Rod of Insidious Glamour  

just did this quest with my high lvl druid as the item you get at the end is not no drop.handed in all the pieces & did not get anythink back.make sure your faction is good with them before you hand in the items or you my loss them all as I did.
hope this helps out in some way as I would not like to see this happen to anyone else.

just give her 5pp or 50gp or 500sp or 5kcp,

she didnt eat the stone shes just waiting for the right amount of cash.


made the same mistake, but a helpful hg "loaned" me the 5pp I needed to make things right.

Is this effect able to clicked from the inventory? And if so, is it possible for other classes to use it then? It would incredibly helpfull if it acted like an amulet of necropotence...

You can handle the priest room without too much problems with just a 35+ SK. First, pull the two boys on the far walls and pray they both aren't shammys (they'll heal each other).

Bind, rest and med, then pull the priest - you'll probobly pull a freind or two with him but just focus on the preist and then FD if you don't think you can handle the others.

Next, either camp out or /q out and then log in your chanter whom you've already camped invis to the spot you were pulling to. If the chanter never wasted a frog before, you'll be dubious and can loot and walk out, otherwise, simply gate.

Same process with the shadow men - I found the shadow man camp in the swamp to be most productive.

As a side note though, they nerfed his drop rate - I've only been seeing the frog holding the rod about one in three kills now.

I gave the shining stone to cynthia and gave her 50pp instead of 50gp, ended up talking to a GM and they said I need another item and the right amount, big liars, trying to slow meh down!=)

I just finished this quest last night. As a lvl 40 enchanter without my newest pet spell, this quest seem to be pretty easy but still fun. I did the Froglok Priest part with the help of a few guildmates a few levels back after reading about multiple adds and such involved with the froggies. To be honest, if you tackle the two higher cons first, you shouldn't run into the problem with 8 froggies all on you at once. The Froglok Priest dropped the rod on the first kill. That part took us a total of about 10 minutes. The remainder of the quest I did solo.

I chose to kill the Shadowed Men in SK because of the ease to get to Rathe Mtns and back up to HHK without the need of a druid or wizzy for porting. All the Shodowed Men conned green to me and would not agro when approached. Pulling one at a time was very easy even with the high taunt spell, Tash. Buffing the pet with Shade, Celerity and Rampage let the pet just tank all night long. The Shadowed Men run extremly fast and when they turn to run, they turn east. Be sure to pull them to the east of their little encampment so they don't all agro after retreating back through the pack. Only once did I make this mistake and had to gate out. The casters are healers and like to nuke as well. Be sure to have a stun spell available for when they start to heal themselves. This took about 3 hours to finally get the shining stone to drop.

SK is a great lowbie zone and for the enchanters out there that are starting their jewelcrafting skills, this is a great zone to pick to fight Shadowed Men. While I was there, I made 4 sales while I was low on mana and medding. The Aviak Tree and Split Paw are very close by and make good places to meet. Accept gold pieces as a form of payment since you're gonna need 50gp for the gypsy in Rathe Mtns and another 50gp for the guy in HHK. The Shadowed Men also drop a bit of pp and gp. My big loot was about 4pp I think.

The gypsy in Rathe Mtns is very easy to find. When coming out of Lake Rathe and into Rathe Mtns, follow the left wall until you can see a gypsy camp. She is right there. When you Hail her, she doesn't say much =P Just give her the stone and 50gp. The stone is no longer NO RENT now and the quest could be finished later. I chose to continue to HHK 'cause I've been wanting this for a while.

The guy you're looking for in HHK is the same person you buy enchanter pet spells from. How convient =) I picked up my new pet spell while I was here as well as my next two to save me from running all the way the heck back up there.

Getting to Temple of Solusek Ro from HHK is a long run and includes running through Kithicor Forest. If you choose to do this, be sure you're not running through at night. The undead are not the friendliest beings in Norrath. I would suggest trying to find a port to either Tox or Lavastorm. Since I'm bound in the Nexus, I just gated there and /auction'd for a port. Unfortunetly, there was no one in the Nexus available for a port, so I went to GD and got one from there. GFay I'm sure would've been just as convenient to find a port, but I like Thurgadin much better as a city =P

Check the map on http://www.eqatlas.com for Temple of Solusek Ro for the location of the the NPC for the Rod of Insidious Glamour. He was pretty deep into the temple, but easy to find with a map.

Since the release of Luclin, I've had to use my Alliance line of spells much more frequently. I haven't had to do the Shadowhaven Traders quest since casting Alliance or Benevolence on most NPCs in Shadowhaven allow me to trade with them. Except for those darn bankers near the swimming pool =P The rod is a great way to free up yet another spell block and the charisma I get from it is pretty good. Not quite as much as a Crude Stein, but the combination of having a weapon in hand all the time, Alliance at the click of a button and +12 charisma on me, I'm willing to sacrifice the 3 charisma and 10 stamina.

-Phaldyne (40 Enchanter of Solusek Ro)

I am a enchanter lvl 31 and want to know if there is a chance my pet and i can take the mobs, with a whole lot of mezzing and nuking. I might get some help but will be by myself the majority, I am not going to start it if i need a 6 person group for each kill...I play on rallos i will probally wind up face down in lava, after my group ditches me in Froggy land..lol

Ok I did this quest as a lvl 45 Druid for my enchanter.

Solo'ed the Priest in guk no problem and didn't have any agro's. He dropped the rod on the 3rd or 4th kill.

I must have been really lucky because I looted the Stone on my first kill. Again solo'ed Shadowed men, in Innothule Swamp. I have camped them several times and there is never anyone there :)

Sunsade Starbrite
45th season Druid
United Champions of Norrath
Lanys Server

Lol I musta got lucky - I was waiting for a friend in lfay to go beat up around MM when I saw the camp of Shadow Men, well as this was the first time I had seen them I went and killed 1 (the whole camp was green)and what do I get? A shining stone. I was about to destroy this when a guildie told me what it was for... now just to pay someone to kill the priest for me so I do not ruin my faction with Frogs in Guk

Sanadebe Sunsoar
45th cleric of the circle of life

hehe i came to wc on the way to get my new pet spells from hhk and came across a full guild group and asked if i could help and in 2 kills it droped like right afer there chanter left to get some food so i go lucky and got the stone and on the next pull got the gloves stayed for 3 hrs and it never droped again hehe thanks guys

who gives this quest in the temple?

This is the perfect quest to do for alittle cash when you have some spare time..your faction with Temple of So Ro will be decent after dealing with the shadowed men...and the rod is very easy to sell...on mith marr at least..anyways, it's a great quest, i would highly suggest it.


Tidiena <Divine Fellowship>
40 warrior Mithaniel Marr

Greetings,

Last week end I finally got around to getting the golden rod from Guk, then headed out to Sol Ro a few days later. I hailed the guy (Sultin) and asked around the rod and all that jazz, but he never mentions Tarn Vislin from High Keep. The stone I had was a Shining Stone, and he said he wanted a Shining Stone, so I gave him the Stone and Rod, only to receive a "Someone (forgot game) doesn't reward a task half done" or something like that message. I petitioned a GM to figure out what I did wrong, and of course, he was no help. So I think that if you get the Stone enchanted at Highkeep, you WON'T get the rod.

Also, I happened to have an extra stone from the Shadowe men, so I headed out to Rathe Mountains to get that one enchanted, and it turns out that giving Cynthia 5pp instead of 50gp doesn't work, so I lost my second stone. At this point I was pretty pissed and the fact that I had just gotten my incandescent mask and gloves didn't really calm me down =).

Anyways, I'd appreciate it if someone that did the quest posted the steps he followed to do the quest. You'd think a level 34 could solo those guys in Guk for the rod, but when a bunch aggro on you, you're stupid pet isn't any help. I died 2 times getting that lousy rod even though he dropped it on the second attempt and I don't feel like paying someone to help me get it again.

Venil Arkenstone,
Zebuxoruk

I found the stone in Lavastorm right next to the entrance to Najena. Can't remember what MOB I found the item on, but I think it was either an imp or basilisk. Never even knew what it is was for, but glad to see it was an enchanter quest.

I camped Shadow men, droped after about 10 or so kills, easy, jut hard part is gettting people to help you if you arent in a guild)

Ebnuszen Enchantrix < Thorn Knights >
29th enchanter of tunare

I saw 5 of these drop in WC while I was camping my shadowed Rapier for my jboots quest.. of course.. alot of people were more than happy to come loot em when I said I didnt want em..
go figure

Does anyone know if this Stone still drops off Shadow Men in West Commons? This isn't suppose to be a very time consuming quest, but I camped the Shadowmen for 4 hours last night without a single stone dropping???

I'm a 57 mage that strong-armed my way through this quest. I walked right up to the 6 shadowed men in Lavastorm and cast a 600dmg AE which sent them all running, and my pet finished off every last one of them. It took about 90 minutes to get a shining stone. I also bullied my way into the froglok priest room. That sh*t has got to be level 20, it dies so fast.

Now my level 6 enchanter has a Rod. Fun being a mage :)

Where exactly in Highkeep is Tarn Visilin? I looked all over for him last night, with a map, and still couldn't find him. Is he like Cynthia in that people like to kill him?