Sarnak Earring of Station - which zone?

[toddfx]

My level 47 monk recently swapped out his TBB for an FBSS, so I'm looking for some STR to replace it. With a savings fund of zero after the FBSS, i'm searching for STR loot and came across the Sarnak Earring of Station.

I have read how rare the earring is but decided to give camping it a go to see what kind of luck I might have. There is a bit of info on Allakhazam of course, but wanted to hear some P99 specific experience.

So far i've spent about 5 hours camping enthusiasts and partisans at a sarnak camp in Frontier Mountains. I also briefly killed some Adherants in Lake of Ill Omen but there was a group there pulling most of them.

I was just wondering if any specific zone seems to give up the Earring more than others. The group who was camping the fort in LOIO said they have been there for quite a few levels and never saw one drop.

[Samoht]

The group who was camping the fort in LOIL said they have been there for quite a few levels and never saw one drop.

This is misinformation. I've seen at least two drop there, but I had advanced knowledge of which mobs dropped them and made sure we cleared as many as possible (and Legos for the bracer).

The wiki (http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Sarnak_Earring_of_Station) is pretty right so far in my experience.

[Ephirith]

Kind of rare, sort of like farming for a boe world drop epic in WoW.

Personally, I saw three of them drop during my time in LOIO from 19-30

[Kassel]

i got mine while farming prods. well over 10 hours for 1

[Nirgon]

I saw one in LOIO myself.

[Xanthias]

Lake of Ill omen, just a rare rare drop

[Khurak]

It dropped in Dalnir also on live.
Unsure if that was after a later patch or if the wiki just does not list it.
Definitely in the Velious time frame.

[Heebee]

These also dropped from Sarnaks in Burning Woods on live. I got a pair there.

[Seaweedpimp]

While farming braids in the OT i got 2 earrings, pretty rare. check out the huts that those sarnaks chill in and slay them over and over. Youl prolly get an earring for every 35 sarnaks you kill.

[toddfx]

Thanks for the info guys, looks like LOIO is pretty popular for these. Which is good for me because they are the easiest to kill... :cool:

While farming braids in the OT i got 2 earrings, pretty rare. check out the huts that those sarnaks chill in and slay them over and over. Youl prolly get an earring for every 35 sarnaks you kill.

However I do love the sound of those odds!

[Daliant17447]

Youl prolly get an earring for every 350 sarnaks you kill.

fixed

[Toehammer]

fixed

Youl prolly get an earring for every 3500 sarnaks you kill.

double fixed

[toddfx]

/facepalm

[Seaweedpimp]

Its not that rare.

[Seaweedpimp]

Lets put it this way, I got 2 earrings before my faction jumped one step.

[Biffins]

I've farmed about 4 from the sarnak fort in LoIO. The wiki is correct, the adherents do drop them, but so do revealers and revenants.

[toddfx]

So get this...
I was clearing Sarnaks in the LOIO fortress for a few hours last night while somebody else was there looking for a Jade Chokidai Prod from Chancellor Di'Zok. Before too long he popped and dropped the Earring along with the Prod!

So I got one but might stick around and see if I can get a second. Especially now that I know the Chancellor drops it, as well as the revealers and revenants according to Biffins.

[bonehand]

While farming braids in the OT i got 2 earrings, pretty rare. check out the huts that those sarnaks chill in and slay them over and over. Youl prolly get an earring for every 35 sarnaks you kill.

Lies...been there a lot lately, killed hundreds of spawns ranging from knights, zerkers, partisans, enthusiats and Zorash and wandering zerkers and knights with no earrings in the tower or on wanderers. Maybe broken if your estimate is that high...or the mob maybe one of the other sarnak spawns

a Sarnak berserker
a Sarnak conscript
a sarnak enforcer
a Sarnak enthusiast
a sarnak flamebearer
a Sarnak flunkie
a Sarnak gem oracle
a Sarnak knight
a sarnak messenger
a Sarnak overlord
a Sarnak partisan
a Sarnak youth
Zorash

Any other named sarnaks in OT?

[Samoht]

So I got one but might stick around and see if I can get a second. Especially now that I know the Chancellor drops it, as well as the revealers and revenants according to Biffins.

Word has it that all of the priests drop it in LOIO: Revenents, Adherents, Revealers, and the Chancellor. The gem oracle is a necro, and therefor not a priest, so I assume he does not drop it.

[joppykid]

Word has it that all of the priests drop it in LOIO: Revenents, Adherents, Revealers, and the Chancellor. The gem oracle is a necro, and therefor not a priest, so I assume he does not drop it.

My friend has had one drop off of a gem oracle. I have 2 on my monk it took me 40+ hours or so, luckily I had 4 bracers of the hidden drop too. I had one drop off of an adherant and the other from a revealer. I am to believe that any caster can drop it.

[Sarkhan]

Took me roughly 2 hours of constant non-stop killing of Sarnaks in LOIO and finally got one off an Adherent. I was going after casters but killed the melee in between to help spawn casters and it seemed to have work because there was always a caster around to kill.

[Messianic]

Necro'd - So the earring mainly drops off the caster mobs? None from Berzerkers & knights in OT, etc?

[ardikus]

I just dinged 25 on my monk tonight and was excited to head over to LOIO and try to get one of these earrings. Sadly, though, while I can take on the recruits and some legionnaires, the caster mobs - adherents mainly (which supposedly are only ones to drop the earring?) tear me a hole bigger than goatse.

Do people group in the sarnak fort often in this zone or should I just plan to come back in a few levels?

[Phased]

Yeah people do group in there. Usually a ledge group starts.

[Blancah]

I took a mage into Chancellor's room in LOIO and cleared it for about 6 hrs and got two earrings.

[Asher]

I took a mage into Chancellor's room in LOIO and cleared it for about 6 hrs and got two earrings.

Devs have been kind then. This earing should be as rare as the SBS in Sebilis.

Asher

[joppykid]

Devs have been kind then. This earing should be as rare as the SBS in Sebilis.

Asher

Took me a total of 40, it's pretty damn rare. And I have been there other times just killing for fun for a good 5 hours more and haven't seen any. I have seen 5 Bracers of the Hidden tho lol.

[joppykid]

Dalnir Sarnak casters should have the same loot table as all the others, but i think something may be broken, as I've only seen the Invokers drop some of the Sarnak Items and they are not priests.

Anyone able to confirm if those earrings drop in Dalnir? (PS I've done the Visceral Dagger quest and later come back to farm crescent for an alt, so I've killed a number of Sarnak!)

I have heard that they do but I have killed probably close to 3,000 Kly there between getting my own crescent and getting others theirs. Never seen one drop, I one time saw a Sarnak Ceremonial Sword, I don't recall what mob it was but I wanna say it was an Invoker.

[Aelzrith]

10 hours in Ill Omen plowing through sarnaks with an epic pet - no earring. Ive seen all the other loot drop except the Sarnak Ceremonial Dagger...
/cringe

[cliveceps]

While farming braids in the OT i got 2 earrings, pretty rare. check out the huts that those sarnaks chill in and slay them over and over. Youl prolly get an earring for every 35 sarnaks you kill.

It's much more rare than that. I leveled a character solo / duo there for around 6 levels in the 40's, and only ever saw one earring. That is probably at least 500 sarnak kills.

[Aelzrith]

i killed ~25-35 every 7 minutes for 10 hours. roughly 3,000 sarnaks.

[Messianic]

10 hours in Ill Omen plowing through sarnaks with an epic pet - no earring. Ive seen all the other loot drop except the Sarnak Ceremonial Dagger...
/cringe

i killed ~25-35 every 7 minutes for 10 hours. roughly 3,000 sarnaks.

I'm p sure the only ones that drop the earring are casters - so all those recruits, legos, etc melee sarnaks probably don't count

[Aelzrith]

I've read conflicting reports as to if non-casters drop them or not. lets say that 50% were non casters, i still killed ~1500 casters, that;s less than a 0.15% drop rate

[maximum]

This map shows further evidence of a Dalnir SEOS drop:

http://www.steveprutz.com/eq/images/dalnir_silmindodeadzed.jpg

Personally, I think the P99 version of Dalnir is way off.

[Tarathiel]

someone confirm or deny that they drop in fm for me..=D

[Kevynne]

Confirm dropping in dalnir?

[joppykid]

In the hours I've spent in Dalnir never seen one drop, I have 2 on my rogue and monk. Took 25 hours about of killing on my rogue and 60+ on monk at Lake fort. All priest class sarnaks there drop them. It's totally random. In this time i got 8 bracers of the hidden as well so ends up being worth it. You make decent vendor coin as well.

Edit* just realized this is necrod thread, anyways this is my updated status on this topic ha

[Reguiy]

Kindly in Cabilis from killing sarnaks in LOIO. Only seen 1 in that time, probably around 50-75+ hours.

[joppykid]

Kindly in Cabilis from killing sarnaks in LOIO. Only seen 1 in that time, probably around 50-75+ hours.

It's all luck sadly with the RNG. My first two took about 60+ and second pair took about 25+. Buddy of mine got two in 8 hours. And for all the controversy about who drops it, it's not all casters. It's only priests so only if they can heal basically. That's as far as I know. 3 of mine came from adherents and one came from a revealer.

[kylok]

Currently farming these in lake of ill omen - will post screens if/when I get them.

[LordSterben]

I camped it once but not on p99. Sarnak fort. Took a few hours...i remember walking away thinking it was a breeze.

Btw it was years ago but i think it was an adherent that dropped it

[mishurza]

I once saw 4 in a 26 hour period 2 of which I got for my monk. All were from adherents in Lake of Ill Omen. If you can get a solid group you can easily do 20-30 at the fort on the ledge and have a good chance of earrings and other loot. If I was a newb melee looking for a good cash spot and a chance for lasting gear cant think of a better spot. If you are grinding earrings and stuff at higher levels venture farther into the fort to the chancellors area, spawns are denser in there. With rumors that they drop from things other than adherents I'd just mow down everything. This leaves the entrance and ledge free for the poor newbs who can't venture farther into the fort.

[kylok]

Got both of mine off adherents - see screens below

Heavily cropped due to size restrictions

[Nuggets]

anyone ever had one drop in BW?

[Samoht Farstrider]

Got both of mine off adherents - see screens below

Heavily cropped due to size restrictions

How long did that take?

[kronika]

anyone ever had one drop in BW?

I have been swarm kiting in BW for the last ten or so levels and have probably killed a thousand or so sarnaks of every type. I have not seen one drop. In all fairness, I have killed a few hundred giants and only gotten one forest loop, so it could be just my luck.

[Dullah]

Rare stuff. Probably as rare as bracer of the hidden if not more. While farming bracers for several characters early on in kunark, I saw only 1 earring.

[Robdukes]

I went to BW and killed zealots and extremists specifically for an earring drop. I have never seen one drop after many levels of farming them. I don't think they are on the loot table. Not only because of my experience but because I would ask players I saw in the zone alot if they ever saw one and none of them ever did.

[indiscriminate_hater]

leveled my bard from 51-60 in burning woods, about 1 in every 6 mobs i killed was a sarnak caster. not sure of the total amount killed, but enough to bring me from 'ready to attack' to 'kindly' in cabilis, and never got an earring.

same goes for the several bards i've kited with there. i think it's safe to assume they don't drop in BW

[Sasquatchsquad]

Just got 2 earrings in about 3 hours in Ill Omen. Was just non-stop clearing all the mobs that spawned in Chancellor of Di`Zok room. Maybe just luck, but there is a high concentration of Adherents in that room so seemed like the best place; worked out nice.

[Reguiy]

Just got 2 earrings in about 3 hours in Ill Omen. Was just non-stop clearing all the mobs that spawned in Chancellor of Di`Zok room. Maybe just luck, but there is a high concentration of Adherents in that room so seemed like the best place; worked out nice.

[1203jjt]

I can confirm that they do, in fact, drop in BW. I was on my bard kiting with a friend and a sarnak dropped it. He looted it. We weren't targeting sarnaks, just pulling everything.

[Etorryn]

I have found 3 earrings of station in LOIO. All 3 where off adherents and they are the only ones who drop them in LOIO. 2 droped within 20 minutes of each other. I had 3 drop before a bracer of the hidden.

[Somekid123]

Paid a group at loio platform like 800 or something to loot 1 and another I traded an item for, think shrunken gobby earring. Did 24ish - 34ish doing sarnaks on my monk never saw one drop [soloing], everyone ive spoken to they only dropped off adherents, which sounds right according to allakhazam.

I was in a rush to get them because I thought at one point they stopped dropping??

Anyways, I had the robe of living fungus on my monk at the time when it had +15 regen, to give you an idea how long ago I got mine.

-Andain

[kaev]

I have found 3 earrings of station in LOIO. All 3 where off adherents and they are the only ones who drop them in LOIO. 2 droped within 20 minutes of each other. I had 3 drop before a bracer of the hidden.

That claim about adherents is not true. One of my earrings dropped off a revenant in LoIO. Was a surprise after seeing claims of only wis casters dropping them (revenant casts necro spells.)

[Shatford]

Spend about 24 hours camping the Sarnak fort east of SF ramp in The Overthere. I saw 2 drop, both off of Sarnak Partisans.

[Aus]

I generally camp the chancellor room until I can't carry any more plat/gold and have gotten 2 earrings and have yet to see a bracer which is what I'm after. Hehe

Damn you legionnaires! /shakes fist

[kahnedom]

I also was low hp kiting with a bard friend in BW. one dropped, unfortunately I thought it was an amulet to sell. Me being a druid, I have no use for this but I do in fact have one =)

[Chokan]

I have seen them drop from Gem Oracles in LOIO as well, not just adherants.

[Lartanin63]

Necroing this thread to post that Gem oracles can drop this earring. I looted one tonight. Seems to me that they do not need to be priest classes to drop the earring.

[Lazie]

Got 2 in roughly 6 hours in LOIO. Just kill the right mobs they drop.

[twizztid]

Took out whole fort more than once. Wanted to try to find Hidden bracer so took my 60 wiz over, pull like 30 mobs, sit in corner, PBAE. Recycle. Did this........ ...... lots........... 1 earring... +5 str = 10 hours of your time, all power to you /bow and no bracer

[Sebekkha]

Got one today after killing the Advisor in LOIO (next to chancellor) Took me the best part of 9 hours to get one.

onto the next................

[Calibix]

Got one today after killing the Advisor in LOIO (next to chancellor) Took me the best part of 9 hours to get one.

onto the next................

Grats, I was curious about that mob as well. Only up to about 3 hours myself, so if it takes me more than 6 more I'm blaming you!

[odiecat99]

Killing the fort will net you one, hell even camping the goblin ring might