Cougar Claw Earring  

 

I'm sorry to say Focus Effects do not effect bards. This is due to the fact bards use there instruments to improves there spells, and to great effect too. Seems unfair at first that they can have FE's but put into context with the power of some of the instrument it is understandable.

Sadly hon, the drop rate of of the cougers is about 2% or 1 couger in 50. Having speant neary a week camping the evil stormfeather (missing 7 spawns due to guild raiding reqts ..gah) I would often hunt snowcougers to pass the time. I can confirm that they are still dropping off of cougers in that area (vic TOFS). Just keep plugging away and you will get one in due time.

Hybrids are still using level 20 spells at level 30. As an SK, I know at level 30 I was still using Fear, Siphon Strength and Scream of Hate. All of which are under level 20. Heck, at 47 I still use Fear and Siphon Strength.

And Shamans/Druids still use SoW up until.. well, forever. :)

Don't think so, I have one of these and a Black Alloy Medallion, when I equip the medallion first and then the earring, I only get the focus message for the earring and my mana gets used up faster (B.A.M. has mana preservation 2, this only has 1)

I went from 34 to 39 here quading cougars and found six...guess I was lucky.

Meander, 39 lvl Druid

Now how stupid is that? Put a lvl 20 and under affect on a lvl 30 item... VI is clearly losing it's mind.

What does Extn Rng III do?

What does Extn Rng III do?

Ahh I found out the fast decay rates are the ones that have no loot on them hehehe ;) I got another 2 btw since i posted this lol.

1) orc fang earing has 3ac not 4

2) At low levels, max hit points are irrelavent unless you die before the heal goes off (CH is the only reason max hps mean anything, again unless you're against a mob that can kill you before you are healed). Example one toon has 800 hps another has 1000, they are both tanking the same mob with a non CH cleric. They both take 500 damage, and are then the cleric then heals each for 500 hps... what's the difference? If you're of level to group w/ a 39 plus cleric hps become important until then go w/ ac. btw if the lower max hps toon had higher ac he actually would save the cleric mana becasue he would take less damage from the mob =). Now if you know that you are gonna be getting down to your last 30 hps in a fight by all means take the orc fang.

3) Wurmy vs CLS. 2 completely different weapons. The wurmslayer(a primary hand only weapon) is one of the best pre-level 40 1hs in the game. Post 40ish your damage bonus is high enough that the 40 delay in a primary only weapon makes it worthless (buy a lammy or a jade mace). The CLS (equipable in either melee slot)is a bad weapon in the primary for the money at any level. However, as a secondary weapon it rocks. Delay is only important in the secondary for taunt purposes as the damage bonus only applies to primary hand. Therefore the wurmy is a good primary at low to mid levels and a CLS is a good secondary at all levels, apples and oranges bro. btw the stats also complement the levels at which you would use the weapons AC for wurmy, stam(=hps) for CLS

4) comparing 2 earings is not the same as comparing a primary weapon against an off hander.

that is all

I think that would completely depend on the server. On mine, it's highly doubtful... IC's usually almost empty, with maybe a few farmers and/or soloers. EW is also usually soloers or higher level Ry'Gorr groups. I wish you luck. I still have a pair of these that I soloed at 35. ;)

No HP, and its better than orc fang anyway

sure you can solo these at 30, I did it with my SK for a bit, but the kills are slow, the xp sucks, and the chance of one dropping the earring sucks killing at that rate, you would likely have to solo for hours just to see one drop. much better things you could be doing with your time at level 30.

Thats BS. I started soloing snow courgars at lvl 36. They r great exp. Bring lots of badages when u go. BTW I havent found any cougar claw earings yet.



Qualei
Monk of the 37th season

Got one on my 3rd kill, then waited 200 kills or so, got my second) Soloing as a 34 ranger.

Im not exaggerating

Edited, Mon Mar 25 11:52:22 2002

M'Lady (30 Cleric) and I (30 Warrior) went and lost our Velious Virginity last night hunting Snow Cougars by the Gnommies in Iceclad last night. In roughly 3 hours of hunting we killed 25 of the pretty white kitties and looted 1 of the Earrings. A friend of mine was over there a month or so ago and in 4 hours of more heavily hunting came up with 4 earrings.

As for the mention of price, they seem to be running around 150pp to 250pp on on Morell Thule right now with most falling right in the middle. See a lot of "200pp or 350pp for the Pair" deals.

Unlikely, but not impossible. The odds of a snow cougar having one are about 3%, but it's still a dice roll on each snow cougar. Just like in RL gambling, you can have runs of good or bad luck. You might fight cougars for days and never get one, or you might get 9 in four hours. It's not necessarily bull@#%^ as you claim.