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Dwinn #8: A Working Crystal
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This is the eighth of nine tasks in a quest arc for a +25 Purity augmentation. It begins with Dwinn Axeheaver who can be found in the Loping Plains in the Fang Breakers camp near the zone-in from the Steamfont Mountains at -1407, -3264. You are assigned this task automatically upon completing the previous one.
You have been assigned the task 'A Working Crystal' Return to Kassaillia and ask her about the rituals You say, 'Hail, Kassailla Flameleaf' Kassailla Flameleaf says 'I'm glad you're still looking into this _____. As a matter of fact I have seen another ritual similar to the one we saw out on the island. I left the area quickly though so did not see much of what was occurring there. If you visit the crypt in the graveyard at night you may be able to catch the orcs using these crystals. You'll want to make sure they have what you're after before attacking, or else you may miss out on your only opportunity to retrieve a fully powered crystal.' Obtain a fully charged crystal from the ritual in the crypt The event including High Shaman Nirvag spawns at +860 +3840 +401. Location for your in game map file: P -3820.6194, -867.4306, 398.0454, 240, 0, 0, 3, High_Shaman_Nivag Spawn time is 7pm each game night and despawn time is 5am. A lost soul appears. High Shaman Nivag says "Begin the ritual. We must get this crystal charged for the prophet or it will mean our heads!" A lost soul disappears in a dark flash. High Shaman Nivag says "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!" Kill Nirvag first at his spawnpoint while adds are kited, rooted, or offtanked (may be mezzable). Loot the Humming Black Shard from Nirvag. If you drag Nirvag away from his spawnpoint he may not drop the shards. You must kill him before 5am, otherwise he may despawn. Return the Humming Black crystal to Dwinn Dwinn Axeheaver stares intently at the crystal for several moments. 'This crystal is overflowing with terror and grief. You can feel the cries of souls trapped within it. The souls captured within these crystals must be what is boosting the power of these orcs spells. This cannot be tolerated. We must find the leader of these orcs and put a stop to this practice. Perhaps we can use this crystal as a [lure] for one of the higher ranking orcs. Completion of this task leads into a ninth and final task in the series. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I went through this task recently for the hero achievement. It works fine. The mobs will spawn as posted in the graveyard. Before they spawn the undead in that immediate area will despawn so you don't have to worry about them. The only way to get the emote working is to have some one that has the task run up to the named mob while invisible. This will trigger the emote stuff. As already posted he will mention when the ritual is complete and talks about returning to the keep. Kill him at this point. He drops 1 stone only. So if your boxing this in my case 4 boxing this you will have to do this over again. Only one spawn a night. I went each night around 7pm game time and just waited. At least once he spawned at 8pm game time and another time i had to wait until 1am game time. The other 2 times i showed up he was already spawned. This was after 12am game time. Hard to believe so many people had problems with this task and didn't figure out they had to actually have the task and go up to the named mob to see the emotes. Though knowing SOE it may really have been broken at the time of those posts.
spawn time was 1 AM
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I've been through 8 or 9 spawns of this guy and he has yet to give his emote. Any suggestions? I'm tired of waiting an hour between spawns
Scholar
23 posts
Shaman, 4 acolytes and 3 lost souls spawned at approx 1am game time.
Shaman and acolytes stood around and watched the lost souls randomly wander around until approx 5am game time when everything despawned.
No emote at all.
Repeated quest, same result.
Killed shaman and acolytes, no Humming Black Crystal of course.
Ang.
Shaman and acolytes stood around and watched the lost souls randomly wander around until approx 5am game time when everything despawned.
No emote at all.
Repeated quest, same result.
Killed shaman and acolytes, no Humming Black Crystal of course.
Ang.
It didnt spawn for e until 12am game time.
31 posts
spawned for me also at 12:00 am. I pulled and killed the 4 adds, then invised up and went in to him, he spit out the emote and poof disappeared. The time was about 4am.
P -3820.6194, -867.4306, 398.0454, 240, 0, 0, 3, High_Shaman_Nivag
map file name: lopingplains
Got quest then hailed Kassailla Flameleaf after 7pm gametime (didn't read quest info entirely), High Shaman Nivag didn't spawn until 12am and didn't drop the crystal. Waited for next spawn which again didn't pop until 12am, no crystal dropped again. Finally read information further then dropped quest and got a new one (hail Dwinn) then went and hailed Kassailla Flameleaf. High Shaman Nivag spawned at 7pm and even though he walked pretty far away from his spawn point once low health and before I could kill thim, he did indeed drop the crystal.
Edited, Sep 2nd 2009 2:04am by Jyyn
map file name: lopingplains
Got quest then hailed Kassailla Flameleaf after 7pm gametime (didn't read quest info entirely), High Shaman Nivag didn't spawn until 12am and didn't drop the crystal. Waited for next spawn which again didn't pop until 12am, no crystal dropped again. Finally read information further then dropped quest and got a new one (hail Dwinn) then went and hailed Kassailla Flameleaf. High Shaman Nivag spawned at 7pm and even though he walked pretty far away from his spawn point once low health and before I could kill thim, he did indeed drop the crystal.
Edited, Sep 2nd 2009 2:04am by Jyyn
This task is super irritating. I've got the high shaman to spawn 3 times now, once he just depopped, 2nd time i couldn't get him to start the ritual, and 3rd time he did everything and I got the right messages and he didn't drop the crystal. Each time you have to wait over an hour to do it again.
Make sure when you kill him you keep him very close to his spawn point, I'm guessing the last time I killed him he was just too far away. I don't understand why they make quests like this.
Make sure when you kill him you keep him very close to his spawn point, I'm guessing the last time I killed him he was just too far away. I don't understand why they make quests like this.
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As of this date (6-27-09) this event is still @#%^ed up. Popped only at 1am, no emotes, poofed at 5am
Dropped task as suggested, renewed task, hailed Kassailla for update, ..no pop at 7pm...yet another pop at 1 AM.
Waited till 3 am...no emotes..no nothing again, killed High Shaman Nivag..no drop.
Nice of Sony to wait until step 8 out of 9 to bug the quest, now that hours have been put into it. I guess it could have been worse...they could have waited until step 9 to piss me off.
Dihrt
Edit 6-28:
Two more attempts: 1. As always he pops at 1 am, never at 7PM. This time he finally gave message that "the crystal is fully cahrged blah, blah, blah"
I rooted him at his spot, took adds away and AE rooted them, went back and killed him....No crystal.
2. I went afk and came back 2 eq days later, waited for pop. He pops...at 1 am, no emotes, I wait until 4am and kill him at his spot...no crystal.
On none of the 4 atempts has he ever used the first emote, and only one time did he emote having the crystal...(of course he lied as he didnt have it on him after I killed him).
On all attempts I have approached him, sat at his feet and run circles around him to "trigger" the event.
So...I will get a new task and try it again, as evidently you need to renew this task to even have a chance of him emoting about having the crystal.
Edited, Jun 28th 2009 3:43pm by dirht
Edit 6-29:
Today's first attempt...same crap...no 7PM pop, just the 1AM pop. I invis to him, he never emotes anything, I wait till a couple minutes past the 4AM point and kill him....no crystal.
I spend about an hour doing a petition on this BS event, I hit continue on petition...says...you fail...forgot catagory...hit the back button....there aint no friggin back button on there dumbass petition window and my normal back button for browsers is on my mouse #5 button, which, of course, Sony doesnt recognize. So...now I'm even more pissed than ever. I check Norrath time and its about 6pm, so I head back over to event area. I get there and lookie there! The event has popped. Not at 1 AM this time. I invis up to him, he immediatly does emote number one. After he catches about 3 souls, he does emote number 2. I root him at his spot, drag adds off and ae root them, go back and kill him and ...finally...the needed item drops.
So...I still have no idea on how to offer any useful advice on completing this part of the quest other than it requires blind luck.
Edited, Jun 29th 2009 10:33am by dirht
Edited, Jun 29th 2009 4:34pm by dirht
Dropped task as suggested, renewed task, hailed Kassailla for update, ..no pop at 7pm...yet another pop at 1 AM.
Waited till 3 am...no emotes..no nothing again, killed High Shaman Nivag..no drop.
Nice of Sony to wait until step 8 out of 9 to bug the quest, now that hours have been put into it. I guess it could have been worse...they could have waited until step 9 to piss me off.
Dihrt
Edit 6-28:
Two more attempts: 1. As always he pops at 1 am, never at 7PM. This time he finally gave message that "the crystal is fully cahrged blah, blah, blah"
I rooted him at his spot, took adds away and AE rooted them, went back and killed him....No crystal.
2. I went afk and came back 2 eq days later, waited for pop. He pops...at 1 am, no emotes, I wait until 4am and kill him at his spot...no crystal.
On none of the 4 atempts has he ever used the first emote, and only one time did he emote having the crystal...(of course he lied as he didnt have it on him after I killed him).
On all attempts I have approached him, sat at his feet and run circles around him to "trigger" the event.
So...I will get a new task and try it again, as evidently you need to renew this task to even have a chance of him emoting about having the crystal.
Edited, Jun 28th 2009 3:43pm by dirht
Edit 6-29:
Today's first attempt...same crap...no 7PM pop, just the 1AM pop. I invis to him, he never emotes anything, I wait till a couple minutes past the 4AM point and kill him....no crystal.
I spend about an hour doing a petition on this BS event, I hit continue on petition...says...you fail...forgot catagory...hit the back button....there aint no friggin back button on there dumbass petition window and my normal back button for browsers is on my mouse #5 button, which, of course, Sony doesnt recognize. So...now I'm even more pissed than ever. I check Norrath time and its about 6pm, so I head back over to event area. I get there and lookie there! The event has popped. Not at 1 AM this time. I invis up to him, he immediatly does emote number one. After he catches about 3 souls, he does emote number 2. I root him at his spot, drag adds off and ae root them, go back and kill him and ...finally...the needed item drops.
So...I still have no idea on how to offer any useful advice on completing this part of the quest other than it requires blind luck.
Edited, Jun 29th 2009 10:33am by dirht
Edited, Jun 29th 2009 4:34pm by dirht
Invis up and approach the shammy (use normal invis). This will trigger the event. Wait for the emote telling you it is fully charged and then attack. Shammy drops ONLY 1 crystal.
* If you do not approach the middle of the ritual taking place it will never progress to the point where you get the emote so you may then loot. Also do not kill the Shammy before you get the emote or you will once again not get the crystal you are seeking.
Edited, Jun 2nd 2009 7:04pm by tripodvi
* If you do not approach the middle of the ritual taking place it will never progress to the point where you get the emote so you may then loot. Also do not kill the Shammy before you get the emote or you will once again not get the crystal you are seeking.
Edited, Jun 2nd 2009 7:04pm by tripodvi
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster.
And when you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you.
Just another guild video - click to view
in the process he does not become a monster.
And when you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you.
Just another guild video - click to view
Found that if the person with the task, walks into the center of the ceramony invised, you will get the emote.
If you don't wait for this emote, High Shaman will not drop the crystal... Then you get to wait another 24 game hrs :(
Named is rootable/snareable, which I wish I had realized early on; I got him low health and didn't even see him start to walk away with the other mobs on top of my head.
Additionally, killing an add (acolyte) causes another to instantly respawn, so don't waste your time trying to get the adds dead first if you go solo as I did.
Additionally, killing an add (acolyte) causes another to instantly respawn, so don't waste your time trying to get the adds dead first if you go solo as I did.
A guildie and I were both working on this quest, except I've had mine open and at this stage for some time. When we killed the namer, though, he only dropped one Crystal.
If more than one person is doing this, I suggest all of them drop the quest if they have it, and reacquire it from Dwinn. If that doesn't work, then maybe it's just been changed. I don't see how we could have done anything wrong...we fought him right on his spawn point and he never ran more than a couple feet in any direction.
If more than one person is doing this, I suggest all of them drop the quest if they have it, and reacquire it from Dwinn. If that doesn't work, then maybe it's just been changed. I don't see how we could have done anything wrong...we fought him right on his spawn point and he never ran more than a couple feet in any direction.
Scholar
45 posts
A few additional notes:
It seems that hailing Kassaillia causes the next shaman/orc/lost souls spawn to appear at 7PM instead of 1AM. Otherwise they just spawn at 1AM and you will see the first message, but never see the second. I saw this several times, until I decided to start the task over and redo the Kassaillia hail.
If you miss the 7PM-1AM initial spawn window, you can remove yourself from the task and get it again from Dwinn by just hailing him.
I waited until 1AM to agro the orcs. When I agroed them, the 2nd message "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!" appeared immediately. Killed the shaman only, and died to the other orcs. I ran back to loot his corpse and the crystal was on him.
It seems that hailing Kassaillia causes the next shaman/orc/lost souls spawn to appear at 7PM instead of 1AM. Otherwise they just spawn at 1AM and you will see the first message, but never see the second. I saw this several times, until I decided to start the task over and redo the Kassaillia hail.
If you miss the 7PM-1AM initial spawn window, you can remove yourself from the task and get it again from Dwinn by just hailing him.
I waited until 1AM to agro the orcs. When I agroed them, the 2nd message "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!" appeared immediately. Killed the shaman only, and died to the other orcs. I ran back to loot his corpse and the crystal was on him.
6 posts
For those of you /loc challenged like myself and prefer landmarks , the spawn point is near HoS zoneline, graveyard on the left(if heading to HoS) , the absoloute back of the graveyard.
I confirmed spawn time is 1am game time and despawn time is 5am game time. High Shaman Nirvag spawns in the middle of 4 even con orc and it is a yellow con named at 80. I saw no scripting emotes whatsoever , so am assuming can be attacked right away. Clear any skellies that may be roaming prior to spawn helps. The 3 lost souls that also spawned did not desapwn at any point in time accept at 5 am , that is when everything despawned.
I confirmed spawn time is 1am game time and despawn time is 5am game time. High Shaman Nirvag spawns in the middle of 4 even con orc and it is a yellow con named at 80. I saw no scripting emotes whatsoever , so am assuming can be attacked right away. Clear any skellies that may be roaming prior to spawn helps. The 3 lost souls that also spawned did not desapwn at any point in time accept at 5 am , that is when everything despawned.
This event now spawns at 1:00 am gametime in most cases.
The mobs are inactive until they go through a chanting script. During the script, the named captures the three lost soul sprit mobs inside a crystal. Once all three are gone, the named and his four orc guards become active.
Don't kite him too far or the lost spirits escape from the crystal and he drops nothing but air when killed.
The mobs are inactive until they go through a chanting script. During the script, the named captures the three lost soul sprit mobs inside a crystal. Once all three are gone, the named and his four orc guards become active.
Don't kite him too far or the lost spirits escape from the crystal and he drops nothing but air when killed.
Weemage
Nothing at all spawned at seven, nothing spawned until 1am. The shaman, the four adds, and a few ghosts spawned. The shaman gave his first message, but never the second one about 'the crystal is fully charged now.' Waited as long as we could for the second message, but it never came, and when we decided to just go for it, we didn't get him dead before 5pm and they all despawned.
Hooray for bugged events.
Hooray for bugged events.
34 posts
This event does spawn at 7 pm game time.Once it starts you must wait until 1 pm and at this point you will see the named say some text-High Shaman Nivag says "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!" Now you are ready to kill the named while you cc adds.If you try and kill the named before you see the text he will not drop a crystal.
You say, 'Hail, Kassailla Flameleaf'
Kassailla Flameleaf says 'I'm glad you're still looking into this Bozacks. As a matter of fact I have seen another ritual similar to the one we saw out on the island. I left the area quickly though so did not see much of what was occurring there. If you visit the crypt in the graveyard at night you may be able to catch the orcs using these crystals. You'll want to make sure they have what you're after before attacking, or else you may miss out on your only opportunity to retrieve a fully powered crystal.'
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on turn-in
Dwinn Axeheaver stares intently at the crystal for several moments. 'This crystal is overflowing with terror and grief. You can feel the cries of souls trapped within it. The souls captured within these crystals must be what is boosting the power of these orcs spells. This cannot be tolerated. We must find the leader of these orcs and put a stop to this practice. Perhaps we can use this crystal as a [lure] for one of the higher ranking orcs.'
Kassailla Flameleaf says 'I'm glad you're still looking into this Bozacks. As a matter of fact I have seen another ritual similar to the one we saw out on the island. I left the area quickly though so did not see much of what was occurring there. If you visit the crypt in the graveyard at night you may be able to catch the orcs using these crystals. You'll want to make sure they have what you're after before attacking, or else you may miss out on your only opportunity to retrieve a fully powered crystal.'
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on turn-in
Dwinn Axeheaver stares intently at the crystal for several moments. 'This crystal is overflowing with terror and grief. You can feel the cries of souls trapped within it. The souls captured within these crystals must be what is boosting the power of these orcs spells. This cannot be tolerated. We must find the leader of these orcs and put a stop to this practice. Perhaps we can use this crystal as a [lure] for one of the higher ranking orcs.'
Nirvag spawns at p860 p3840 p401. Kill him first at spawn. kite, root or offtank adds. They might be mezzable. Dragged him down to road twice and he did not drop crystals.
Edited, Feb 9th 2008 7:06pm by twoma
Edited, Feb 9th 2008 7:06pm by twoma
Scholar
23 posts
Event spawns 7pm, despawns 5am.
Invis, watch event begin, you will see a lost despawn, accompanied by the following text:
High Shaman Nivag says "Begin the ritual. We must get this crystal charged for the prophet or it will mean our heads!"
A lost soul disappears in a dark flash.
High Shaman Nivag says "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!"
At this point the charged crystal can be looted from High Shaman Nivag. Dropped 2 for us, along with a rk2 spell. Killed him near the HoS zoneline, and did not see the prophet in either hit.
Update:
A second attempt tonite, no spawn from 7-12, it did however spawn at 1am. It dropped a single part. The Lost Soul mobs stayed up through the day. My first attempt, which began at 7pm, the Lost Souls were also up. Perhaps the event starts at 1am, but if the Lost Souls are spawned, due to a wipe perhaps, they remain active and the event spawns earlier? Still unsure about the multiple drops.
Edited, Jan 30th 2008 5:53am by ironhands
Invis, watch event begin, you will see a lost despawn, accompanied by the following text:
High Shaman Nivag says "Begin the ritual. We must get this crystal charged for the prophet or it will mean our heads!"
A lost soul disappears in a dark flash.
High Shaman Nivag says "Excellent, the crystal is fully charged now. We must make haste back to the keep!"
At this point the charged crystal can be looted from High Shaman Nivag. Dropped 2 for us, along with a rk2 spell. Killed him near the HoS zoneline, and did not see the prophet in either hit.
Update:
A second attempt tonite, no spawn from 7-12, it did however spawn at 1am. It dropped a single part. The Lost Soul mobs stayed up through the day. My first attempt, which began at 7pm, the Lost Souls were also up. Perhaps the event starts at 1am, but if the Lost Souls are spawned, due to a wipe perhaps, they remain active and the event spawns earlier? Still unsure about the multiple drops.
Edited, Jan 30th 2008 5:53am by ironhands