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A Simple Task (Norrath's Keepers)
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This task is offered by Bianca Galbraith in the Norrath's Keepers camp.
I have for you a simple task. Bring me a flower from a garden. Sure, that garden is on a magically floating island. Yes, that island is the lair of an ancient dragon of trendous power. Of course minions will be everywhere, but all we want is one plant. How hard can that be? There is a small tree that grows a rose they call the Dark Lady. They say it has amazing powers. They also say that it is difficult to transport alive. You need to figure out how to do that. They say that if you don't transport it in the right container with the proper fertilizer it will die. No, I don't really know who "they" are, just bring me that rose alive. The Steps: 1) Touch the portal to the Thundercrest Isles 2) Explore the Garden of Yar'Lir on a western Island 3) Find a way to keep the Dark Lady alive so that you can bring it back 4) Deliver one Potted Dark Lady to Bianca Galbraith Go to the Thundercrest Isles and cross the west bridge. Find and kill the Goblin Gardener and loot an Inscripted Pot - a two slot container. Inside the garden, which is the large center room not far from the bridge, find and pick up Dark Lady, a bright red ground spawn in the garden area. When you are near the Dark Lady you get a task update and an emote, so stop and look there. At this point a timer of sorts starts. Periodically you will see emotes like this: "The Dark Lady withers. It is only a matter of time before is dies. You know you must hurry and find a way to plant it properly." The Dark Lady poofs and you get a different one on your cursor. For example, Sickly Dark Lady, Wilted Dark Lady, Withered Dark Lady. There is no indication of how much time you have before the Dark Lady dies. Clear the garden and the guardians surrounding it. You will eventually see: A loud, hissing voice shouts, 'What is going on here? Someone shall answer to the Lady of the Tempest for their actions here!' The Master Courier has spawned and will make its way to the garden. Kill him and loot some Drake Fertilizer. Combine the Dark Lady and Drake Fertilizer in the Inscripted Pot to receive the Potted Dark Lady. Take that back to the quest giver in Lavastorm for your reward. Each member of your party receives one Norrath's Keepers Token and 45 Radiant Crystals. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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38 posts
how do you do the the first step? "touch the portal to the isles" one? Touching it zones you in, but it doesnt update the step (is there another zone in portal besides the one in broodlands, in the northeast of the zone between the 4 stone spires?)
This same-named task is offered by Daleynn Spiritshadow in the Dark Reign camp with amiable faction at level 59.
Rift, LOTRO, AO - active.
EQ, MxO, TSO, EQII, DAoC, AC, AC2, HZs, EVE, WWIIOL, GW, WHO, AoC - all retired.
Early SWG was the WORST POS I have ever played.
EQ, MxO, TSO, EQII, DAoC, AC, AC2, HZs, EVE, WWIIOL, GW, WHO, AoC - all retired.
Early SWG was the WORST POS I have ever played.
Ok. We did this quest tonight and we loved it. We had a cleric(71), Mage(70), Rogue(72), Shammy(72), Wizzy(69), and war(69). Cleric(me) pulled without problems, got two pulls with more than one. Used mark to pull (very low agro) tank would bow it in on him. shammy slowed. and the rogue, mage, and wizzy opened up on it. Nothing lasted all that long.
Walk though:
Zone in. There was a single drake at the door, but lots of space, pretty simple. open the door, was three in a triangle formation on the bridge, think it was two drakes and a dervish of some sort. clear the bridge, and move up to about the top of the arc, and pull anything left before the door. Might be nothing there, i don't remember exactly.
Once you open the door you will find an abundance of roaming guards. With skill you can pick them off one at a time, just be careful as there are goblins hiding amongst the trees and blend in rather well. You will want to clear any guard to walks down that path, take a few minutes and make sure you get them all, they can be a real pain if they wander in later. Once you think you've killed them all, move in and LEFT. The trees might have a goblin or two around them, so keep an eye on them. There will be a pair of goblins in the corner, and when you turn the corner, there will be more around the trees. you'll want to kill all of these asap. Nothing up to this point will drop anything special, maybe some rare-ish trade skill items for DoN armor and gems, rest is junk (top selling price on "junk" was about 10pp each). now that the goblins are done, the first door on the LEFT is the one you want. You may think its the one at the end, but our scout (rogue) said it was locked, and this is the way you want anyways.
There will be 3-4 drakes on the bridge, a pair in front, one at the door behind, and a possible roamer that comes about half way up the bridge. Kill them all and move up to the arc of the bridge to get out of way of roamers. over the bridge will be a guard tucked away in the left side, and a drake right in front. slaughter both and move to the path way where the drake was. You will notice this area is very familiar, as it is the starting area of the Creator DoN mission.
Mobs are placed a little differently. You may want to clear the drake on the right, as its a bit close to the path, but you don't have to if you can get past him. there will be one guard at the door that you need to kill, and a roaming drake that may come right up to the door, but he wont leave the building. you can move up to the doorway now, there will be another roamer here, but more importaly there will be a drake waiting down both halls. Kill your way in past the 2-3 drakes and move up the ramp, kill the puma waiting in that corner and camp there.
Ahead will be two doors, use the closest one, and kill the puma and the drake waiting just off the ramp. sit at the bottom of the ramp and wait for the Master Courier. For us he was up and waiting, but people say that they have had trouble getting him up. Hes not all that hard, as a 71 cleric with 1600 AC he was hitting me for 1300-1700 or so, so kinda hard, but with a slow its manageable. When you kill him, he'll drop the soil for the pot which you will get soon. Kill your way up, just like you were going on a creator, and clear to the next corner in the hallway.
Down the hallway will be a drake and the Goblin Gardener. this one was a bit harder. he summoned a very large human familiar which was the first light blue i have seen in the mission as a 71. the pat came after me, someone snared it, and i lost track of it, also like it disappeared. the goblin didn't summon anyone that i know of, and a low-ish lvl air pet tanked him with help from shammy HoTs and cleric heals. Dropped him, looted pot, put dirt in, gave it to rogue who snuck in and picked up the flower, combined, came back, wizzy evac, and the exit portal is still broken (filed a /bug, but who the hell reads those now'a days). wizzy finally just ported to nek, and we ran back. got 56 crystals and a faction bobble. Overall i would rate this quest highly, i like it better than creator, seem easier and less hecktic, no hard pulls, no trix, just a simple smash and grab event.
Quick and dirty:
kill north two doors, then left (west) to the wall. North again to first door. clear stright west through first door and into the building at the end. turn SOUTH (left) and kill to corner. keep group here while puller grabs goat (Master Courier) and kill the goat. kill west up the hallway to corner, then north until you get to goblin (Goblin Gardener). slay the midget and take his pot (dotn smoke it). in the garden in the center is flower, pick it up, combine with dirt from goat, and get the heck out of dodge. return and give to quest giver for reward.
Don't know if they respawn (didn't care to look). goat summoned. our group worked great, if i (the puller) had been morecarefull would have avoided the 3 deaths. Slower is a MUST. Healer is a MUST. Tank is a MUST. Rogue works very nicely as a scout and to get flower in end to save kill time. other two spots are good for Dps. standard group, nothing too special. No one is ultra geared, most of us just have standard baz gear. rogue and shammy might have been time/coa geared, i dont know, didn't ask.
Walk though:
Zone in. There was a single drake at the door, but lots of space, pretty simple. open the door, was three in a triangle formation on the bridge, think it was two drakes and a dervish of some sort. clear the bridge, and move up to about the top of the arc, and pull anything left before the door. Might be nothing there, i don't remember exactly.
Once you open the door you will find an abundance of roaming guards. With skill you can pick them off one at a time, just be careful as there are goblins hiding amongst the trees and blend in rather well. You will want to clear any guard to walks down that path, take a few minutes and make sure you get them all, they can be a real pain if they wander in later. Once you think you've killed them all, move in and LEFT. The trees might have a goblin or two around them, so keep an eye on them. There will be a pair of goblins in the corner, and when you turn the corner, there will be more around the trees. you'll want to kill all of these asap. Nothing up to this point will drop anything special, maybe some rare-ish trade skill items for DoN armor and gems, rest is junk (top selling price on "junk" was about 10pp each). now that the goblins are done, the first door on the LEFT is the one you want. You may think its the one at the end, but our scout (rogue) said it was locked, and this is the way you want anyways.
There will be 3-4 drakes on the bridge, a pair in front, one at the door behind, and a possible roamer that comes about half way up the bridge. Kill them all and move up to the arc of the bridge to get out of way of roamers. over the bridge will be a guard tucked away in the left side, and a drake right in front. slaughter both and move to the path way where the drake was. You will notice this area is very familiar, as it is the starting area of the Creator DoN mission.
Mobs are placed a little differently. You may want to clear the drake on the right, as its a bit close to the path, but you don't have to if you can get past him. there will be one guard at the door that you need to kill, and a roaming drake that may come right up to the door, but he wont leave the building. you can move up to the doorway now, there will be another roamer here, but more importaly there will be a drake waiting down both halls. Kill your way in past the 2-3 drakes and move up the ramp, kill the puma waiting in that corner and camp there.
Ahead will be two doors, use the closest one, and kill the puma and the drake waiting just off the ramp. sit at the bottom of the ramp and wait for the Master Courier. For us he was up and waiting, but people say that they have had trouble getting him up. Hes not all that hard, as a 71 cleric with 1600 AC he was hitting me for 1300-1700 or so, so kinda hard, but with a slow its manageable. When you kill him, he'll drop the soil for the pot which you will get soon. Kill your way up, just like you were going on a creator, and clear to the next corner in the hallway.
Down the hallway will be a drake and the Goblin Gardener. this one was a bit harder. he summoned a very large human familiar which was the first light blue i have seen in the mission as a 71. the pat came after me, someone snared it, and i lost track of it, also like it disappeared. the goblin didn't summon anyone that i know of, and a low-ish lvl air pet tanked him with help from shammy HoTs and cleric heals. Dropped him, looted pot, put dirt in, gave it to rogue who snuck in and picked up the flower, combined, came back, wizzy evac, and the exit portal is still broken (filed a /bug, but who the hell reads those now'a days). wizzy finally just ported to nek, and we ran back. got 56 crystals and a faction bobble. Overall i would rate this quest highly, i like it better than creator, seem easier and less hecktic, no hard pulls, no trix, just a simple smash and grab event.
Quick and dirty:
kill north two doors, then left (west) to the wall. North again to first door. clear stright west through first door and into the building at the end. turn SOUTH (left) and kill to corner. keep group here while puller grabs goat (Master Courier) and kill the goat. kill west up the hallway to corner, then north until you get to goblin (Goblin Gardener). slay the midget and take his pot (dotn smoke it). in the garden in the center is flower, pick it up, combine with dirt from goat, and get the heck out of dodge. return and give to quest giver for reward.
Don't know if they respawn (didn't care to look). goat summoned. our group worked great, if i (the puller) had been morecarefull would have avoided the 3 deaths. Slower is a MUST. Healer is a MUST. Tank is a MUST. Rogue works very nicely as a scout and to get flower in end to save kill time. other two spots are good for Dps. standard group, nothing too special. No one is ultra geared, most of us just have standard baz gear. rogue and shammy might have been time/coa geared, i dont know, didn't ask.
Stupid People bother me....
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Update:
They DO respawn. look to be a 30+ minute timer. Also mobs (goblins more than others) have a tendency to fall through bridge and keep hitting you while you cant hit back. The exit portal is still broken, so bring a way out with you.
They DO respawn. look to be a 30+ minute timer. Also mobs (goblins more than others) have a tendency to fall through bridge and keep hitting you while you cant hit back. The exit portal is still broken, so bring a way out with you.
Stupid People bother me....
QUIET YOU!!! YOU DONT GET AN OPINION!!!
QUIET YOU!!! YOU DONT GET AN OPINION!!!
12 posts
Update. I soloed this twice today with (Lvl 75 mage + merc) without any problems other than the long wait for Master Courier to spawn. In both cases, took 3 hours for Master Courier to appear. The rest of the quest takes 20 minutes.
- With invis on, you can do everything and kill less than 10 mobs, but because of the long wait for the Master Courier I ended up killing dozens and dozens of trash mobs in the building where the garden is, hoping one of them was the PH - but apparently not.
- Easiest part is looting the Inscripted Pot from the Gardener, who is always a static mod in the corridor south of the garden room when the quest starts.
- I can confirm that the zone out works fine now, there's actually a second one right in the building where the garden is located.
- I made the mistake of looting the Dark lady groundspawn too early, despite the posts below to leave that for the end. Sure enough, looting the flower did not spawn the Master Courier and the flower was long dead by the time Master Courier made his appearance. But after getting the Master Courier's drop, I simply abandoned the quest and requested it againm - the second time I simply needed to get the Dark Lady and the other items from my first attempt worked fine for the final combine.
- Final point: I did not notice an emote when approaching the Dark Lady. However, it's easy to spot because it's the only red flower (looks like a muchroom) in the garden. Both times I found the groundspawn at the same spot. It was in the southern section of the garden, on the shrub in the northeast corner.
Hope this helps.
- With invis on, you can do everything and kill less than 10 mobs, but because of the long wait for the Master Courier I ended up killing dozens and dozens of trash mobs in the building where the garden is, hoping one of them was the PH - but apparently not.
- Easiest part is looting the Inscripted Pot from the Gardener, who is always a static mod in the corridor south of the garden room when the quest starts.
- I can confirm that the zone out works fine now, there's actually a second one right in the building where the garden is located.
- I made the mistake of looting the Dark lady groundspawn too early, despite the posts below to leave that for the end. Sure enough, looting the flower did not spawn the Master Courier and the flower was long dead by the time Master Courier made his appearance. But after getting the Master Courier's drop, I simply abandoned the quest and requested it againm - the second time I simply needed to get the Dark Lady and the other items from my first attempt worked fine for the final combine.
- Final point: I did not notice an emote when approaching the Dark Lady. However, it's easy to spot because it's the only red flower (looks like a muchroom) in the garden. Both times I found the groundspawn at the same spot. It was in the southern section of the garden, on the shrub in the northeast corner.
Hope this helps.
Doomed Lemming
12 posts
My group did this also. We each recieved 31 RC. BUT Yes... we couldnt get out of the zone after completed.We went to zone in spot and to the Zone out. Wouldnt let us leave.Our Rogue died and used a AA to res everything then did turn in then we all got booted. This needs fixing.
J
65 Paladin Bristlebane.
J
65 Paladin Bristlebane.
2 posts
Have either a porter in your group, or the looter gate out to do turn in. After you get credit for mission, quit task for auto-port.
1 post
I had a group of average 68+ although we did not actually finish the mission the reward was for 56 rc's. If somebody can figure out the secret to this one please post it cause 56 rc's is a good amount for 30-45 mins.
8 posts
Just did this one as evil under dark reign, same info.
Feral Lord? Nah just plain FERAL!!!
26 posts
I am not sure if you need a certant faction but we did get this quest. was a 60 beast/necro 62 necro 70 shammy/cleric/sk. Wasn't to bad we killed the gardner right in the front the went to the garden. still doing it atm don't belive we gonna loot the flower till after either the garden is cleared or the named pops. we are gettin 31 ebons and a token.
6 posts
We collected the flower and the fertilizer and combined both in the pot but how do you leave this mission?
Edited, Fri Apr 1 11:58:41 2005
Edited, Fri Apr 1 11:58:41 2005
As indicated in the task description, return the potted flower to Bianca Galbraith.
With the April 12 patch, the crystal reward was bumped to 56.
With the April 12 patch, the crystal reward was bumped to 56.
37 posts
That is only with a mostly level 70 group. If you have a mixed 60's/70's group averaging 66 67 the crystal reward is 37
22 posts
I used to be able to do this trial with a kite group. But now the named summon and AE rampage. Dont try it unless you have a good tank and someone who can handle page tank.
The Master Courier is a timed spawn. So you can delay picking up the rose until you see the emote. He will come to the garden, so now you can pick up the rose and wait for him. There is respawn there, so make sure you have a clear spot.
I agree with dsavereide.
I did this task many times upon DoN's launch.
Your best bet is to clear around the garden area, kill the Goblin Gardener and loot the inscribed pot.
Next clear the inner room 'garden area', until you get the emote.
Master Courier is a Kirin model and will path into the room. Kill him and loot the Drake Fertalizer.
Now grab the flower, put in pot with fertalizer and combine.
This makes the task much easier and has less risk of failure (IE 0% unless you die and can't regroup, rebuff, and beat whatever killed you within the 5 or so hour task limit)
V/R,
Wyre
I did this task many times upon DoN's launch.
Your best bet is to clear around the garden area, kill the Goblin Gardener and loot the inscribed pot.
Next clear the inner room 'garden area', until you get the emote.
Master Courier is a Kirin model and will path into the room. Kill him and loot the Drake Fertalizer.
Now grab the flower, put in pot with fertalizer and combine.
This makes the task much easier and has less risk of failure (IE 0% unless you die and can't regroup, rebuff, and beat whatever killed you within the 5 or so hour task limit)
V/R,
Wyre