Cobalt Scar  

I'm not sure if anyone still or will read this, lol... but! I went here with my Druid around 43? and I solo'd the Wyvern's no problem. I found an area where the Cobalt Drake (and the named one) wouldn't attack and I rooted them and just blasted those things.

I just went down the edge of the Mountain and by the time I was done with both sides they had already spawned where I had started.

The exp. was decent at the lower levels, but not as much at 46 (They still con a dark or light blue). But the reason I love this place so much is because between the gems that drop I average around 250-300pp.
(A few times they have dropped some pretty decent armor/weapons that I save for my SK)


Edited, Aug 1st 2011 4:20pm by Rheaa

Edited, Dec 9th 2011 3:30pm by Rheaa

Easiest way is to buy a stone in the guild hall and port there, carry a gate potion, plan on spending the whole day , it's an outing :)

Is the only way out of this zone to port or gate? Have a ranger here.

At 50, my wizard friend started porting me to Cobalt Scar on a regular basis. The money there is quite good and the XP is still great at 51. Now, I am going to be a Baron before I get to 52, so the XP ratio does not change in CS for quite a while for me.
My strategy is quite simple:
As soon as I zone in, I cast my best Alliance spell on the Wyverns, this gets me from RtA to dubious, which means, they don't really mind about me.
Then I calm and pull with slow, let me pet take the aggro, Incapacitate, then Choke. When my pet starts getting hit, I simply cast Beserker Spirit (mana-only-Rune) on him. That's about it.
Now, if only someone cared to help me with the named ones...

is it safe to port into CS and if yes can a 50 pally and 51 warrior farm wyvern hides for tailoring?

hope i can actually get some of these wyverns as I see this is a good place for quading(wish i was a kitting class). How often do the hides/pelts drop and can i get the cod in any water?




Edited, Tue Nov 4 18:45:16 2003

I have looted the following gems off of Wyverns in Cobalt Scar. I have been unable to find out exactly what these gems are used for. Can anyone help me?

Flawed Lava Ruby
Flawed Opal
Flawed Flame Opal
Crushed Nephrite
Crushed Emerald
Chipped Black Marble
Coral Crescent
Flawed Chrysolite

I already know about these:

Black Marble - Priest Breastplate
Chipped Onyx Sapphire - Priest Legs
Crushed Black Marble - Melee Boots
Crushed Coral - Melee Helmet
Crushed Flame Emerald - Melee Bracer, Priest Boots
Crushed Flame Opal - Caster Helm
Crushed Jaundice Gem - Caster Boots
Crushed Lava Ruby - Priest Gloves
Crushed Onyx Sapphire - Priest Helm, Caster Bracer
Crushed Opal - Priest Bracer
Crushed Topaz - Melee Gloves, Caster Gloves
Flawed Emerald - Melee Arms
Flawed Sea Sapphire - Melee Legs
Flawed Topaz - Caster Arms
Flawless Diamond - Melee Breastplate
Jaundiced Gem - Priest Arms
Nephrite - Caster legs
Pristine Emerald - Caster Breastplate

Melee - Warrior, Rogue, Monk, Ranger, Shadowknight, Paladin, Bard
Priest - Cleric, Druid, Shaman
Caster - Wizard, Enchanter, Mage

Any help in locating the use of these gems would be greatly appreciated.

Looking on the zone connections map for Velious, I see the connections from EW to CS, but there is a notation between Skyshrine and CS that says 'locked'. Do you in fact have to run from EW and can you get in from Skyshrine or is there another portal somewhere closer, or a boat? I can kill Ulthork easily enough in EW and would like to capitalize on the tusk quest, but it would be pretty easy to die on the way without port or some safer mode/route.

Don't bother to reply if your answer is 'get a port' cause I have already figured that one out. I need to be able to get there on my own, when I want to, in one piece.

This post really doesnt have a question but im just saying its possible to con ready to attack against everyone and still last there for a little less than an hour =). If you do con Ready to Attack and are there in CS STAY AWAY FROM THE DAMNED COLDBALT DRAKES!!! They nuke for 500 and most people dont get away alive..... (they smacked me down in da hole twice)... oh yeah, thats a good reason to get a decent faction =D

I have a ton of ulthork tusks that I would like to turn in, but have been reluctant to travel here. Factions are so confusing on this continent. I've killed a LOT of ulthorks, so my faction with othmir is probably okay. What else do I need to raise factions with to be able to either run to CS. (Haven't found the CS port spell yet). I've been killing Coldain to raise kromrif/kromzek faction because I would like to do do some of the Kael armor quests eventually. So, I'm KOS to coldain but still con threateningly to the Giants. Will either of those factions help/hurt? Thanks in advance for helping to clear up the confusing factions here.

Iindarie
Druid Woodelf of 44 seasons
Brell Serilis

Just wanted to let the rest of you know that a Druid friend of mine ported me here and we had a blast!

...Until somebody's quad-kited Wyverns aggroed onto my pet fighting another Wyvern, my pet died and they took their frustrations out on me. Why? I don't know and I don't speak Dragon so I couldn't ask them.

Sigh.

Coddington
lvl 49 Mage

How do you get to this zone? can a wizzy/druid port you or do you have to track down that key?

Having a drake charmed on the beach is a bad idea its aoe will agro the otters to you luckily i drank a thurg gate potion before our cleric healled me. Good luck

Ragno Drinal Bard 48th song

Hows the money in this zone, I know you can sell them gems and do the tusk quest, but how much you think you can a small group of 3 or 4 lv50's could make an hour?

Ok. This is one of my most favorite zones in the game, and I am an expert on it, so I feel the need to share my knowledge with anyone who may wish to refer to this portion of the CS discussion. Let's start with mobs...best reason to come here. People don't group here, normally, unless they're mid 40's or feel the need to kill named. Mostly people solo the wyvvern. They do not gie any faction hits, are quadable (i.e. train on top of each other easily, continue moving despite having almost no hp as long as there are 2 alive), and give good exp till lvl 53-54. You CAN do this with bad CoV, just pull them down from the beach and quad them there. Zone supports 4 druids/wizards without clarity, max. I'd say they spawn in about 20 minutes..something like that..hit for up to mid 100's if you actually let them nail you, and have maybe 3-5k hp, not sure on that, but the druid AoE can do enough to damage them at lvl 49 with like 190 wisdom and not many mana items. once they snare-lock you MUST be close to the last one or he will bug back to his spawn point and start regening like a lvl 10 twink in a fungi. They have high Cold Resist, no other resists worth mentioning. Drops include pp, words/runes/int caster junk; quest gems, wyvvern meat (good for +3 sv magic food), and wyvvern hides, useful for 200+ tailoring. The gems are (other than cash loot gems) : Chipped Onyx Sapphire-Priest legs, Jaundiced Gem-Priest arms, Flawed Topaz-Caster Arms, Nephrite-Caster Legs, Flawed Emerald-Melee arms, Flawed Sea Sapphire-Melee legs. All mobs in CS drop these gems cept for fish and greenie stuff. You can sell these to PCs if you get lucky or merchants for 40-50pp if you're lazy. If you're into quadding and are 49-55 these are the ticket for you. Nice bugged rock by the SG zone to hide under and med if you're on a pvp server and hate to get jacked while you med up. Make sure you bring batwings as lev is a must for pulling, make sure it's before sow in case the drakes dispell your buff, you want lev to drop rather than SoW.

Now on to drakes. These are nasty, only reason to fight them is for tailoring supplies. They CAST, not proc, an AoE dispell and cold attack for close to 500 without any resist gear. Easiest way to kill them is just to root/DoT and make sure they snared. They de-aggro easier than any mob I've EVER seen. Basically, depending on what spell you are using you can actually still hit them at a range that they've deaggroed at :P They also drop low lvl spells and stupid things like the druid WL port. No idea what the meat is for, hides are for various things like the +8 wis tailored belt ect.

Othmir. Othmir are indiff NCPs on the beach in CS. They are meant to be killable, since they drop good armor. They do give you a faction hit though, so you will eventually get KOS, and they assist each other unlike wyvvern, drakes ect. I don't personally hunt these cuz of the Lodi, OPT quests, though you can raise your faction by slaughtering Ulthorks in EW, Bulthar in CS, or either of these mob arch-types in SG. They drop Crusty armor, which I only see pallies wear, but it looks pretty kewl on half-elves :) Knocks down your cha, if I remember. These are mostly sowed by the shammies in their camps, so you had better snare, root these guys right away. They hit hard cuz I tried to keel em once, wasn't pretty. There's a lvl 55 or so Chief, doesn't drop anything decent as far as I've seen him go down, also don't whack the named ones that are green, those are merchants and people nee them to buy food/water and sell gems to. The Othmir give out the Lodi Shield quest, and the Othmir Prexus Totem quests. They will also take 4 ulthork/bulthar tusks and sometimes give you BDs, diamonds, jacinth if you have Ally faction with them.

Bulthar. These are a pain in the ass, they have a freakin' ton of hp, good MR, and they really really like to assist each other and train. If the Herdmaster is up and sowing them, they can wipe out the beach. Only reason to kill is for the tusks to give to Othmir, as they simply have too much hp for their lvl to be a mana-efficient kill for exp. I have seen chanters charm one and sic it on the other...I have also seen a LTO of chanters asking for rezzes, so do this at your own peril. They give good Othmir/Snowfang Gnoll faction and lower Bulthar faction.

Sirens. No one hunts sirens. it's like hunting Evil Eyes with no PBB drops. They can charm you with 100+ MR, and make you exp kill your friends. nasty little wenches, they hang out kinda far in the water and never come to the beach unless someone pulls them there. If you see one camp to clear aggro or gate....or blow a good bit on mana on a barely blue mob with poor loot.

Haunted Treasure Chests. Lot of hp....bad loot. You aggro these if you go near the ships underwater, so don't go near them. The rope is for a rogue quest, so if you want to quest kill one as it ALWAYS drops the rope.

Coldwater Barracuda. These drop the livers for the Rough Silver Chain quest. Bout 1/20 drop rate, maybe worse. Like 10 are up at one time but it's hard to kill 2 in a row without a shark/siren aggro. Green to 50+.

Sharks........drop shark meat ect.......light blue..tiny exp at 50+...hit harder than they should and really upset casting since you're in the water, use lev to fight them if you have to.

Named mobs. Yvolcarn is the named wyvvern, he is pretty much unable to be immobilized, snared ect. he can be feared. He is easy to aggro and will always be up in place of 1 regular wyvvern. Know where he is and avoid him. he will not summon, doesn't hit hard, but has a ton of hp and is MR higly. Drops drixie remains and gives a nasty CoV factiob hit. Remains are for a kewl ring with good tunare faction that has like 6 sub-quests in WL.

Azuredrake. Drops nada, is sometimes up, has a large aggro range and will dispell you at the drop of a hat. easily killable and I reccommend you do so if you'll be staying in CS for any period of time and are KOS to CoV. has more hp than normal drakes, can be rooted and snared and everything else.


If anyone out there would like to correct me or ask for any additional information about Cobalt Scar, please let me know.

I was told i could quad kite the wyryms(sp?) for great exp here...right now i am workin on gettin my faction up with veeshan....if i get it up to above kos, with other things aggro on me when i killing them? also, does anyone know where they spawn? spawn time etc? Thank ya
~Drinkyn

Where in this zone is Qarrgy Scallopgobbler???????? Nobody seems to know... I gotta get to him to get the Emerald Dragonscale Tunic, but i dont know where he is.

First off, know that the Cobalt Drake AoE is not a proc, but rather a spell. If you can keep the mob feared/blinded, they'll never get it off...

Hunting the drakes themselves is child's play, but risky solo. The best way to do it is to duo them, with a fearer and a snarer (dual Necromancers with rogue pets work wonders here). Get all your buffs in place, especially any cold-resist buffs. FEAR THE DRAKE, FIRST. This is very critical, as if the pets are tanked first, you and they are going to be hit by the AoE, and nothing's worse than having DMF dispelled while you're hovering over the cliff (snickers at a collegue of hers). Also, try to time the snare so that it connects shortly after the fear hits. If only fear lands, the drake will *usually* wander towards the othmir, so not as much chance of trains. Whatever you do, ALWAYS KEEP THE DRAKE FEARED/BLINDED! You can piss off the entire zone if your drake gets it's AoE off, so watch yourself.

PS, the AoE never did more than 300 points of damage to me, usually much less, with only a 50 cold resist (unbuffed)

You can no longer run the cobalt drakes to the Othmir camps on the sea shore. Even if the Othmir get hit by the AOE, they will now ignore the drakes and you will die. Best bet now is to either gate out or zone if you aggro one you cant handle.

I have been hunting this zone alot lately and I am getting some gems that are not on the quest lists for the any of the Velious Armors. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are Flawed Lava rubies, Flawed fire opals, imperfect diamonds, chipped black marble, and several others I am not remembering. Anyone know what these are for? I am hanging on to them because I am sure that there is SOMETHING to do with them, I just dont know what.

Does anyone know where I can get the Wizard Port spell for Cobalt Scar?

http://web.utk.edu/~crisher/cobaltscar.html
http://web.utk.edu/~crisher/maps.html

There is a quest from the chief of the otter men he.. the short story is ya give him 4 tusks from Ulthork (which drop in EW) and he will give ya a totem so far only thing I have gotten are gems but very nice ones. usualy sell for 110pp to 250pp anyway goign to keep trying and see if I can get anything else and if not an ok money maker .. hehe :P

any way laters