Quest Issue: Shaman Epic: Iksar Broodling in PoF

[DoucLangur]

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

Pretty sure a few people here have already skipped the hole and Neh'Ashiir by doing black dire and the CoM reports a lot

To be precise: If you do everything else up to and including Black Dire, you need to do the CoM reports exactly eight (8) times to max out TrueSpirit faction.

I skipped Ghiosk, The Hole and Neh'Ashiir that way. And btw. if someone has an unclaimed Iksar Broodling in PoFear - please do tell me on Slozem if I am online - I'll be happy to clean it up for you.

Cheers

Slozem

[Dentalplan]

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

To be precise: If you do everything else up to and including Black Dire, you need to do the CoM reports exactly eight (8) times to max out TrueSpirit faction.

CoM reports are the exact sort of thing you want to skip by boosting up your faction. Much easier to do the first couple steps multiple times until faction is maxed.

[Speedling]

I repeated step one 40 times~. 27 Turn ins took me to warmly.
I did blackdire, 2 CoM pages, 1 Ghiosk to get max warmly.

[Daldolma]

Would also be interested to see a comment from devs on this. Will it be fixed or should we plan on just doing it the post-nerf way?

[Daldolma]

Still wondering about this, as it's a very significant part of the shaman epic. Is this going to be fixed?

[Dentalplan]

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

Would also be interested to see a comment from devs on this.

[Daldolma]

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

I've been doing some research into the earliest implementation of the Shaman epic. Some of the sources I've found suggest that the Iksar Broodling spawn mechanic was different than the version we see here. Here's a link to a late 2000 walkthrough of the Shaman epic, it even lists the pre-upgrade spear stats with the effect as a proc.

http://web.archive.org/web/200012160...ar_of_Fate.htm



And here's a post on Allakhazam's page for the broodling:


http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.html?id=5627



I haven't found anything that suggests the golems were part of the Shaman epic earlier than the 2001 revamp of the planes that made them more serious minibosses. I'd guess that's when the change happened.

This is pretty important. It's a hugely significant part of the epic. Would love to get some comment one way or the other.

[Dentalplan]

Page 1. Feel like there's plenty of evidence here to support this.

[Simonlol]

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[Reiker000]

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

I repeated step one 40 times~. 27 Turn ins took me to warmly.
I did blackdire, 2 CoM pages, 1 Ghiosk to get max warmly.

The go-to method on live was woe/envy/marr's promise turn-ins. Only took about 3-4 rounds to max out. Idk why you would do CoM reports 8 times, holy shit. That's what you're trying to skip. It must be way easier here than it was on live. The courier alone took me 2 straight days of camping on live, probably at least 20 hours, and Neh`Ashiir is a pain in the ass too.