Garette
09-15-2019, 10:28 PM
Hello!
There are some issues and discrepancies with the Deepwater Harpoon quest vs how it functioned in classic era. I saw the original thread for P99 regarding this in 2010 for the trigger that fixed that her starting her escort after the bottle turn-in (vs. disappearing upon turn-in like happened previously.) I also noticed the differences in the end text after the bottle hand-in at the guard before her from historical text on these websites I mention below.
But from multiple sources from 2001 going all the way up to 2014 these are some of the key differences I found with Sentry Xyrin vs. original (before Ragefire patch):
1) No turn-in was required to trigger the final escort portion. This is pretty much unanimous, and the first part of the quest could be used as a faction farming strategy. As long as her spawn is triggered in Sister Isle and the correct key words are used, she starts to run towards the Spectres immediately. 2001 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20011217070037/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
2) There are many reports of the Spectres not aggroing her and her despawning, dropping the Harpoon in the center of the Spectres (or dropping the harpoon after naturally despawning). I tried it twice, and she aggroed them instantly both times. I also waited over 2 hours and she did not despawn, only fought some aggroed gargoyles and skeletons occasionally. I tried it twice and she got aggro immediately in both instances.
At the moment, this definitely can't be completed at level 1 like all of the reports and the comment threads suggested even in Classic era because of the above.
Aug 2003 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20030825154818/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
2001 Wayback Source (same as above): https://web.archive.org/web/20011217070037/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
Not a 2001 source, but the website sure looks like it :D Just another to show what I meant - https://web.archive.org/web/20121211231313/http://www.bonzz.com/harpoon.htm
Currently she runs into them after potion is given, but the reports above mention her "trigger" to run being the correct key phrases in her regular speech.
3) Sentry Xyrin currently doesn't despawn after 15-30 minutes. You can see in the above sources they all cite this as well (not the 1 hour reported in the last thread on the subject). I've been by her side for several hours now and still no despawn either.
Thank you very much for your time,
Garrette
There are some issues and discrepancies with the Deepwater Harpoon quest vs how it functioned in classic era. I saw the original thread for P99 regarding this in 2010 for the trigger that fixed that her starting her escort after the bottle turn-in (vs. disappearing upon turn-in like happened previously.) I also noticed the differences in the end text after the bottle hand-in at the guard before her from historical text on these websites I mention below.
But from multiple sources from 2001 going all the way up to 2014 these are some of the key differences I found with Sentry Xyrin vs. original (before Ragefire patch):
1) No turn-in was required to trigger the final escort portion. This is pretty much unanimous, and the first part of the quest could be used as a faction farming strategy. As long as her spawn is triggered in Sister Isle and the correct key words are used, she starts to run towards the Spectres immediately. 2001 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20011217070037/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
2) There are many reports of the Spectres not aggroing her and her despawning, dropping the Harpoon in the center of the Spectres (or dropping the harpoon after naturally despawning). I tried it twice, and she aggroed them instantly both times. I also waited over 2 hours and she did not despawn, only fought some aggroed gargoyles and skeletons occasionally. I tried it twice and she got aggro immediately in both instances.
At the moment, this definitely can't be completed at level 1 like all of the reports and the comment threads suggested even in Classic era because of the above.
Aug 2003 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20030825154818/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
2001 Wayback Source (same as above): https://web.archive.org/web/20011217070037/http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621
Not a 2001 source, but the website sure looks like it :D Just another to show what I meant - https://web.archive.org/web/20121211231313/http://www.bonzz.com/harpoon.htm
Currently she runs into them after potion is given, but the reports above mention her "trigger" to run being the correct key phrases in her regular speech.
3) Sentry Xyrin currently doesn't despawn after 15-30 minutes. You can see in the above sources they all cite this as well (not the 1 hour reported in the last thread on the subject). I've been by her side for several hours now and still no despawn either.
Thank you very much for your time,
Garrette