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Pre-revamp Runnyeye
- https://web.archive.org/web/20010306.../hfltailor.htm

Vale sewing kit ... Halfling専用smithより
-High quality bits, needle mold, thimble mold, flask of water
-をValeForgeでコンバイン。HQbits=HQ piece of ore(from Runnyeye goblin(Elite?)) x2 + water flask. Vale forgeで

- http://pub7.ezboard.com/faegiswolves...icID=484.topic

Ametryne II
(3/26/01 1:59:00 pm)
Forin

I'm having trouble finding High quality and Medium quality ore. Where can I find this at :?

Me :>

Forin
(3/26/01 2:33:48 pm)
Re: Forin

Heh, heh...

Funny you should ask that.... (We've been hunting HQ ore).

HQ ore is drop only. HQ small and large blocks drop in Solusek's Eye (Sol A), High Keep, and Permafrost off of goblins. Small pieces of HQ ore drop off of goblins in Runnyeye.

Medium quality ore is available from the merchant next to Miner Hale in High Keep next to the Bank. It is also available in the 2nd mill in Steamfont mountains and at the Ogre merchant camp in the Rathe Mountains.

Ametryne II
(3/27/01 2:28:34 pm)
Thanks :>

Do you know what goblins in runny eye it has dropped off I have hunted runny eye on the first floor and not seen any HQ ore drop.

What about muddites? I have seen them drop ore and precious metals any HQ :?

Me :>

Forin
(3/27/01 4:23:46 pm)
Re: Thanks :>

Only the small bits of ore drop in Runnyeye - and you can only make HQ metal bits (for HQ studs, etc) from them. Don't know what mobs drop it.

HQ bricks of ore only drop in Permafrost, Solusek's Eye and High Keep.

May 2001 Revamp - pieces of HQ ore unintentionally removed
- https://web.archive.org/web/20031031...e=27&start=100

piece of HQ ore
Posted @ Sat, Jun 2nd 2:03 AM 2001
By: celtiux

I'll try to find piece of HQ ore, before patch it was dropped by elite guard gob but now who drop this ore?

RE: piece of HQ ore
Posted @ Sat, Jun 2nd 2:35 PM 2001
By: Anonymous

Verant accidentally removed the HQ ore, but it should be back the next time they bring the servers down.

Absor commented on this on the Developers Forum on the official EQ website.

Post-revamp Runnyeye
- https://web.archive.org/web/20010803...icID=921.topic

DandainMandragoran
(8/1/01 8:02:02 am)
Re: Congrats to Rengate and Wexler Rengate -

You bet, Thursday should be good. I just need one more small piece of HQ ore from that dang JANITOR in Runneye then i will be free for a bit.

Hmmmm.... Are there any Silver Hawks that would like to sell a Vale Sewing Kit or maybe one piece of HQ ore???
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20030217...html?item=6724

Kit Components
By: Kabbie
Posted @ Sat, Sep 22nd 12:41 PM 2001

The Vale sewing kit can only be made by Halfling Smiths using the Vale Forge in Rivervale.

The kit requires needle mold, thimble mold, flask water, and high quality bits to make (trivial 162)

High quality bits are made by combining 2x STACKABLE HQ ore in the Vale Forge (trivial 66)

The stackable HQ ore is a rare drop of a Goblin Janitor in Runnyeye (I killed him 40+ times just to get my 2 pieces!)

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On the topic of revamps:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020227...t=201&stop=208

Example of doing it partly correct: upgrade of runneyeye. HQ pieces of ore (the stacking kind which is used only to make the halfling sewing kit) stopped dropping for about 6-8 months. And since it dropped from a previously common mob, whose spawn became a single mob, only halfling tailors noticed the failure. And until the fan faire in Orlando, all the HQ pieces in the game were harvested before the upgrade.

PS. don't reply to this claiming that HQ ore drops in other dungeons. I know that the non-stacking bricks of ore do indeed drop from any old word dungeon with goblins (with the exception of runnyeye). The PIECES (the ones that stack) were used in exactly 1 recipe in the game and they came from ONLY one mob: the goblin janitor. Who had a broken loot table for 6-8 months.

FanFest 2001 in Orlando:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20011215...icID=843.topic

tangurena
(10/21/01 5:46:35 pm)
Re: Fan Faire Brief Note

I was there for about an hour, Daniel Enright was the sole person in the hot seat in the front of the room.

Things he said he would look into:
Drop rate of Swirling mists.
drop rate of HQ pieces of ore.
Making cultural pelts stack.
Adding yew leaves to the foraging table (even he admits that they sometimes spawn at the tops of trees, and was disappointed in the graphic chosen, but that any new picture would have to wait till after the release of SoL).
Some idols are not equipable by the listed races and classes even when worshiping the correct deity: Rallos zek and shadow knights was the example someone gave to him.
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It's unclear if adjustments to the drop rate were made, but the drop wasn't completely broken based on the numerous accounts between June and October 2001. EQTraders notes the drop off the Goblin Janitor as extremely rare as of Feb 2002.