Does anyone know what this quest item is for? Found inside a "Junk Crate" in Thronefast at 4543, 593, 2773. If you do not have the quest, you cannot loot it - and the crate disappears.
Aren't hides and pelts essentially the same thing? They just drop from different animals? eg, rats have pelts, bears/boars have hides, but they can both be used to make leather right?
Or am I mistaken?
I got confirmation as of 3/14/25 the next step is not in the game. My guess is when it is it will continue right where it left off with Eldren the Sage, or by clicking on the item.
It seems to proc very often for me. Also I was mistaken -- it does show up in combat logs. The base damage seems to be 30, and it is affected by mob resistances. If the mobs have high poison resist it won't be that effective. On gray mobs it hits for 29-30 all the time, and averages about 18-22 damage for me on equal level (currently 25) mobs with no known innate poison resist.
I don't know the exact rate of how much dex affects the proc rate, but since my main is a warrior I try to stack str/dex/stam as much as I can on all my gear slots. Even if dex doesn't affect the proc rate that much, it's still worth it to dex stack for the hit/crit rate as landing more hits = generating more threat and readiness. I'll have to try some naked auto attack testing on high health gray mobs like chevron'd bandits or something.