Increase the power of the Garland of Greatness after the G-Lover seasion has ended

One of the main things to note about this requirement is that it counts Food drops, not just Item drops. Therefore the easiest way to do this is to get an increase to your Food drop rate, which is generally easier than the regular Item Boost Drop.

Increased booze drop rates, do not count towards this total and neither do Fairy-type familiars. However, familiar equipment with increased Item drop rate (like the Chiptune Guitar), will count.

This page on the official Wiki has several options for increasing your drop rate, but here are some of the easiest for this purpose:

Quests

• Complete the Deep Fat Friars' Gate Quest in the Copse of the Deep Fat Friars. This quest has a minimum requirement of level 6 and you will receive it from the Council of Loathing.

  • After completing it, you will be eligible to receive buffs from the friars. Get Brother Flying Burrito's Blessing from Brother Flying Burrito, the Deep Fat Friar, as it's one of the easiest food boosts to get. It gives you a whopping +30% to Food Drops from Monsters, which will last 20 adventures.

To make up the last 20%, you can use either equipment or buffs from various sources. This will partially depend on how much Meat you have to spend in the Mall and what kind of gear you currently have access to.

Gear

This is all gear that you should have access to at this point from quests from the Council or from guild quests:

• Baron Von Ratsworth's Monocle: +10% Item Drops from Monsters (found in the Tavern Cellar via the If it's Tiny, is it Still a Mansion? encounter)

• Miner's Helmet: +5% Item Drops from Monsters (quest requirement: Dwarven Factory Quest)

• Observational Glasses: +5% Item Drops from Monsters (dropped from Larry of the Field of Signs in The Laugh Floor).

• Knob Goblin Eye Drops (10 adventures): +15% Item Drops from Monsters (purchased in The Knob Dispensary)

• Cyclops Eyedrops (10 adventures): +100% Item Drops from Monsters (drops in the Limerick Dungeon)

If you haven't done the above quests already and/or don't have those items, these are quick and (fairly) cheap Booze/Food options. Obviously prices and availability may vary on the Mall:

• Honey-Dew gives you the Mmmmmelon effect, which is +30% Item Drops from Monsters (10 adventures).

• Crystal Skeleton Vodka will give you Akryophobia, which includes +25% Item Drops from Monsters (20 adventures).

As discussed on kolwiki, the Hermit has an appetite for worthless items. This is not a metaphor, he actually wants worthless trinkets, worthless gee-gaws, and worthless knick-knacks.

To find these worthless items, buy chewing gum on a string from the general store and use it to fish junk items from a sewer grate. Some of these junk items are class starter items and thus "worthless" (but not in the way the Hermit will accept); hang on to this junk too!

The way the chewing gum on a string works is that it fishes up a random junk item that you don't have in your inventory yet, so selling the junk means that future chewing gums will get you more junk. The savvy adventurer will instead place their "worthless" (but still useful to the Hermit) items in their closet while they use chewing gum for more. After you hold all the junk items, you will only get more worthless items.

After you've used all your chewing gums, take the worthless items out of the closet and go visit the Hermit. And don't forget to buy your hermit permit from the general store!