Made the mistake of assuming PoK quests were all for high levels. My lvl 25 caster just got this nice item tonight - fast, too! Found a HQ cougar skin for sale on a gnome in an igloo in Iceclad. Forgot the cost, but it was low. Killed frogloks in Qeynos sewers (lvl 9? easy kills) - got undead tongues on the third spawn. Killed stonepeep cockatrices on the easy side of Overthere - got beak. Killed hoppers in shar val newbie zone - got eye.

Also have the mask from the magic pool quest. Both effects work together. That's faster casting and lower mana - I'm very happy I did these quests. Look into them. They're doable under level ten (you'll need to buy the beak and skin at least - don't pay high bazaar prices - talk a player into selling you one for a reasonable price ---- hq cougar skins are cheap if you find one on an npc merchant, but cockatrice beaks are over 30 pp on an npc merchant (so get one of those from someone hunting in OT - offer them 2 pp - heck, many players will just give u one if you tell them you're doing a quest). Good luck!

This is just something that I have noticed. I do have one myself and I can't remember if it is a "NO DROP" item. If it is then how can it be for sale in the Bazaar? I do agree that this is a very easy quest to do and every bit of Mana Preservation is worth it. Therefore, I rate the quest very good and suggest that all casters should do it.

49 BST Vah Shir
Tuchackta

Until you get something better on the finger that is. This quest is hands down the easiest to do of all of the collection quests, and the items are typically for sale in the Bazaar for less than 50pp grand total, often less than 25pp GT in my experience. Every low level alt caster I have has one of these rings, and they are very nice up to around level 49, when they no longer help your higher end spells. Saving 10pct mana per cast may not seem like much, but if your druid casts a portal(300mana normally) 30mana is substantial, and this effect works on EVERY spell, barring only Complete Heal, which is moot since that is a 49 spell anyway.

What is the avg price of this ring on your server?

My level 1 necromancer was rather happy to have a mana preservation II item.

All items are vendor buyable, usually found on vendors in the PoK. Or, you can go to the areas identified in the post below this item's quest, and buy them there. Will be one of your most valued posessions, since it will cost you less than 10P to buy all the quest items, and is a mana reduction for up to level 44 spells. Not to mention, free mana and HPs.

So my question is. If you have another item with mana preservation (not sure if there are any) would the two percentages add up? or would only one take effect?


Widmere Heffeweitzen
40 Druid
Luclin

For anybody out there with about 30pp to spare, this quest is super-duper easy to do, *especially* since you need Planes of Power to do the quest anyway, giving you access to the portals in the Plane of Knowledge.

Anyone with the skills to adjust, or otherwise circumvent minor faction issues, will be able to do this quest in under an hour, for the most part. The reason is that all four of the required items are tradeable, and are also sold to merchants on a regular basis, so you can just run around and buy them. This generally only applies if the server (and certain zones) have been up for a while. Of course, you can always just go to the appropriate zones and acquire the items from their respective owners...

Tiny Rockhopper Eye: These drop on newbie rockhoppers in the pit around Shar Vahl. Take the book to Shar Vahl (drops you in Shadeweaver's Thicket), run into Shar Vahl, and look for the nearest merchant you can find. That will probably be the one that newbies sell all their junk loot to, and he will probably have at least one eye for sale for around 7 silver.

Undead Froglok Tongue: Take the book to Grobb (drops you in the middle of Innothule Swamp) and run almost directly north to get to South Ro; for the return trip, you might want to get the /location of the book in Innothule, because most of the swamp looks the same and without landmarks to guide you it may prove troublesome to find again. I've always gone to the dark elf merchants in South Ro (halflings are sneaky fellows, you know), but if you can't use those merchants, you can *probably* find them for sale at the erudite merchant in the corner of South Ro near Ortalius or the innkeeper in the Oasis of Marr (you're not the only person that can't use the dark elf merchants in South Ro, so go to the next nearest place to sell). Price is around 6-7 gold.

Cockatrice Beak: Firiona Vie or the outpost in the Overthere are probably the best places to look for these on merchants, or maybe even the iksar merchant in the Overthere near the zone to Warslik's Wood. These cost around 20pp on merchants though, so you may just want to get one from a bird or another player. Both locations have their own portals from New Tanaan, so they're pretty easy to get to.

High Quality Cougar Skin: These drop on the snow cougars in Iceclad Ocean, and *maybe* the cougars in Eastern Wastes, but I always go to the gnome pirate camp in Iceclad and look on the three merchants there, since they usually have every part and piece imagineable that drops on the cougars. I think they cost around 1-5 platinum, but I can't remember for sure. The HQ skins aren't nearly as common as the LQ skins, so you may need to kill cougars for a while, or ask other players in the area. The last time I did this quest, there weren't any HQ skins on the merchants, so I used Upheaval to kill about 12 cougars on the island all at once, and none of them dropped a HQ skin. When they all respawned, I did it again, and got 2 HQ skins from the pile of cougars. Luck comes in kinda handy on this one. Without other forms of magical transportation, this one will probably take the most time, since it's the furthest away from a Book of Knowledge; the closest books are West Freeport (a pretty long wait for the Icebreaker boat in Iceclad) and the Great Divide (directly north of the Luclin spires, next to a row of large boulders along the northern edge of the zone).

After a relatively short time of running around searching, you can go back to the museum in New Tanaan and get your collector's box, combine the animal parts inside, and hand them to Holly Longtail, the Vah Shir beastlord in the back of the room. She will give you this nifty little ring, and you will be happy to save thousands upon thousands of mana for the rest of your character's life! This ring really isn't bad for pure meleers either; 2ac 30hp is great for the small amount of work you have to put into this quest, and should suffice until you can obtain a better ring.

took me 30 min i think to do this nice even for higher levels as a good ring is very hard to find

Aflack Dukky
59 Enchanter