Kromrif Military Leggings  

 

Why would a monk want these? simple, 14ac is a ton of ac for a monk. even tho they do weigh 4.0, doesnt mean you couldnt squeeze them into your gear at 45 or so, but then you should have a tinkers bag for loot anyways

Killed Fergul today as i was camping giants for faction. What happened is that while Killing the normal Spawn version of fergul(who is green at 55), another blue conning version spawned at the same time and started hitting me. I Feigned the first time and the green con poofed, so i killed the blue con with help of a cleric with me and looted the leggings. Half an hour later Fergul respawns, and I start to kill him again, right when he starts to run the blue con Fergul once again spawns and starts hitting me, i killed Green Fergul, no loot or gems. Killed blue fergul and got the leggings once again. Seems there is no quest needed or its bugged or something.

The whole time the broodmother was wandering around, I didn't bother her though.

This is an outline of the quest as I did it on the 12/05/01

Firstly, you do not need to hail or use keyphrases with any NPCs. I handed all items in whilst invis (and thus indifferent, my normal Coldain faction is dubious). There are 3 basic steps:

1) Get the sceptre from the Queen in CC. When I went in, a group had just killed her and, since nobody needed the sceptre (which I believe drops every time) they allowed me to loot. Return this to the named NPC given in the quest outline (he's located in a building on the left as you head past the guardhouse towards the hall where the Historian's giving his lecture).

2) Leave Thurgadin and head left from the river to the drakkel wolf area. I can confirm that the other wolves are placeholders for the blood wolf. Again, I got lucky as a bard was kiting the wolf and, not needing the drop, let me loot. Then, hand this and the gem to Vores, who is in a shelter by the river on the far side of the wurm caves from Thurgadin. You'll recieve a harness of control.

3) The final step is to hand this harness to the broodmother. She's on what I can only guess to be around a 24 hour spawn, and yet again I got lucky, logging in the following day to see her on track. She sets off on a trek up to the fort, and the 2 giants repop outside the fort. When she attacks, the one with the leggings runs and you should attack him once he's a resonable distance from the fort yet before he reaches the EW zone.

Now this is where I was surprised. I'm only a level 51 druid, and had a 58 druid for backup, but I could easily have killed him solo. I can only assume he's been changed since the last patch because the epic struggle outlined by another guy below was nothing like what I faced. Snare stuck on the second attempt, and my roots had about a 50 percent success rate, holding him long enough for the ES vambraces to do their work. I even had enough mana to throw a few starfires a him. He does have quite a few hps, but caused me no trouble at all.

I have no idea what happened to the broodmother, once the giant was dead I looted the leggings and left. Considering the stats, this is a remarkably easy quest, and well worth doing. When equipped, I can confirm they look like Tizmak. I just hope everyone else doing this quest is as lucky as I was )

There is, apparently, some "common knowledge" I wasn't aware of before today that I hope I can help a few of you out with. When the Broodmother is killing Gralk and you are tracking or closing down on Fergul, HIT HIM AS SOON AS IT IS SAFE -- meaning: let him run far enough away from the Broodmother that she doesn't become his pet, but DON'T LET HIM GET TOO FAR. What happened to me today is that the Broodmother killed Gralk before I was able to engage Fergul, and he despawned. Had him on tracking and just got him targeted when he disappeared. Suggestion: have a good friend waiting near the fort to help you so you don't end up wasting a lot of time on this quest.

I noticed the grafic looks different on these depending on your race. Only seen on dwarfs, and halflings,and barbarians but I like the barbarian grafic, looks like the matching set to the ulthork hide tunic.

I soloed Fergul outside of the quest as a level 49 troll shaman w/o difficulty. I invised and went inside the giant fort and rooted the other named giant then rooted and dotted Fergul. Things got messy and I had to run but once I got close to the zone, I turned around and only Fergul was in tow so I stopped and decided to finish him. I used nearly all my mana w/ wis of 165 but once he was out of the fort he fell pretty easily. I am not sure if perhaps he is more difficult if you fight him while doing the quest or not but I certainly didn't need a whole group. BTW, he doesn't drop anything unless you follow the entire quest. I am still waiting to catch broodmother to try to solo this quest.

Anyone know the faction that you need to initiate this quest?

Make sure the giants are up that you need, I gave the broodmother the harness after waiting along time and she headed towards the fort I was very excited then she attacked a giant out front I killed that giant--thinking that she would go attack the others DIDNT happen she wondered off to the dwarf area and became a pet of a dwarf sucked too. I killed the dwarf thinking that maybe this was another quest bam the broodmother despawned and the dwarf i killed had nothing. --Little upsetting considering the wait. GL to all


Kite-60 Druid Quellious
Deadspout-57 necro Quellious
Oddene-49 Cleric Quellious

The quest explains itself.

The first person you speak with is in Thurgadin, head down the ramp to the cleric/paladin guild area. He is in the first door on the left, its a bar. You get nice exp at 47 for giving him the sceptre (dont know if the acid will work or not).
The second person you speak with is just west of the river, and South of the wurm cavern, good exp as well, watch out for wandering wurms in the area! Give him the gem (looks like a lightstone and the bloodwolf harness).
Broodmother is a 8-10 hour spawn, and you dont hail or anything, you just give her the control harness, and then you haul ars to the giant fort.

Here is how it went for me: My group isvis's and waits at the fort for me. The 2 giants pop, and we all target Fergul. Broodmother comes and attacks (YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR HER TO ATTACK OR YOU GET NOTHING), and I snare pull Fergul (resisted of course). My group hauls ars to a safer spot, with Fergul in tow. Well, Broodmother never killed the other giant, in fact the other giant just wandered around by the fort. Broodmother became the pet of Ferful the giant, and totally kicked my ars (red at 47). So, my cleric is now the subject of the broodmother attacks, and runs around in huge circles, while the rest of us (me naked still) attack the giant. The giant dies (fairly easy), and broodmother depops.

I was told if you are in melee range of the giant broodmother attacks. Please remember this quest is very buggy, and Broodmother in my case immediately became the giants pet. She was hitting for 174 x2 over and over on my poor druid, but the death was worth it. The leggings are relatively easy to get (gave them to my paladin with a fast log out/in and loot, and a 90% rez was given to me as well. The named giants are about as hard as a berserker, just a little more magic resistant.

I would also like to thank my guild for their help, and the help of about 5 other people who not only helped kill the giant, but who took serious damage from Broodmother, and who also did not loot the body (they did the most damage). It's nice to know people are still nice in parts of EQ. My thanks goes out to those folks.

I would also like to thank VI for Eci crashing for 30 minutes last night, since it reset the spawns, and Broodmother was up when I finally was able to log in, and only 3 people in the Great Divide. See, sometimes server crashes are good!

Oh, right after I got the leggings a Blood wolf wandered by... how handy to have another harness :)

Blackisis 42 Paladin
Lilwolf 47 Druid
Caracarn 53 Mage

The Broodmother will Attack you after she kills the Giant that she engages. Kill Fergul fast and loot the legs and be prepared to Kill the Broodmother or run to the Zone.

these are a great item to upgrade the gatorscale leggings for druids. that one extra wis helps push you (well me) to that 200 wis limit. Plus its a fun quest to do, and further adds enjoyment to velious. (although waiting on the broodmother sucks heheeh)