Question for the ScholarsFollow

I am fairly new to Scholar, and was wondering if someone has a good location for gathering Tier 1 materials. Every spot I have found for Tier 1 only has 2 or 3 nodes in it, so once those are collected, all you can really do is just sit around waiting for them to respawn. On the other hand, I have tons of tier 2 mats since there are many areas with tons of nodes and you can just walk around collecting one after the other. If anyone could suggest a good area like this for Tier 1 (Aged Scrap of Text, Early Third Age Relic, Worn Tablet Fragment) mats if such a place exists, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Thanks a lot! I appreciate it :)

Edit: Oops! Those places are all Tier 2 now. I have been exploring, and all I can really find are small places with one or maybe two nodes in them.

Edited, Apr 4th 2009 3:44am by dacypher

Remember too that you have the consignment in Duillond to use when you're having trouble finding mats. During some stretches of getting Scholar to SM, I would use it exclusively instead of hunting around for nodes.

Good luck!

I'm not exactly sure what that is, but it sounds very interesting. What is the consignment? Can you buy mats?

Also, I did manage to get enough Tier 1 mats. What I did was I went to the Elf starting area, and then I kept rotating between the ruins to the North and to the East of it. I would grab the one node, and then kill all of the goblins in them to get whatever they dropped, and by the time I had cleaned out one, the other would usually be about to respawn. It took about an hour to get all the mats for Tier 1 Mastery, but it was not too bad :) Tier 2 is so much easier to get, though. There are much larger ruins with 4 and 5 nodes spawned at a time.

There are consignments for ore, wood, hides, and scholar mats in different places around the starting areas. In Duillond, there is a scholar consignment. How it works, is you buy an item from one of the NPCs inside, use the item which then gives you a quest, and then you wait a certain period of time. After that time is up, you get a key to unlock a chest corresponding to whatever tier you bought the quest for. If I remember right, there are four chests to choose from @ Duillond, the first giving a mixture of T1 and T2.

If you have any empty character slots, you can make elves with them and park them at the consignment with a couple hundred silver and get enough mats to keep you going for a while.

Edited, Apr 4th 2009 11:39pm by Serielley

regarding the comment about making a virtual 4-6 nodes run, let's say an area has 3 nodes. when you get 1 (or all nodes) do the nodes reappear instantly somewhere else, or is there a certain timer?

eg get node 1, 60s later, it appears somewhere randomly. get node 2, 60s or 90s later, it appears. node 3 amy also have a 60s timer before it reappears. ie, you cannot just run around all the whole ruins getting nodes that repop instantly, or can you?

This is purely empirical. I have made no systematic experiments but it is my belief that...

Some nodes will rotate randomly, meaning there might be 2-3 node spots in close proximity that share a random spawn. One of these 2-3 locations will spawn a node, and the other location(s) will not have a chance to spawn until this node is tapped. Once a node is tapped I think respwan is in the order of 5 minutes.

Some locations share mat types. There is at least one spot on Salamader Island in Evendim I have found, that can spawn wood OR ore. I suspect this happens in many places in the Misty Mountains too. I do not think spawns are shared between Scholar and others though. Scholar mats seem to have their own particular places (near ruins or buildings). Moria might be different though, as scholar nodes appear in similar zones as wood and sometimes ore.

There are some nodes that are pure static, respawning the same mat, in the same location.

Anyway, like I said, purely incidental observations from playing the game.