Driftwood's Plat guide, progress?Follow

It wouldn't have bothered me if you necro-posted the thread. It's still on the 1st page when showing 50 per page, and it wasn't all that long ago.

I liked it too.

Yther Ore.

Sorry for the late reply.

I've been super-busy with work and stuff lately, so I haven't had a whole lot of time to put something tangible together from my notes yet.



Blackfeather actually is the current top spot for pp/hour at lvl85, followed by Crypt Of Decay, the Hole, and Griegs, with Goru Kar trailing just behind them. Planning to go back to each of them a couple more times each so I can get a good average before I put together the first draft, not to mention, figuring out the best spot in each place.



This is something I need to pay more attention to. As a casual gamer, I don't spend a lot of time selling stuff in Baz, and because the economy can change so quickly and wildly depending on time and server, it would be very difficult to come up with a good estimate for bazaar profits.

I'll try to keep you guys updated a bit better, the EQ and WoW stuff is pretty much all I ever come here for thee days anyway, so I'll try to make a point of dropping in when I'm looking for info on quests and stuff.

I'm happy to hear folks are still interested. I'm doing what I can in the time I got. Thanks for the support guys.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2015 3:22pm by Driftwood

Yeah. It's obviously much easier to calculate vendor drop values than stuff you sell in the bazaar. The one issue I have here is that I usually don't want to sacrifice exp gain for cash gain (at least not too much anyway). If the zone is greened out, I can certainly plow through and get tons of vender drops, but I'm seriously dropping the exp gain rate to do so. I tend to prefer trying to stick to hunting in areas with at least lt blue mobs for this. I can't speak for all level ranges, but I can suggest that in the 80s zones in SoF and SoD expansions are worthwhile because you get a pretty decent rate of spell drops that can usually be sold in the bazaar for 1-2kpp each, plus defiant stuff. Find a nice hunting area full of lt blues and you can get both a decent exp gain rate and decent cash.

Suppose it depends on what your focus is.

I get that. I generally see pp farming and xp gain as two separate things. Sometimes I go to a zone for some xp gain, sometimes it's for plat, other times it's just for fun or for exploration or for the rare group effort.



I rarely save anything for baz. Defiant armor is kind of oversaturated(though I will /baz the weapons and chest pieces, as well as some adept/combatant gear, as they're often more rare), and I don't really have the patience to farm stacks of things with EQ's bazaar system(I actually use auction house in WoW more than I've ever used baz in EQ because that system is actually convenient for the non-hardcore player).

As an aside, I've been finding it difficult lately to keep my attention on EQ because I can't have much fun at lower levels because the current, and seemingly permanent since it's been 2 damn years already, hotzones are absolutely terrible, and I'm bored with TSS content. Can't have much fun outside of doing the guide with my 85 toon because I have no idea what I'm doing in group play at higher lvls and dont even know how to get to half the zones.

True, however, I like to be focussing on one thing, not to mention, if you're in a group, you can't guarantee you'll get the good drops.




Also true, but I'm still gonna try.

My point is that the "spread" between plat-farming spots, at certain level ranges, is probably no more than 25%. Sure, some zones are notoriously cheap and a few are well-known to be generous but, again, the spread isn't all that huge. Going to all the trouble of "testing" each zone is a huge task, especially since it takes several hours prolly to get a good sample of the zone's drops, and I don't think it's going to be all that enlightening. I think it's huge enough to be self-discouraging.

A simple rule would be find mobs with a good drop rate for diamonds and blue diamonds (Magelo is useful here, altho not perfect since drop rate calculations depend on players "reporting"). Those gems have been "the standard" for value in this game since they used to be raid-zone-only drops in the original EQ. I'd venture to say another guideline would be look up highly-desired tradeable items and pharm those but these days so many of those mobs are perma-camped by "professional" pharmers that it just isn't likely to be lucrative.

And, of course, at lower levels, you always got your hill giants. Those dudes are always loaded! ;)

Edited, Apr 25th 2015 9:26am by Sippin