Oh wellm even thought it can be cast from inventory by a Wizzy, it cant be a necro. SO much for consistancy from Sony.

Ok I am going to vent here a sec....I subscribe for this site...this is an old quest but still worth doing in my opinion and in the opinion of several lvl 70 wiz's I know...why is there no dialog, there is no information on this this other than what is recieved in posts.. I have been finding this more and more as a person who likes to quests...is there a better site that is kept more up to date? I will happily drop this one and join the other if it has updated information.

Thanks

After reading previous post on this quest, about MQ'ing, decided to try. Brought in my 50 ranger to collect the 2 hearts, and rod of bone. Had my 32 wizzy get the staff of ro. Talked to Garden with wizzy to start quest. Then brought in ranger to give hearts and rod to Gardern. He said something to the effect that he does'nt do things half way. Then brought on wizzy to give him staff. Once again the speech about not doing things half way. He took everything, and returned nothing. When I re-hailed Gardern, he started quest all over.
Not sure what I did wrong, but took 5 hours to get stuff, only to loose it in an instant. Would like to hear any advice as to why this did'nt work.

My wizzy uses this every day she kites. No other item compares to the ease of use and the ease of obtaining this item. I MQ'd it for my wizzie at level 1. Used it every day, my main is a monk so even as a wizzy i sometimes pull for a group, how often u see the wizard pulling?
Great item, worth every minute campin the hearts.

I MQ'ed this for my lvl 29 wizzy with my lvl 65 cleric. I turned in the 2 hearts with the cleric and was disappointed to read the line that " We do not belive in half measures." pop up. I was like CRAP! there goes 5 hours of camping for nothing because he took both hearts. I figured what the hech, nothing to lose by trying so I logged off the cleric on to the wizzy. I turned in the Rod of bone and got the same message. I crossed my fingers and turned in the staff and POOF! it worked.

Just did this quest last night with a friend (39th Wizard and my 40th Druid). The Druid made finding the two wizard types extremely easy and really saved us quite a bit of wandering or camping. Just followed the track and looked at the map until we found the wizards. Only one of the wizards in Perma didn't drop the heart (had my 32nd Wizard along to do the quest twice). This was almost a necessity since there wasn't anyone else even in Permafrost when we got there. Use invis until you're ready to fight because although all the gobbies were green, they still aggro'd us at our levels. Of course, always OOC when you first enter the zone just in case someone can save you some time. GL :)

Would just like to comment like others I had no problem getting the rod of bone, as far as the heart of fire, a group let me loot it, they killed the wizard in the throne room. The heart of frost was harder though. /ooc many times offering a 100pp to loot it. I camped the preacher room where I was told they spawn. 8 hours about to give up hope a wizard finally spawned and I finished the quest. I guess the good thing is that I killed the preacher 4 times getting 2 runed circlets. Just thought I would give my 2 cents worth

Brodicius Maximious
43 Wizard
Bertox

Well, I must have gotten very lucky with this quest. I had never done any other quests, so this seemed like a good place to start.

I bought the Lambent stone in the bazaar, and turned it in for the Staff of Ro.

Went to Lake Rathe, and I got the Rod of Bone on my first kill. Easy kill.

Traveled to Permafrost, and there was one other player in the zone. I didn't go very far in and I saw this player fighting with the Wizard. He was getting beat, so I nuked the Wizard and killed it easily. He looted it, and I asked him to /tell me if he got a Heart of Frost (I would give him some PP for the loot.) He tells me "this one has a heart on it." I looked down...turns out he didn't take the heart! Woohoo! I paid him (a deal is a deal) and gated out.

I then went to Sol A. I was a little worried as it seems a lot of people die there. Luckily, I met up with a Lev 48 SK, who guided me to the bar area. Unfortunately, my invis dropped, and I was attacked by a bunch of goblins. I gated out, and went to med in the Nek forest. While I was there, I saw that one of my guild mates was on. I picked him up in OT, and we went to Sol A. We only went in to the first "gated" area, and there were 2 Wizards. I was surprised because, when I was there before, they were Shamans. I guess the spawn changed. I rooted one, and we killed the first Wizard. Then we finished off the second. BOTH dropped the heart.

Off to the Temple, where I turned it all in for the Staff. It is very cool, and it does lower the resists by quite a bit. Good pulling device too.

Total time: est. 2 1/2 hours. Most of it was traveling time. I think it helped that I was not KOS to a lot of the areas.

Perhaps, I just got lucky, but this quest wasn't incredibly hard. I am a level 36 Wiz, and I was doing pretty well on my own. Having my level 46 Warrior friend help me out was cool, but he was really there just to clear the trash in Sol A. I think he killed 4 goblins total. Invis works fine against the regular goblin guys...just NOT the Wizards, and Shamans.

Get to know the "safe" areas of Sol A. It really helps when you need to med.

BTW- I got almost no aggro from mobs that surrounded the Wizards in Sol A or Permafrost. Using root on one mob while you nuke the other, is a good tactic also. Root one, pull the other out so that the rooted one can't see you/cast on you.

Good luck!

-Maldarr
Level 36 DE Wizard
Fennin Ro

Edited, Fri Aug 30 08:33:51 2002

Just looted one from a regular goblin wizard. It was near the Jails (location 9). Actually it was just past the jails. Took about 20 minutes, tops.

-Vaash

where do the wizards spawn in pema??

It took me about 5 hours to do this quest. 31 wizard and 40 bard did it all.
Total deaths = about 5 each
Ice goblins killed = about 5, last had heart near the icy goblin camp
Fire goblins killed = 1, i got lucky on this one, he spawned near the drunkard's room
stone skeletons killed = 4, last one had it
bought the lambent stone off the merchants in NK cuz i had to stop by and get the concordance thingie anyway.

the reason i died so much is cuz of those stupid evils, i play on sullon zek and they own sola, so i kept getting trained and killed. not much fun otherwise i woulda had the fire heart sooner ;P

Tips: get 40+ for sola and permafrost, it helps to be able to single pull...

I musta killed 10 Goblin Wizards in Perma today and none droped the heart. im a 40 wiz and it took me 30 mins to get the Heart of Fire in SOL A. In my opinion the Heart of Frost is the most difficult because of the rarity of the Gob Wizards.

PS: However i did get 2 runed circlets )

This staff does work from inventory, but for WIZARDS ONLY! Monks, get over it. It will NOT WORK for you. I went to the trouble of doing the quest, and clicked the staff while it was in a main inventory slot. Not useable by your race/diety/class

I just heard how nice the staff is today, and reading up on it, I realized I knew something about it already 'cause I saved a heart of fire a while ago. :)

Anyway, I love SolA...I've spent many many hours there. The inferno gob wiz can spawn pretty much ANYWHERE, except near Lavastorm, but I've found most of mine in the southern end of the zone.

If you find a map you can understand, anywhere from the barroom back is good, as is anywhere around the goblin merchant or the goblin king.

Unless you're a SolA veteran like me you're going to need a GOOD full group of 35+ (otherwise 30+, or just you and a friendly level 51+ druid to help :) ). The bar room is "ok" but if you can find the fake wall by Lynada/Goblin High Shaman and pull to that room, that's even better. An added bonus is that there's a SolB zone line close, and there's no goblins between you and it (locate that zone line before you start to pull...you'll never find it if you're doing it in a panic. ;) ).

can this be mutli-quested? i would assume so, but i just wanna know if anyone has successfully multi-quested it.

I dont know if this will help, but if youre just a wizzie trying to do this quest I recomend getting a few friends, last night a 41 Ranger, 38 Wizzie, and I (36 Chanter) were doing this, I died Twice!Talk about BS, these greenies swarm you and dont stop, after we got to Sol B I got a monk friend to help out (42) And I die yet again by getting swarmed by millions of lilttle gobbys.This task isnt meant for just a wizzie to complete in my opinion unless youre just paying to loot the heart instead of killing him youreself
Just my 2cp

I just finished this quest tonight before i had to leave for work.

I would suggest to go to www.graffe.com and print up the walk through.

1- go to perma frost first and get the frozen heart. I got lucky on this one was there about 15 minute and /ooc looking for frozen heart. Someone told there was wizard by the scryers room, so i headed over that way and noticed a dead wizard looked on the corpse and boom. part 1 done.

2- gate back to NK and head south to Lake Rathe, turn on levitate and keep heading south past the ogre camp/Rathe Mtns zone. there is a tower with a skeleton inside who has a pet. Killed the skeleton rooted the pet got the bone rod first kill.

3- I already had a lambent stone in the bank, but if you don't, zone to rathe mountains and /ooc that you are looking for a lambent stone. There are always people hunting the Hill Giants and they will probably be more then happy to let you loot one. (fairly common drop)

4- gate to Nek forest head north to Lavastorm, head north to the wall you will run into a BIG lava lake. there are 3 entrances aroung the lake Sol A, is on the south west corner of the lava lake, Zone in and /ooc looking for heart of fire. You might get lucky, if not head toward the bar area and you will find wizards around that area. I found mine after about an hour and a half just outside the fake wall. (THIS SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST PART OF THE QUEST) The harder mobs do see through invis, so if you are 40 or below you better get a 48+ friend to help or get a full group if you are 30-40 range.

total time approx. 2 hours 30 minutes

Domy Nation <L'Malla>
51 Channeler
Druzzil-Ro

effect gives -10 to fire and cold, this came from a level 40ish wiz fighting me in the arena, and it IS resistable...doesnt matter though, cause you can right click till it sticks, unless the creature is intent on resisting it

What does the effect do ...the lower ellement?

At what level does this staff proc? My tiny twink tried at level 15 but could not get the proc to function. Where could I find this information posted?

-This quest is pretty hard to complete. At lvl 29 I have all the pieces except the Heart of Fire which drops off the Inferno Wizard(Not Warlock). SolA is a pain in the butt to navigate through. Goblin Wizards amd Shaman can see through invis and the Gnomes in the castle wont help you when your in trouble. Heart of Ice from Permafrost was easy(Invis look for thier casting message find one alone and RootBomb), Lambent Stone for the the Staff was a sinch(Hehe, just got to Rathe mountains and buy it from a merchant), I had to enlist the help of a group to kill the Stone skellis and Died here a couple times:( but I got it. I am told that the staff can be used from your inventory slot like JBoots. Every little bit helps in the fight against resists, it also give you something to do before dropping the Target that your tanks are fighting, too bad you gotta stop to cast it now.

This staff is excellent. many people complain that the 6 point de-buff doesnt do anything, but they are dead wrong. at level 35+, i noticed that without the staff i was getting MANY more resists than if i used the staff. pre-35 the effect wasn't QUITE as noticeable, but was still definately present. Also, the staff is great for a range checker and pulling device, not uses to be discounted.