Hill Giants

[William_Munny15]

How come Hill giants only drop like 10 gold and a few copper and silver? it used to be boat loads, i remember soloing as a druid and buying ruby's to take the weight off and sell them back, i even bought a charisma gear set to sell them back for almost the same as purchased.

[Emoqq]

Are you killing HG's in Rathe Mountains?
Have you killed more then one HG?
Are other people experiencing this same issue?

[guineapig]

I've yet to see an HG in Rathe not drop any platinum but it is certainly less than it was onlive.

On average the amount dropped is somewhere between 8-33pp per giant, an occasional fine steel (that you can see), a lore lambent stone on about 1 in 7 (sells for about 4pp) and research components.

I'm not going to complain since HGs are soloable (in a practicle sense) long before Seafuries are but yeah, the money gained from them is not what it used to be on live.

I remember killing them with a full group back in the day (I think I was level 29 or 30) and everyone earned some decent money doing it.

[UrsusMajor]

If I remember correctly, Hill Giants could drop up to 50ish plat. They were the mob EVERYONE tried to camp for $$.

Oh and while xping on Druids in WC I killed the wandering Hill Giant there and he dropped 22p for me.

[Braveguard]

I never got 50pp off of a Hill Giant. I think it was around 20pp in mixed coin on the high end... though the items might make that higher. Certainly higher than the 10gp that was mentioned.

[Troy]

I've seen them drop between 4 and 38pp plus whatever other stuff.

[XDrake]

Child support. Same reason the AC is more rare too.

[Nightblade]

Why?

Rogues stealth Pickpocketing all the hot plats off of unkilled Hill Giants. How would I know this? Because I used to do it on Live during my freetime. I also used to take the occasional trip down to Juggs in Sebilis to snatch awesome spells off of them to sell off.

It's not a problem with the server.

[Troy]

I take that back. Just killed one now and got 5g 4s 1c. Of course it was a high level one too (hits for 85 instead of 70-72).

[Malrubius]

I take that back. Just killed one now and got 5g 4s 1c. Of course it was a high level one too (hits for 85 instead of 70-72).

Not sure if I ever saw that on live. I remember 25-ish plat most of the time.

And on a related note, are there as many HGs in RM as there used to be? I don't see very many, but maybe they're being taken down too fast.

[guineapig]

I'm guessing there is currently a high level rogue in the zone, I have never received that little off a giant in Rathe, Cyclops maybe.




And on a related note, are there as many HGs in RM as there used to be? I don't see very many, but maybe they're being taken down too fast.

I have heard conflicting stores. A few claim that the stuff that paths on the hill are all possible PHs for giants (ie: basilisks and lizards).
I've also heard that this is complete BS. Since I never stick around if there is more than 2 people already hunting them I have never bothered to clear the other mobs up there to see what happens.

[Yoite]

one night i was alone up there and i was killing everything that moved and i had so many giants i couldnt keep them all dead before they repoped. The other day i ran through there and noticed only like 4 or 5 up and a shit ton of trash mobs up. this leads me to believe its true but its just my own limited observation and assumption.

also, if you not getting pp of them a rogue has been pick pocketing them. you'll get better pp next repops =)

[Anaiyah]

Just to weigh in...

I usually get 10-37pp from HG's and if there aren't others camping them, there are TONS. Every time I have gone to kill HG's I have seen more than I ever remember on live.

[Overcast]

I'm guessing there is currently a high level rogue in the zone, I have never received that little off a giant in Rathe, Cyclops maybe.




Get a see-invis, kill a few and the re-spawns, if not defiled by a Rogue should drop what they are set to... otherwise.

I'd keep a see-invis up when doing them most all of the time. Wonder if that spell works on the HG's too, lol....

hmmm

[druziil]

i am fairly certain, that there are 5 hillgiant spawns that are independent of the lower level trash. Have never seen more than 5 up at anyone time on track. There is also Broog who is on his own deal, and Tarskuk who can sometimes be a normal cyclops, but still static/not pathing.

[PhelanKA]

Just to weigh in...

I usually get 10-37pp from HG's and if there aren't others camping them, there are TONS. Every time I have gone to kill HG's I have seen more than I ever remember on live.

5plat+change is the minimum I have seen drop off giants in RM, but 37 is the max as you say.

[Weekapaug]

I've seen them drop between 4 and 38pp plus whatever other stuff.

Same.

You might have just been unlucky or you got there after a pickpocketing rogue did.

Keep killing them...It adds up nicely over time.

[William_Munny15]

Sorry if anyone misunderstood, i meant that they dont drop massive amounts of gold silver and copper along with the pp, i only get a few gold a few silver, a few copper, but i remember mass amounts of it on live

[Live4Redline]

The wife and I have been duoing the giants in Rathe Mountians with a 38 Mage and a 38 Druid and getting 8-37p a pop. Have had three 5 hr runs on them so far and have made about 700-900p a session, each. So I'm not really complaining.

[William_Munny15]

Im not complaining about how much platinum they drop. the platinum is fine, but on live during classic if a hill giant didn't have hardly any platinum or none at all, he would drop over 80 gold, and hundreds of silver and copper, on p99 the most gold ive seen on one that didn't drop much plat was 21 gold, it should be upwards of 50 easy

[RKromwell]

All I remember is that it was worth it to destroy your copper and silver in order to stay out there longer before you had to make a bank run.

[Lill-Leif]

Hmm I dont remember HG:s dropping 100s of silver/copper..

[Brut]

I remember destroying the shitloads of silver and copper, but then again I wasn't in the lvls to kill HGs until like around luclin.

[William_Munny15]

The treants on this server weren't droppin alot of gold or silver either, they had to fix them, i didn't destroy i ran to the vendors when i sold and bought rubies to take the weight off then sold them back later.

[vinx]

i am fairly certain, that there are 5 hillgiant spawns that are independent of the lower level trash. Have never seen more than 5 up at anyone time on track. There is also Broog who is on his own deal, and Tarskuk who can sometimes be a normal cyclops, but still static/not pathing.
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5 seems correct for giants being independant of trash spawns.
Broog does spawn on the hill but Tarskuk is spose to be a roamer that spawns over by the lake rathe zone

[Galanteer]

Wonder if that spell works on the HG's too, lol....
hmmm

If you can charm it you can buff it. I used to charm/buff mobs semi regular on SZ. Not sure about items (without charm) on this server, have yet to test that (and can't recall when it was changed, but you could give see invisi items to critters -someone on my server snuck to Cazic Thule and gave it a self dispel sword.)

Some of these things are likely against the rules here and for good reason.

[Vondra]

I'm guessing there is currently a high level rogue in the zone, I have never received that little off a giant in Rathe, Cyclops maybe.




I have heard conflicting stores. A few claim that the stuff that paths on the hill are all possible PHs for giants (ie: basilisks and lizards).
I've also heard that this is complete BS. Since I never stick around if there is more than 2 people already hunting them I have never bothered to clear the other mobs up there to see what happens.

I never bother looking for PHs. I hang out in rathe a whole lot and while it's usually crowded there have been quite a few occasions where I was there alone or nearly alone. Regardless of who was there, whether I was alone or not, or what we were doing there seemed to be about 6 HGs available total.

I was especially sensitive to this as a druid looking to quad kite...along with of course having track to see just what's up and what isn't.

This is the region around giant hill anyway. There may be an extra straggler or two tucked away occasionally that I missed...but the amount of giants available was always quite consistent.

[mwatt]

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5 seems correct for giants being independant of trash spawns.
Broog does spawn on the hill but Tarskuk is spose to be a roamer that spawns over by the lake rathe zone

5 Giants, one of which can be Broog Bloodbeard, is indeed the way it works here. On live, if you killed bassies and lizards on the hill, you could spawn extra giants. That is not the case on P99.