Valthun #2: Testing the Invaders  

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This is the second task in a series of five. Its purpose is to update a step in a grand task, 'The Invasion of the Defilers'. After finishing the first task, 'Seeking Amber', you can request this task from Valthun Woodswatcher in the Kirathas village of the Hills of Shade.


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Valthun Woodswatcher says 'I am pleased that she is happy, and very angry with her for risking her life with such foolishness. There is little point to being happy if doing so gets you killed. If she is indeed headed home as she said, then it is not too soon. We have sent scouts to investigate the strangers to the north east. They would certainly welcome your assistance. See if you can catch up to them and lend them aid. Be warned, our scouts will not be easy to locate. Head out of Kirathas by the eastern path and see the scouts that guard that path, they will send you onward.'

Catch up with the scouts en route to the human's encampment (0/1) - Hills of Shade

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Location: +434, +1323, +55
a Kirathas scout says 'Ah, good, Valthun is sending assistance. From here you should head a bit more easterly and check in with the next rearguard. She will be hidden just off the road.'

Location: +440, +175, +60
You say, 'Hail, a Kirathas scout'
a Kirathas scout says 'Hail. You'll have to leave the path now. Head north from here and keep your eyes open. You will need to find the next scout before approaching Aldin.'

Location: +775, -15, +33
You say, 'Hail, a Kirathas scout'
a Kirathas scout says 'We have told Aldin of your coming. He will be waiting for you just north of here. Seek him carefully, for he will be well hidden. You also must stay out of sight of the invader village.'

Location: +927, +58, +56
You say, 'Hail, Scout Leader Aldin'
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.
Scout Leader Aldin says 'Good, you're here. We need you to take a closer look at these intruders and find out what they've been up to. Slip into their village and find out about their nature and temperament. Make sure to inspect their docks and dwellings

Locate the seat of their leadership (0/1) - Hills of Shade

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Location: +999, -400, +29
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.
This appears to be where their leaders meet. Aldin will want to know the location of this building.

Find their social centers (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +1303, -270, +29
From the look of the place this is where the Humans gather to socialize. This could be important strategic information.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Find their social centers (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +1429, -584, +29
From the look of the place this is where the Humans gather to socialize. This could be important strategic information.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Find their supply control centers (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +1242, -101, +29
It seems that this is where their supplies are distributed and inventoried. If Aldin wanted to strike the Humans, this might be a good place to start.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Find their supply control centers (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +1482, -521, +29
It seems that this is where their supplies are distributed and inventoried. If Aldin wanted to strike the Humans, this might be a good place to start.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Investigate their docks (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +1816, -394, +22
This dock is sturdy if not elegantly built. It could accommodate a rather large ship, based on its height above the water.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Investigate their docks (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Location: +1817, -118, +27
This dock is sturdy if not elegantly built. It could accommodate a rather large ship, based on its height above the water.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Investigate their docks (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Location: +1834, -627, +26
This dock is sturdy if not elegantly built. It could accommodate a rather large ship, based on its height above the water.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Get a good look at their ships (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Location: +3000, +62, +15
These ships appear to be worthless and inhabited by spirits of fire. It seems unlikely that Aldin needs to fear them. But then you are not sure that you are seeing things the way these Elves do. You can certainly picture this ship when it was undamaged, and it would have been an impressive thing.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Get a good look at their ships (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Location: +2719, +138, +12
These ships appear to be worthless and inhabited by spirits of fire. It seems unlikely that Aldin needs to fear them. But then you are not sure that you are seeing things the way these Elves do. You can certainly picture this ship when it was undamaged, and it would have been an impressive thing.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Get a good look at their ships (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Location: +2383, +116, +31
These ships appear to be worthless and inhabited by spirits of fire. It seems unlikely that Aldin needs to fear them. But then you are not sure that you are seeing things the way these Elves do. You can certainly picture this ship when it was undamaged, and it would have been an impressive thing.
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Speak with Aldin (0/1) - Hills of Shade
You say, 'Hail, Scout Leader Aldin'
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.
Scout Leader Aldin says 'Do you mean to say that they are cutting down the forest and sweeping the fish from the sea? They intend to ruin our lands! We must [stop them]!'
You say, 'stop them'
Scout Leader Aldin says 'These strangers have obviously ruined their own lands. We can't let them ruin ours. Take this torch and burn their sea vessels!'

You receive "Firebrand" on your cursor.

Burn their boat (0/1) - Hills of Shade

Location: +2770, +127, +37
After some time, multiple "a sailor" spawn. Kill them until the task updates.
You see the fires fade out from this time and somehow become eternal, caught in the curse of this place.

Return firebrand to Aldin (0/1) - Hills of Shade
Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.
Scout Leader Aldin says 'That will show them! They must be taught that invading our lands is foolish! You have earned a rest. Head back to the village and tell Valthun what you have accomplished.'

Speak to Valthun (0/1) - Hills of Shade

You say, 'Hail, Valthun Woodswatcher'

Your task 'Testing the Invaders' has been updated.

Your task 'The Invasion of the Defilers' has been updated.

Valthun appears grateful for you assistance, but is obviously distracted by recent events.

You have been assigned the task 'Defiling the Defilers'.

Valthun Woodswatcher says 'You've done well, but their viciousness knows no bounds. The town is still recovering from the attack. We hoped that the destruction of their boats would frighten them off, but only served to bring out their violent nature. We won't live in fear. We must strike them now! Go forth and bring death to the defilers!'

This completes this sub-task and updates a step in the grand task, 'The Invasion of the Defilers'. The next task in the series, 'Defile the Defilers', begins automatically.

how u give the firebrand back the trade window doesn't open up!

how u return the firebrand trade window doesn't open

Hills of Shade - Testing the Invaders

I posted this on eqclerics so I thought I would post it here.

I've been working on this quest line and just to give you all some info on how to handle the Blackwater lookouts, here is how our group did it. We had a bard doing the pulling and we all had the Blackwater mask on. We figured out where all the updates were at. There are 5 areas in the Blackwater camp with updates. We setup on the south side of the village where the leadership update is (Southern most building) and pulled all lookouts near that area, move around that building on the east side and got the update from it, then moved up northeast to the 2 buildings where Fendel and supply is. Pulled outlooks there and ran in to get updates again.

Then moved around to northwest side of village to the other round hut near the next building to get update, pulled all lookouts and had people go in one at a time to get their updates. Finally moved to other round building on west side to get that update.

Just some tips for those who haven't done this one, use IVU if you don't use the blackwater masks. The lookouts will see through your mask and will attack you, anything near the lookouts will assist so make sure to pull just the lookouts cause if you pull any blackwater residents with a lookout, it will wipe your quest progression out on this task. And I mean ALL of it.

To easily get the updates in the Blackwater camp buy a Black water mask. The lookouts wont even bother you. I'm not sure if you need IVU for this, but I had group IVU when I did this. I tried for about a hour to do with with the Kirathas mask but kept loosing updates, those lookouts are sneaky! So I said to heck with it and tried swapping out masks knowing there was no way that this would work but hey, it DID! SO buy the Blackwater mask from the mysterious stranger after you get the scout updates to make this task MUCH easier. Make sure to swap out masks BEFORE you hail the Scout Leader however.

Edited, Sep 9th 2009 12:27pm by Knightmare

You will have to do the burn the boat once for each person with the task.

Thanks sony.

yup doughnut u nubzor, u got pos and neg backwards, please get ur stuff str8 before u post

hey doughnut n00b dude, some of those locs dont even exist, please keep ur n00by BS post off this site

These are the correct update locations for this task. If you die, zone, evac or agro a blackwater lookout most or all of the scout updates will reset and you will have to start over. To get my updates I killed most of the blackwater lookouts 1st then ran around with IVU getting the first 8 updates. There are no blackwater lookouts near the ship locations. Dodging or distracting the blackwater lookouts may also work. While you are on the scout portion of this task the blackwater lookouts will agro you regardless of having IVU up or the faction modifier mask equiped. After getting all the scout updates and speaking with Aldin the blackwater lookouts will no longer agro in a manner beyond regular undead mob behaviour.

P 414.2, -990.1, 25.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Locate_the_seat_of_thier_leadership
P 587.3, -1446.3, 25.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Find_their_social_centers
P 262.5, -1334.3, 25.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Find_their_social_centers
P 100.7, -1238.8, 25.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Find_their_supply_control_centers
P 504.0, -1461.1, 25.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Find_their_supply_control_centers
P 164.5, -1820.2, 23.0, 0, 127, 0, 3, Investigate_the_docks
P 396.3, -1822.5, 18.6, 0, 127, 0, 3, Investigate_the_docks
P 632.6, -1833.9, 22.2, 0, 127, 0, 3, Investigate_the_docks
P -201.7, -2443.6, 9.3, 0, 127, 0, 3, Get_a_good_look_at_their_ships
P -123.9, -2807.8, 37.9, 0, 127, 0, 3, Get_a_good_look_at_their_ships
P -42.6, -2986.6, 11.8, 0, 127, 0, 3, Get_a_good_look_at_their_ships

These locs can be inserted dirrectly into the hillsofshade_1.txt file in the maps folder.

Two of the ship updates are 2732.41, 239.43, 0.00 and 3036.90, -4.26, 0.00

Locate the seat of their leadership 992 -421 30
Find their social centers 1305 -261 30
Find their social centers 1440 -580 30
Find their supply control centers 1470 -500 30
Find their supply control centers 1253 -92 34

Once you get all the areas checked off then is when your troubles begin. You are given a torch and told to light their boat on fire. The boat has about 10 spirit of flames on it they dont see through invis. Once you light the fire if your not careful you will take about 5000 dmg. from a mystical flame. Also your invis has wore off so you are now aggro in the middle of about 10 mobs. You can use fading memories to drop aggro if you are a bard (which I did). About 5 minutes pass then you receive a huge lag spike and 4 sailors spawn out of the air and immediately aggro you. They hit me in the 1800s and stun ALOT (Lvl 80 bard max shielding avoidance and well over 4000 ac). They also cast a spell called balance of the nameless. I ran and faded. Agrro dropped for about half a second then I was aggro again. I tried to kite the mobs. That didnt work they warp all over the place. Usually they will drop a few 1000 dmg on you then warp away. About 5 minutes later the fire spreads and 2 blazing fires spawn and a couple more sailors. The sailors have buckets and emote things like let me put out the fire etc. I survived the chaos and the sailors and fires despawned and I got no quest update. I guess I failed. I am guessing you need to kill the sailors and let the fire keep spreading. I honestly dont know since I didnt get that far. I was under the impression it could be soloed there is no way possible. In my opinion you are going to need at least one group of extremely uber people. I write this as a warning to people who are considering soloing this dont waste your time. The part before this is nervewracking enough and this part is just plain silly. Its sad I thought this would be a fun little quest for a nice aug I guess I was wrong it just turned into a waste of alot of time.

Catch up with the scouts en route to the human's encampment

Ok, how the heck did anybody get this part done....mobs, mobs, and more mobs! :(

Valthun Woodswatcher says 'I am pleased that she is happy, and very angry with her for risking her life with such foolishness. There is little point to being happy if doing so gets you killed. If she is indeed headed home as she said, then it is not too soon. We have sent scouts to investigate the strangers to the north east. They would certainly welcome your assistance. See if you can catch up to them and lend them aid. Be warned, our scouts will not be easy to locate. Head out of Kirathas by the eastern path and see the scouts that guard that path, they will send you onward.'

if you get aggro you lose all updates, although the the lastest update usually goes thru. and if you try and get them while aggro, the updates will reset periodically, so the only way to do it is to not get aggro. i know, its a PITA, but keep at it. the rest of the updates/quests are cake

some people say if you lev over the update spots and drop down without touching the ground, you can avoid aggro

some people say if youre fast you can avoid aggro

some people say if you wait for the roamers to path away you can avoid aggro

after several deaths and a few stacks of lev and ivu pots, a couple mana bars worth of fading memories and tens of thousands of hitpoints lost, and an angry mob of villagers, i can give you the answer: LUCK!

just keep at it. and heres a protip: save the boat updates for last but dont forget to normal invis!