Chunk of Condensed Shadow  

 

Did some further testing based on your findings...first, big thanks. Of the 3 condensed items for fletching, this is the easiest to farm. This is how I do it.

I am a level 69 ranger with the Druzzil Compound long range heavy subnuclear artillery bow...grin, class 7 drakebone drakespike arrow, EQ, AM3, TS2, HS2 with all the accuracy and dex buffs attached. I equip with Swiftwind, a Radiant Voidflow of Haste, and Distillant of Alacrity X (some overlap there, but want to max out the haste as much as possible). When you solo, you can get up to 5 rooms to pop with the shak dratha mobs in one game night if you use a bow and are fast.

Start by parking near the entrance of the northwest most room. You want to start in the north because the mobs fall fast here, and become progressively harder to drop with a single shot as you go south. You will need either a friend planetside or a bot to check the time since you cant where you are at. Just after 4pm, start dropping the mobs as fast as you can. Don't worry about looting, if you do that you are wasting time.

Once all the mobs drop in the NW room, move to the NE and do the same. Then move south, hitting the rooms along the way as you go. The only one I dont hit on the way south is the one to the SE about midways, too far off the NS path. Keep doing time checks along the way and drop the mobs as fast as you can. If you have SoE you can drop the mobs in the two big pit rooms from the top of the ramp before floating down to take care of the ones that are hiding behind the pillars. Don't forget to drop the mobs as well.

Keep going until about 12am or so, I've almost got the time pegged down now, I know that any room I start after 12am or so will repop the Gor Taku instead of the Shak. Once I hit 12am I usually get 4-5 rooms done completely, I head back to the first room and start collecting the chunks of condensed shadow. Yesterday I was able to farm 42 of them in two night runs, not too shabby.

The entire run including repops starts at 4pm and goes until about 12pm-1pm, so its pretty good for time, gives me enough time to repark the start point and go do a bio, drinks, etc..

Hope this helps all you flethers out there, let me know.

Edit: Found out you can start around what would be 4:20pm or so game time. Start north as explained, do the rooms east and to the south to the big pit room on the north south route. Go back to the north and kill the mobs, looting the chunks, continue killing and looting to the south again to the pit room. If fast enough, the two most northern rooms will repop again with the mobs with the chunks of condensed shadow. Top loot so far is 28 chunks in one run.



Edited, Sep 3rd 2006 at 10:38am EDT by Tarmuar

I decided that I had better get my fletching skill up for my prayer shawl quesy (it was only a measly 20 - I'm lvl 65!). So I went down to the fletching trader's building in POK armed with about 1k pp from memory and started fletching.

Withing about an hour I had gone from 20 to 195 and still had pp left over. That is not slow IMO...

You can make wood elf cultural arrows and bows instead of these, more recently you can also make karana only bows/arrows instead of tunare only bows/arrows