Shaman Skull Quest No. 2  

hello, I just have a small rant here.

I am a master potter and when I went to combine the mandible and clay etc .. I failed! Now I have to go back and get the jawbone and clay again thanks to Verant's infinite wisdom of making it possible to fail anything even though it is trivial.

Thanks for the wasted time =/

I have read all the post here and in many other places. I have no idea how anyone could make the connection between what Heirophant Onyx says about the "Cleansers of the Outlands" and Rogue Shamans in Warslick Woods (and FoB) having the skulls or parts of the skulls needed to complete this quest. Out of curiosity I tried asking Heirophant Onyx hundreds of questions (like "what cleansers of the oulands" or where are the cleansers of the outlands) and he never responds. How does anyone get the connection to the rogue shamans from him? Thanks.

Gassbar, 10th season Shaman, Solusek Ro.

I was in the basement of SolA at the Gnome Merchant there and he was selling Mendglow Clay. (I was robbing a clockwork CX of it's beer) I don't know if this is always something he sells, I'll check again later. Now the only problem is either getting someone to buy it for a KoS iksar or getting your faction up with Gnomes...

I forage a ton of this stuff in BW all the time. Look me up on Bristlebane server as Dinbien and I'll drop a load of it in your lap.

Could someone please tell me the phrase to say to get the quest started. I have tried everything with no luck. I've done the 1st mace quest a while ago and just starting to do the rest. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If I can remember I will check for you tonight. I killed the Barracuda last night with the help of a Ranger friend. So I have the mandible and will look at its description.

As for those who think these tedious quests are worthless, have you played Diablo II. The quest in that game are fast, easy and give you unrealistic weapons, and the game becomes boring after one week. I myself, and many others screwed up the enjoyment of this game by playing it way to quickly, and always expecting uber loot.

Not this time. I am taking it nice and slow with my Shammie and playing this game the way it was designed to be played. To be honest, I am having a blast just trying to do most of the Cabilis quests. Not only that, its fun to talk to people with alot of extra ssssss's in my speech.

MMORPG - Massive Multi-player Online ROLE PLAYING Game.

No where in there did I see GLOCC, Gimmee Loot or Cheat Codes.

Ssythe the Shammie,
Drinal

Please disregard the signature .. i have two Sassii's .. and the one needing help with this quest is a an Iksar shaman lol ..

Does anyone know if the skull you get from combining the 3 items is no drop? could you get a master pottery person to do it for you instead of risking doing it yourself?

Do you, or do you not have to turn in any Cleansers of the outland skulls.. and where do you find these? Also it says you have to turn these skulls in with your Weapon. If you do in fact have to turn these skulls in.. Does your weapon come back to you? and how do you fight if you dont have a weapon to get the other skulls! it doesnt make sense.. could someone explain it to me?

Here are my notes on completeing this quest. I had more than one opportunity to get all the items due to an error on my part, and the skill check for pottery... ouch. The nice thing about the items (and many of the items in all the skull quests) is that they are not NO DROP, so you can get help from friends or just buy the items.

Armed with all the details in these posts, it can still take 10 to 15 hours of game time. I'll try not to repeat previous posts too much, but at least point out updates to info. I did the quest solo at level 20 (and on into 21 a little bit). I was getting decent experience with some of the things that had to be killed (like Iksar manslayers), without having to worry about getting slaughtered. Lower levels will have to have some help.

Jawless Skull and note - LORE items - most straightforward part of the quest. Enter Warslik Woods from Field of Bone until you come to the first ruins. There are three Iksar spawn points inside--they can be brigands, manslayers, marauders, or the shaman. Pick them off one at a time to break the spawn. I rooted one in the building, ran and rooted another, ran close to the zone and picked off the last one. If the other roots wear off, you should be far enough away to keep from being followed. Keep the spawn clear and med between. Seen the shaman here three times--twice he popped right around 4 PM and the other time he was there when I showed up. Watch out because I saw him casting on the other Iksar there. Shaman is easy green, but with SOW and other spells best bet is to root and make a quick kill.

Skull with I - LORE item - This one took the longest to track down because searching for anything underwater is tricky. I didn't have much luck using sense animals while on the platform in the lake--all I came up with were the barracudas which conned red and would eat me for lunch! Both times I did find the stuffed barracuda, he was hanging right over the dome that is underwater (west of the platform). How I found him: Cast levitate, got between platform and western shore, circled around that area and cast sense animals, once found it I would cast enduring breath, kept casting sense animals as needed to keep going in the right direction, got up close enough to cast root, DD him to death. He was also an easy green, but it is good to make it a quick kill.

Mandible - LORE item - dropped by a rogue shaman in Field of Bone. There seems to be a window that Iksar's spawn--noon to midnight mostly. Any later, and I don't see as many spawn. So I killed every Iksar in sight until the shaman popped. I've seen the shaman three times and always just East of Kurn's Tower. Also had a friend try and use tracking to spot him, but it was a waste of time looking through the list of 50 things to choose from to track. It can be difficult to see him spawn if you are right up against the wall, so be sure to scout out a bit. Twice, I actually saw him pop at this spot and it was right around 4 PM--not at midnight like some people have seen or the note dropped by the other rogue shaman suggests. THe third time I spotted him he was wandering off to the east off into the hills. Since he is a shaman, he does cast SOW, drowsy, burst of flame, etc. As soon as I saw him I rooted and melee'd until dead. He's an easy green at this point. All three times he dropped the mandible. While do all this you can also get a start on the shaman epic quest. When the manslayers are killed a lesser spirit will spawn (every time?). You talk to him to get the quest started. It starts out just like the quest posted at https://everquest.allakhazam.com/quests/Shaman_Spear_of_Fate.htm but in a different zone obviously.

Mendglow clay - not lore or no drop, so get more than one. Boy did this part really suck. What is the point of having us forage around in a high-level zone for clay? Used some of the advice posted below to Burning Woods. Use levitate and SoW while hugging the southern boundary. Just a SoW and you are going to take a LOT of damage. You will still see plenty of things along the wall that can make it a bad day for you, so be alert. Once in Burning Woods, don't wander out past the end of the tunnel. In fact, don't even think about poking your head out because it will get whacked good like mine did =) I have only seen groups of people over level 50 in that zone. I died here, and also again trying to get my corpse. Resist the temptation to bind back at Cabilis or something far away. That will make getting the corpse even more painful since you are not running through any safe areas. I bound myself at each zone boundary. Now sit down, get a good book to read and forage away, it can take hours. The other people in the zone forage the stuff all the time, but you might have to wait just as long for them to come to you. Doesn't hurt to ask though.

Skull with II - made by combining mandible, jawless skull, and mendglow clay in pottery wheel. No other items like water are needed. It might be enough to put points into this (15 or more?), but I worked on clay jars until that was trivial around 35 or so. I think the skull is trivial by 15, but I'm only certain it was trivial at 35. Guess what? You can still fail the skill check. I did the first time and lost the mandible and clay, but got the jawless skull back as an 'alternate product'. Lesson -- get at least two pieces of mendglow clay when you are in Burning Woods.

Turn Skull with I and Skull with II along with your cudgel of the Clairvoyant to Oxyn and get the new cudgel. Looked like I got decent exp as well.

Hope that helps. I still have an extra piece of mendglow clay and an extra mandible. I won't be giving it away, but would be happy to sell the items. Give me a tell if interested. Off to camp the undead crusader!

Uluhtc
21 Iksar Shaman
Tholuxe Paells

I finally did this quest today - I've had the stuff a while (my main had the clay) so I got my stuff muled for me and the combining of the items was trivial to me at a skill of 19. So no one need fret that you need a high potter skill to get this accomplished. Hech if you've got the skill points to spend, just drop 15 or so into this skill and then go make your Skull II (easy as cake)

Sssara
of the 16th Circle

If you look at the other newbie item quest series in Cabilis, you should notice a similar pattern. Eventually, around the 4th quest, the necromancer skullcap actually adds intelligence, a primary stat for that class. This also applies to the shadow knight khukri; eventually they add intelligence. Now, if this logic holds true, then the later cudgels may very well add wisdom, which is a good thing. If you'll look at the cudgels closely, you'll notice that they can be equipped in the range slot! So, if the later cudgels do actually start to add wisdom, and they remain equippable in the range slot, they could be immensely useful to any iksar shaman who stuck with the quests to get that far. There are precious few items that can go in that range slot and give you a few points of wisdom. I hope somebody out there completes all of these quests, so we can see if this really is the case.

Smithy Xzatik, upstairs in the Warriors Guild in East Cabilis was selling Mendglow Clay. I have not returned to him to verify that this is a stock item, and not something that had been sold to him, but it appeared high up in his list, and I would assume it is stocked here.