High Quality Lion Skin  

 

There are several ways to get the highlands and their skin:

1. Be the first tracker in the zone after a update or a zone crash, There are 8 highlands up and 90% of the time one has the HQ skin.

2. Start Watchman Dexlin's quest. It will turn all of the highlands PHs into a tiny skeleton. with normal tracking all of the respawns after that have a good chance to spawn a highland with the HQ skin. Be aware that while there are over 25 PHs for highlands, not all of them will drop the HQ skin.

3. Most of the mobs that go near the guard tower can be a PH for highlands, not all of them will spawn a highland that comes near the tower. There is a PH and highland that roams east to west and back again at the north end of the zone. There is one that goes north and south on the east side of the zone as well as one that does the same on the west side of the zone. Being a bard, I use a song to send them back to their spawn point to locate the right ones that will drop the HQ skin. The one that spawns between the druid circle and the river drops it the most with a > 75% drop rate.

4. Slaughter the zone: take a friend or two with you and kill everything that moves if it isn't human. Keep namers dead helps. I:E The Silver Griffon, Grimfeather, Zahal and Regis, just to name a few. Unfortunately for those of you that are good aligned, two of the farmers are PHs too. To handle that problem, I let grizzlys build up, they will kill the right farmers for you. While the guards near the tower do not kill highlands, several other mobs will. Guard Shilster will kill them as well as Cordilla. (sp).

Normal but not rules: I usually get one HQ skin per 4 hours of hunting. I have seen two drop in an hour and then not another for over eight hours. I have folks say that they have gotten three in an hour , but in hundreds of hours farming the HQ skins for guildies, I have never seen that. Once, on a low population day, I killed everything but highlands. I had over 25 of them up at once. Not one dropped the skin. While there seems to be a highland in just about every mobs spawn cycle, I have seen the HQ Skin drop from only one of eight different cycles, they are two mobs that cross near the tower, the east-west ones and the north-south ones.

I do not claim to know every in and out of the zone, but 9 stacks of HQ Skins in 3 months, leads me to believe I am on the right track anyway.


Good luck and good hunting to you.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2015 7:26am by scuba

Highland lion
Lion
willowisp *critical to kill these*

beetle *mobs from here down are optional but listed in order I killed them*
wolf
bear
griff

the MOST important after the lion is doing willowisp. I farmed for over 72 hours of time and tried doing batches of mobs to narrow
down spawn rate. On last effort I added willowisp. In first 48hours i got 1 High Quality Lion skin, However once i started
doing willowisp it took only 4hours to get 2 High Quality Lion skin and The spawn rate for the Highland lion has been consistently higher
on the last 24 hours of farming. Since then I have done well over a week of farming and this has held true. I doubt its coincidence and while some will doubt I wanted to share in case it is true. I always want info that may help so here is some :)

P.S. I F*****G hate posts that offer zero help. for example "I killed Named mob".... but no info on how hard it hits where it spawns PH etc.
it's like Why the h*** did you post that???

I was in NK for 20 to 30 min killed 3 highland lions and got HQLS on the third one :)

Penalty
83 Rogue

Edited, Sep 27th 2010 6:07pm by sroslund

I don't know the thoughts of anyone else, but 50k - 300k per High Quality Lion Skin is OBSCENE. North Karana is constantly swarmed with Rangers and Druids now. Nearly impossible to get any of the Lions.

Some of you are going to hate me... I went to nk, and got my hq lion skin within 5 min...:*) killed 2 dozen highland lions in a half hour afterwards... ended up with a fiar bit of the hq cat pelts...

I was in NK for about 8 hours today, trying to figure out the PHs. Started with all the lions in zone, then all griffons. Eventually I just got so bored i started killing everything. It seems that anything can be a PH for the Highplains Lion. After popping about 20 or so, I finally got the HQ Lion Skin.

The horrible part is, my friend with 272 tailoring skill failed the 222 triv combine on the Fleeting Quiver. I guess i will be back wiping out NK tomorrow !

Golthorn
FV

Spent several hrs. trying to get one to drop in order to make a quiver for my Ranger. Came back the next day with a friend and spent several more wasted hrs.[:banghead]

Finally gave up and bought a quiver in the Bazaar.[:smile]

Today while getting exp. for my Zerker I was in melee with two scythe beetles and a HL added its self to the battle. After finishing with the beetles I turned my attention to this pesky lion and WOOT WOOT I had looted a HQLS[:yippee]

Now I don't know what to do with it. Make another quiver for an Alt. or sell in Bazaar as the price has gone crazy as this is now an Epic2 item. Asking 100k to 6k pp.[:confused]

Talk about luck! I camped in Nk for only two days, maybe 4 hours total, and low and behold the second day, when I fist logged killed a highland lion, and bless that little lions heart, he gave me high quality lion skin. :)

Robbinwood 28 rngr on Luclin

Yes this is indeed for rogue epic quest, You do need Two of them for the Test of tailoring. However I would like to add that those of you who are selling the pelts for 100k in Bazaar.. Shame on you! To all the Rogues out there who are scouting for the Lion drops, do yourself a favor.. borrow someones Barb mask, buy your bag of gems (14k), and bypass this part of the quest. No way is a HQ lion pelt worth 100k when you can bypass this section for 14k. You vendor crazed people are insane!

Highland lions will be a very often hunted mob now that rogues will need 2 HQ lion skins for their epic upgrade. Saw where someone had 2 for sale in the bazaar on E Marr and the listed price was 10K each. Before I left the bazaar, I checked again and 1 had been sold for that price. Can we say OUCH!!

Edited, Thu Sep 23 09:45:39 2004

Did they nerf the drop rate on the HQ Lion skins?

About a year ago they used to sell for 1K on Morelle-Thule. Now They are very rarely for sale in the bazaar and go for 4K.

BTW don't forget to check for a Fleeting Quiver Token if you are desperate. I sold one in the baz today for 5600pp. Hand in token to the Barb lady at the head of the merchant hall in baz.

My tailoring is now up to 167. I hate failing on these!

OK, I have hunted off and on in NK, killing every lion that pops. I had been there about 3 hours other day.A Lv 52 ranger comes into the zone and OOC's to buy HQ Lion Skins. I OOC back that they are a rare drop (playing my 59 Ranger). He says yeah but I thought I would try. I go back to tracking and killing...tracking a HL I get there and this guy got there first. He kills it and OOC's Woot and links the HQ lion skin. I know he has as much right as I do to spawns, but after 3 hours of killing I felt robbed. I did Gratz him but mumbled under my breath hehe. About 2 days before I was killing and the named lion poped 2 times almost back to back. First time he dropped some Lion Skin Leggings that were like newbee legs. Second time he dropped the Perfect Lion Skin. I have been killing everything from Hill Giants to Griffs...I see a lull when they just are not up at all. Still looking to make a Fleeting Quiver..But by the time I finally get a HQ Lion Skin...I might have enough AA's to just have the Never Ending Quiver...and no need for the Fleeting...Well I rambled enough...Good Luck to all on finding the HQ Skins!
Bortanus
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