bypeep
12-28-2007, 07:40 AM
<p>My semester just ended and instead of spending my days doing homework, I've had some free time to be able to work on some long overdue quest cleanup. I decided that my first priority was tome pages because I hate seeing my journal so full of them.</p><p> I got out my handy-dandy Ripchi's Tracking Sheet and began hunting down all my missing pages. For the Desert of Flames expansion, I needed several pages to finish off all the tomes. I went to the Shimmering Citadel, got those, visited all the locs in the Pillar of Flames and then decided to start killing the gray mobs for the body drops.</p><p>At this point I only had three tomes to finish: Legends of the Dragons, Rules of the Sandscrawler Clan and Trinni's Adventures Abroad. I spent about an hour killing the goblins and the desert lunatics/prophets and got my pages for Legends of the Dragons and Rules of the Sandscrawler Clan. I couldn't find much info on where to get page 15 for Trinni's so I hit eq2.allakhazam and lootdb.com for reference. Lootdb.com showed that most of the goblins in PoF dropped the page so I concentrated on them.</p><p>I killed and killed... and killed and killed and killed... and killed some more and then my eyes started bugging out of my head. I killed so much I couldn't stop because I figured if I had wasted that much time, I couldn't stop until I had the page. So I killed more and more and more. After 1568 kills (I parsed out my log file to get this exact number) I gave up. </p><p>So.... for one page drop, <b><i><u>which never dropped by the way</u></i></b>, I killed almost 1600 mobs. Either this page was designed to never drop or I was so incredibly unlucky it isn't even funny.</p><p>Here's another quick note. A couple of weeks ago I was doing Bone Bladed Claymore and was killing goblins inside of Runny Eye, while I was in there I got THREE pages to drop for EL Tome Collections, but that was only after 787 kills. I know this because I checked my counter on the last one. </p><p> Sony, please... make the Tome pages doable, make them fun. As of now, the only ones that I've been able to complete in a reasonable amount of time were the new RoK ones, and yes that actually felt like an accomplishment and I enjoyed finding the pages. All the ones from other zones are ridiculous.</p>