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In Honor and Service (Dwarven Ringmail Tunic)

Level:17

– Captain R K Irontoe (+135,+98) in Kelethin, will give you this Heritage Quest. He should speak to you no matter if you’re good or evil.

– Visit the War Memorial for the Battle at Burning Root and click on it (-299,-54).

– You have to collect 10 Dwarven War Artefacts. These are random spawns around the area of the War Memorial, you can hit tab to target these as you’re running around.

– Head back to Captain R K Irontoe. He asks you to find the Dwarven Ringmail Designs.

– Head to the caves at Echo Echo Canyon. Inside the caves, (+16,-292) you will find a strong box, click it.

– The clues can be found in one of the tents on Orc Hill (+293,-139). Click on the chest you find there.

– This next part asks you to find a way to locate the Three Crushbone Orc Spies. As you come out of the tent with the chest, turn slightly left and go to the second of the two tents furthest away. On the floor at the back is a Scroll which you need to click on.

– Kill the Crushbone Orc Sentries until you get the three Tuning Discs.

– Now you need to click on the Gong to the right of the chest tent (+288,-152).

– The first spy is found at (-178,-16). This is near Memorial Hill, a branch which you can walk over that has Orc Scribbles on it. Second spy is found at (+745,-76) at the entrance way to Butcherblock Mountains. An upright branch just inside on the right with Orc Scribbles. The third spy is located up in the tree city. Take the Old Kelethin Acorn Lift up and when disembarking turn right. There is a branch here you can walk along to find the Orc Scribblings. For all of the spies they pop as you draw close. If they don’t it may be because someone has just killed them, repop is only a couple of minutes.

– You are next asked to find some Shrool Dust. Head towards the Tunare’s Sapling and jump in the pond, follow the river east until you find the Mushroom King (+144,+144).

– Now you need to kill 20 Fayflies and collect 10 Brook Patch Toadstools. Both can be found in the area of Tunare’s Glade (-243,369). Look on the leaves and branches as well as the ground for the toadstools. You can tab these to target them as well.

– Now head back to the Mushroom King and he will give you the Shroom Dust.

– Head back to Orc Hill and then right click the chest to sprinkle the dust on it.

– Inspect the note you have just received. You now have to find 9 copies of the Dwarven Ringmail Plans. All of these can be found in the Orc Valley. You must kill all members of the groups to get the update.

• Sullon Brigade Warsmith (-655,-261)
• Vallon Brigade Warsmith (-750,-77)
• Derris Brigade Warsmith (-845,+5)
• Tallon Brigade Warsmith (-1081,+203)
• Gullon Brigade Warsmith (-1390,+176)
• Crushbone Expedition Leader (-791,-223)
• Crushbone Expedition Chef (-774,-259)
• Crushbone Expedition Weaponsmith (-791,-222)
• Crushbone Expedition Planner (-726,-269)

– Kill the four groups of Crushbone Footmen to spawn the Expedition Officers, they are the place holders.

– Once you are done this, you must go into Crushbone Keep, and in the entrance way, unlock the four chests that are placed around the edges. There are two on each side. Take the plans from each, and head back to Captian R K Irontoe for your reward!

Receive Reward: Dwarven Ringmail Tunic
Receive Reward: 20,766 Status Points
Receive Reward: 10,000 Irontoe Brigade Status

Everyone has their own views on plat farmers and gold sellers in any MMO. Personally, I hate both. I’ve been trying to complete my access for the inner portion of obelisk for months now with little to no success simply because of the one or two farming groups in there. You know the type, where there’s 4 wizards and a fury all auto following a guardian, they invis through the entire zone (thank you soe, for the revamp that messed it all up) and popping right in front of a named mob (since almost every named in Obelisk has no place holder at all) seconds after it spawns, no matter who is around / in the room, and squishing it, then invising again and moving on.

Frustration. Lots and lots of frustration.

So, when I started getting spam comments on both my blog site, and both of my email accounts (I use one for this blog when I get comments, and I use another for mmoquests.com) I was slightly ticked off.

I had three of these waiting in my email, and another two more spam comments on the blog. Anyone else getting friendly visits from gold sellers asking to advertise on your site? Even if they paid me for advertising for them, I wouldn’t do it, why? Because I absolutely hate this sort of thing.

There are exchange servers in EQ2 (I have no idea about other games / servers) that are set up specifically for the purpose of buying / selling money in game for real life currency. It’s done in a relatively safe manor, and those who have no interest at all in doing this, don’t have to play there. Personally, it’s just not my thing. I think buying gold from sites like this ruins the game, the economy, and various other things that I don’t want to rant about at 6:47am. I think it was nice of SoE to recognize the issue and set up servers where they can handle the buying / selling themselves but I don’t think it did anything at all to stop other companies such as the one above from persuing it as well.

Enough rambling about that, I’ll post again a bit later today, raids this weekend went pretty nicely.

Finally, Stargrace’ snow globe collection is complete (for this year)

Antonican, Frostfell, Fae, Volcanic, Dervish, Mystical, Thulian, Bixie, and Everling. Those are the 9 snow globes that were handed out as free gifts from the gift giver in the village. Why on earth anyone would need or even want so many snow globes, I’ve no clue. They’re pretty none the less, and right clicking on them provides some house music (one of my pet peeves is the music that comes in every Qeynos home *shudders*). All of my alts have random pieces of this collection stashed away on them, as I claimed with everyone I could for a week in order to complete at least one set for my main character.

Last night was raids, and for the first time since early December, we were full! Short on healers, but full none the less, it was nice. We headed off to Freethinkers Hideout, which is a moderately hard zone. First name down without any issues (granted I died, a lot, this was my first time in the zone as an enchanter and not a healer, and finding my niche was slightly more difficult), downed the second name after two attempts, with some people in the raid experiencing numerous bugs with the zone. I wish they were fixed. One very annoying bug is mobs spawning in the world. It makes it very difficult to burn down adds if no one can see them. Another bug, when (if) the raid wipes, there is at least 2-10 people who end up freezing at the loading entities screen. You have to type /quit (your name here) in order to load back into the game and not be frozen. Which of course takes time, and when there are 20-24 people and 2-10 of them are freezing, it creates a lot of down time waiting.

And waiting.

And waiting some more.

Loot was…. interesting. It wasn’t horrible I suppose. We got one plate breastplate that went to the main tank, a legendary belt that went to a healer, and a piece of the fury set gear (fabled) that was absolutely gorgeous, grats to Jarath for that. It took a little over four hours just to get those three (really two) pieces of loot.

Wanted to do Nizara tonight before we raid Chel’Drak so Stargrace can get some ring upgrades (Uddo and Jarath need this zone as well) but that fell through, so I think today we’re doing Chel’Drak and Inner Sanctum depending on the force that turns up. We’re short one healer for sure, but we should be able to make do. Inner Sanctum is actually one of my favorite zones as far as EoF goes. We typically do clockwork as well, but I don’t really care for that zone, it’s just about burning the mobs as fast as you can. Emerald Halls, well, I’ve only been there once. It’s an all day raid in my opinion.

Just one of many tinkered items with the new crafting subclass

I have Silverstep working transmuting, slowly. It’s a very slow skill to level up. I’ll go into more detail about that another time. For now, I have Stargrace working on tinkering. When these two sub-crafts came out, they were dependant on your primary crafting skill. I liked it this way since I worked hard on my crafters, it was nice to benefit from being a level 70 crafter. They removed that shortly after though, and it is now dependant on either crafting level or adventure level. Great for those non-crafters.

Tinkering uses a whole lot of resources. Know those dreaded loams that seem to be in abundance right when you’re looking for ore? Well, if you’re taking the path of the tinkerer, save those. You’ll regret it other wise. You use about 900+ leaded loam just to get out of the first tier. As well as the regular raws like malachite, tin, and lead clusters. You can find a huge in depth list of every item able to be tinkered here. There are some exceptionally over powered items. For example, an item that mem-wipes. Now, enchanters both get mem wipe spells. In fact, it’s our ancient teachings spells. So they’re worth a pretty penny. Due to this fact, they also have exceptionally long re-cast timers. They can also be resisted. The tinkered item however.. has a 2 second cast timer, and an instant re-cast, and is not resisted.

Wow.

There is also a feign death item. It has a 99% chance to go off. Shadowknights get feign death as one of their spells, and at M1 it only has a 96% chance to go off, for 10-20 seconds. the tinkered one lasts for 5 minutes.

There are speed items, mounts, and a portable mendor (who charges more then a regular mendor, but on the run, it’s still nice) so while the grind is so incredibly slow (you rarely get skill ups, and can easily go through those 900 loam and only get to a skill of 30) it is well worth it in the end. The majority of these tinkered items are also only able to be used by tinkerers. Another plus to me. If everyone out there could use all of these items, then what did I grind away at it for. It would not be quite as unique, I could just pay someone to make the items I wanted for me. I’m sure in time they will be slightly revamped and fixed up and changed, so I’m taking advantage of it now and continue to grind away at them.

On the other side.. I’ve found a display case I want to buy, a house item of course. It requires 10,000 faction with the ironforge exchange. Roughly 100 tradeskill writs (non-rush) to get it. I figure if I do 10 tradeskill writs a day, then in 9 days I’ll be sporting my new display cases. Got my 10 yesterday done, we’ll have to see if I can keep up with it. If I do the lowest available writ, it uses items that are cheap and easy to find on my provisioner, and not the good berries that I use to make my own food and drink. Meat and squash and water are all they use actually. That stuff is so easy to come by.

The newest Frostfell book, tucked away in Stargrace’ room

Managed to complete one thing on my list at least – the bone clasped girdle heritage quest is done. Very simple too, two other guild mates needed it done so we collected our bones, trained to the forge in SoS, crafted the piece we needed (I crafted for one through commission), ran back to the npc, killed Do’dragon in Bonemire, back to the npc, did a quick race to three islands, and back again to kill the final level 70 ^^^ who has a nasty kick back. At level 70 it’s a pretty quick and painless quest, even with 4 of us in the group. The guild status was nice, I’m sitting at 70k with Stargrace, after losing my 124k with Silverstep, I’ve got a lot more HQ to complete, so it shouldn’t take too long (hopfully) just depends on how much time I spend slacking.

Those who know me, both in game and out. Know I have fairly little tolerance. I have no patience for stupidity, especially in game. I hate people who speak for others, who generalize concepts about minorities (or majorities), I can’t stand egocentrism, and a number of other comments that people make. It makes for very quiet playing time, because I’d rather solo my way around then have to deal with people in a lot of cases. Those who are my friends though, are friends for a good long time. I’ve known people in game going on 5+ years now, and they’re some of my closest friends. It just takes a bit for me to open up. Anyhow, as I was reading some blogs today, I realized that goes for everything. There are some people who generalize about others, who make rude stupid snide comments (and posts) and expect others to listen. I had to rant that out. I tend to avoid rants but gah don’t you just get so frustrated some times?!

Raids tonight, simple x2 raids. Roost is locked still until tomorrow, so that leave crab, and maybe I can get into a Nizara group and complete the quests for my rings before we do Chel’Drak again. We’ll have to see how it goes. Not in a rush to finish my class hat since I won the circlet in courts, but the tinker bag would be nice. Speaking of tinkering, I’ve been stock piling my leaded loam up so I can start working on that. It takes massive amounts of resources, but I figure it’ll be more fun for me then adornments, which Silverstep is already doing.