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Let's talk about G23, Preparing for the Plague.
(Minor spoilers ahead, maybe.)
The G23 quest, Preparing for the Plague, is a steaming load of buffalo dung. I'd know quite a bit about steaming loads of buffalo dung, as I've been slaughtering these things for two hours, and have a grand total of 1/5 of their fur clumps to show for it.
Anyway, rage aside, let's share some tips!
Because the drop rates of these quest items are egregiously low, you want to maximize the quest mobs you're killing. Right under the U in "Reus River", you can find both Black Buffalo and Ice Worms, which are quest monsters for the fur and scales respectively. As far as I am aware, Red Horn Reindeer do not drop the hooves, but I could be wrong.
Does anyone know if "Young" Black Buffalo can drop the fur, and which kind of Reindeer drop those hooves? Feel free to share that and anything else you know about the quest here, so we can all avoid paying 1M per Black Scale together.
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So to say, not looking forward to gathering xxxx items with abysmal drop rates -_-
when even cooking dungeon monsters count as week or 'strong' instead of boss theres only so much cp gear can do
Gray reindeer drop Gray reindeer hooves, Black-colored Ice Worms drop Black Ice Worm Scales, and Black Buffalo drop Black Buffalo Fur.
I wished I had your luck, it took me 50 minutes with all the competition ( 5 people at Black Ice Worms).
spam sms its rng drop for the end chest I recommend bft2 or conflict if you get bodies to come. its drop looks like play pages.
in your invi they will look like this
EDIT: only thing I can not confirm is if should be done in hm, the quest doesn't specify what diff and ive only done hm so far and some of my friends said it has to be hm, but ill test this soon enough since im not done with that part ( was gathering mats for a different part later on).
Thanks
Can't even enjoy the story cus I'm spending more time running around hunting for mobs that never drop what you need than I am actually making progress!
ah yes my friend had trouble with that
luckily for them I read the dialouge and Atrata tells you
Okay done Testing
10 Basic runs netted me 1 trace
10 Hm runs netted me 5 traces.
The sm I used was bft2
either I was unlucky with the basic runs or basic has a lower drop rate than hm.
good to know. now if only it didn't take like 10 minutes to get even one to drop... even on my culmulative lvl ~60 char, they're barely dropping,
also a little sidenote make sure its black armadillos and not young ones they actually do drop similar items but are not the same I got a bit confused ( young black arma claw is a thing a apparently lol)
final update on this unless others want to do testing, friend did 5 hm runs and got ziltch. Then he did 12 elite runs and got the 10 traces. So maybe its all same rng or higher diffs means higher drop rates?
nvm
I vaguely remember this being a thing too; also don't forget that you need some kind of weapon equipped to have a drop rate higher than 0%.
Well it's definitely easier with a lower level character. I got all the mats within 10-15minutes of running around for it. The mobs were awful to boss for said character.
Probably the only one xD