Drop rates of high quality pelts in Eastern Wastes

[Travo]

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

[Bamz4l]

rare is good. this aint wow

[Daldaen]

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

Took about 15 Kodiak kills to get the 2 pelts..I happened to keep the HQ Cougar skins from when i was fighting them luckily so i didn't have to waste time with that part.

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

2002

I picked up my HQ cougar skins in Iceclad, then killed roughly 17 Kodiaks before I got 2 HQ pelts.

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

[BattleToad]

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

so I can test the first ring combine / turn in.

- Trav

They both work.

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

[Brut]

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.

[maximum]

The drop rates felt Classic to me.

[sergan]

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

[BattleToad]

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