[Jomar]

bumping this up.

i looked for hard evidence (since maybe that is necessary as it's the one missing quest on the wiki) of this quest going in at the same time as the others, but was unable to find any. i also couldn't find any evidence about the item being upgraded at a later time as well (nothing in google, nothing on patch archives, nothing on eq database site archives). earliest date i could find of it's existence was early 2002 on magelo, showing up in the database before several of the other upgraded items though. given the rarity of 2/3 of the quest items and the regular release of expansion content keeping people busy back then on live, it may have just been possible that no one saw the upgraded version until much later.

it also wouldn't really make much sense that they just upgraded this one specific item later with basically a 5int boost either. it would've been very obsolete once velious hit regardless.

anyway, that's all i've got for this.