I'm trying to get my scholar alt up past apprentice so i can at least harvest nodes in the content I'm running. I saw ~6 tier 2 nodes before i even found a single tier 1 node (and i had to lotro-wiki it to find it). Aged Scraps of Text's seem to be my road block.


I've seen that some people have said to farm humanoids, or weights. But in my quick tests with my higher level main, i found 0 texts from dourhands, 2 from goblins, and 0 from weights. In all cases I completely obliterated at least 20 of each. I know thats a small sample size, so it might just be dumb luck.

The AH has ridiculous prices, but they may be justified, given this apparent drop rate.

Are there any easier ways? I seem to have plenty of the other materials, but no recipes that can be completed without the texts.