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Pro Tip To Keep Deceit Mobs From Looting Your Drops

Val-Tur

Lore Keeper
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Discovered this by accident. Fill a container (not sure if a pouch or bag works but why would it not?) with blank runes or anything weighing one stone. The liches & skeletal knights will loot the runes instead.
 

TheMiner

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Discovered this by accident. Fill a container (not sure if a pouch or bag works but why would it not?) with blank runes or anything weighing one stone. The liches & skeletal knights will loot the runes instead.
Or bag of sending each one. Or insurrance... no point in bogging down the bag count with useless items.
 
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Pawain

I Hate Skilling
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I carry all the looted T maps but they still take my Petals. I know they take runes cause all mine are gone so I should try that.
 

Kojak

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monsters loot based on the VDP price of the items in your pack - they take the highest value items first

VDP stands for vendor default price - it's what you can usually sell something for to the normal vendors in town
 

Merlin

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Gold and bags of sending seem to always be first items they will go for.
 

Cinderella

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They used to take the paragon chests, but now they take the objects from inside them.
They have never stolen my bag of sending, but they do take my enhanced bandages out of my first aid belt.

all the other stuff will be on the corpse when it dies.
but enhanced bandages will not.

They never take anything out of my main backpack, just from inside my loot bag.
 

Basara

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I've found that they LOVE looting gems first. So make a bag with about 10-20 single stacked gems, and you'll be a lot safer.
 

Chrille

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Try carrying a ramrod, it will be gone on first rummage.
 

Val-Tur

Lore Keeper
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I do not loot gold, gems, or any of that - it's all about the drops. Loot is better gotten in 30 min hunting your favorite cash cow mobs. They take the runes over my Deceit drops every time. Before I did this, they looted my drops.
 
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