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SA Loot Drops, Their Sources and Uses

Tina Small

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Kelmo asked me very nicely last week to post the following information, which you can also find in U.Hall here in a stickied thread at the top of that forum: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?t=158094. He told me that not everyone who reads this forum is a regular visitor in the U.Hall forum.

I will do my best to try to keep both threads updated with any new information I receive.

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I thought it might be helpful to start a thread to help connect some SA loot drops with their sources and possible uses. Please let me know if you see anything that needs to be corrected or if you have information to add. I'll try to keep the list in this post updated with any new information you provide and we'll also use it to update information posted on Stratics in more permanent locations.

Note: As of October 9, 2009, Publish 61 added some alternative methods (i.e., crafting, questing, growing) for acquiring some of the Imbuing Ingredients. The ones that are known so far have been included below.

Aliabeth the Tinker in the tinker shop in Royal City (Ter Mur facet) offers a quest called "A Worthy Proposition" that asks for one Elven Fletching and 10 bamboo flutes and another quest called "The Exchange" that asks for five white chocolate and one dark sapphire in exchange for valuable imbuing ingredients. Until more results are in from both of these quests, I'm reluctant to mention them as definite alternative sources for any specific imbuing ingredients. Maplestone has completed the "Worthy Proposition" quest several times to obtain daemon claws and undying flesh and "The Exchange" quest to obtain silver snake skin.

Sliem the Fence, way up in the NW corner of the Royal City, offers a quest called, "Unusual Goods." He promises a highly sought after imbuing ingredient in exchange for one piece of crystalline blackrock and two perfect emeralds. Not sure yet of the range of rewards, but it should be imbuing ingredients plus 75 loyalty points.


Imbuing Ingredients

These are the high-end ingredients needed to imbue certain properties at intensities of 91-100% and to imbue properties that have no intensity (i.e., Balanced, Faster Casting, Mage Armor, Night Sight, Spell Channeling, Slayer Type, Use Best Weapon Skill, or Velocity).
  • Abyssal Cloth - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Mage Armor property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 110 Tailoring skill can craft this ingredient (quantity of crafted item still unknown) by using a sewing kit along with 1 Crystalline Blackrock and 10 Bolts of Cloth.)
  • Arcanic Rune Stone - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Mage Weapon property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 90 Tinkering and 80 Magery skill can craft this ingredient by using a tinkering tool along with 1 Crystal Shards and 5 Power Crystals.)
  • Bottle of Ichor - Wolf Spider and Sentinel Spider (Underworld), Trapdoor Spiders (overland Ter Mur) - Night Sight property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 75 Magery and 90 Alchemy skill can craft this ingredient by using a mortar and pestle along with 1 Darkglow Poison and 30 Spider's Silk.)
  • Boura Pelt - Boura (overland Ter Mur) - Cold Resist, Energy Resist, Fire Resist, Physical Resist, and Poison Resist properties
  • Chaga Mushroom - Tomb of Kings and tunnels leading to Abyssal Inferno and Primeval Lich champ spawn areas (Abyss) (Note that the tunnels to the two champ spawn areas are subject to Fel ruleset.) - Luck property
  • Crushed Glass - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Enhance Potions property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 110 Blacksmith skill can craft this ingredient by using any blacksmithing tool along with 1 Blue Diamond and 5 Glass Swords. Glass swords are made by GM alchemists using a blow pipe or may be looted from corpses of many types of monsters.)
  • Crystal Shards - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Damage Increase and Spell Damage Increase properties. Can also drop in backpack while lumberjacking in Ter Mur. (Confirmed at 83.2 lumberjacking skill with no use of corroded axe.)
  • Crystalline Blackrock - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Skill bonus property. Can also drop in backpack while mining in Ter Mur. (Need confirmation of minimum skill requirement to mine this item.)
  • Daemon Claw - Any Fire Daemon in the Abyss. - Demon slayer property
  • Delicate Scales - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Use Best Weapon Skill property. Can also drop in backpack while fishing in Ter Mur. (Need confirmation of minimum skill requirement to fish up this item.)
  • Elven Fletching - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Lower Requirements property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 90 Bowcraft/Fletching skill can craft this ingredient by using a fletching tool along with 1 Faery Dust and 20 feathers.)
  • Essence of Achievement - Creatures in the Abyssal Lair Entrance mini-champ spawn in the Abyss. - Faster Casting property
  • Essence of Balance - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss), void creatures (overland Ter Mur) - Balanced property on bows
  • Essence of Control - Creatures in the Enslaved Goblins mini-champ spawn in the Abyss. - Swing Speed Increase
  • Essence of Diligence - Creatures in the Stygian Dragon Lair Entrance mini-champ spawn in the Abyss - Faster Cast Recovery property
  • Essence of Direction - Creatures in the Lands of the Lich mini-champ spawn in the Abyss. - Velocity property on bows
  • Essence of Feeling - Creatures in the Secret Garden mini-champ spawn in the Abyss - Hit Magic Arrow property
  • Essence of Order - Creatures in the Fire Temple Ruins mini-champ spawn in the Abyss - Lower Mana Cost property
  • Essence of Passion - Creatures in the Lava Caldera mini-champ area in the Abyss - Hit Lightning property.
  • Essence of Precision - Creatures in the Crimson Veins mini-champ spawn in the Abyss - Hit Chance Increase property
  • Essence of Singularity - Creatures in the Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn in the Abyss - Defense Chance Increase property
  • Faery Dust - Fairy Dragon, Pixies and Wisps (Abyss) - Lower Reagent Cost property
  • Fire Ruby - Mining and quests - Hit Fireball and Strength Bonus properties
  • Goblin Blood - Gray Goblins, Green Goblins, Goblin Scouts, Goblin Alchemists, Goblin Keepers, and Goblin Mages (Underworld); Enslaved Gray Goblins, Enslaved Green Goblins, Enslaved Goblin Scouts, Enslaved Goblin Keepers, Enslaved Goblin Mage, and Enslaved Goblin Alchemist (Abyss) - Repond slayer property
  • Lava Serpent Crust - Lava Elementals (Abyss) - Reptile slayer property
  • Luminescent Fungi - Lumberjacking and quests - Hit Point Increase, Mana Increase, and Stamina Increase properties
  • Parasitic Plant - Lumberjacking and quests - Hit Harm, Hit Lower Attack and Hit Lower Defense properties
  • Powdered Iron - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Durability property on shields. (As of Publish 61, a character with 110 Blacksmith skill can craft this ingredient by using any blacksmithing tool along with 1 White Pearl and 20 ingots.)
  • Raptor Teeth - Raptors (overland Ter Mur) - Hit Cold Area, Hit Energy Area, Hit Fire Area, Hit Physical Area, and Hit Poison Area properties
  • Reflective Wolf Eye - Clan Scratch Savage Wolf (Abyss) - Reflect Physical Damage property
  • Seed of Renewal - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss) - Hit Point Regeneration, Mana Regeneration and Stamina Regeneration properties. (As of Publish 61, it appears that these may drop randomly as a gathered resource when collecting resources or seeds from plants.)
  • Silver Snake Skin - Silver Serpents in the Tomb of Kings, Abyss, Farmer Nash quest (Holy City in overland Ter Mur) - Spell Channeling property
  • Slith Tongue - Slith (overland Ter Mur) - Hit Dispel property
  • Spider Carapace - Navrey Night-Eyes (Underworld) and Trapdoor Spiders (overland Ter Mur) (not sure about Sentinel Spiders in the Underworld for this item) - Arachnid Slayer property
  • Turquoise - Mining and quests - Intelligence Bonus property
  • Undying Flesh - Undead Guardians and Nipporailem (Tomb of Kings); Undead Guardians in Medusa's Lair (Abyss) - Undead Slayer property
  • Vial of Vitriol - Acid Slugs (Underworld) and Acid Slugs (Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn in the Abyss) - Elemental Slayer property. (As of Publish 61, a character with 75 Magery and 90 Alchemy skill can craft this ingredient by using a mortar and pestle along with 1 Parasitic Poison and 30 Nightshade.)
  • Void Orb - Void creatures (overland Ter Mur) - Hit Life Leech, Hit Mana Leech and Hit Stamina Leech properties. (As of Publish 61, a character with 90 Tinkering and 80 Magery skill can craft this ingredient by using a tinkering tool along with 1 Dark Sapphire and 50 Black Pearl.)
  • White Pearl - Fishing - Any one of the "regular" slayer properties.

These are the regular gems and the properties they apply to when using the Imbuing skill. All may be found on creatures throughout the game and may also be received as quest rewards.

  • Amber - Hit Chance Increase, Hit Dispel, Hit Magic Arrow, Lower Reagent Cost, and Use Best Weapon Skill
  • Amethyst - Energy Resist, Faster Cast Recovery, Hit Energy Area, Hit Lightning, and Lower Requirements
  • Citrine - Damage Increase, Enhance Potions, Luck, and Reflect Physical Damage
  • Diamond - Durability, Hit Physical Area, Hit Stamina Leech, Mage Armor, Physical Resist, Spell Channeling, Stamina Increase, Stamina Regeneration, and Strength Bonus.
  • Emerald - Air Elemental Slayer, Blood Elemental Slayer, Dragon Slayer, Earth Elemental Slayer, Fire Elemental Slayer, Gargoyle Slayer, Lizardman Slayer, Ogre Slayer, Ophidian Slayer, Orc Slayer, Poison Elemental Slayer, Scorpion Slayer, Snake Slayer, Snow Elemental Slayer, Spider Slayer, Terathan Slayer, Troll Slayer, Water Elemental Slayer; Hit Harm; Hit Lower Attack; Hit Poison Area; Mage Weapon; Poison Resist; and Spell Damage Increase
  • Ruby - Arachnid Slayer, Demon Slayer, Elemental Slayer, Repond Slayer, Reptile Slayer, Undead Slayer; Dexterity Bonus; Faster Casting; Fire Resist; Hit Fire Area; Hit Fireball; Hit Life Leech; and Hit Point Increase
  • Sapphire - Cold Resist, Hit Cold Area, Hit Mana Leech, Mana Increase, and Mana Regeneration
  • Star Sapphire - Skill Bonus
  • Tourmaline - Defense Chance Increase, Hit Lower Defense, Hit Point Regeneration, Intelligence Bonus, Lower Mana Cost, Night Sight, and Swing Speed Increase

Peerless Instance Keys

  • Draconic orb (lesser) - Fairy dragons and Forgotten Servants (Abyss) - Keys to enter one of the Stygian Dragon peerless instances.
  • Rare Serpent Egg - Snakes west of the entrance to the Medusa peerless area (Abyss) - Keys to enter one of the Medusa peerless instances.

Note: See also the notes below in the section about items with no known use regarding what appear to be peerless keys found on corrosive slimes in the Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn area near the center of the Abyss (west side). They include blessed Coagulated Legs, Gelatanous Skulls, and Partially Digested Torsos with timers of +21,000 seconds.

Quest Items

These are items required for or received from completing quests (or similar systems, such as the Font of Fortune) that are new with the SA expansion. This thread gives more details on the quests from Thepem and Zosilem: http://vboards.stratics.com/showthread.php?p=1414725#post1414725.

  • Acid Sac - Acid Slugs (Underworld) and Acid Slugs (Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn in the Abyss) - Garamon's quest to enter the Abyss.
  • Ancient Pottery Fragments - Creatures in the Abyss, Tomb of Kings, Underworld, overland Ter Mur - Axem's "A Broken Vase" quest.
  • Boura Skin - Boura (overland Ter Mur) - Thepem's "Tasty Treats" quest and Zosilem's "Dabbling on The Dark Side" quest.
  • Congealed Slug Acid - Acid slugs (Underworld) - Thepem's "All That Glitters" quest.
  • Dragon Blood - Reptilian creatures anywhere in the game once you have skinned them - Ortlem's "A Mystic's Journey" quest to receive the Crystal Ball of Knowledge. These are also a Mysticism reagent.
  • Daemon Bones - Void demons (overland Ter Mur) - Ortlem's "A Mystic's Journey" quest to receive the Crystal Ball of Knowledge. These are also a Mysticism reagent.
  • Enchanted Essence - An item used by a character with Imbuing skill to add magical properties to armor, weapons, jewelry, and shields. May be received as a reward from certain quests in Ter Mur or the Underworld.
  • Fairy Dragon Wing - Fairy Dragons (Abyss) - Zosilem's "Dabbling on the Dark Side" quest.
  • Leather Wolf Skin - Corpses of leather wolves summoned by a tinker-crafted leather wolf. - Item needed for Zosilem's Tier 2 "Armor Up" quest.
  • Lucky Coin - Corpses in the Underworld - Drop this in the Font of Fortune for a stat bonus or to receive an item.
  • Magic Residue - An item used by a character with Imbuing skill to add magical properties to armor, weapons, jewelry, and shields. May be received as a reward from certain quests in Ter Mur or the Underworld.
  • Pile of Inspected [ore type here] Ingots - As part of Thepem's "Metal Head." "All That Glitters," and "Pink Is The New Black" quests, you must give Thepem a specific quantity of ingots made forom a particular metal, as well as another item. Drop the ingots on his head to give them to him. He will examine the ingots and hand them back to you.
  • Relic Fragment - An item used by a character with Imbuing skill to add magical properties to armor, weapons, jewelry, and shields. May be received as a reward from certain quests in Ter Mur or the Underworld or from the Font of Fortune after dropping in a Lucky Coin.
  • Seared Fire Ant Goo - Fire ants (Abyss) - Thepem's "Pink is the New Black" quest.
  • Tattered Remnants of an Ancient Scroll - Axem's "Putting the Pieces Together" quest.
  • Undamaged Iron Beetle Scale - Thepem's "Metal Head" quest and Zosilem's "Armor Up" (quest). (Note: You do not have to cut the corpse to get these. They appear in the corpse as loot.)
  • Undamaged Undead Gargoyle Horns - Undead gargoyles in Medusa's Lair - Zosilem's "The Brainy Alchemist" quest.
  • Undead Gargoyle Medallions - Undead gargoyles in Medusa's Lair (Abyss) - Zosilem's "Green with Envy" quest.
  • Untranslated Ancient Tome - Axem's "Ye Olde Gargish" quest.
  • Red key, Blue Key, Yellow Key - Garamon's quest to enter the Abyss.

Crafting Ingredients
  • Broken Crystals - Prism of Light (Trammel and Felucca) (Do not know if these will also drop in the new SA lands.) - Used by alchemists to make Crystal Dust, an ingredient used by tinkers to make Gorgon Lenses used while doing the Medusa peerless.
  • Medusa Blood - Medusa peerless (Abyss) - Used by alchemists to make Elixer of Rebirth, used by characters to rez their pets.
  • Shimmering Crystals - Prism of Light (Trammel and Felucca) (Do not know if these will also drop in the new SA lands.) - Used by alchemists to make Crystal Granules, an ingredient used by alchemists to make soulstone fragments.
  • Silver Serpent Venom - Silver Serpents in the Tomb of Kings, the Abyss, and overland Ter Mur - Used by alchemists and cooks to make Color Fixative, an ingredient required for making dye from decorative plant clippings.
  • Toxic Venom Sac - Toxic Slith (overland Ter Mur) - Used by alchemists to make Scouring Toxin, an ingredient used by alchemists to make softened reeds from plant clippings. Tinkers use the softened reeds to make baskets. Players can also use Scouring Toxin to remove dye from dyed items.
  • Void Essence - Void creatures (overland Ter Mur) - Used by tinkers to make Clockwork Scorpions, Leather Wolves, and Vollems. Also used by alchemists to craft soulstone fragments.

Items With No Known Use...Yet

  • Essence of Persistence - Skeletal Dragon mini-champ spawn in the Abyss. (Not sure yet where this loot drop goes. Stashing it here for now.)
  • Fey Wings - Fairy Dragons (Abyss)
  • Fur - Boura, Kepetch, and Kepetch Ambushers (overland Ter Mur). (Fur colors: Lowland Boura-light green; Ruddy Boura-reddish brown; Highplains Boura-yellow; Kepetch-dark green; Kepetch Ambushers-orange.)
  • Horn of Abyssal Inferno - Abyssal Inferno champ spawn (Abyss, Fel ruleset).
  • Kepetch Wax - Kepetch Ambusher (overland Ter Mur)
  • Lodestone - Cavern of the Discarded creatures (Abyss)
  • Primeval Lich Dust - Primeval Lich champ spawn (Abyss, Fel ruleset)
  • Slith Eye - Sliths (overland Ter Mur)
  • Vile Tentacles - Maddening Horror (Abyss)
  • Void Core - Void creatures (overland Ter Mur). Try the tougher ones, such as Vasanord and Anlorvaglem.

Erroneously Spawning Items That Will Probably Be Deleted In A Future Publish??
  • Coagulated Legs - Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn (Abyss). These are keys for a peerless that has nothing to do with the Abyss.
  • Gelatanous Skull - Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn (Abyss). These are keys for a peerless that has nothing to do with the Abyss.
  • Partially Digested Torso - Passage of Tears mini-champ spawn (Abyss). These are keys for a peerless that has nothing to do with the Abyss.

Possible Uses for "Mystery Items"

The Publish 60 notes describe a number of new item properties on pp. 18-19 of the PDF version (http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=932) and you can find them on a number of the new artifacts. Perhaps many of the above items with no known use will eventually be used to imbue these properties on weapons, shields and armor?

  • Blood Drinker
  • Battle Lust
  • Damage Eater - There may be many types of "Damage Eaters," i.e., one for each "traditional" damage type, as well as one for Chaos damage and a "Damage All" type.
  • Casting Focus
  • Hit Curse
  • Hit Fatigue
  • Hit Mana Drain
  • Reactive Paralyze
  • Resonance - Again, there may be many types of Resonance: Physical, Fire, Cold, Poison, Energy, Chaos, and Kinetic.
  • Soul Charge
  • Splintering Weapon

Map of Abyss Mini-Champ Spawn Areas and Other Points of Interest

Below is a map showing the locations of the various mini-champ spawn areas in the Abyss, as well as the Cavern of the Discarded and some other points of interest (e.g., peerless and entrances to new Fel rule-set champ spawns).



Miscellaneous Imbuing Information

I put together a spreadsheet of miscellaneous imbuing information. You can view it here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tuxQwVOd4eHGnx8BUx-rHGg&single=true&gid=0&output=html

I hope it helps.
 

kelmo

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Thank you Tina! *smooch*
 

kelmo

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I don't even know where all of these places are...
 

Tina Small

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I don't even know where all of these places are...
*Growls at Kelmo.*

I'll make some more maps....

Edited to add:

First though you have to tell me where the Underworld entrance is on Siege since you don't have a Trammel facet. Do you get in via the entrance under the volcano on the Isle of Fire the same as on the other shards (except that on those shards that entrance is in Trammel)? Or do you have to go in via the champ spawn entrances in Deceit and Hythloth? I'm thinking no to that one because then you'd have no Underworld at all....

Too confusing!!
 

kelmo

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*chuckles* Just when you have time...

Siege if we can keep Tina interested we have scored a wealth of knowledge... From factions to farming. Tina has skills. Not sure about her PvP though.
 

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*laughs* No pressure Tina. I am just tickled you have become a contributing member of Siege. Well, the forums anyway.
 

AEowynSP

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I think she needs to make a char and find out the hard way by coming here.
 

Vortex

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Awesome stuff Tina, thank you.

Gonna sticky this, Kelmo is old and doesn't think of things like that :)
 
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