Listen to my moan...(long story for maintenance days)

As some of you know I'm a pretty sad Rogue because there are basically no more items that I can get through drops. I no longer have anything that I can buy either.

 

There is just one item that I'd really, really like to get and it's a dagger called Fang of the Crystal Spider (http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=17387)

 

This dagger is part of a weapon set. The other weapon is a ultra-rare mace called Venomspitter that is a 0.7% chance drop off Smotherweb. (this to say that you shouldn't consider farming the Fang if you don't have the mace)

 

The set has a proc that gives a 10 seconds stun. There are rumors that it spawns a spider but I don't believe that too much.

 

I've had the mace for months. I remember being the only one who rolled on it without even knowing what it was. I also remember a warrior saying, a few minutes later "I should have rolled on that mace". The warrior was a guy called Gryph Smile

(maybe I'd be better off if I hadn't had the stupid idea to roll...anyway....)

 

This mace stood in my invent for another month or so until I remembered about it and tried to get the dagger.

 

Fang of the Crystal Spider is a rare drop (5%) from a rare spawn (25% or so) called...duh...Crystal Fang.

 

I started trying to farm it with a Druid I had got friendly with. A guy called Shoop. We managed to find a perfect strategy but then Blizzard came with patch 1.5.

In order to make lbrs easier for 5 men groups they removed the last patch of spiders before the ogres. (on a side note I don't see how removing one of the 4 patches make the instance EASIER. It just make it a bit faster)

 

Guess what ? Crystal Fang was spawning in this last patch.

 

Patch 1.6 brought the ugly bugger back. She still spawn in the last patch except that this patch is earlier now (you follow me ?)

 

So...I've started to bug people again about this and I managed to drag into this hopeless quest players such as Arafelz (3 kills Ara ?), Shoop (probably 3 kills too), NomadX (1 kill), and lately Ansley with whom Crystal Fang died maybe 10 times.

 

I'd really like to put this behind me so that I can reach absolute peace (or is it absolute boredom ?)

 

So...I plan to focus my next few days on this and apologize by anticipation for asking druids or rogues for a helping hand.

 

I'm very bad at asking for help because I almost never had to in the past. If something was too hard for me to solo I just passed. The only quest I got help on while leveling was this Tremor of the Earth thingie (great quest btw and great rewards).

I hate to bother people, especially on something that has absolutely no chance to bring any kind of loot (except for fresh lvl 60 druids) and, on the opposite, will definitly will get you killed at each attempt.

So, because I hate to bother I also try to propose compensations which, I admit, may be seen as offensive by some of you.

 

Let's make one thing clear. The least I can do is do pay for the repairs because you WILL die. We get a blue for each kill that sells. There is also a chest we can stealth. No reason that this money/items wouldn't go to YOU.

Then. When the dagger drops (cos it will drop) I'll probably be willing to give the guildie that will be with me (probably dead by now) a significant reward so that we can both share the joy, cheer and celebrate before going out to try this weapon on a non-cooperative hordie.

 

Once this is done, I'd like to make a promise.

 

There are a lot of things that stealth groups can achieve in this game. All of you rogues and druids know about the ones that are geared toward our items but I believe that motivated stealth groups can also achieve great farming that could benefit the guild as a whole.

I'd be willing to plan, test and organize such raids.

 

Among the ideas I'm studying :

 

-Farming DM for the class books (and that includes the Epic book for warrior's sword)

-Farming bosses for ACE cards (Gordok, Incendius, why not the Beast ???)

 

 

So...that's it...once again I know that you all have plenty of things to do. This is of course not a priority. Just something we can do whenever you have an hour to lose.

 

Oh, of course only Druids and rogues can help me. Here are the different options :

 

-1 druid and me : Crystal will die. Druid will die each time (because of a bug). I shouldn't die but I do every now and then.

 

-1 rogue and me : Crystal will die most of the time. Rogues MAY survive (tried it only once. we both died but I was on my crappy laptop)

 

-1 Druid/2 rogues or 2 Rogues/1 druid : possibility that we all survive

 

I will now make a post about the Crystal Fang farming strategy so that the volunteers know how they'll die

Who is this guy named Gryph you speak of?!

 

Heh Heh, if I ever do a LBRS run, I'll be sure to invite you. (and I'll specify that you get the dagger too)!

If you don't mind normal runs, I am fully willing to help. I need parts for my UBRS key and I ahve 2 set items that drop in there that I have not gotten yet. So I want to do LBRS.

 

Gar

Stealth runs are soo fun

 

Forevergirl, if I didn't tell you, I went in a group that stealthed Rattlegore in Scholo, so Rogue SC boots, and a very nice leather help (+30stam, +about 5 all other stats) drop from him. Also, we could collect Viewing Room Keys to allow us to skip Rattlegore and make our scholo runs for everyone's helms faster.

 

Forevergirl, if I didn't tell you, I went in a group that stealthed Rattlegore

 

Nobody tells me anything here. But one day I'll get my revenge and I'll hold the world ransom for....1 TRILLION gold coins....Muhahahahaha

 

Also, we could collect Viewing Room Keys to allow us to skip Rattlegore and make our scholo runs for everyone's helms faster.

 

I thought that this key disappeared once you logged off ?

lol, I really thought I told you because I know how much you love stealth runs (like I do).

 

Last time I checked the key was still in my inventory.

i think with 2 druids and another rogue we could pull it off without dying all the time (for those that don't vanish... heh). maybe with something like cannonball runner or other trinket aoe type things.

yea, just so eveyone knows, i call dibs on the first epic book to drop from a stealth run, unless of course i have someone gotten one, then gryph can have it i guess