Half an Exploit

[Roguish]

Not sure how useful this is but it might prevent a few headaches and someone might actually figure out a use for it. Some TSS quests that update upon looting can be done even if you looted the item before you got the quest. All you have to do is loot it from your corpse and sometimes it is possible to drop it in your bank and loot it from there.

I was going to try to test this on a 69.1 to see if it's something with task updates as a whole but noone ever does 69.1s anymore and I deleted my pages a long long time ago.

 

[RageATM0998]

If you're talking about the quests such as Sabatage or other similar tasks, they actually say "Collect <item>." These are the one's that I've found you can preloot the items for. You don't even have to loot it off of a corpse. When I got these tasks, I had some of the items in my bags and the task just automatically updated for these items as soon as I got it.

 

[Sklark]

Don't know if it's been nerfed yet ... but my tip to you is .... "Holgresh Elder Beads"

Not hard to figure out from there, if you know what it is!

 

[zazoot]

they dont leave corpses anymore as of like 5 months ago

 

[Roguish]

Yeah holgresh or any Zomms were nerfed, you cant even spawn the anguish aug mobs by killing the zomms anymore.

 

[tiikimagick]

get a mage or wiz, make them summon the eye of zomm,( i think theres a bard clicky too, not sure). give the eye the item, kill the eye, loot the eye. BAM

 

[smokinghot]

NICE will have to try for sure

 

[viper]

The eye of zomm exploit got nerfed a longtime ago.

 

[Roguish]

Yes the eye of zomm trick was nerfed therefore there would be a good reason to post that there is currently another way to get task updates. /big grin

Anyway in further research and development I believe I found the reason you can get task updates. When the task says "Loot such and such" then you can loot from anywhere. When the task says "Loot such and such from whomever" then you actually gotta loot it from whomever.

 

[tiikimagick]

what about charming a mob, giving the item.. then slaying and looting.

 

[Roguish]

I believe pets disappear when they die now. I do think it's easier to take whatever you want the task update for, drop it in your bank, and pull it back out again for the update though.

 

[raistlin8989]

just spent 3 hours doing the mission solo to get a set of books to try this again (i used to do it with wiz and other toon with eye of zomm). found out that bank does NOT update it and dieing (/setgrav 999) and looting corpse does NOT update it when looting them (yes i had them in main slots of inventory)

 

[Norrathian]

I can tell you about a 69.1 bug that was a real pita when it happened to us. A friend recently got back from Iraq and bought all the expansions he missed. We brought him up to lvl 75 and then went to do his DoD spells. Well, we were killing several at a time and found that loot is apparently decided when a mob dies, because we often got 2 copies of page 2 or page 4 or whatever if we went through 4 to 8 mobs between looting.

At first we thought there was a bug, but all started looting mobs as they died and that didn't happen again. If you don't want to waste a lot of time, make sure to loot as you kill - if you're actually doing it for completion and not for exp.

As for the othat ideas, I'm not sure which specific item you're talking about giving to a pet and looting, but pets and npcs follow the same rules on items they're given. If you give them a no drop item, it's instantly destroyed.

When I play my mage, I routinely give it attunable items and they seem to wear em, so I think that's ok, but I haven't run hard numbers.

I'd be giddy to see my pet with rotting DPoB gear - maybe some day SoE will allow that.