Gem Inlaid Longsword  

 

After clearing the troll caves about 20+ times and the undead blacksmith room nearly as many, I finally saw the First Mate spawn from a renanimated mercanary's corpse in the blacksmith room. I was AE kiting in 1st person so when the First Mate spawned and gave me a cuff, I was happy to see it was a slash instead of a hit Of course, I've been epic for over a year so it wasn't *that* big of a deal, but nice to get anyway.

Plus, right after I killed him, I checked the pier I had cleared some 20min earlier and found the decaying fisherman up and got the necklace. Nice night all around.. heh

As for this I would if you can try get a battle drummers main gauche (or somthing like that). It has a 80% mod. BEtter ratio and stats. Its a bit higher rec level. But it's worth it in the long run. The battle drummers do 54 dmg per tick on dots. While karans drum do 75. So not all that bad and doing 5 dot with double hitting swords is really nice damage. This is easier to get though. But the battle drummer is way more usefull in the long run.

Well I check this weapon out last night with my bard. Took out my beast drum, stood with my back to the wall and hit Num Lock. Bolted across Qeynos from one side to the other and timed it with my timer. Then I equipped the sword and timed it. I did this about 4 times with each. Each time I came up with the drum being only about a half second faster.

Now I know this is supposed to be less than a store bought drum, but am having trouble believing it.

Took a couple plat and bought myself a hand drum. Equipped it Did the same in Qeynos. Equipped the sword and did it again. Each time the sword came out to be about 2 seconds faster.

I think either this has been upgraded or the mod was wrong in the first place. Beast drum was only slightly faster if any really.

Just liked the claim that the Stretched Skin drum was same mod as store bought and I run wall to wall in Qeynos 2 secs faster with it also.

I do the runs near the zoneline to QH where the wall is spread relatively far apart and there is no lag at all. This could also be done in QH near the Qeynos zoneline. I know this may not be the correct way to test, But I know run speed is affected by mod. I don't think the mod on this weapon is as weak as people think. But then again I have been known to be wrong.

Edited, Thu Sep 4 10:28:03 2003

thi sis now reccomended lvl 45

The epic modifier is only 1.8, so I would say this at 1.4 is very nice for any pre epic bard that wants to melee and play percussion type songs. Then again there is the PoP version of a 1h piercing weapon that is a 2.0 modifier
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=17756

Edited, Tue May 27 09:41:51 2003

Just bought one of these for 15k tonight and I must say it was worth every penny. Offhanded my Disemboweler for it. Although the mod isn't the greatest my advice is hold on to your Selo's drum if you don't plan to melee. This blade looks so damn sweet, looks nothing like the other ykesha graphics which are terrible in my opinion. Awesome pre-epic blade, if you have the chance to get one, don't think twice about it, get it =)

Skoty Dont 53 Bard - Veeshan

First Mate Bresanev pops from any of the undead ogre type mobs near the docks. We've managed to pop him from a number of undead in the undead weaponsmiths room, to a few times on the docks near hates zone in.

Hes not just limited to War torns.

Could someone please provide the coordinates / camp name and name of the mob that drops this in Nardox? For us epic-less bards, we'd love a weapon like this. I don't want any gifts, I'd just like to know where my group should go to camp for this fine piece of bard hardware.

Any good info would really make this bard VERY happy!

Thanks,
52 Minstrel Horst Meistersinger

I don't know what the going price is as I am not good at prices. I just usually find the lowest price in bazaar and mark it down a little bit. I looked in the bazaar for two days after obtaining this sword but couldn't find one anywhere. After 2 days of searching of doing /ooc for price checks, I finally got someone interested. He offered 1k at first just to see how dumb I was. I laughed at him and told him to give a serious bid or shut up and he offered 2500plat. Since I dont have a bard or any bard friends, I sold it and decided I would farm it. To this day, I have looted this sword 9 times and won the roll 6 of those 9. I only have 1 left and have sold them all for 2500plat each.