by Gloriana » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:39 am
is a very nice earring which drops off trash in Yxxta. Over the last few weeks whenever i've been lfg or had little time to group and concentrate on EQ, I've been gonig to Yxxta to solo in an attempt to get it
If you zone into Yxxta using the west enterance from KT you'll be faced with 2 mobs at the zone in, either 'a wary hynid' or a 'A Ravenous Cragbeast'. Both of the mobs are rootable, slowable and don't summon. They both are single pullable. Usually after using mali decay or putrid decay VP holds for full duration on the hynids, but I always keep normal root up for the occasional early break. For the crags you need to use normal root and refresh every 30% or so. Basic strat is to pull with a debuff (malos for crag, DR debuff for the hynids) and root them using VP or a root spell depending on the mob type. From there on its just a usual root rot technique. If things go wrong the zone out out is less than 10 seconds away.
Also, every few minutes 'a noc swiftblade' will roam up between where the two mobs are that can drop the earring. The noc is the same as them, slowable, rootable, doesn't summon (root works better than VP). It has a chance of dropping ring, personally its not a big upgrade and I'm hoping to get a different ring from elsewhere so I never bothered with him so I have no idea on the drop rate.
For me it took about 2, 2 hour sessions and 1, 3 hour session to eventually get the earring while afk inbetween spawns (20 mins) doing stuff irl. The exp is fairly nice, 7-9% AA each kill at level 70 but as you only kill 2 mobs/20 mins its not a good place if you want to solo out some fast AAs. Hope this helps people towards getting what I think is a great earring.