Well i have prettymuch stay in Arcstone last night (angish +gear ppl else told otherwise)
2 Guy at zone in from West freeport give like 7 task
Map find location is pretty easy just run around a bit and you will have task updated (easier with map)
Oakah (big tiger-wolf) maytbe wrong spelling is pretty easy hit for like max 950 could not get slow to land but me and Druid could kill him inlike 18min fight he Lay Hand at around 17%. He have a reverse damage sheild that he cast at time and a fear spell i was hit once when my fero have drop....kill him drop 2hb for monk-beastlord like 38dam 30delay and you have a Mark in inventory five to mission guy task updated...after the kill invis and go where he pop to get another task updated
Near zone in there was a name Emra solo able by beastlord drop a heart of some kind no drop while his hp drop at 50 and 20 % a add pop.They have low hp i killed them both in like 4combat round or so
There is a guy in back of zone (behind the BIG castle on top of hill that gives a mission...mission was go in instance takl to guy at zone in /say librayrie....talk to a guy downstair misison updated then i bet you need to go up and kill the 2 guy we wipe cause of agro pathing and im pretty sure that add pop while you kill we had like 5 or so at end Aaeyen told it was from book but maybe it was me when io have go down the ramp...warrior will hate those guythey all procs a debuff slow (rc6) regular mob in mission was hitting for around 1200 and boss without disc around 1500-1800 we bring 1 of the boss down to around 25% or so. but enchanter oculd not mez those high resist mob well he did mez for quite long hehe after wipe we kind of give up(Tank was a alt 12khp and 2k ac or else we could have take them most likely.
Both Oshar and raveice or something like that could maybe be duoif you take care of add before engaging them and-or when they pop i think Ravenice guy /yell for help we had him down to like 25 % and we just evac there was like 10 mob root and some of those root was fading
Am guessing English isn't his primary language.
Am not KoS to the city guards but do con threatenly. Quest giver outside the city lists 4 or so folks to talk with. Pull up druid, track down the first: group mission. Track down the next two and they are group missions as well. Fire one up with three in group (Whittle). Even to yellow cons at 70. Get 2 others from the guild added to the party and find the odd thing is if you zone out and back in they don't aggro. So we kill those three and 3 more pop. All are yellow and the zone out and back in thing doesn't work. How the bunny are you supposed to get faction like this? Zoned up to Arcstone and eventually stumbled over a shaded something or other. He wasn't hitting particularly hard or fast but kept casting this DoT that was screwing with my hp in a bad way and he had a ton of hp. Was able to cast origin while fighting him (was solo)
New zones look nice to the point where you zone into EC and think...wow, these old graphics are really old.
Also tried the FP quest that has you go into the Arcane Academy to fight the Chaotic Spirit. Sorry but am tired and at work - I forget the quest giver. Want to say was the "P" named guy but could be wrong. You zone into the building and the dude (water elemental graphic) is perma rooted in front of you and is only thing on track. We beat on him for a while and then he poofs. Task updates and now says to find the REAL Chaotic Spirit. Look on track and there are about 50 blue/even cons out there with 1 yellow. For kicks we pulled one and had 3 add. We zoned out cause it was late /shrug.
Did the Freeport Chaotic Spirit mission 2 times. Dropped 125hp no special plate legs, and something around a 34dam/21del 2hb mnk/bst (145 hp?).
We had ench SK pal bst(time geared). sk tapped, pally healed self, I spot healed. Was an easy mission, took 15 minutes.
I found this new beastlord ability that freezes up everquest if you're in the guild hall you can't leave. Clicking out, the guild portal, gate potion, orgin.....everything freezes it up. (control alt del gives you info that eq has stopped responding, so it's not the computer just eq) I watched my guildmates use guild hall and leave, so I came to the conclusion this is what beastlords really got in the new expansion. It saves us complaining about a whole lot of things if we can't leave a zone we can't do anything in!!! roflmao
Ran around did some quests with druid, there is a nice 230ish hp evolving cloak quest just inside Arcstone, that as far as I got with it, could be done with an average lvl 70 group.
I got the cloak last night. It has 3 levels, starts out at 175hps, +2mana regen, +2 hitpoint regen and +15 to some stats and saves. After 3 levels, it has 200hps, +2mana regen,+2 hps regen and +20 to stats and saves and +5 avoidance. Better than I had, but not that good considering it took 6 hours to find and kill the bosses, and a lot of dying inbetween. My group was the first to complete it in the guild. It was pretty fun. Some of the bosses are nice little events in thier own right.
Cloak of the Spirit Tracker is the name of it.
Either of you guys have the name of the NPC who starts the quest?
when you go from freeport and zone into Arcstone (i could not tell you how to get from point a to point b, here), there are a bunch of tents with different npcs standing around. There are 2 or 3 near "a fresh kill" the one closest to where you zoned in is the guy that gives you the task..... but you have to do like 5 tasks (5 boss mobs). I think his name is like Eilija or something that starts with an "E" (ok i'm not real helpful but i was too ticked at not playing my beast to pay much attention). All of the tasks he gives bar one, gives mark of "fill in blank". The other one he gives is where you turn in all those marks and get cloak. All you have to do to the guy is say "ready" and he will give you a list of a bunch of individual tasks. Accept them all, so you don't have to come back.... Then go along and kill the named, there seems to be a yellow emote each time one of those names pops and is available for killing.
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful then that, but I was just kinda going a long with a group and looking around, but not paying attention to details.
I almost gave my marks to "a fresh kill" when trying to give them to the hunters who give out the quests. You have to say "ready" for each boss you need to kill. Don't be like me and only say ready once, then kill the boss mobs you don't have the quest for and have to drag your group back to do it again after you realize you aren't getting the same things they are. Ok, I had a blond moment.
Lady usher also gives a quest for some armor. Don't know if it's all/all or what class can use it or what. Have to find spirit marks and combine with a mold that Lady Usher sells for at least 1kpp to 3kpp. I'm hoping for that price it's pretty decent. Different spirit marks for each slot.
Can be KOS in PoG, you simply have to be able to survive long enough to reach the Dryad :)
Questgiver Speaker Grayleaf in The Elddar Forest
Task - Tree Heaven, deliver an item (forgot to note the item) to Dryad of Tunare who resides in the Tree of Tunare in the NE part of Plane of Growth zone.
Reward - Belt of the Rainmakers
12ac 9str 7dex 8sta 9cha 5wis/int 9agi 170hp 175mana 175 end 10svf 12svd 6svc 14svm 8svp
Rec 70, req 66
1.1 wt
war/pal/rng/sk/mnk/bard/rog/bl/zerk
slot1, typ 7
The Lady Usher armor quest gives us this for the chest piece:
Tunic of the Wildkin http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39864 (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39864):
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
Slot: CHEST
Charges: Unlimited
AC: 45
STR: +13 DEX: +15 STA: +22 WIS: +20 HP: +155 MANA: +140
SV DISEASE: +20 SV MAGIC: +20 SV POISON: +15
Avoidance: +15 Attack: +30 Regeneration: +3 Mana Regeneration: +3
Recommended level of 70. Required level of 68.
Effect: Festering Malady (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: 0.8) at Level 68
Recast Delay: 420 seconds, Recast Type: 8
WT: 9.0 Size: LARGE
Class: BST
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 7
Decent, but not good enough for me to actually wear...but it's clicky from inventory. It's free dps, when it lands.
Quality is similar for all classes. We got our best disease DoT. Cleric one has Elixir of Divinity (their best group HoT). Druid gets Glitterfrost(their best ice nuke). Warrior gets Bazu Bellow (their best single-target aggro disc). Don't know about other classes yet, or other pieces. (edited to add:) Monk gets Phantom Cry (their highest level placate disc).
I put it on par with Dumul's chest, but think I'd go with Dumul's just for the plus to block. A clicky dot that no one uses, anyway? that doesn't make sense.
No one know's yet where to get the spirit marks you need to make it, tho?
I dont know, I'd wear it only cause its better then what I have and I'm a dot nut anyways so to free up a space on my spell bar is always good.
"Recast Delay: 420 seconds"
Can you be a dot nut and only use FM every 7 minutes? hehe It's a pretty weak sauce effect, but with that kind of refresh we don't have many spells that would really work. Maybe a free fero if it was any good on a 6 minute refresh and the base 6.5(ish) min duration. *shrugs*
that's a nice effect for warriors tho.
i'd wear it and use it, its a tad bit better then Fro vest cus of the MR3 and avoidance, I almost NEVER use dots just so I can save mana for nukes and dod 68 pet and i'd continue to use it after I got time BP too as long as I can use it from inventory.
I'm just glad it has some mods on it =P, and the clicky is a good start, hopefully the higher end stuff in the expansion will be twice as good =D
Ench got Rune of Rikkukin, Don 69 spell, best grp rune.....
Would anyone post how difficult it is to get the Beastlord PoR Chestpiece? It certainly would be an upgrade for me and I am sure a number of other beastlords who frequent these boards.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that above....we had an exp group farming the fire mobs in the lava pillars. One of the spawns is a mini-named called Fireflash. It dropped the Spirit Mark of Battle 4 times out of 5 for us over a several hour period. That, plus an armor mold the lady will sell you in merchant mode, handed back to her in give mode, will get you the chestpiece.
I'd assume the spirit marks for other pieces drop off other mini-names in the zone.
Quote from: Nusa on February 23, 2006, 08:39:43 PM
Sorry, I should have mentioned that above....we had an exp group farming the fire mobs in the lava pillars. One of the spawns is a mini-named called Fireflash. It dropped the Spirit Mark of Battle 4 times out of 5 for us over a several hour period. That, plus an armor mold the lady will sell you in merchant mode, handed back to her in give mode, will get you the chestpiece.
I'd assume the spirit marks for other pieces drop off other mini-names in the zone.
What zone is that in? How tough are the mobs?
arcstone, the mob is a joke, but since todays patche it hasnt been dropping nearly as much, at least on Bertox....out of 5 Fireflash, 1 mark (which i got for Gogbuk wee)
Yeah, the clicky for us was pretty poorly thought out. Are any devs actually playing beastlords?
prolly not shar =/
Got the hat mark from Thorn in the middle of the tanglefoots (i hate those buggers with a passion btw. root & way too many pathing see invis = annoying as hell.. esp when you gotta run thru middle of em to get the exploration point done =/).
Guess I should submit the hat I got. Don't remember exact name, but Wildkin was in it (seems to be the theme). 135 hps, Plainsight effect... ie, total waste of a good 95 in a /rand 100 ;p
edit: I'm actually enjoying this one so far overall tho.... the zones are neat, the mobs look good, the lore's sorta interesting so far... and I'm enjoying the tasks too... rewards may suck relative to effort involved, but they could be worse ;p
Last I checked there was atleast one dev that did play a bst. By "play" I do mean 70th, hundreds of AA, etc. Not talking about someone with a 13th level alt just to placate people hehe.
The main problem though becomes what do people want instead of FM? A couple have already said they like it. Some suggested a nuke. Growl? BE? Let me know what people think works better and I'm willing to try and get it changed. It's not enough to just dislike something though; you have to also be able to offer up something better hehe. (please don't say anything would be better 8P)
Well, either a nuke, slow or be would do it, nuke and slow the best options imo.
Is an extra click of slow every 7 minutes that big a deal though? I can see some cases where revenge gets resisted and you wanna follow right back up with it or something. The refresh timer really keeps this from being common use though. Seems to make it more of a "burst" type of add a bit of dmg kinda thing.
an extra nuke would be much more desirable at this time. I know not every chanter will use their rikky rune clicky, but i bet almost every warr will be hitting it when it pops and the monks will definally find it useful.
Shm in guild is really wanting to farm the heck outa it for the HoT.
Only reason I'm aiming for it atm is in case it actually becomes useful.. that & I want all my clickies i can get ;p
Stick Ferocity on it then (don't care whether it's irinou or not... both are the same as far as I'm concerned)
~9 minutes after focus and all that... 7 min recast on bp... so at least in the (rare) solo situation it wouldn't need to stay memmed for resists. In group/raid, it'd just be an extra melee it could be kept on.
Given the refresh fero does seem like it'd be a decent fit. Still waiting to hear from others though. Once there seems to be some agreement I'll post about it.
fero seems best fit really... the call for it isn't that major.. and since we've not really heard any rumors of fero changing to be more useful, it won't be "overpowering"
I agree with ferocity for it, it would be a viable clicky for sure. I would love to keep ferocity up on myself, but thats an extra gem as well as a lot of mana which i need for BE/ancientnukeofresistalot/growl.
A guild shaman hasnt slept in 20 hours trying to get one for the .8 sec cast HoT clicky hehe. Heck if the druid BP was changed to circle of nettes or blessing of oak i would too...Im tired of carrying elemental legs around for the DS clicky hehe.
I'd like to see Beastial Empathy. It would mean we could occasionally have three pets (1 normal and 2 BE), but it's only for 18 seconds every 7 minutes.
(edit -- the Fero idea sounds pretty decent too. Go for the Irionu version.)
What about an insta invis
I lean toward making the clicky Fero, nuke would be a close second if fero got turned down.
Didnt see the refresh timer the other day. I do agree though, Ferocity would be a better choice on the tunic.
notice that its the same recast delay (type 8 ) as the vish class quest items which is already a nuke, so I don't agree a nuke would be better.
I'd vote BE, even chimera blood would be better.
Fero would be nice. Probably best. Omens focus spell would be semi-passable. SA would be very nice imo. If we got group haste, could work with that....but, it's probably not best to try to get the item changed, and a new spell added at teh same time lol.
I agree with Fero. It fits in with what the vague idea of 'class defining' skills we have available to us. The only other option which might be kinda cool would be paragon, but I doubt that one'll happen.
Barring those two, a nuke, I guess. What else do we have that's potentially useful every 7 minutes?
My vote would be cast for Ferocity, DoDh pet or a nuke. I'd rather not see SA because that's not something I usually have to recast every 7 mins.
Note that the cleric and shaman clickies are getting changed to single target. Festering malady isn't that bad compared to what some other classes get. And this is just a tier 1 clicky, it isn't meant to be class defining. But I won't complain if it is changed to something better ;-)
hmmmm...clicky FoI maybe won't have to get the glowing rune to get the spell, just use the clicky instead. I kinda like that idea.
I would love to see Fero on that tunic, as a high end raiding bst it is one of my most used spells other than sa. It would be nice to have it as a click so that wouldnt need to keep it memmed all the time.
As for marks..I got one of a named root mob on far east if that valley that gave some gloves with 40% haste on them...sorry dont remember the stats, only turned in out of curiousity and then destroyed them.
Also if you go into Rellic and goto Borso he will give you a task you do in arcstone killin some root mobs, pyrilien guys and some undeads and rewards you with a pretty nice ac20 200ish hp ring. Caster version is an earring.
He also gives a task done right there in rellic right near him killin supply runners and stealing some crates...reward is an ac17 ear with like 175hp on it. The supply runners hit 1k ish and some ae nuke so bring a healer.
Another task giver there gives a task for arcstone to kill stags for a 55/55/55 aug.
Nullef Fier of Stromm
70th Season a Fleas
1300+ aa
Few weapons ive come accross
both 2h
Fist of Force - 38/30 145hp Lifesap 1 - Arcstone dog named for quest
Naturebound staff - 43/36 115hp - freeze strike 1 - Takish hiz, named mob in a tower
Both mnk/bst
nullef.. the gloves were ".. of wildkin" I bet... i got the hat mark from Thorn. Think I still got the hat in my bags, but I've not updated magelo in a while, so it won't show up.
I'd like to see Ferocity/irionu, nuke, group haste.. (in that order)
There is no way they would add fero to a tier 1 bp though it would be awesome and anything is better than the stupid disease dot they have now. For a reasonable request I vote for Chimera blood.
Enchanters apparently have Rune of Rikkukin on their bp. That's a 69 quested spell from DoN. Given that for comparison, I don't think that FoI is out of the question, although Fero seems more likely to happen.
Yes the gloves were wildkin...i was curious and did turnin even tho mark was tradeable lol
I am qvic gloves so they were no way an upgrade...but still very nice with 40% haste on them.
I got the bp today for me and my cleric...cleric gets an uber grp heal equal or better than max aa rejuv and we get a disease dot that barely lands on lvl 1 green mobs...so adding fero is not unreasonable or far fetched...atleast something more useful to us...every other class gets a useful clicky. Im in tacvi, anguish, don tier5 and is no way that dot will ever land on any of those mobs.
Id love Fero...hell I would really love clicky SA, but that not gonna happen...really sucks on raid wipes and be only beast on and 50 ppl want sa and you need to save mgb for para...sa clicky would rock :p
But screw them....they can wait till im FM...fero fero fero :D
Also, the Cloak of the Spirit Stalker in arcstone...I lvl it to lvl 3 today...lvl 2 and lvl 3 are the same damn stats...sent bug report and hope they listen.
mmmm haste. Which mob type dropped em? The river guy (myst somethings - named begins with S) drops the boots (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39863). Had been wearing ornate till now.
edit: before you fight a lot in the zone make sure you grab all the quests at the zone in but also zone into Relic, invis, and hang a couple quick lefts. There are two mission givers that hand out individual missions for killing stuff in arcstone. One is a 55hp/mana/end aug for killing the horses, fallen spirits, and Herd master dude. The other I *think* is for a 200hp/mana ring for killing the tangleroots (PITA), river guys, and fire guys.
While on the subject, and I can't recall if I have seen it on these boards, there is a 175hp belt quest that starts in Elddar forest. Talk with speaker greyleaf who wants you to deliver a seed he gives you to the dryad of tunare in PoG. If you aren't KoS in PoG the quest takes all of about 30 min. If you are KoS get a running start up the ramp on the tree hehe. Note that this is a SoV zone so don't drag the boddies of your evil race friends... The caster version is a 165 or 170 mana back piece but isn't as good as the spirit tracker cloak in arcstone.
Anyone know of other quests like these? My small guild (2-3 groups with alts) guild has enjoyed doing them and the rewards are upgrades.
I saw it posted that our PoR aura will be Fero. If this is true, it pretty much eliminates the need for fero spell or clicky. But I agree anything would be better than a dot that's so poor nobody even mems it. Now if they added a resist mod to that dot, then we'd be talking...
From another thread:
Aura of Ferocity:
1: Increase Attack Speed by 50%
2: ATK unknown calc: 128 range: 200 -> 0
3: AGI unknown calc: 128 range: 100 -> 0
4: DEX unknown calc: 128 range: 100 -> 0
But no clue if this is ours...just wish we could find where to get it...or whatever our aura is
Also, has anyone found out who the task giver, or how you get the new lvl 70 spells Spirit of Oroshar and Rake ??
Just got rake. It's from the saga skins quest.
What npc, loc, what zone?
can you post more info on the saga skins task? I've got 2 skins so far from this, like to know all the diff mobs "and possibly the drop names"
that they drop off of. task just says 'find more of these strangely patterened skins", for all 9 skins.
and what you have to do next.
thanks!
I tried my clicky FM tonight on mpg raid trials during anguish backflags...landed every single time...loaded spell...never landed..weird how clicky is supposed to be the spell yet it works the way it supposed to and not the spell.
Tried the clicky bp FM again in anguish...10 mobs 100% landed...then i loaded the spell...10 mobs..landed once only.
Sp the bp clicky isnt too bad...wish they would fix it so the spell would work, then maybe would use it.
Quote from: Dreead on February 27, 2006, 12:40:51 AM
Just got rake. It's from the saga skins quest.
Saga skins = DevAstation (wtb spell check for their frickin zone names) quest.
In the clumps of mobs, esp near the center castle, there are named in the mix. Kill & loot em & u get auto assigned to task Saga skins. Gotta collect 9 skins to complete the task.
You dont have to kill named to get the skins, I got one tonight from a Blue con, trash mob. Got the quest from that. Named might drop more often though.
got all but 2 mission kobold and hmm Giant? pretty much all gorup was atthis point after 4h30 min
if you look on lucy the ToB class armour is starting to pop up. Its a tiny bit better than qvic, and the BP's have the same clickies as the tier 1 BP's, but the timer is reduced to 3.5min.
so if the spell on the BP ever gets changed I'd have to vote against a nuke for sure, otherwise it would be the exact same effect and timer as the vish clicky.
after the next patch rake will be obtainable on another (easier) task as well as the saga skins task (http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=Veterans&message.id=192955#M192955).
Quote from: Nullef on February 27, 2006, 05:19:27 AM
Tried the clicky bp FM again in anguish...10 mobs 100% landed...then i loaded the spell...10 mobs..landed once only.
Sp the bp clicky isnt too bad...wish they would fix it so the spell would work, then maybe would use it.
I cannot confirm this. I'm not in anguish yet, but I've seen plenty of clicky FM resists on a large variety of mobs.
I was referring the the bp clicky FM sticking on tons of mobs whereas the spell itself not stickin on the same mobs.
Quote from: Nullef on March 02, 2006, 10:04:16 PM
I was referring the the bp clicky FM sticking on tons of mobs whereas the spell itself not stickin on the same mobs.
I understood that...you indicated 100% success with the bp clicky, which is what I refuted. My own experience with the bp clicky is probably in the 30% success neighborhood. I don't load the spell version at all...the longer cast time and short life of mobs makes it not worth the mana in raids.
Just saying on what i tested it on i had a 100% success rate....i still dont use it alot..forget i have it half the time lol
I still would rather see something else as a clicky..something more useful...something as useful as other classes get.
I agree, I made this tunic a week ago and from my own testing it lands about 40% in Anguish and about 60% on regular exp mobs. Most of the times I don't even use it and thats sad that I spent 5 hours with a group to get this done. Have we heard anything about this yet? Is it going to be changed to something more worth it?
Lots aren't happy with their effects, but I'm not sure we'll see a change at this point. Still going to try though and see. *shrugs*
Well I've been looking into the wildkin armor set and so far the pieces that I see are pretty good for the casual player and as I've seen it doesn't seem that hard to get. But then again I'm sure most have decent guild groups to do these so idk yet. Anyone have some links to the teir 2 armor yet? just wondering the stats compared to the teir 1 stuff.
I will try and find where I saw them... dig some poking around the other day out of curiosity myself. May take a little bit... stupid work, grumble, grumble.
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39979
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39980
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39983
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39982
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39985
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39981
All drop off of a level 73 War mob: a shadowmane feralist. Sorry, just drooled on my keyboard looking at the gloves.
I don't beelive legs drop from trash mobs, pretty sure BP/legs drop from named feralists.
Something to note about Arcstone is many of the mobs don't show up on track (Druid - can't say about Ranger/Bard): Stillsheen, Thorn, Seed(pod?). Probably more but that is all I can attest to. I also haven't looked but am thinking the 5 cloak mobs aren't trackable either. I am also of the mindset that each "zone" probably has at least 2 named mobs. Fire has 3, seen 2 roots, know of 2 air. Have only seen 1 undead and 1 water though. Haven't spent much time killing the wolves or mobs that aren't tied to spirit marks or involved with the Relic quests. Bp and legs are the only no drop spirit marks that I have seen (have legs, helm, and boots). Has anyone found a quest that relates to the air drops? They all seem to have a drop similar to the other mobs you need to kill for the relic quests.
On a side note the helm for Iksar is a yellow cow skull. The rest seem to be brown leather though the BP could be different I guess.
Quote from: Chickennuggets on March 08, 2006, 02:21:04 PM
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39979
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39980
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39983
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39982
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39985
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39981
All drop off of a level 73 War mob: a shadowmane feralist. Sorry, just drooled on my keyboard looking at the gloves.
Is it me or does the focus setup and the stat setup seem alot better then Qvic setups? Avoidance, shieldings, and combat effects out the wazzu. Not to mention DEX.
most of the foci/effects do look better than qvic, as do the hps etc. Only one minor thing missing from it that would make me still unwilling to use the boots... pet focus.
There's a ring that drops from the battlemaster event that I'm trying to get so I won't have to worry about getting the Qvic boots. Eye of the Labyrinth or something like that.
/grumble.. yeah.. we didn't do him that much, but the risk/reward on him was so poor that we stopped doing him a while back.
Actually my guild found BMR quite easy. The ring is a little rare I think, but might I add a very good pick up if oyu can get it....very tuned towards beastlord usage. I also like the hat, whish is better then Qvic, and arguably better then ToB helm.
I aquired the tunic from ToB, drops off a mini named and couldnt find it in on alla and wasnt in the magelo system, so if you want to check it out my magelo at http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=1133430 , its a pretty pimp tunic, with the same clicky dot as the arcstone one tho :(... Named feralist btw, all the bst stuff drops off the same type of mob in ToB. Oh ya the recast time is alot better on the click, 3.30 (makes it a lil better) but it still doesnt land on anything my guild kills these days.
Another topic for this thread, the new ability Rake. From the Saga skins quest in Devistation. This Ability I have found to be the much needed boost for dps I needed. Since I achieved this ability from finishing the quest I have scored top 15 in dps on almost every parse. Me and pet did 161k in 6 mins to mob..... not to shabby. Used every time its pops and also timed right to hit twice during bestial frenzy = $$ average I've noticed on the 3 h2h attacks (3 extra attacks on top of all others) my average is 397 (seen crits over 1k) and during bestial frenzy more like 700 or 800 (crits for almost 2k!). GOGO bst dps! :)
One of the new MM's is in Icewell Keep, dude gives 3 missions and boss of every mission drops 1 piece to an aug, after achieving all 3 pieces turn them in and you get a pretty nice 70/70/70 aug, has a few other mods on it to i believe, ac and i think avoidance. Other good augs i have found in PoR is from Skylance 2 random drop 75/75/75 haste 40%, Skylance 3 10ac 60/60/60 mana regen and regen 2 off the boss mob. Both of these missions are from Ao in Arcstone. As for you ppl that were complaining about this thread, I am sorry as I was one of the ppl trying to defend our class. It started with me saying I liked Rake and of course someone had to come and complain about our dps (which I still think isn't half as bad as ppl make it out). I will try to get the name of the guy in Icewell that gives the missions, I can't currently remember, but its a really fun mm. Still wtb our new pet proc.... anyone found it yet?
Someone told me that the pet proc was from some "samples" mission.
I didn't get any details though since I wasn't really that interested in Orishar.
Ive done samples and no pet proc.
Brrraainsss...
Zombie Monster Mission where you invade Rivervale, attempting to kill 80 Halflings within one hour.
Despite there being several hours listed on the duration of the Mission, if you take more than one hour, a literal ARMY of Halfling guards will spawn and chain-wipe / camp your spawn point in the mission, making it rather impossible to continue.
To start the mission, head to the closest zone-corner between Rivervale and High Hold. A Zombie Braineater will give you the mission.
It is a tough mission and quite easy to fail if you are slow. The group I do it with has done it several times, with a steep learning curve, and even now, still often finish with only 5 or 6 minutes to spare.
It is best if one Zombie uses the Halfling Brains to Heal (600ish Hit Point Heal - One Use), while a second zombie is the 'puller' (So that if they train themselves, only they die). Everyone else uses the halfling brains to create as many pets as possible (5 per person), though the pets do die on their own after an extended amount of time. Stockpile extra brains as needed. Always kill the female halflings first, as they are almost always either druids or clerics and can ruin your mission quite easily.
I have never completed the mission with less than 6 people and I am not certain if it is even possible, as you need DPS that badly to complete it.
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The Needy
Start: Boroz in Relic (He is marked on maps from MapFiend)
Kill 15 Tangleroots (Tree Mobs - Nasty AE Root that does upwards of 900 Damage), Loot 4 Pods
Kill 15 Emberflames (Fire Mobs - Spawn a 'baby' randomly during fight, one per mob, cast Ignite Armor), Loot 4 Hearts
Kill 15 Stillwaters (Water Mobs - Spawn a 'baby' randomly during fight, one per mob, cast a nasty 2 Second AE Stun), Loot 4 Waters
Return All 12 Looted Items, 4 at a time, Unstacked for your reward.
Melee Reward http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39705 (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39705)
Caster Reward http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39706 (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39706)
This quest is not that hard right now, as Arcstone (Where all the mobs to be killed may be found) is rather heavily populated (At least on my server), but may become more difficult as popularity in the zone diminishes. The only hard part I had was the Tangleroots, as most pickup groups cannot survive more than one of the mobs in camp at a time (Which is not a problem with a good puller), due to their AE.
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Crossfire
Start: NPCs name is forgotten at this time, but it is right near Boroz in Relic
Kill 15 Fallen Spirits (Fallen Champions do not work), Loot 4 Arcstone Spirit Dusts
Kill 15 Spirit Stags (Kirin Model mobs, easily soloed by me), Loot 4 Hooves
Kill 1 Master of the Herd (Named Kirin who comes with 3 Stag Adds - Spawns in the 'safe valley' near the Skylance Zone)
Return the 8 Looted Items, One at a time, unstacked to the quest giver.
Reward: http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39710 (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=39710)
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I would list the Cloak Quest, but I am unable to remember the name of all the monsters who give credit for the spirit marks - Besides, from what I have heard, the quest will be changed with the update tomorrow, so any information provided would quickly become invalid.
All-in-all, PoR has given a few very nice gear upgrades to the 'non-uber' beastlords, though the soloing options for our class are rather limited, unless you are heavily geared, as even in the lowest zone (Takish), the green con mobs hit for high 100s, with blue cons going well into the 300-400 mark and have a few rather annoying spells/procs. I could not find a single zone where I could reliably solo for any experience worth mentioning.
Despite the complaints that many others have voiced, I would say the expansion is worth getting if you have friends to help you get some of the gear, but if you are a solo player or someone who does not like questing, you could hold off - No AA, no (found) Aura for our class, and while Rake is nice (For me at least) - it is not worth the cost of admission.
Topic has been cleaned up a bit(as edited title suggests). There is some good information in this post and it'd be nice to see more continue to be added. If you are going to reply in this thread please try to keep posts to things that deal with items/spells/etc found in PoR and any extra information that can be added to what others have previous said on this topic.
Whats ToB ?
Theater of Blood, the new PoR zone, only way to get there is by finishing a quest for the Twisting harmonic chime, which ports you there when right clicked. You also get an aa for it to, can just click the hotkey and go to ToB. First part of this quest starts in Arcstone with the Skylance missions from Ao. Also need the 3 North Ro missions (also known as the 70 aura mission arc). After that you need to finish the Saga Skins quest for Rake, and upon finishing it you get a mission called Becoming the Vassel. Upon finishing this quest you get access to the to the instance tower in Stronghold (the zone through Devistation). You then get a quest from Oathmir in Devistation to collect some bloods from the instance Tower zone in Stronghold. This is not an easy quest to finish as the blood mission and the Tower access missions where much easier with guild raid help. It can be done with a group as there is a hard and a normal version of the Blood quest tho. However if your not end game geared I would not try to exp or anything in ToB, as everything hits really hard, has really nasty regen, all red conned to 70's, and everything see's invis :) Upon reading this needed some further instructions. Quest actually starts with the Mage that stands solo in a tent at the zone in to Arcstone, after completeing the 3 skylance missions you recieve a chime, take it back to the mage, he gives ya a different chime, after completing the Oathmir quest to collect the bloods, you then hand the chime the mage gave you to Oathmir. He gives you back another Chime... then back to the Mage in Arcstone where he hands you guess what... another different chime :). then you need to complete the Nro arc and give the Queen in Nro (same one you get last mission from for Nro arc) the chime from the mage.... get another chime back, then back to the mage in arcstone where he will give you the completed chime and the aa ability.
Probably a silly question, but do Disease-DoT's do anything to negate the ToB mobs' massive regen? I seem to recall that such a tactic used to work on critters like Cazel so many moons ago...
Just picked up our pet proc spell today. You get it for completing 3 Skylance missions given out by Ao the 4th. If you've already done them, just hail Ao for the spell. It's fire based. Based on my parsing, under ideal conditions (vs. RS fire mobs), the cold-based Irionu proc does about 12 dps (assuming full damage per landed proc), while under raid conditions its closer to 5 dps. Doing the math (250 dam vs 195 dam) the new spell should do 15 dps under optimal conditions and about 6 dps in raids. Thats about a 2 dps boost (yee-ha!). Better than a stick in the eye I guess. It will stun higher level mobs tho, thats a nice feature.
I think getting the Arcstone spirit mark cloak will become far easier. I was trying to get peeps to come up to help me kill the last one I needed & was checking if he's up.... Found his corpse sitting on the bridge with 2 marks rotting. So yeah, a mob that's duoable to soloable is gonna be dropping pieces multiple pieces, so you'll probably be hearing "/ooc Mark of So&So rotting" alot soon.
Quote from: Pakratz on March 15, 2006, 07:43:57 PM
Just picked up our pet proc spell today. You get it for completing 3 Skylance missions given out by Ao the 4th. If you've already done them, just hail Ao for the spell. It's fire based. Based on my parsing, under ideal conditions (vs. RS fire mobs), the cold-based Irionu proc does about 12 dps (assuming full damage per landed proc), while under raid conditions its closer to 5 dps. Doing the math (250 dam vs 195 dam) the new spell should do 15 dps under optimal conditions and about 6 dps in raids. Thats about a 2 dps boost (yee-ha!). Better than a stick in the eye I guess. It will stun higher level mobs tho, thats a nice feature.
Hope they shift it to becoming a debuff of sorts, as was original plan.
The pet proc can be found by doing Skylance 3... got it today. :)
Pet proc also triggers prism skin which is a one hit rune that stacks with feral guard. Now that it's in the game I'm hoping they update on the status of changing the buff soon.
Also, in response to:
"Probably a silly question, but do Disease-DoT's do anything to negate the ToB mobs' massive regen? I seem to recall that such a tactic used to work on critters like Cazel so many moons ago..."
Short version is, no. Long version involves me ranting about bad tests, people that don't listen, and charisma effecting slow landing on mobs. 8P Since my BP is already too hig has it is just take the short version at face value and PM me for the long version when you need a laugh further down the road. 8)
charisma affects slow landing on mobs? do tell, do tell!
QuoteProbably a silly question, but do Disease-DoT's do anything to negate the ToB mobs' massive regen? I seem to recall that such a tactic used to work on critters like Cazel so many moons ago..
Cazel? You mean the 5K sand giant that my pet can solo these days without batting an eye, but was the teror of the Oasis docks when I started this game 4 years ago? That truely is funny. Really .. tears in my eyes and everything. Please, I cant stop.
Anyway yea ToB regen is massive .. duoing seems to be out of the question for right now even for top tier guilds as it just isnt very practical. Need a full group to kill trash there at least. Plus some of the AE's are rather nasty.
Yeah, that good ol' SG. He had CRAZY MASSIVE regen, but if you hit him with a disease DoT it stopped it and your guild's raid had a better chance of taking him down. Of course, that was back when extra points in AGI made you run faster too.
From the accounts that my fully-anguish-geared buddies have given me, even a good group has problems beating that regen. We're planning on getting at least 8 people together before we try it next time. And I get to count as a dps slot, whee!