If you choose to "short-cut" the 1.0 quest, and just repeat the turn in to the wandering spirit for faction, be sure to kill and loot Lord Ghiosk's books to turn in while you are in CoM to get Lord Rak. I killed rak and got the scale, however spirit sentinel wouldnt accept it until he got Ghiosk's books

I did all parts of Epic in order up to the point where I turn the Icon to High Scale Kirn in the Hole. This portion of the quest was bugged I just kept on getting the response of "I have no use for this xxxxx you can have it back". I petitioned and the GM's acknowledged that yes this was a bug and gave me the engraved ring. I attempted to give this ring to "Neh Ashiir" in CoM and received the same response "I have no use for this xxxxx you can have it back".
I petitioned again and am getting nowhere, my guess is that because I actually did not kill the Epic version of the High Scale Kirn to receive the message "your faction with True Spirit got better". That's where my "missing" faction is. Any idea's???? Thanks in Advance

I just did the test of patience last night...the test is a little messed up right now.. first OOglyn was soo fast I lost her almost immediately. Once I found the spawn point for the npc's Srafen, Dillon were no shows. I started with Froham the Forgotten..to Abe..then the greater sirit, who spawned over my head. I still received the small gem and I was able to finish the test. The sharks did attack me in the spawn point, so be careful. I am level 51 so I crushed them with no problem. However it was annoying.

Ayroarrah, Unquenched Valor, of Ayonae Ro [:monkey:]

Hello, I just wanted to do a little FYI since i just redid a second shammy 1.0 epic.

Took me 2 days to do it.

The parts were really easy to do, except that I wanted to point out a few things.


1. Ooglyn and her friends, were nuts. Not only did they take forever but several things happened.
a) The mobs TOOK FOREVER To spawn. I know its the trial of patience, but holy crap. DO NOT MOVE from your spot once you get there PERIOD. STAY there i mean we are talking 5-10 minutes in some cases, at least that is how long it was for me.
b) I did NOT get 2 NPCS to spawn at the same time as mentioned above.


This is flat out not true. What happened was Srafen the Soaked was up and then Dillon the Drowned spawned.

Now here is where it deviates from above.

No 2 NPCS did NOT spawn together, Srafen was already up, and then Dillion Spawned.

Next, I said all the phrases etc. about 10minutes later Srafen said, pretty much, that is it I am out of here and freakin swam off, and Dillion said, me too wait for me. That isn't mentioned aboved.

About 2-5minutes later, The next NPC spawned Froham the Forgotten

Now he sat there after i talked with him and finally... his dumb arse swam away. I swear these mobs were on super slow mo, I mean seriously up to 12minutes one time to get one to even move..

Finally Abe Spawned, and I completed that part, however it took a LONG time and it was a LOONNGGG time before the Spirit spawned so please be patient. i mean REALLY REALLY patient to the point you think your screwed cause NO NPC's are arounda nd you are going, omg i gotta start over... relax you dont, just DONT move.

2. The spirit in West Karana, I mentioned this above but i found him in the bottom S.W. corner in a square pattern size shape. Near the ) in fletcher and the clemens or cleatus or whatever his name is just above and to the right of that. Take a tracker/follow the road you WILL find him.

3. The pages... man if you can get an AE or you have a massive HP/DPS person and a healer... pull like 20-30 at a time and you will get them fast, accept for the Courier.

a) The courier spawened 2 times for me before i got the log. First time he spawned in the west stables, which doesn't look like stables at all, its just an open area with a door on your left and 2 doors on your right. The doors on your right a little L-Shaped rooms with a mob/2 in it. The left side is a LONG L-Shaped room where, when you go into it and you end up having to turn left(face east) to get to the mobs after entering the door. The courier spawned in the Left Back Corner. I had skeleton and phantom PH's so it doesn't have to be just apparitions/phantoms. Heck even another named spawned there.

The second time he spawned was in the east stables, in the right doored room when in the east stables, facing the west stables.

So, to get to the stables, zone in, go through the gates, stay to the RIGHT, you will end up in the first main area, that leads to the back, you can go right, left, or straight to the back, you want to stay to the right. You will(if your the only ones in there) see a mob about 15 feet up, 4 feet before him you can go right or left.

That is the west/east stables

4. You can kill Captain of the Guard to get the key for the first door to the Reavers. This will allow you to kill Riosk or whatever his name is with the books. At 70(and maybe before) you can single pull him out. i ran from stables... to their and back and got him and like only 10 mobs, easy to avoid aggro and they are stupid lowbies.

5. If you train yourself while pulling reavers, just remember.. make sure to have him targetteda nd keep attacking with your hotkeys, as he will blind you, and have your shammy looking at what you are doing for you. (if your boxing like me), And when he dies, just hit F8 get a new target and go, or click him with shammy then while blind type /assist shammyname and go

6. That key gets you through the first door but thats it, you need a rogue after that. Now above everyone says you need 200 or 201, not true, my rogue WITH +2% to Pick Lock ONLY had 196 period... and opened all the doors NP.

7. Go upstairs, kill the girl, get the diary, i had let me see i think 3 or 4 reavers spawn. You do NOT need levi. Just jump from ledge to ledge rogue open door, puller run in aggro him and get out fast, so he doesnt blind you so you dont fall off. Then run off. I had my rogue sneak/hide the second he opened the door(which u can actually do before).

The reaver is stupid, sometimes he appears to have fallen off if you run back to the room to fast, he didnt, he is running around in circles behind the building, just step out go back toward he floating tower a bit and bingo he will come. Kill him get the book

8. Loot the key off her which controls the elevator that leads to the last reavers and to Nair or Ashir or whatever the heck he is called don't feel like scrolling ;-).

when you go into the reaver tower and you are looking at the first reaver, if you could look through HIM and the wall behind him you will see a wooden floor, thats the elevator, get on it, click it with key and go up.

Watch out soon as you go up two mobs and a reaver are right there. Kill them. I actually got Phantoms to pop off the reavers NOT more reavers(weird eh).

8b)

I went to fear, thinking yeah right, freakin farmers will have these dead, and since i took my 0 zero to 58 in two days, and I had looted a tear with my paladin long ago(but no faction anyway), I went back.

Holy crap ALL 3 were up. I went in, another person was there to do the same epic, I had like 25 mobs on me in Fear, person was from RIP, we teamed up(really cool bard), he sat there ae slowing/dotting everything while i tanked(also) and healed and smashed stuff. We killed Terror, i got my tear(although we had a HUGE train that wiped all my alts, cause i got triple chain teleported by freakin scarlings LOL. it was nuts.

Then we killed Fright/Dread. Got CRAP DROPS, no AONS just CRAP... but the guy from RIP let me have it all, really cool person, great player too.

So we both got our epics done.

Now some info on fright/terror/dread.

For the love of God, clear around them first, esp if your not real real experienced, we literally had 20+ mobs on us and we knew wtf we were doing and level 70 blah blah but its fear, they just aggro like mad and come whenever. Scarlings are the ONLY pain in the arses cause they teleport, otherwise we smashed it all easy easy.

When it came time for Dters, i sent up my shaman(wimpiest of all of us and had tear off terror), he took DT, i ran up, tanked DT'er and bard took out the 2 mobs next to him, both times i had him under 10%(3% on dread lol) before he dt'd me again the fekker...

SO like 33second fights.

9. The next room has 3 reavers, i pulled them all, killed #1, he popped, i was blinded lol luckily my other chars weren't so i didnt turn on attack yet, i stood there getting hit by the other 2 reavers. I then turned in the tear with my shammy, he aggroed i assisted while blind to my shammy, /cast 1 for group pally heal, it got off, instant aggro.. i fought him.

The other 2 reavers still beating on me(wimps)..

When he died, the golems, whom i never hit yet, died instantly at the same time off my 140 DS from my bard etc. Two phantoms spawned from their corpses(again NOT reavers) phantoms...

Looted items and left.

The only pain I thought was going to be fear and it ended up being fine, just a pain to run all them bots around.

Cheers, and GLuck starting on my 1.5 tomorrow :-)

MQ'd by Agnostic Vah Shir Bard.. info is below.

First off I have to laugh at you silly people who wanna tell others how you can do an entire Epic run in a few hours. You are so full of your EQ ego you are starting to stink.
a) if you are at the appropriate lvl for your Epic .. generally around lvl 51 to 60 the Shaman Epic will take you some time.
b) there is always a bus load of mobs you need to kill who are farmed out the Whazzoo and are never up or the time in-game is not right.
c) if you are an average player on EQ instead of some Raid guild member or guild that raids alot and has alot of members the Fear drop will take some work.

Now for all you lvl 70's out there with your Special gear, Monogrammed gear from all your trips to the Elemental / Time / GoD / Omens / DoN zones gratz to you, gratz on all your hard work and achievements but, you still can not do this in a few hours.
Despite having Sweet Gear ... truck load of HP's, UNLESS you are one of those Loser AoN Farmers who happened to loot and keep an Childs tear for turn in. AND if you happen to have some friends babysitting Highscale Kirn in the Hole as he seems to get Randomly hit for kicks. He is very close to a 4 hour spawn so there goes your Finish in a few hour window.

Anyway I have been battling in Fear with the infamous AoN Scalpers, and after they trained me several times in an attempt to clear me outta there way. I loaded my Monk on one Pc and my Bard on the other ... Sat at the zone in and waited for the Zone wide Corpse0splat yell and drug a train from both sides to the Farming Boxed set ... FD and FADE are sweet. They trained me x 4 otherwise I would have forgiven them. But, as it worked out they pulled 2 Golems and killed them ... I trained and killed the Farmers and looted the Epic drops for 3 of my characters. Yeah yeah I know they DT ... DT means nothing with 2 lvl 70 Wizzy's Nuken after Chanty sends in a Charmed pet and takes the tap. With lvl 70 Cleric clicking them right back in the zone soon as they die.

Moral of my story is .. you my screw me 1 time / 2 times / 3 times but, 4th time you WILL receive a return visit. They may be green but 20-30 of them will send you straight to hell.

Now for my Original intent here.

I just did an MQ with an Agnostic Vah Shir (VS) Bard. Fotunately for me being other than Agnostic at creation was not a choice. Agnostic VS Bard Conned Indiff to the Spirit in West Freeport in the Jade Tiger / Lion whatever if you read the walk through you know where I mean. So I started running the Shaman Epic quest at the point where you harvest the Woe & Envy and the Shield of Marr. I did all the kills and turn in's up to the HighScale Kirn portion. I ran back and repeated the Rathe Mountian Sword/shield collection. As well as running and killing Black Dire in Mistmoore again then ran to West Karana again and gave the Swords and shield recieving another gem next run to EJ and turned in the Gem and the Blak Dire skin.

At this point I was Kindly to the Spirit in the Ruins / Lake in EJ. Neither one of them would talk to me. They would not even take my turn in's unless I hit them with my Faction song.

I repeated Rathe Mountain Sword / Shield collection... Killed Black Dire yet again. Then ran to West Karana and turned in Weapons to the a wandering spirit again receiving the gem. Ran to EJ turned in the Gem and Black Dire skin.
I went from Kindly to Ally to both spirits in EJ. So all stoked about Ally called in my sham friend who had completed the entire epic except the Tear because the scum bag AoN farmers loot-rot them. Ran into CoM invis'd and ran to the very back and cleared the bottom room of the Reaver Castle with the Single Reaver. Next we all jumped on the Elevator and I Bard pick locked it to the top. And as always half got left at the bottom x3 attempts mean while the other half were fighting.

After finally getting all up top and killing all trash and the Reavers Lord Rak Ashiir what ever his name is popped. I CON him and am ALLY I tried turn in and he told me to take a hike.

So, having all but 1 mask I changed them one at a time and hit CHA song & Alliance song and he refused my Tear. So we ported out empty handed. Next day I Sword/Shield collected in Rathe, Killed Black Dire again we Ran HighScale Kirn into the ground for the ring. Jumped to West Karana and turned in Swords/ Shield getting the gem ... ported to EJ then turned in the Gem and Black dire skin. Then headed back into CoM.

We invised and ran to the back through the castle to the top Reaver across the Invis bridge and killed the Single Reaver, spawning Neh`Ashiir turned in the Ring from HIghscale and killed Neh`Ashiir when he popped enraged which was a blast since he pushed the Beastlord off and all had to jump down to the Castle walkways and Bridge to locate Neh`Ashiir who followed the Bst down and kill him while training every mob down there into the fight. I looted the Diary and run to the spirit in the lake for turn in while everyone else regrouped an started clearing the bridge to the Castle.

When I got back I single pulled the Golems out except Bard Lulled the last one on each side and tagged the Reaver with any DD song. Killed the Reaver and its significant other death-spawns. All entered the door and we killed the last 2 Golems in the room. Next we pulled the Hallway mobs in the room and killed them.

On a side note Lord Rak Ashiir was still up and standing right where we left him the day before.

Our group stayed in the main front room downstairs. Heres the trick --->stand on the elevator and f9 and change your view so you are looking down, pick lock the elevator and when you get to the top take a small step off CLICK the elevator sending it back down. Hit f9 change veiw, target and tag a mob making your INC call. Someone man the door to the main room from the hallway clicking it open when they see the INC message. Jump down the elevator shaft and run into the front room .. wash/rinse/repeat. Yeah yeah its a waste of time but, when your boxing it is a heck of alot easier to run 1 toon up and down then fighting upstairs aggro mobs and fighting downstaris aggro mobs at the same time.

And there is more room downstairs.

Ok now all is clear and Lord Rak Ashiir Epic guy who hated me yesterday at Ally is left there. I have now done the Entire Shaman quest ... turning in Neh`Ashiir's Diary is suposed to make you Max Ally having done all the others. CHA 290 buffed I hand him the tear and he told me to take a hike. *GASP* Every place I have read says do not use illusions / faction songs because although it may work to trigger the fight. He will see through your Faction song and will not drop your Iksar Scale. I tried all 6 of my illusion masks NODDA !! .. I hit group CHA song hit myself with alliance then him with alliance and gave him the Tear.

** you have gained some experience **

I jumped down the elevator shaft and ran to the front room we killed him. My Sham friend who has missed many AoN raped tears looted and did the turn in. And now is Epic'd.

PS: The AoN farmers Petitioned about my looting of their Golem x2 kill. GM contacted me and was rather harsh, I requested before he remove the loot from my inventory to pull logs and see what really happened. 20 minutes later he was back on line and said weeeellll lets not let that happen to often, what you did was not the right thing to do. But, do unto others as you wish and then split (AoN farmer strat) should not be over looked. " Gratz on your Epic drops, and have a pleasant evening.

Ok once again Flame away on my spelling/run on sentences/lack of punctuation/impropper use of grammar I don't really mind. Cuz like I said before I came / Saw / Wrote and am gone. And I will never be back here to read this page again.

Added 5/27/06
New Info: Ok okokokok I lied I did come back but, thought you should know. Once you do complete the final turn in to the Spirit and receive your Epic / Spear of Fate. My Faction reverted back to Indifferent on both my Barb-Sham (Vah Shir Bard I used to MQ with a Friend).

Edited, Sat May 27 05:40:49 2006

can anyone do woe and envy turn in to get faction up even if they dont need the faction?

when u reach max faction does it say your true spirit faction cannot get any better when you try to turn in woe and envy?

Rarity: Ultra Rare..
like every 55+ shammy has this. >_>

I am on the drinal server and in about 6 attempts to get the studentlog i have had no luck! Has anyone succesfuly done this as of late?
Thanks
Tuddadar
Shaman of 56 seasons
Batwing Crunchies
HTTP://batwingcrunchies.guildportal.com

Edited, Sun Oct 10 17:19:55 2004

Does anyone know if the tear can be MQ'd by a Shaman who already has completed the quest and has epic? I have heard this is possible but do not want to mess up my own epic by trying this and having it fail.

[b][/b]
I was just wondering if it would be a good idea if I went ahead and started my Epic quest. If so, what would be the easiest and fastest route to my awesome reward? I don't have a lot of time usually. I am the mother of four children, unless you count my husband and that makes FIVE. So, I want to get in and do what needs to be done with as little sitting time as possible. If anyone can help me I would forever be in your debt.

Heard a rumour you can skip the High Scale Kurn and Neh'Ashir fights by re-doing the rathe mountain bit with woe and envy to get faction up instead, anyone know if this is true?

Rather Curse of the spirits is like SPlurt. << What i meant to say. Splurt is a Necro line spell, my 58 necro uses it alot. Does 11 to start adds up to 191 and i get 2 ticks of 191 then it dispells. Is a great spell especially if u dont need to use mana, and if like splurt its hardly ever resisted.

Nice 9.0sec cast too not that bad really.

Edited, Mon Dec 15 14:58:02 2003

Does curse of the spirits stack with the Po/Di line of DoTs we get? Like, would it be possible to stick Curse, Bane of Nife and Plague all at once on a mob? If not, which does it stack with, if either.

The DoT damage it does starts from 11 | 23 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 71 | 83 | 95 | 107 | 119 | 131 | 143 | 155 | 167 | 179. Thats the whole DoT and it adds up to 1426 total damage. I didn't find this out till last night so I hope it helps you all out in knowing what it exactly does damage wise )

I just got my spear tonight with the help of some friends and some luck :) I assembled some of my uber friends, and a fellow shaman that happened to have an Iksar Tear so we could mq it, and rolled into CoM. There was already a grp pulling and killin reavers, so luckily they had just left Rak Ashiir standing there as they didnt want to deal with his nasty ae. We picked into the castle, mq'ing shaman (NOT max ally) handed in tear, boom story rolls and we drop him. You know how it all goes from there- and I am 49, so this definately is attainable and questable by those under 50 ; I started it at 35 :p. Good luck to all you fellow Shaman out there on getting yours !! (I cant wait to make 50 to use the DoT)

okie, i got a question...
on caster's realm, it says say blah to the greater spirit for barb, iskar, ogre, and troll, but not a thing bout frogloks. The guy who gave the quest thing here was a barb, but that dosn't help me...a frog, so anyone got an idea for

Im level 35 on Drinal server, and me and my friend were bored one day. He is a 62 Warrior....I had started the quest a day earlier, and was looking for help with the BD. We went to MM, and I laid on what buffs I had, and he pulled him to the zone. All I did was heal, and, evenly spaced, didnt take any aggro. 62 War and 35 Sham took the BD. He is not hard, at all- as long as the tank can single pull him. I dont get the hoopla....now, kirn is another story.

Phorm Phactor
35 Shaman of <Punch and Pie>
Drinal

Edited, Thu Jan 30 17:51:42 2003

duplicate

Edited, Fri Jan 10 13:21:36 2003

My Shaman just did Fear last night. You do NOT have to kill all three golems to get the tear. The Iksar broodling has a chance to spawn at the death of each of the three. It spawned for us last night on the the first golem that we kill. Then the broodling pops. Wack the broodling and loot the tear from the broodling. We did it with 25 people by the way. Hope this info is useful to some of you.

Tordac
51 Mystic

I just started the epic quest on this past saturday at lev 51 with a Vah Shir Shaman... I followed the directions on eqshaman.com and it was dead on with exception to group strengths... in mistmoore we had a full group consisting of a 56 shaman, 56 monk, 52<?> ranger, 51 rogue, 51 warrior and myself 51 shammy... we nailed the advisor and walked thru the Black Dire like he was tissue... tuesday night we got about 12 or 13 people together and hit city of mist ... I got all the reports but the one off of the spectral courier in the stable... we also got the 3 books off of Lord Ghiosk... take a good cleric along with a decent back up healer... you also need a rogue with a high level of lockpick... on the way out we hit the room with the high scale icon and got it extremely easily.... as we passed the stables I checked and found the courier up but he only dropped a scroll for the monks quest... went back the next day and camped the stables for almost 9 hours b4 I saw the courier again ... he popped set teh pet on him and hit him with slow and one envenmed bolt and I had the students log... am now marking time for our druid to get ready for the hole at wich point we are going to kill 2 birds with one stone... side note we got the jade reaver for the druid as well as strange ochre clay for the cannII quest. With a little planning you can get about 8 of the 10 steps on eqshamans walk thru done in a couple of days.

Unfortunately Kudamorfa, that's not how the Golem death / Broodling Spawn works. I did this last night. My guild, Cries of Insurrection, killed Terror the night before, spawning one iksar childs tear (They only killed ONE golem). Last night, we went back, and killed Dread who did not drop a tear. We killed Fright, who did drop a tear. Each golem has a % chance to drop a tear, regardless of the previous drops. Also we did this with a raiding party of 24. We took down both golems with only 4 or so deaths from each golem.

Edited, Mon Aug 12 20:09:37 2002