January 9, 2007

Stiletto’s Orders Intercepted (Manastone)

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Level 35

– In order to start this quest you need to get “Stiletto’s Orders” dropped by a Ratonga named Stiletto in the Thundering Steppes. Stiletto spawns in the river valley just south of the giant and gnoll bridge and wonders across the bridge and on bolth sides. (+486,+1077)

– The quest requires one person in the group to have Cove of Decay access, this quest was not removed with the rest of them that seems to have been. Once someone has access to the Cove of Decay, you must kill Octogorgon. After doing this you can swim to the ocean floor and you will find some interactive chests on the ground. Examine the one that it allows you to and you will find a Partially Digested Hand. Only one person has to do this. Once you have the Partially Digested Hand you must head onto the beach and you will find a Firepit. The person who has the Decayed Hand can interact with the remains in the Firepit. This will spawn a level 31 ^^^ Group x 2 mob, Captain Ulssissaris. Kill him and the quest will update.

– You must then head to the Ruins of Varsoon and examine an interactive book on a table in the workshop of the enchanter (+263,+118).

– You must then kill the Weavemaster Esh’Rax in the tailor room in the Ruins of Varsoon (+18,+98).

Receive Reward: Shroud of the Manastone Recipe
Receive Reward: Enchanted Linen of the Weavemaster

– After scribing the recipe you must create the shroud of the manastone with a Boiled Leather Pelt + Glimmering Tooth + Enchanted Linen of the Weavemaster + fuel. You can harvest the Glimmering Tooth from animal dens in Zek and Enchanted Lands. You must be artisan level 9 to create this item.

Receive Reward: Shroud of the Manastone

– After this you must kill Varsoon in the Chamber of Immortality, another access dungeon. Once you kill Varsoon, you must open a large wooden chest in an alcove of the Chamber of Immortality.

Receive Reward: Manastone
Receive Reward: 49,500 Status Points

A Strange Black Rock (Glowing Black Stone)

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Level 30

– Starts from Scholar Al’Quylar at the Oracle Tower in Antonica (-1039,-665).

– The first order of business is to harvest power from power sources in Nektulos and the Thundering Steppes. They are both underwater:

• Thundering Steppes: Beneath a ship in the western ocean at (+1681,+308)
• Nektulos Forest: In the pool underneath Timber Falls (+457,-1505)

– After harvesting both you should return to Scholar Al’Quylar. The next step is to recover the Brown Research Tome on Binding (+14,+67) and the Black Research Tome on Immortality (+237,+54) in the Ruins of Varsoon.

– You then must obtain a Palladium bangle. This item is player made, from advanced jeweler volume 29 which is a fairly rare book to obtain. You need a paladium cluster (rare stone from thundering steppes).

– Al’Quylar will then ask you to head back to the Ruins of Varsoon to kill the Tome of Life and the Tome of Death. These spawn in the two rooms where you got the research tomes earlier.

– After destroying them return to Scholar Al’Quylar who will send you to kill Varsoon the Undying in the Chamber of Immortality.

– After killing Varsoon return to Scholar Al’Quylar who will then attack you. Kill him for your reward.

Receive Reward: Glowing Black Stone
Receive Reward: 42,000 Status Points

Hadden’s Earring (Fishbone Earring)

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Level 30

– Starts from Kerath McMarrin at the Thundering Steppes Docks (-467,-447).

– Kerath McMarrin first asks you to find Hrath’s Journal. The journal can be foud at the Tower of Vhalen in Antonica (-1300,+45). Obtain it and return to Kerath.

– He will then send you to the Nektulos Forest to take a dip in the Torrent River. Swim upstream towards Timber Falls, and just before the river ascends here is the trigger spot (+465,-1282).

– The next step is to visit the northern ocean in Commonlands (-864,-984), it’s near a dragon skeleton ribcage. Head North West under water, you’ll see a little under water village, keep going past that, you’ll find the skeleton rib cage. The point for the loc is a little bit off of the actual map.

– After this you must swim into the oceans of the Thundering Steppes. This is off the coast to the far west, you must swim way off the map pas the Siren Pyramid and up north to the shipwrecks near loc (+1647,+128). When you get to the spawn an enraged octopus will spawn. You do not have to kill it.

– The next step is to kill Lord Everliving in the Nektropos Castle.

– After this you must head to the Ruins of Varsoon to kill Hrath V’Tol. He is found in RoV room with Ymeresh Apprentice, which is the Sorcerer’s Workshop (+294,+62). After doing this you can return to Kerath.

– Kerath then sends you to find Captain Krieger in Thundering Steppes. He can be found at (-125,-1047). He will spawn when you get near and attack you. Kill him and return to Kerrath for your reward.

Receive Reward: Fishbone Earring
Receive Reward: 39,750 Status Points

An Axe from the Past (Polished Granite Tomahawk)

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Level 30

– First step, be sure you learn the Kromise language (giant), you can get these from examining the idols that drop from the giants themselves. Once you’ve learned the giant language, go talk to Obsid Boulderboom (loc 820,1010). He will give you the quest ‘little tarby the lost’. He wants you to go save his bear from packs of wolves.

– Head to Tarby (loc 508,483) and three waves of wolves will spawn one after another. Kill them before they kill tarby. Once the waves are killed, right click the bear and tuck him into your pack. Then head back to Obsid, who will give you a cracked hand axe. Examin the axe to start the Heritage quest.

– The first step is to mine ten granite pieces from Wind Swept Rocks in the Thundering Steppes. This requires 90+ mining skill and they are a rare find. Expect to spend a good amount of time on this step.

Receive Reward: Pristine Piece of Granite

– You must then combine the pristine granite + ash stave + sparkling flower + the cracked stone hand axe. You can harvest the sparkling flower from shrubs or wood in Thundering Steppes, and you need artisan level 9 to craft the dull tomahawk.

Receive Reward: Dull Granite Tomahawk.

– Take the axe to Obsid. You must now sharpen the axe. In order to do this you will first need to kill 100 skeletons in any zone, we recommend the lower level zones as they will die faster. After completing this step return to Obsid.

– The axe is still not sharp enough so Obsid will then send you off to kill 25 Skindancer gnolls in the Thundering Steppes. This is a timed step, and you are given one hour to complete it. You can find the gnolls close to the splitpaw entrance, just across the way from Obsid.

Receive Reward: Sharpened Granite Tomahawk.

– After killing the Skindancers return to Obsid. You must now acquire the ink of an Octogorgon. Octogorgon is inside of the Cove of Decay. You must complete the “The Cove of Decay – Prison Break” quest to gain access to this dungeon. Kill Octogorgon for your reward.

Receive Reward: Polished Granite Tomahawk
Receive Reward: 36,750 Status Points

Broken legendary gear, raids, and rants

stargrace January 9, 2007 5 Comments

Hmm. Only own two pieces, and yet three show up?

Lots of bugs happen in MMO’s, you can’t really avoid them. This one is an interesting one. The piece of gear is what my coercer wears, one of the legendary set pieces. The interesting part is that it shows me as wearing 3/7 pieces. It clearly also shows that I own 2/7 pieces (which I do) the shoes, and the sleeves. I’m also benefiting from the 2% spell crit chance.. and have no idea why. I’m not sure why this bug is here or when (if ever) it’s going to be fixed, but I find it amusing none the less. The legendary gear is not all that, but for a new ‘main’ who was wearing mostly treasured, it’s pretty good.

Decided that I wasn’t going to hop on the Vanguard wagon like a lot of those I know. I wasn’t really impressed with what I’ve seen and heard. Plus it would mean I’d need to get more space on my computer, you need 20 free gigs to play, and I have about 12 left after the random stuff I have, EQ2, WoW, NWN, photoshop, etc. I don’t want to have to buy computer parts for a game that I’m not even sure I want to play. So I’ll get the WoW expansion because I already know I like the game, I’ll give that a whirl, and in a few months I’ll see where Vanguard is at. If it seems like flocks of people are running for the game due to some reason that I’ve yet to hear from, I’m sure I’ll wander over as well. In the mean time, it’s just not worth it.

Raids went well this weekend. Clockwork is easiest of all the EoF instances, with Inner Sanctum following close behind, then Freethinkers, and Emerald Halls. Didn’t get a chance to go to EH this week since we were short healers, but perhaps next time. I really wish people could stick around longer, or that we had a few more constant raiders, but well,that happens with time. Especially since it’s the tail end of the holidays, some are still out. Then there’s always those who are sick, who have family things come up, computers break, and any other number of issues.

So, about WoW. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep playing the characters I have, or start a new one, or trying to find a some what static-mature bunch of people to play with (do those exist in WoW?) or what. I really do enjoy the game, but I think I’d like it a great deal more if I actually had some people to play with as opposed to just playing alone 90% of the time and having to listen to “lawl nooborz” and other random comments. The community is the only thing that turns me off of that game. We’ll just have to see how it goes!