Randi's Floral Specimens  

Randi's location is 901, 676. When you give her the collection of plants she says "Plants and flowers are a special treasure I keep close to my heart. Did you ever stop to marvel at how beautiful these specimens are? I thank you greatly for them. Here, take this in return."

how can u do this quest at level 1 if u have to go to Vex thall?

Ran into a "new"? quest npc: Frantip Dalonus, in the same room as Jilan and Tamben. Upon hail, he says "Greetings to ye xxxx. If you be needin' the goods I've got 'em."

Wasn't able to get anymore out of him.

I had a weird experience with this quest...

I used a lvl 25 (24 by the end of it) Iksar Shadow Knight.

I decided it was too hard to get to twilight sea easily, so I went to Maiden's Eye to forage the Twilight Orchid. I didn't take a single step in and never saw a mob. I got the twilight orchid on my 5th try. Next I decided to get the Black Root. I ran to Misty Thicket and got attacked by an NPC near the PoK book, so I ran straight away from the path and that was safe as far as I could tell. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to forage the Black Root. I got 3 of the Druid/Ranger epic pieces in that time though... (forgot what its called).

Next I did the Maneater Bud. I ran to SoNH and ran around killing maneater shrubs and foraging for about 2 hours until I got lost and killed by a Black Ravanger... So while I'm running to my corpse I forage the maneater bud... hehehe...

So then I have to get the yew leaf, I put all my stuff in the bank, I buy 2 invis potions, it drops in the middle of kael (in addition to me being lost) and I die. So then I die trying to get into kael and had 4 invis potions. Then someone explains to me how to get through (the EQ Atlas map isn't very good) and I get through this time, and forage the yew leaf in about 15 minutes. Then invis drops in the middle of kael and I die again, and now I'm getting xp to 25 so I can summon my corpse with the yew leaf...

Took my first trip to EJ yesterday and got one of these. I can't remember if it dropped off a flowery-looking mob I took out, or if I foraged it.

I forage so much stuff, I have no idea what came from where anymore, lol.

Zyphantia Babyurz
Druid of Karana

Very nice item, found the leaf and twilight orchid in bazaar and got both for 75 pp. Although i thought that was alot for some foraged items, i thought i'd prefer to get this belt then spend 600 pp on one that wasn't even as nice. Logged on my ranger foraged the black root on second attempt at about 150 skill, went to swamp of no hope tried for about 20 min and asked a few high levels if they had one foraged ( happened to be there for the epic mob ) well a 63 ranger found one for me on first try but had to get ported out, left me the loc and i was happy after about 30 min of wadering of finding a nice little bag which was the bud. So i go back to hand it in, i didn't combine the items and handed em in, she simply said she didn't need this and handed the box and all the contents back, she will not take the items inside as said in a previous post. combined and handed in, all in all my like 5 second lifetap seems to still take forevver to cast, but my fear is nicely reduced and i already had haste on my DoT's. Only this is i wish they would make it make all spells cast in a shorter time, i think they have to be over 2 seconds to cast, o well FD still saves me ( except from Ran Flamespinner when i was killing that merchant ) heeh, GL to all and i'd like to say i love the resists on it aswell, if u ever dueling another necro / shammy / SK.

Found these dropped off of man eater vines in Swamp of No Hope

Note you can do the magic pool quest in PoK much quicker for a spell-haste II focus mask.

Note that you can eat your black root, something about which I am sad.
Also, when you forage an edible item that looks just like a root you may not notice, so be sure to double-check your inventory. I foraged one without knowing.

Note: Click COMBINE on the box before handing it to Randi Ellan !!!

She *WILL* hand the box back to you EMPTY!

What a horrible day it was for me - took me 3 days to get all the items (non forager)

I can confirm that you can do this quest at level 20 at least, I did so with my lvl 20 RNG, talk about exciting. I only died once, when cammo dropped and I was in the middle of Kael.

I can also firmly state that you do not nead to have a forage over 100 to do this quest, I got the yew leaf at forage 96.

The first point to make is that the minimum level is listed as 1, because you don't have to kill anything to do the quest. All four items are foraged items, so they can be acquired by simply sitting in a zone and hitting a hotkey every 120 seconds. Also, all four items are tradeable, so you don't even have to be the one to sit around foraging them.

The second point to make is that for those of you who get the "does not combine" message, it's very likely that you are using a Mantrap Bud instead of a Maneater Bud. She asks for a Maneater Bud, which are foraged in the Swamp of No Hope where the maneater plants are at. The Mantrap Bud is foraged in the Emerald Jungle, where you find mantrap roots and erolisi bloodthorns.

Also, FYI: it probably took me 1.5 hours to forage my first yew leaf in the Wakening Lands, and that was with maxed out forage skill of 200, and a +10% forage item, for a total skill of 220 forage. I ran around that whole time, looking for yew leaves on the ground, but when I finally foraged that first one, I decided to just go kill flying monkeys until I found another one... which didn't happen for about another 2 hours. Rare, rare forage, those yew leaves... to put it into context, while I was sitting in Misty Thicket trying to forage 2 black roots, I foraged at least 3 sweetened mudroots... and those are lore, no-drop quest items.

You have scrounged up something that doesn't look edible...
Duplicate lore items are not allowed!

Edited, Tue Nov 26 02:13:38 2002

Completed this quest last night. In the spirit of commerce, I just started offering 100pp each per piece of this quest. Tells came in relatively quickly as foragers who thought these items were worthless but held onto them anyway receiving good pp for their skills. Got the box, threw 'em in, COMBINEd, and turned in to Randi... Voila!
Good resist item. Spell Haste II isn't bad either =P

I did the quest got all the items but when I tried to combine them I got can not combine theese items in this container. Any clue on what i did wrong?

Halistrax
Trailmaster

Okay, the trick is to COMBINE these items. Now that I've done it, the most tedious thing about this quest is waiting for the items to drop. Reward is good resist gear.

Surre Feromanu
53 druid
Honor Knights
E'Ci

Does anyone have a Loc on this NPC please?

Black Root -- Misty Thicket
Maneater Bud -- Swamp of No Hope
Twilight Orchid -- Maidens Eye
Yew Leaf -- Wakening Lands

How does the "Minimum Level" work here? If you have to forage in WL to find one of the quest items, I doubt you'd survive at Level 1.

Kiru Onisan
Imperium Iustus
Mithaniel Marr

Edited, Wed Oct 23 18:01:48 2002