Tweet
This has probably been done before, but I just finished this quest last night, and I took notes. I thought I'd share my experience, and see how fast some of you have completed it.
1) Bloodling Caripaces: 3 hours.
I found 11 of them, and bought 5 from low level people hunting. Paid 5pp each for them too. This is a LOT of running around. Got 12 quality hopper hides and about 2 stacks of Shadeling silk at the same time.
2) Bloodling Plate mail: Negligable. maybe 5 minutes.
3) Shield quest: 1 hour.
OMG! What a pain! this quest is messed up. That's all there is to it. The timer is insanely fast. I bount myself at the forge, grabbed my work order from Barkhem and ran with SoW to the guard. Hand in work order, get dented shield, GATE to forge, put shield and hammer in forge and combine. Then run, WITH SoW back to the guard. to late, he has a shield already. I'm talking 30-40 seconds!!! And no, there was no one else running the quest!
The Trick. I started this after trying the first guard twice. When I fix the shield, I get another work order on the way out the door. when I get to the guard, he already has his shield. so, I give him the work order again, get another dented shield, and hand him his immaculate shield that I already made right back. It was the only way I could do it. Even the closest guard had his shield back before I could run back to him.
4)Barkhem's box (Swirling shadows): Less than an hour.
My blacksmith is a 26 cleric with "Sense Undead". Talk about an advantage! cast, run, kill, cast, run kill.
It went really well, and I got about 3 stacks of shade silk at the same time.
Of course, apparently I'm not to bright, and figured I'd just get the 8 I need right? And of course, I failed one of the Shadow Disks, even though they're almost 100 points trivial (108 to my 201 skill) so had to run back for one more swirling shadow. I was lucky enough to get my 9th shadow on my first kill when I ran back to the Paludal zone tunnel, so gated back to forge quickly.
5) Make 3 Humming orbs: All freakin day! 5 hours of frogging around
This is NOT good. Bear in mind, my blacksmith is a 26 cleric. I went to Hollowshade first, and had never been in that zone before. I don't even have a map (though I printed one after only a short while in zone), I only know what I've read. The zone has been set to ALL Sonic Wolves. Every camp. Not so bad, I do need four shreiking substance (one extra incase of failures this time.) So, I stick to the zone wall and head south, since I've heard about hunting the islands. I go down and take on Sonic Wolf Hunters Green and light blue at 26. this took me a good 2 hours, just to get 4. The drop rate was horrible, and I can't kill them fast enough. Way to much time spent medding and healing. Not effective eh?
I also wasted time checking the other camps, hoping to find owlbears somewhere else, but found wolves instead. AND the full size Sonic Woves are blue/white/yellow. I had a couple close calls while exploring, and ended up rooting/gating to escape twice. NOT effective eh?
Paludal wasn't so bad for owl bears. BUT, the 4 spawn of owlbear cubs was taken. I did get the 2 spawn, but it took 7 cycles (12 minute spawn time) to get 4 wailing substance. ARGH!
So, I of course succeeded all 4 humming orbs, and turned 3 in with my hammer to get my humming luclinite hammer.
When all was said and done, it took a bit over 10 hours game time to get my Shar Val Anvil (the graphic looks like a pair of steel bikini underwear, I swear!
) and my humming luclinite hammer.
This would of course be MUCH easier if I was higher level, and able to get a decent kill rate on whatever is spawned up in Hollowshade. I could have shaved time off it if I were higher level, and if I had used my time wisely, such as hunting swirling shadows during the worm cycle in Shadeweavers instead of just waiting for bloodlings to respawn. Still, even at high level, with maximum efficiency, I bet you're still talking 6 hours to complete this quest. I like the quest, but the huge time sinks collecting bloodling caripaces, and then of course the swirling shadow, and shrieking/wailing substances is a bit long. And I'm sure future questers would REALLY appreciate more than 30 seconds to replace a guards shield eh? *sigh*
1) Bloodling Caripaces: 3 hours.
I found 11 of them, and bought 5 from low level people hunting. Paid 5pp each for them too. This is a LOT of running around. Got 12 quality hopper hides and about 2 stacks of Shadeling silk at the same time.
2) Bloodling Plate mail: Negligable. maybe 5 minutes.
3) Shield quest: 1 hour.
OMG! What a pain! this quest is messed up. That's all there is to it. The timer is insanely fast. I bount myself at the forge, grabbed my work order from Barkhem and ran with SoW to the guard. Hand in work order, get dented shield, GATE to forge, put shield and hammer in forge and combine. Then run, WITH SoW back to the guard. to late, he has a shield already. I'm talking 30-40 seconds!!! And no, there was no one else running the quest!
The Trick. I started this after trying the first guard twice. When I fix the shield, I get another work order on the way out the door. when I get to the guard, he already has his shield. so, I give him the work order again, get another dented shield, and hand him his immaculate shield that I already made right back. It was the only way I could do it. Even the closest guard had his shield back before I could run back to him.
4)Barkhem's box (Swirling shadows): Less than an hour.
My blacksmith is a 26 cleric with "Sense Undead". Talk about an advantage! cast, run, kill, cast, run kill.
It went really well, and I got about 3 stacks of shade silk at the same time.Of course, apparently I'm not to bright, and figured I'd just get the 8 I need right? And of course, I failed one of the Shadow Disks, even though they're almost 100 points trivial (108 to my 201 skill) so had to run back for one more swirling shadow. I was lucky enough to get my 9th shadow on my first kill when I ran back to the Paludal zone tunnel, so gated back to forge quickly.
5) Make 3 Humming orbs: All freakin day! 5 hours of frogging around
This is NOT good. Bear in mind, my blacksmith is a 26 cleric. I went to Hollowshade first, and had never been in that zone before. I don't even have a map (though I printed one after only a short while in zone), I only know what I've read. The zone has been set to ALL Sonic Wolves. Every camp. Not so bad, I do need four shreiking substance (one extra incase of failures this time.) So, I stick to the zone wall and head south, since I've heard about hunting the islands. I go down and take on Sonic Wolf Hunters Green and light blue at 26. this took me a good 2 hours, just to get 4. The drop rate was horrible, and I can't kill them fast enough. Way to much time spent medding and healing. Not effective eh?
I also wasted time checking the other camps, hoping to find owlbears somewhere else, but found wolves instead. AND the full size Sonic Woves are blue/white/yellow. I had a couple close calls while exploring, and ended up rooting/gating to escape twice. NOT effective eh?
Paludal wasn't so bad for owl bears. BUT, the 4 spawn of owlbear cubs was taken. I did get the 2 spawn, but it took 7 cycles (12 minute spawn time) to get 4 wailing substance. ARGH!
So, I of course succeeded all 4 humming orbs, and turned 3 in with my hammer to get my humming luclinite hammer.
When all was said and done, it took a bit over 10 hours game time to get my Shar Val Anvil (the graphic looks like a pair of steel bikini underwear, I swear!
) and my humming luclinite hammer.This would of course be MUCH easier if I was higher level, and able to get a decent kill rate on whatever is spawned up in Hollowshade. I could have shaved time off it if I were higher level, and if I had used my time wisely, such as hunting swirling shadows during the worm cycle in Shadeweavers instead of just waiting for bloodlings to respawn. Still, even at high level, with maximum efficiency, I bet you're still talking 6 hours to complete this quest. I like the quest, but the huge time sinks collecting bloodling caripaces, and then of course the swirling shadow, and shrieking/wailing substances is a bit long. And I'm sure future questers would REALLY appreciate more than 30 seconds to replace a guards shield eh? *sigh*
Comment