Farming for items to Transmute

[Emaudia]

I'm pretty new to EQ2 and had a quick question I haven't been able to find an answer to.

Do grey-con mobs drop chests, body drops, or both, or do they have to be a minimum of green-con?

TIA,

Emaudia
High Elf Monk - 37 - Everfrost

[Zendaken]

Grey mobs will never drop a chest, but can always drop "body" loot.

Mobs must be green+ in order to drop a chest.

[Lordebon]

Yep. And you'll find most of the transmutable stuff is chest-drop only... I've never seen a body-drop treasured or better item to transmute.

[kieroth_whiteleaf]

I'm fairly certain I read somewhere official that body drops *can't* be treasured. Regardless, I've never seent them.

Body drops seem slightly less common among greys, but I have nothing but casual observation to really back that up so don't take it as hard data.

SFG

[Bakual]

Treasured Items are from Treasure Chests or bigger. The Small Chest doesn't have a treasured item neither do body drops.

[Emaudia]

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

And now that I see the logic...Duh! Treasured Item from a Treasure Chest...

[Bakual]

Most of the questrewards are treasured as well, just for info ;)

[Lordebon]

Yep. I skilled up to 23 just on newbie quest rewards from EoF T1 alone -- no other source of items.

I just wish I hadn't done all the other Qey and FP newbie quests already... I imagine if you do just the newbie quests for all of them you should get up to 50 pretty easy. Then go do T2 quests =)

[Sylvermune]

Last night I looted a Small Chest from a croc in Loping Plains. It contained Moonlight (sp) Leggings - a Treasured, tradeable item. I was so stunned that before looting I double checked that it was indeed a Small Chest and that the item was indeed Treasured; it was; I looted. So ...

[eepjr24]

My little SK farmer got a treasured mace from the scorpions in Sunken City off a small chest. I think these are just error's in the itemization though, rather than being a general rule.

- Dibbler

[Lordebon]

Yeah, there are occasional treasured items that come from small chests. /bug 'em whenever you find them, they really shouldn't be in a small chest but instead a Treasure Chest.

[Sylvermune]

You guys are probably correct and I will do the right thing and /bug it though my evil transmuter self is telling me not to. *sigh*

P.S. I just got the meaning of:

Do no evil because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

[Zendaken]

The alternative (and I haven't been keeping up reading on treasure chests), is that the small ones just have a much smaller chance of having items instead of never. (*shrug*)

[Sylvermune]

Considering that I have looted harvest rares from Treasure Chests (rough jasper most recently though it was from a named) when I expected them only in Master (?) Chests would tend to reinforce that idea.

[Lordebon]

Considering that I have looted harvest rares from Treasure Chests (rough jasper most recently though it was from a named) when I expected them only in Master (?) Chests would tend to reinforce that idea.

That's because rares are now (supposed to be, at leat) treasured instead of legendary.

[Sylvermune]

Update from Loping Plains: I am getting a lot of Treasured items from Small Chests! In fact, I am getting very few non-treasured items from those Small Chests.

[Thicket Tundrabog]

I can confirm that treasured items drop from small chests. I don't think it's a bug. I have had too many different treasured items drop. I still get more Uncommon drops from small chests.