The SOF Tradeskill Quest!

[Rawckett]

Quick question. I failed one of the JC combines with Dragonscale Ore Fragement. Now trying to get new Dragonscale Ore Fragment, but don't have the quest anymore. Does the Dragonscale Ore only drop for peeps who have the quest in their journal?

[Aldier]

Quick question. I failed one of the JC combines with Dragonscale Ore Fragement. Now trying to get new Dragonscale Ore Fragment, but don't have the quest anymore. Does the Dragonscale Ore only drop for peeps who have the quest in their journal?

Nope. It drops off the minos in the DSH cave or at the mino fort. When I was soloing some of the minos at the cave, I ooc'd and got a reply of some rotting by the fort. Ran over and looted 6 fragments. Made for a much faster camping session.

This is not just the ore fragments. Applies to all dropped components.

[gggrant]

Quick question. I failed one of the JC combines with Dragonscale Ore Fragement. Now trying to get new Dragonscale Ore Fragment, but don't have the quest anymore. Does the Dragonscale Ore only drop for peeps who have the quest in their journal?

Ummmm, a quick question for you. When you wrote, "don't have the quest anymore" did you mean that you really don't have the quest or did you mean that you had already gotten the loot requirement step done and are on a later step.

If you deleted the quest, you are going to have to get it again and start over from the beginning. If meant that you were past the first step (the loot requirement) then as Aldier stated it will not prevent you from getting more. Either looting someone elses kills (with permission, of course) or killing and looting your own kills. Having the quest or not, or having completed the loot portion of a quest will not affect the quest items dropping.

[Jeezu]

ok Ngreth i really really really need your help to get something going on this....

my petition (it is quite late since when i hit p i crash and basically gave up on trying to petition, everytime i tried acessing online it gave me some wierd 440 code or something)

Customer (****************) 01/21/2008 02:43 AM
while doing the Eron quest, on the fletching step a few months back the server crashed after doing some combines with the gem covered boxes. After the server came back up, i logged on to see two of the Three combines returned, and am now habitually bugged and cannot perform the combines again as there is an invisible flag associated with them. I am in the need of a GM to remove these flags from my character so that i can progress in the quest again.


Character Name
Jeezu


This upcoming part is what turns everyone against SoE CR, and unfortunately dev's/GM's


Response (GM Aorya) 01/21/2008 11:06 PM
Grettings Jeezu!

Thank you for contacting Sony Online Entertainment. This is GM Aorya. I can understand that you are not able to proceed with you cultural armor quests as in one of the steps you are receiving the failed combine message. I checked the issue in the game and found that I am also not able to combine the items, even after completing the previous required steps. I have forwarded this issue to our Quality Assurance team and they will try to reproduce the issue. It they find some bug in it, they will forward it to the development team. Unfortunately, you have to wait to complete this quest until this is fixed.

If you need any further assistance in the game, please file a new ticket.

Thank you for you continuing patience in this matter.

Wish you good hunting and safe travels!

Regards
GM Aorya
IN-Game CSR-EverQuest
Sony Online Entertainment


100% canned response, that they cannot even change the proper wording around. Cultural armor quest? Isn't this merely an invisible flag that a GM can remove from my character? or any luck on.

Hrm. I think I am goint to have to give Eron a way to reset you. Basically what has happened is that the flag for your caracter is set, and did not rollback despite the items themselves rolling back (I do not know why the flag did not also roll back)

You can try another petition telling CS that your flags are set improperly becuase of a crash, but I do not know what their solution for it would be.

[Morkai Almandragon]

Comfirmed Drops
Page 2 - a crypt ghoul. Accessible from South entrance.
Page 3 - a phoboplasm. Accessible from any entrance.
Page 5 - a frenzied ancestor. This is a zombie model, and it may drop off any zombi, but I killed many zombies and had page 5 drop twice only off this mob name. Accessible through West entrance

OK this parts got me stumped, the only "Frenzied Ancestors" i can find are skelly models. Do they come in two varieties?

[Zolina]

No, frenzied ancestors are skeletons and they drop page 5.

[momboh]

shadow counting page 5

i have been killing frenzied ancestors for past week now atleast 3-4 hours a nite in the crypt area of HoS with no luck. I prob have looted 20ish of page 2 and 3s. Can someone tell me how much more i should expect to camp these? prob killed atleast 100+ of these skellies. Thanks!

[Zolina]

I'm fairly sure I got one page of each type off phoboplasm, skeleton, and ghoul models respectively.

I can say for certain, if frenzied ancestors are dropping a page but not the page you want, you need to switch to a different mob name to get that page, each mob name only drops one type of page.

[momboh]

shadow counting page 5

Thx Zolina, I will keep trying. The other pages came from Ghoul and blob. i was reffering to time i spent there while camping the frenzied, clearing other mobs yields a page in about 5-10 kills.

[Ratblaster]

Thx Zolina, I will keep trying. The other pages came from Ghoul and blob. i was reffering to time i spent there while camping the frenzied, clearing other mobs yields a page in about 5-10 kills.

You probably dont want to hear this....but I had the page from frenzied ancester drop on first kill. I was clearing from the south entrance (there are 3 entrances), where you have to clear one ghoul at the door, 2 blobs (which roam), and then a room which usually has 3 skeleton model mobs. I think the 3 skelly mobs had slightly different names, but one of them was a frenzied ancester and was red-con to lvl 80. Now I did clear that path several more times while trying to get the blob and ghoul drops and did not see another page of skellies, but also the repops there were not red-con (and name was slightly different from frenzied ancester, but dont recall what it was called). So perhaps only drops on the lvl 82 mob.

[Aldier]

So perhaps only drops on the lvl 82 mob.

Just to clarify, red to level 80 is 83+.

Am still working on my pages just haven't had much time to take some friends out there to do it much lately.

[Soltic]

After talking to Merloc he was ready to make the AC change, but did not want to start too high and have to nerf it, so started low and made this change up. Some of the very good posts doing exactly what I asked for here and showing group gear helped him decide to upgrade it AND with a 10AC aug possible for the slot 3 I feel even more justified at not making it too high to start with.

Since the LDoN AC augs had the type 3 removed from them, what about another small increase in AC? (5 more would be good, I'd think.) Or maybe somehow get Merloc to add type 3 back onto the LDoN AC augs (and slip a LORE tag onto them for good measure)?

As far as the click effects go on both, maybe consider changing to Primal Guard (5 hp regen and 5% overhaste; and I'd add a link but this is my first post) for melee, since it's uncommon and is added to tier 3 group content and has been around since PoP: Time; and maybe Maelin's Meditation (+400 to mana pool) for casters since, again, it's on tier 3 groupable loot, it's been around a long time (since at least Hulcror) and it stacks with the mana/hp regen clickies that everyone seems to have that are already better (Girdle of Efficiency comes to mind).

Although the final reward could benefit from a few small changes still, I would like to thank you for the thought and effort you put into the quest and the reward, Ngreth. Complex and well thought out quests definitely add a lot of interest to the game.

[Prexis]

Just to clarify, red to level 80 is 83+.

Actually a red con to a lvl 80 means a mob is 84+ now. Yellow has covered a 3 level range for 2-3 expansions.

Am at the shadow counting page part myself now, although haven't actually started it. Have most of the drops though for the steam factory part.