Field Priest Armor  

[Sat Mar 03 09:46:55 2012] You say, 'Hail, Hoyce MacTaegan'
[Sat Mar 03 09:46:56 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'Greetings to you brother. Did [Keven] send you?'
[Sat Mar 03 09:47:05 2012] You say, 'Keven sent me'
[Sat Mar 03 09:47:05 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'Very well, then let us begin. We are at home in the wilderness and thus it is important that we learn all we can about our surroundings. Now is the time of your learning. You are to venture out, hunt and learn about Everfrost. Return to me with a White Wolf Skin as proof of your successful hunt. We will then continue your training.'

(Hand in Skin)

[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'Very good! I am sure by now you are learning much about your local surroundings. It is now time for you to learn to [live off the land].'
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Your faction standing with Shamen of Justice got better.
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Your faction standing with Merchants of Halas got better.
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Your faction standing with Circle Of Unseen Hands got worse.
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got worse.
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] Your faction standing with Ebon Mask got worse.
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:15 2012] You gain experience!!
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:21 2012] You say, 'live off the land'
[Fri Mar 09 17:41:22 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'There is a bounty waiting for us in the wilderness for those with the wisdom to use it. Your next task is to find that wisdom within yourself and to use it. I shall task you with the creation of a few simple items from the materials available to us all. Go forth and harvest silk to make thread. Then when you feel you have learned enough, make a cap for yourself from the pelt of a bear. Return three Silk Thread and a Large Tattered Skullcap to me and I shall reward you.'

(handing in 3 silk threads and a tattered skullcap)

[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'I see your wisdom grows, as does your skill. Wear this cap I have made for you. I believe you are now skilled enough to begin to pursue justice and to fight against our enemies. Are you [willing to fight]?'
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Your faction standing with Shamen of Justice got better.
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Your faction standing with Merchants of Halas got better.
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Your faction standing with Circle Of Unseen Hands got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] Your faction standing with Ebon Mask got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:23 2012] You gain experience!!
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:38 2012] You say, 'I am willing to fight'
[Sat Mar 03 13:11:38 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'That's the spirit! No doubt you know by now that our people are under constant attack by the goblins that infest our lands. Go out and fight against our enemies and bring justice to our people. Return to me with four Goblin Ice Necklaces and you shall have your just reward.'
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'I see you have brought many of our enemies to justice. You have done an excellent job and should be proud. No doubt your efforts saved lives. It is now time for you to venture out and fight stronger foes. Are you [up to the challenge]?'
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Your faction standing with Shamen of Justice got better.
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Your faction standing with Merchants of Halas got better.
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Your faction standing with Circle Of Unseen Hands got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] Your faction standing with Ebon Mask got worse.
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:06 2012] You gain experience!!
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:13 2012] You say, 'I am up to the challenge.'
[Sat Mar 03 13:12:14 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'Your zeal for justice is indeed a virtue. You make us all proud. Very well, venture out and into the home of those accursed dogs. Go to Blackburrow the home of the gnolls. There you are to fight against them and to retrieve the weapons of our mortal enemies. Return to me with a Gnoll Fang, a Giant Snake Fang and a Hunting Bow. I shall give you a weapon suitable for one such as yourself.'

(Hand them in)

Hoyce MacTaegan says, 'You truly have justice in your heart. The spirits know this too. No doubt you are now beginning to hear their faint whispers. Soon you shall hear them more clearly and you will no longer need my guidance. I have one more [favor] to ask of you if you are [willing].'
Your faction standing with Shamen of Justice got better.
Your faction standing with Merchants of Halas got better.
Your faction standing with Circle Of Unseen Hands got worse.
Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got worse.
Your faction standing with Ebon Mask got worse.
You gain experience!!

[Sun Mar 04 11:34:38 2012] You say, 'I am willing to do a favor'
[Sun Mar 04 11:34:39 2012] Hoyce MacTaegan says 'I thank you for your willingness to help. Many of our people hunt the mighty mammoth and the cougar out in the vast and frigid plains. Aside from the risk of injury that often comes from hunting such fearsome and mighty creatures, there is the added risk of being attacked by the terrible snow orcs. Go and protect our people hunting in the plains of Everfrost, fight against the snow orc and return to me with a Wrath Orc Wristband. Surely the spirits will forever guide you.'

All other hand in's (didn't get the NPC text):
reward item +
Your faction standing with Shamen of Justice got better.
Your faction standing with Merchants of Halas got better.
Your faction standing with Circle Of Unseen Hands got worse.
Your faction standing with Coalition of Tradefolk Underground got worse.
Your faction standing with Ebon Mask got worse.
You gain experience!!

Edited, Mar 9th 2012 9:44am by BrandeX

I've done this quest with a couple different classes and they all got xp and faction + . It's real quick to loot or buy white wolf skins then keep turning them in. You can't use the wristband if you're not a beastie, but who cares if you're just trying to level quick as a noob! (yeah I know your skills don't go up that way, but they go pretty quick if you use them.)

aaaaaarrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh what is the TEXT to get the quest?

I play of marelliuyl thull (something like that) and its seriously bugged. i did the first and second part of this quest, then it went back to quest 1. i got another bracer, but now it keeps asking for white wolf skins. i collected kile 10 and turned them all in, i got a ton of exp, and like 10 bracers. still i cant go onto the next quest.

it really sucks bad, i needed the other parts.

Re: friendly bears - It's amazing how many people can't answer a simple question, especially (like the alleged level 52 druid) those who should know better. Bears in surefall glade are on the QRGProtectedAnimals faction, which can be raised by doing certain surefall quests; Killing one of those bears causes negative faction with Jaggedpine Treefolk (druids), the protected animals faction, and the rangers (can't remember the faction name). While it's true that Holly Windstalker will assist bears and wolves in qeynos hills, that has nothing to do with the bears in surefall. Aside from surefall, jappedpine forest is the only other zone I know of where normal animals give bad faction hits outside of certain planes (in JF, the animals to avoid are bears, wolves and cats).

Re: AGHHH! - Giving Cindl any number of white polar bear skins results in patchwork armor; It cannot EVER result in a wrath orc wristband.

Re: Faction Adjustments - Ebon Mask is the rogue guild in Neriak (dark elf hometown). Coalition of Tradesfolk Ill stands for Coalition of Tradesfolk Illegal (Ill has recently been changed to Underground), they're the freeport rogue guild. The reason rogues guilds dislike the Shaman guild in Halas is because Shamans worship The Tribunal (the gods of justice, police and imprisonment for your crimes); Naturally, criminals dislike them. The same is true for the Beastlords of Halas, who are on the same faction as Shamans (and are a form of holy warrior, similar to a paladin's relationship to a cleric of the same faith). Note that the rogue guild in Halas is supposed to be an exception, being bounty hunters instead of thieves...but this has been bugged for years.

And finally, we have what I wanted to post about, before I decided some clarification of other people's posts were in order:

It should be noted that handing a wrath orc wristband to Hoyce is some of the best xp anywhere in Everquest. 25 bracers equals one blue bubble of xp at level 51. Given the massive requirements for xp post-50, that's an amazing amount of xp (or, put another way, five bracers is the same xp as soloing one level 49 mob).

Update to wrath orc wristbands as an XP quest: The quest has been nerfed, and it no longer gives anywhere near as much xp; It's still a noticeable increase at low levels, just not worth doing at high levels anymore.

Edited, Mon Sep 1 05:43:52 2003

These items are easy to get, and you don't have to run them in order. So don't worry about being the only newb with a full inventory of future quest items! I ran #1, then #2, then #1 again (I wanted a pair of the bracers), then bought a wrath orc wristband and did #5. A high level druid gave me a Polished Steel Ulak so I'm not going to worry about the claws, just the kilt. Very nice stuff for under level 10.

This may be a little off topic but, I just recently got my Vah Shir BST down to Halas and started this quest...I got the bracer and when I put them on...to my surprise they didn't show up on my chara...it may just be my comp, but I wasn't sure so I decided to ask if anyone else may have had this problem and how they fixed it...

get this guy to gi`ve you the second quest? I did the white wolf pelt one already and got the priests wristband however when i hail him to do the second one he tells me to do the white wolf one again. can I just give him the items without him giving me the quest?

man, I have been hunting orcs FOREVEER!!!! But, no Orc Wraith Wristband. HELP!

At around level 3 I got the wolf hide. It seems like a rare drop, but you got bears to kill the time. The polar bear skins are for a great merchant exp/money (at this level) quest. I bought the giant snake fang and the hunting bow, and killed a gnoll outside of bb for the fang. Working on tunic quest now.

This was the easiest tunic quest I've seen. The best is rewarded for completing the tailoring quest in SharVahl, I need to go back and finish that later. -- Tbana, lvl 18, Zebuxoruk.

OK, my beastie has a nice suit of armor. Is there another BST set of quests after this one, or are we on our own from here?

You don't have to do them in any particular order. I did the tunic, then the claw with my beastlore and it still worked.

Kilraa Stormtalon
Templar of the 56th Circle
Officer of Dark Legion
Povar

The Field Priest's Tunic is as Follows

AC 11
STR +3
Magic, Lore, No Drop
BST / BAR

Pretty damn fine tunic for the level of the Quest, Also got nearly 3 Blue Bubs of XP for Each Wrath Orc Wristband at Level 8

Soraman
8th Barbarian Beastlord
The Nameless Server

Anyone know what stats are on the claw?

Yesterday I started a Beastlord and went from 1 to 7 in no time, mostly working on the quest items. Wish I would have had the complete list on me from the beginning, though. Did sell a few gob necklaces I didn't know I'd need later. Some tips.... You can easily get all 4 gob necklaces by going to one of the goblin igloos and clearing them out. For the Field Priest Claw, if you don't want to go down into Blackburrow to hunt, the hunting bow and giant snake fang can usually be bought by merchants (I've seen both at merchants in Qeynos - the hunting bow a little over 3 gp and the giant snake fang between 5 and 6 pp.) And a good place for a lowby to hunt gnolls (and not get caught in trains, lol) are the ents to BB on the Everfrost and Qeynos Hills sides. I just made 7 and am now out hunting orcs for the wrath orc wristband. Used to be you could find these at merchants too, but with this quest started, I haven't seen them nearly as much. Good place to look, though, is Starn, at the temple out in Everfrost. All and all, I think this is a great set of newby quests. After trying to make a cat beastlord and deal with the hundreds of others all going for the same loot in their newby zone... for now the Barb Beastlord is the way to go.

I haven't seen anyone mention this but these items are also bst only items I didn't see that on a post. So the post should say best class Beast lord.

Ok, I repeated some parts of the quest for faction and experiance and had no problems until after the final quest, He said "I can teach you no more" or something like that, and now I cannot repeat any parts of the quests Can anyone confirm this, or am I on drugs again???

where is Hoyce MacTaegan at, anyway?

The only snake fangs I have ever seen in Blackburrow are the giant snake fangs so that is what I did the quest with before even coming here to see about the quests

Just to concur with what has been posted so far, yesterday evening (12/12/01) I tried it with a normal snake fang, got screwed out of a good hunting bow and gnoll fang too. ;-) So you'll need a giant one to do this quest, regardless of what our remarkably quiet guild mentors may say (Kevan doesn't even respond to hails, guess they weren't quite "fully implemented" upon release.../sigh)

Do you turn the stuff into the same guy? i gave him the fang, bow and tooth and he gave me the claw. but he didn't give me the next quest. Do you have the buzz words for next part.(I did part three iat level 7)

We should have had quests like this to begin with, not just starting now. This is some of the best newbie quest stuff I've seen.

The giant snake fang is dropped by the giant sankes on the snake ledge and on the ramp to th e ramp to the 2nd level of blackborrow.

where can you find the giant snake fang, or where can it be bought? (I have the rest waiting for it) Got it now, the claw is great. Only regret not practicing h2h before...

Edited, Mon Dec 10 01:29:22 2001

I did all 5 quests in half an hour with my lvl 1 (5by the end of them) beastlord, the tunic rocks, i was using a splitpaw, and offering 1pp to loot a gnoll fang got me that without having to be big enough to kill gnolls, bought the fang and bow for 2pp, got the orc bracer for 5pp and i was all done, thank god I gave my newbie 150pp :) (and conferming it IS a giant snake fang needed for the claw)