When I finished everything and started looking for the EGG SACK, I read some WRONG INFORMATION that the egg sack can be from any zone. It has to be from North Ro. Trust me, I tried everything to avoid farming the scarabs there.

North Ro was probably the most fun quest I started to play for EQ. The dune tarantulas spawn toward dusk and the scarabs toawrd dawn. Other days it was reversed. Everything you need is toawrd the entrance to south ro on the dunes and hills. I got great xp from killing all the mad men, mummies, and death fists. Great place for level 15 to 20. I was grouped with my friend and we gained levels quickley. This quest is a hit or miss for spawns. I always would see dune tarantulas and giant rattlesnakes after I was done with the quest in that zone. It toook about 3 to 4 hours to successfully finsih this quest. The xp is very worth it though for all the other non related kills.

I started this quest 7/19/07 on Bristlebane. Sand scarabs all over the place and managed to get the egg sack off my first kill. These are pretty easy for a 15 Druid, even if a couple aggro on you at once. I killed more than the required five waiting for the giant rattlesnake to spawn.

After about twelve scarabs, I realized that the giant rattlesnakes were not going to spawn on their own so I started killing large rattlesnakes. After a few of these, a giant rattlesnake finally spawned in south North Ro in the valley below the last long wall of dunes. I killed it. Had already got the venom sack off a large snake. I waited around for more giants to spawn for awhile, killing larges and mummies. Camped the southernmost Derv camp, killed another couple large rattlesnakes.

It was frustrating waiting for the giant rattlesnakes to pop. I camped. When I entered the game again, I found three giant rattlesnakes in a row, same place as the first. I killed them and a couple madmen and a zombie or two and then the dune tarantulas started to spawn. These I had not seen in my entire time in North Ro.

I observed the first I saw and noticed that they fight with the other more powerful mobs in the zone. I think this may have something to do with their rarity. Since they are rare, I quickly took down the three that spawned.

After that I tried a few ways to get more to spawn. I killed zombies, madmen, mummies, snakes, dervs, and even a dry bone skeleton. I even tried killing pumas and gilas. Still no spawn...

Finally, I was attacked by a Deathfist warrior that conned green to me. Directly after slaying him, a dune tarantula spawned at the top of the last wall of dunes. I slayed it. I then went after the orc raiders even though they were grey to me. I killed two of them. I was killing a warrior again when another dune tarantula spawned at the top of a dune near the southernmost Derv camp. I killed it, looted both, and headed back to Freeport and then on to the PoK to finish the quest.

It took awhile to get through this quest compared to others I have done, but it was kind of worth it despite the wait. There's a lot of XP to be had in North Ro. I leveled while doing the quest and got quite a bit of loot. The desert was largely uncamped but then I'm on Bristlebane and the majority of players are high level and working on new stuff while places for middle levels are pretty empty...

My suggestion is go for the orcs even if they're grey to you. Then watch for the tarantulas in the south of North Ro on the tops of the dune walls. That seemed to work the best, though it could just be coincidence...

yeah the sand scarabs are rare spawns today. Even more rare drop is the sac.

Sand scarab hatchlings also count as sand scarabs for this quest.

I see that as of September no one was having trouble with this one...I purchased an egg scak from a vendor, but the counter on the quest didn't recognize it. It confirmed all my kills, but I have managed to get both items from additional kills, but am not getting credit for it. I think I harvested the first one before getting my 5 kills, would that make a difference? Thanks...

I,ve been walking in this dessert for like 2 hours now, killed all the rattlesnakes in like 20 min. BUT OMG, there are like No Scarabs, and so far ive only killed 2 dune turantulas. O well

The spider vemon sack ca come from any of the spiders their. I got mine from a desert turantual instead. It is the scarabs that are a real b*tch. And the egg sack is very rare. Wish Sony would stop expansions and fix the ones they already have first, but that would be asking too much.

Doing this for an alt for a bit of fun but he can't seem to find a venom sack too loot. I guess 1 in 5 dune turantula's is supposed to drop it but he's killed more than required and still nothing.

Am i just unlucky?