Block of Shadowscream

[Brazarg]

Just inquiring about this. I searched the data base and it's not listed in the FAQ or Dead Horse as items not used for smithing. A friend just looted this, anyone have a response? Is it an item to be added or a rarity?

[Kingbobb]

I've never heard of it. What did he loot it off of, and in what zone?

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

That's interesting, considering that normal Shadowscream isnt made using an ore to start with...

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

Not to be a negative nelly but it sounds like some developer's PHB heard about the difficulties of shadowscream armor and decided to have it thrown in on the loot table to "help" out with the problem.

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

How would a block of shadowscream "help" the shadowscream smithies when the recipe doesnt call for a block of shadowscream, create a block of shadowscream, or return a block of shadowscream in <b>ANY</b> of it's steps<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcpuzzle.gif alt="Riddle me THAT!">

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

How would a block of shadowscream "help" the shadowscream smithies when the recipe doesnt call for a block of shadowscream, create a block of shadowscream, or return a block of shadowscream in <b>ANY</b> of it's steps<img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcpuzzle.gif alt="Riddle me THAT!">

That's my point. a PHB rarely understands what a company actually sells and is often the font of bad advice. (PHB comes from Dilbert). Someone may have heard shadowscream, rare drop, and difficult tradeskill and put them together to get the wrong conclusion.

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

There are still some flaws in your statement: unless something changed recently, there is only one person at SoE that handles tradeskills for EverQuest. Likewise, people have been complaining that "smithing is too hard" back when Fine Plate trivialed at 242...heck, they've been saying it's too hard back when there <b>was</b> no fine plate. SoE has always been slow to hear the gripes and complaints of its players, be they legitimite concerns or whining from the lazy populus. <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcrazz.gif alt="Like monks and bards!"> It's unlikely SoE would add something new, or change a known recipe to a new one, without <b>some</b> sort of notification. <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcrazz.gif alt="Like the one they gave us before they finally fixed the trivials."> More than likely, it's for some quest that isnt ingame yet, or possibly for something completely new...or a hoax. <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcrazz.gif alt="Like class balence, Words of Agony, and druids! None of them exist...">

And, I dont read Dilbert, what's a PHB? <img src=http://www.boomspeed.com/sinuuyanea/dcpuzzle.gif alt="Pretty Home Boy?">

[kiztent]

Pointy Haired Boss.

You live in a cave or something?

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

No, I just dont read Dilbert; I never found it funny. No need to get insulting.

[Brazarg]

close thread

I've talked about the item to the friend and until I can meet up with them in game and get it, lets hold off all the speculation. When it was reported to me about being looted off a mob while collecting swirling shadows as a Block of Shadowscream, it was something I myself had not seen. I've been told now it's a chunk of shadow something but looks like a smithing ore block. My thoughts at this point is it's a quest item. sorry for all the confusion

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

That'd be a http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=11479Chunk of Condensed Shadow</a>. It's used to make arrowheads that trivial at 116 smithing, which are then used to make arrows that trivial at 250 or something...