if your looking for drops for the tier 1 cultural armors, then Paludal is the place to go. In aproximatly 45 mins of farming the two recondite camps i racked up the following: 29x Thalium ore 18x Alkaline loam 14x Sullied silk 10x Sullied animal pelt 06x Iridium ore 06x Dusty marrow 05x Sullied spinneret fluid 04x Tacky silk 04x Salty loam 02x thick silk 02x Silvril ore 01x Dessicated marrow 01x Tacky spinneret fluid 01x Crude animal pelt 01x pliant loam.
I did loot more than this, but i started with bags half full so had to bank, then i came back with empty bags and aquired the above list of uncompromised numbers.
Hope this helps someone =)
Edit: I also spent an hour farming foragers in DSP, only a single loam dropped and it was not alkaline, so i do not reccomend DSP as a good place to farm for cultural.
Ok the loam drops of off stuff in Paludal Cavern's about anything
as a matter of fact , ive been collecting the Begginner's Iksar Charm ingredients , and they seem to all be in that one place , every other mob like "the gatherer" have a riddiculus drop rate . pshhh
Hans Bigroon in Qeynos the guy who picks up items that drop on the ground, saw him and he owes me some items, he dropped it. LOL nice revenge on him for taking some not very valuable items that I dropped long ago.