Post by ruin on Nov 14, 2005 11:50:36 GMT -5
Hi all - Well after working on the coldain shawl for 6 characters I am doing really well ar it. I have all sorts of ideas on how to help. and actually have 1 character that has enough stuff to get someone up to 3rd shawl.
The best site I have seen is at www.eqtraders.com
www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q31&menustr=120060000000
Which I have shamelessly have co-opted a LOT from that site.
Pre-Quest Suggestions -
For tradeskilling the best thing to do if you can is buy Intel gear. I have a set of Intel gear that I have augmented with Radiant Cut Starflow Stones. Also ask any chanters for an intel buff. Some of this may be cost prohibitive but it saves a lot on combines.
The next thing you should see if you can get is Geerlock items They can be bought at bazaar. They increase your percentage of a succesful combine 5%. It doesn't sound like much but it may save you from farming all over again.
Vendor Mining
This can be your friend. Always look for your items when dipping into vendors. I will list a couple here so you can be on the look out. Zombie Skins, (Medium and High Quality Bear, Cat, Rockhopper, and Wolf Skins), Grey Hopper Skins, Spiderling Silk, Spider Silk. etc..
Bazaar - This is your greatest asset sometimes. Some items that are better off bought. (Due to diffuculty of getting the items for level 50 or below toons) I will list a few here with recommended prices. These are required quest items not tradeskilling items.
High difficulty-
Moklar Hide (Quest 7) 500pp or below, Royal Kromrif Blood (Quest 7) 1K or below,Velium Hound Fur (Quest 8) 400pp or below, Runed Sea Shell (1 charge Enduring Breath) (Quest 7) 500pp or below.
Time Savers
3 Iceclad Cutlass Fish 50pp or below, 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2) 20pp or below, 4 Forst Giant Toes, (Quest 1) 50 pp or below, Mantacore Manes (Quest 6) 20pp or below, Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7) 20pp or below.
If Seal of Thoridain not available (see below); Buy any of the Meat for 10pp or under. Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3)
Seal of Thoridain - The gift that keeps on giving. Once someone has completed Coldain Shawl Quest 3. The Seal of Thoridain is given to character. This seal can be used to MQ the next person on the quest. Who in can turn MQ to another person. This enables the skipping of the baking portion of the quest and the dreaded snow griffon eggs.
Have 1 open slot for combine containers.
Disclaimer - I like trade skilling and realize that there are a lot of quests at higher levels that require it. So I have suggested items to make in order to get the skills above the required level until that item is complete.
First Tradeskill - Pottery 162 Trivial
You should start your first trade skill before even doing the first kill and that is pottery. This is a relative easy skill to increase due to items being mostly vendor bought items. The farmed item for this skill is zombie skins - which can be bought in Bazaar and sometimes in Gulf of Gunthak from the zombies on the beach and Unrest.
Now there are 2 ways that you can do this - abysmal sea or POK. I recommend going to abysmal sea.
Abysmal Sea -
Abysmal sea allows you to get the free leveling quest to 56. Due to the time and the sheer grinding of trade skills, I recommend that you only increase to the first one to 36. Then switch to Medium Bowls. Work this to 122. (Drop / Destroy succesful combines they are worthless unless fired and that is a waste of time and money.) Then switch to Large Bowls to 148. Again drop/destory successes. Last item to make is Lined Poison Vial till 168. This one you can usually give to a well deserving rogue or sell via /ooc. I sold lots at 20pp a stack.
synopsis-
Abysmal Vendor Quest
Medium Bowl
Large Bowl
Lined Poison Vials
POK
Pok is almost an option to making the items the Pottery vendors are in the northern trade buildings. Buy the patterns and clay from the 2 vendors and the smithing vendor in that same building sells water.
If you don't have Seal of Thoridain MQ then the second Tradeskilling is cooking.
COOKING - 127 Trivial
Most people who do this quest go as high as possible in cooking because of the sheer pain of hunting Snow Griffin Eggs. So we will go to level 191 in baking skill.
Same process as Pottery you have 2 choices Abysmal Sea or POK. Again I suggest you go to Abysmal Sea.
Do the baking vendor quest there till 36. Then switch for Fish Rolls to 135.
If you wish you can stop here. This is above the trivial level for the hardest combine.
After that switch to Filleted Bear to 143. (This requires a filleting knife which can be Smith crafted - Trivial 76) Last is Patty Melts which triv at 91 (Requires Non-stick Frying pan which is Smith crafted - Trivial 91)
synopsis-
Abysmal Vendor Quest
Fish Rolls
Filleted Bear
Patty Melts
After your tradeskill conquests you want to go to Thurgadin and make this item -
(Please have components in inventory)
Bought or Farmed in Velketor's Labyrinth.
3 Cyrstalline Silk - Farmed
Small Brick of Velium - Farmed
2 Small Pieces of Velium - Farmed
Combines
Unfired Velium Vial - In Pottery Wheel
3 Cyrstalline Silk - Farmed
2 Glass Shards - Vendor Bought
Small Brick of Velium - Farmed
Velium Vial - In Kiln
Unfired Velium Vial - Crafted
High Quality Firing Sheet - Vendor Bought
In Thurgadin visit Frundle Frenkler - She is located at approximately -350, 500. Ask her "what velium vapors"
She will give you a Velium Purifier
Combine in Purifier
Velium Vial
2 Small Pieces of Velium - Farmed
Result - Vial Of Velium Vapors (Quest 4)
everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=5329
Which is a gate potion to Thurgadin. All my melee characters carry this on their person. It also a good idea to have one for the purpose of going back to Thurgadin to do combines/ turn-ins.
Killing - Finally
Great Divide
To start killing the best place to go is at Great Divide by the spires. You kill giants and drakkel wolfs. Your goal here is to get the following items:
4 Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6) , and 2 Drakkel Whiskers (no Drop) (Quest 6).
After you get the 2 drakkel whiskers you want to go to Eastern Wastes.
A couple of caveats - Its best to have someone with a pet class that can guard and something that can help you run/go Very fast.
Eastern Wastes -
Your goal is to get the following items in this zone
If you didn't get the items in Great Divide you need to complete getting 4 Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6)
New Items - 2 Manticore Manes (Quest 6), 1 Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7)
Quest 3 items that can be skipped if MQ'd with Seal of Thoridain:
1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
First Camp
The first camp is trying to get Tanik Greskil Quest 4). In order to expidite this part, you need sow (or your going to die) and a pet that guards. Please ensure you know where in your inventory of Vial of Velium vapors is located.
If you have a pet that guards, go to the top of the entrance of Kael Drakkel where the ramp opens up to the rest of the Eastern Wastes. Place your pet on guard. Your pet will point to the closest mob. Go forward about 50 feet clicking on the ground in the direction you pet is facing. There are 3 things that will happen. 1) You Tanik Greskil (20%) chance. 2) You spawn Kromrif Death Guards (80% chance) or 3) You did not go far enough. If you did not go far enough then call pet to Follow and then Gaurd and skelly will point to mob. If you go out to far, you pet will point to the mobs east of you. So always go back to the top of the entrance of Kael Drakkel where the ramp opens up to the rest of the Eastern Wastes.
If Tanik Greskil spawns hand him Vial of Velium Vapors - He will hand you a note called Tanik's Note.
If Kromrif Death Squad spawns run. If you have Sow or faster run east towards Sleeper's Tomb. When you get around Sleeper's Tomb hunt manticores for manes or go north around -3000, -1000 to kill ulthork for ulthork tusks.
If your not MQ'd with Seal of Thoridain:
you can hunt for these items across from bridge to Iceclad. 1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
If Jboots or less run toward Kael exit. Jboots will make it there if you hop but you must act immeadiately. Zone and then come back. If you don't fd as soon as possible or have a cleric there to rez you.
After Succesfully handing Tanik Greskil a Vial of Velium Vapors. Proceed east to loc 1500, -6000 and hunt here for Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6), 2 Manticore Manes (Quest 6). After completing the farming for these items go north around -3000, -1000 to kill ulthorks for 1 Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7).
If you have MQ of Seal of Thoradain avaialable go to Thurgadin. If not, hunt the whole east side of the zone for 1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
So your back in Thurgadin will your satchels bulging with rightfully acquired loot. Please bring the person with the Seal of Thurgadin so you can MQ. First you visit Loremaster Borannin, located in the Temple of Lore in Thurgadin. The temple is at -320, 720.
Quest 1
You can go through all the hails or just hand him the 4 Frost Giant Toes.
He will hand you Burlap Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Quest 2
Ask Loremaster Borannin "what task".
He will hand you a Preservationist's Box.
Place your 10 Kromrif Heads in box and hit combine.
Give Loremaster Borannin the Box and Burlap Coldain Prayer Shawl.
You will recieve Cloth Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Quest 3
Hand Loremaster Borannin the MQ Seal of Thoridain to him.
Then hand in your Cloth Coldain Prayer Shawl.
If not MQ'd go to this web site they have a good description of walkthrough www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q132&menustr=120060030000
You will recieve Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl
Quest 4
Hand Loremaster Borannin Hand Tanik's Note and Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl
You will recieve Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Congrats you completed Coldain Shawl 1-4
The best site I have seen is at www.eqtraders.com
www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q31&menustr=120060000000
Which I have shamelessly have co-opted a LOT from that site.
Pre-Quest Suggestions -
For tradeskilling the best thing to do if you can is buy Intel gear. I have a set of Intel gear that I have augmented with Radiant Cut Starflow Stones. Also ask any chanters for an intel buff. Some of this may be cost prohibitive but it saves a lot on combines.
The next thing you should see if you can get is Geerlock items They can be bought at bazaar. They increase your percentage of a succesful combine 5%. It doesn't sound like much but it may save you from farming all over again.
Vendor Mining
This can be your friend. Always look for your items when dipping into vendors. I will list a couple here so you can be on the look out. Zombie Skins, (Medium and High Quality Bear, Cat, Rockhopper, and Wolf Skins), Grey Hopper Skins, Spiderling Silk, Spider Silk. etc..
Bazaar - This is your greatest asset sometimes. Some items that are better off bought. (Due to diffuculty of getting the items for level 50 or below toons) I will list a few here with recommended prices. These are required quest items not tradeskilling items.
High difficulty-
Moklar Hide (Quest 7) 500pp or below, Royal Kromrif Blood (Quest 7) 1K or below,Velium Hound Fur (Quest 8) 400pp or below, Runed Sea Shell (1 charge Enduring Breath) (Quest 7) 500pp or below.
Time Savers
3 Iceclad Cutlass Fish 50pp or below, 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2) 20pp or below, 4 Forst Giant Toes, (Quest 1) 50 pp or below, Mantacore Manes (Quest 6) 20pp or below, Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7) 20pp or below.
If Seal of Thoridain not available (see below); Buy any of the Meat for 10pp or under. Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3)
Seal of Thoridain - The gift that keeps on giving. Once someone has completed Coldain Shawl Quest 3. The Seal of Thoridain is given to character. This seal can be used to MQ the next person on the quest. Who in can turn MQ to another person. This enables the skipping of the baking portion of the quest and the dreaded snow griffon eggs.
Have 1 open slot for combine containers.
Disclaimer - I like trade skilling and realize that there are a lot of quests at higher levels that require it. So I have suggested items to make in order to get the skills above the required level until that item is complete.
First Tradeskill - Pottery 162 Trivial
You should start your first trade skill before even doing the first kill and that is pottery. This is a relative easy skill to increase due to items being mostly vendor bought items. The farmed item for this skill is zombie skins - which can be bought in Bazaar and sometimes in Gulf of Gunthak from the zombies on the beach and Unrest.
Now there are 2 ways that you can do this - abysmal sea or POK. I recommend going to abysmal sea.
Abysmal Sea -
Abysmal sea allows you to get the free leveling quest to 56. Due to the time and the sheer grinding of trade skills, I recommend that you only increase to the first one to 36. Then switch to Medium Bowls. Work this to 122. (Drop / Destroy succesful combines they are worthless unless fired and that is a waste of time and money.) Then switch to Large Bowls to 148. Again drop/destory successes. Last item to make is Lined Poison Vial till 168. This one you can usually give to a well deserving rogue or sell via /ooc. I sold lots at 20pp a stack.
synopsis-
Abysmal Vendor Quest
Medium Bowl
Large Bowl
Lined Poison Vials
POK
Pok is almost an option to making the items the Pottery vendors are in the northern trade buildings. Buy the patterns and clay from the 2 vendors and the smithing vendor in that same building sells water.
If you don't have Seal of Thoridain MQ then the second Tradeskilling is cooking.
COOKING - 127 Trivial
Most people who do this quest go as high as possible in cooking because of the sheer pain of hunting Snow Griffin Eggs. So we will go to level 191 in baking skill.
Same process as Pottery you have 2 choices Abysmal Sea or POK. Again I suggest you go to Abysmal Sea.
Do the baking vendor quest there till 36. Then switch for Fish Rolls to 135.
If you wish you can stop here. This is above the trivial level for the hardest combine.
After that switch to Filleted Bear to 143. (This requires a filleting knife which can be Smith crafted - Trivial 76) Last is Patty Melts which triv at 91 (Requires Non-stick Frying pan which is Smith crafted - Trivial 91)
synopsis-
Abysmal Vendor Quest
Fish Rolls
Filleted Bear
Patty Melts
After your tradeskill conquests you want to go to Thurgadin and make this item -
(Please have components in inventory)
Bought or Farmed in Velketor's Labyrinth.
3 Cyrstalline Silk - Farmed
Small Brick of Velium - Farmed
2 Small Pieces of Velium - Farmed
Combines
Unfired Velium Vial - In Pottery Wheel
3 Cyrstalline Silk - Farmed
2 Glass Shards - Vendor Bought
Small Brick of Velium - Farmed
Velium Vial - In Kiln
Unfired Velium Vial - Crafted
High Quality Firing Sheet - Vendor Bought
In Thurgadin visit Frundle Frenkler - She is located at approximately -350, 500. Ask her "what velium vapors"
She will give you a Velium Purifier
Combine in Purifier
Velium Vial
2 Small Pieces of Velium - Farmed
Result - Vial Of Velium Vapors (Quest 4)
everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=5329
Which is a gate potion to Thurgadin. All my melee characters carry this on their person. It also a good idea to have one for the purpose of going back to Thurgadin to do combines/ turn-ins.
Killing - Finally
Great Divide
To start killing the best place to go is at Great Divide by the spires. You kill giants and drakkel wolfs. Your goal here is to get the following items:
4 Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6) , and 2 Drakkel Whiskers (no Drop) (Quest 6).
After you get the 2 drakkel whiskers you want to go to Eastern Wastes.
A couple of caveats - Its best to have someone with a pet class that can guard and something that can help you run/go Very fast.
Eastern Wastes -
Your goal is to get the following items in this zone
If you didn't get the items in Great Divide you need to complete getting 4 Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6)
New Items - 2 Manticore Manes (Quest 6), 1 Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7)
Quest 3 items that can be skipped if MQ'd with Seal of Thoridain:
1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
First Camp
The first camp is trying to get Tanik Greskil Quest 4). In order to expidite this part, you need sow (or your going to die) and a pet that guards. Please ensure you know where in your inventory of Vial of Velium vapors is located.
If you have a pet that guards, go to the top of the entrance of Kael Drakkel where the ramp opens up to the rest of the Eastern Wastes. Place your pet on guard. Your pet will point to the closest mob. Go forward about 50 feet clicking on the ground in the direction you pet is facing. There are 3 things that will happen. 1) You Tanik Greskil (20%) chance. 2) You spawn Kromrif Death Guards (80% chance) or 3) You did not go far enough. If you did not go far enough then call pet to Follow and then Gaurd and skelly will point to mob. If you go out to far, you pet will point to the mobs east of you. So always go back to the top of the entrance of Kael Drakkel where the ramp opens up to the rest of the Eastern Wastes.
If Tanik Greskil spawns hand him Vial of Velium Vapors - He will hand you a note called Tanik's Note.
If Kromrif Death Squad spawns run. If you have Sow or faster run east towards Sleeper's Tomb. When you get around Sleeper's Tomb hunt manticores for manes or go north around -3000, -1000 to kill ulthork for ulthork tusks.
If your not MQ'd with Seal of Thoridain:
you can hunt for these items across from bridge to Iceclad. 1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
If Jboots or less run toward Kael exit. Jboots will make it there if you hop but you must act immeadiately. Zone and then come back. If you don't fd as soon as possible or have a cleric there to rez you.
After Succesfully handing Tanik Greskil a Vial of Velium Vapors. Proceed east to loc 1500, -6000 and hunt here for Frost Giant Toes (Quest 1), 10 Kromrif Heads (Quest 2), 1 Woven Frost Giant Beard (Quest 6), 2 Manticore Manes (Quest 6). After completing the farming for these items go north around -3000, -1000 to kill ulthorks for 1 Ulthork Tusk (Quest 7).
If you have MQ of Seal of Thoradain avaialable go to Thurgadin. If not, hunt the whole east side of the zone for 1 Tundra Kodaik Meat (Quest 3), 2 Frost Bunny Meat (Quest 3), 2 Ulthork Meat (Quest 3), 4 Snow Griffon Eggs (Quest 3)
So your back in Thurgadin will your satchels bulging with rightfully acquired loot. Please bring the person with the Seal of Thurgadin so you can MQ. First you visit Loremaster Borannin, located in the Temple of Lore in Thurgadin. The temple is at -320, 720.
Quest 1
You can go through all the hails or just hand him the 4 Frost Giant Toes.
He will hand you Burlap Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Quest 2
Ask Loremaster Borannin "what task".
He will hand you a Preservationist's Box.
Place your 10 Kromrif Heads in box and hit combine.
Give Loremaster Borannin the Box and Burlap Coldain Prayer Shawl.
You will recieve Cloth Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Quest 3
Hand Loremaster Borannin the MQ Seal of Thoridain to him.
Then hand in your Cloth Coldain Prayer Shawl.
If not MQ'd go to this web site they have a good description of walkthrough www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=q132&menustr=120060030000
You will recieve Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl
Quest 4
Hand Loremaster Borannin Hand Tanik's Note and Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl
You will recieve Woven Coldain Prayer Shawl.
Congrats you completed Coldain Shawl 1-4
