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Rat Whiskers  
 

Quest Item
WT: 0.1 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Item Type:Combinable
Stackable:20
Merchant Value:0 pp 0 gp 1 sp 0 cp
Lucy Entry By:Kerasota
Item Updated By:Gidono
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-01-19 03:31:25
Page Updated:Sun Sep 11th, 2022

Expansion: Original Original


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Rarity: Common
Level to Attain: 1

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Drops

This item is found on creatures.

Ak'Anon
NPC Name
a rodent

Blackburrow
NPC Name
a giant plague rat

Blightfire Moors
NPC Name
a dire rat
Plaguebringer

Castle Mistmoore
NPC Name
a Mistmoore guard

Dagnor's Cauldron
NPC Name
a cauldron rat
a scalded rat
Jetsam

Mistmoore Catacombs
NPC Name
A Foul Writher

Misty Thicket
NPC Name
a giant thicket rat
a large thicket rat

Najena
NPC Name
a magician

North Kaladim
NPC Name
a rodent
Infected Rat

North Qeynos
NPC Name
a large rat
a rodent
a sewer rat

North Ro
NPC Name
a large rat

Northern Felwithe
NPC Name
a rodent

Paineel
NPC Name
a pack rat
an undead rat

Qeynos Catacombs
NPC Name
a clockwork rat
a large rat
a mangy rat
a sewer rat
Cuburt

Qeynos Hills
NPC Name
a large field rat
Scruffy

Rivervale
NPC Name
a rodent

Solusek's Eye (Solusek A)
NPC Name
fire goblin wizard

Steamfont Mountains
NPC Name
a female rat
a giant diseased rat
a large plague rat
a large rat
a young plague rat
an infected rat
diseased female rat
Meldrath The Malignant

The Warrens
NPC Name
a frenzied rat
a river rat

Thurgadin
NPC Name
a scuttle rat

West Freeport
NPC Name
a large rat


Quests

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Also Neriak Commons exterminator
# Aug 02 2018 at 12:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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Firstly thanks to Uxtalzon for that very good tip about the Warrens rats, much quicker than wiping out newbie areas, scouring merchants in the tutorial mines & CR.

But I just noticed that the quests lists Neriak 3rd Gate but not Neriak Commons - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2482

The only difference is that in the 3rd Gate has +1 to Dark Bargainers, Dreadguard Inner & Indigo Brotherhood whereas the Commons exterminator has +1 to Dreadguard Inner, Dreadguard Outer & Indigo Brotherhood (and -1 to Primordial Malice).

Since the easy Bottle of Red Wine quest https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=159 gives +10 to the Dark Bagainers & +1 to both guards I preferred to spend my rat whiskers with Exterminator Damasi in the Commons, but if you're dubious to those DE merchants you might prefer Exterminator Gilea (who's a little easier to find near the zone entrance).

Edited, Aug 2nd 2018 2:21pm by stickleback
Also Neriak Commons exterminator
# Aug 03 2018 at 2:02 PM Rating: Excellent
stickleback wrote:
Firstly thanks to Uxtalzon for that very good tip about the Warrens rats, much quicker than wiping out newbie areas, scouring merchants in the tutorial mines & CR.

But I just noticed that the quests lists Neriak 3rd Gate but not Neriak Commons - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2482

The only difference is that in the 3rd Gate has +1 to Dark Bargainers, Dreadguard Inner & Indigo Brotherhood whereas the Commons exterminator has +1 to Dreadguard Inner, Dreadguard Outer & Indigo Brotherhood (and -1 to Primordial Malice).

Since the easy Bottle of Red Wine quest https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=159 gives +10 to the Dark Bagainers & +1 to both guards I preferred to spend my rat whiskers with Exterminator Damasi in the Commons, but if you're dubious to those DE merchants you might prefer Exterminator Gilea (who's a little easier to find near the zone entrance).

Edited, Aug 2nd 2018 2:21pm by stickleback


Thanks. I added all the other exterminate the vermin quests to this item.
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Also Neriak Commons exterminator
# Feb 28 2020 at 11:53 PM Rating: Good
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Please note that not all of them require rat whiskers. The Oggok extermination quest, for example, requires Armadillo Husks.
No, the best spot is...
# Dec 06 2013 at 5:23 PM Rating: Decent
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The Warrrens, near the jail cells where the Kerrans and Erudites are kept as prisoners. (Kobold Warrens, not Korascian Warrens!)

There are a bunch of "training rat" that almost instantly respawn, no matter how fast you kill them. They wander back and forth in a small area, so AE spells and abilities will easily pile up the corpses.

The good side to this is if you're a caster with a minor AE spell, you can make a mountain of corpses before looting. The downside is you still have to loot the whiskers, one corpse at a time... and it takes longer to loot them all than to kill them. I'd say about two stacks of whiskers every five minutes, because they begin to rot pretty quick after that.
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# Apr 16 2015 at 5:12 PM Rating: Decent
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With the new /advloot system this is perfect! Rats spawn as fast as I can kill them, and the loot is automatically moved to my bags. I filtered out all the loot except the whiskers, and pretty soon I had 12 stacks. (And considerable progress on my Pesticide achievement.)
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best spot
# Sep 05 2012 at 8:37 PM Rating: Default
while doing the courier of favor quest i found i need to do rat whiskers quest to get Antonius Bayle faction high to be able to obtain bone chip quest. Go to steamfront mts. there are two great spawn point for A young plague rat. one is on top of a hill @ loc/ 716 / 18 this is North camp. south camp is at the base of a hill next to a steam vent @ /loc -1480 / -770. up to 6 rats at a time spawn here an travel west along the bottom of the hill.they will drop 2 whisker sometime and i was able to farm 220 whiskers in 4 hours using SoE to run back and forth between camps with a 76 druid .as few as two and as many as 6 at a time will spawn.
Best place for rat whiskers..
# Aug 02 2005 at 6:06 PM Rating: Decent
If you want faction for certain places, you don't have to kill the 'a rodent' NPC's running around inside of towns. Outside Qeynos and in Qeynos hills, look for the large rats, giant rats, or rats, and take the whiskers from them. They drop more often, plus they occassionally drop field rat ribcages and rat eyes, which are normally worth 2gp each.

My 2cp.
drop rate
# Jul 05 2003 at 9:50 PM Rating: Decent
It seems hard to drop. I kill them for half hour, and drop nothing.

I tried it on Felwithe.

Anyone knows where it will drop more?
RE: drop rate
# Jul 05 2003 at 10:46 PM Rating: Decent
Yeah I dont think SOE quite finished these rat whiskers quests, as a few other cities dont drop them either (Rivervale, Gukta, and some parts of Neriak). If youre really desperate to do this quest, Qeynos rats drop whiskers. Its really not worth it though; the reward is 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 copper; you can go kill regular mobs in Gfay and theyll drop one item that can be worth more than 1 gold. Hope that helps.
RE: drop rate
# Jul 06 2003 at 1:07 AM Rating: Decent
I see, thanks.

I do this quest not for the exp or money.

The real reward for me is: Faction. Some of them (ex. Felwithe, Neriak part) raise merchant faction, and it is unavailable before.
Very True
# Jul 11 2003 at 11:51 AM Rating: Good
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Factions are incredable. The most awesome thing in the game. I've personally found that inside of neriak is the best place to find Rat Wiskers.

If your interested in bringing up the Neriak merchant faction look up the red wine quest. VERY VERY worth while.

1 bottle or Red Wine = Faction with merchants, inside guards, and outside gaurds all goes up. But you have to be dubious at the least to do it. And have invis cast on you. Read my post on the actual quest page about how to do it if interested.
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