This used to be awesome, till they fixed the placeholder respawn time.
It's now 30 ticks (3 minutes). It used to be 3 ticks (18 seconds!)
It was great to go here at level 8 when I got the new pet, to equip myself and sell a couple for decent money.
Now you're looking at an hour or two to get an ear stud unless you're fairly lucky.
It's totally random whether you'll get the dress from Cuburt, plus totally random what the reward will be, so maybe 1 in 30 placeholder/Cuburt kills will get you an ear stud. It used to just take 2-4 minutes to get a dress drop. Those were the days, oh well :)
Like everyone said below, just camp the bloody spot at +135,-62 and every three minutes (after killing the last placeholder) a mangy rat, gel cube, sewer rat, or Cuburt will spawn. You can ignore giant sewer rats, spiders, beetles, beggars, etc. About 1 in 6 times at a guess he'll drop the dress. Turn it in to Zamel by the pool outside the bank area, and (guessing again) 1 in 5 times the reward will be the stud.
How to get there: sewer entrances got shuffled from time to time long ago but it's been the same for years now. Get in the water by Zamel and swim down the hole inside the little "cave" area. Swim out to the east, continue forward until you hit land, and you're at the end of the route the placeholders patrol (+230, -180). You can wait here or go south, west along the walkway, and south again to the blood spot marking the spawn point at +135,-62.
Edit: use the soulbinder by the bank so you can just gate back to ZAmel whenever you get a dress drop.
Re-edit: I think I need to up the camp time estimates...I just spent 4 hours, got only 3 dresses, and no ear stud :/
Edited, Sep 22nd 2008 1:41pm by Azrin
Edited, Sep 26th 2008 10:37pm by Azrin