New Oracle Quest

[Spoogy]

on solusek ro a druid just got their tunic yesterday with no problems.

[Kludain]

I just completed the quest and recieved my tunic today, without a problem.

I'm a druid on solusek ro as well, nothing related to the above poster though =)

[eloran]

odd

sounds like there just isnt a melee reward for this since the ranger didnt get anything but its working fine for the rest of us

[KirieRavenwing]

Bummer. You know, it'd be nice if they finally finished the robe graphics for the rest of us strange halfbreeds and non-arcane-casting types. I would /dearly/ love to wear a robe of any sort, good stats or not, as a half elf. I seem to recall many a person beating up Chialie (sp?) in Shar Vahl for her grandmother's nightie, only to be disappointed half and wood elves, as well as the short races, and the .. ah.. "large" races.. had no robe graphic.

[tnexus]

That was pretty much my thought too. If the NPC is handing out the "correct" class item now, then what happened is since there is no melee version, I got nothing.

[thrashette]

Diary of a construct camper

Nov 3, 2003

Rumor is that these ancient constructs drop the Tome of Miragul. Killed every construct I coud pull. Brought druid alt down and parked him in city safe spot. A dozen Destroyed Constructs are on track, half a dozen Ruined ones, couple of broken one deep in. No Ancients Constructs anywhere.

Nov 4, 2003

There's one Ancient construct up in the back room of the kitchen. Pulled him out, died to adds. Got a group of friends to help with a second try. They died too. We got to kill an Old Construct on the way down to CR. He had a Shiny Golen Earring and a page. I guess the Ancient's going down with the patch.

Nov 5, 2003

Patch day! EQtraders says that the ancients are definitely dropping the tome now. Unfortunately, there are no Ancient Constructs up. I guess I'll slaughter Ruined and Destroyed Constructs until something happens.

(4 hours later)

I've certainly found out how to make Old Constructs spawn. I've three characters full of Shiny Gold Earrings and Shiny Gold Masks now.

Nov 6, 2003

Guild had a raid, so I got to start late tonight. I've got two helpers tonight, so we are concentrating on wiping out the Ruined Constructs. Trouble is, my helpers keep dying off. There's a nice group killing mimics who rezzed them though. By the end of the night, everybody had a Shiny Gold Earring to make up for it. No sign of the Ancient Construct, although we've killed about 20 ruined ones.

Nov 7, 2003

Another late raid start. I have a powerful helper today, so we are blowing through mobs. No sign of the Ancient Construct. Everybody got one of each of the minor loots, and we've discovered a secret named rat with a loot not listed at Aalakhazam's, so it's at least new.

Nov 8, 2003

It's Saturday 1PM, and I've got at least 6 hours to camp this Ancient Construct. He's got to spawn today. I've almost a full group, so we can wipe the place. Some people came though to kill Jaeil, and traded us buffs. Nice of them.

...200 or 300 ruined constructs, ratmen, and yard trashes later...

Yawn. It's midnight, I'm lonely, and I need to sleep. I wish everyone else hadn't left 4 hours ago. I've finished my third AA point in this camp, and I'm starting to think that gargoyles are easy to solo. Look, another rotting Embroidered Ratman Hide Belt. Crash time, try again tomorrow

Nov 9, 2003

Hey, I've a couple hours before today's raid. Might as well go to the Hole. There seem to be two odd raids in the place today, both heading for Yael's old room. They are making ooc fun. Killing ruined constructs is boring though, and I can't seem to spawn the named rat. I wish this would just get over.

...raid comes, raid goes, hours pass...

This Hole thing has become a chore. Given the past 25 hours, I don't expect any luck tonight. Guess I'll take my time, buff the newbies in paineel, help the two guys at the city gates clear the gargoyles, and try to have fun with it. Gonna wait for my friend, too. Oh yeah, guess I should log in druid and track just in case.

Holycrap, the ancient is up, direction of Jaeil. To safe spot we go, and a clearing we start. Every mob is up, so better be thorough. Hey, where are those two last ghosts? Hey, who is THAT other group that wasn't on track 5 minutes ago? And how are they killing MY ancient construct? I guess it was easy to walk through the dungeon where we had cleared it. They got the tome too. Bastards. Well, at least there is hope. So we clear some more, kill a dozen Ruined Constructs. After 15 minutes, look what's bopping along here--an Ancient Construct. Ooh, it's so dead. Look, it's got a Bracer of Law and a Sacred Key. Guess we'll just clear for another two hours and go to bed unsatified.

Nov 10, 2003

These raids are really cutting into Hole Time. I only have an hour tonight to farm. Might be best to just check track and go to sleep. Well lookee there, right on track, is the Ancient Construct. No time to waste--10 minutes later I am in Jaeil's tunnel, with an Ancient Construct corpse, and another Bracer of Law. Friend asks if he should come down, I say yes, I need somene to cry to.

Sigh. Well, let's clear some more. Maybe we can make another double spawn. What that over there? A Ratman Guard? Ok, incoming. What do you mean you can't snare the rat? It's running away. TRAIN! Yeah, the rat had some dusty tome. No, that's not the book I need. Forget this, let's go to sleep.

[Dyllwin]

I feel your pain. I know how much trouble getting to the ruineds can be, and then keeping them clear in hopes of an Ancient. Hang in there you'll get it soon

and btw, that Dusty Tome is for the Shadowknight Epic. Not sure if it can be MQd though...

[Dyllwin]

I feel your pain. I know how much trouble getting to the ruineds can be, and then keeping them clear in hopes of an Ancient. Hang in there you'll get it soon

and btw, that Dusty Tome is for the Shadowknight Epic. Not sure if it can be MQd though...

[Grel]

Touching story thrashette. We killed 4 ancient constructs post patch, first two had no tome, second two dropped tome. Two rock helms, two steel bracers.

Now another question that I have regarding quest prompted by a report from a friend. He was hanging around Oracle today on Stormhammer where a GM was also at and was told there had been a change to the operation of the quest and it somehow related to flags. Now I wonder if this is just the whole note thing and handing the books in order or if there is something else to it.

[Suedyin]

Strategy to spawn the AC

Hi all,
I am a 57 mage. Yesterday thanks to wonderful help from my guildmates in The Elders and friends in Forsaken Realm I got my Tome of Miragul.
I am writing this to describe how we did it while it is still fresh in my mind.
We had myself (57 earth pet), a 52/53 magician (MSII/ 53 air), a 58 cleric, a 65 cleric, a 58 druid and a 57 paladin. All had KEI and HoV, which proved critical at many times.
We fought through the city to the fountain courtyard with the tunnel leading down to the Tower/Temple, rough loc pos 50 pos 450, where we camped. There is a dead earth elemental floating in the pool and the tunnel entrance grating has been ripped apart. We kept the courtyard clear and dealt with any wandering constructs coming out of the library entrance immediately to our north (loc approx pos 100 pos 425). Fire-based spells landed with varying success, although trying to get magic to land proved a waste of mana. Several times we needed to split adds off and left pets to deal with them until we finished.
Once we had cleared the courtyard, we pulled the "storeroom" in the eastern wall of the courtyard, entrance loc about neg 25 pos 400. The PH construct for the Ancient is at the back of the storeroom. We had the AC spawn twice after camping him for 8h over two days- with a higher level group could probably clear faster to increase this rate. It is important to clear the roof gargoyles because they add through the ceiling. It is also *very* important to keep pulling as constantly as possible in order to stay ahead of the respawn.
Our second AC spawned when we were all oom and KEI and HoV had faded... to stay ahead of the respawn we pulled when everyone was 20-30% mana. 3 adds popped during the fight, which we ignored... of course we were all oom pretty quickly again. As soon as the AC fell I looted and the druid evacced.
Amazingly no-one died.

[Kahmon]

Originally posted by Dyllwin
that Dusty Tome is for the Shadowknight Epic. Not sure if it can be MQd though...

Nope. The tome is handed in by itself and all you get for it is higher faction needed for next step. Unless you are a SK you may as well destroy it now.

[Kronepsis]

Any of the ruined constructs are PHs for the Ancient.

My group camped it and had an ancient spawn over a wandering ruined construct as well as that one in the store room.

[Taedirk]

Oh yes, trying to camp books is so much fun...
Aramin the Spider Guardian x 5 =
Bile Soaked Shoes x1
Orb of Unidentifiable Pulp x2
Disease Imbued Greatstaff x2
Bracer of Rotting Bile x2
Signet of Withering Flesh x3
Firebone Notebook x 0

I hate you, Aramin. I got to laugh as an open Grummus raid tried to form half an hour after my 2 groups killed Gryme and the key was peacefully rotting on my corpse. But I still hate you, Aramin.

"We have clearly reached the point where only RAMPANT and UNCHECKED stabbing can save us." - Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater.

[Aryshem]

Well

As I was soloing The Hole today, I wasn't able to pull more than 1 ruined construct spawn all day, so my only option was to solo the ruined construct that roams inside Jaeil's tunnel

When I first got to the camp the roamer happen to be an ancient, sadly, he did not drop the tome


So I proceeded to stay here and kill this roamer for the past 8 1/2 hours and no Ancient Construct spawned in all that time

Someone said that only 1 Ancient Construct can be up at a time, but another person said that when they were killing one, another group was fighting one at the same time, so not sure who is right...

For anyone that is curious as to the spawn time, it seems all mobs in the zone are on a 25ish minute spawn time, EXCEPT for constructs, all constructs spawn in the 13-15 minute range

So like many have said, try to kill mobs fast to keep up with their fast respawn

As for me, it's back to soloing that tunnel roamer tomorrow

Wished the zone wasn't a greveyard on my server, 90% of the time am the only one there, which makes it very tough trying to kill more than 1 ruined construct

I wish everyone else luck, hope yours is better than mine

[Taadieri]

The Silk Insert recipe was finally solved by Legeon of Povar. See the other thread for details.

Combining all 6 tradeskill items in the box gives:
Phylactery
No Drop
Slot: Range
Effect: Soul Clasp (Casting time: Instant)
Str-10 sta-10 wis+10 int+10 hp-50 mana+50
Wt: 0.4 Size: Tiny
All/All

Plus:
Mana Crystals
Magic Item Lore Item No Drop
Wt: 0.4 Size: Tiny
All/All

The stats on the Phylactery are very dissapointing and the effect (+2hp/+2mana per tick, no illusion effect) is off limited value and has some stacking issues in its current form. Hopefully, the mana crystals are a sign of some type of continuation of the quest, but who knows. Mana crystals could also be part of some repeated recipe to create the Palatable Mana. Time for some more experimentation, I guess.

P.S. I used Palatable Purified Mana when combining the box with the other tradeskilled items. I don't know of anyone that has tried it with any of the other types of palatable mana and not sure anyone wants to risk a Tome of Miragul experimenting.