Coldain Shawl #5: Silk Coldain Prayer Shawl  

Tried the last combine at 113 and it's not trivial. Luckily I got a success in the combine as well as 1 pt of skill increase :)

What do you get if and when you hand him the item so he can 'inspect your work' ?

Do I have to let him inspect it before I go on to the next step? If i dont, I'm not sure I want to run the risk of him inspecting it, knowing verants bugs ;)

Secondly, if I do let him inspect it, what do I get for the trouble? Is there a small reward on top of it?

Uberwolf

To get your skill past 110, you should concentrate on making Wu's armor. This will take you all the way to 158.

Trying to start this quest and cant seem to find the begging of it, thought they where all Prayer Shawl questes, but when I do a search nothing comes up but 5, 6, and 7th quest.

Shaa Bang
46 Season Druid
Povar

made the 5th silken prayer shawl with 118 in tailoring was trivial to me

I finished #5 yesterday. The final combine was trivial at 134. I have heard it said that it is actually trivial at 122, but have been unable to confirm it.

As far as the biles go, make sure to turn your particle density to maximum. If you are already in GD when you set it, you will have to zone or re-log for it to properly take effect. Afterwards, you'll see the wurms glow with no problem at all. They ALL can drop the biles... though my best success was with the young ones near the GD Portal.

Quasqueton Fyrestrike
54th Season Cabbie of Quellious
Officer of Lor Mani

I just couldn't wait so I decided(fingers crossed) to try. And low and behold SUCCESS!!! My character stats were as follows: STR 87 STA 85 AGI 113 DEX 95 WIS 199 INT 87 CHA 74 with a tailoring skill at 95. Thanks for all the good posts and the idea for finding bile on glowing wurms is completely true. Got all mine in about 2 hours. Now to the next part...well see.

I was just successful making my silk prayer shawl, I did a double take when I saw it because this one now has CHA added to it! This is an excellent upgrade for me, being an enchanter. The shawl is now CHA/WIS/INT/svmag/svcold/AC +5. I didn't bother to look at the stats of this beforehand, because I just assumed it would be another point upgrade of the previous shawl's stats. It was a pleasant surprise.

My tailoring skill was 144, and the combine was TRIVIAL for me.

I got my skill to 124 by farming crystalline silks in crystal caverns. I believe you make collars to 102, masks to 108, caps to 115, and shoulders to 118. After that you have to use 2 swatches to get up to 125 with sleeves or gloves.

I then increased skill by making Wu's fighting armor.

The Wu's was a bit of a pain to make because of all the heady kiolas required. I decided to gather 100 silks, make 100 viscous manas (cost of 500pp for the pearls), and make 400 heady kiolas. This would give me 100 attempts to increase skill above 124. By the way, I got 300pp back by selling the Wu's to vendors. You could probably get even more back if you wanted to bother selling to players.

When making the Wu's I maxxed my INT at 137 with a WIS of 109 and a DEX of 197 (increased with the Boon of Garou spell). Under these conditions, I got a little better than 1 skill increase for every 5 attempts because I still have some ingredients left.

Wu's requires only 1 silk swatch up to a skill of 142. Make gorgets first up to 128, then mask or wristband to 135, then shoulder to 142. After that I made a few sleeves (requiring 2 swatches) and tunics (3 swatches) to give to newbies and got an additional 2 skill point increases.

I have been messing around with these No Drop threads in Velk's to see if it would raise my abismal Tailoring skill. They usually just rot since the avg group has no one working on this part of the shawl quest. I collected 25 silks and with my (39) tailoring skill, went to work. Results: Sucess on first try, increased skill to 40; Second, failed, increased skill to 41; Third Sucess; Forth Sucess, skill goes to 42; Fifth try failed again, no increase.

The only advantage I had during my attempts was a pretty massive Dex buff (186 ) I got from a shammy. This, we are told be the illustrious Niami at eqtraders, will have a positive effect on your chance of skill increases but not on sucessfully tailoring the item. Thus, it would appear you don't need a very high tailoring skill to complete this quest.

BTW, does anyone know of any tailoring recipes that use these Crystaline Silk Fibers that result or is it strickly to combine with the bile for the quest shawl? I tried matching a mask pattern with one and two of the CSF's and got the "will not combine" in this type of container message. Pretty much what I expected.

Well..

Last night I got all of my 5 silks finished.. just I haven't bothered to do the combine yet. My tailoring skill is 116. It seems to me that it is pretty random whether someone succeeds or not, seeing as people with 97 skill can make the silk shawl, while those of 140+ can fail. It must be a matter of luck.

I also agree with those that mention the 'skill period'. I noticed the same. I get many many failures in raising skills, then suddenly I get a flurry of sucesses, then back to failures for a long while. I was trying to time the delay between each set of successes, but couldn't do it. I was too tired to sit there for another hour testing that theory. I may get back to it sometime. Still, like someone said, its probably tied to their random number generator. They really need to try to improve that, but thats not very likely.

I only have 2 sirens hairs, the rubbing alcohol, and the swordfish tooth to get before I have all the components needed to get shawl 7. Just that darn tailoring is taking forever. :( patience.. patience..

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I have seen the wurm glow spoken of in earlier posts. Sure enough, glowing wurms drop the bile.

Mogge Treestump 59 druid on E.Marr