Just last night, August 27, 2023, this is still dropping. I started trying to get one the night before and after 4 or 5 misions called it quits for the night. Got up Sunday morning and at it again for about 6 or 7 missions, still nothing. Logged back in Sunday night, about 3 mission I got my first one. Did 2 or 3 more missions and got another. Did 4 or 5 more missions and got my 3d one. You just have to make sure you clear the WHOLE zone. First two dropped off of a Witheran and last one dropped off a drained deathshed mob.
quick facts before we start 1 If you use ZONE OUT you will reappear at entrance to Korlach. 2 If you wait till you get kicked from zone you appear near quest giver Widdlethorpe Gemfinder. When you appear after you get kicked you're in the water look north west and up you will see quest giver. 3 Once main mob dies you have about 1 min to loot what you want before zone kicks you out. 4 Althought it only lists Withern and Basilisk that drop MASK it can drop from any mob I had one drop from a Shilisk only to loose it by the time I got my Cleric there to loot it see #3 above I got kicked from zone. 5 Tried to kill and loot all mobs in zone before main dies see #4 above 6 If after you finish quest and don't get mask and don't won't to wait on timer to do quest again DO NOT DO LAST TURN-IN just remove quest from all players and you can do again. 7 The Withern corpses tend to bury themselves when they fall so before leaving either of the 2 main rooms get high on a wall and scan for corpses do this from several locations several times it could save you doing quest a dozen times 8 There are exactly 7 Basilisk in 2nd to last room make sure you loot 7 corpses 9 Widdlethorpe Gemfinder is @ -68 / -1200 pos66. When you wait to get kicked you appear @ -35 / -1300 neg 16 under water. Look up and N/W and you will see Gemfinder he is hidden in a little crack in the mountainside took me forever to find suggest use location you get kicked to ( -35 / -1300 neg 16 ) to find him the 1st time
OK lets get going here's how I did it
Player 1 Cleric lower level player that gets MASK he will use ZONE OUT see #1 above if the MASK was not dropped so he will reappear at entrance to Korlach helpful if 2 boxing you won't have to run him all the way back to repeat Player 2 SK level 97 he will wait to get kicked #2 above so he can get quest again if MASK did not drop. Remember not to do turn-in if you want to do again REMOVE QUEST instead.
OK get quest and head to Zone-in @ northern part of map under water. Did not notice this at first but your compass will point you there. Zone in start killing and loot all mobs #4 above they will drop some tradeskill stuff and a few level 59-70 armor that is decent for its lvl In last room after all is dead kill main Mob Chancellor Prellius Make sure you get close to VISION of the WILTHERAN BEAST to get update. If MASK did not drop and after main Mob is dead run PLAYER #1 thru ZONE OUT you have 1 minute or you get kicked back to Quest Giver. Player #2 will wait to get kicked to quest giver delete QUEST from both players and REPEAT
Took about 24 times thru zone till I saw it drop off Shiliskin (see #4 above) another 8 times till I looted off Withern Hope this is helpful and let the FLAMES begin
Make sure you don't complete the instance when trying to farm. The lockout timer applies and you're stuck for 30 minutes if you complete it. You can clear the zone and then drop the mission to rinse and repeat quickly.
Dropped on my first run through the zone about halfway through. I asked my friend " Is this not as rare as I thought or was I just lucky?" He said ...um lucky.
Got one the other day . Droped off a withern . Took about 30 + mission clears : ) . Is like normal invise , still can drop at any time. But is nice to have. good luck .
I have been trying for this item for my cleric. I have cleared the complete zone probly 3 times, which takes time. Some rooms are not so easy to split, even though alot con Light Blue at 75, there are enough to rape you if you get too many.
I tried a new strategy even though item is a random rare off any mob in zone, I have only been clearing the front room with 9 mobs (1 roamer + 8 static), and the second room with approx 9 snakes (never counted).
I got my drop tonight off an orc in front room. Zone clearing takes so long and some work, so I simply would clear front 2 rooms, then stop, and then try mission again another night doing same. This took me 6 tries, then it dropped tonight off the 8th mob in front room.
I used cleric, mag, chanter each time. Mainly cleric and mag which is np as long as you do not get too many at once. Dulcify works well, though every now and then it gets resisted, and they all come...just be ready to zone.
Hope this helps...gl getting the drop. Be patient.
i hate to be rude but....what was the point of this post....no help at all thank you for wasteing my time having to read that you got it....wish there was a way to /ignore posts like this!
omg so sorry you had to produce such tremendous effort to READ a WHOLE sentence. go back to 2nd grade and brush up, you'll get faster. Then THINK (if possible) about the post, you may discover it's information is quite useful.
I got mine off a orc. only took 2-3 kills to get 1st try wuuwuu! Got the feral guardian totem same hour :D http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=1158624
Edited, Sep 8th 2006 at 7:19am EDT by Blastinthenine