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#1 Oct 27 2014 at 3:34 PM Rating: Good
Hi Guys!

What is the best place to farm some Scuffed Traveler's Rucksacks?

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=97709

I've tried Sanctum Somnium nameds and have had no luck at all :/

Thanks!
#2 Oct 27 2014 at 3:59 PM Rating: Good
I use http://eq.magelo.com since it shows % to drop info - but its only based upon the peeps that use Magelo's program to keep it updated.

http://eq.magelo.com/item/54446

#3 Oct 27 2014 at 10:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm not sure about other zones, but a couple of weeks ago, I had one Scuffed Journeyman's Rucksack and two Scuffed Weapon Crate of the Mercenary drop for me in a two to three hour session in The Grounds. It has never happened before or since though. All I can say is that my luck is usually the absolute worst that it can be usually.
#4 Oct 28 2014 at 4:50 AM Rating: Excellent
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Boy that drop must be super-rare in the Grounds. I can't even count how many mobs I've killed there and never seen even one bag drop.
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#5 Oct 28 2014 at 5:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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You must have been lucky on that occasion KC.

I've killed Vermillion in Feerrott-Dream maybe 30-40 times (a rough estimate) and Damar in Erudin Burning about 7-10 times and the Rabid Selyrak(sp) twice in COBronze and have yet to see the Scuffed Traveller's Rucksack.

So I think the random generator was kind to you on that occasion. Especially since they sell them in the Marketplace (for extremely high prices as much or more as a monthly sub iirc) which makes it a conflict of interest for SOE-EQ to increase the drop rate..sadly.

Edited, Oct 28th 2014 8:11am by hexeez
#6 Oct 28 2014 at 7:38 AM Rating: Good
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The weight bags are incredibly rare drops off of any HoT or VoA named mob. Since they have introduced them, I think I have gotten 5 of them. Granted I spend basically ALL my time in House of Thole or VoA. Personally, I've gotten 3 32 slottters and 2 24 slotters.

Since they increased the spawn rate of named in House of Thule your best bet to farm them is probably House of Thule Lower Floors. That zone easily has the highest concentration of named. Farming them though is still somewhat unrealistic.
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I truly think those 3 drops were a total aberration! I have never seen luck like that in all my years in EQ. Maybe all the years of bad luck was addressed in that short time period by Karma!Smiley: lol

Edited, Oct 28th 2014 7:49pm by KC13
#8 Oct 28 2014 at 3:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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KC13 wrote:
I truly think those 3 drops were a total aberration! I have never seen luck like that in all my years in EQ. Maybe all the years of back luck was addressed in that short time period by Karma!Smiley: lol


Haha,
Yes I know that feeling well.
The random generator doesn't always seem to be random and works in strange ways at times. As I remember when SOF was live and even into SOD days, I used to sometimes farm the rank 1 version of the Necro dot spell "Reavers Pyre" off of the pumpkin head like mobs in Hills of Shade, and for weeks of killing them I never got it to drop.

Then one lovely day, I got two of them in one 1/2 hour session. Smiley: smile


#9 Oct 28 2014 at 8:43 PM Rating: Good
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Did we have a rare spawn bonus lately? wouldn't that influence HoT named? (Isn't everything OoW or something + impacted by that particular bonus?)

Just wondering if KC got lucky at the right time to get lucky, if you follow.

...and I suppose that last comment potentially derails this thread into something else entirely.
#10 Oct 29 2014 at 7:50 AM Rating: Decent
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KC13 wrote:
I truly think those 3 drops were a total aberration! I have never seen luck like that in all my years in EQ. Maybe all the years of bad luck was addressed in that short time period by Karma!Smiley: lol

Edited, Oct 28th 2014 7:49pm by KC13


I think you underestimate how much time I spend in House of Thule and how many named I have killed lol.

For what it's worth, I got 2 of the 32 slotters off of the named rotdogs in HoT courtyard, and I got one of them off the named Mist Elemental thingamajig that drops the AC/Str aug in Argath.

These days, HoT named spawn VERY VERY often. Feels like 9/10 times you will get a named to spawn in the cycle.
#11 Oct 29 2014 at 12:48 PM Rating: Good
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I think you underestimate how much time I spend in House of Thule and how many named I have killed lol.


A misunderstanding here, I was referring to my 3 drops.
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Indeed!

On a side note: I got a 20 slotter and another 24 slotter while completing the tasks in Morrel's Castle today. So either I'm the luckiest person when it comes to these bags, or it really is just about killing as many HoT named as fast as you possibly can.
#13 Nov 12 2014 at 10:48 AM Rating: Good
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Man, I have completed all of HoT hunter, most of VoA/RoF and CoTF... killed thousands (not exaggerating) between lower floors and grounds; still have not seen one!. I got lucky and bought the 28 slotter for 50k in baz late 2012. Think he miss priced for 500k :P
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#14 Nov 13 2014 at 2:41 PM Rating: Good
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The drop rate is 1% of any namer post HoT expansion, certain raids have a 100% chance of chests iirr. So to answer your question, there is no easy way to farm these. You can certainly try, but you'd be wasting your time unless you have ample of time to sit there and spawn namers all day, just to camp these. You are looking at 1 per 100 namers.

The only way you can increase your chance is to find a spot with a camp with 5-6 namers nearby and run around killing ph's to spawn namers, even then you'd be looking at alot of time wasted in game. They sell for fairly cheap in bazaar, about 500k-2 mill plat depending on the slots. The amount of time it would take to farm just 1, could have farmed 10 million plat easily.

Edited, Nov 13th 2014 3:41pm by Nikoral
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