Shaman Epic Skippable parts?

[mirks]

Originally Posted by Lamil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cool thanks for the heads up. Did you do woe/envy turn ins more than once?

21 bondls and 1 woe/envy

[Lamil]

Thanks. I think I'm going to actually do the boots so that should help my faction get up to do the last turn ins. We shall see if I can manage to get a stupid tear though

[Wipo]

Anyone know if its possible to MQ Child Tear with a bard that would be Kindly or maybe even Warmly but not MAX faction and playing Cinda's Charismatic Carillon (improve faction song). Does it bring him to MAX faction, so he can make the turn-in to MQ the tear ?

Song should bring him up for about +600 faction but i'm still not sure a song can bring you to MAX ...

[raka]

Originally Posted by Loftus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As mentioned above, you can skip most of it since the quest line primarily
serves the purpose of raising TrueSpirit faction.

As far as I know, you MUST have MAXIMUM (read: you turn quests in until you
receive the message "Your faction standing with TrueSpirit could not
possibly get any better.") faction to hand in the scale from Rak'Ashiir
to get the Spear as a reward. Note that Ally apparently does not yet exist
until Velious and Warmly is the highest con you will see.

My recommendation having done this:
1. Kill Black Dire in MM and get his pelt for the self-only, inventory-
castable SOW Black Fur Boots.
2. Spend several levels in COM and just keep looting and repeating the
pages. I would recommend the stables since you can get all pages here,
including Student's Log which only drops from the Courier.
3. Participate in Fear raids; each of the golems have a chance to spawn the
Iksar Broodling and I believe the Broodling always drops one Child's Tear.
4. Once you have the tear and maximum faction, gather some friends for a
few hours of pulling Black Reavers until you get Rak'Ashiir. He's pretty
chump - fight for 12 of us of varying levels from 50-60 took 58 seconds.

what faction do I need to be at in order to receive black fur boots?

also,

is test of patience, wisdom mandatory? or can they be skipped

[Vicatin]

Originally Posted by raka [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

what faction do I need to be at in order to receive black fur boots?

also,

is test of patience, wisdom mandatory? or can they be skipped

Bumping this because i would like to also know what faction is required for boots.

[Seducio]

True Spirit faction goes back to indifferent upon completing the Epic.

What this means is that a Shaman should definitely prepare to kill Black Dire for the turn in for Black Fur Boots before killing Rak in CoM, the final battle before the Iksar Scale turn in.

[Wipo]

I would also like to know if there is any faction require to get boots. From what people are saying you can't do it at indifferent. But do you need to be Amiably , Kindly or more then this ?

[DrKvothe]

I just got my pelt today. Previously I had done the woe/envy turnin once after getting faction high enough from bondl turnins. I went to EJ, turned in gem from woe/envy, and got a "sorry, not high enough!" message.

Did another woe/envy turn in, but spirit disappeared before I could ask for the gem. That one got me to amiably though. Gonna do one more woe/envy, then turn in gem and then pelt.

[DrKvothe]

Did another woe/envy turnin, then turned in gem. The wolf in EJ gave me the conversation for black dire, so i took the plunge and handed him my pelt. I was rewarded with the boots for my effort, and he gave me the CoM book when I asked for it.

Very happy day =D

Edit: To reiterate: after becoming eligible for woe/envy turnins from the bare minimum of brondl turnins, I turned in 3 sets of envy/woe/marr, then turned in the resulting gem once in EJ, then turned in pelt, then got CoM book.

[DrKvothe]

Little update: even though i'd gotten the boots, turned in filled CoM book in EJ and got a failure. So...yeah.