Aid Grimel Quest

[Forty]

"Due to a drop table error, all existing instances of the Market Signet have been changed to have no stats. If you received one legitimately through the quest, you can give the old item to Aid Grimel for a new one with all the correct stats. If you do not meet the requirements, Aid Grimel will not reimburse you."


Glad they fixed this one....The signet was dropping off a rare goblin (ok, maybe not so rare) that was soloable by lvl 45 rangers.

Let's hope they got the correct Signet, cause this little piggy is gonna go wee wee wee all the way home....

[Orolmy]

**** it, why do I only find out about these things AFTER they've been fixed

[feressa]

I was thinking exactly the same thing, lol. That must have saved some people a lot of time on the quest. Anyone know where this was dropping?

[chry]

220 skill in smithing is a must now, grimel will not give you the breastplate to clean at 210 with 5% mod

[Demorgoth]

They fixed the Marked signet to become a nostat/nodrop 'Rusty Marked Signet', which presumably you hand in for a replacment.

What they did NOT address, was the Runed Signet. Anyone in an elemental teir guild could simply raise fletching to 220 (~100k and 4 hours work), pick up the PoAir fletching componants, and upgrade the earring before the patch. Totally bypassing the first 5 steps, including the smithing and tailoring steps.

So, I'm hoping they realise this, and do the same for the 6th earring.

(these are the same people we trust when they say 'the recipe is ingame and working, right?)

[Sehria Kamentari]

Anyone tried the bow combine after turning in your broken marked signet to grimel....I have all the parts for the bow, but I get a DNC. Am I doing something wrong here? This is what I'm combining:

Wind Metal Bow Cam
Wind Metal Bow Cam
Air Arachnid Silk String
Featherwood Bow Staff
Planing Tool
Marked Signet (the one I got from turning in the broken one)

Combining in a Planar Fletching Kit.

I get a DNC, am I missing something here?

[RAGATHOR]

Looks like you have everything there Sehria. Fortunately I already had the Runed Signet, so I hope I wont have to turn mine in again. Even though I have all the required levels it always makes me nervous when Verant does this to us tradeskillers. Wierd that you cant combine the last solved part yet though. /shrug

Rags

[Sehria Kamentari]

I don't seem to be doing anything wrong...I can only assume the problem has something to do with the patch. I am guessing that the earring you get from turning in the no stat one has a different item ID than the original and doesn't work with the combine. I have all the skills, I got the earring legitimately...now I can't attempt the last (known) signet because of some oversight. *sigh* I may actually have been better off not turning in the earring and using the no stat one...who knows...

[Itzena]

I was thinking exactly the same thing, lol. That must have saved some people a lot of time on the quest. Anyone know where this was dropping?

Goblin Prospector in FM.

[Doremi]

another thought

Looking through old posts, I didn't see that anyone had attempted these combines with the signet in the container. A lot of baking recipes certainly require the baking implement (returned on success or failure).

Worth a try, anyhow.

- Doremi, kibitzing since she's far away from having high enough level or tradeskills to try this quest

[Jascenta]

What they did NOT address, was the Runed Signet. Anyone in an elemental teir guild could simply raise fletching to 220 (~100k and 4 hours work), pick up the PoAir fletching componants, and upgrade the earring before the patch

You never been in poair have ya? You can't farm in air, anything you obtain is done so as a raid, so gl on getting bow components over other classes so you can get a head on a quest.

I'll put it to you this way, I have been waiting well over a month to get some parts. I have yet to even see a bow staff and many have dropped :?

[Demorgoth]

Yes I've been there. We go there regularly. I've got 15-20 air bows already made, several 6th earrings, and still got half a dozen or more staffs backed up. You can kill in a single group in Air, but it has to be a solid group, and the kill rate doesn't make it really worth it.

How many rangers has your guild got? They're the only ones with a leg to stand on demanding an Air bow, and even then, Earth comes out to about the same DPS, with the dual purpose of being used during regular melee. Everyone who wants it just for the range stats can grab one of the 100s of fire bows anyone who does Fennin event has sitting around.

Just because your guild doesn't realise the value of 100/100 earrings over 100/100 range slots, doesn't mean that all guilds feel the same way.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Looking through old posts, I didn't see that anyone had attempted these combines with the signet in the container. A lot of baking recipes certainly require the baking implement (returned on success or failure).

Worth a try, anyhow.

Has anyone at least tried the Bucket of Crab Legs with the Signet? Who knows, it might do the trick?

Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:47 am was when I first posted that, you are not the first person to think this. Then again I posted this:

Iustus, it's great that you tried all the combines like that but I think you and everyone else is overlooking one thing....

Quote:
Portable Drink:
Twice Brewed Constitutional
Twice Brewed Constitutional
Twice Brewed Constitutional
Leather Signet

Velium Blue Diamond Ring:
Faceted Blue Diamond
Bar of Enchanted Pure Velium
Clay Signet

Filled Sacred Urn:
Sacred Water
Sacred Water
Sacred Water
Wooden Signet

Signet Featherwood Bow:
Air Bow String
Featherwood bow staff
Wind Cam
Wind Cam
Marked Signet


All the recipes for the quest use the SIGNET, look at the last one, the Featherwood Bow. The recipe for the real bow is:
-Featherwood bow staff
-air bow string
-2 Wind Cams
-in a planar fletching kit
where the SIgnet Featherwood Bow is:
-Air Bow String
-Featherwood bow staff
-2 Wind Cams
-Marked Signet
-in a planar fleching kit

The key difference is the Signet. I really think we have tried the recipe before just not with the signet.

Timestamp on that one being Mon Feb 10, 2003 9:15 am and I got this for an answer:

Enfini, that is a good point... however, the Bristlebane Platter needs to be made first.. and 3 combined with signet in bag. You're looking at the final combines and not the prep work needed to do the final combine.

and

What Moosius said. Bristlebane's Party Platter is the same as Twice Brewed Constitutional in the brewing step (and I am sure it will be no drop as well).

It is very clear that the final combine is:

Signet Party Platter: (Field Satchel)
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Runed Signet

(I made up the name of the combined item).

To refresh your memory:

Quote:
You say, 'I am a Master Chef'
Aid Grimel says 'When we adventure in the Planes there is only one meal that keeps us in top fighting shape. It is called a Bristlebane's Party Platter. Unfortunately the platter is awkward and not easy to adventure with so you need to place them in this satchel. I know not how to make the Platter, a rather nice female Halfling cleric always used to deliver them to us but I heard she was crushed by a Regrua while hunting for a rare component in the Plane of Water. Brell bless her soul! Combine three of the platters and the signet inside the satchel.'


-I

So in a way they DO have a point, BUT, knowing SONY they may of did it where for this combine you need to Signet just to make us take 5 months doing this stupid quest!

[Doremi]

Yes, but...

Yes, I did miss the previous posts where this was brought up (sort of), but my point is still valid: Baking combines in particular often require an implement that is returned on success or failure, e.g., anaconda melt (requires/returns frying pan), anaconda stir fry (frying pan), batwing pie (pie tin), beetle eye pie (pie tin), etc.

I agree with what you said here:

It is very clear that the final combine is:

Signet Party Platter: (Field Satchel)
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Bristlebane's Party Platter
Runed Signet

But I think it's worth examining whether the subcombines also require the signet, given how stuck everyone seems to be. In EQ, you can't make a recipe if you're missing an ingredient...

[Chestar Thxinfo]

I suppose you could have a point, and your feedback is much appreciated. Nonetheless i can't see how a ring would be used in baking.

It seems more likely to me that the ring is used to seal the satchel, much like the 3rd(? ...tired) is used as the stopper for the Sacred Urn after u filled it with water.

In either case, because i'm not disregarding your input, if the ring would be used in the baking somewhere, that will give the possible combinations and DNC-list a huge boost.

It saddens me that Sony doesn't want to throw us a bone here. Or maybe a breadcrum in the right reaction.