Axgoreth's Belt of Defense  

 

3 more belts in 3 days. Try the mob that's at the entrence to the Umbral zoneline. More often than not, he drops the belt (I hit umbral & akheva once a day). So in the space of a weeks or so, I have over 6 belts...I'm pretty sure it's the mob at Umbral zoneline that drops it consistently.

This belt dropped last night on Stromm from one of the Xin Thal Centiens in the ruins east of the DSP zoneline.
/ran 0 100 and it went to a friggen berserker who really really needs that 15 wis hehe, had a good laugh on that one.
Guild group anyway so no one cared about who it's best for or if there's way better in the game blah blah etc.
Nice drop, nice roll, gratz bud on the nice AC and str.
We also got a Stone Idol, Shaded Blade and 2 Vah Shir Claw Earrings over the past 2 days.
Group was 65 rng, 57 pal, 53 ber, 53 clr and 56 bard and had little problem handling 2 Centiens at once. The centiens can nuke for over 600 and depending on the class, can complete heal themselves.

Okay - Just wanna make a point that these are not as rare as you might think. At the time, I boxed my 62 Beast and my 57 chanter. I would sit on the left side of the Vex entrance. I would just single pull. I parked all my alts (none of which are lower than lvl 32 and in one week I got the following:

7 Axgoreth's Belt of Defenses
4 Grodan's Idols
2 Transient Arms
2 Shaded Shields
3 Shrouded Medallions
3 Medallion of the Magi'kot - which rotted
1 Centi Warspear
3 Vah Shir Claw Earrings
4 Stone Idols
1 Centi shortsword
1 Centi Warhammer
1 Shaded Dagger
3 Spell: Mental Corruptions
some other spells drops and a bunch of other stuff...

1 Slighted Pauldrons - Thanks to a group that was there and didn't have a need for it.






Edited, Wed Oct 8 12:31:36 2003

So last night, i'm gettin sick of PoP LFG, so I decide to go work on my epic for a lil bit.

I ran across ME no problems and set up camp at the zoneline to UP. Started pulling Xi's and Xin's and wouldn't you know it the FIRST Xin Thall Centien I kill drops this wicked belt. Well, I made the judgement call to replace my Spiked Seahorse Hide Belt with this one, and trade the belt for a CoCW. I suffered a 40hp loss, and like a 2atk loss, and some SV losses, but I gained about 40 mana from this trade-off, and have 230wis now with KEI and I gained 2% haste and a little bit more dex. Overall I think its a good exchange til I get my epic, at which time I'll likely sell the CoCW and buy a Hierophant's cloak.

First kill though, that was sweet.

Breakdown of guild raid this last weekend. Had 2 full groups ranging in level from 46 to 62. Straight in from DSP through the entrance to outpost then a hard left along the wall to the corner camp. Had a SK FD pulling. We got three of these belts, a Vah Shir Earring and a neck item I can't think of the name of for the life of me. Also got quite a few needed spell drops for the group. Overall was there a little less than three hours, very much successful.

Edited, Mon May 19 12:39:17 2003

This is NOT rare. This is More common then any other drops we have seen. We have gotten 6 or 7 in less then 48 Hours Camping these for Guildies. These drop almsot as common as spell drops.

This is great on my MONK. 20ac and 15str cant be beat. too bad its got a junky 15wis and not something else usefull on it :P

WOOT finally got this awesome item hunting with a nice group at the Umbral zone line in ME - very nice upgrade to my harness of grey flesh

Mazzik Winternight
55 Vah Shir Beastlord

I stayed in ME for about 2 weeks, and camped 4arms 3 different times in hopes that this elusive belt would drop. The first time we camped at Ahkeva, 2 belts dropped...but they were only half as nice as the Axgoreth Belt, and NO DROP as well. Finally, 3rd time was the charm. One belt dropped on final 4arm pull and I had to roll against a Feline BL...and won the roll! 96 out of /ran 100, the BL got a formidable 67.

Dangerous area with all the trains plowing through constantly, several times half our group got wiped because of the carelessness of someone running their train right through our camp.

TerreFeu
53rd Paladin Saryrn

This belt dropped for me on the the 8th of January 2003.

First Centien kill of the night.

Well, we got very lucky today. Had two drop. One dropped, our BL got it. 2 Centiens later another dropped. Didn't have anyone else who could use it so we shouted to the zone. Haven't seen any before or since.

Hi everyone, Just got this today in ME dropped near Akheava ruines,

Yes dear it is still dropping. Perhaps your best chance at such a drop is to go to the ME side of the AK ruins zone in. There is generally a group located there, as it is generally the easiest place to camp the Battlemaster spawn for those "uber folks" who desire their lucid shard from this zone.

The camp offers a nice diveristy of mobs to pull while waiting for the BM to spawn about every 26 minutes or so (or sadly, more often than not, his place holder the scout). the diveristy is nice because it breaks up the mind numbing monotony of some of the other camps in the zone. There are 5 toilers, 3 4arm chaps, a couple of the robes (Xi Vius cleric or SK version), the 2 goroanga scouts and various trash that the average level 60 group will pull to pass the time and get some AA while working this camp.

This particular item tends to drop off the higher, level 57 version, of the 4 -arm chaps. Due to the diverity of groupings these days there is no perfect group for pulling these mobs at this camp -- Have seen 4 rangers druid and a chanter do it, or a standard MA Cleric slow and others. Most of the groups at this camp tend to have items that are superior than this belt, and would happily annouce it to the zone, except that the potential for people to train this camp is very high -- be it a quad gone bad or the local guild raiding Va'Dyn or IV et al .. They do not want to increase the chance for trainage, so they would rather let the item rot than to have 4 "noobs" training their camp in a mad dash to loot item X. Lost time at camp dealing with unexpected adds is lost exp.

So the aspiring young ranger (using myself at level 53 so many months ago ... )can go to this spot and ask to assist. Forage food for the fat ogre, heal the chanter, snare running mobs if they lack a snare class., etc. Ask the group ahead of time if said item were to drop, mioght you have the opportunity to loot it as it is an improvement over your (insert FBSS, Spiderfur, Strawspun belt etc ...) If they have an opening in the group, they may, for whatever reason., ask you to join. Be polite, Smile, and help as much as you can. Most people can remember back when they were 53 and recognize what a wonderful item that this is for you.