What are your best drops!!!

[Xrazor]

<p>I have been playing for 3 years now and have never found a useful drop and I am starting to get discouraged.</p><p>I raid a little but mostly group; every exquisite chest that has dropped for me has yielded weapons and armor that were equal or lesser to what I already am wearing.</p><p>As far as masters go, I have all adept3 spells from my guild and the difference between adept 3 and master is so little that it doesn't greater enhance my playing. Unless someone can tell me different and having the master actually allowed them to take on a con that when they had adept3 they couldn't beat...but so far that is not the case for me.</p><p>My toon is a 63 zerker so weapons and armor are the key, but like I said all drops were worthless so far.</p><p>So, with that said, sound off...</p><p>Tell us about the drop that took you by surprise and made you say WOW.</p><p>Indicate what you had versus what you found and the differences that made it a great drop.</p><p>Hope this post yields lots of amazing wondrous stories to keep my hopes alive.</p><p>Thank you</p>

[HemoragiK]

The best drops I have ever gotten were three masters and a legendary staff (I think the staff was a drop, if not it was a quest reward).  Personally, I solo everything (I've only grouped once or twice with someone to help them kill a named).  My best spell is a master II klicnik's bite.  However, most of my spells are adept I and a few adept III and master Is.

[Themaginator]

i'd say my best drop was the first named i ever killed in MMIS and it dropped my Conjuror wrists, i was wearing the writs from part of the FD quest line so itwas about 100 steps above, needless to say...i was pretty happy.

[Mareth]

Hurricane m1, from a named I soloed in December, earned me 180p :O

[kenm]

Honestly, unless you raid a lot you're never really going to find incredibly useful drops outside of master spells.  (Which I personally think do make a huge difference when added up.) I'm not gonna list much I have because I'm sure at 63 you'd call me a braggart over my third set of backup gear.  But two weeks ago I got a Grim Brimstone Hammer and just last night Wuoshi dropped the Berserker pants. So if you want stuff like that hurry up and get to 70 and start raiding darn it!

[Xrazor]

Kenman@Najena wrote: <blockquote>Honestly, unless you raid a lot you're never really going to find incredibly useful drops outside of master spells.  (Which I personally think do make a huge difference when added up.) I'm not gonna list much I have because I'm sure at 63 you'd call me a braggart over my third set of backup gear.  But two weeks ago I got a Grim Brimstone Hammer and just last night Wuoshi dropped the Berserker pants. So if you want stuff like that hurry up and get to 70 and start raiding darn it! </blockquote><p> I was afraid someone would say that..lol</p><p>I didn't want to get wrapped up in the raid thing....wish Sony could throw a bone and put a few things out there....or let raiders sell the gear...seems like most is no-trade, so I can't even work my butt off and get 100plat to but it....."sigh"</p>

[Kizee]

Kenman@Najena wrote: <blockquote>Honestly, unless you raid a lot you're never really going to find incredibly useful drops outside of master spells.  (Which I personally think do make a huge difference when added up.) I'm not gonna list much I have because I'm sure at 63 you'd call me a braggart over my third set of backup gear.  But two weeks ago I got a Grim Brimstone Hammer and just last night Wuoshi dropped the Berserker pants. So if you want stuff like that hurry up and get to 70 and start raiding darn it! </blockquote><p> I wouldn't say that. </p><p>There are items that are out of heroic instances that are better than alot of raid drops.</p><p>IMO this games itemization sucks (yes raid items too). There has been maybe 1/2 dozen items that made me go wow since I the game first came out.</p><p>I am hoping that kunark will bring out some intresting items since the new guy seems to know what people want for loot.</p>

[kenm]

<cite>Kizee wrote:</cite><blockquote>Kenman@Najena wrote: <blockquote>Honestly, unless you raid a lot you're never really going to find incredibly useful drops outside of master spells.  (Which I personally think do make a huge difference when added up.) I'm not gonna list much I have because I'm sure at 63 you'd call me a braggart over my third set of backup gear.  But two weeks ago I got a Grim Brimstone Hammer and just last night Wuoshi dropped the Berserker pants. So if you want stuff like that hurry up and get to 70 and start raiding darn it! </blockquote><p> I wouldn't say that. </p><p>There are items that are out of heroic instances that are better than alot of raid drops.</p><p>IMO this games itemization sucks (yes raid items too). There has been maybe 1/2 dozen items that made me go wow since I the game first came out.</p><p>I am hoping that kunark will bring out some intresting items since the new guy seems to know what people want for loot.</p></blockquote>Eh, seeing as he's a berserker I can't really think of anything that'd be better than raid drops in a heroic instance though.  CoP was awesome during KoS, but it got nerfed down.

[Valdaglerion]

<p>I will let you know when I find it. The only thing which made me moderately go "wow" was when the gown of glory dropped in Nest. Not because the item is so incredibly UBER (dont get me wrong, its nice gear - lvl 64) but the "wow" factor came into play because it is the first Master/Fabled piece I have ever gotten on this toon that was actually useful to it from a class perspective. (For benchmark purposes - this toon has logged around 2000 hours of gameplay I think).</p><p>Seems that 97 out of 100 items I get anyway are for fighters or priest. So playing a caster it is a little discouraging. I am looking forward to the change when loot dropped would take into consideration the class of the player(s) making up the encounter so the items dropped could be used by them. At the very least it would create a market change where mages would be outfitting fellow mages, fighters outfitting fighters etc. At least for a majority of the time. Just my thoughts....</p>

[FightGame]

<p>You don't need raid acquired loot or masters to do group stuff, at all.</p><p>The raid acquired loot and master spells only really start to make a difference when you are fighting higher level epic mobs.  Sure every little bit helps and I'm sure a full group of people in raid gear and masters will get things done a little easier, but that's not to say it was "needed" at all.  What matters more than anything is experience.</p><p>Also, it wasn't so much that the CoP itself was nerfed.  All mitigation on every piece of gear was nerfed due to the sharp curve on the diminishing returns.  It still is a nice bp and is probably the best legendary and possibly better than a couple fabled.  Depends on where you are sitting on the scale.  It's more about avoidance now, and if I remember this bp has alot of avoidance too.</p>

[Xrazor]

<cite>Valdaglerion wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I will let you know when I find it. The only thing which made me moderately go "wow" was when the gown of glory dropped in Nest. Not because the item is so incredibly UBER (dont get me wrong, its nice gear - lvl 64) but the "wow" factor came into play because it is the first Master/Fabled piece I have ever gotten on this toon that was actually useful to it from a class perspective. (For benchmark purposes - this toon has logged around 2000 hours of gameplay I think).</p><p>Seems that 97 out of 100 items I get anyway are for fighters or priest. So playing a caster it is a little discouraging. I am looking forward to the change when loot dropped would take into consideration the class of the player(s) making up the encounter so the items dropped could be used by them. At the very least it would create a market change where mages would be outfitting fellow mages, fighters outfitting fighters etc. At least for a majority of the time. Just my thoughts....</p></blockquote> I myself just want to hear about uber gear, I know, I know you can't have tons of uber gear in the game and that it would affect the play ability, but why can't raid gear drop off of anything...just make it a chance of a lifetime....I know I use to play Diablo and there was a bow called windforce that made you godly...I played for 5 years and never found it...but just the notion that I could be the one to have it drop made the game so much more fun...but here if you don't raid you have 0 chance...now that's not fun.

[FightGame]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>but here if you don't raid you have 0 chance...now that's not fun.</blockquote><p> Not true at all.  Many pieces of raid gear are tradeable.</p><p>But it's like I said in previous post, if you don't raid, you really don't "need" raid gear.  Trust me.  I'm sure a good group could complete any instance in this game in legendary gear...hell probably treasured for most instances.  Sure you still want it.  So, why not raid sometime?  What's stopping you?  Or just save up some plat and buy it off the broker or from some guilds.  Even the no-trade items get sold to people outside the raid by selling the loot rights.  I know of many toons that are fully fabled and never once been on a raid.</p>

[Themaginator]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Kenman@Najena wrote: <blockquote>Honestly, unless you raid a lot you're never really going to find incredibly useful drops outside of master spells.  (Which I personally think do make a huge difference when added up.) I'm not gonna list much I have because I'm sure at 63 you'd call me a braggart over my third set of backup gear.  But two weeks ago I got a Grim Brimstone Hammer and just last night Wuoshi dropped the Berserker pants. So if you want stuff like that hurry up and get to 70 and start raiding darn it! </blockquote><p> I was afraid someone would say that..lol</p><p>I didn't want to get wrapped up in the raid thing....wish Sony could throw a bone and put a few things out there....or let raiders sell the gear...seems like most is no-trade, so I can't even work my butt off and get 100plat to but it....."sigh"</p></blockquote> see thing is when your grouping the gear will be fine for you, the only tie you'd need raid gear is if you raid.

[Zard]

<cite>Valdaglerion wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I will let you know when I find it. The only thing which made me moderately go "wow" was when the gown of glory dropped in Nest. Not because the item is so incredibly UBER (dont get me wrong, its nice gear - lvl 64) but the "wow" factor came into play because it is the first Master/Fabled piece I have ever gotten on this toon that was actually useful to it from a class perspective. (For benchmark purposes - this toon has logged around 2000 hours of gameplay I think).</p></blockquote><p> The first time I saw that robe drop a Berserker got it -- with two Mages in the group!  <img src="/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />   </p><p>My best drop, relative to my character's level at the time, was something I looted long ago off of a solo mob in the Feerrott: <b>a tattered robe</b>. Sound like vendor trash right? Not exactly, it is the quest starter for the <b>Robe of Invoker.</b>  I completed the quest and sold the robe for 20pp (back in the days when 20pp was a fortune).</p>

[Xrazor]

<p>I have never seen any raid gear forsale on broker...but I will keep checking.</p><p>Also how come I can't find lvl 60 gear drop from level 50 con....would be fun to have something in stash to get to...kinda like a goal.</p>

[FightGame]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>wish Sony could throw a bone and put a few things out there....or let raiders sell the gear...seems like most is no-trade, so I can't even work my butt off and get 100plat to but it....."sigh"</blockquote><p> There are many pieces of gear that raiders use, that they acquire from groupable instances.  That gown of glory is a perfect example.  I see many raiding mages wear that, and have watched them pass on other fabled dresses.  Even no-trade gear gets sold if you are online at the time and see people selling the "loot-rights".</p><p>The people that spend many many hours working hard top develop strats, dieing over and over, paying for repairs, working as a huge team, when finally kill it, deserve it.  No reason why some random person out solo harvesting should have any chance at getting the same reward - ever.</p>

[Xrazor]

<cite>FightGame wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>wish Sony could throw a bone and put a few things out there....or let raiders sell the gear...seems like most is no-trade, so I can't even work my butt off and get 100plat to but it....."sigh"</blockquote><p> There are many pieces of gear that raiders use, that they acquire from groupable instances.  That gown of glory is a perfect example.  I see many raiding mages wear that, and have watched them pass on other fabled dresses.  Even no-trade gear gets sold if you are online at the time and see people selling the "loot-rights".</p><p>The people that spend many many hours working hard top develop strats, dieing over and over, paying for repairs, working as a huge team, when finally kill it, deserve it.  No reason why some random person out solo harvesting should have any chance at getting the same reward - ever.</p></blockquote>Disagree, it is hard work aquiring 100's in plat....what you are saying is Bill Gates should never be able to buy a sports car because he didn't build it...

[Valdaglerion]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have never seen any raid gear forsale on broker...but I will keep checking.</p><p>Also how come I can't find lvl 60 gear drop from level 50 con....would be fun to have something in stash to get to...kinda like a goal.</p></blockquote><p>Mobs tend to drop items of their level. If you are hunting for items to get to you need to hunt mobs that are above your level. Go in groups to hunt for yellow and orange mobs. That will give youa few levels up anyway. Other than that, search the broker for items to grow into, especially when you find a good deal on them. Thats the best way to use your saved searches feature on the broker.</p>

[Zeuhl]

Best drop I've ever gotten was the Breastplate of Fiery Strength (not sure of exact name I'm at work lol) from a pick-up labs raid this weekend. Other than non-raiding you can get lots of great gear in the instances that is on par with some of the fabeled gear. That being said your best gear is gonna drop in raid zones but if you don't raid it doesnt matter anyway.

[Xrazor]

Zeuhl@Mistmoore wrote: <blockquote>Best drop I've ever gotten was the Breastplate of Fiery Strength (not sure of exact name I'm at work lol) from a pick-up labs raid this weekend. Other than non-raiding you can get lots of great gear in the instances that is on par with some of the fabeled gear. That being said your best gear is gonna drop in raid zones but if you don't raid it doesnt matter anyway.</blockquote>Are there any solo or 2 box instances that you know of...???

[Illmarr]

<cite>FightGame wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>wish Sony could throw a bone and put a few things out there....or let raiders sell the gear...seems like most is no-trade, so I can't even work my butt off and get 100plat to but it....."sigh"</blockquote><p> There are many pieces of gear that raiders use, that they acquire from groupable instances.  That gown of glory is a perfect example.  I see many raiding mages wear that, and have watched them pass on other fabled dresses.  Even no-trade gear gets sold if you are online at the time and see people selling the "loot-rights".</p><p>The people that spend many many hours working hard top develop strats, dieing over and over, paying for repairs, working as a huge team, when finally kill it, deserve it.  No reason why some random person out solo harvesting should have any chance at getting the same reward - ever.</p></blockquote>QFT by a non-raider. No point in rehashing the tired arguments on both sides, neither is going to teach the other pig to fly anytime soon.

[FightGame]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Disagree, it is hard work aquiring 100's in plat....what you are saying is Bill Gates should never be able to buy a sports car because he didn't build it... </blockquote><p>Man, read what I wrote.  That's not what I said.  I said that you can buy fabled, raid acquired gear on the broker with your hard earned cash.  I also said that you can buy "loot-rights" to the raid acquired NO-TRADE gear.  I also said that I know atleast a few toons that are fully fabled in raid gear and have never raided once.</p><p>And yes, there are solo and 2 box instances out there, but theres not much that is gonna drop this awesome gear you are looking for...other than maybe that gown of glory.</p>

[Xrazor]

<cite>FightGame wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Disagree, it is hard work aquiring 100's in plat....what you are saying is Bill Gates should never be able to buy a sports car because he didn't build it... </blockquote><p>Man, read what I wrote.  That's not what I said.  I said that you can buy fabled, raid acquired gear on the broker with your hard earned cash.  I also said that you can buy "loot-rights" to the raid acquired NO-TRADE gear.  I also said that I know atleast a few toons that are fully fabled in raid gear and have never raided once.</p><p>And yes, there are solo and 2 box instances out there, but theres not much that is gonna drop this awesome gear you are looking for...other than maybe that gown of glory.</p></blockquote><p>What are some of the instances you would recommend for 2 boxing...even though it isn't great loot, it still would be fun...</p><p>Like I said I am a 62 zerker with a 58 fury as my 2 box.... </p>

[deathbringer15]

<p>my best drops would have to be when we were raiding labs. before we got to the guy in the armory we got a silk hat drop. i won it cause i was the only one who needed it. then we got a dacromancer (yeah i no, not spelled tight) bp. i won cause i bidded the most dkp .then on the guy after viminin or w/e we gopt decromancer shoulders and of course, i got those too. but for a big price. i spent like 200 dkp on that raid all together.</p>

[callahan]

I'm sick of my T7 Fabled gear, after spending a year looking at the rainbow eyesores. Mine were all quest rewards.. Prismatic Greatsword, Godking Scepter and Claymore, and really liked my EBBC. They had a sense of accomplishment.

[Guy De Alsace]

<p>I've found a ton of useful drops. In fact I got one yesterday on my lvl 39 Pally who is going it alone, untwinked, on Oasis. Got the Evol Bandoleer quest starter to drop in Feerrott and the reward was better than I had on. I'm using Crysta's Rage that dropped for me in Nek Castle. Also the Mazkeen Knucklers from a solo named in Steamfont....and thats just one toon.</p>

[Frain]

Unrest has some realy nice drops! Cloak of unrest, plasma wand, the deaggro jewlery and the leather for reinforced dwarven workboots are just a few of the amazing stuff to get in there!

[Nemoscat]

Until recently I hated raiding for 2 reasons: All I had gotten from raiding my lvl70 Rangers was large repair bills. Never got any drop. Period. The second reason is that it was such a time sink. The time spent during the setup was just a boring waste. Now, after joining a guild with people arranging casual raids, that know what they are doing, - while I have only raided in guild staus raids with them as I don't play my 70 ranger anymore - I find that  the setups are quick and I have  gotten several nice pieces of armor for my inquisitor that is about to hit 50 soon. Including a server disco, this past Tuesday. Sadly we also reached guild lvl 60 so they want to do different raids now until the level cap is raised, so I wont get the full set (got 4 pieces) <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that some people say they don't like to raid - I used to. But the right guild can change all that.

[Targ]

<p>I think first you have to understand it is a game a inches. Your not going to find a single item that by itself makes you uberzerker.  But in a close fight 10% may be all it takes to win.  </p><p>So what I look for is armour and weapons is stats that put me a little ahead of where I am now. I don't raid so for me we are talking Heroic Content and that means all Legendary gear. </p><p>The same is true with masters, yes the difference from one master to one adeptIII is not huge but it all adds up. Like I said this is a game of inches put them all together and you will feel the difference. In a close fight I can tell when the healer in the group has a master group mit buff or a adeptIII version.</p><p>While Mitigation is not what it was it still works and for a tank mit is important, but now you have to look for AGI as well. </p><p>So back to the intial question and my best drops. For my Guardian I like the COP breastplate (drops in <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?eq2zone=334" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Blackscale Sepulcher</a>), DragonScale armour (from the dragons in POA), and Dragonscale Pauldrons (Qeynos Claymore series quest Audience with Aaryonar). For Weapons I use a single handed DoomRage sword from HOF with quested Shield don't remeber the name. There are some nice rings from <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?eq2zone=332" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Den of the Devourer</a>. All these pieces add maybe 800 to 1k to mit over treasured gear. That may not sound like a lot but I do feel the difference, compared to playing my lvl 70 Zerker who has not aquired that stuff yet.</p><p>At lvl 63 it is a good time to be working on the Claymore series, one of the best legendary Shoulders in the game comes from the Herioc portion of this quest, there is a sheild in that series that is not too shabby also.</p><p>You can get decent legendary gear through single group drops or quests. This gear will make you better and you will be able to tell the difference. But I don't think it is possible to aquire this legenday gear dual boxing, you will need some help. And a lots of time. </p><p>Hope that helps and good luck.</p>

[Novusod]

This is my best drop ever: <img src="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e38/Novuso/EverQuest/Belt.jpg" border="0">

[Ama]

<p>O boy have to say the first best drop was when master chests were ungodly rare and it was my first time in Nek Castle.  Was a newbie and one dropped off one of the sisters with me being the newb saying "Is that a master chest?".  Had 1 master in it with a rare harvestable and won the harvestable. </p><p>My best drop of all time would probably be recently in Labratory of Lord Vyemm off the Beholder Eye guy near Vyemm.  Dropped the Animalists Mantle *sp* and the only other active druid already had it so I won it by default.  Felt bad since the other druid was afk but still in group; however the leader said he/she didn't participate and didn't deserve it.  </p><p>Yea for winning raid loot by default. :p</p>

[Salonkolya]

If you level up buying higher level gear off the broker all the time you'll never get the buzz of looting something that is a big upgrade until you hit the top levels. If you stop buying stuff then you'll get a lot of *good* drops (relative to what you're wearing). I get a good upgrade most days from loot or quests. Admittedly my gear will suck compared to someone buying higher level stuff but I get that upgrade buzz more often. You takes your choice.