Blood Spells  

Three of the Four parts needed for the pure blood quest drop in nadox. The entrance to Gunthak i suggest is reached in the following manner: After zoning into Gunthak levitate and invis and start floating toward the beach that is off to your left. You will want to follow the right wall as soon as you get to the beach into a cave area. Invising past the mushrooms plants and drogmoors in the caves you should see a leftside opening from the caves, Ignore this for now and continue on until you get the Second Left which you will follow until you see a thin opening in the cave wall. Travel through this opening to reach some troll guards and what seems to be a large expanse of lava, this is the nadox lava river zone in. Described henceforth is how to get to the camps in Crypt of Nadox assuming you entered from the caves entrance in Gunthak through the lava river. Invis up and swim past the fire elementals and run up the right wall. To your right is the troll temple areas to your left across bridge is the luggard(blue alien looking guys) areas. The first camp should yield you 2 of the 3 drops in zone. Keeping invis you should see some furious and vehement blackhands, these drop the [broken skull clan blood] component. Invis past them into the hall beyond the high ceiling area. Stop before you reach the Adherants area which also spawns the named Dulein. Adherants and Dulein phers are casters and drop the [a blackened vial] component. From this camp situated between the casters in front of you, and the blackhand melee mobs behind you you should be relatively safe to begin. The casters heal occasionally and are mostly shamans but beware of them gating back to their spawn. The named Dulein has a chance of dropping int caster items, gloves are common, enchanter clicky belt uncommon, FT1 shoulders rare. The melee camp has a chance of spawning blackhand lietenants which drop a caster candle and rune procing melee weapon. Various mobs in these sections also drop a nodrop text, describing the pureblood quest, which tells you you are in the right place to camp the components.

Now for the luggard component, you must head back to the lava river. Passing over the bridge(remembering you must be invis) you can head into the very center passageway into the luggard area. Various luggard devices are inside the cave that follows you should head across the center of the room towards the far passageway which should have 2 luggard guards standing before it. Heading past the guards the passageway slopes downward into the undead area, if you reach the undead you have gone too far. The camp is in that passageway, it is a safe spot with no wanderers. Pull luggards from inside the room you passed to get to the passageway. Abominations and Initiates seem to drop the [Pureblood] but not often, you may also get luggard hearts used in a wizard spell quest. Rarely charms and low end gear drops off these mobs as well. The troll treasure sorter and wandering undead that comes into the center of the room do not drop the components for the pureblood quest.

Now that you have the 3 components from Nadox the easy part awaits you in gunthak. You require some [Gunthak Gulf Water] which is acquired in two ways. You can forage it from Gunthak OR you can get it dropped from mobs in gunthak cave. If you choose to forage it it is nodrop so your race/class must have the ability to forage for itself. For those clerics and shamans with none foraging ability you must go back into the caves of gunthak. If you recall above directions, there was a First Left inside the caves on the way to nadox, this is where you must now go in order to camp the gulf water. It drops semi-commonly off Pillagers in the pirate base. These are much lower level mobs that those encountered in nadox and if you could get the nadox drops these should not be a problem. Seems to have a higher drop rate off the Ogre Pillagers which also happen to be placeholders for the named in this camp.

Assuming you now hold the Blackened Vial, Gunthak Gulf Water, and Broken Skull Clan Blood you can now complete the first combine of the quest. It is a brewing combine which can be done at the lighthouse area next to the quest npc. It will yield a Black potion(trivial 71). This Black potion you then combine with the Pure Blood to receieve Glowing Black Potion which is nofail. This you give to Grennik the quest npc to receive your blood spell.

Edited, Tue Mar 9 15:34:33 2004

I would just like to point out, that after camping the red-bandana bloodguards in Torgiran's Mines for a few hours, we gave up and went to Nadox.

At the castle where you find the Luggald initiates and the abominations, we camped and killed everything in there for 7 hours. No pure blood dropped.

We were able to get the "pure blood" to drop off both the Luggald initiates AND the abominations within the large center room to the west of the bridge.

We had a group of four with a 59 monk, cleric, a 55 shaman, and 52 ranger. The camp was very tough and the ranger died twice! For you shamans be aware that the luggalds absolutely hate our slows and get even angrier at poison dots. They also break root very easily and they hit hard and fast (around 130 double attacks on average).

Good hunting :)

This combines are no fail since the March 13 update as stated above here is the link:

Make sure you kill the level 50 Broken Skull Initiates. I spend over 2 hours killing the green con ones lol =P. The Black Potion dropped the first time I killed a dark blue con one. Other two dropped on first kill also lol. Easy quest all Priest classes should do this quest.

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Well I got this spell as a shaman a few weeks ago. It's invaluable for killing Babnoxis the Spider Queen in PoFire, also the big croc in PoEarth. Both have a nasty AE DoT, with a shaman in each of the key groups in your raid, ie:the groups you really can't afford to let ppl die in, as soon as you get the dot you can cure your whole group. First time we tried these mobs, I was using disinfecting aura. By the time I cured the 6th guy in my group it was time to cure the 1st.

So anyway today I was helping a Druid in my guild do the quest, she looted all the gear, then I took her to the brew barrel. She did the combines, then I showed her the NPC by targeting and hailing. She handed in the Glowing potion and recieved the spell. However I also got the Shaman version appear on my cursor. So it can be multiquested it seems.

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Edited, Sat Oct 11 23:31:21 2003

Im confused. Can you get all the needed drops in Gulf or do you need to visit the crypt and mines as well?

I have a 52 druid with 200 forage. The gunthak gulf water can be foraged while in the water so no need to kill for this ;-)


Layddeath Bloodreign

Im a 65 druid, this quest was cake work. All mobs dropped all items really quick. The spell was for my GFs 52 dr00d. Scored some good points with her on this one. The no fail combines were great. Good time doin it all too. Good luck to everyone, and dont get frustrated.

Ok, completed this quest today, all in all it wasn't too tough, as far as quests go. I thought it was a little rough for a 51st level spell, but you can judge for yourself...

The easiest component by far was the Gunthak Gulf Water off of a Human Pillager in the fort in Gunthak. (note: Not the collection of huts right before the Dulak zone, but the fort that, on the map, is directly south of the beach area) The chanter in our group got so excited she accidentally looted the first Gunthak Water we got. No biggie, we got another off of an Erudite Marauder 2 kills later. I don't know if we got extremely lucky? We only killed about 15 mobs, it was waaaay easier than reported.

Got the pure blood off of A Luggald Abomination. This also seemed fairly easy. Me (54 cleric), a 53 Warrior and a 38 Chanter set in to kill Luggalds. We could take them, but it was really touch and go. After about 15 of them, we decided to get more firepower. We added a 55 bard, a 55 SK and a 54 Shm. After our group got there, we killed 6 more of them (they went down much easier), and got 2 pure bloods out of those 6 kills. So much for needing more firepower...
To kill the Luggalds just go across the bridge in Nadox, and keep heading west till you come to the room with all the Luggalds in it. If you go straight across that room, there's another hallway (on the west side of the Luggald room) that you can sit in. We sat here for an hour or two, very safe spot to camp in. This was by far the 2nd easiest component to obtain, even though the Luggalds hit really hard (150 per hit, 2 or 3 times a round) and have lots of hps. Melee only at least.

The third component, and almost the hardest to obtain was the Broken Skull Clan Blood. We got this from a furious Blackhand. The best way we found to get this was to sit in the bridge room, on the north side, just east of the lava flow. We'd pull Furious Blackhands and Vehement Blackhands from the room on the south side of that cavern. We went through quite a few Blackhands (perhaps 50 or more?) before we got the Blood. Luckily, they were wusses. Only about 40th - 45th level or so, they went down like wet rags after the Luggalds. We were there probably 3 or 4 hours. We did, however, get some decent gear in this camp:

Ceremonial Hate Candle
(Wis +5, Int +5, Hps +25, Mana +30, Sv D +8, Sv P +8, All Race, Casters and Healers only, Primary/Secondary) off of some Lieutenant in the Blackhand room. We got three of these Candles.

Hate Forged Pauldrons
(AC 5, Dex +8, Wis +8, Int +8, Hps +20, Sv D +5, Sv P +5, once again, All Races, Casters and Healers only, Shoulders) off of the normal furious / vehement blackhands. Got two of these.

Bracelet of the Spiritchamer
(AC 12, Str +7, Wis +5, Hps +15, Mana +15, Sv D +7, Sv P +7, All Races, Rng, Rog, Shm only)
Off of some named Spiritchamer guy wandering around east of the bridge. His PH is the wanderer you hafta kill to pull from the blackhand room across the firepit to the safe spot mentioned above. Only got 1 of these, and the Shaman in the group had gone LD earlier, you snooze you looze....


And last but not least, the Blackened Vial. This was really tough because our group had started wandering away and all we were left with was Me (54 cleric again, the 53 Warry, now 39 chanter, and a 56 SK) We found this off of a Broken Skull Adherent. There are tons of them located a little south of the Blackhand room, and these babies are tough! They hit like trains (double or triple for 155), cast (shamans) and gate when low. Our little group could barely manage them. We usually had to wait for me (cleric) to get full again after each battle. Luckily none of them resisted pacify, although the Warry did bite it once because Pacify wore off early. Even more luckily, we only had to kill about 15 of em to get the Vial. Good thing too, it was becoming a time consuming, trying camp. No pHaT L33t off of these guys that we found, although I betcha they drop some, they gotta, as hard as they are, eh?

Went back to the lighthouse, found Grennik (just NW of the lighthouse in one of the little huts) and used the brew barrel right next to her hut to combine the stuff. I have a brewing of 177, and didn't fail any of the combines (thank god). Turned in the final glowing black potion and now I have Pure Blood. Hopefully it works as advertised. Those spiders in velks owe me at least one after battle death.

Edit: Ok, after all that, I went to velks, and this spell DOES NOT remove deadly velium poison. Thanks Verant, or SOE, or whomever I'm sposed to cuss at.....

Edited, Tue Jul 29 00:25:01 2003

I had a vial of blackened blood drop of a mob (sorry, don't remember which, possibly a troll dock guardian). Is this the same as a blackened vial?

Me and my friends had pure blood drop off: Luggald abomination, and Luggald initiate, so show no mercy kill em all!!

Shinradd Kindheart
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