The SOF Tradeskill Quest!

[Unapuma]

And soloable in 5 or 6 expansions from now, like the shawl quest have been for a while now.

[Pootle]

General Sauron

I would still vote to have an 8th step put in now for raiders. Besides, 3?! expansions from now, the raid would be groupable anyway...so it would still eventually benefit the groupers.

Unapuma

And soloable in 5 or 6 expansions from now, like the shawl quest have been for a while now.

Seeing as we are now looking at 1 expansion per year, I think by 2010+ there will be no benefit to even groupers!

[Durew]

I currently have the NE power generator room completely clear, and it keeps saying there is too much actiivty..

We just moved from the NW generator room after having it completely clear and it didnt work also, said too much activity..

What am I doing wrong?

edit: been at it for 4 hours now.. i'm 100% positive the generator sections have been cleared and it isnt working, I've tried clicking combine probably 500 times in different locations and nothing has worked; have tried making sure the group was all in OOC, tried pulling large chunks of the adjacent rooms (while still keeping my room cleared) and it still says there is too much activity. I'm quite certain something is broken

[Durew]

anyone know why it wont work?

[daBlubb]

I got a question:

I just succesfullly combined the 2nd part. Pottery. The final Combine used the Reward of the first step.

I didnt fail, but a 250 Skill combine can fail. So there is always a chance to fail the last combine at any step, where you have to restart the complete quest? Its never possible to say: Got this step done. Great iam save!

Or is something given back, so you have to restart only the actual part of the quest?

da Blubb

[Pootle]

I would guess that if you fail you get your previous quest reward item back.... but I haven't read a conformation from anybody about this yet.

It would be pretty messed up to lose the whole thing on one fail.

[Alaene_CT]

I have failed on one of those 250 JC combines (despite 3/3 mastery aa, 15% trophy and 300 skill), so it can happen.

The Eron jewelery was returned on fail - I'm guessing that's standard across all stages of the quest arc, so that you never have to start all over.

If you do fail and don't salvage, though, it looks like you have to repeat the farming and subcombining of the specific quest you're working on (eg I failed the final smithing stage combine, and had to re-farm some red and green faycite, 5 magnetised scrap metal and 1 oil).

I'd much rather fail that one, though, than fail on the fletching stage and have to re-do the shadow boxes to get another piece of black faycite!!

PS - while I'm here, I'm disappointed that this jewelery can't be reconfigured to fit the face slot. It's not a serious complaint, as it's already immensely flexible as it is - I just assumed from the outset that it would fit standard Jewelery slots, face (veil) included.

[daBlubb]

Thanks a lot for your replies.

Thats what da blubb wanted to hear

Da Blubb always panics if he can loose everything. I still remember the artisan charm where i had 12 fails on final combine. My druidess had luck on the second try. The same with the aid grimmel earring where my little ogre warrior had to refarm some stages and my druidess didnt have a fail. Both with maxed skills.

da Blubb

[drhoads]

SIGH I hate it when things dont seem to make sense. Im up to the Counting Shadows. I obtained all three pages from the Crypt in HOS . Bought a book binding and have tried to fix the damage book of Shadow Counting by placing the Damage book along with the 3 pages in the book binding and hitting combine but all I get is the mssg.

"This seems correct but something is wrong. Perhaps you need to know something more in order to combine this"

I went back to Eron and hailed him just in case but that does nothing. I thought maybe I had to have the boxes or something but that doesnt make any sense cause you need th fixed book just to find out about the boxes. Im at a loss.


NM I figured it out. I have not worked on the quest for a few weeks and forgot I never Scribed the note you get when you start this part of the quest. If you dont scribe it then it wont let you do the combine to fix the book

[Telorea]

I'd much rather fail that one, though, than fail on the fletching stage and have to re-do the shadow boxes to get another piece of black faycite!!

I failed the black faycite combine twice, but it and the pattern was returned on the fails so all I lost each time was the dropped gem part (rubelite?).

On all of the quest stages where you are adding gems to the jewelry, it seems that on a fail you only ever lose the dropped gem ingredient.

[Grants]

Finished my quest last week. Thanks everyone here at EQTC for the help!

[Garokor]

I got this after competing 3rd part

"This seems correct but something is wrong. Perhaps you need to know something more in order to combine this"

I went back to Eron and hailed him and nothing.
The recipe was activated before I turn in (appear in mw book) but when I turn in the 2nd part to Eron, when he gives me back the item, it dfoes not recognize anymore the 2nd aprt in my recipe, adn the recipe is already scribed....

Do I have to redo the whole task ? sigh

[Durew]

Finished my quest 2 days ago, thanks everyone for information on this post

FYI: The last step must be bugged, because I went to the far NE room in Steam Factory (not the room with the 4 generators).. and I hit combine with a FULL pop of mobs and it worked first try

[Telorea]

Woot, I just finished mine - used a mini-raid to get drops and clear the room, went smoothly except for one semi-wipe due to someone not invis. we pulled to east corridor.

One question occured to me, is the web combine no-fail - or do ya have to go back and do brownie hair combine again if ya fail the combine for the web?

[Zolina]

For the Bloodmoon spider eggs, what's the best way to get to the spider camp? Our bard said the shortcut tunnel doesn't work because the mobs won't path into the tunnel. So we either go the long northeast from zone-in through the underwater tunnel, or east from zone in through the heavily populated rooms. Which is better?