Well, someone told me about this quest when I was like 32. I did the milk thing for a long time, then went to SF and got the hero to spawn. Killed him, went back to SQ (this time I binded by the turn in guy) and did the turn in. I got 16% exp. 16%. That's about 7 turn ins per level. Doing this, I went from 32 to 50 in about two months. Woot.
I'm on the Mac server, and it hasn't been nerfed there.
On the mac server, you get the minotaur hero to spawn BY KILLING 2 SLAVERS WITHIN A CERTAIN AMMOUNT OF TIME. That's the only way (on the mac server).
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The Escaped Catman
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This is the quest for the Hero Bracers. You must do the first part at least once. It is possible that once you have done the first part, you can just get the shackles each time you do the quest. You also need to do the Steel Warrior initiation quest before doing this. You probably need a high faction with the steel warriors to complete the quest. Here are the details:
[1] Go to the basement of the arena in South Qeynos and talk to Grahan Rothgar. He will ask you if '...you have a report of the [escaped catman].' Ask him What escaped catman. He will give you the story and ask if you want to '...[retrieve key seven].' You can continue the quest anyway, but you will get nothing for it; no faction, no xp, no item, no nothing. [2] Grahan will tell you to go to Wisp Isle (in Erud's Crossing) and kill the catman named Nomala. Yes, there is a catman named 'Monola' but that is the wrong catman. The correct catman is named 'Nomala'. He is not as high level as any of the other cats but tends to gather a mob. Best strategy to kill him is in Step 3. [3] Go to Wisp Isle (the only one in Erud's Crossing). Nomala will spawn by the fire. Once killed, he will not spawn again for another hour or two, so figure on taking a while to do this. Be warned that you lose faction with Prexus for killing these catmen. Anyway, he will stand there for a bit, then walk off toward the shore down by the dock. Milla is standing around close by, but if you wait about one minute, she will walk off and leave Nomala all alone. Kill him - but don't let him run, kill him quick. Best bet is to hit him once then run a few feet down shore away from their village. He does not always have the key. [4] Return the key to Grahan and you get xp, faction, an item (along the lines of a bronze short sword), and a second quest. (faction results: +Steel Warriors, +Guards of Qeynos, -Corrupt Qeynos Guards, -Freeport Militia, +Knights of Truth). [5] The 2nd Quest: He wants you to go hunt down '...a [second escaped gladiator]' Fine, sounds easy... nope. He wants you to return the shackles of the Minotaur Hero of the Steamfont Mountains. [6] Go get em and bring em back. The hero's placeholder is the minotaur slaver in the front of the minotaur cave. When he dies, there is a chance that the Hero will spawn on the other side of the valley. Minotaur Hero + Shackles = Hero Bracers. Need all dialogues, current faction hits, /loc of quest mobs, actual quest prerequisites, rewards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Your soul... It tastes like fruitloops.
19 posts
and what exactly are the stats on this bracer?
24+ roggie
+ loads of alts }:P
+ loads of alts }:P
I'm lvl 40 now and still can't do this quest because I don't have enough faction for it. Anyone know how much faction I'll need with the steel warriors before they'll let me do the quest?
Edited, Fri Nov 21 12:36:45 2003
Edited, Fri Nov 21 12:36:45 2003
Trannin Stormward
Human Ranger of Karana
Ayonae Ro
Human Ranger of Karana
Ayonae Ro
After spending long weeks hunting in SF for Trueshot quest, I became well accquainted with the Hero (nice lad, bit low on the IQ tho) and was looking forward to getting some good xp at 34...and they've nerfed it...dem. Why? That now counts 2 of the best spots in the old world they've nerfed, Hero and BBM. Don't mean to whinge, but many of the peeps here posting that they're glad about both of these probably haven't had to do without expansions for a while. With only basic EQ the old world is now starting to really, really suck...<sigh> well done Sony, more money coming your way...
Anyway, did manage to make him pop once last night after about an hour. 3 Mino Lords popped and were killed in that time as well, so they're still up and running it seems. There atm to see if I can pop him again, but it's been 2 hrs without a sign...
Anyway, did manage to make him pop once last night after about an hour. 3 Mino Lords popped and were killed in that time as well, so they're still up and running it seems. There atm to see if I can pop him again, but it's been 2 hrs without a sign...
ok, does any one know the new spawn time for the hero?Hush my children and be joyfull, for today is a fine day to die!
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Well, looks like thats it for the days of the hero. Only thing the hero is goina do now is ruin an noobs day. I have had my warrior campped there from an hour after patch thirsday, I have checked repeatedly, asked all my normal hero biddues, and even some of the pircks who do the quest, no a one hero!! No one has seen him. This spawn time used to be as quick as my warrior could doubble attack for 157, 157. Spawn time could be hours now, but the are soo many hero bracers out there, and there lore, I doubt the hero will ever be done again with any consisitancy. Just kill all the noobs, and despawn, like he used to when I was level 10, back in 1999. I really hope they put him back, it was soo nice to do a quest for real XP, even at level 61, it was still xp! =(, so, well have to see what happen. Post a time if any one finds out how long it take now. I also have not seen the mino lord!!
Thanks
Dayn
61 Druid of Black Tower
53 Warrior of Infinite Jest
Xegony
Thanks
Dayn
61 Druid of Black Tower
53 Warrior of Infinite Jest
Xegony
Make your choice, adventurer, stranger. Strike the bell, and bide the danger, or wonder, tell it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had. C.s. Lewis The chronicles of Narnia
Scholar
26 posts
Having camped there for a few hours today, killing minotaurs for faction, I have seen at least a dozen Minotaur Lord spawns, and only one Minotaur Hero spawn. I'm not sure about spawn time on hero, but lord seems to be fairly common.
Lolindir Melwasul, 55 Cavalier - Saryrn
1 post
Can anyone confirm whether the Spawn Time on the Hero has been extended? Was thinking of doing this for exp but if it's been nerfed probably won't bother with all the Faction stuff.
Thanks
Thanks
Todays patch message -
"- Corrected the spawn times for the Minotaur Hero."
Most like this is going to mean that the Hero spawn has been upped from a few minutes to several hours in order to stop folks from banging out the quest over and over for easy XP.
"- Corrected the spawn times for the Minotaur Hero."
Most like this is going to mean that the Hero spawn has been upped from a few minutes to several hours in order to stop folks from banging out the quest over and over for easy XP.
Skunks have feelings too.
If you have been doing/eying this quest and having trouble with that pesky Minotaur Hero, you are really going to hate me. I'm not to happy with myself as it turns out.
Level 12 ranger running around Steamfont killing metal spiders as part of the Trueshot bow quest helps out a lvl 51 killing some minotaurs with a heal. Lvl 51 kindly leaves 3 (yes, 3) Minotaur Hero corpses for me to loot, which I do...ecstatic at the fact that most of the loot is selling for about 12 plat, and not liking the look of two nodrop shackles which I can't sell or use, I destroy the shackles to make room in inventory. Doh. So, so, doh. This is in spite of the fact that I have looked up the Hero bracers here before since they looked kind of sweet.
So later I read this and kicked myself a big one for throwing away one perfectly good chance to get not one but TWO hero bracers way above my level or price range. If it helps, I tend to atone, since I have many metal spiders left to kill, so as soon as a decent level PC comes along I intend to group and let them take the money and xp, and me those tasty little shackle things.
The lesson here kids is BANK YOUR NODROP DISCOVERIES until you have checked out that they are useless to you...
Level 12 ranger running around Steamfont killing metal spiders as part of the Trueshot bow quest helps out a lvl 51 killing some minotaurs with a heal. Lvl 51 kindly leaves 3 (yes, 3) Minotaur Hero corpses for me to loot, which I do...ecstatic at the fact that most of the loot is selling for about 12 plat, and not liking the look of two nodrop shackles which I can't sell or use, I destroy the shackles to make room in inventory. Doh. So, so, doh. This is in spite of the fact that I have looked up the Hero bracers here before since they looked kind of sweet.
So later I read this and kicked myself a big one for throwing away one perfectly good chance to get not one but TWO hero bracers way above my level or price range. If it helps, I tend to atone, since I have many metal spiders left to kill, so as soon as a decent level PC comes along I intend to group and let them take the money and xp, and me those tasty little shackle things.
The lesson here kids is BANK YOUR NODROP DISCOVERIES until you have checked out that they are useless to you...
The Hero shackles are NO DROP and LORE, so you could only save one at a time. However, if you had saved one and turned it in, and you actually got the Hero Bracer (I don't know if the NPC will give it to a low level player char or not) you also would've gotten enough experience to level at least once, maybe two levels in one pop. I started this quest with a 26 Druid, and each turn in Dinged me, up until 33 or so, then it slowed. But experience is still good into the 60's I heard. Too bad Hero's spawn time has been nerfed, but I will still look for him every time I pass through SF.
Antagonize
23 Gnome Necromancer
Venekor (PvP)
23 Gnome Necromancer
Venekor (PvP)
22 posts
I started this quest today and was told to go to Kerra Isle to find Nomala, I waited there for 2 and half hours with no luck finding her. Anybody have any ideas as to what I can do to make her spawn?
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actually, Nomala is not on Kerra Isle, which is reached by taking a boat from the coast off of Toxx forest (I think, I've never gone myself). Nomala is on Talysra's Paw, which is the island in Erud's Crossing, the expanse of water between Qeynos and Odus. To save time, take a porter with you for the trip out (unless you're one yourself) and take the boat from S. Qeynos docks. She's an easy spawn to get, about an hour to two hours, but there's rarely anyone here (at least, not on Drinal). I went earlier today and she was popped, standing calmly by the fire. Very low HP, below 57, one of my roots knocked her out cold. It's a timed, not triggered, spawn.
Tayachi - 48 Druid
Drinal
Edited, Mon Feb 10 02:04:58 2003
Tayachi - 48 Druid
Drinal
Edited, Mon Feb 10 02:04:58 2003
You don't need to do the escaped catman quest.
All you need is to raise your faction with Temple of marr, until Mojax hikspin in WC will take milks from you, then turn in milks until Grahan responds to the question "what second escaped gladiator?"
I have helped several members of my guild get hero bracer quest faction. I find the easiest way is to:
1) kill orcs in EC/WC for faction and belts
2) Once you get 20 belts or so, turn them in to the guy in the Steel Warrior guild hall in Freeport (not the militia captain).
3) Buy 200 milks on your way to WC (second inn in EC sells them, in the small hut by the inn)
4) find mojax and give him ONE milk. If he takes it, and you get faction, you're good. (Otherwise, return to 1)
5) give him ALL 200 milks, 4 at a time (unstacked, one per slot).
6) go to S Qeynos, find Grahan Rothgar and say "What second escaped Gladiator?"
7) if he gives you the quest, go kill the hero, otherwise, go back to 5.
Edited, Mon Feb 10 12:38:37 2003
All you need is to raise your faction with Temple of marr, until Mojax hikspin in WC will take milks from you, then turn in milks until Grahan responds to the question "what second escaped gladiator?"
I have helped several members of my guild get hero bracer quest faction. I find the easiest way is to:
1) kill orcs in EC/WC for faction and belts
2) Once you get 20 belts or so, turn them in to the guy in the Steel Warrior guild hall in Freeport (not the militia captain).
3) Buy 200 milks on your way to WC (second inn in EC sells them, in the small hut by the inn)
4) find mojax and give him ONE milk. If he takes it, and you get faction, you're good. (Otherwise, return to 1)
5) give him ALL 200 milks, 4 at a time (unstacked, one per slot).
6) go to S Qeynos, find Grahan Rothgar and say "What second escaped Gladiator?"
7) if he gives you the quest, go kill the hero, otherwise, go back to 5.
Edited, Mon Feb 10 12:38:37 2003
26 posts
I do this quest with my 32 ranger all the time. I go to nexus and grab a c3, then i run down to SF.
Popping Hero)
Popping Mino hero is probably the easiest thing to pop in the game. Run into the mino caves, run to where the path splits into 3 paths, kill ONE (1) of the minos that spawn in these 3 tunnels, and the one by the ent to mino caves. HEro will pop. I snare, keep snare, and nuke like there's no tomorrow. It is very possible to kill him with a lv 32. but you MUST KEEP SNARE STUCK. Anyhow i looted the shackle (he ALWAYS drops them)
FACTION!!!)
So i found i needed faction, i ran to WC, and Mojax is indiff, i go to orc camp, kill about 30, get about 15 belts, i run back to mojax, turns out just killin the orcs made me amiable, i gave him roughly 310 milks, made me dubious to FP guards =(. Anyway i ran to South Queynos, to get to the guy, hes underneath arena. you hail him and say
What second escaped gladiator?
then give him the shackle and SHAZAM u get ur nice hero bracer. Back to sf and do it again =).. BTW from lv 32 - 39 roughly , the turning in of the shackle is GREAT xp, it cannot be beat. When you get good and do the quest fast, you can get a lvl in about an hour. It is one of the few hidden xp treasures in the game. I hope this helped. (Oh BTW, hero is either yellow or red at lv 32 and hes white or dark blue to a lv 36)
I hope this helped and good luck!
Kamfdut Earthcaller 32 Ranger (Fateless)
"Moo"
Popping Hero)
Popping Mino hero is probably the easiest thing to pop in the game. Run into the mino caves, run to where the path splits into 3 paths, kill ONE (1) of the minos that spawn in these 3 tunnels, and the one by the ent to mino caves. HEro will pop. I snare, keep snare, and nuke like there's no tomorrow. It is very possible to kill him with a lv 32. but you MUST KEEP SNARE STUCK. Anyhow i looted the shackle (he ALWAYS drops them)
FACTION!!!)
So i found i needed faction, i ran to WC, and Mojax is indiff, i go to orc camp, kill about 30, get about 15 belts, i run back to mojax, turns out just killin the orcs made me amiable, i gave him roughly 310 milks, made me dubious to FP guards =(. Anyway i ran to South Queynos, to get to the guy, hes underneath arena. you hail him and say
What second escaped gladiator?
then give him the shackle and SHAZAM u get ur nice hero bracer. Back to sf and do it again =).. BTW from lv 32 - 39 roughly , the turning in of the shackle is GREAT xp, it cannot be beat. When you get good and do the quest fast, you can get a lvl in about an hour. It is one of the few hidden xp treasures in the game. I hope this helped. (Oh BTW, hero is either yellow or red at lv 32 and hes white or dark blue to a lv 36)
I hope this helped and good luck!
Kamfdut Earthcaller 32 Ranger (Fateless)
"Moo"
The hero does NOT always pop if you do as you describe. Sometimes, the hero pops immediately after killing the Mino just inside the cave. other times, you'll need to clear the whole cave to get him to pop.
It is MORE likely he'll pop fast, but won't always.
BTW, one of the side effects of this quest is: You end up MAX KOS in west/east freeport, and in Qeynos (corrupt guards).
Once you get KOS, this makes the quest MUCH more difficult to do, unless you can invis, camo, fd or sneak/hide.
Last thing: the hero bracers are lore, so you won't get one the second time unless you get rid of the first one.
It is MORE likely he'll pop fast, but won't always.
BTW, one of the side effects of this quest is: You end up MAX KOS in west/east freeport, and in Qeynos (corrupt guards).
Once you get KOS, this makes the quest MUCH more difficult to do, unless you can invis, camo, fd or sneak/hide.
Last thing: the hero bracers are lore, so you won't get one the second time unless you get rid of the first one.
9 posts
Finished this quest last night. Took about four or five hours. Mostly waiting for orcs to spawn. I turned in 30 Deathfist Slash Orc belts to Cain Darkmoor who is located in the second floor of the warrior guild. This allowed me enough faction to turn in the milks to Mojax Hikspin in WC. About 300 and the quest was history, ta ha. I wouldnt do it this way if your at all concerned about Freeport Militia faction decrease.
Fingwe Galadhrim
Disciples of the Pantheon
Ranger 39th Season
Edited, Wed Dec 4 10:34:35 2002
Fingwe Galadhrim
Disciples of the Pantheon
Ranger 39th Season
Edited, Wed Dec 4 10:34:35 2002
13 posts
I did the quest with a lvl 61 bard for fun
mino hero was really green and went down easy lol
my lvl 11 song bring the quest gye to ambly after doing quest 4 times with song im kindly consider now. I did it with no faction work the song all you need to do quest bah if you need to do the quest get a half elf bard to lvl 11 and kill mino with your main when he dies log on your bard that works to
I found to get him to pop kill all 5 skelly and the Mino at the door and he spawn in least 5 min after man that gye pop fast now he spawn neer the skellys
mino hero was really green and went down easy lol
my lvl 11 song bring the quest gye to ambly after doing quest 4 times with song im kindly consider now. I did it with no faction work the song all you need to do quest bah if you need to do the quest get a half elf bard to lvl 11 and kill mino with your main when he dies log on your bard that works to
I found to get him to pop kill all 5 skelly and the Mino at the door and he spawn in least 5 min after man that gye pop fast now he spawn neer the skellys
17 posts
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a bard's charisma song boost up your faction enough to be able to turn in the shackle with out doing any side faction quest? My bard has the shackle already, so I think that I will try this. If it works then I don't have to worrie about being KOS in Freeport :p .
1 post
i tried this quest with an enchanter using the faction increaseing spell. using this SPELL does not work. just some fyi
Faction spells raise your faction by X amount of points unless the NPC isn't tied to any faction (like animals).
Scowling, Dubious and Amiable are all major hurdles when factioning. Your faction may just be too low for the spell to push it to the next level.
Scowling, Dubious and Amiable are all major hurdles when factioning. Your faction may just be too low for the spell to push it to the next level.
With my high elf enchanter's default faction of Apprehensive, a cast of Collaboration was enough to get me high enough in the Amiable range to do the quest. After doing it once, he was Indifferent (with no faction spell).
4 posts
I just got my faction from apprehensive to amiable in about half an hour.. The guy Majox in West Commons who hangs out around the lake on the south side takes bottles of milk in exchange for faction with steel warriors... but it drops your freeport milita faction so watch out... bottles of milk are sold in east commons at inn1 in the building on the west side.. a guy named panthor.. I bought 160(2 backpacks full). You hand 1 milk bottle at a time (1x4) to majox and you get faction. Sometimes Majox will run off to give "a sealed note" to Gix... Just hail him to keep him with you. I hailed him after every 5 times I handed him the milk bottles just to keep him with me. After 160 the guy that starts the hero bracers quest was amiable to me. Hope this helps =) BTW 160 might be a bit overdone but I just wanted to make sure I got it the first time.. Just make sure you watch your FP militia faction if you care about it.
My lvl 14 Woodelf ranger found this item on a mino that an uper lvl character let me loot. I think it might be no drop so I cant give it to my ogre warrior. So what should I do with it? Do I sell it at the bazzarr or try to do the Escaped catman quest? Can a lvl 14 do the rest of the quest (which involves killing the named catperson)? And if so how is the exp for a lvl 14?
Scholar
18 posts
The item is "no drop" therefore you can't sell it at the bazaar. I have heard that you can actually turn in the shackle and get the hero bracer without killing the catman. You have to have amiable or better faction to it though. There are many ways to boost "Steel Warriors" faction. A search with relevant terms in google.com would tell you any number of ways. If you go to Grahan Rothkar and say "What second escaped gladiator?" and he responds with a story of the minotaur hero, then you should be able to give him the shackle and get the bracer. Once you get the bracer, keep it for your ranger. He can equip it and it's better than an Ivy etched bracer IMO since it has the same AC, better saves and the +10 str and all you're giving up is +2 dex that the ivy has. Good luck
Kerik Rainbow, Druid of the 47th Season
Kerak, Ranger of the 51st Season
Rodcet Nife Server
Kerak, Ranger of the 51st Season
Rodcet Nife Server
10 posts
I dont really think its worth the effort. But i may be wrong. Well 700pp is like a day er two of playing..ill just save up =)
Asis Airlines 36th Season Druid
Crowbor Dwarvenrevenger
25th Season Pally
http://www.geocities.com/mnkick/
Crowbor Dwarvenrevenger
25th Season Pally
http://www.geocities.com/mnkick/
17 posts
For those of you that are looking to gain Steel Warriors faction, I have one word for you "Clothspinner". Yes it's a long run, But being indifferent to the Steel Warriors with my wood elf druid. I only had to make the trip 12 times. Much better then turning in several hundred gnoll's teeth or bottles of milk. I did not have good enough faction to turn in the milk. At this point I am now amiable to the Steel Warriors. I can also do the beginning bracer quest and get six positive faction hits each time I do it. Thus increaseing my faction even more. The best thing is that the sister that gives you the note is not a Steel Warrior so she will talk to you. Her sister will not however, but you don't need her to. Just give her the note and you get your faction. However alot of time is saved if you happen to be a toon class that can port and gate.
3 posts
Another way to get your Steel warrior faction up..is get about 2 stacks of gnoll teeth and take them to Halas and give em 3 at a time to the lady in the Pit of Doom.
3 posts
Forget all that running around. I was indifferent to the Steel Warriors, so I did the initiation quest once. Although now amiable, he still would not talk about the Hero Bracer quest. Rather than doing other quests, I just did the beginning of initiation quest over and over. Grab about 30 bat wings and 30 snake scales, and get the bag and combine 5 of each, and just keep destroying the letter he gives you, and get another bag. You can keep repeating while standing in front of him. Every time you hand in combined bag you get faction. I got enough after 3 combines to do the quest, you might have to do more if you did not do the whole quest to start with.
8 posts
aparently this guy is spawning alot easier now or somthing , i killed him once and a few minutes later he popped again. i wasnt even trying to get the bracer... was just killin him for some newbies that were gettin stomped, getting the hero bracer was a nice bonus though for helping newbies...
6 posts
I started this quest by looking around on Alla and researching everything. Then i went to get my shackles. Go down there, pulled up my warder told him to guard at the spawn point. Then i killed PH #1. No spawn, so i just hung out for a couple mins killed greenies. Next Slaver spawned, killed him and Bang, there was the hero. I attacked him(was a big mistake, forgot to self buff myself)Then the hero proceeded to kick my butt.
Warder was dead, i was at one bubble, then a nice wizzie came along and rooted him,nuked the hell outta him, and killed him. I asked if he was gonna take the shackles, and he said no(phew)
Basically, he is a bit weaker than a HG max hit i saw was 90, but he hit rather fast. a melee/hybrid probably couldnt do this at 35(maybe i SK could) but he had some pretty good resists. Hope this helps.
Edited, Sun Aug 11 01:19:12 2002
Warder was dead, i was at one bubble, then a nice wizzie came along and rooted him,nuked the hell outta him, and killed him. I asked if he was gonna take the shackles, and he said no(phew)
Basically, he is a bit weaker than a HG max hit i saw was 90, but he hit rather fast. a melee/hybrid probably couldnt do this at 35(maybe i SK could) but he had some pretty good resists. Hope this helps.
Edited, Sun Aug 11 01:19:12 2002
Waiv
Beastlord of 65 seasons
Legendary Dark Knights (Prexus)
Beastlord of 65 seasons
Legendary Dark Knights (Prexus)
Possibly due to the newbifying of steamfont and changes there, the hero now spawns like constantly.
I was there and found this out while killing steam elementals and other things to get more elementals to spawn. It seems the respawn rates are through the roof which is perhaps why this happens. It really doesn't seem that you need to even kill the slavers outside, though perhaps I or someone else was. I got one hero shackle thing and 3 more rotted while I was there and killed the mino guy.
The next day I was there again and some lower people were actually doing the area and kept asking for someone to kill the mino guy because he kept spawning as soon as I'd kill him... ahha. Since I already had the lore bracer thing I asked them to loot it when it dropped.
Another guy said he has made 50,000 plat since this was changed this way.. all off selling hero bracers for 250 plat each. I went to the bazaar and lowest price was about 250 plat on trib server with 12 people selling them. I'm going to go do the quest now and then get another shackle for another quest right away, I'll have to start dropping these on storage newbs.
So get one now if you want, because the sellable price on these is going to plummet like a rock as they reach maximum density and people in the bazaar in the "know" start undercutting. Either that or I imagine verant will eventually "fix" what is now an EXTREMELY common spawn.
Kylathia, 59 Night Elven Priestess, Blackhand
http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?8783
http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?8783
Just want to post this so other peeps know....
I have killed many gnolls that I was able to obtain 189 fangs. I turned them into the lady NPC in the Pit of Doom in Halas and got faction with the steel warriors. Remember you have to turn in THREE fangs at a time to get it to tigger.
Went back to South Qeynos and they all con indifferent. Dammit! I was pissed. So I logged and when I relog the next day. They all conned Amiable. GO FIGURE. Looks like zoning really does not change anything. If you are in a similiar situation try camping out and logging back in in about 30min and see if that helps.
Just my 2cp.....
I have killed many gnolls that I was able to obtain 189 fangs. I turned them into the lady NPC in the Pit of Doom in Halas and got faction with the steel warriors. Remember you have to turn in THREE fangs at a time to get it to tigger.
Went back to South Qeynos and they all con indifferent. Dammit! I was pissed. So I logged and when I relog the next day. They all conned Amiable. GO FIGURE. Looks like zoning really does not change anything. If you are in a similiar situation try camping out and logging back in in about 30min and see if that helps.
Just my 2cp.....
Danerian 67 Forest Stalker
Endeavour
Endeavour
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Ok Me and a good friend have been trying to do this quest for 2+ months. We both did the newbie quest then started the real quest. Both of our factions are Amible with the Steel Warriors. We get the orders to kill Momala so we do. We also kill Nomala who is on like a 2 hr spawn cycle. She is a druid so she is bond at the island and gates there every 2 hrs while playing. I am a war so i got to take the boat or transporters guys on the docks. No key has droped after we each have atleast 100+ kills on both mobs.
We tryed the quest with out the key, but only lost our hero monitor bracers wich are a pretty easy camp.
Anyone see anything wrong with what we are doing or have had simalar problems? Please shed some light on the quest if we are doing something wrong.
Edited, Tue Jul 30 23:30:48 2002
We tryed the quest with out the key, but only lost our hero monitor bracers wich are a pretty easy camp.
Anyone see anything wrong with what we are doing or have had simalar problems? Please shed some light on the quest if we are doing something wrong.
Edited, Tue Jul 30 23:30:48 2002
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Anonymous
There are two slavers that need to be killed. The one right inside the cave, that everyone knows about. Then there is another outside of the cave. I have killed them both many times and each time the mino hero comes up on track. Just thought I would let you know. There is no reason anybody should be camping him for more than 5mins.
Also I dont know if this matters, but I always kill the one inside of the cave first and then kill the one on the outside.
Also I dont know if this matters, but I always kill the one inside of the cave first and then kill the one on the outside.
2 posts
Okay I did this w/o having to do the 7th Key quest. Here's how I did it. I made a human wariror and started him in Qeynos. I forget which deity I choose but one will let you start in Qeynos. Anyways I did the SW initiation quests. Which had me getting batwings, snake scales, and some light running around. Anyways so I did the quests. And then went down into the dungeon and skippes strait to the 2nd gladiator quest and asked him about it. Anyways long story short I got the shackle and turned it in without having to do the 7th key quest from Nomala. I checked my faction before turning in the shackle and I was aimble. Oh and the mule I turned the shackle in hasn't killed anything so he's taken 0 faction hits except from the initiation quests. Hope this helps.
Cedrin Thistlebow
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Anonymous
If you are a Steel Warrior does that meen that your faction will already be good enough to do this quest?
Also does anyone know what the man who starts the quest has to con to you? (indifferent, amiable eg..)
Also does anyone know what the man who starts the quest has to con to you? (indifferent, amiable eg..)
Anonymous
The process of getting my faction up with the Steel Warriors, and then actually handing in the shackles for the Hero Bracer, completely ruined my Corrupt Qeynos Guards faction. Normally I wouldn't care, but it's *really unpleasant to have Lt Dagarok kill you when you enter Qeynos.
A great way to fix this is with the Note for Rebby, http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=613,
and Note for Janam, http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=612,
quests in E. Freeport. They mean a run from the East Freeport docks to the Theater of Tranquility in West Freeport. Quick and they *only raise faction!
A great way to fix this is with the Note for Rebby, http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=613,
and Note for Janam, http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=612,
quests in E. Freeport. They mean a run from the East Freeport docks to the Theater of Tranquility in West Freeport. Quick and they *only raise faction!
Anonymous
As a native daughter of Freeport (human Quellious monk) I was a little concerned about becoming KOS to FP militia as a result of doing this quest. To avoid this I did the Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quest before going to WC to give milk to Mojax Hikspin to raise Steel Warrior faction. The idea is to get your guard faction up enough to absorb the faction hits you'll take when you raise Steel Warrior faction and hand in shackles so you never sink low enough to become KOS to guards. I was already amiable to FP militia when I started as a result of mistakingly handing in a small number of DF belts to guard captain when first trying to raise Steel Warrior faction. After doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quest 15 times I was kindly to Coalition of Tradefolk but still only amiable to FP militia. After 25 times, I was warmly to tradefolk but STILL only amiable to militia. At this point I'd had enough and I went to WC to give Mojax about 3 stacks of milk, after which he coned kindly to me (I had previously turned in 46 DF belts to Caine Darkmoore in FP warrior guild and was amiable to Steel Warriors but not amiable enough to get quest from Grahan Rothgar in Queynos Arena).
Got a port to Surefall, went to Queynos Arena and asked Grahan about second escaped gladiator. Although still only amiable he gave me the quest this time and the hero bracer when I turned in shackles. At the end of it all I'm still amiable to FP militia so I have to conclude doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quests 25 times was worth it.
One final note: the most direct route from E FP tunnels to Janam and Rebby in Theater of the Tranquil is via the staircase marked "B" on the EQ atlas map. Nestral T'Gaza, who gives Note to Rebby quest, is at #9 and Harkin, who gives note to Janam quest, is at #11. Once you get their notes go up the stairs,turn left at the top to go through a secret door, and you'll emerge in the basement of building #11 on EQ atlas E FP map. This is in the dock area. It's then a relatively short run to Theater in W FP. You can of course use the same route to get into the tunnels.
Never having played an evil character I didn't know the tunnels very well and the first time I tried doing quest I got access through the abandoned building #13 on E FP map. NOT a good idea. Back when I was in the 20s I often went to the merchants down here to buy backpacks to hold materials for tradeskills (was the only place in E FP where I knew I could get them - this is #6 on E FP tunnel map). Obviously I've taken some faction hits since then because this time evil cleric trainer attacked me, hitting me for 331 and 321 points of damage (not that's just not right). Were it not for FD and a enchanter friend who came down and cast invisibility on me I probably would not have made it out alive. If you walk the path of light do yourself a favor and avoid this area.
Got a port to Surefall, went to Queynos Arena and asked Grahan about second escaped gladiator. Although still only amiable he gave me the quest this time and the hero bracer when I turned in shackles. At the end of it all I'm still amiable to FP militia so I have to conclude doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quests 25 times was worth it.
One final note: the most direct route from E FP tunnels to Janam and Rebby in Theater of the Tranquil is via the staircase marked "B" on the EQ atlas map. Nestral T'Gaza, who gives Note to Rebby quest, is at #9 and Harkin, who gives note to Janam quest, is at #11. Once you get their notes go up the stairs,turn left at the top to go through a secret door, and you'll emerge in the basement of building #11 on EQ atlas E FP map. This is in the dock area. It's then a relatively short run to Theater in W FP. You can of course use the same route to get into the tunnels.
Never having played an evil character I didn't know the tunnels very well and the first time I tried doing quest I got access through the abandoned building #13 on E FP map. NOT a good idea. Back when I was in the 20s I often went to the merchants down here to buy backpacks to hold materials for tradeskills (was the only place in E FP where I knew I could get them - this is #6 on E FP tunnel map). Obviously I've taken some faction hits since then because this time evil cleric trainer attacked me, hitting me for 331 and 321 points of damage (not that's just not right). Were it not for FD and a enchanter friend who came down and cast invisibility on me I probably would not have made it out alive. If you walk the path of light do yourself a favor and avoid this area.
15 posts
Alas i gave him 16 milk (4 stacks of 4) and he said to me 16 Times
Mojax Hikspin says 'Work on the ways of valor before we discuss such things. You are on the righteous path of the Truthbringer, but there is more work to do. '
Mojax Hikspin regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
Maybe i will have to get faction another way, going to go mame and destroy the gnolls
Mojax Hikspin says 'Work on the ways of valor before we discuss such things. You are on the righteous path of the Truthbringer, but there is more work to do. '
Mojax Hikspin regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
Maybe i will have to get faction another way, going to go mame and destroy the gnolls
20 posts
I'm a lvl 40 High Elf Enchanter on Zeb, and happened to stumble across (and kill) the hero while helping a friend out behind the gear in Steamfont.
I had no trouble getting the second part of the quest when I used Illusion:Human and Benevolence (faction increase self only buff) so I got the bracer without doing any sub quests.
So my tip is, that if you have an enchanter friend that is lvl 20 or higher, make him loot the shackles if possible, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble...
Edited, Fri Apr 12 07:52:51 2002
I had no trouble getting the second part of the quest when I used Illusion:Human and Benevolence (faction increase self only buff) so I got the bracer without doing any sub quests.
So my tip is, that if you have an enchanter friend that is lvl 20 or higher, make him loot the shackles if possible, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble...
Edited, Fri Apr 12 07:52:51 2002
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I all im a 34 rngr on the innork server.I started quest 1 week ago after doing my research on allykz here this is what i discovered>)
I started right of by raising my faction with knights of truth,buy killin lots of orcs in west commons,i did this by camping the group in west ledge and spent 3 hours just killing. I went from indeffervt to amiable with thempreaty good i thought. side note i also took time to avenge myself on past transgression by that mean mother kizdean gix the dark elf killed hom twice,word to the wise even at 34 he still he hit me for 176hp damage with spell but i still toasted him,hee.
I then went to north freeport and bought tons of milk to give to mojax by lake,the first tripi took 360 bottles(for those of u who dont know u buy milk usually 6-9co apieace they stack up yo 20 per slot in bag,when u give to him he gives 4 spaces for total of 80 milks in first hand off)
hes there for about 3minutes from the time he pops.at least so u can give milk,then he gets up and wonders off,take the time to imptove your swimming in lake if your hogh enough lvl pirana are mean.
ok so i went back to qeynos(port of coarse),went to steel warriors found out still to low to get second part of quest(.by the way ignore the first part of quest its usless,just work on getting steel warrior faction up thats the key for this quest.
I traveled to halas fist but the wolves were indef or dubious so idid my side quest to get ivy stone from redwind, i got it to,so sow myself and ran back to blackburrow and informed the the good adventures there that if it so much as moved i was killing it(lucky me ,more than enough gnolls to shake a stick at). This part of quwst was easy,everthing conned green but mean to me.I spent 2-3 hours playing the Elven ginsu machine. during this i got 10 teeth,i feel that part of quest was usless,so i moved on.Apperantly im going to be a steaming pile of offal that the wolves steepd on
Now to the truly hard part the MINO HERO,
i started first day some one was camped so i logged,got on the next day same agian,came back agian,finally got on in morning all mine.i camped the inside left side of wall to see when the miino slaver poped just keep hitting him and wait for mino hero if u dont have tracking.my first encounter with hero was about 2 hours after i killed the slaver in front,it went bad i had all my ranger buffs for that lvl, hes hard to snare he hots on average 39dmg,96 a coulpe of times. i had to run to guards he regens preaty quick,my advice bring a healer.i lost camp to 53 bard i hung out so when he left i could have agian. I was there another7hours,got imkisd twice by wizzy who nuked him and gated out. A 43 rngr showed up and hung out with me,by now i was paranoid of someone stealing,this was my first real big quest.Kyrn healed me when i finally got hero agian,boom i got shackle at 9 hours and 25 minutes. the druid gated me to surefall and i went to qeynos,my faction was still not good enough so i did milk agian 700 more bottles. then i was good to go. i asked gram"what second gladiator" and if he tells u about him give shackle and boom i had bracer.
-gnoll teeth,worthless in my opinion.
-killing death fist orcs in west commons,for knight of truth excellent.
-halas quest only if u wanna soend hours in teeth part,not me,bad.
-milk to mojax in west commons lake,take minamum1000 bottles over as many trips as needed,excelleny inexpensive and easy.
mino hero,hes tuff long wait,and possible players stealing,its realy the only part of the two quest u need to do,forget the cat man part i did and have bracer now. oh 1 more thing u can tell when hero will spawn,how i saw a slaver pop outside cave this is indication that hero will pop in next half hour,it happend all 4 times before hero popped. well good luck to u.
I started right of by raising my faction with knights of truth,buy killin lots of orcs in west commons,i did this by camping the group in west ledge and spent 3 hours just killing. I went from indeffervt to amiable with thempreaty good i thought. side note i also took time to avenge myself on past transgression by that mean mother kizdean gix the dark elf killed hom twice,word to the wise even at 34 he still he hit me for 176hp damage with spell but i still toasted him,hee.
I then went to north freeport and bought tons of milk to give to mojax by lake,the first tripi took 360 bottles(for those of u who dont know u buy milk usually 6-9co apieace they stack up yo 20 per slot in bag,when u give to him he gives 4 spaces for total of 80 milks in first hand off)
hes there for about 3minutes from the time he pops.at least so u can give milk,then he gets up and wonders off,take the time to imptove your swimming in lake if your hogh enough lvl pirana are mean.
ok so i went back to qeynos(port of coarse),went to steel warriors found out still to low to get second part of quest(.by the way ignore the first part of quest its usless,just work on getting steel warrior faction up thats the key for this quest.
I traveled to halas fist but the wolves were indef or dubious so idid my side quest to get ivy stone from redwind, i got it to,so sow myself and ran back to blackburrow and informed the the good adventures there that if it so much as moved i was killing it(lucky me ,more than enough gnolls to shake a stick at). This part of quwst was easy,everthing conned green but mean to me.I spent 2-3 hours playing the Elven ginsu machine. during this i got 10 teeth,i feel that part of quest was usless,so i moved on.Apperantly im going to be a steaming pile of offal that the wolves steepd on
Now to the truly hard part the MINO HERO,
i started first day some one was camped so i logged,got on the next day same agian,came back agian,finally got on in morning all mine.i camped the inside left side of wall to see when the miino slaver poped just keep hitting him and wait for mino hero if u dont have tracking.my first encounter with hero was about 2 hours after i killed the slaver in front,it went bad i had all my ranger buffs for that lvl, hes hard to snare he hots on average 39dmg,96 a coulpe of times. i had to run to guards he regens preaty quick,my advice bring a healer.i lost camp to 53 bard i hung out so when he left i could have agian. I was there another7hours,got imkisd twice by wizzy who nuked him and gated out. A 43 rngr showed up and hung out with me,by now i was paranoid of someone stealing,this was my first real big quest.Kyrn healed me when i finally got hero agian,boom i got shackle at 9 hours and 25 minutes. the druid gated me to surefall and i went to qeynos,my faction was still not good enough so i did milk agian 700 more bottles. then i was good to go. i asked gram"what second gladiator" and if he tells u about him give shackle and boom i had bracer.
-gnoll teeth,worthless in my opinion.
-killing death fist orcs in west commons,for knight of truth excellent.
-halas quest only if u wanna soend hours in teeth part,not me,bad.
-milk to mojax in west commons lake,take minamum1000 bottles over as many trips as needed,excelleny inexpensive and easy.
mino hero,hes tuff long wait,and possible players stealing,its realy the only part of the two quest u need to do,forget the cat man part i did and have bracer now. oh 1 more thing u can tell when hero will spawn,how i saw a slaver pop outside cave this is indication that hero will pop in next half hour,it happend all 4 times before hero popped. well good luck to u.
#Anonymous,
Posted: Jul 01 2002 at 11:30 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Just to berate the previous "under 10" post of course, since they've obviously made it to the next grade level in English. Since they must be 11 years old, let me, a 12 year old, provide some berating:
#Anonymous,
Posted: Jun 30 2002 at 8:45 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I'm not even sure why you bothered to post this, being that it has NOTHING to do with the item or quest
18 posts
The shackles is easy to get (at least for casters). To help clear up some of the possible misinformation you are sifting through, or to reiterate what has already been said--- a minotaur slaver resides at the entrance to the minotaur caves in NE Steafont. Immediately or almost immediately after you kill him the minotaur hero will pop behind you in the little clearing/valley near the cog (I have often found him behind the giant cog). You do not have to go through any elaborate rituals killing certain rats, walking backwards in circles etc. Just kill the slaver and check for the hero, rinse repeat. It's a really easyquest to do once you have raise your steel warriors faction (many people kill gnolls to raise it. I however am a rich and lazy druid so I go and buy DF belts and do "the good version" not with the captain of the guard but with the pally faction one in warrior guild in West Freeport. It raised my faction quite nicely and not as tedious as the gnoll fang quest in halas.
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i have done this quest soooo many times it makes me sick =) so ill help any of yall out who may be a tad confused...
first of all, you dont have to do the first part of the quest involving the cat man
all you have to worry about is faction. easiest way ive found to do it is to give mojax something or other, a LOT of milk bottles =) 4 at a time. he resides at the lake in WC. hes fishing with his buddy behind the inn on the other side of the lake from the barabarians. He gets up and wanders around, drops something near a pillar, for some pally quest i believe, and eventually finds his way back to the inn to take a nap. take this time to stack milk bottles in groups of 4 since you dont really have time to do that while your chasing him around the zone =)
getting faction in this manner WILL make you KoS with the militia...but if your high enough to take the hero, your high enough to deal with all of them outside of FP except for slate, and i HATE FP so for me that was no big deal.
the trigger for the hero is the first slaver inside the cave, always a good idea to pull him across the valley before ya kill him so you wont get KSd. i always get paranoid while camping the hero and if you ask me its for good reason. i cast see invis on my self from time to time and look around =) ive made several casters gate out merely by waving at them heh.
The big guy spawns between the 2 trees opposite the valley from the mino caves then wanders behind the big gear and walks around for a while. eventually he'll find his way to the windmills, and take out several guards before he bites the big one so be sure to get his attention as quick as possible =)
i have 2 characters with faction good enough to do the quest now, so when i need cash i generally camp him 3 times in a row. loot the first with my warrior, loot the 2nd with my druid, get my arse to qeynos and back before someone takes the camp, then loot a 3rd shackle with the druid and sit around EC for a little while =)
think thats about it
oohh and be sure youve got lots of reading material around the house before you sit down and cmap this guy. he can keep ya waiting anywhere between 6 minutes YAY....or the longest ive sat there, 9 hours BOOO. that was rough =/
good luck to yas
Semajecap Nitburell 38 Woodelf Warrior
Semaj Ecap 39 Woodelf Druid
Cazic Thule
first of all, you dont have to do the first part of the quest involving the cat man
all you have to worry about is faction. easiest way ive found to do it is to give mojax something or other, a LOT of milk bottles =) 4 at a time. he resides at the lake in WC. hes fishing with his buddy behind the inn on the other side of the lake from the barabarians. He gets up and wanders around, drops something near a pillar, for some pally quest i believe, and eventually finds his way back to the inn to take a nap. take this time to stack milk bottles in groups of 4 since you dont really have time to do that while your chasing him around the zone =)
getting faction in this manner WILL make you KoS with the militia...but if your high enough to take the hero, your high enough to deal with all of them outside of FP except for slate, and i HATE FP so for me that was no big deal.
the trigger for the hero is the first slaver inside the cave, always a good idea to pull him across the valley before ya kill him so you wont get KSd. i always get paranoid while camping the hero and if you ask me its for good reason. i cast see invis on my self from time to time and look around =) ive made several casters gate out merely by waving at them heh.
The big guy spawns between the 2 trees opposite the valley from the mino caves then wanders behind the big gear and walks around for a while. eventually he'll find his way to the windmills, and take out several guards before he bites the big one so be sure to get his attention as quick as possible =)
i have 2 characters with faction good enough to do the quest now, so when i need cash i generally camp him 3 times in a row. loot the first with my warrior, loot the 2nd with my druid, get my arse to qeynos and back before someone takes the camp, then loot a 3rd shackle with the druid and sit around EC for a little while =)
think thats about it
oohh and be sure youve got lots of reading material around the house before you sit down and cmap this guy. he can keep ya waiting anywhere between 6 minutes YAY....or the longest ive sat there, 9 hours BOOO. that was rough =/
good luck to yas
Semajecap Nitburell 38 Woodelf Warrior
Semaj Ecap 39 Woodelf Druid
Cazic Thule
Excellent post except for one thing.
My guildmates and I have done this quest many many many times (hundreds of times if you add all of the times that each one of us did it) and I can say with 100% certainty, that ANY minotaur slaver death has a chance of spawning the Hero, be it outside near the minotaur caves where they are somtimes found, or in the minotaur caves where they are mostly found. Tracking and simply watching for him to spawn while others kill the slavers proved this time and time again.
Although, we all agree that the slaver spawn that never moves at the door is somehow has a better chance of spawning him than others.
Moral of the story: by wiping out any slaver you see, the longest wait we ever had was 20 minutes to get the Hero to spawn, not an incredibly unecessary 9 hours.
Edited, Wed Feb 26 23:53:07 2003
My guildmates and I have done this quest many many many times (hundreds of times if you add all of the times that each one of us did it) and I can say with 100% certainty, that ANY minotaur slaver death has a chance of spawning the Hero, be it outside near the minotaur caves where they are somtimes found, or in the minotaur caves where they are mostly found. Tracking and simply watching for him to spawn while others kill the slavers proved this time and time again.
Although, we all agree that the slaver spawn that never moves at the door is somehow has a better chance of spawning him than others.
Moral of the story: by wiping out any slaver you see, the longest wait we ever had was 20 minutes to get the Hero to spawn, not an incredibly unecessary 9 hours.
Edited, Wed Feb 26 23:53:07 2003
Tarquelian Pyromanseer
67 Arch Convoker
In Via Damnum
Xev
Massacarri
23 Mystic
Innothule
67 Arch Convoker
In Via Damnum
Xev
Massacarri
23 Mystic
Innothule
10 posts
For added perspective...
As someone who's run this quest more times then I want to think about: I have found that, if you pull the slavers out of the mine and across over to where the Hero pops ( between the two trees on the wall opposite the mine entrance ) this will greatly increase the chances of the Hero popping. Done right it will bring it to an almost 1 to 1 ratio.
As someone who's run this quest more times then I want to think about: I have found that, if you pull the slavers out of the mine and across over to where the Hero pops ( between the two trees on the wall opposite the mine entrance ) this will greatly increase the chances of the Hero popping. Done right it will bring it to an almost 1 to 1 ratio.
Daormund 65 Ranger
And others...
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Anonymous
The problem with this, is for paladin's you MUST get to the guild for a number of important quests. You can take the tunnel through the aqueducts, but a reasonably strong necromancer spawns inside.
Anonymous
Do i need to ever bother with odus? i killed hero and i got good faction with the steel warriors....do I need to go kill that NPC in odus?
Kindawen level 42 ranger
Kindawen level 42 ranger
3 posts
Just to inform you that you do not have to do the first parts of the quest just go talk to the guy and say what about the second escaped gladiator and as long as he is amiable you'll get the bracer, no need to do teh first parts of the quests. If you do need faction do the milk quest in WC i think thats the name you just have to hand in about 2 stacks of milk to him seperate of course and your faction should be high enough to get you to amiable. Good luck
Anonymous
Word to the wise: if Grahan Rothgar won't tell you about the Hero Bracer quest (says something like "Although we have no cause to dislike you you have not yet sufficiently proved your devotion to our cause" when you ask about it) do NOT give him the shackles -he'll take them, repeat the part about not having sufficiently proved yourself, and give you NOTHING in return. I conned amiable and decided to give him the shackles thinking that if faction wasn't high enough he'd return them (NPCs generally return quest items they aren't interested in now) - DOH!!
Anonymous
Tried to get Steel Warrior faction up with my 42 Dwf Paly to no avail; stuck at indif after 120 Gnoll Fangs to Barb chick in Halas and 15 Dorn kills in N Ro. I really wanted to solo this with my Paly. So I bring in my 40 Hef Warrior and I have Amiable faction already, doh ). Off to Wisp Isle...
I get the key off Nomala on first smack then head back to Qeynos for second part.
With Druid buddy porting me along and providing heals and nukes we pop the Slaver PH several times. After a few PHs, the Hero spawns behind the Big Gear in the ground (approx: 1700, n1300). Hero has alot of HP but finally drops. Good to go.
Port back to SFG, run to Qeynos, and turnin shackles. Did it all again and hooked up Druid friend with Hero also. I'm KOS to the Corrupt Qeynos Guards but its worth it :) .
I get the key off Nomala on first smack then head back to Qeynos for second part.
With Druid buddy porting me along and providing heals and nukes we pop the Slaver PH several times. After a few PHs, the Hero spawns behind the Big Gear in the ground (approx: 1700, n1300). Hero has alot of HP but finally drops. Good to go.
Port back to SFG, run to Qeynos, and turnin shackles. Did it all again and hooked up Druid friend with Hero also. I'm KOS to the Corrupt Qeynos Guards but its worth it :) .
Anonymous
Do you have to do the first quest with the key to get the bracer? or can you just get the shackle and hand them in
Aesir on Brell
Aesir on Brell
Anonymous
I killed Nomala on Wisp isle and turned in the key only once. I've turned in shackles for bracers 3 times. I would not risk losing the shackles by not turning in key at least once before a shackle. Getting the key off Nomala is very easy and you you only need to catch her once with it.
Anonymous
If I am a edrudite necromancer, how am i suppost to even turn in DF belts because i am KOS to everyone in the good cities?
Anonymous
Wolf form =)))
Wolf form won't repair bad faction as a result of religion, and i'm pretty sure won't fix class as well, all it does is make you non-KoS if your race is the deciding factor (Ogres, trolls, DEs, Iksar in good cities)
Arranor Mistwalker
65 Hunter of Tunare
Aedien Windwalker
52 Druid of Tunare
Mendakon Loremaster
61 Enchanter
Xegony Server
65 Hunter of Tunare
Aedien Windwalker
52 Druid of Tunare
Mendakon Loremaster
61 Enchanter
Xegony Server
6 posts
I´m a 41 Bard on Tunare faction and I could not get the Hro bracer part from Grahan Rothgar.
I used the lev 11 spell Cinda's Charismatic Carillon to get from Indiffrent to Amiably and then I could finish the quest.
Instrument I used was the Lyssa´s Darkwood Piccolo +35% to wind songs, my main looted it from Casic.
Found a stack bug with this and Fingerbone Hoop!
When I put on the Hoop the +5 PR/DR on the Hero bracer turned in to -5PR/DR insted! :(
Reported it to a GM.
I used the lev 11 spell Cinda's Charismatic Carillon to get from Indiffrent to Amiably and then I could finish the quest.
Instrument I used was the Lyssa´s Darkwood Piccolo +35% to wind songs, my main looted it from Casic.
Found a stack bug with this and Fingerbone Hoop!
When I put on the Hoop the +5 PR/DR on the Hero bracer turned in to -5PR/DR insted! :(
Reported it to a GM.
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some people think that quests are a waste of time and boring... but not me and many others because questing is what the game is for, leveling is there so you can do other quests, even if you quest for a half decent item it still proves that you know the true meaning to the game.
btw i am lvl 38 soon to be 39 mage and when i get those new spells im everQUESTING hehe
pss i already started my mage epic haha
btw i am lvl 38 soon to be 39 mage and when i get those new spells im everQUESTING hehe
pss i already started my mage epic haha
What the hell is a signature?
Anonymous
i totally agree with him on that
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haha i started my druid epic at level 2 but only because i accidently forqaged all my items then while trying to get skill up :P
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...the second part of the quest.
The Steel Warrior Initiation quest gives you 6 faction hits.
1 for turning in the bag
1 for turning in the first letter
1 for turning in the skull head
1 for turning in the second letter
1 for turning in the third letter
1 for turning in the lion pelt
Edited, Fri Dec 21 07:41:48 2001
The Steel Warrior Initiation quest gives you 6 faction hits.
1 for turning in the bag
1 for turning in the first letter
1 for turning in the skull head
1 for turning in the second letter
1 for turning in the third letter
1 for turning in the lion pelt
Edited, Fri Dec 21 07:41:48 2001
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This quest IMHO is one of the best ingame :)
I am a high elf Paladin, and purely from a roleplaying point of view its great, but you get a damned nice item as well. I have so far done the quest 6 times and counting :)
I first did my faction for steel warriors by gnoll teeth - like 500 of them - still wasnt enough, but nice side effect being get ally to Halas guards etc :)
Then I did the kobold hides quest, much better faction improvement for steel warriors, plus killing the kobolds gives good faction with erudites :)
Nomala quest-Blurred map quest- I'd say dont bother, too hard/long do them whilst on the way to warrens for the kobold hides quest but otherwise I dont see much point.
As to faction needed- you CAN do it at AMIABLE, but it must be HIGH Amiable. When I was first amiable Graham would NOT give me the quest, but after doing the kobold hide quest (5 backpack fulls of hides) a few times, although I was still amiable he DID give the quest.
Neways, to the camp- I have popped Hero 6 times so far longest took 6 hours, shortest took 1 hour.
Honestly dont think there is ANY way to speed up his spawn I think its purely random (ala AC spawn)
Having said that it does SEEM that if you butcher everything in the area repeatedly during camp he has popped somewhat quicker but might just be coincidence, certainly killing Mino lord and/or Necro has NO effect on Hero spawn.
Whilst camping the PH (which is the first mino slaver in the tunnel) you can keep busy by doing lotsa stuff which makes this not to bad a camp even if it takes many hours.
1- Kill the minos in the caves behind- They drop axes which sell for plat or are good for newbies. I give them to newbie melees in gfay :)
They also drop gold sometimes, and mino horns which can be handed in two at a time in akanon for good faction hits to the little gnome behind library. The minos also have a nice faction hit + gnomes :)
2- Kill rogue clockworks- They drop black boxes which can be handed in at Akanon, also scrap metal which can be handed in 4 at a time in Akanon, for small coin reward, faction, small xp. Also killing these is SUPPOSED to help trigger the spawn of Nilits clockwork which drops the gnome toy which is needed to complete the kerran toy quest, nice range item for mellee classes. I have spent 40+ hours at mino camp however and have only ONCE ever seen Nilits spawn. It is very rare indeed and talking to the inventor seems to have no effect on its spawn at all.
3- Kill EVERYTHING around caves in an attempt to get MIST elementals to spawn, their rare drop is Swirling mists which is a much sought after component in HIGH level cultural smithing- I have seen smiths offering 20pp each for these. There are also several ground spawns at mino cave area of components which are needed in tradeskills- pick these up too they might come in damn handy for someone :)
Happy camping!
Edited, Fri Dec 14 08:22:06 2001
I am a high elf Paladin, and purely from a roleplaying point of view its great, but you get a damned nice item as well. I have so far done the quest 6 times and counting :)
I first did my faction for steel warriors by gnoll teeth - like 500 of them - still wasnt enough, but nice side effect being get ally to Halas guards etc :)
Then I did the kobold hides quest, much better faction improvement for steel warriors, plus killing the kobolds gives good faction with erudites :)
Nomala quest-Blurred map quest- I'd say dont bother, too hard/long do them whilst on the way to warrens for the kobold hides quest but otherwise I dont see much point.
As to faction needed- you CAN do it at AMIABLE, but it must be HIGH Amiable. When I was first amiable Graham would NOT give me the quest, but after doing the kobold hide quest (5 backpack fulls of hides) a few times, although I was still amiable he DID give the quest.
Neways, to the camp- I have popped Hero 6 times so far longest took 6 hours, shortest took 1 hour.
Honestly dont think there is ANY way to speed up his spawn I think its purely random (ala AC spawn)
Having said that it does SEEM that if you butcher everything in the area repeatedly during camp he has popped somewhat quicker but might just be coincidence, certainly killing Mino lord and/or Necro has NO effect on Hero spawn.
Whilst camping the PH (which is the first mino slaver in the tunnel) you can keep busy by doing lotsa stuff which makes this not to bad a camp even if it takes many hours.
1- Kill the minos in the caves behind- They drop axes which sell for plat or are good for newbies. I give them to newbie melees in gfay :)
They also drop gold sometimes, and mino horns which can be handed in two at a time in akanon for good faction hits to the little gnome behind library. The minos also have a nice faction hit + gnomes :)
2- Kill rogue clockworks- They drop black boxes which can be handed in at Akanon, also scrap metal which can be handed in 4 at a time in Akanon, for small coin reward, faction, small xp. Also killing these is SUPPOSED to help trigger the spawn of Nilits clockwork which drops the gnome toy which is needed to complete the kerran toy quest, nice range item for mellee classes. I have spent 40+ hours at mino camp however and have only ONCE ever seen Nilits spawn. It is very rare indeed and talking to the inventor seems to have no effect on its spawn at all.
3- Kill EVERYTHING around caves in an attempt to get MIST elementals to spawn, their rare drop is Swirling mists which is a much sought after component in HIGH level cultural smithing- I have seen smiths offering 20pp each for these. There are also several ground spawns at mino cave area of components which are needed in tradeskills- pick these up too they might come in damn handy for someone :)
Happy camping!
Edited, Fri Dec 14 08:22:06 2001
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Anonymous
I have done the majority of this quest and just have one question. Got key from nomala, turned it in, faction is amibly. Grahan then asks (second escaped gladiator)and when i try to reply he states something along the lines of "you are still not experieneced enough" or something to that effect. Is this normal? or does he usually reply with something else? He has said nothing of Mino Hero only (second escaped gladiator). Should i give him the shackles? would hate to lose them after camping damn Hero for 4 hours. BTW, have done the steel warriors initiation quest and as stated faction in amiable.
Anonymous
I have done the majority of this quest and just have one question. Got key from nomala, turned it in, faction is amibly. Grahan then asks (second escaped gladiator)and when i try to reply he states something along the lines of "you are still not experieneced enough" or something to that effect. Is this normal? or does he usually reply with something else? He has said nothing of Mino Hero only (second escaped gladiator). Should i give him the shackles? would hate to lose them after camping damn Hero for 4 hours.
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If anyboy would be willing tohelp me with this quest i would be really greatful =). Send a tell to Aarop or E-mail me at Bobzilla95@aol.com. Thanx all ).
Aarop Crystalyn
45 ranger
Solusek Ro
Aarop Crystalyn
45 ranger
Solusek Ro
You know I thought I'd posted the scoop here before but I don't see it so here goes...
Milk to hojax or whatever blows, nothing like being kos in the center-of-norrath city of Freeport huh? pass!
Gnoll teeth 3 at a time in Halas works pretty good but can take some time and the easiest way is....
Bring an Enchanter or Bard friend with you to Steamfont silly, not only does having one along make take down of the hero easy even if he's yellow/red but they also have a simple spell/song that INSTANTLY GIVES THEM ENOUGH FACTION TO DO THE QUEST! All you do is let your bard/enchanter friend loot shackle then when your in Qeynos have them use their faction spell/song and say, "what second escaped gladiator" and turn in the shackles for a new Hero Bracer, just make sure they don't have one already because they are lore!
P.S. The catman quest blows, isn't required to get a bracer, and doesn't give any special amount of faction to make it any better than milk or gnoll teeth. Rangers who kill animals are only poachers if they don't use all the parts they find and leave giant carcasses laying around all over like those National Geographic pics of dead elephants with their tusks sawed off.
Milk to hojax or whatever blows, nothing like being kos in the center-of-norrath city of Freeport huh? pass!
Gnoll teeth 3 at a time in Halas works pretty good but can take some time and the easiest way is....
Bring an Enchanter or Bard friend with you to Steamfont silly, not only does having one along make take down of the hero easy even if he's yellow/red but they also have a simple spell/song that INSTANTLY GIVES THEM ENOUGH FACTION TO DO THE QUEST! All you do is let your bard/enchanter friend loot shackle then when your in Qeynos have them use their faction spell/song and say, "what second escaped gladiator" and turn in the shackles for a new Hero Bracer, just make sure they don't have one already because they are lore!
P.S. The catman quest blows, isn't required to get a bracer, and doesn't give any special amount of faction to make it any better than milk or gnoll teeth. Rangers who kill animals are only poachers if they don't use all the parts they find and leave giant carcasses laying around all over like those National Geographic pics of dead elephants with their tusks sawed off.
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I'm doing the hero bracer quest, and i guess i got really lucky, the best thing to do I guess is for the Mino hero get to the camp kinda late and ask the person (if there is one) how long they hvae been camping the quest, if its been at least 6-7 hours ask them to send you a tell when they are finished. Now I dont know if that really works but I went to SF to camp the hero and there was a guy camping it who had been there for 6 striaght hours. He let me take the camp and almost exactly 1 hour after I took over I got the shackles. For the key I don't know what to tell you about Nomala spawn, I just went to the island and killed em got the key, sorry have no suggestions for that. But what I need to know is will amiably faction to SteelWarriors be enough for the quest, I was apprehensive and now I'm almost amiably, lthough now every guards in East and West FP haet me now, NFP love me though, thats what matters. But can it be done with just indifferent? I sneaked behind him and he still wouldn't say anything to me and told me just short of get lost. Anyone know for sure?
Anonymous
Yes absolutely-you need to have amiable faction with Steel Warriors. The best way is to get your Knights of Truth up with Mojax in WC and give him milk!! I gave him maybe 400-600 milk. Cheap and easy way to get up SW faction. Just do the deathfist belt quest to get knights of truth up and kill lots of Deathfist Orcs!!
Anonymous
Ok this is insane. Trying get get the $%$%#!@! key from Nomala to finish the Hero Bracer quest. Have killed him 4 times and still no key!! Spawn time is almost 2 hours!!! This is ridiculus! I think this is really idiotic to have a Mob spawn every 2 hours and not have the loot you need at LEAST every other spawn or so. Really takes the fun out of EQ. it's bad enough we spen alost three weeks getting shackles from mino hero (another joke) and getting faction up with SW, but this is supposed to be a game, not a test of patience!!!! Anyone have any suggestions on lowering his spawn time? What if you just kill everything on island? Would that make Nomala spawn? Please help! I'm ready to lose my mind
Anonymous
Ok update on Hero Bracer quest. If your faction is high enough with Steel Warriors you can complete this quest without needing to camp camp Nomala! If you ask Gram "What second escaped gladiator?" and he tells you the tale of how the mino hero escaped you can just give him the hero shackles from the mino hero and you get the Hero Bracers! But make sure he gives you the answer or you will loose your shackles!
Anonymous
Hey all. Had a bad experience today. After camping Namala for 12 hours I finally got the key. I'm a druid helping a fellow guild member get hero bracer. After my excitement of getting the key I teleported to NK and continued my journey to SQ.
When I opened my inventory to turn in key, it wasn't there! It poofed. I made no stops during my trip to SQ, so I couldn't figure it out. After going thru the typical q&a with a guide, they transferred me to a GM.
I retold the story to the GM and he/she went thru the logs and came up with nothing! NOTHING! I don't get it. They said that it wasn't in the log files so they could help me out.
I have a rollplaying website I've been working on (nothing up yet) and I've been documenting alot of the quests that I do and put a story behind them. So I had a screenshot of me getting the key. I'm sure it wont hold its weight, but I sent it to the two email addresses that the Guide had given me to report my problem to if a GM wasn't able to get to me before I logged.
So here I am again, checking on Namala every 85 minutes (seems to be right about there for spawn), in hopes that I'll get a key before 12 hours are up this time. Everyone wish me luck.
Regards,
Travlyn
40th Druid
Veeshan
When I opened my inventory to turn in key, it wasn't there! It poofed. I made no stops during my trip to SQ, so I couldn't figure it out. After going thru the typical q&a with a guide, they transferred me to a GM.
I retold the story to the GM and he/she went thru the logs and came up with nothing! NOTHING! I don't get it. They said that it wasn't in the log files so they could help me out.
I have a rollplaying website I've been working on (nothing up yet) and I've been documenting alot of the quests that I do and put a story behind them. So I had a screenshot of me getting the key. I'm sure it wont hold its weight, but I sent it to the two email addresses that the Guide had given me to report my problem to if a GM wasn't able to get to me before I logged.
So here I am again, checking on Namala every 85 minutes (seems to be right about there for spawn), in hopes that I'll get a key before 12 hours are up this time. Everyone wish me luck.
Regards,
Travlyn
40th Druid
Veeshan
#Anonymous,
Posted: Oct 06 2001 at 1:20 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I think I can speak for everyone on this topic. Please people when you know that someone has been camping for a long time, don't pester them about when they are going to leave. Don't sit down next to them to "wait" until they are done. You might be waiting a long time and then the time it takes for you to complete your camp on top of that. The NPC will always respawn and will always be there. Just ask them kindly if they will send you a tell when they are done and 9 times out of 10 they will. These players are tired from camping that long of a period and quite understandably a little grouchy and become extremely nervous at the thought of someone possibly stealing their kill. So, be courteous.
#Anonymous,
Posted: Oct 06 2001 at 1:19 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I think I can speak for everyone on this topic. Please people when you know that someone has been camping for a long time, don't pester them about when they are going to leave. Don't sit down next to them to "wait" until they are done. You might be waiting a long time and then the time it takes for you to complete your camp on top of that. The NPC will always respawn and will always be there. Just ask them kindly if they will send you a tell when they are done and 9 times out of 10 they will. These players are tired from camping that long of a period and quite understandably a little grouchy and become extremely nervous at the thought of someone possibly stealing their kill. So, be courteous.
#Anonymous,
Posted: Oct 06 2001 at 1:19 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I think I can speak for everyone on this topic. Please people when you know that someone has been camping for a long time, don't pester them about when they are going to leave. Don't sit down next to them to "wait" until they are done. You might be waiting a long time and then the time it takes for you to complete your camp on top of that. The NPC will always respawn and will always be there. Just ask them kindly if they will send you a tell when they are done and 9 times out of 10 they will. These players are tired from camping that long of a period and quite understandably a little grouchy and become extremely nervous at the thought of someone possibly stealing their kill. So, be courteous.
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I think I can speak for everyone on this topic. Please people when you know that someone has been camping for a long time, don't pester them about when they are going to leave. Don't sit down next to them to "wait" until they are done. You might be waiting a long time and then the time it takes for you to complete your camp on top of that. The NPC will always respawn and will always be there. Just ask them kindly if they will send you a tell when they are done and 9 times out of 10 they will. These players are tired from camping that long of a period and quite understandably a little grouchy and become extremely nervous at the thought of someone possibly stealing their kill. So, be courteous.