Alternate Access: Crypt of Decay  

Group keying does NOT work on Al'Kabor. Only the person who gets the bracer gets keyed.

I did this while leveling my 54 (now 55) shaman. Invited a 62 warrior to PoD from my guild to get the flag and we did not get the AA. We got the bangle and stat upgrade to the charm (my first so it went to 9hp). Wonder if its bugged or is there something else I have to do?

really nice post with a good map

Edited, Fri Jul 30 19:23:26 2004

I know this grants access to the Crypt of Decay, but is it access like the alternate Tactics flag, or does this count towards further planar progression so that killing Grummus is not necessary?

As has been mentioned in several previous posts, most of the larva are found underground. THis leaves you with a couple options of getting them.. the first and most common way is to aggro the spot and pull anything there. unfortuneately this usually results in taking a few hundred point of damage and maybe getting stunned. The easiest way, is to have your tracker get over the location and type /target a_malarian_larva (insert appropriate PH or named). once you do that, pull back to a safer spot, have someone paci/lull/harmony the mobs, and then pull the one you want. Only thing you really have to worry about is the Water/Land targeting issue.

Ok I had a problem tonight with the Harrion Larva. First of all the larva don't seem to spawn at all. They show on tracking but are under the world. So i killed the Malarian Crysalis and sure enough she dropped like 4 of them in my lap. After killing all of them I went back and repulled her (she had returned to spawn spot) and kiled her. About 10 minutes later I am overjoyed to see the Harrion on track. I go there and it is under the world again. I tried to pull the mob that spawned on the Crysalis spot which was named Malarian Gall thinking it woudl drop the babies like the Crysalis did but instead she summoned me and whumped me a few tiems for 379, I ran away adn she summoned me and whumpoed a couple more 379s. I hit Exodus. The Harrion is still sitting there under the world 6 hours later. No clue what to do to fix this or how it got broken. Looks like I have to wait until next server reset unless someone has an idea.

Think i just figured it out hehe, thanks to Pterk. They didn't change the quest, they just tried to help you out by telling you WHERE the worms spawn.

If you ever have tried to complete some of this quest, you know you have to camp a worm near the flies, one by the skeeters.. and etc. Grimror says "two flies, one worm, one moss-skeeter".. or something like that, sooo... the quest hasn't changed :)

Completed this quest last night (I know, COD flag no longer required, but I did it for the improved stats to PoP flag charm). Spent about 6 hours killing the damn slippery worms. In that time we got 3 Generian, 2 Scaevian, 1 Sengian and 1 Harrion.

Turned in Harrion, Generian, Sengian and Scaevian Flesh to receive the Bangle of Disease Warding. Everyone in group was flagged and then able to get PoP flag charm with improved stats and an AA point, even if they had no other flags prior to the recent patch which opened up the PoP zones.

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This quest has changed as of the flagging patch. Grimror now asks for "leetle bugs" from two flies, one mosquito, and a "wormie."

Does anyone know what you have to collect?

I believe I've seen 'a diseased malarian' drop an item called a larvae that may be way Grimror needs, but I'm not sure if my memory is serving me true.

I'd like to do this quest, but I don't know what to hunt.

The original quest can be confirmed to be broken. Go to Grimror and tell him the same things that the above quest says, but, rather than ask for the skins of various worms...he asks for 2 pieces from flies, 1 from "skeeterz" and 1 from worms...

I have no idea what he is talking about...but I am gonna try farming flies, worms, etc for them.

Regarding the old 4 flesh quest, I got 3 of them EXCEPT harrion...I tried camping it on the middle peanut island with a group and killed about 20 malarian larvaes to get the harrion to spawn...but nothing. This leads me to believe that:
A) I have horrible luck
B) This mob does not spawn anymore due to the change in the quest.

Of course, I can't be sure, but can anyone confirm this for me?

Ok I have done this quest last night and it still works. Duo with 61 Druid friend for all pieces. Can be MQ'ed. Not too sure about this flagging for whole grp if you hand it in as a grp though. Too late for me to try now anyway :p

All named larva's drop the skin and on occasion (50% of time I think) an etheral parchy. As stated by all they don't cast and don't summon.

Harrion:
- PH are malarian larva found near the fly camps (hang right from GY). What a pain in the ass this one was. Just kill all the PH's on the 2 islands but trick is not to get adds from the flies and swamp rats. Harmony and sometimes pacify works on em. Once all done, pull larva and wait for Harrion to pop.

Generian / Sengian:
- PH for Generian are planarian larva found near the middle of zone. PH for Sengian are tachnian caterpillars left from the bone entrance of the castle. Suggest you hang around at half way point btw the NW corner and bone entrance and pull. Remember it's LARVA not larvae as PH's.

Scaevian:
- PH for Scaevian are tsetian pupa's (not PUPAL's). Just wait near the NW corner for PH and kill em all until scaevian pops. To kill time while no PH's are up pull some pulsing's as well (be careful to harmony / pacify or you get add city (there is always 4 pulsings in one dome)

Once you have all 4, just hand it into Grimor and get your bangle. Not too bad for insta clicky resist disease and mana free too. Of course the real plus is key to CoD.

More satisfying that zerging Grummus these days.

Hope this info helps.

Cheers,
Duke Khoa Von'Darkangelis
Torvonnilous Server

EDIT : Aye it does flag the whole grp - the person handing in gets the bangle but WHOLE grp gets flagged

Edited, Thu May 1 11:03:50 2003

A friend just talked to the 'returned' Grimror. The final response is now different:

Grimror Plaguebringer says 'Grimror need bile, dat stuff es strong here! But Grimror keent seem to git eet all. Bile comz from da leetle bugs. Keel little bugs, and geeve Grimror dere leetel bodiez and Grimror give yuuz anyting dat yuuz want. Dere on four leetel buggiez dat Grimror still neez, two of dem come from da fliez, one comez from da wurmiez, and one comez from the moss-skeeterz. Yuuz bring Grimror dere lavas and Grimror geeve yuuz, and yuuz freends, anyting yuz want.'

Apparently, one drop still comes from larvae(worms), but one drop is moved to malarians(mosquitoes), and the other two are moved to flies. There are two fly types in PoD: tse tse and vetri, so likely each type drops one of pieces.

It appears that Grimor has been perma killed.

This was done soon after the last patch. In this patch they changed the quest to a mini flagging event, where if the person who does the quest hand in is grouped, then the whole group gets keyed for CoD.

Why did Sony take this Grimor out (as well as all other alternate PoP entry quest mobs?)?

So dont waste your time with this until the next patch, when hopefully some thing may be done to bring back the alternate key quests into PoP.

All online guide/GM replies have been that he (and other quest npcs for alternate flags) is gone, but no other information is forthcoming.

This would be nasty if Sony decided to stop people from access to tier two if they thought too many were getting flagged.

Good luck and safe travels,

Jalia

Do any of the mobs you need to fight summon or cast?

If they do cast what class are they what do they cast etc.

Look here

http://www.dotnetdiva.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2067

Here is what I've found are the PH's for the different named mobs you have to find

Harrion PH = malarian larva found near the fly camps

Generian PH = Planarian larva found near the middle of zone

Sengian PH = Tachnian Caterpillars found by going right when facing the bone castle Entrance

Scaevian PH = not sure, i think it is the tsetian pupa these are found at the same area as the tachnian caterpillars

none of these named mobs were much harder than their PH's I soloed them easily as a 61-62 nec. none casted


Edited, Thu Jan 2 16:47:38 2003

Does anyone know where theSegian/Sengian Larvae spawns?

According to what I read elsewhere the item you get will allow you into the Crypt of Decay

clickable from inventory means to don't have to loose stats from a better item to use it. Insta click will save a lot of re-buffing on raids with AoE dispells, unless of course the MOB is using disease base spells where you want a better disease buff that won't stack, but those are less common, and it will still come in handy if your better disease resist buff gets dispelled.

Risk/time vs Reward...well, maybe not worth it if you weren't getting EXP at the same time hunting these things. But since you do...

i did the quest and its kinna desapointed
the item is recomanded lvl 55 its an instant click resist disease and ac 7 but class none and race none , it can be used from invetory, but for all the effort i dont think it worth it i hunted in pod from 1 week for that .... =( here some info a planarian larva is the ph for generien , malarian larva s a ph for harrion tsetsian pupa is the ph for scavein and the other one is kinna harder there must be a tachnian caterpillar as a ph but i cannot gurantee i went in the zone and it was up