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This is actually something I posted in reply to a druid's cry for help making plat. A friend told me that I should post it for people who might be new to foraging.

So, a bit of information about foraging. You can forage once every 100 seconds. If you hot key forage and /autoinventory to one of your movement buttons, you can get your skill up very quickly.
If you can not get the /autoinventory macro to work for you, just open your inventory with the "i" key and click on the big black section in the middle. This will automatically put your foraged items in the first available slot (and stack them, too).

As your skill increases, you will forage items more often. Also, you will forage "rare" items more often. Vegetables are not rare. Tufts of dire wolf fur are pretty rare. No matter what, you can not forage more often than once every 100 seconds. At 200 skill, I forage something just about every time.

Forage is your friend. You can sell foraged items in bazaar for lots of money.
1. Misty Thicket- you can forage misty acorns (which are also ground spawns), and sell them for about 150p in the bazaar.
2. West Commonlands- you can forage plains roots which I sell for 30p in bazaar.
3. Plane of Innovation (when you're older)- you can forage clockwork grease which sells for about 100p each in bazaar.
4. Everfrost Adventures- you can forage lemming fur which sells for about 175p in bazaar.
5. Jaggedpine Forest- you can forage plant shoot which I sell for 20p in bazaar.
6. Mistmoore Adventures- you can forage 2 things here: spider silks (5p in bazaar) and gargoyle granite (45p in bazaar)
7. Dreadlands- Honey Berry which I sell in bazaar for 15p each.
8. Greater Faydark- Cinnamon sticks and morning dew will sell for about 5p in the bazaar.
9. Eastern Wastes- Tuft of dire wolf fur (halfling cultural tailoring) will go for about 30p in bazaar. Branch of sylvan oak will go for 5p or so.
10. Kael Drakkel- Tuft of dire wolf fur
11. Stonebrunt Mountains- Bamboo Shoots and Kejekan Palm Fruits will sell pretty well as they are for the Wakizashi of the Frozen Skies quest (nice weapon for un-twinked rangers).
12. Plane of Justice- Justice Fruit and Bread crumbs sell very well. I don't know how much they sell for because my friend uses them all.
13. Takish-Hiz- Sand Verbena and Geodes sell for about 50p each in the bazaar.

If you have room/time sell all your foraged junk- pod of water (used to make water flasks), fishing grubs (brewing- fetid essence), black roots (brewing- forgot the recipe), vegetables (lots of brewing recipes), fruit (brewing), berries (brewing), and just about anything else that can be used in tradeskills in the bazaar for 1p. Or, you could work your brewing skill for next to nothing, and offer your services as a brewer for plat.

-If you have the time, get a foraging machete. It has +10pct foraging mod. You just have to forage dawnflower seeds (dsp), letalis zenith vine (mons letalis), twilight orchid (twilight sea), and a red sands cactus (scarlet desert). You then go to Katta Castellum (succor once you get in) and turn these in to tobala honeyjar (druid GM). This quest is called the rare plants quest (and for good reason). The first time I did this quest, my ranger had 90-something foraging skill. I spent three solid days foraging. The mobs in each zone are particularly nasty if you're a low level. The safest way to Katta is to have a druid port you to Twilight Sea, and then levitate over the water to Katta. The machete is a lore item, but you could sell machete kits for several hundred plat on the auction channel.

I sell my foraging machete for 500-2kpp when i get strapped for cash.

More information on foraging:
To my knowledge, your toon's level is not a factor in what you can forage-- only your foraging skill. However, I believe foraging is capped for each level, so your level may have an effect in that way. I could be wrong.

You will not forage more often in the middle of the zone than at the zone line. It has been said that you can forage ground spawns which would make it seem that you forage an item more often if it is on the ground where you are. I don't believe it to be true.

It is quite possible that you are more likely to get a Pod of water when it is raining, but I would have never guessed.

If you are getting the same item over and over, I would guess that's because it is a common item.

You will not forage while auto attack is on.

I haven't used the /autoinventory in a long time, because my friend scared me by telling me it was a bot/cheat when I was a young ranger on Venril Sathir. I believe you have to type /doability # in the first line, then /pause 10 in line two, and then /autoinventory. # should be the number block that forage is set to in the actions tab. Now I know it is not a bot or a cheat, but I've gotten used to putting items in my big black box :p

54 halfling druid of Karana on Brell
Blitzwolf Thunderpaw is my name, but my friends know me as the craziest druid in Norrath.


Edited, Tue Apr 20 02:46:56 2004 by SolarFire

Edited, Wed Apr 21 15:01:36 2004 by SolarFire

With your permission, I will add this to my foraging guide, which I plan to send into Alla when I've got it all set up. I don't know if Alla will like it or not, but I've seen several threads about how foraging needs more coverage.

Not required. The beauty of Allakhazam is that we each donate small items of information and in return, receive a rich harvest of wisdom.

Having re-read that last line, I did mean it, but may have to create a sock-puppet to rate myself down on the grounds of pretentious language

Vegetables are in there. Just keep reading... If you sell all your foraged junk... LOL but will high light vegetables in my guide in honor of you :)

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It is an obscure reference, and did not apply to you SolarFire

In between /doability you need a /delay then your /autoinventory :) I believe.

Hi,

I'm new to EQ and still trying to figure out stuff. How do I know which /doability # to use for what? I guess how do I figure out which doability number is mapped to which skill/action? I've been trying to figure out what my Forage is mapped to - currently it is on Hot Buttons (Pg 1) and on button 8.

Thanks for your help.

Great post SolarFire. As a new player, I found the information not only timely and helpful but also clearly presented, thoughtful and informative. Excellent job! Thank you and please continue with your data foraging!

I do, however, have a few questions...

Just this past weekend, I took my lvl10 ranger and spent several *days* wandering around in Jaggedpine Forest, clicking away every 100 seconds or so in an attempt to forage up some plant shoots (I don't wanna sell them, though, truth is, I'm dying to cook up a batch of those yummy Ranger's Omlettes!)

Problem is, I never found a single one. I was able to gather up just about everything else that was laying around including a couple of those morning dew things (which I WILL sell!). Just none of the shoots...

So my first question is, are the specific items that you are able to forage determined solely by their existence in that zone or is your character's lvl and his/her forage skill lvl somehow factored in? (Being a lowly lvl10, I currently only forage somewhere in the upper 40's.)

Also, are the forage *drops*, (or maybe we should call them *pops* since nothing actually *drops* them), rated in terms of commonality like mob loot (common, rare, etc.), or do all items pop with the same frequency? And while we're on that subject, do you know whet the ratio of hits to misses is and how does that scale slide as you skillup?

Also, is the *take* in any way determined by where you happen to be in the zone or by whether or not you are actually moving? It seems to me that in certain specific locations, I can never find a single thing but if I move 10 or 20 steps away from that spot KA-CHING , it's payday! It also seems like certain spots will often yield the same item (like taking one final click while standing in front of the PoK book in Toxulla Forest almost always yields one of those cool bags of nuts. I also seem to be much more likely to pop a pod of water when it's raining!

This may all be coincidence as my reference sample of experience is not very large, I just wondered if you had further data...

Next, regarding tying the forage command into a directional arrow, can this cause a problem like; *Here I am hacking away at this Orc... Oh, good he's turning around to flee... Oh, look some vegetables, I better put those away...* WHACK... please wait, reloading... OR, are you safe because you can't forage while you fight?

And finally, now that you've got me salivating over a foraging machete, can you tell me the safest route to Katta Castellum? Or should I be more concerned with the four zones I need to be foraging in to fulfill the quest? Please remember, I'm only lvl10 and mostly play solo. I am also hoping to pick up a few things for my bard while I'm there so the trip is now doubly intriguing!

Thanks again for the groovy post,

i believe a higher skill will decrease the time between forages, but i'm not sure. it's just my guess. i've also heard it just increases the rate of success. what i do for my hotkey is:
/doability 6
/autoinventory
/autoinventory
/autoinventory

just because i noticed it rarely worked with just one. anyways, just my 2 cp.

In that case, I think I'll just have to wait till I'm a bit older. I can't see getting someone else to do the work for me, I enjoy actually doing the legwork for myself, and participating in the quest so getting some high level to do my dirty work, (here kid... here's that sword you wanted!), would that kinda defeat the point. It would also be meaningless for that player, a task beneath his abilities and not worthy of his time and where's the fun in that!

Even taking a short cut like getting a port to get past the problem spots doesn't seem quite fair.

The best bet (for me) would be to remain an adult and go when I'm better prepared for dealing with the difficulties presented in the trip. And as for the bard, He'll just have to wait... or he can go on and go himself!

In the meantime I can at least start to plan the trip.

Thanks for the info though. It was very handy.

BTW - at what level do you think I could take it on? Are we talking 20 here... or 30... or 40??? Thanks again.

well, I'm going to reply to everyone's posts in an edit :p see above!

/em feels stupid !

Thanks whatparadox - gotcha. Now it's working! You are correct, I was looking at the Hot Buttons when the doability is refering to the Actions Ability page. Ok - so that's the 6 buttons 1 - 6. Just two more questions:

1) Where are the doability 7 - 10 located?

2) How do I clear one of the doability buttons to its' original blank state after assigning a skill to it?

Thanks

I'm happy you got me running right too.

Thanks for your help !