Level 75 and 80 Aug Quests

[Ngreth Thergn]

And yeah. I do a specific "Do you have item X" for each task. It makes no check if you have Y (for another task) nor any type of check of WHERE it actually is.

[souljahha]

Tier 3 is no joke. I would suggest trying the blob that spawns at entrance before you procede inside if you are working on the 80 quest. I have seen lower progression guilds leave steamfactory in 5 min because it is that difficult.

You will most definately need a bard/monk puller inside, a very beefy tank, and strong healing. I honestly don't know if many that are not at least in TSS type gear will fare well here. Mobs hit for 2600 ish. The two clerics I have grouped in here with are top in my guild on mana and pretty much went through 20-40% of mana per pull. Most pulls being two mobs. Once you find and see the foundry you will understand why. It is very easy to wipe here even for the best geared group. I pulled this a couple times and will admit I was challenged.

Can't wait to hit combine for my patterns later... good luck

[Twistagain]

Getting the 40 Darkroot shaman took about 13 hours – two two-hour sessions and a mind-numbing nine hours Saturday getting the last 27. RNG has a high potential suck factor - had a two and a half hour spell where we got Dethshed three times and only two shaman. Garshok and Zopharr had all of their impressions by kill 26, Rish got his last one on shaman number 41. We mostly camped one room that gave us nine placeholders and one wanderer to kill. You could probably cut this from 12-13 hours to eight or nine hours if you have a well-geared group going room to room killing more PHs – we had about five minutes downtime each 20-minute cycle when we had a full group.

Wow...we fought for around 5 hours (probably in the same room) and got 6 shaman total...0 impressions.

I'm not liking this part of the quest. :-P

Note to Ngreth: I'm not saying "change it" or anything...I just don't like it. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I don't like onions, either.

[Kemie Dreamshadow]

Currently yes. I had to have it restricted to SoF in order to keep it from going live early.

I will be changing that though.

BUT. the drops for the 80 cultural are almost exclusive to SoF and the Quest is only in SoF.... so to do the 80 symbols you are going to have to get SoF anyway.

There was no mention in today's patch note of a change to the 75 symbol quest to make it doable by those of us without the expansion, so I am assuming this hasn't gone in yet.

Kemie

[Gaell Stormracer]

I was trying to 'box' this from the end of the western entry corridor into the Sporali tunnels, and I only got 7 shaman in about 2 hours... but 4 impressions from those.

Has anyone found a decent spot for these?

[Zopharr]

I was trying to 'box' this from the end of the western entry corridor into the Sporali tunnels, and I only got 7 shaman in about 2 hours... but 4 impressions from those.

Has anyone found a decent spot for these?

Seven in two hours seems pretty good. There is no 'good' place for this.

If you are running out of mobs and having downtime, you can try moving deeper into the tunnels for a new camp spot. If you enter from the west, go through that first room, and take the left fork at the exit tunnel, if you move down a bit that tunnel doesn't have wanderers.

Garshok

[Ngreth Thergn]

There was no mention in today's patch note of a change to the 75 symbol quest to make it doable by those of us without the expansion, so I am assuming this hasn't gone in yet.

Kemie

nope sorry!

[Quaras]

Also -- I have seen mixed messages on whether the task updates if you are in a raid or not. Can someone confirm that the tasks update in a raid?

[KyrosKrane]

The Sublime task most definitely updates in a raid. We took four groups into Fortress Mechanotus yesterday, and folks in all groups were getting updates, both kills and impressions. However, you must get on the mob's aggro list, or you won't get the update -- just being in raid isn't enough. You have to damage the mob or cast on it.

[Quaras]

Any idea if this works on the 75 level one as well?

[Gaell Stormracer]

I'm up to 6 impressions in 15 darkroot shaman... another 2 hours down.

[Sitasha]

Sorry if this sounds like noobish question, but you have to do all the impressions quests before you can do the level 80 aug quest or can you jump in and just do the level 80's?

[Zacatac]

The 75 and 80 tasks are completely seperate items. You can do 80 without having done 75. But you cannot attempt an aug without doing the task first.

[Vidyne]

45 darkroot shamans
5 impressions
1 adult mammoth
1 impression

The shamans are very rare to pop, and the rate of impressions seems quite low. 3 other people tradeskilling and doing this quest report having to go to 50, 60, or 80 kills to get impressions.

The mammoths in icefall are also quite hard without the ability to single pull, or kite. Guess I need to buy a second computer and box a wizard Also very few adults are ever up in icefall when I go there, and don't see many when they repop. Mostly 5-8 large mammoths and dozens of wooly mammoths.

I'll have to drag some friends out there, as that is more of the blocker for a beastlord. Seems very unlikely that icefall could be done in an hour or two with only 5-8 placeholders(I assume the larges are the only ones that can pop adults), and such a low spawn rate of adults.

But I don't know.. could be a bad RNG run.
Just warning any beastlords out there

[Wyvernwill]

Actually, from what I saw when I was out there was that there are always 6 Adult Mamoths up per spawn cycle. 4 down near the zone wall, another 2 over by the bears, part way into our fourth repop we had all of the kills we needed. It wouldn't work very well solo however.