Always eather green or blue from a mob.

[WeThree]

I think what the OP is saying is that if you get a key and use it at a jail but DON'T LOOT THE PRISONER ID CARD, you still have the quest and can reuse the same key on another jail, essentially allowing you unlimited access to greens and blues. I seriously doubt this is the case but I will have to try it out on a toon who hasn't done the quest yet. I've always looted the card for consortium rep, but if I can use one key to access multiple prisons and get a green or blue every time, hell that's a nice exploit and +rep ya for it.

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this might work because you DONT always get a mob in the jail, sometimes you get an NPC who gives you rep from a certain faction for "freeing him/her" in which case you dont get an ID card. The game mechanics might let you resuse the key when a jail is opened and no card is received, assuming the quest is still in your log.

I farm this area daily for keys and get 4-6 an hour. I know once the quest is done, the key disappears everytime you open a prison. but if you still have the original quest, it might work.

[svstoned]

I see no exploit in this, you kill mob, pick up key, open prison and collect your reward, in some cases you can get some rep but then no item reward.
A quest was never needed to find them, buy them and to open the prison, i used to farm them with a friend warlock, we both took on 7-10 mobs at once (depending on the quantity in the area) and we both took one side, at the end we shared the keys and opened the prisons, we got 1 BOE blue out of roughly 90 keys, however this is an excellent way to farm money if you know or are an enchanter with high enough level do dis the blues and greens.

[Tobeo]

There is a quest called "Etherum Secrets"Thottbot World of Warcraft: Quest: Ethereum Secretsin Netherstorm, wich the mobs who you kill are trapped inside prisons, and always drops eather blues or greens ( of the Bear, Whale, etc ) and the questitem you need.

To complete the quest, you need to kill mobs around the prisons for keys;Thottbot World of Warcraft: Ethereum Prison Key ( decent drop chance ), and then you open a prison and a mob spawns, the mob is a little tougher than regular mobs, but easily soloable ( I suggest you get 100% mana and hp ). Then you loot him, and he drops a blue or a green, and the questitem.

But here comes the exploit-part of the quest. If you don't take the quest item, you can just kill more mobs and get more keys, thus getting more greens and blues. Sometimes the blues are BoE and sellable, sometimes their BoP, but you can perhaps use them yourself, otherwise vendor it! The greens are always BoE.

This is what I can contribute with for the moment.

When youve done the quest once, Looted the item, Turned in, You can do it over and over... Its not an "Exploit"

[WeThree]

According the OP, the exploit is: not looting the prisoner ID card, just looting the green or blue item dropped and letting the killed mob despawn.. what the OP is saying is that if you do this.. you can use the SAME key to open more jails, negating the need to farm multiple keys to get multiple prisons open.

do people even read anymore?

The biggest pain in the ass about farming this area is the low drop rate on the prison keys. There's a quest given right across from the staging grounds asking you to "obtain" a prison key, open a prison, kill the mob and bring the prisoner ID card back to the quest giver. Of course you can farm the keys and open the prisons without the quest, nobody said you couldn't. The OP said that if you accept the quest, obtain the key via killing mobs at the staging ground, use it at one of the prisons, kill the mob BUT DONT LOOT THE ID CARD that the key can be used more than once rather than having to obtain ONE KEY PER PRISON.

I havent been able to confirm this yet because all my toons have the done the quest.

[Tuning]

confirmed.

[WeThree]

confirmed.

wow.. if this is true, it's a gold mine.

[svstoned]

Key dissapears when you open the prison, as simple as baking pie, dont get fooled by this guys, do you really think that Blizzard wouldnt have noticed something like this?

[WeThree]

We're talking about blizzard here.. more obvious exploits have been overlooked.

[Cal]

This is quite clearly not an exploit if you take a moment to review the facts, WeThree.

[Gilian]

if this was posted earlier i probably couldve gotten some of the items i finished this quest long ago /cry

[tezzarist]

yea works great have done this bout 3-4 times but only got 3 greens and 1 blue so far

[elbanda]

yes very good post i usually clear my way down the ramp for the shocktroopers and captain they each have a slightly higher drop rate i clear my way to the prisons then halfway back to the ramp then usually have a key by then bring some guildies along or at least 4 ppl who can use the different type of armor so it will go faster

[vl0071]

This is silly. Why waste your key on a potential boe blue or green when you can sell the key for 25g each (at least on my server anyway)?

[enis]

nabs, u can get the keys from daily normal instance run quest, it gives 1 prison key everyday. l2daily