Methods of Sarnak Destruction  

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Information:
Level:95
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Task
Quest Goal:
  • Advancement
  • Experience
  • Money
Success Lockout Timer: 00:01:00
Quest Items:
Related Zones:
Related Quests:
Era:Empires of Kunark
Recommended:
Group Size:Solo
Min. # of Players:1
Max. # of Players:1
Appropriate Classes:
  • All
Appropriate Races:
  • All
Entered: Tue Dec 13 02:34:04 2016
Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
Pre Req:
- Achievement: Partisan of Lceanium (Concerned Citizens, Contacting the Leadership, Disappearing Dragons, Sneaky Sarnak)
- Achievement: Partisan of The Scorched Woods (Digging Yourself Deeper, The Last Grove, Where is Burning Woods?, On Nobody's Side)
- Achievement: Partisan of Frontier Mountains (Pentalateral Negotiations, Informal Diplomacy, Rocks Boom for Twigslam, Sarnak Among Us)
- Achievement: Partisan of The Temple of Droga (Corrupt Before the Fall, Purifying the Purifier, Corrupting the Corrupt, Pure Success, Rebellion of the Pure)
- Achievement: Mercenary of Gates of Kor-Sha (Preparations for Forward Action I, Preparations for Forward Action II, Preparations for Forward Action III)
- Probing the Fortress, Their Own Medicine, Destabilizing Chardok (from Partisan of Chardok)
- Investigating the Mysterious Sarnak (from Partisan of Kor-Sha Laboratory)

Talk to Ingisitorma Varro in Frontier Mountains to get this task.

Say task to get the task.




Collect 2 of each drop, they are pre lootable. Later in the quest you'll need another of each for some combines.

  1. Collect 1 Intact White Dragon Scale 0/1 Lceanium

    Kill Yeti's to the east of the city in Lceanium. Loot a Intact White Dragon Scale.


  2. Collect 1 Meteorite Fragment 0/1 Scorched Woods

    Meteorite Fragment drops from the Burynai at the crater in Scorched Woods.


  3. Collect 1 Giant Lymph Node 0/1 Frontier Mountains

    Giants in Frontier Mountains at the fort mid zone drop the Giant Lymph Node.


  4. Collect 1 Dronan Ore 0/1 The Temple of Droga

    Dronan Ore drops from Goblins in Temple of Droga.


  5. Collect 1 Imperial Ore 0/1 Chardok

    Travel to Chardok. Imperial Ore drops from multitude of mobs. Click on them item link above to get a listing of mobs we have on record dropping it.


  6. Collect 1 Korshan Sarnak Scale 0/1 Gates of Kor-Sha

    Sarnak's in Gates of Kor-Sha drop the Korshan Sarnak Scale.


  7. Collect 1 Ancient Sarnak Bones 0/1 Kor-Sha Laboratory

    Ancient Sarnak Bones drop from Goblins in Kor-Sha Laboratory.


  8. Create a Mana of the Sarnak 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a forge, combine all 7 items. Trivial at 202, You MAY fail.

    If successful, the item will disappear and you will see the following.

    You have fashioned the items together to create something new: Cloudy Brown Liquid.

    The mixture boils and bubbles, quickly expanding to crack the vial you put it in. It quickly pours out and falls grossly to the ground only to quickly evaporate into a pungent cloud.


  9. Tell Ingisitorma Varro that your first attempt [failed] 0/1 Frontier Mountains

    Head back to Ingisitorma Varro in Frontier Mountains. Hail him and then say smiths.


  10. Collect 1 Metallurgy of Souls 0/1 Brell's Temple

    Now you'll need to travel out of expansion back to the Underfoot expansion to Brell's Temple. The Metallurgy of Souls (book) is a ground spawn on a table near Brell Serilis.


  11. Collect 1 Cleaned White Dragon Scale 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a mixing bowl, combine 1 Intact White Dragon Scale and 1 Vial of Viscous Mana.


  12. Collect 1 Enchanted Meteorite Fragment 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a forge, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Meteorite Fragment.


  13. Collect 1 Enchanted Giant Lymph Fluid 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a Brew Barrel, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Giant Lymph Node.


  14. Collect 1 Enchanted Dronan Ore 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a forge, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Dronan Ore.


  15. Collect 1 Enchanted Imperial Ore 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a forge, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Imperial Ore.


  16. Collect 1 Cleaned Korshan Sarnak Scale 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a mixing bowl, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Korshan Sarnak Scale.


  17. Collect 1 Korshan Portal Resonance 0/1

    In Gates of Kor-Sha, go to the farthest east portion of the zone and stand on the portal at /loc +1873, -1648, +255 with a Vial of Viscous Mana in your inventory. You should receive Korshan Portal Resonance.


  18. Collect 1 Enchanted Ancient Sarnak Bones 0/1 - (Recipe)

    In a oven, combine 1 Vial of Viscous Mana and 1 Ancient Sarnak Bones.


  19. Create 1 Mana of the Sarnak using tradeskills 0/1 - (Recipe) Trivial 178

    In a forge, combine 1 Cleaned Korshan Sarnak Scale, 1 Cleaned White Dragon Scale, 1 Enchanted Ancient Sarnak Bone, 1 Enchanted Dronan Ore, 1 Enchanted Giant Lymph Node, 1 Enchanted Meteorite Fragment, 1 Enchanted Imperial Ore, 1 Korshan Portal Resonance.

    It has been reported you can do an alternative combine to get this item. I need confirmation for the recipe to make Mana of the Sarnak Compressor. (Recipe)


  20. Report your [success] to Ingisitorma Varro 0/1 Frontier Mountains

    On completion you get the achievement Essence of the Dragon I (Group) that grants you the first rank of the special AA "Essence of the Dragon". You also get the mercenary AA "Essence of the Dragon" for your mercenary.
Submitted by: Gidono
Rewards:
  • 638pp, Experience, AA: Essence of the Dragon, Merc
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Can confirm combines can fail
# Dec 27 2023 at 5:13 PM Rating: Decent
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I just failed a combine, character has very low tradeskills, failed but previous combine skilled me to 26. I think they are failable but very low trivial so if you have any amount of skill you likely won't fail. Salvaged the item anyway, but also had extras so meh.
Level 100 Heroic
# Dec 02 2023 at 4:43 AM Rating: Good
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Just completed with a Level 100 Heroic. These toons come with all tradeskills at 150.
All the tradeskill combines completed with no failures.
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Cloudy Brown Liquid
# Oct 24 2022 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good
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The instructions above show that the trivial for this is 202. I'm not able to pull up the recipe in my list to verify, but when I performed the combine with a smithing of 159, I got the message "You can no longer advance your skill from making this item." I don't know if this is from them locking down the recipe to prevent people from farming it to get to 202 or if they lowered the trivial for this item, but I had 3 toons with about the same smithing and all combined the first time with this message.
Step 8
# Aug 05 2022 at 2:55 AM Rating: Decent
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With Blacksmithing at 163, on step 8 I made the Mana of the Sarnak Compressor first (which is supposed to allow you to make Mana of the Sarnak if your blacksmithing isn't great?), then in the Mana of the Sarnak Compessor, I added the ingredients to make Mana of the Sarnak and got these 2 messages:
1) You have fashioned the items together to create something new: Mana of the Sarnak.
2) The mixture explodes with energy the moment you stir the ingredients. Liquid covers you and soaks into your skin almost instantly. You feel a tingle for a few minutes, then nothing. Maybe it worked in some way?

Well, I received nothing and did not get credit for this step of the quest.
I also saw someone with 300 blacksmithing with trophy get this same message and result...
Did anybody else get this result or know something before I go through this agian?
Step 8
# Oct 24 2022 at 2:12 PM Rating: Good
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As far as not getting anything, that's normal. With me (smithing at 159), a green vial appeared on my cursor for just a moment and then disappeared. I then go to the step that I needed to Tell Ingistorma Varro that I failed
Cloudy Brown Liquid
# Feb 08 2022 at 1:42 PM Rating: Decent
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Re:

8. Create a Mana of the Sarnak 0/1 - (Recipe)

In a forge, combine all 7 items. Trivial at 202, You MAY fail.

AND

19. Create 1 Mana of the Sarnak using tradeskills 0/1 - (Recipe) Trivial 178



Smithing @ 146 - received the text "You can no longer advance your skill from making this item"

Edited, Feb 9th 2022 3:54am by mingokaldjinn
Update on trivial
# Sep 05 2020 at 7:26 AM Rating: Good
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I just finished this on my main and two alts, started with zero skill in trades all around.

All did the freebie TS quests in Cresent Reach, then requested the Trophy quest in FP on all toons, although, only my main did the 3 Trophy quests. But now if my alts need down the road I can run through them later.

Then I skilled up has listed below, on Baking did Filleted bear and patty melts, brewing did Ol'Tuljim's Fierce Brew and Faydwer Shaker, and for Smithing did banded bracer to 95, mail to 115, and sewing kits to 162.

So now all 3 of the skills needed are between 162-180ish, and much to my surprise I got the message "You can no longer advance your skill from making this item." ON ANYTHING!

So it looks like they lowered the skill level needed to achieve this quest, you should still collect a few extras of each piece, 4 per toon per item, Lymph nodes took the longest to get (for me anyway).

Smakk

Side note, on all my toons I did spend the AA's for the first 3 levels of mastery, 3/6/9, that probably helped with me only failing one combine...

Edited, Sep 6th 2020 1:26pm by Aargile
Failed final combine
# May 15 2020 at 9:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Just want to say that my trade skills are sufficient. Made every combine along the way without an issue. Failed the final combine in the forge and lost all items. My smithing is 276. Not a happy person.
Not a Group Task
# Oct 07 2019 at 10:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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I can confirm, this is a solo task now. You cannot invite other members.

Ozadar of Zek
Quick Tradeskilling
# Feb 13 2019 at 2:49 AM Rating: Good
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I didn't find a good writeup for getting tradeskills up to par for this so here's what i used:

Baking: Bear Meat and all other ingredients are available from Klen Ironstove in PoK East trader building.
0-143: Filleted Bear [1 Bear Meat, 1 Filleting Knife] (you'll need to go whip up a filleting knife with blacksmithing)
144-191: Patty Melt [1 Non-Stick Frying Pan, 1 Cheese, 1 Loaf of Bread, 1 Bear Meat] Need a quick trip to jaggedpine forest for the parts needed for the pan

Brewing: All ingredients available from Brewmaster Berina in PoK, next to small bank.
0-135: Ol'Tuljim's Fierce Brew [Cask, Barley, Malt, Yeast, Hops]
136-248: Minotaur Hero's Brew[Water Flask (2), Cask, Short Beer (2), Malt (3), Yeast]

Smithing: There's really no fast way without dropping a lot of pp on this. I used the Abysmal Sea quest to hit 56 but honestly it felt like a waste of time. I then bought titanium, tantalum, and osmium ore at around 300pp each in the bazaar and made studs and barbs up to around 185.

Edited, Feb 18th 2019 5:33am by tarxas
Quick Tradeskilling
# Dec 21 2020 at 1:48 AM Rating: Good
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Brewing 114, Baking 191, Smithing 93
No combine failures, maybe I got lucky.
However, I do have all the Mastery AAs at 3, which reduces failure chance to 50%
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Cannot get Offer for this quest
# Feb 10 2019 at 7:56 PM Rating: Decent
I have completed Investigating the Mysterious Sarnak quest 5 times, thinking I bugged the first one somehow and repeated it, followed the turn in steps. But the quest giver will not give me the Methods of Sarnak Destruction only offers Investigating the Mysterious Sarnak again. Anyone have any ideas what the fix is, I put in a petition but they told me to bug report it, done that as well.

Everything is BLUE (Completed) Up to Patisan of Kor-Sha Laboratory and I am ally with the quest giver.
Cannot get Offer for this quest
# Feb 10 2019 at 10:11 PM Rating: Decent
It turns out that all of my quest line is bugged, I checked the other NPC's that give tiered task and they all offer only the first line in their quest line. They at least recognize that I am able to request the initial quest and the pre reqs to allow it.
pre Loot
# Oct 03 2018 at 5:07 PM Rating: Excellent
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These can be prelooted or bought if you have someone hand them to you.
You have to get more than one each of the items because you don't get them back on the first (failed) attempt.
Korshan Portal Resonance
# Jul 30 2017 at 12:03 AM Rating: Good
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You don't have to hold vial of viscous mana, as long as it's in one of your bags you are carrying, when you step on the portal, task will update and Korshan Portal Resonance will appear on your cursor. A Vial of viscous mana is consumed. I tried to get Korshan Portal Resonance for other toons, but it did not work. Whomever is on quest has to do it.
trivials
# May 05 2017 at 4:24 PM Rating: Decent
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Based on experiments with Cleaned White Dragon Scale, the combine is fail-able and its trivial is between 100-125.
I believe this trivial range applies to the other six combines with Vial of Viscous Mana as well.
I highly recommend raising smithing, baking, and brewing skills before attempting these combines as raising trade skills is much easier than camping these drops.
trivials
# May 06 2017 at 4:23 PM Rating: Excellent
Questlore wrote:
Based on experiments with Cleaned White Dragon Scale, the combine is fail-able and its trivial is between 100-125.
I believe this trivial range applies to the other six combines with Vial of Viscous Mana as well.
I highly recommend raising smithing, baking, and brewing skills before attempting these combines as raising trade skills is much easier than camping these drops.


Thanks, updated all the recipes.
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Confused on sequence
# Mar 21 2017 at 8:36 AM Rating: Decent
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On step 8 how do you skip the smithing skill to make the "mana of the sarnak (Cloudy brown liquid)? Do you make and use "mana of the sarnak compressor" at this stage? Doesn't it poof, so you have to make another ? Or is it easier just to skill up smithing?
Confused on sequence
# Apr 03 2017 at 5:45 AM Rating: Decent
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On Step # 8, characters with black smithing skills from 5 through 357 all made the combine and created Cloudy Brown Liquid which immediately poofed and you see the following messages:

You have fashioned the items together to create something new: Cloudy Brown Liquid.

The mixture boils and bubbles, quickly expanding to crack the vial you put it in. It quickly pours out and falls grossly to the ground only to quickly evaporate into a pungent cloud.

No real need for a 200+ skill or use of Marketplace trade skill potions at this step!


Confused on sequence
# Oct 19 2019 at 7:06 PM Rating: Good
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not true.
Blacksmithing 7: failed, maxed salvage. 2 items back, 5 items poooof. Crap.
You need the skill in Blacksmithing, everything else is simply ... luck...
Confused on sequence
# Mar 21 2017 at 11:09 AM Rating: Good
you can buy in the market place an item that will make all your combine for a Time period (like 2 hours) always combine.
Else go work on your trade skills
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/Category:EQ_Tradeskills
Confused on sequence
# Mar 27 2017 at 8:55 AM Rating: Decent
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potion "Draught of the Craftsman" worked like a charm. Finished all combines in about 20 mins. Thanks for the tip.
Failures
# Mar 18 2017 at 10:08 PM Rating: Decent
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The non-trivial status is not accurate. I incurred failures on the brewing, mixing bowl combine and oven combine portions. At this time, I don't know what the trivial is for those - I only worked smithing to 200 for this endless task.
Imperial ore
# Feb 28 2017 at 3:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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Killed 4 slavedrivers without getting any imperial ore, but a Shai'din soldier had it.
Imperial ore
# Mar 02 2017 at 4:11 PM Rating: Excellent
Spirittallker wrote:
Killed 4 slavedrivers without getting any imperial ore, but a Shai'din soldier had it.


Thanks, added to the mob drops for that item.
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Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
# Jan 16 2017 at 11:28 AM Rating: Decent
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Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
Blacksmithing
Trivial 102
Yield 1
In a Forge:
Cleaned Korshan Sarnak Scale
Cleaned White Dragon Scale
2 Enchanted Dronan Ore
Enchanted Ancient Sarnak Bone
Enchanted Giant Lymph Node
2 Enchanted Imperial Ore
Enchanted Meteorite Fragment
Korshan Portal Resonanance
Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
# Jan 18 2017 at 9:48 AM Rating: Excellent
Dinamu1 wrote:
Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
Blacksmithing
Trivial 102
Yield 1
In a Forge:
Cleaned Korshan Sarnak Scale
Cleaned White Dragon Scale
2 Enchanted Dronan Ore
Enchanted Ancient Sarnak Bone
Enchanted Giant Lymph Node
2 Enchanted Imperial Ore
Enchanted Meteorite Fragment
Korshan Portal Resonanance


Enchanted Giant Lymph Node or Enchanted Giant Lymph Fluid?
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Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
# Feb 25 2017 at 5:09 AM Rating: Decent
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Fluid (made out of the Node with Vial of Viscous Mana).
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Mana of the Sarnak Compressor
# Feb 26 2017 at 2:58 PM Rating: Excellent
HSishi the Shady wrote:
Fluid (made out of the Node with Vial of Viscous Mana).


Thanks, added a link to the recipe in the quest entry.
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