need help learning goblin already

puffmouse2 · 12-01-2008, 11:30 PM

i have one character that never did the goblin language. she is level 70 now and theres no way for her to learn and understand goblin. but the HQ in lavastorm requires it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$##%$#!!!! these go with that last sentence

so im stuck, i cant loot any goblins that i can find to start the quest, it says so every time i try to do it "there are no items that you can loot". mentoring someone else doesnt help make the markers lootable. i cant get the next stage of the hq because the next quest giver speaks goblin. are there level 70 goblins somewhere that will drop this for me????

Obadiah · 12-02-2008, 12:06 AM

I did notice on the last character I leveled that none of the goblins in RoK drop the markers. Still need 3 or 4 on that toon.

Boo.

Rijacki · 12-02-2008, 01:35 AM

The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves.

Brigh · 12-02-2008, 01:40 AM

Better yet Antonica.

Rijacki · 12-02-2008, 01:57 AM

Brigh wrote:

Better yet Antonica.

Antonica has more gnolls than goblins. Though there are gobbies off of the coast by the Oracle Tower, just not many.

Brigh · 12-02-2008, 01:59 AM

inside

cathull · 12-02-2008, 02:51 AM

Blackburrow has a lot of goblins....

Brigh · 12-02-2008, 03:08 AM

So does ...The Condemned Catacombs...

zDocW · 12-02-2008, 09:18 AM

2 very good sources of Goblins:

BBM on the beaches and islands near the docks.

GF in the newbie zone. There is a concentrated area of them.

Windowlicker · 12-02-2008, 09:20 AM

The only place to kill goblins really quickly is Runnyeye. A 70 warlock is capable of killing 200 to 300 goblins in around 20 minutes of time in there.

I know this, because some of us farmed them for Nil Crystals before they were removed from the game.

puffmouse2 · 12-02-2008, 11:18 AM

Rijacki wrote:

The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves.

Yeah thats what i did last night and it does not work for some reason. I was grouped with a 52. When the goblins died and had loot the level 70 could not loot the bodies, it said that i wasnt allowed to. When the 52 looted the same corpse the markers showed up. The level 52 had the quest done in about 15 minutes.

I took the level 70 to kp afterwards and hunted the goblins gathered around that one tree. After an hour of hunting know markers dropped. This is not working. I'm wondering if soe has changed something lately about how these drops work that has broken things for my character. No speak goblin means no finish hq.

Renpatsu · 12-02-2008, 11:40 AM

puffmouse2 wrote:

Rijacki wrote:
The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves.
Yeah thats what i did last night and it does not work for some reason. I was grouped with a 52. When the goblins died and had loot the level 70 could not loot the bodies, it said that i wasnt allowed to. When the 52 looted the same corpse the markers showed up. The level 52 had the quest done in about 15 minutes.
I took the level 70 to kp afterwards and hunted the goblins gathered around that one tree. After an hour of hunting know markers dropped. This is not working. I'm wondering if soe has changed something lately about how these drops work that has broken things for my character. No speak goblin means no finish hq.

The first issue you mentioned looks more like a group loot setting issue, e.g. when you got leader only looting, any other group member isn't allowed to loot a corpse. I know for certain that you can very well get those goblin language markers in the lower areas, like Enchanted Lands/Runnyeye for example (did so recently).

The second issue you mentioned might be that those mobs aren't correctly classified, but can't really comment on those, as I never tried to get the language markers from them.

Yimway · 12-02-2008, 12:00 PM

I had this issue once.

Delete your current goblin language quest.

Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies.

You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates.

Zarador · 12-02-2008, 12:10 PM

Atan@Unrest wrote:

I had this issue once.
Delete your current goblin language quest.
Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies.
You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates.

I was just going to suggest that since I had that problem happen before, only with the Orc Requisitions. For whatever reason, the quest stopped allowing me to loot the mobs that had the requistions. I deleted the quest, started over and it worked as intended after that.

Rijacki · 12-02-2008, 01:03 PM

Zarador wrote:

Atan@Unrest wrote:
I had this issue once.
Delete your current goblin language quest.
Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies.
You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates.
I was just going to suggest that since I had that problem happen before, only with the Orc Requisitions. For whatever reason, the quest stopped allowing me to loot the mobs that had the requistions. I deleted the quest, started over and it worked as intended after that.

Did you start the quest in the "old" way where you actually looted the item and had to double-click on it to add it (and could sell extras to an NPC) or in the new way where only the starter is an actual loot item and the rest are virtual loot?

puffmouse2 · 12-02-2008, 01:39 PM

I checked the level 70. She does not have the speak goblin quest under the Languages section of the quest Journal. As far as I can tell she has never started the quest. I'm going to try tonight to solo goblins in EL with no grouping and see if this fixes the 'you cant loot' problem.

12-02-2008, 12:06 AM	#2
Obadiah Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,154	I did notice on the last character I leveled that none of the goblins in RoK drop the markers. Still need 3 or 4 on that toon. Boo. __________________

12-02-2008, 01:35 AM	#3
Rijacki Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,842	The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves. __________________

12-02-2008, 01:40 AM	#4
Brigh Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,159	Better yet Antonica. __________________ Anything you can achieve through hard work, you can also just buy. -Stephen Colbert CoD3 double XP Rank Up promotion lesson for kids

12-02-2008, 01:57 AM	#5
Rijacki Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,842	Brigh wrote: Better yet Antonica. Antonica has more gnolls than goblins. Though there are gobbies off of the coast by the Oracle Tower, just not many. __________________

12-02-2008, 01:59 AM	#6
Brigh Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,159	inside __________________ Anything you can achieve through hard work, you can also just buy. -Stephen Colbert CoD3 double XP Rank Up promotion lesson for kids

12-01-2008, 11:30 PM	#1
puffmouse2 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 61	i have one character that never did the goblin language. she is level 70 now and theres no way for her to learn and understand goblin. but the HQ in lavastorm requires it. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$##%$#!!!! these go with that last sentence so im stuck, i cant loot any goblins that i can find to start the quest, it says so every time i try to do it "there are no items that you can loot". mentoring someone else doesnt help make the markers lootable. i cant get the next stage of the hq because the next quest giver speaks goblin. are there level 70 goblins somewhere that will drop this for me????

12-02-2008, 02:51 AM	#7
cathull Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 5	Blackburrow has a lot of goblins....

12-02-2008, 03:08 AM	#8
Brigh Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,159	So does ...The Condemned Catacombs... __________________ Anything you can achieve through hard work, you can also just buy. -Stephen Colbert CoD3 double XP Rank Up promotion lesson for kids

12-02-2008, 09:18 AM	#9
zDocW General Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 83	2 very good sources of Goblins: BBM on the beaches and islands near the docks. GF in the newbie zone. There is a concentrated area of them.

12-02-2008, 09:20 AM	#10
Windowlicker Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 1,257	The only place to kill goblins really quickly is Runnyeye. A 70 warlock is capable of killing 200 to 300 goblins in around 20 minutes of time in there. I know this, because some of us farmed them for Nil Crystals before they were removed from the game. __________________ -------------------------- Rikko - 80 Berserker Zahne - 80 Warlock

12-02-2008, 11:18 AM	#11
puffmouse2 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 61	Rijacki wrote: The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves. Yeah thats what i did last night and it does not work for some reason. I was grouped with a 52. When the goblins died and had loot the level 70 could not loot the bodies, it said that i wasnt allowed to. When the 52 looted the same corpse the markers showed up. The level 52 had the quest done in about 15 minutes. I took the level 70 to kp afterwards and hunted the goblins gathered around that one tree. After an hour of hunting know markers dropped. This is not working. I'm wondering if soe has changed something lately about how these drops work that has broken things for my character. No speak goblin means no finish hq.

12-02-2008, 11:40 AM	#12
Renpatsu Loremaster Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 188	puffmouse2 wrote: Rijacki wrote: The language items are BODY DROPS that will drop from grey targets as well as any other. BUT, they're not common drops at all. Most of the time you have to slaughter hoards before you get enough. So... go out to Enchanted lands and slaughter them in droves. Yeah thats what i did last night and it does not work for some reason. I was grouped with a 52. When the goblins died and had loot the level 70 could not loot the bodies, it said that i wasnt allowed to. When the 52 looted the same corpse the markers showed up. The level 52 had the quest done in about 15 minutes. I took the level 70 to kp afterwards and hunted the goblins gathered around that one tree. After an hour of hunting know markers dropped. This is not working. I'm wondering if soe has changed something lately about how these drops work that has broken things for my character. No speak goblin means no finish hq. The first issue you mentioned looks more like a group loot setting issue, e.g. when you got leader only looting, any other group member isn't allowed to loot a corpse. I know for certain that you can very well get those goblin language markers in the lower areas, like Enchanted Lands/Runnyeye for example (did so recently). The second issue you mentioned might be that those mobs aren't correctly classified, but can't really comment on those, as I never tried to get the language markers from them. __________________ Ceneen, Warden of Elysium on Lucan D'Lere

12-02-2008, 12:00 PM	#13
Yimway Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 9,707	I had this issue once. Delete your current goblin language quest. Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies. You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates. __________________

12-02-2008, 12:10 PM	#14
Zarador Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,194	Atan@Unrest wrote: I had this issue once. Delete your current goblin language quest. Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies. You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates. I was just going to suggest that since I had that problem happen before, only with the Orc Requisitions. For whatever reason, the quest stopped allowing me to loot the mobs that had the requistions. I deleted the quest, started over and it worked as intended after that.

12-02-2008, 01:03 PM	#15
Rijacki Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,842	Zarador wrote: Atan@Unrest wrote: I had this issue once. Delete your current goblin language quest. Zone into the Bloodlines zone in Nek and slaughter some gobbies. You'll get a new starter item and quickly get your updates. I was just going to suggest that since I had that problem happen before, only with the Orc Requisitions. For whatever reason, the quest stopped allowing me to loot the mobs that had the requistions. I deleted the quest, started over and it worked as intended after that. Did you start the quest in the "old" way where you actually looted the item and had to double-click on it to add it (and could sell extras to an NPC) or in the new way where only the starter is an actual loot item and the rest are virtual loot? __________________

12-02-2008, 01:39 PM	#16
puffmouse2 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 61	I checked the level 70. She does not have the speak goblin quest under the Languages section of the quest Journal. As far as I can tell she has never started the quest. I'm going to try tonight to solo goblins in EL with no grouping and see if this fixes the 'you cant loot' problem.