in Rathe not drop any platinum but it is certainly less than it was onlive.

On average the amount dropped is somewhere between 8-33pp per giant, an occasional fine steel (that you can see), a lore lambent stone on about 1 in 7 (sells for about 4pp) and research components.

I'm not going to complain since HGs are soloable (in a practicle sense) long before Seafuries are but yeah, the money gained from them is not what it used to be on live.

I remember killing them with a full group back in the day (I think I was level 29 or 30) and everyone earned some decent money doing it.

UrsusMajor · #4 08-17-2010, 08:32 AM

If I remember correctly, Hill Giants could drop up to 50ish plat. They were the mob EVERYONE tried to camp for $$.

Oh and while xping on Druids in WC I killed the wandering Hill Giant there and he dropped 22p for me.

Braveguard · #5 08-17-2010, 09:06 AM

I never got 50pp off of a Hill Giant. I think it was around 20pp in mixed coin on the high end... though the items might make that higher. Certainly higher than the 10gp that was mentioned.

Troy · #6 08-17-2010, 09:30 AM

I've seen them drop between 4 and 38pp plus whatever other stuff.

XDrake · #7 08-17-2010, 09:50 AM

Child support. Same reason the AC is more rare too.

Nightblade · #8 08-17-2010, 11:44 AM

Why?

Rogues stealth Pickpocketing all the hot plats off of unkilled Hill Giants. How would I know this? Because I used to do it on Live during my freetime. I also used to take the occasional trip down to Juggs in Sebilis to snatch awesome spells off of them to sell off.

It's not a problem with the server.

Troy · #9 08-17-2010, 03:38 PM

I take that back. Just killed one now and got 5g 4s 1c. Of course it was a high level one too (hits for 85 instead of 70-72).

Malrubius · #10 08-17-2010, 03:42 PM

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I take that back. Just killed one now and got 5g 4s 1c. Of course it was a high level one too (hits for 85 instead of 70-72).

Not sure if I ever saw that on live. I remember 25-ish plat most of the time.

And on a related note, are there as many HGs in RM as there used to be? I don't see very many, but maybe they're being taken down too fast.