#Anonymous,
Posted:Sep 25 2000 at 1:04 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Camped these yesterday afternoon for about 6 hours. Got 3 weapons and 1 forest loop. I do think we were lucky to get the loop in about 100 kills. I think the forest loops are more common on the higher level forest giant camps in other zones. Btw, we got ours off an evergreen.
In frontier Mountains, I looted about 6 Pearls, about 8 Loops (2 i won), made about 200-500p aday in Weapons. there I also got Giant Forman Tunic, and Lumber jack Cap.. I would bet these drop same.. maybe lil Rarer ?
OK, here's the scoop on the loop. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never heard of a loop dropping off any giant in Warsliks besides the greenwoods. I've killed roughly 400-500 of these clowns and only gotten one Forest Loop, and that was off a greenwood. I've gotten some nice gems off the evergreens, and they often drop better than 3 plat. To be honest, I've lived in this camp since level 22 and I'm level 29 now - they're GREAT xp, but I'm thinking of moving on and just saving up to buy another loop(, I'm tired of this camp.
I levelled here from I think 28 to 32, and I am a druid. Level 30 was heaven here! Simply fight the evergreens at the guarded entrance. snare one, run the other until out of the others range, it forgets about you (usually) so you only have to contend with one at a time. Things to watch out for are the wandering goblins and the occasional wandering greenwoods and saplings. two giants hitting you at a time is not fun. --Reiforrd S http://www.wwaz.com/dragons/
The level of the evergreens seems about right. Some of them are still blue to me at 34. It sure is nice being able to solo these things as a ranger, even without full gear (I'm doing this on Rallos Zek).
I use Harmony when there are two guarding the gate - it works quite well here. I'll stand off to the side, and cast Harmony on the one further away from me, then pull the other with Stinging Swarm or an arrow.
There have been times where I've had to escape when a wandering goblin decides to help the giant. Since I usually snare early on, I can easily outrun the giant, and deal with the goblin once safely out of the giant's range.
People say that Loops drop 1% of the time, but I think thats a load of crap. I killed at least 300 of these guys solo, and leveled 5 times before I got one.
These guys fight better than their con so watch it. I have fought these guys from level 22 to 30 and plan on staying till 35. My druid friend still fights them at 35 and gets the exp from them. So pretty good spot to hunt just overly crowded for the rare forest loop. I have only found 3 in all this time due to the influx of lvl 50+ toons that show up. Come on guys, Go to the planes and let us little ones have "SOME" loot. Geez.
forest loop drops from greenwoods and upwards , most weapon drop from lower giants(saplings, greenwoods, giants). been there for 8 hours straight and i have never seen an evergreen with a weapon. party of 5 high teens with 2 healers can camp the whole fort while mid 20s can solo well in there cause the giants are mainly fixed spawns and if you keep their numbers low they will only wander along the road
All giants have chance to drop all the giant items. Ive gotten weapons form reds and greens. I pulled a blue giant at lvl 20 and got a forest loop. Be careful though, ive casted on these guys and sometimes it takes them like 10 mintues to arrgo you, dont go in to another fight, its to dangerous. Oh and ive probably killed around 300 giants and seen maybe 8 items, including the loop i got.
Considering these guys are only mid-20s, and drop earrings worth about 2k, I wouldn't complain much about their rarity. Killing 70 giants and not getting a loop is nothing, people have killed 400-500 and gotten only one, maybe even none. No other mob in the 20s (and I say that with absolute certainty) drops anything worth 2000p...so be glad they drop at all.
The elusive Undead Jester in Kurn's Tower is even weaker than these giants and he drops the Iksar Berserker Club which is worth 15k+. Yikes - eqprices has it for 18600 right now.
This must be an ULTRA rare drop on the forest giants. My partner and I have killed at least 70 giants, and have not seen a single loop. We got a tree flayer and a grub digger, though... 11pp and change for the flayer, almost 40pp for the grub digger. Not bad for a mob drop weapon.
Evergreen Ivy ringbands are absolutely worthless...don't bother killing Evergreens..Greenwoods drop better loot. I've gotten various gems, Forest Loop, Leg-Chopper, and plat from Greenwoods. All I got from Evergreens was a grade A *** whoppin at level 27. Just my 2cp
Darcwarlok Doomblade Iksar Death Knight of 27 seasons
Never seen a Loop drop off of Evergreens, just the Greenwoods...pretty good exp though. Evergreens are cake to me at 27 (shaman) as long as I don't get alot of resists. I pull with Slow, root, DoT, DoT and med. Cannidance in between. When Root breaks I melee and reDoT with Envemoned Breath..after that they're toast. It helps that I have 622 AC unbuffed (yes I'm twinked, so don't ask)so meleeing isn't a problem for me even as an Iksar. And who said Iksars can't be a BattleShaman ?
Hmm, it's like looking for a gold encrusted fruit loop in a normal box, seems to be VERy rare. I've soloed as a druid at the forst from 22-30 and as long as you get to know the area, how and what to pul, you are in good shape, just don't hunt these guys to much for the loot...
these guys rarely drop anything, i have camped for 5-6 hours now, and all oi got was a hammer of flattening. The forest loop is really really really rare......
Druids can kite the Evergreens and Greenwoods, you can try harmony and pull the guards at that exit, or go inside and pull the higher-level (in my opinion) ones. There should be no problem kiting, except for an occasional extra giant on you or a goblin witchdoctor, etc. Just watch out where you're kiting.
Last night we were inside the fort pulling whatever giats we saw and we manged to a foresst loop a leg-chopper and a hammer of flattening after about 7 hours just camping there
Got one last night, stats were 10/41, not the 10/21 listed above.
They don't wander around in packs, but they occassionally cross paths. There's a large fort in the middle of Warsliks Woods. They are concentrated in the fort, with guards at one of the exits to the fort (just giants, not Iksar guards) and giants also roam around the fort outside.
At 29, most greenwooods conned green, had an occassional blue. All evergreens were blue at 29, still blue at 30. Greenwoods all appear to be green at 30, although I may find a rare blue one.
Looted Leg Chopper the other night, my god, the sword is huge. Well, it looks huge on the giants, anyway. Take a look here...http://astro.temple.edu/~fmoffat/img/giantsword.jpg
You have to realize I'm standing WAY up the hill from the giant's feet. Sword sold for 30 something pp. Weapons are pretty rare, never gotten a forest loop yet, but I have gotten a few gems, rings and amulets that sell for around 10pp. Not bad.
If you see a giant with a sword KILL IT!! It will either drop a very rare sword with nice stats or a leg chopper that sells to merchants for a nice 32 plat.
I hunted these last night and never got anything cept those trash necklaces. The hammer of flattening comes off the greenwoods, not the evergreens (Mine did, and about everyone else's did). Forest loops come off Greenwoods, and these guys are always red to my level 23, but I can still cast on them, so I'd say their maximum level 29.
Another Rare drop is the Forest Loop, an earring with 2 ac +3 Dex, +3 Agi, and +3 Wis that also drops off of greenwoods. Also Leg-Chopper, and giant grub digger, two other two handers.
These guys are blue to red to me at 23. Common drop is a + 1 STA necklace that is no-drop. Rare drop is a Tree Flayer(2hs,10 dam,21 del) and another sword of similar stats. After 4 hours of camping, one of them dropped a black pearl!