Essence of a Vampire  

 

Finally got this to drop after clearing the northern parts of Hate probably 6 or 7 times. Dropped off a MALE forsaken revenant.

I just finished my enchanter's epic today and this was the worst part of it by far.

It took me 3 days of camping on/off to get the essence. I got it off a female revenant. I think they're only dropped by enchanter class mobs since the female revenants and the Coercer are both enchanters.

It is still a pretty rare drop...

I personally have only seen it drop off a "female" forsaken revenant or Coercer T`Vala...

several hours of killing every revenant that spawned...but it does still drop as of 10/11/12 (unusual date hehe)

This and popping Felia are the toughest part of this epic.. Days on felia and hours of this essence... Pulled almost the entire zone with mobs on my monk and one finally dropped! yay! (I think it was Male vampire)

got the essence off a female vampire in like 10 mins in pohate. killed maybe 4 total. lol.

Dropped today after killing about 20 of the female revenants, sounds easy but for how rare revenants are and then ontop of it you have to find the even rarer female, it took about 4 hours of killing everything around to finally get the lucky one to spawn.

my guild and i were in PoHate a total of 7 hours....killed countless forsaken revenants and all we got was vampire dust and some runes....is there a certain area that this things drop in, or am i correct to say that it is an ULTRA rare drop from any of them? even at ultra rare, ya think we would have seen one in a 7 hour period....any info is helpful

can we note here that there is no such thing as a female forsaken rev.... the females are forlorn rev... and the males are forsaken-- which if it drops mostly from the females--- she's not even listed lol (forlorn rev!)

Found one today (12/15/2006) in PoHate... ran my chanter there for her epic. Dropped off of a female forsaken revenant.

Just be fore warned that the Rot timer on the Essence of a Vampire is 7 mins, my husband got kicked from the game by the all to famous EQClient Crash and had to wait almost 5 mins to get back in and there wasn't enough time to zone back to save his rotting drop. Did I mention we spent 8 hours in PoHate for this one drop to have it rot because of circumstances that were out of our control... really sux

Good luck to the rest of ya!

ok went up there 2 nights ago with me 60 Enc and on other comp duoing in a 67 druid pulled with my enc slow tanked it dru has 3 right clicky dots she healed me also but was up in hate no longer than 30 mins than one dropped only had to kill 2 reverants ... maybe i got lucky but oh well .. killed reverent to the right of the zone in fought way over the steps turned left at bottom of the steps the reverent infront of me i pulled with slow was a male reverent that dropped the essance ... bout 2 hours later guild popped into fear and dropped the wraith .... EPIC DONE



Mezzenufast Shadowz'Soul
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The Rathe

I think I see a pattern developing. In every case where someone has reported an extremely HIGH drop rate or fast drop, they've been in a position to kill the place holders for Magi P'Tasa or Coercer T'Vala.

SasjaS reported three "Essence of Vampire" dropping in a short time while pulling the house just south of the bridge. That's where Magi P'Tasa spawns. megodude reported a drop just over the bridge from the zone in. Athdare reported a drop while hunting at the zone in. All of those could have been the spawn point for P'Tasa.

Somewhere I saw a report of multiple drops while hunting in the northwest corner of the zone. They were clearing the spawn point for Coercer T'Vala. zanatoz says his was next door to Coercer T'Vala, but it's easy to be off by that much. Estariel reported hers came from that place holder.

On the other hand, those who report killing hordes of revenants rarely specify which ones they killed. One did say they'd killed Coercer T'Vala a lot, but never mentioned the place holder.

This suggests a much higher drop rate from "A Forsaken Revenant" when it is a place holder. We know one revenant looks and smells like another, but those two are on a completely separate spawn cycle, so they may be on a separate loot table too.

I've been trying to help an enchanter with this drop and having no luck at all. He's as frustrated as many of the chanters posting here. After another fruitless night of Hate, I came back and reread the posts here and compared them to the maps. That's when I noticed a correspondence between where people kill and how often the Essence drops.

Tonight I plan to go back and focus on those two spots. If this works, the important thing isn't how MANY you kill or how LONG you spend there killing, but WHERE you find them.

Edited, Fri Feb 4 18:27:20 2005