Stoicism  

There is some debate whether this spell is efected by extended enhancement focus effects and if it heals for four ticks or five unfocused. After extensive testing i have concluded the five messages you get " you have been healed for 160" is deceptive.

Everytime I cast this spell unfocused it heals for six hundred and forty hit point regardless of whether I got four messages or five. When i used the magician summoned mantle it healed for eight hundred hit points.

So yes extended enhancement does effect this spell but the extra tick you may see occasionally does nothing.

Edited, Tue Jun 13 13:46:44 2006

I did this quest as a 45 Shammy, with the help of a 65 necro. All together it was 30 min from start to finish. All the mobs in Gunthank and Dulaks Harbor con dark blue, so I would take a group or bring a high lvl friend. The spell is a NO TRADE item. Worth every second of the quest.

Ok, so it's a slow and snare on who you heal but...

As stated, it stacks with haste spells and with SoW type spells so you can still move with it on you and, even if you are the haste person, 30% down + 30% up = 0% haste for it's duration.

How long? 24 seconds. 4 ticks.

180 mana for 640 healing in 4 ticks at 160 per tick...

This is more mana efficient than the comparable cleric spell (though it does have the slow and snare effect on it).

You CAN use it during combat on a group member but it's best, and most frequent use, is canni down, cast it on yourself to get HP back.

As to it's slow and snare effects, they are a very small price to pay if your group is in combat and you get stuck with the job as MH at these levels. Your best direct heal is 300hp vs this 640hp heal.

IMO, this spell, starting at 44th level, is extremely valuable if you solo or if you group.

Stoicism does act as a slow and snare, but it stacks with haste buffs, it does not overwrite them. It may not have always been this way, but once stoicism has run it's course any haste buffs will still be up.

This is how it went down, on Veeshan, for this lucky frog. Went to Dulak to check it out before logging for the night. Raaviinness helped me find the way, but I lost invs omw though the tunnel and picked up a train and died. Luckily Handhealing gave me a rez and temp. THANK YOU BOTH. First I self buffed just incase, then with invs on I scoped the zone a bit. I diecided to try a pull on the DP on the stairs outside #2 or #3 building I think.
I clicked off invs and got near him to agro becuase I was close, I ran back behind that same building to find I had a add. So I slowed, debuffed, and Diesease dotted both. I then Poison Dot and maleed the DP down to 20% and ran to zone at 55% health. I zoned back and looted the DP that died from the dots and got an Empty Flask on the one and only mob I killed in that zone.
I ran back to sea spirit and took out the water elemants easy as pie with pet, single pulled and used my basic combat sequence. Pull with slow, sic puppy on them debuff, then applied the above mentioned DoTs and maleed with them. Useing that i can pull three times before medding in DL soloing. I can't wait to get Canni 2 and see how these work together, I shoulde have very little down time.


Yokuts Smudger
45 Shammy
Mark of the Black Frog
Veeshan

Has anyone ever had this Spell cast on them as a Main Tank? Whoah.... It really slows you down. I personally didn't like having it cast on my Ogre Warrior when I was Tankin. Guy is slow enough without anyone slowin em further.. lol..

I did this quest as a 44 Shaman. WOOT! Had a 59 monk and a 60 cleric to help. Monk pulled and fought the pirates with my Shaman attacking as well. Water flask dropped from our fifth drunken pirate. Cleric gave me a rebreather to complete the final underwater battle with Flotsam and Jetsam - very easy kills with the Monk's help - otherwise I would have run out of air, and sadly died.

MASSIAH - Savage Circle Guild - Lanys T'Vil Server

So I get my 44 Shaman n my friend 55 Shaman friend, head to Dulak. Pull Pirate, it drops. We go to Spirit, hand in rock, kill the two tards, get spell within 10 minutes.

I think i may one lucky shaman. Went to do this quest with another shaman who rocks named hammerdem. We got there set up camp kind of expecting it to take a while to get the bottle to drop. We pull one pirate then clear a wanderer and pull the second and BAM! on the second pirate was the empty flask. Took me about 30 mins to do the whole thing cause i had to find the spirit.

This quest can MQed by another shaman. Give the flask to the spirit and hv the other shaman waitin at the ent of boat. Return the rock and help kill the elementals. Let the shaman who wants the spell loot Flotsam and Jetsam. Hv them hail the spirit (important to hail first) and turn in the pieces. It's that simple. I have done this 6 times now on Bertoxx server for 500p each time and once for 900p.(person was hvin computer problems and i stuck around till they figured it out, so they gave me a little extra.)
If you hunt in Dulak a lot like I do, just /ooc that you are LF an empty flask. I get "free" flasks all the time.
Hope that helps.
Peace Frog ....:-P
Baron Croakd Lotsoftimes
56 Shaman
Bertoxx Server

Woot I got the spell as a level 44 shammy.

Ok I probably only killed 20 Drunken Pirates before my Empty Flask dropped. Not sure if this made a difference but on the first and second days when I spent about 1-2 hours each day never saw a Flask. Before going back to Dulak on the third day I actually went down and spoke to the Impassive Spirit and initiated the quest. On the 3rd day just after the servers came back up after the patch there were some changes. You can no longer pull thru the walls with slow or any other spell. you actually have to see them to cast now, kinda sucks for adds.

Well I killed the DP outside house 2 first no adds. Stood right at the front edge of the houses between buildings 2 and 3 and slowed him. he aggroed as soon as invis dropped. Ran between house 2 and 3 back to little nook with brew barrel thing as dotted and rooted and slugged it out there with no pet.

Medded up and invised and went into house 2 and faced straight back but was still in sight if the mob. made sure to reopen door before I cast slow on DP and backed out the door and ran again between 2 and 3 to the same nook. ditto on the fight.

Medded up and invised and went to door of house 3 and made sure guards were not close by and slowed DP, got the Exhausted Ogre that stands close to the DP as an add. ran back down between 2 and 3 to the same nook and then rooted the add and moved out of melee with him. and started beating on the DP. dotted DP and rooted then re rooted the add before it broke. Did this again about 30 seconds later and root was resisted then broke, add ran over to me and I ran back to where I had rooted him before and rerooted there and moved back to DP, finished off the DP with about 30 mana and about 50% health. invised and headed for the zone, root broke on the add but he did not catch me before I zoned. This DP had the Empty Flask which I looted before I invised.

Gated back to windmill in Gunthak and healed and medded up. Got the assist of a 54 Beastlord because there was no definite level info on Flotsam and Jetsum. Did the turn-in and both of the mobs conned Dark Blue to me at 44 so they were under 44 for sure at this point. The fight was quick with me the Beastlord, whoes name I can't remeber the spelling, but thanks you Tets..., and both of our pets.


Hope this helps out.

Rothgarr Odinsson
Shaman of 44 seasons on Lanys T'Vyl
Member of Arx Arcanum

Edited, Thu Jul 10 12:15:48 2003

Bare with the long post, some good info, and some humor..! Man...did this ever suck...After close to 20 hours....yes 20....I finally got my flask...! I think the only thing that helped me was I hate giving up, and I almost did a few times toward the end. For those that might happen to read this in search of some info, after twenty hours there, I have some for ya. As previously stated, the rest of the quest is a breeze. I didn't have or need pet up for the two spawns when turning in the rock. I'm level 45, hp just over 1600 self buffed. Of course I pulled them one at a time with slow. But back to the pirates. I tried many ways there looking for the easiest way to maximize the amount of kills with low risk, trying to avoid adds and the like. I could go on and on about what not to do, but here's the highlites. First i tried the little nook in the wall behind the huts to pull to, the one just behind huts 2 and 3, north a few feet of the two npc's standing in the other nook. Nothing in there see's invis so get it up and go look around a bit, get familiar with the place, chances are your more than likely going to spend some time there anyhow, hopefully not, but just kick back and expect it. My first pull to this nook was not a good one. I was invis, went inside the hut in front of me, targeted a pirate, went back to the nook and fired off slow. Two came a running, not what I wanted, and yes, they hit kinda hard. In the flurry of hits, trying to slow the other one and dot either of them, all while there pounding the crap out of me, was not easy. Finally got them both slowed and one dot'd and went to wailing on him as I realized I'm not going to make it. Right about that time someone at the zone line where I was going to run to sais...No trains to the zone plz, rezzing...! Crap. So I killed the first one, had less than 1/4 life left, I shout...I need to zone..train coming..sorry, and then realized I can't move..One piece of advice, don't totally back all the way up in this nook, you can get pinned in..! Crap. I died..! So once ready for round two I tried slow again, yes you can target thru the walls with no problem, but I always got two sometimes three from it, don't know why, but did, all from inside the same hut where the pirate was coming from. After numerous trains to the zone line, I went and found a much better place and way to do this. If you go south behind the huts, past the two nooks in the wall, you hit a fence, in that corner you aggro nothing. I killed over 200 pirates right there , and leveled...LOL...before I finally got my flask. Getting them one at a time and killing them there was easy, this is how. Forget about pet, he's not needed for one thing, and i'll explain the other in a minute. First the pirates, there's five total spawns. Counting the huts 1 thru 5 from the zone line to your corner, hut 1 has none. Hut 2 has one inside by door on the right, and one outside on the stairs. Hut 3 has one inside by the door on the left. Hut 4 has one inside in the back on the right, and hut 5, closest hut to the south corner where the stone wall meets the fence, where i pulled to, has one inside by the door on the left. Now, forget about hut 4, you can't pull him in the fashion I was pulling, without getting adds. But that's ok, the other four you can with no problem, and even with a 20 minute spawn time on them, I was kept busy. I would invis in corner, run and open the door and target one, step outside and position myself close to where he was on the inside, not to close though, and remove invis, take a step towrd him from the outside and wait a sec, take another step and wait a sec, and maybe another, I was pulling them by geting aggro from being close to them, but not close enough to the others inside the hut to accidentaly pull them too. Once you get aggro, run to your corner and kill him. It worked like a dream. It's important to wait a sec or two when you take your steps toward them because there's a little pause before they aggro, if you don't wait but just walk closer until you get aggro, you've actually gotten close enough to aggro more in the hut than you might want. Do huts 3 and 5 the same way. Hut number 2 went like this, out on the street in front of the one on the stairs remove invis, step just close enough to him to aggro him and head back to corner, kill him and then go back and get a little closer from the outside to aggro the other one who's inside on the right, off to the corner you go for another kill. The problem with using a pet in the corner is, once you get aggro and head back to your corner, as soon as you make your turn around the last hut, here comes dog dog, as loyal as he is he jumps them right by the last hut, and you don't want to have to stay in the street and kill the pirate. Now if you have a group you don't have to do all of this of course, but I was solo for most of my time there, not many groups want to stay in one place that long anyhow. I never had an add this way, taking them on one at a time was no problem without pet, and I was getting 4 of the five spawns each round. Good luck to you as far as time goes, I hope no one has to stay there as long as I did...!!!