Orc Scalp Collecting  

Not sure if level matters, but as level 82, my logs reads back:

[Thu Jul 07 17:10:37 2011] You gain experience!!
[Thu Jul 07 17:10:37 2011] You receive 5 copper from Captain Ashlan.
[Thu Jul 07 17:10:37 2011] You receive 2 silver from Captain Ashlan.
[Thu Jul 07 17:10:37 2011] You receive 5 gold from Captain Ashlan.

Definitely getting more than 5 copper.

I think they seriously nerfed the xp on this one. At level 13 my XP bar did not move up at all after turning in a stack of scalps to Capt. Ashlan. The faction hits and the gold are still good, though.

Hello all,

Went to see the Captain yet again today with a few more stacks of orc scalps from Crushbone.
I usually hand in (4) unstacked orc scalps at a time to him and get the factions hits, experience, and money (5g 2s 5c).

I had a single Orc Scalp, so gave it to him and noticed that I got the same amount of money as I did for handing in (4) Orc Scalps (5g 2s 5c).
To confirm this, I gave him (1) Orc Scalp at a time for my last stack, and it was a much nicer profit of 20 x 5g2s5c =(100g 40s 100c) vs 5 x 5g2s5c =(25g 10s 25c) per stack of Orc Scalps.
Regarding the XP and faction hits, I assume it's the same and get the same as by handing only (1) Orc Scalp or (4) Orc Scalp at a time.

Note for Bards: Use your 'Cindas Charsimatic Carillon Song' on him and any other NPC that regards you lest then 'amiably'. He regards my Wood Elf Bard (CHA 122) 'apprehensively' usually, but with the song on it jumps to 'amiably' as it does with most NPCs that I use the Song on.



Edited, Sat Apr 15 16:34:28 2006

(Captain Ashlan is located in Highpass Hold at location -571 +161)

You say, 'Hail, Captain Ashlan'

Captain Ashlan says 'Greetings, traveler! I am Captain Ashlan of the Highpass Guards. I keep watch over my men and the volunteers here at the East Gate. It's been a busy [job] here lately, with the [orc raids] and all.'

You say, 'what job'

Captain Ashlan says 'We're short-handed around here, as usual. Would you like to help us out with the [Volunteer Watch]?'

You say, `What Volunteer Watch.'

Captain Ashlan says 'The Volunteer Watch guards the entry gates of Highpass. Since the [orc raids] are becoming more and more frequent, it's a busy job. But it can pay well, depending on how many [orcs] you slay.'

You say, 'what orcs?'

Captain Ashlan says 'One of the orc clans of Kithicor Woods has been trying to expand their territory. Small orc raiding parties are frequently rushing the East Gate. Without the [Volunteer Watch] helping us out, Highpass would probably be overrun by those vile beasts.'

Turn in Orc Scalps. (Can do up to four at a time)

Captain Ashlan says 'Great work! Maybe you can help us out again sometime?'

Your faction standing with Highpass Guards got better.
Your faction standing with Carson McCabe got better.
Your faction standing with Merchants of Highpass got better.
Your faction standing with Corrupt Qeynos Guards got better.
Your faction standing with The Freeport Militia got better.
You gain experience!!
You receive 5 copper from Captain Ashlan.

With the onset of DoD, players have been running, flying, porting to HPH for exp that MM's give. Some find that the guards aren't too friendly here tho. And worse yet is if someone is doing the rogue epic some mobs go wild and kill anything near them. This faction fixes that.

Orc scalps can be collected from either orcs here in highpass or from orcs in crushbone. It must be "orc scalp"

Faction works by numbers and goes like this: (rough estimates)

Ally ------------------------------------- +2000
Amiably
Kindly
Warmly
Indifferently ---------------------------- 0
Apprehensive
Dubiously
Threateningly
Scowls at you, Ready to attack ----- -2000

And to do the turn in you have to be at least medium dubiously to captain ashlan, low dubioulsly will not work. To accomplish this you can:
a: sneak up behind him and turn in orc scalps.(makes you indifferent)
b. have an illusion potion (human) to increase faction. (moves you up 1 level. Example: KoS becomes threatengly)
c: have an enchanter along with you who can cast benevolence on capt. (+200 faction)
d: have a person with invis cast it upon you after you hand him orc scalps but before you hit give.

Any combination of these will work or if you want or you can just kill. (see below)

There are 3 ways to increase that faction to do this quest.
1. Kill orcs and gnolls in highpass to increase faction. (+1 to +5 faction)
2. Kill Named Gnolls in EK. (+20 faction)
3. Kill Named Orcs in Kithacoor.(+20 faction)
4. Do quest http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=434

I am guessing orc scalps give like +5 as a faction hit because I went from Threatenly to indifferent in 300 scalps(15 stacks) turned in.

You will get 5 copper, 2 silver, 5 gold each time. Capt ashlan can be found from the ZI from kithacoor at about -574, 168 or wandering nearby if he hasn't been killed by orcs or players.


Edited, Mon Feb 6 23:14:33 2006

Well working on this faction is a PAIN!!!
Been killing orcs for 24 hours straight now, and STILL KoS!
Need this faction to be able to do the orc scalp quest, since this is the only place to get on good terms with Freeport millitia without ruining the Knights of truth faction.. Kinda important with new Freeport inc. with Prophecy of Ro

Hey all....this is a pretty out of date post...but here it is. I was disappointed with the supposed faction boost that you get from handing in the scalps. I handed in over 60...now in all honesty I handed in probably 20 of those in 4 scalps at a time..then chanced over to individual scalp turn ins. I started out with Dubios faction and ended with that same. I'm a 17th lvl Elven Ranger...

Ok, this is NOT the quest to do if you don't desperately need this faction. I turned in 4 STACKS (and yes I did turn them in individually) of scalps on my lvl 20 necro.

I saw some wonderful faction hits. But the xp and coin was just NOT worth it.

As an ogre warrior I tried to hand these in and got the message "I will do nothing to aid beings like you." I get the same message from Captain Bosec while trying to hand in goblin ears. My faction is "dubious" with both. Will they accept them if I am "indifferent"?

Ashlan is on the overpass as you come into High Hold from Kithicor Forest. As you fight off the orcs, look to the left and there is a ramp there. Go up the ramp and you will see Ashlan.

I wanted to know where is this guy. Is he anywhere near HHK? If he is do you have to have any certain strength in faction like dubiously on the guards because i went guard hunting and now im KOS in HHK so i need to know if your faction has to be good

The fastest way to raise your Highhold Pass guard faction is to kill the 4 named Orcs in Kithicor forest. Zone into Kith from HHP, turn south (to your right) and follow the wall until you get to the bottom edge of the zone. In this corner spawns 4 named orcs (the Shraloks), they have a fast respawn time and are great exp at 20-22. Killing these Orcs will raise your faction a lot faster than killing the Orcs in HHP.

I can also confirm that the "Orc scalps" that drop from CB Orcs, work for the Orc scalp quest in HHP.

Best of Luck,

Krudzilla Lee, Master of Norrathian factions.
33 Iksar Monk
Waywatchers of Norrath Guild
Drinal server

hte guards are bad who cares about them just kill them and dont go to freeport. lol and be high enough lvl to get in and out of hhk. the nobles are great exp and money at higher lvls so dont waste time with faction now
there are other places to lvl besides hhk


lvl 35 warrior kane bayle
lvl 20 beastlord kane bayle
lvl 20 wizard kane bayle

I've done this quest... I had a few stacks of those orc scalps... never got even a singly copper outta him! oh well...

I have a ogre warrior ... who does not talk like Jar Jar Binks ... and I want to do this quest. Killing the orcs in East and West Commons do not increase any faction for the HPH Guards.

Am I assuming correctly that only killing the orcs within the HPH zone will increase my faction with Captain Ashlan (HPH Guards) enough that I may approach him to hand him the Orc Scalps?

Hamma
FV Server

is the orc of highpass drop the Orc Scalps

pawn drop deathfist pawn scalp is not this is for a monk sash quest

Wait...orc scalps...don't orc pawns have orc scalps...lvl 16? I think I missed something...

First off:
1) u can't kill the orcs in question at lvl 16. U WILL get ganged up on and die.
2) When was the last time anybody counted the number of orcs there that are over lvl 16?
3) What do orc medics do? They HEAL everything but you.
The only way this quest is survivable is in a large group at lvl 16 - 17 or be at least lvl 25.
At lvl 20 as a warrior i got stompped repeatedly by more than one orc Fanatic and a few Medics.
And by the way, running to the guards does not relieve u of the train. The guard is weak and he will only taunt one at a time. 3 orcs can beat on u for a good 20 secs while the guard takes his time with them.

I just handed in 38 scalps. Youcan hand them in in stacks, but no more than 4 at a time. Tested it, and when I handed in 5 I only get 4 exp hits.

Also I was just barely Dubious when I started, but being a monk I could stand behind him and sneak, makeing me indifferent. I had no problem after that. So any of you Iksar Monk's out there sneak up behind him. Or you can drag an orc with you, FD and he'll go for the orc. Then sneak before you stand and hand them in while he goes for the orc. He doesn't hit very hard at all. And once you dubious you can bank in HHKeep. Just watch out for the Bard near the entrance, I just ran past her and FD'd, no problem. Good luck my brothers...

my 20 ogre sk tried this while just turned dubious, no go, tried again later after a couple hours killing orcs was still dubious but he took them and i got the faction hits, so you have to be high dubious to do this. I did this on 8-6-01

Catterly 52 human monk

Fasi 20 ogre sk

I gave Captain Ashlan 7 scalps yesterday, hoping that would raise my factions. but i after i gave those scalps to him, he said "I would would not do anything for your type." or someting similiar.
Is it because of faction with him is still low? Why?

I've already slaughtered quite a few orcs (went from 16 to nearly 18) and the volunteers still "scowl ready to attack" and this darn captain even assaulted me when an orc apparently trained him down to the Kithcore border.

Now, addmittedly, I'm a troll SK who worships Cazic Thule (bad move - the Dark Elves don't like him either - is there *any* merit to worshiping this god?) but I'll have an enchanter invis me and give it a try anyway.

Will report results

Captain Ashlan hides out at the end of HighHold nearest Kithicor. After you zone in from Kithicor, head towards the keep. Just after you pass underneath the bidge sort of thing, there is a "Volunteer" (Renlor? I dont remember now) Captain Ashlan will be either right there, or up the 'tunnel' right behind the volunteer (leads up top of the bridge type thing you just went under)