Loping Plains

Loping Plains is an enormous zone with a lot of luck involved in farming items. Vampire Bats are the key as they always drop a single piece of armor and frequently start the Boss Cycle in the zone.

You can spawn Vampire Bats two different ways, from traps or randomly upon the death of NPCs. Traps are in random locations in the zone, and usually just spawn groups of NPCs, but occasionally will also spawn a bat.

Killing 40 of a specific set of NPCs (see Stone Droppers chart below) will spawn a new NPC which will drop a specified numbered stone. The stones can also (rarely) drop randomly from any NPC. Give all 12 of these stones to the Archaeologist to spawn the Floating Skull.

The Floating Skull can only be attacked with a Bane Weapon, which drops from Sloth as part of the Boss Cycle or an Ultimate Weapon 8 or greater. The Floating Skull drops the completed Epic book 7.0

Stone Droppers

Kill the following types of NPCs to spawn a new NPC (the "stonedropper"), which will drop the numbered stone. There should be exactly 40 NPCs required to kill in each group to spawn the stonedropper.

Boss Cycle

Killing a Vampire Bat will (hopefully) start a boss chain that will (hopefully) keep spawning through the entire chain (but not always).

Boss	Loot
Vampire Bat	Armor
Envy	Accessories
Gluttony	HP Augments
Lust	Spell
Pride	Weapons
Wrath	Essence of LP
Sloth	Bane Weapons
Greed	150k HP Mount

Progression

• Epic 7.0
  • Collect all 12 stones by killing the specified NPCs to spawn the stonedropper (see table)
  • Hail the Archaeologist, and give all 12 stones to the Archaeologist (do not have to be from the same character)
  • Kill the Floating Skull (can only be hit by Ultimate Weapon 7+ or bane weapons)
  • Loot Completed Epic Book 7.0
• Get all visible armor pieces
  • Traps and/or killing random NPCs in zone spawn Vampire Bats
  • Vampire Bats drop armor patterns
  • Give armor patterns to the wandering trader near the zonein for Loping Plains armor
• Hail the Level Up Wench to become flagged for Temple of Veeshan

Tips

• Treants and Pride both cast the Druid Spell: Skin of the Drake on themselves, so you will NEED to dispel it or turn off attack for 18 seconds when you see their health rising, or you will never kill them.
• Essence of Loping Plains crafts strike 9's, which are much more costly, since they require three 8's to create. So start saving your essences and platinum :)
• Strike 9's also switch from type 4, 8 to type 22, so make sure you have weapons to put them in before you craft them.
• To easily keep track of stonedroppers or bosses, you may want to use either "/maphide npc" -or- "/highlight npc" so that any new spawns will be easily visible. Stonedroppers have the same names as existing NPC's, so it is crucial to be able to identify them. See the MacroQuest page for more information on these commands.

Loot

• Gemstone of the Ages (ultra-rare)
• Minor Rainbow Crystal (rare)
• Lesser Rainbow Crystal (rare)
• Essence of Loping Plains (rare)
• Stone of Heroic Resistance (common)
• Slimy Sapphire of Cowardice (common)
• Leaf of Vitality (common)
• Class Ink
• T7 Epic Weapon Skins
• Jewelers Candlelight