Cougar Claw Earring  

 

Then, IMHO, people should be selling them for less......

But thats only my view, they may be rare, but most of the people who can afford one, could easily go and get some themselves.

I would say that they are worth it as well. more armour class is always what a fighter type should go for. the str will increase your attack strength, and unemcumbered carry weight, and the dex will help ya hit a bit faster, and if you have a wep with a proc, you should see it proc more often. Orc fang earings are nice too, one less armour, and no dex, but you get 15hp per earring. If you have ever barly lost a fight or had a heal come a second too late, well that extra 30hp may have made the difference. Hard choice.

But Sarnak earring of station is next to impossiable to get. Its a very rare find. If you do get one you very lucky.

These are not. There about a 1 in 25 drop as I have seen... And then again, ive killed 40 and haven't seen one... Damn dry streak.

It depends on how you look at it. One day I camped them for 11 hours RL time, killed who knows how many cougars, and had 4 drop. The next day, I did it again for 8 hours and had 14 drop. All of these were rolled for, and I consider myself fortunate to have won 3 of the rolls on them. It's all guesswork and luck.

Just because it's normally a "common" drop, that doesn't mean that you're going to find them the majority of the time on every hunt. All the items on a critter's loot table have a certain chance they're going to appear on the corpse. Whether it's a one in five or one in fifty chance, it's still possible to have a "dry spell" where the numbers just keep turning up against the item appearing. Yes, EVEN for long periods like several hours, it CAN happen.

There's a saying, "Dice don't have a memory." It refers to a common pitfall that people fall into when they are dealing with probabilities. Like rolling a dice, for example. There's a one in six chance you'll get a 4 (six possible outcomes, only one of the possibilities is a 4), but that doesn't mean if you roll it six times you're guaranteed to get a 4. You could roll sixty or even a hundred times and never see a 4, or on the flip side, you could roll thirty or forty 4s in that batch of 60 rolls. Both are equally likely outcomes, because (and here's what trips people up) THE PREVIOUS ROLLS HAVE NO BEARING ON THE OUTCOME OF FUTURE ROLLS. Each one is independent, the probability of getting the desired result is the SAME each roll regardless of what the earlier rolls were.

Now, EQ may have some additional things built in, like something that increases the odds for an item if it hasn't spawned in X hours, or some such. But even with something like that, I have a feeling that they'll never push the odds for anything that isn't a guaranteed loot up to 100% (that's usually reserved for quest items on medium-to-rare or relatively difficult to kill creatures).

Sorry for getting so long-winded. Sometimes I think I shoulda gone into teaching and been a professor instead of fixing computers :)

That's for the Garou Bone Club quest... Here's hoping you let the Cleric/Druid/Shaman in the group loot one of those bones.

They are definitely still dropping. The group I was in last night (just three people including me) had two drop in the span of about thirty minutes. Of course I lost the roll on both. :( They are a random drop off any cougars, including Midnight.

THEY STILL DROP AS OF 12.15.00 just alot more rare

bingo !!! farmer that know got them while they could but ... the price will only go up...if ya get XP then hunt them get the ratio if no XP and you dont need ...bah go elsewhere more stuff to kill really there is.

To late they already did. But that makes me happy cuase i can trade it for a second yak. or 2 for a tree weave. So good luck geting them


33rd Iksar Warrior