The really good items are scripted. There will be those that will chime saying no, they just know the times and log in and wait..bs..they're scripted. Camp the really good items, not that there are any these days, but camp it when you think you know when it will spawn, and watch and see. The best way to check for sure, is find an older item that spawned a long time ago that's in your possession. Go to the location where it spawn, use tracking and verify that someone is hidden in the immediate area, drop the item on the ground, wait a few seconds and then pick it back up again. If a player reveals and tried to steal it, he/she is a script user. Then you can either report them or move on and forget about that item, You won't beat a scripter. If you're trying for the ruined painting, which imo is the only thing worth stealing these days, then do what I said, get tracking on a character and use a gold skull and go to doom and track around the area. If no one shows up, log off and come back later. Keep doing this for a week or so, I believe the painting spawns every 4 months, so that person on your shard will be hard to track down. But if they scripted it the last time then they know when it will spawn again within a few days of the last one. That's why they're so hard to get, and that's why you wont beat them. I was able to steal a Claw a few months back out of pure luck. Scripters can write a simple program that will search for the item, walk over to it once it spawns, steal it, cast invis, walk a few feet away, then hide, done. And you can't beat it, the script finds the item at server speed so if your computer is slow they can see it, steal it and hide before you ever saw it. This is a real thing and has been for years/decades, unless they have a crappy pc and you have a really good one.
