I use this with a Green Jade Broadsword on my warrior ( better than nothing ) and I do pretty good damage. It is pretty fast but i hate the graphics on it..looks old and busted..very good twink sword nonetheless..goes for 10-14k on Stromm..bad bad economy
Is there still a grimling bloodpriest? I don't see any mention of him either in the bestiary or as someone who drops this sword. I do know I got 2 of these swords on back to back days off of The Grimling Bloodpriest about a month ago, but I havent spent much time in AC since then. He spawned in the very middle of the line of grimlings in the large room with the blood pit in it.
Yes, this sword still drops off the "A Grimling Bloodpriest" - a rare spawn at the big blood pool in outer Acrylia Caverns. It did so yesterday, 17th of July 2004
I am currently using curved claws in my primary( donated by a shammen who no longer needed them-Drysst rules) and now that I found this for sale for 6k I use it in my secondary, replacing scemitar of the emerald dawn. These paired together with silver chitin handwraps makes this ranger a meat grinder who hits steadily in the 40s every hit. It has help me to gain lvls like a beast, 40 to 44 in like 3 hours a day for 4 days. Gives a steady stream of a@# kickin so that even in a group I do not pull agro away fom the MT, but it wears the mob out. Just had to let you all know that I am extreamlly glad I purchased this sword and you will be to.
I think its quite hilarious that people continue to rip Verant, pretending to be sages about weapons and graphics, et al., even after that company left the EQ stage some time ago.
Why in gods name did verant feel a need to change this appearance on weapon to that of a rusty shantok or some crap. GRRR scowl and kick your azz verant dangit. This was soo insane a look least leave the look and kill a stat or 2 but come on already, we finally get a decent looking weap otehr then snowchipper and u gotta give it a rusty less then noob weapon look, WHY WHY WHY...
My rant on look change anyhow sorry all =)
BTW if u never had it before change it was like picture light blue w wings on hilt, badaZZ weap it was now i wouldnt swing it to save my life id die and get rezzed to save face :( cry over it
I agree the graphic change was a step backwards but still would not get rid of this bad-boy. I use it with my 52 ranger in combination with a longsword of etherial energy and it is a good combination.
I'm glad they changed the way this sword looks, it just didn't look right with my SBoZ. It had too many details and crap and was too shiny, now both my weapons look like they have blades made of gray play-dough /cheer
I have petitioned and sent bug reports to SoE .. I am begging everyone to do the same . MAybe ,jsut maybe they will change it back.. they also screwed up the 2hs version . it is also a big grey blob now. i wouldnt care if they made it no drop or made it have a recomended lvl of 46 or something .. just change the sword back.
I can't believe they changed the graphic on this bad boy. It looks like crap now. What were they thinking. Power isn't just everything, the looks help along with the 'feel' of EQ. Errr
Again I got this item plus others for dirt cheap...
I am on Povar Server picked it up for 8K I was amazed.. But then again i sepnt a lot of time in bazaar just searching with 50K on me and twinked the heck out of a new Ranger i made....
I can't confirm that the bloodprist drops the sword. I do know that he dropped the 2hs version though twice now out of 2 spawns. I got him twice in a row and then have not seen him in the last 8hrs of camping him. He is amazingly easy to kill. Was clearing the whole room plus the adjacent rooms with a 65 necro for cash. But I digress.
Arcanist, was looking for him in inner or lower acrylia caverns (whatever its called). Have run around it a bit and didnt see him up, I'm sure the PH was up for him. I do not know however what his PH is or what room he is in. I haven't been able to find any specifics other then he is in lower acrylia. Does anyone have anymore specifics on him? Also as a side note I was looking around for the zone out in lower acrylia and was unable to find it. Was told it was just a rug on the wall you click on... there are COUNTLESS rugs on the wall, none of which resulted in my exiting the zone.
BUG NOTE: Normally when you click an item to transfer to a different local in a zone mobs do not follow. In AC when you have aggro and click to the lower acrylia they pop in right on top of you. If you do not kill those mobs then they will stay there, they WILL NOT return to spawn. This has to be one of the most frustrating things I've found and have had to have a GM reset the zone (which is nice if you just killed PH hehe).
Will update if I can find any future information or if I can confirm drop from bloodpriest. All the spawns seem to be on a rough 30min timer.