Yay (aka how I made the shawl quest in a week)

[sumamael]

<----- the slacker finished his 8th shawl. :P

Here is my story.

I had my 3rd shawl for over a year now due to my guild being on giant faction. After I made all kael quests I needed the faction for, I switched factions back recently.

Of course I had most of my tradeskills raised by this time.

I have a good reputation on my server and folk helped me with threads in Velk's and one bile in GD after my /ooc help requests.

I have a few good friends who helped me with killing genos and tracking dire wolfs in GD.

I'm a level 65 necro so most of these mobs can't stand a chance against me but

friends > a good pet, always keep that in mind.

Day 1,

I make the Vial of Velium Vapors and head out to EW.
With the "/pet guard here" trick I keep tracking down the trap spots.
I solo about 10+ Death Squads before the Tanik spawns.

I raise my tailoring to 130 from 80-ish.

I head to Velk's and collect about 60 threads before I get sick of it and head to a raid.

Day 2,

I become death, the destroyer of wurms (tm).
Since I'm not a tracker and I hate roaming spawns I head to the wurm cave in GD.
I'm able to clear the whole cave by the time respawn happens. This way I get 1 glowing bile per hour abouts.

I also learn not to mess with the blue-to-65 con named wurm......I scratch my corpse down from the ceiling of the cave after two 1k+ gfluxes.

I head back to Velks for the last 15 threads.

I make the combine with 130 tailoring, success.

Day 3,

I raise tailoring to 161 from the 130.

I head to CS and discover the 3rd siren camp (see updated guide!), after 2 hours of clearing all siren spawns I head out with 6 siren hairs.
I got 2 manes in EW in about an hour, I buy 2 in the bazaar.
Took about 3 hours to get 2 whiskers with a tracker friend.

Make the combine, success at the 1st time with 161 skill. I destroy the 4 extra siren hairs :twisted:

I raise my fletching from zero to 180.

I head to kael, the both of the named mobs in the manor drop blood.
I get the Runed Sea Shell from a friend. I head to SG and get a tooth and a Molkor Hide, I buy the thusk in the bazaar.

All combines success.

Thats right, the 6th and the 7th shawl on the same day.

Day 4.

I tag along to a Tormax raid to repair my threateningly Dain faction.

Then lots of dead Genos. I had the sapphires and one diamond in the bank from helping a friend a while back (those were extra) and I only need to get one diamond and 3 emeralds.

I make the armor, no failures.

The dain and the Chamberlain are both dead so no 8th shawl for me.

Day 5.

I do the turn ins and The Dain is dead /snicker

Day 6.

Iceclad, the general gets stuck under the ice as usual, I get my shawl tho!


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I followed the guide of Lady Verdandi step by step and it wouldn't have been possible without it.
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[Ausversucht]

That's just sick!

Grats man, hope it goes even close to that smoothly when I get to mine. Have some serious faction fixing to do before I can even start my first shawl (and yet my tradeskills are more than adequate to get me through the 8th)

[Verdandi]

Pretty good work for a Stinky Inky, I'd say

*hugs Suma*

Good job darlin!!

[Naxy]

Aye it can be done. After about a year or so I completed my 8th shawl the other day. It inspired a good friend of mine, a 65 shaman to go out and do the shawl. Less than a week later he has a shawl. Lots of money helped, he told me. All in all he attended 6 attempts for the 8th shawl in the last couple of weeks. It isn't as hard as it used to be for some.

[Phinnin]

I love the way he just says:

Day 3

I raise tailoring from 130 to 161

Then goes on to cover the rest of his day.

Jeez!~

Took me 3 days just to do that part. Backpacks full of Kiola Sap, broken wrist, buying Viscous mana in bazaar and one hell of an AOE party in Ekar. I swear I had one round where I killed over 100mobs in one cast.

[Chenier]

/golf claps for the inky =)

I redid my 7th in about the same amount of time - just been lazy about getting the gems for the 8th.

Lemme tell ya - so much easier the second time around. =)

[Inyidd]

Congrats on the shawl!

[Eumerin]

Eh...
I'm currently stuck on the 5th shawl. Lightblue shardwurms own me (managed to get a couple of biles, though), and as for Velks...

"51 paladin lfg!"

*listens to the silence*

I did manage to pair up with a BL the other day after I started healing him mid-fight. Nothing useful dropped, though.

[Cubwynn]

*envy*

*applause*

[Froni Thunderpaws]

Wow very very very cool!

Huge Congratulations to you.

It is taking me quite a bit longer, more to get (or afford the pieces) parts than get the skills, but I am happily wearing my 7th now. And aye, could never have done it without Verdandi's super useful walkthrough.