I had to clear Plane of Air almost twice before one of these dropped. All of the 'islands" and all the side buildings. Had to clear the entire zone 3x to get two, I needed another for my druid. Clio
go to plane of air. head to the spider event. start the event, but once its begun, just kill the erratic spiders. they spawn continuously and auto agro. stay by the rom entrance. I kill at a rate of 1600 an hour. but it takes me 10 - 45 minutes to get a hope stone. Have done this for 7 people in the past 2 months.
Tried the spider spot. I didn't see any drops at all from An Erratic Arachnid. Killed enough of them that i got the Don't Bug Me achievement. Oddly enough i got the Hope Stone on the way to the Avatar of Dust. I had never done the event before and figured i would complete it. So it turned out nicely for me.
Looted one last night off a trash mob in POF. Can't remember what mob it was, but it was a mob near zone-in. Probably have killed about 100 mobs so far before seeing one drop.
Now that everyone and their alt is GoD geared. People XP all the time in elemental planes. They drop ~50-100 kills in Fire off the doomfires. That takes roughly the durat6ion of a max entended Conv. or signifigantly less. I have one as well as everyone in my group when I go there. They are also ooc'ed as rotting regularly. So very rare = no. Uncommon is more like it.
Repeating what has already been said multiple times farther down - this can be multiquested for the tome (secrets of the planes), but not for the earring (Aid Grimel.)
ok so they said it was updated, but what was the update? did they dot the I's, or what???? it would be cool to know what the update was cause i cant see any thing different.