I've been at it for about a week now. Have my BST parked in the corner at entrance and using my 63 Shaman and 63 Necro (both pets up and buffed). I've been seeing a hellava lot of spirit cages drop (Ranger 2.0 epic). But no powder :-/
This spell quest sucks!You'll have an easier time getting all your things for your EPic.This powder is rarer than a ****** Piece of **** than can count to 10.
Kill Bruisers at Zoneline to Dulak. They drop more frequently. A 44 is not going to go that deep into Torgain, and the programmers know it, so you can be guarenteed they made it more frequent in the first few mobs by the zoneline. Just my 2 cents..
While it would be nice to assume SOE actually took into consideration difficulty and what level can get where, I think we all can agree this is not the case. I have seen this drop a few times in the bridge area near the secret passage to Nadox. So, it definitely does drop deeper in. I am currently trying to get it for my Beastlord and haven't seen it drop in about a dozen bruisers near the entrance but from the sounds of it that's not so uncommon an occurance.
Not trying to say your logic was bad. Just letting you know that logic isn't something I consider when I think to myself "why did SOE do this?". If they used logic the lower level spell would be awarded for the first part of the stupid quest rather than for the much tougher drop and end of the quest...
Like all strange no drop item drops I picked this up with my rog. It droped near the zone line off the first or second mob we took down another dropped later on, thought I'd grab it and look it up later only to find it's no good to me. Oh well guess that's what the destroy button's for ))
Got this today off a bruiser near the DH zone line... had no idea at the time what it was for so I picked it up.. Guess I get to destroy it now.. Dropped only once in maybe 20 kills so it seems uncommon but not rare..