Access to the Ancient Ruins (Inner Vergalid)  

Ok, to make this a bit more detailed, once you have looted the "Arid Indicolite Shard", from the creatures(Mostly Orc's & Goblin's as well as the Drakkin healer's), that you will come across, once you exit the elevator going down into the mines from the entrance of the zone, going down either right or left tunnel, right you will come down into the flooded caves area, which will have the turtles, the caimans and those annoying plant things, which these do not drop the piece, you will need to take the "Arid Indicolite Shard" down the left-hand tunnel, from the elevator(In other words, as soon as you exit the elevator, head forward just alil bit, until you reach the intersection, then make a left.), and once you make your way to the open cave area, where you will see tents and etc, follow the left-hand wall, until you come to the second tunnel entrance, and enter that, and follow it until you come to where there are Drakkin researchers and etc in there, and across the cave area, there will be a big stone statue looking guy, standing in-front of the doorway you have to go through, now, as long as you are invisible, and click on the door, it will not remove your invisibility, you have to go through that doorway, and you will see a large bright glowing blue crystal formation in the center of the room, then you go up to it, or on it, does not matter, and right-click the shard you have looted, which will put in your cursor, the new whiter shard, that is a no drop piece, that will always stay with you, and you may place it in your bank, and it will still work, just do not have to have it on your character's, to be able to enter the lower part of the Vergalid Mines! Also, when you do right-click on it, it will remove your invisibility, BUT, nothing around will aggro you, as long as you stick next to the blue crystal formation! Hope this helps anyone!

If you're in a Fellowship, you only need one key. Only the person who puts down the campfire needs to click through.

Finally got my shard.

Took a coupls of days.

Dropped from a mob by the entrance. You don't have to go anywhere in the zone, just fight the first guys you see.

Ran over to the blue crystal ( North West area ) and clicked my shard to get a second crystal/shard. Easy. Don't forget to invis.

I can confirm that you need to keep Shard in your inventory whenever you want to enter the ancient Ruins. My alt couldn't enter to rez himself caus he didn't have this shard anymore on him.
None ( necromancer 75, The Rathe )

More importantly, does the Flawless Indicolite Shard need to be kept in inventory whenever I want to enter the ancient ruins, or is it enough to have it in the bank after entering the first time. It does not appear on /key.

Got 4 shards in about 2 hours clearing the tunnels right before the sentinel/green legion rooms.

I think the quest is busted. The mobs who drop the arid shard aren't dropping for some reason. Maybe its just me but I killing for 9 hours with my box team.
Not off and on, die and rez, this was 9 hours of fully DPoB+ geared chars completely destroying the zone 8-15 mobs at a time. So no exageration on the timing. I tried again the following morning with my box team and still, 5 hours in, not 1 single drop arid shard drop.

Anyone else having luck?

No the whole group cannot go in. Each toon must have a shard or coth or corpse drag.

Edited, Nov 21st 2006 3:01pm by jartok

We just clicked on our crystals to get the Falwless Indicolite Shard at loc p868 n1595. The sentinels in the room didn't aggro.