Ragebringer  

 

Mac server the code was froze circa May 2003 so lvl 65 is lvl cap. I did the PoH naked and solo cept for a thurg port pot. Picks involved about 6 deaths but wasn't max PP skill yet. Renux was duoed by 50 rog and 65 BL. Brought a group of lvl 65s for General who didn't drop quill nor did the kedge robe drop. Using a 65 wiz and mag to kill Phinegal and CoH me in to loot Kedge robe worked. Camped Magus on and off for a month but after ~25 kills of him we tried the shortcut by killing Yendar. We killed Yendar with a 65 sham, cler, bl and 57 monk, he always drops SMR.
Have epic on monk and rog prolly the two easiest epics to get even on a very low pop server. Agree monk epic is better overall but choice of weapons for rog is limited which makes it better for the class itself.

Parchments were easily obtainable with a 160+ Pickpocket skill.

Book of souls can be tricky. Sometimes a few entrance mobs of PoH will see through your sneak and finding your way to the actual book itself can be confusing if you don't know where to go. From the Maestro's chapel/building, go straight down the stairs into the next building which should have an arch infront of it. Once you're in the doors, go up the right staircase and it's on the cabinet of some sorts.

Renux was a piece of cake. Took a Necro, a Beastlord, Pally, and a Ranger all just under level 70: overkill...

General V'ghera wasn't too hard himself, but there were a few lowbie adds that were annoying. All you need is a good puller and probably a 70+ SK with at least 200 AA's (SK could be puller as well), split and kill the mobs until you just have the Coercer left, hand in the pouch, kill General, viola. You can also kill the Coercer later, but she didn't aggro us when the general was pulled. /shrug

Soloed Yendar for the Shining Metallic Robes with a 75SK (430ish AA's, anguish geared, 17k HP buffed). Never dropped below 96% HP. Could easily do it with another SK with less AA's/levels/HP/etc

Kedge Robe -- Kill Phinny, hope it drops from the DE's in Kithicor or get a MQ. Not hard.

Other robes are easily obtainable in bazaar if you didnt get the Cazic Quil from V'Ghera. Hope I didn't miss anything and hope this helps a little.

got both the partments last night lvl 43 rogue 113 pp skill just a few runs to zone but :)

I got the parchments finally the other day. Got both within about 12 hours of each other (Tani took 5 spawns to have it, Founy took 3 spawns). Also had the Book of Souls already thanks to a recent PoHate raid. After getting dubious faction with Anson McBale (see the Rogue Errands quest if you need to fix faction! It's so easy!), I used the sneak-for-indifference trick and was able to spawn Stanos ("I need to see Stanos")

From here, everything went smoothly. Ran around a lot getting the damnable note translated: both Yendar and Eldreth were up and Renux went down easy. Dead Man Floating will help you resist that nasty proc of hers, btw. Got my JDD and parchment, as well as a Ravenscale Mask (woot see invis!)

Did a quick bit of research on General V`Ghera and raided him promptly. I have posted about our strategy on the General V`Ghera bestiary page. Also got a Robe of the Kedge from the raid, meaning that all I have left to get is the Shining Metallic Robes.

Good luck. If you have your robes already (the three droppable ones can be bought for about 7k total on Bristlebane), the entire epic can be finished - from the first pickpocket to holding Ragebringer - in a day. (even for those of us without 1000 level 70 friends or uber gear! Yay)

P.s. Don't count on V`Ghera dropping the Cazic Quill. Count on him NOT dropping it. Then if he does, you can finish up epic really quick and sell the robe MQ.

I really wish that this was range capable so i could use other weapons in my secondary slot while still taking advantage of the haste and stats on this item

Just finished my epic last night on Brell Serilis at level 50. Some notes for those who haven't done it yet:

1. Malka Rayle can be skipped, but I wouldn't recommend it as the faction on Stanos' Pouch turn in is BIG.

2. Renux can be soloed (duh) by a 70 Druid with 500 AA's tanking her. Proc went off almost every hit but never landed.

3. General V'Ghera (and ALL his DE pals)were killed using two 70 Druids and a 69 Ranger as the tank. As a favor to a friend, I stayed out of the fight. (he wanted to attempt a solo, but after cleaning up the DE extras beforehand decided to get some backup) LESS than one groupable at this point.

4. The entire Epic can be done in one day, start to finish. From the initial note turn in to Stanos, to recieving the Ragebringer took about 4 hours.

5. I don't know what SoE changed in the Mid-December patch, but the Rogue Epic is still as gimpy as ever. Didn't have any suprises along the way.

Regarding Faction: You might also want to try turning in Orc Scalps for faction. Seems to go a bit faster than the Cards. FYI, the scalps off of Crushbone orcs can be turned in as well, and drop a lot more frequently. Hunt Gfay NOT CB if you're doing scalps. Manage about 6 stacks an hour and every two stacks jumps another "level" up in faction (it seems to cap at amiable though, as I turned in 16 stacks at amiable and it never changed. The Epic turnin's will get you to Ally from this point)

Edited, Fri Jan 7 15:07:14 2005

i finally finished my ragebringer about 3 days ago after starting at level 40 and ending at 50 (i could have ended at about 45 if they would do turnins)... had to barrow 7.5k off friend to buy a SMR...robe of kedge/isvah dropped on general raid... i now love my new ragebringer and use it all the time.


now i just need to get my High elf mask (pain in the **** to get all that stuff again...have had head in bank since level 15)

I may be just getting worried here since I don't have my epic yet, but after reading the spell information on Seething Fury, it says now that it has the 9ac effect...but nothing more. Can anyone with the epic say for sure if the haste is still on this item?

Ok all my friends tell me that i can do my epic at 46 and i can do all of the handing in and spawning but i just want to know for sure if i can plz tell me