by Shiuna » Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:33 pm
I just finished the grind from dubious to warmly for the quest, with the nifty as my reward. I did it in Dranik's Scar slaughtering everything that moved in the valley between the NC zone and the PoD area.
It took approximately 2 hours of continuous killing to get through apprehensive, another 2 for indifferent, about 8 hours for amiable, and another 5 for kindly. I didn't cherry-pick the faction givers, but did avoid murkgliders whenever possible, and ignored the rats. I didn't camp an area, just drifted back and forth through the valley as the spawns thinned out.
I looted everything, which slowed me down somewhat; finally had to make a hotkey to target and loot, because mouse clicking was so unreliable. I netted 700+ plat/hour in coin and vendor trash, and got a dozen pieces of damaged magnetized armor that sold in bazaar for an average of 2,000p each. I also got 10 or so of the +4 augment stones for player-made augments, several drops from named mobs, and a nice surprise, .
All told, a profitable couple of weeks in the country.
Shiuna
Barbarian Shaman of 80 seasons (but looks 10 seasons younger)
"Sometimes, when I cast Cazic Touch II on npcs, I crit for 1.25 Million." - Nodyin (EQ dev)