The perfect legal exploit?Follow

Exploit, by definition, is illegal. $26 setup? As in 2 months with a secondary account? This is rather useless unless you provide more info. If not, why bother bringing it up?

OK then - as there where no warnings:

Will it work to 3-box 3 Rangers PLd to 20th lvl, have them LDoN and doing nothing than 90 min of social-macro forage for Goblin Granite and other LDoN-armor stuff (depending on Zone) in the starting chamber?

Will that yield a fair amount of plat selling the stuff later on in the Bazaar?

But maybe its already done serverwide ;-)

Glad I wrote this....

...and thx for giving me the feeling back I am NO fool to buy GG for 17p at a vendor whenever i find some as its obviously impossible to "farm" this stuff :)

I know of a number of people who keep a ranger or druid permanently parked in certain planes to do nothing but forage specialty items.

They've been doing this for years, or at least since Xanthe's Earring quest became public knowlege.

for starters thats not an exploit, thats just playing the game, nothing wrong with that at all, but for it to be worthwhile you would waist hours upon hours were you could be leveling.

Nope not a exploit but it is a bad idea. There are alot of forgaes in EQ that sell for large amounts of plat and they don't reuire you to have 3 accounts either. Planar oak for example.

As a master forager, I can tell that the number of gargole granites or worthwhile forages in LDoN are small enough to the point that it's almost a waist of time to sit there and fail LDoN's. All that time you could've been farming spiderling silks, or camping goblins in BBM for cash, both of which are much more profitable even at low levels.

Besides, if you're going to spend RL money just to get some plat, buy it from those plat farmers online. It may kill the EQ economy, but it's plain easier.

May I suggest a much simpler solution. One which doesn't require the 2 other accounts.

Just get 2 other people to group with your forager. Once you have the adventure they can leave and do something else and you can forage alone for 120 mins. All it takes is maybe 5 mins of their time to group up while you get the adventure. After that as far as I am aware the system is very tolerant of people being outside or even leaving. You might need to get inside before they actually leave the adventure.

However as a way of spending a limited resource of playing time it is pretty miserable. Your foraging chances are just as good if you actually DO the adventure with a group and just forage continuously. Then when it is over you can always stay in foraging until the next adventure is given.

My experience is that more drops than can be foraged and that most groups have no idea of the bazaar value and will sell to you at whatever the vendor offers them if you ask. We made serious money (for level 30's) from Goblin bones while getting levels and having fun.

But you were asking about the foraging.

Ok so instead of buying 2 more accounts and having 3 characters of your own (very hard to 3-box on 1 PC btw), just make another character on your one account. Getting to 20 does not require PL or anything and it might just give you an idea of what you are talking about (although I appreciate this would be against your principles).

I know what your were talking about Lei... the way it's put here, it's not an exploit, but what you had read or heard about somewhere else is something different. There's always been talk in the ranger community about "AFK foraging". You set up your game pad's "auto" or "turbo" feature to hit forage for you while you go do something else. That is not allowed according to Sony. If you go to www.eqrangers.com and do a search in their forums, you'll see this topic discussed over and over. People have done it and not gotten caught, but I personally wouldn't bother.

Edited, Fri Mar 12 17:31:33 2004 by Jiggidyjay

Make a forage macro and attach it to one of your movement keys.

I.e.

/doability 1 (where 1 is forage)
/pause 2
/autoinventory

Then in options->keyboard->macros set the macro to the same key as forward movement.

Edited, Sat Mar 13 10:32:36 2004 by Oldunson

Cobra is right. There isn't a "minimum" forage level to get those special forages. My woodelf ranger was foraging epic pieces at lvl 10. What I have notice though, and this may just be my imagination, is that at 200 forage skill, he seems to get "special" forages much more often. The downside to this is you get less food and water, and I never shop for food and water with him because that's why I have forage! You'll notice that in more zones then not, the special forages are nothing more then a nuisance and you'll start to get angry that you're not getting your beloved food and water. Like I said though, this may just be my imagination.

The funniest thing in the world is to hear level 3 rangers running around GFay going "I just foraged a Ripened Heartfruit - what's this for?" I think that's about when I got my RH as well :)