Ok, since no one seems to know about the OT hammer and eigther the site is down or alla doesn't know much about it here's how you get a free gate item you can use as many times as you want.
For this you need kindly (or maybe better) faction which is some screwed up name but con the cliff golems in the "overthere" to find out. There is only one way to get this faction up and it takes ALOT of turn ins but at least the mobs are easy to spot and easy to kill.
Step 1. seek and destroy
Your first mission is to eliminate any sarnak BERZERKERS you can find. The item of interest is the sarnak war braid these creatures at times posses which you will be able to spot a zone away as a chicken/reptile thingy holding a whip. Collect an ungodly amount of these and report back.
Good job now you're ready for opperation "Get behind the Darky". For this next step you'll need to bug a shaman until he /ignores you or makes you a dark elf potion if you con ready to attack to the cliff golems. Doing so will make you apprenesive to captain rottgrime and all the other Kommies in the enemy encampment. Find this captain the drop off, now he may try to bribe you with goods and uber loots simply laugh in his face as you destroy his sad attemp. After tricking the enemy into regarding you amoungst there own it's time for your final task.
Finally the fruits of your labor are within grasp. Find an operative we've placed inside the camp for your reward. Seek out an undead foreman who will ask you for 2 jade for confirmation of the job completed he in return will hand you a hammer that will port you to him incase you recieve anymore intelligence. This is your mission, you will complete it because I have trained you well. good luck soldier.

Dude, ur an idiot.

First of all, OT hammer is not the correct item name. Look for the Worker Sledgemallet. Second, if u try this method as a SK u will get creamed (which make me mad). Some SK's dieties will not allow u to get good faction without collecting more brades then ur inventory (to include ur bank slots) will allow.

There is really only one LEGAL way for an SK to get the OT hammer.

One - u need this >>Puppet Strings<<.
Two - A high Level debuffer (most notably a Enchanter)
Three - A Jade (I would have 2 just in case), purchasable from the bazaar for around 5-6 pp.
Four - And a few high lvl dudes to help take care of possible adds from the guards (dont kill them, just have them keep em occupied).

You will have to pull the undead foreman and tash him down so that ur SK can use puppet strings on him. Adds 'MAY' follow (depending where u pull him to), as SoE seems to have increased social agro within this area.

It will probably take a couple of tries to get the charm to stick. When it does, u should get an amiable con. When u do, start this turn in script...

“Hail, an Undead Foreman”

An undead foreman turns to face you. You can see a faint green glow eminating from his vacant eye sockets. “Are you a [new worker]? Huh? Speak or go!!”

You say “I am a new worker”

An undead foreman says “Hmmph!! Too much flesh!! If you want to work you must first fill my eye sockets with my favorite gem. This shall be your payment for your sledgehammer”

(Hand the undead foreman one Jade)

An undead foreman places the gem deep into his hollow eye socket. He pulls a giant sledgehammer from thin air and hands it to you. “Here!! You shall be assigned to the lower decks of the Scaled Trident”

I cant believe u posted this on the SK forum. The braid turn-in is useless for an SK (haha, u could of did a jade turn-in in 5 min), as u cannot even turn in braids without getting attacked by undead foreman. Ur diety allegience will fek up any attempt to use illusion for a turn in (even when trying the jade turn-in shortcut). Works well if ur AGNOSTIC, otherwise forget it!

If you dont know anything about SK's, dont post info that gets us killed (go back to the BST forum).


Edited, Wed Mar 2 13:43:30 2005 by Necrophobe

btw, if you're stupid enough not to con something that was just KoS a second ago happy loading

This quest can be done by Sk's with Sarnak Braids. My 46 SK completed this quest by himself with only doing braid hand-ins. Ok, I turned in close to 200 braids but collected experience the whole way. Im an Ogre who follows Cazic-Thule and was able to build up faction to warmly with braids alone. I had no problems turning in braids from the beginning. No sneaking, Invisi' or what ever. Just walked up, handed four braids, Repeat. I could see where at the higher levels this would be a complete waist of time (the braid hand-in). But if your in your mid 40's and looking for an easy solo area , average experience and a payoff of the hammer its well worth your time. Guess now Ill have to work on 2hb to get ready for the day I can actually use it.

Non-Iksar SKs should start out as apprehensive at the OT outpost so they shouldn't need to use any illusions or spells to start the quest, unless they lowered their faction by killing certain mobs in certain zones (Karnor's, Kaesora, to name a few). Iksar SKs, however, would start out KOS so they would need to use illusion/spells.

I am 62 level SK and I have never been KOS in OT. I wrecked my faction by killing in Karnors Castle. But, even then I have never had a problem. That is because you are the wrong race. I am Dark Elf, so before you spout off like you are the only race of SK, think before you speak. No reference to you Shadowcloud, the duffus that responded with flames should ease up and realize he obviously doesnt know much, because he ASS-U-MEs alot. Most likely a high school kid with his reactionary demeanor. Shadowcloud, thanks for the info. It is an arduous quest and I am thinking of getting the Clockwork Talisman instead. At least I can get experience while I am attempting that quest.

wow, necrophobe you're still ranting? well after stumbling upon this again after waondering if zerkers get "lady" title I guess some folks have nothing else to do. looky here, take the info for what it's worth to you. If that's nothing than disregard it. I'm more worried about why you'de spend so much time trying to "flame" others I mean come on. con the mobs before you get into argo range and you're all set and yes I did make an inpromtue write up of the quest as if I just found it out because A) I was bored and B) if you look any where else on Alla you wont see a write up of how to get the faction. I'm trying to help ppl get things that would be usefull but hey I'm not going to argue with fools. If you want it good luck and if you got it grats. If I helped anyone out then hey, we're all a litle better off. laters folks. (BTW, if anyone knows if female zerkers can get "Lady" title down the road fill me in, trying to give my zerker the name "Deathstrike") ; )

correction to what u said u can correct ur vs faction if u messed it up in dl or kc by going on a few druid epic raids to kill feydedar he gives a decent chunk of positive vs faction.
so if u cant afford the 100k pp puppet strings this is a viable alternative for u.

Necrophobe is incorrect in many cases here...I won't attack you, its counter productive, but I will correct *some* of your errors and give my experience with the quest.




While technically this may be correct...its very misleading. If you meant that as a long way to say "it takes a long time" then its correct, but don't make people think its an actual obstacle to complete the quests.



Even the most KoS sk, regardless of race can do OT hammer without puppet strings...in fact without puppet strings or braids. I have no idea what your definition of LEGAL is, but its certainly not a standard one. In fact the way you list can require the most work considering rare drop from pofear is harder to get than the other raid mobs involved. *If* you have guild with strings or can find it in the baz thats great, but it would be faster for most people to do the quest themselves the other ways then wait till they actually find the strings for sale at a price they could afford. Even farming them a guild would take months to get enough strings to get all their melee with hammers.


A hint if you do the puppet strings method as well....use a shaman and any other debuff class along with the chanter. It can make things go a LOT faster/easier. And also the captain/foreman are easy to split solo outside of the town there, no need to kite adds, your an SK for gods sake : ) pull the bastid.





The foreman isn't even close to the braids turnin area, so /shrug.


Now for the real info:

Either get puppet strings and use the above mentioned method (I'd advice more than just ench to debuff).

Or

Check your VS faction.

If you can turn in the braids, start on that quest till you can turn in the jade...simple enough.

If you can't turn in the braids.

Either do the puppet strings

OR

Pull the captain away from his guards (FD pull), have chanter mez, and do braid turnins. (that gets you close enough faction to start, reguardless of class/race and no strings needed). Repeat until you have enough faction to turn in yourself, then do till you can turn the jade in to the foreman.

OR

Kill ...
Elven Dancer
Esorpa of the Ring
Faydedar
Gorenaire
Hoshkar
Phara Dar
Severilous
Talendor
Xygoz

for enough faction to complete either quest. (or any combo of the last 2 ways)

Most of those kills are easier than the fear raid, and if your a 60+ toon most can be one grouped pretty easy....or since you don't need loot, just tag along on another group/raid that kills them and do 1dmg to get the faction hit.

This quest is great, every non gating class who doesn't get powerleveled should have it since its easy to get no matter class/race/faction. As far as the gate neck...yes its better, but 1) it costs a lot of plat to use every day, and 2)...you have to be EP/TIME flagged and takes WAY longer. I've got both on diff chars, its not really a one or the other. If you can get the gate neck you can also get the hammer in 1-5 days most likely solo even starting max kos.


For the lvl 70 people, origin might be a good alternative now anyways, not as convient since its not to bind and for many not as close to pok, but I enjoy it on my warrior none the less.

Kenographer
70 DE sk of Prexus, formally Tallon Zek / Zek
Looter of around 20 Worker Sledgemallet on 6 classes/4 races.

Kithicor castle??? Where is that Mr. Flamer?

Heh, ur kidding me right?

I'm more of a board troll btw (too many diseased based spells to be classified as a flamer).

Come back after you've helped 10 or 12 shaman get their epic 1 and reconsider the question you have posted. It screams noob (not that being a noob is bad, just unlearned).

Edited, Tue Aug 23 12:44:20 2005 by Necrophobe

I grinded xp on my chanter in the OT. No one wanted the braids so I collected... Then I remembered my alliance line of spells... I had the hammer at level 42. Why wouldn't I just use gate? Well... I could bind where I was farming and hammer-gate to the bank in OT.

My brother did the quest with a human warrior of Inny. I think the quest is worthwhile if you see the item as useful.

heh, yes... Karnor (what was I thinking?)

Instead of spending countless hours to faction and farming, you can spend less time to get the potion that ports you to Thurgadin. Granted, the potion is only one time use and you have to level up on pottery skill. However, you can amass enough components to last you a while after one farming.

So here is the trade off:

1) 1 time use gate potion which you have to combine after each use vs a hammer that procs gate
2) Relavtively less hours to spend initially to get gate potion, even with the time spent on leveling up pottery skill

I was hoping someone would mention the Shroud method of doing this


Great info =)

Edited, May 20th 2008 3:01pm by arishkogol

well, youre bein a little harsh. chill out. its a game.

additionally, race/hate issues can be solved by the use of a shroud.