Tripping over giant ribcages, not one fur :(

Wikkin

Two things:

Entopop and his little Amber came half way across a zone to ks a Drakling I was about to put down. NOW that sux. I suggest leading your Drakling (when you do get one) toward the nearest edge, then snare him.

Also, I've noticed after several weeks of trying to get this set of armor that when there are a lot of younglings in the zone (druids mostly) killing stuff, the Drakling spawn rate jumps dramatically--from 2 per hour to 6 or more--so the previous posting about killing stuff to make the Thorn Draklings appear makes sense.

For all the people bitching about how Halfling ranger newbie armor got shafted, grow the hell up. Halfling rangers have the best stats of all the races that can be rangers and there fore need the least amount of help.

The drop rate for The Giant Fruit Bat Ribcage is rediculous. I've spent about 36 hours of playtime looking for this item. Everyone I have spoken has not sighted one yet. Why do they need to make it so hard, remember Everquest is only a game and should be enjoyable not frustrating. Verant better wake up to themselves or they'll lose players to other game sthat are not so frustrating to play.

Goodbye Everquest forever.

Dont know if this will help, but a GM last night mentioned that the spawn rate of the drakelings might increase if I were to kill every flying thing in the zone. Since at lvl 11 everything is green on that side of the fence, I proceeded in doing just this. 2 drakelings spawned,killed em (no damn regualr scale) then a few min later a third spawned. That had never happened before, as on Mith Marr, the spawn was allways 2 of them at a time.

Think Im gonn ask my guild to pull in several warriors and monks, and clear the friggen zone for all the newbies announcing all the silly drops. (hehe)

Well I acually have gotten 3 ribcages drop. Made a very nice 500 plat total for happy people. My trick has been basically get a guild. MAke some friends and exploit the. It is the way to go.

ok guys we all need to write emails to Verant and tell em to fix this.
They added these quests to give newbs something else to do besides exping(and PKing if yer on a cool server like me)
no point in making em if you cant get the armor

well, for some reason I got my rib cage on my first fruit bat kill. I'm sorry guyd, but it was pure luck. But what is wrong, is that I can't find any giant fruit bat furs at all, I killed maybe 40 of them and no fur 8(. Any suggestions?

I agree the drop rates suck, but only for certain items for me... like the rib cage,large fruit fur, and thorn drakeling scales (Normal). The prsitine ones i get too much of and I have made about 100pp selling them at 5gp per one;also gave away a lot... These armor 'quests' are retarded and i would suggest bringing in your main and blowing up Runnyeye until you have a full suit of alloy... Also, the thorn machete is not worth it; stats are crap. Get a Blackened alloy longsword instead... 4/27 or 10/29? Which do you think is better? Verant is retarded and screws the rangers over all the time. I would have to agree though; if you cant get BA armor get the scarab stuff; it looks cooler and you can practically buy the supplies from the stores in Kaladim. I didnt like the machete so i gave it to some noobie ranger... I have killed over 300 friggin giant fruit bats and they usually have nothing on them. I saw an auction saying someone was selling blackened alloy mail for 5pp so i bought it and they threw in a blackened alloy longsword too... I will still kill the bats because i won't sleep until i get one of those friggin ribcages. You'd thing you could just rip the rib cage out of them but Verant would rather have the rangers with the short end of the stick get screwed over yet again. My advice is to try to get the thorn mail till the stuff is light blue... so you at least are trying and getting exp at the same time.

It seems obvious that I have extreme luck on EQ according to the below posts. I was hunting Giant Fruit Bats, getting extra wings, etcetera. On maybe my 40th kill I got the rib cage. While killing the thorn drakelings by killing about 50 I got 3 pristine thorn drakeling scales and about maybe 9 ruined scales. I have never seen a normal thorn drakeling scale. I have the 2 bracers, gloves, tunic, and helmet.

Holy sh*t, this is impossible for the past 2 weeks ive been cleanung the zone for theser damn fgiat fruit bats to get the ribs , i have maybe 3 astacks aof furs and wings its so damn ridiculous!!

Rancher
13th season
Rallos Zek

hey can someone tell me what zone these monsters spawn on? i couldn't find these bats and whichever monster drops the scales

all of the stuff was pretty east ta get.. though my track button is lookin pretty worn :) however the ribcafe and Pristine scale ar WAYYYY too hard! i got ribcage after about 11 hours fighting those buggers.. and still need scale.. /sigh

Stalkwood 12 ranger FV server..

Why even try ..I spent two six hour nights doing these quests. I went from lvl 5 to lvl 11. I got enough scales ro do the sleeves and both bracers ..opps bracers are lore ..your componets are gone ..another 5 hours of camping the drakelings gone! What a waste of time. Hell, I bet it will take me less time to get the ivy etched armor then to get this junk! I am very mad! I wanted to do something fun and have been totally frustrated!

10th Fizzled Flame Lick? ouch...IQ...diminishing...so...far.........hey! thats not that bad now that i'm as smart as woodchuck!

I finally managed to gather all components needed to complete a full suit of the Thorn Mail. You are absolutely correct that the drop rates, especially for the rib cage, are much too low. I personally killed over 140 of the giant fruit bats without any luck. Then, while I was over trying to collect the final Thorn Drake Scale I needed, another guy (thanks Biddo) had one drop and he let me loot it. That is the only one I have heard of dropping in two days on the 7th Hammer Server. It looks cool.... it's a bright green chain on the Luclin models.

Stats are AC12 STR1 WIS1 HP5 Lore No-Drop

Good hunting all

Fattilla D'Hun
Halfling Ranger of Karana
7th Hammer

Edited, Thu Apr 11 14:08:24 2002