ungrateful slaves do not give any other gold sword than dead sword right ?
farmed a big bunch of lvl 17-20 NM foes too but never had luck, gave up after 2-3k hours with no drops except purple shield
tried really hard to drop vabbian skins as q8, i will share my spot for the lvl 20 foes if anyone is crazy enough to try this 2 gold per hours farm :
outside vehjin mines in nf (might offer crazy skins for shields)
also did a very big bunch of lvl 20 HM charrs in eotn, noticed it is highly... "frequented" (q8 fds/fellblade/longsword/oaken aegis)
yes a group of charrs in the first room at CoF is lvl20 in HM, run takes 40sec to kill 5-6 charrs lvl 20, had some pretty close call but never ever had a gold q8 max after prob 600h in here over the year i gave up, the spot offers some crazy potential skins for insc swords/shield
Only had luck for sword (dropped only 2 within in my gw life 12k hours and 2 on the same spot within short time) recently by chest running plagueborn at budked, found out the loot table is very small with only plagueborn items compared to am fah that drops 2 differents armor skins, many differents wands/focus/staves/hammer/daggers and all the crappy items we don't want as chest running in nm
My opinion after ruining a big part of my life hunting q8 : most ungrateful farm in game and not profitable for the time invested, this is definitively a bot job