From -1815503746555365606 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb739,731e5e88544d1f88,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb739,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-09 10:21:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!ounews.ou.edu!not-for-mail From: "Brian E. Parker" Newsgroups: alt.games.everquest References: <3B72C358.4A06B9C2@ata-sd.com> Subject: Re: Was it just bad luck or .... Lines: 39 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:20:56 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 167.16.161.39 X-Complaints-To: news@ou.edu X-Trace: ounews.ou.edu 997377682 167.16.161.39 (Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:21:22 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:21:22 CDT Organization: The University of Oklahoma Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.games.everquest:105009 "Rickie McComb" wrote in message news:3B72C358.4A06B9C2@ata-sd.com... > Hi! And thanks for any responses. > I started hunting in East Karana last night and killed, among other > things, 2 crag spiders and a carrion spider. Between them, they dropped > 1 spider silk and 1 venom sack. I believe that when I was hunting there > If they didn't lower the drop rate for all spiders and the lower drop > rate for the EK crags is the norm now, then my second question is: Why > would they make the drop rate for crag spiders a lot lower than the drop > rate for the large spiders in Nektulos Forest? Shouldn't a tougher > monster give a greater reward? From what I have seen, they have lowered it across the board. I was about to head to EK to see if they lowered it there, too, but it looks like they did =( I killed 10 ( count-em, 10 ) Giant Spiders in EC last night before one dropped a silk. That was easily a new personal record. I bitched about it in /ooc after 9, so, of course the 10th one would drop a silk. I should try that after the first one doesn't have one next time. =) I was in Everfrost 3 days ago with the explicit intention of killing Woolys for silk and was averaging a little below 1 / Wooly, I believe. A gentleman was going to make Wu's pieces for me, so I was -really- wanting the silks. Of course, right before I met the guy, I wasted about 12 swatches on Cured ( for my own tailoring skill ). On the way to Ogguk yesterday, I killed 1 random Desert Tarantula, and it had 2 silks on it. I'm sure that was just luck, or they would be farmed a lot right now. It ain't just you. -BEP