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Sippin
07-14-2006, 10:31 AM
I'm trying to get an idea of how relatively "rare" these drops are. They are purported to drop off the trash (NOT the bosses) in the 3 Skylance instance missions given out by Ao the Fourth in Arcstone.

Random Rare: Eye of Ice
Random Rare: Vial of the Escaped Genie
Random Rare: Scrykin Farseer's Stone

Anyone have enough experience with killing these mobs to hazard a guest-imate as to how frequently---or, more likely, how very infrequently---they drop?

Eldrynn
07-15-2006, 02:57 AM
Never done any of these missions, so good luck. Maybe some of the ubers will share their sekritz.

Sippin
07-15-2006, 07:03 AM
Uberness hardly required for these, although a group which works well together helps.

Palarran
07-15-2006, 01:03 PM
I have never seen any of those drop, and I have done all 3 Skylance tasks many times.

Then again, I've never expected anything to drop, so I may not have checked corpses as closely as I should have.

Sippin
07-15-2006, 02:38 PM
I have never seen any of those drop, and I have done all 3 Skylance tasks many times.

Then again, I've never expected anything to drop, so I may not have checked corpses as closely as I should have.

That's kinda what I'm afraid of from talking to people anecdotally. Although I wasn't bothering to check corpses either for awhile, since they never seemed to drop anything.

Merdarie
07-16-2006, 12:23 PM
I have done all 3 a few times. I always check corpses, and I have only seen the Vial drop once in Skylance 2. Havent seen any of the other drops.

Athunder Taima
07-16-2006, 02:32 PM
I had the aug drop on my first sky 2 mission, only seen it drop once so far, and i've seen the caster range linked in guild once also from sky 2. The ae trash in sky 2 seems the best way to get rares if thats all your after.

Neliani
07-23-2006, 03:51 AM
I've seen Vial of the Escaped Genie drop just once and I think I've done that mission about 10 times I wanna say.

Axercis
07-30-2006, 06:42 PM
Best place to farm rare trash drops is in the basement. Connected to first basement room are 3 smaller rooms full of stonemites, these stonemites can drop any of the 3 rare items. Druid (with reptile skin) + another PBAE class + any melee class can farm rare drops easily although it may take a while. Just slap reptile skin on melee and have him/her none dmg pull (this is important, these stonemites have very little hp, any dmg to them will result in summoning), then PBAE whole room of stonemites at once. Rinse and repeat for 2 other rooms, if puller grabbed anything other than just stonemites, evac and start over. Once all 3 rooms have been cleared just drop task and get a new one, any Skylance mission works. Takes about 5 minutes per run, great for leveling evolving items too. It took me 20 some odd hours total to get 3 augs to drop, during the time I had 2 eyes and 4? vials rot. It sucks that you can't add anyone to task once task has been received.

Sippin
08-19-2006, 11:05 AM
Interesting strat that I will try sometime. My usual hydra group is druid-enc-mage-cle-war so we have some aoe potential. :wiggle:

3 augments in 20 hours of mass killing does seem to support my contention that these items are very rare drops. How many stonemites did you kill in TWENTY hours, using pbaoe? A football stadium full, I would think...