Aid Grimel Quest

[valdric]

seems 6th earring broken now i also am not able to do combine for 6th earring without dnc message and i did it legit.


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[Thedoc]

They need to make it so each step not only checks skill level for that skill but every previous skill. this would atleast keep them from upgradeing farther without doing all the previous skill work. Allowing people to keep what took everyone else 1000's of Rl hours to get the skills to make that they got off a bugged drop table is way wrong.But i do give them a cudos for trying to do something even though it isnt enough to remedy the problem.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

I've wanted to ask this question for a while and kept forgetting to. A while back they made it so a person could join a /raid and raid a zone they are not flagged for. I think it was the /raid has to have over 35 people and like 85% of the total must have the flags. Has anyone checked to see if a person without the proper flags in a /raid but with the tradeskills can do this quest? I don't know how zones/NPCs check for the flags and for the people who have the skills but not the flags it might be a go around to do this quest. Not 100% right I know, but if you happen to be friends with your local UBER guild see if you can have them meet up in PoK sometime for you.

[feressa]

Enough.

A very small number of people got lucky, it's happened before and will happen again. They need to fix the combine for the 5th stage rather than try putting more code into the quest checks that will probably just break it further.

[Naedayr]

Youd have to have ALL the flags and ALL the skills for grimel to trade in the fake one to the new one was the way I understood it. For example, you couldn't turn in the rusty marked signet for a marked signet without all the previous skills, and all the proper flags. I don't know for sure.

The problem was first noted on E-marr, by a few in guild and it was mountain giant prospector first. They fixed that from dropping, then it happened again. We only noticed when there were 40 level 65's in the zone farming them.

From the discussions I have had you don't get a proper marked signet unlesss you have the right skills and flags.

[Clarsah]

I am almost positive,not unlike potime, that perhaps Sony dev team doesn't know what to make of the final earing to balance it between drops off gods etc and an undertaking of the magnitude that this is as a quest. Perhaps when they are ready, i.e. have come up with what the final earing should be, then maybe we will get a bone *or crumb* as so aptly put. Until then I do believe that while the recipe maybe in game and the *quest working as intended* , it might currently not be *intended to be solved* lol. Either way I hope that someone from the dev team takes pity and either tosses us a clue about this final piece, or conversely actually finish it and puts it in game :P

P.S. on a final note anyone try to make caviar from the fish eggs in Powater , or tried combinations on any of the foraged items there? Do any PoP fishes combine into oil that anyone has seen, and or eggs?
And last but not least , I personally feel a sweet will be involved because what is a good party without dessert

[EnfinitiStarr8]

I think my post was misread. I did not mean for the turn in and suck with the Market Signet that dropped wrong but say I being a little 53 Ranger and spend 18 AAs and got to the 1750 club could I do this quest if I /raid with my servers uber guild? Will Aid Grimel see me as all prober flagged?

[Niami DenMother]

say I being a little 53 Ranger and spend 18 AAs and got to the 1750 club could I do this quest if I /raid with my servers uber guild? Will Aid Grimel see me as all prober flagged?

No.

You MUST have the proper flags. The recent changes to flagging allow you to raid in zones for which you do not have flags. However, you still must earn those flags via raids if you want to do this quest.

[Taraddar]

I think my post was misread. I did not mean for the turn in and suck with the Market Signet that dropped wrong but say I being a little 53 Ranger and spend 18 AAs and got to the 1750 club could I do this quest if I /raid with my servers uber guild? Will Aid Grimel see me as all prober flagged?

It would really be a moot point too since the odd of you being able to buy all the parts needed for the combine are slim to none. Off hand I think you'd probably be able to manage threw JC but once you needed the no drop waters for the pottery step from PoV you run into a wall. Past that your looking at PoF and PoA drops for the robe and bow and then PoW presumably and possibly other for baking. If you can't get the flags you can't get the components to do the quest anyway.

[Gorgin]

Also Grimmel checks specific flags like Bertox for example. In order for your Bertox flag to even be shown on your character you HAVE to have killed Grummus. The Marr flag would be similar causing you to HAVE to do the 3 trials in HoHA even if you somehow tagged along on Marr. The other flags are of similar stuff and Rallos Zek and Solusek Ro require EVERY flag in the game(to my knowledge minus Miak Searedsoul's pre-flag for fire) to become undormant so basically the answer is No.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Ok, thank you all and thank you DemMom for personally answering. I had a feeling that was the answer but I just wanted to be sure. I know it would of been hard to get all the stuff that even is tradeable but I just needed to know.

[Shortyrez]

On another note, I get the feeling if you tried the bow combine with the rusty signet, you would get the 6th earring out of it. The Marked Signet now giving a DNC means it is probably now a new item number and the rusty signet probably holds the old item number. Seems like Sony has really screwed this one atm. :roll:

[Iustus]

Make sure you /bug that this combine is not working correctly. They look at /bug reports. (Dont spam them with it, each person should only report a bug once, but many people can report the same bug).

-I

[Thedoc]

feressa, It is not a very small number atleast on my server more people have the Illegal earring than have earned it.

[Dyllwin]

Any non-food items in this platter?

Hey all,
While doing my normal vendor runs I keep running across a few items that may somehow be involved, though I'm not sure where they drop.

Silvery Spoon (see these alot)
Platinum Spoon (haven't seen these ina while, but have a few in the bank)
Porcelin Bowl (see these somewhat frequently)

All are stackable, none are lore or no drop. All could easily be related to a platter of food. Just some more grist for the mill....