Rotting Chokidai Spine
 

If I hide/sneak all the way to chardok what are the chances of actually being able to loot one of these rotting?

I'd heard that was possible but did know if it was still true.

They cost like 50pp. Not worth the time to pay for a port to get near there or worth the time to run there as a low level.

To answer your question though, there is a 103% chance that you would be able to loot one !

I'm thinking of coming back to the game and rogue would be my first/only character. It feels like a long way up to grind out 50pp with a rusty dagger vs a pretty intense adventure to loot one myself once hide/sneak stick relatively often.

Maybe I'm crazy but it actually sounds like fun.

Alternatively, sneakhide your way to Skyshrine. You should be able to pick up a Brightwood Spear and if you get lucky you'll find a Saldaren Spear rotting. Both with awesome velious graphics and better than the JCS.

There are usually a necro/enc or two farming the cubes and fe'dhars. All of them can drop these weapons (wiki is wrong).

Good luck on your adventure, sounds fun!

How often do these actually rot? 11/21 seems pretty dang good to just be randomly rotting all the time. Would a Ranger be able to get their safely without any faction work done?

Not frequently enough to wait there.

I got a Saldaren Spear on my ranger when he was about level 40. Had him camped out while hunting there myself on my enc. I've seen 3 of these spears (whereas 2 rotted) during my time in SS. Note that I've killed somewhere between 3k and 4k mobs in there. Hence the "if you get lucky".

The Brightwood spear, on the other hand, is fairly common (relatively speaking). OP should be able to pick one up by hanging around for a couple hours.

Most people will gladly send a tell to your alt if something they don't need drops. At least I've been doing that. There are other useful no-drop items there like the wyvern boots with 15 or 16% haste.

Great! Thanks for the tip. Would I be able to hide/sneak through Kael?

What does the velour graphic look like? Pretty nice I'm guessing?

Yes, you will be able to sneak/hide through kael. I guided a 27 rogue through once. It's a pretty easy run.

Spears look like this offhand:
http://i43.tinypic.com/992vip.jpg