Fiery Defender  

 

haven't gotten the FD yet, but I was wondering what type of aug I should put in this marvelous blade. I'm trying to steer clear of LDoN augs, or the merchant-bought augs, nothing fancy. Couple of droppable augs I found
Tersmochin Heartwood (I'll need some serious help getting this, I know)
Orb of Stinging Fury
Lifetap augs from DoN
Hate augs (Deep Crust Fire Geode)

Any suggestions?

I'm having trouble catching the dragons up to get the Book of Scale, been trying for about 1 1/2 years now, so I'm resorting to buying a Book. If you have one or know someone who does, send in game email to Rdbanker.

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61st Paladin
Erollisi Marr

First froggie Lightbearer on Stromm :)

Got this lil' beaut after about a year of relatively active gaming on char. Thought I'd add a few notes for others who are still seeking their 1.0.

1. Ghoulbane: Cake quest. do it in yer mid 20's, should take a few days.

2. Soulfire:
A. Faction is the worst part, take yer 4000gp or so, donate it 2gp at a time in Qeynos for consistent fac over a few hrs time to Warmly.

B. Xicotl. Now in the Faydark, since the MM revamp, duo'd him in 50's. If doing SF in 30s or 40s bring help fer him.

C. Sir Lucan. Bring help unless in 60s+. Pull to EC ZL, zone. Friends (non-KoS) hail him and key you in when other guards gone. Commence the beatdown. The quest portions are cake, look up the rest on the SF item posts.

3. Fiery Avenger:
A. Books books books. THIS is the true bottleneck of 1.0 fer pallies. If yer havin trouble gettin books, thank the dragon farmers. Either get yourself a high level ranger buddy who can search the respective zones fer dragons DAILY fer a week or so; OR make a ranger alt of yer own if ye dont have any ranger buddies. find the spawn date, will most likely be the kill date also :) Track it, call guild, commence the beatdown (tank them lower than yer 50s and ye'll not live long to regret it :P).
B. If the ranger track method doesn't appeal to ye, keep 75-100k on yer trader mule at all times and pray fer Book of Scale to show up in baz. just FYI: the book DID NOT APPEAR in /baz search window as of July/Aug or 2004.* I was perusing for a Runed Bolster Belt and found a mule selling 3 or 4 of em (GREAT indicator of a dragon farmer). Went to purchase, and looked thru inventory, sure enough, this guy had the book. Only wanted 10k fer it (quite a steal imho), so i bought it. I double checked the /baz search window just in case i missed somethin, but no, the book merely DID NOT APPEAR in search even though i was staring at it in the guy's inventory for sale.

*edit- it shows in bazaar now, as of September 05. Saw one the other day on mule.

C. Miragul: 7 day spawn, bring a necro (to charm lich for hand in) and group of buddies in 50s, 60s to burn his **** to the ground. Loot head and robe.

D. Deepwater faction: get an evil Erudite to let you into Paineel and then you can begin the slaughter his evil brethren :) can be solo'd in low 60s, but bring goodie race/class friends if need groupage ie: <lv60. spend an hour or two slaughtering green-blue NPCs and guards. DO NOT go near the GMs or wander far from the ZL heh. Faction can be done in no time flat.

E. Inte Akera for turn in: Get a necro who's keyed thru Isle 4 (and cleric also keyed to 4, if desiered 96% rezzes), as well as a wizzy to port. Wizzy ports ye up, you attack any NPC and die. Cleric rezzes, Necro runs to Isle 4 and summons corpse then necro rez (or cleric rez again) once there. Wizzy waits on Isle one to spawn Dason and then Inte. Wizzy gives the 500pp once you're on 4 near spawn point. Give him the GB, SF, then return the blessings, and head/robe for FA.

4. Fiery Defender: Ok once ye have the FA (or before ye get it if wanna be pre-emptive heh), all 3 Tainted Darksteel items can be got in one session (few RL hrs time). I know because I killed all three named fer the three drops AND did the final turn-in to Irak in PoF in the same day :) Try this order and method, it worked fer me. Keep busy until the next real Patch day. Log-in Immediately after patch, then follow this path:

A. Kirak Vil in Nektulos Forest- easy to find, one group of 60s will destroy this peon. Don't bother trying to solo regen too fast fer pally DPS in 50s, low 60s. Kill/ Loot Shield. (5 min tops to kill this sucker once all zone in).

B. Thought Destroyer in Hate. Buy the port stones (52pp ea) in cleric guild Neriak 3rd Gate. can be solo'd in 60's but recommend at least a healer to be on safe side. Head to /loc -150 -600, the mob is in a corner between some building-structures. Destroy and loot BP. (Should take you no more than 10-15 min to find and kill once in zone).

C. Keeper of the Tombs. Print a map. Bring a strong group high 50s- low 60s, with Cleric, Chanter, and Druid for track/port home. Work your way down clearing everything that comes at you. Push toward -300, +275 or so. Track from there if needs. The drop A Sacred Key shold have dropped off mobs enroute, if not, ye can bard/rogue picklock to get into his room, and/or use wolfform to poke your nose in and target for taunt, stun, nuke whatever to pull him out. (This camp will be the most time consuming of the 3, give it an hour or two, assuming no wipe). Kill, making sure not to push mob thru the door, so you can still loot. Loot up gate/port out for fastest exit.

*edit -fastest I ever did keeper was about 45 of crawling with clr + mag trio, clearing everything from the undead portion on.

D. Irak Altil. This one will be tough. No way around it. I was fortunate enough to have zoned in after someone had cleared the majority of mobs in zone. Irak was still up, hanging out at his favorite Belltower. Best advice, DONT GO ALONE. BRING INSTA-GATE potions "Vial of Swirling Smoke", one for each char in zone.* Bring at least a high level tracker class (I brought a druid), to have them kite mobs toward Irak. Have them then break away from him once you can see him, so you can do turn-ins while the mobs aggro kiter. Both insta-gate home afterward for the win :)

*edit- DoN summoning here now. Don't /fear Fear :)

That's all i got. Hope it helps. Good luck and never give up! Your very own epic 1.0's still out there waitin on ye :)

Edited, Wed Sep 14 10:46:20 2005

I think SOE should create an Epic 3.0 that is an Artifact(one per server) and only available as a random reward for completing Epic 2.0! Like,this could be Blazing Defender with higher stats,30 delay,40 damage,with a second proc for Undead Bane damage. Hehe I'm sure I'm the only one who thinks this way. :-) I just think SOE should integrate Artifacts into the game randomly to make the game more exciting. Knowing exactly what to do to get exactly what we know we'll get is a bit tedious. Of course Artifacts should be limited only to players 40+,but I think it would be great! :-)

Edited, Sat Nov 20 17:11:13 2004

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Edited, Aug 1st 2019 3:52am by GOMN

Anyone remember the pally epic being nerfed? Used to be a 243 damage proc + stun, now it's nerfed to 155 with shorter duration stun (I think). Glad to know a melee epic would be nerfed when berserker's epic has over 100 hitpoints or cleric epic is still used daily. WTG SOE!

I started this quest a LONG time ago. (3.5 years ago) Like every pally at lvl 15 or so, I loved my ghoulbane. The soulfire was good for a bit, once my 5 ch's were gone there were better weps starting to come out. Somehow I managed to stop using 2hs, and started using the 2hp'ers out there. I fell in love with the 2hp vs 2hs. Seem to miss less and hit for more with 2hp when compared to a 2hs with the same ratio. So I said ***** it, why get a 2hs like FD when at lvl 55 I could use narandi's lance which blows FD away? Then newer stuff came out, and still newer. Now stuff like Heavy Windriders Lance totally smokes the FD and makes me feel so glad I never bothered going any further then soulfire. Alot of people can relate to this im sure.... now, At lvl 65 I never would have imagined I'd be posting in a thread about the FD. But with the epic 2.0's coming out, and the assumption that origional epic will be a part of that quest, if yer a 65 pally who doesnt have the FD rotting in the bank, its going to suck bad 8(
If the new pally epic is anything close to the zerker epic it would be worth having IMO. I personally will be stuck waiting to find something better then my HWL with the next expansion. So if your still in your low 50's or below, watse the time to get this FD because as it turns out, it wont be such a waste afterall.

After 2 years of hard work, and a lot of patience, I completed this quest. Although I mainly use a WMBS as my weapon, which is overall a much better and faster damage dealer, I completed this quest to be able to finish what I started. It is always easy to just give up when it is so much easier to get something better (and I HAVE better weapons overall), but knowing that I finished what I started out to do is what makes this a very satisfying completion.

Many will want to remind me about the better equipment out there, and I KNOW it is there - I AM actively trying to get it. I just want to know that I am not someone who starts and gives up. It is MY want, MY desire, MY goals that drove me to complete this. No one can take this away from me. I finished what I started.

What is great about this though, is the number of people who want to actually see the weapon. They want me to show it off. This makes the end result all the more satisfying, in that others can share in my joy and sense of accomplishment.

So, to you who think this is a waste of time - do what you will. Setting a goal and finishing it - despite what other people think, is a reward in and of itself.

For all you Brother Paladins out there working this - stick with it friends - in the end - it is YOUR satisfaction that matters.

Rumblebore Adamant, 62 Paladin, Innoruuk Server.

Edited, Sat May 1 16:40:17 2004

but surely there are better two handed weps out there, that are easier to get, dosent this compensate for the fiery coolness of it?

So, what would be a good augment for this weapon? I have one, LOVE IT, and would like to know what augmentation would prove best for it. Any info is appreciated. I have yet to see a definitive list of all available augments.

Just an FYI.
This sword has "Slot 1: Type 4", Not type 1.
I didn't take a pic of it to send in for the update, but I'm sure it'll be changed soon enough.

Just wanted to say i got this on my lvl 51 gnome pally bout 1 week ago was wonderin if i was first gnome pally with epic or not

I just turned in all the pieces to get the Mark of Atonement (sp?) so all I have to do now is turn it in. At level 55 I think this weapon will be decent, but I have spent over a year and a half pursueing this darn thing. Good luck to you all.. once you get past the FA it is a piece of cake!

Riany Lightbringer
Knight of Luclin

I was very concerned about the time sink I was in for trying to get this faction up. Fortunately I stumbled on a bit of information that made my life easy: kill Elial Brook.

This guy is a heretic who spawns every 6 minutes next to the dock in Toxx forest. I killed him 20 times and turned in his bones (one at a time) to a guy in the Erudin Palace (can't remember his name but a bestiary search for Elial Brook will sort you out) and I had amiable faction.

Took about two hours, practiced swimming and sense heading between pops, and I am good to go for my epic.

This worked for me having never killed a single mob that ever raised Deepwater faction.

Ehre Firestrike
51 Cavalier
Prexus Server