Ivandyr's Hoop  

 

Kind of funny humor in this earring. Its only wearable by races that can be evil, and the stats are all sixes. A little real world symbolism there?

Greetings all,

today I figured since I had the cash, I'd give this quest a try (on Zebuxoruk, price I saw was 4kpp for this earring). I bought a stack of ruby for 2635pp (with 185 charisma) and headed to the swamp. She wasn't on track at the time I arrived, so I kill a few of the humans and high elves wandering around (bad faction hits here). She spawned near the entrance to guk after around an hour, so I set my plan in action. being an enchanter, I reclaimed my pet, then charmed her and ran to the troll dealer in the middle of the zone. By bringing her there, you can sell the lore hammer and axe as soon as you get them and reclaim 75pp of the initial 130pp for the rubies. Eventually my charm broke off and she attacked me.

First piece of good info :
She cons green at 49 and dual hits for 80 tops whith around 585 ac.

Anyways, I charmed her again and gave her the rest of the rubies. I went thru my whole stack and didn't get the earring, and I also noticed something else.

Second piece of info:
Once in a while, you get NOTHING for handing in the rubies (around 1 out of 8 times for me).

At this point, I had gotten back 1400pp from selling the weapons, so I ran to Oggok to buy 10 more rubies.

Third piece of info:
There's nowhere to buy rubies in Oggok =)

I got a friend to check on the web for the closest place to buy some, and it turns out it's in Grobb. That's not great if you're KOS, but I had no problems being an enchanter. This took me around 30 minutes, and when I came back, Lynuga was still there. This time, I figured ***** it, I gave her all the rubies and let the weapons drop on the ground. I finally got my earring on the 24th ruby I handed in.

Since I was done and there was no one else in the zone, I figured may as well kill, so I did.

Final piece of info:
She has around 800-1200 hp and dropped 1 ruby and one quest ruby needed for the jeweled skull quest.

Overall, this quest may be annoying and seem like a huge gamble, but the way I see it, I started with 2635 pp and ended up with one earring worth 4kpp+ and around 500pp so it was well worth it.

Hope this has been some help because this wasn't the first time I tried the quest, and I know that without any info, it's a pain in the ***.

Venil
49 Enchanter
Zebuxoruk

Gnomes cant use this and they can be quite evil.
As that iskar lower said, Top say's yes,, picture says now, what is it?

There was a patch a while back if a npc tries to give you a lore item, it will tell you "duplicate lore items not allowed". Same message if you try to loot a lore item.

Can prove this on the warrior guild leader in Ak'Anon. Say 'I am a new warrior' and he gives you a lore card. Say it again, says you already have one.

Bah I was wandering to Rathe Mountains to buy rubies for this quest, I happend to see Lynuga on track so I hurried myself, When I got back to her I handed in my first gem, presto I got a brute chopper, 2nd gem I got a mallet, 3rd I got the hoop...
Main reason I got the loop was because I needed to change out my forest loop for one with more AC (sarnak earings too rare). I saw the earing on one of my fellow Rangers so I decide herm AC is nice on it...Turns out to be that Rangers can use the item, just not wood elves...*sighs*
ok and off my rant, I turned in 5 more gems and got choppers and mallets

After carefully reading all the post about this hoop, I decided to buy a stack of rubies and give it a try. My concern was faction. Nobody has posted anything about it. After zoning into the swamp, I quickly picked up Lynuga on track...she attacked me (Woodelf Ranger) and I ran to zone. I came back, tracked her down again, went around behind her, used "Sneak" and turned in a ruby. It worked, I got one of those weapons that sold or 75pp. I had to wait untill she was stationary (she roams) and do it over and over. If you had an evil aligned friend, he could sell those weapons as you get them because they are all lore. After the 10th try, the hooop droped into my bag. I was VERY jazzed. I tried to equip and, DUH, woodelves cant use. So I gave it to my friend to hold and decided to turn the rest of the rubies to see if I can get another since I was there. Four more rubies and another hoop dropped. I eventually gave them to my guild but I sure wih that could've used one. Bottom line: If your high enough level and have enough money, do it. With Charisma at 95, it cost me 135pp/ruby. Its a very good item and alot of ppl can use it.

For the person that posted about training lynuga for efficiency in turning in the rubies to Lynuga.

I've never tried this but I'm sure this will work. I SELDOM post on here because people will percieve my posts the same way I percieve most peoples, pure crap. The reason that this should work is due to Lynuga's faction. When you kill her it raises your faction with Da Bashers while lowering faction with Broken Skull clan. There are other factions involved but the faction gain with Da Bashers is key to the newb guards of Grobb not assisting her. They obviously don't aggro her because on occasion she will decide to wander past them.

Until this idea I had given up trying for the hoop, now my plans have changed. The reason I gave up is that I've spent about 3k pp giving that B#$%^ rubies. I now kill her every time I see her, after shouting numerous times that she's up.

Bloxr of Arete Invictus on The Nameless
Level 45 but by far still a newb as everyone is whether you'd like to admit it or not.

I'm crying because I can't use this, Why Oh Why not a Druid? Crerics and Rangers can, why not I?

Humans, Erudites, Gnomes, Dark Elfs, Half Elfs, Trolls, Ogres, Iksar

That is from both Allakhazam and Caster's Realm.

When I get this hoop I am definitely going to take a picture of the statistics, submit it to Allakhazam, and pray they put it up since the current picture doesn't show the Iksar race or Gnomes.

-- Anbori, Tallon Zek