One more GM task question-hafling

[Kharakid]

I know most here are done with the DON tradeskill tasks, I have been working on the GM one for over a year now. I got previous 2 attempts deleted somehow and now, on my third attempt I sit with all but 10 mobs to go.

Therein lies my question. I did 2 creator missions today and except for looting a razor sharp drake claw and needing to give to guy in rivervale I go no task updates even though we killed many kinds of drakes.

Now, my task calls for me to kill 10 Stillmoon stone drakes, Allah's listing for this task calls for Stillmoon Stone Casters. I am not sure if differant classes of same race get slightly differant tasks or not, I cannot seem to find any stone drakes listed on beastery and am at a loss as to what zone/missions I should attempt to locate said stone drakes. Has anyone else done the GM task as a hafling ranger or noticed the differance between what allah's site says and what your task window says???

Any help would be appreciated, would love to finish this task before it gets deleted again!

[Jackmoove]

So, as you said 'Now, my task calls for me to kill 10 Stillmoon stone drakes"

Have you tried STILLMOON for these?

That is where you will find them- in the instanced stillmoon missions

[Kharakid]

Trying this again

Well, this used to be the place where one could go to make a post without alot of worry about the tone of replies. Guess those days are gone huh?

I will admit after reading mine again though that I could have been a bit more clear with some of the back ground information. I tried the non-instanced Stillmoon temple and saw none. I was thinking that an instanced would be needed. In the interest of not doing 4 different instanced missions looking for mobs that may already be rare I am looking for help on which missions to do to give me the best chance of seeing the mobs I am looking for. The beastery in allah only lists named of non typical mobs in the instances.

I know most here finished that task a long time ago, like I said, my first two attempts on this were deleted after doing raid or group missions. The second time it poofed was with less then 20/80 to go, missions are getting to be like ldons in finding peeps even wanting to do them anymore, that is why I was asking for help in making what missions I do get the most likely to help me finish.

[filobeto]

Read this:

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?t=22146

You did however mention that the task list 10 Stillmoon Stone Drakes, which is different than the 10 Stillmoon Stone Casters that were needed long ago when I finished mine.

I believe they were going to change it (the 10 mobs at the end) as the Stone Casters were a rare spawn, it's very possible that they did. If so, please disregard my post as it probably won't help you.

[Tokkyl]

When I did this myself as a halfling druid (ages ago as I checked out the link it was 9/28/2005, but memory still haunts me) it was the elusive Stone Caster which had a 1 in 14 chance of spawning in only 2 locations in regular version of the Stillmoon temple.

As filobeto mentioned they've changed the task and now it is supposed to be easier as the Stone Drake is supposed to be more plentiful. I remember reading a post about that somewhere but can't find atm.
**Remembered it was actually a patch update - will need to look there!

I'm assuming this can still be done in the NON-instance version of Stillmoon Temple as I doubt they changed the location but just the mobs required. I've avoided this zone like the plague though since I finished my task, but if I get a chance I'll run in sometime and see what I find and post here.

If I hadn't gotten the help from this site myself back then, I never would of completed my GM book.

So THANKS again filobeto!

[Gaell Stormracer]

I did 2 creator missions today

Now, my task calls for me to kill 10 Stillmoon stone drakes, Allah's listing for this task calls for Stillmoon Stone Casters.

This is the problem: Creator is a Thundercrest instance, not a Stillmoon instance. You'll need to do the looting in a Stillmoon instance such as Elusive Kirin or Sickness of Spirit to update.

[Verdandi]

I believe they were going to change it (the 10 mobs at the end) as the Stone Casters were a rare spawn, it's very possible that they did.

Aye. We've had it updated since this report.

[Kharakid]

Update

Thank you for the replies to my post, I wanted to follow up on what I have found out. I FINALLY completed this task! I poked my head into non-instanced version of stillmoon and picked a spot at zi to ascent zone. Started killing. I was watching track to see if this elusive stillmoon stone drake would spawn or not. I looked, just for fun, after several kills at my task and was surprised to see not 0/10 but 4/10 for the drake kills. WTF?? started paying closer attention to taskupdate window and this is what I noticed. a stillmoon stone drake is not the name of a mob so much as a type of mob. I noticed updates on at least 2 differant mobs, both were named a stillmoon stone <x> there was a stone <caster> and a stone <wing> and I think one more. I never did see a mob with stone drake in its name. Rare? no, took all of 2 hours? maybe, and I got the named, Jorvash the usurper to pop 3 times while I was there. Hope this helps anyone else still working on this task, what a pita!

[Tokkyl]

I never did see a mob with stone drake in its name. Rare? no, took all of 2 hours? maybe, and I got the named, Jorvash the usurper to pop 3 times while I was there. Hope this helps anyone else still working on this task, what a pita!

Gratz and be happy it was changed - when I did it was happy to get ONE update in 2 hours let alone complete the task.