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Eminent Impression Book  
 

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WT: 2.0 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Item Lore:Book made with special paper to take impressions
Item Type:Misc
Stackable:No
Lucy Entry By:Lognakaiser
Item Updated By:SwiftyMUSE
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2021-08-08 21:49:16
Page Updated:Thu Nov 7th, 2019

Expansion: Dragons of Norrath Dragons of Norrath


Rarity: Common
Level to Attain: 1

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Ak'Anon
NPC Name Expansion
Artisan Vidi Cogsworthy Dragons of Norrath


Quests

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East Freeport
Quest Name
Eminent Impressions (Human/Freeport)


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Zone Name
Ak'Anon
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Told to report bug by support...
# Feb 20 2022 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
2 posts
I'd killed nearly 20 Flameweave Menders in OW Accursed Nest while on this step. I had the book on me but never got any yellow text to indicate the game didn't see the book, I got credit for the 10 kills as I should have, but never ended up with an update to the book. Sent a message to EQ's support and they said it sounded like a bug and to /bug it in game. I'm going to keep trying to get updates to this task every day but so far dropping 2 or 3 more a day hasn't gotten a single task update for making the 2 impressions needed. I'll update this post if I hear anything from support or if I get a task update and find out I've just been exceedingly unlucky.
My experience with Eminent Book of Wood Elven Culture Quest
# Oct 27 2007 at 3:29 PM Rating: Decent
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When I first got this quest long ago, I had no clue what the purpose of the Eminent Impression Book was. It made no sense to me at the time, so I put it in the bank, and forgot about it. Recently I decided to do the quest. I needed to kill 20 'a strong sentinel' in Thundercrest Isles, and make five impressions of the chest engravings from them. I also needed to kill 10 flameweave menders and make two impressions from the bracer engravings from flameweave menders in The Accursed Nest. The old quest for this book required it be done in an instanced mission, but this does not appear to be the case with the new quest. I went to Thundercrest Isles without the Eminent Impression Book and killed five of the strong sentinels, and got quest credit for killing them. I got no updates for the impressions I needed to make of their chest engravings.

I was confused about how getting credit for making the impressions worked because of this supposed drop from 'a strong sentinel': Dusty Statue Torso https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=56293. This has yet to drop once, (out of only 12 kills) and is almost certainly unrelated to the impression part of this quest based on my observations below.

I did a little research and found this:

Tenmyth posted this under the Sacred Impression Book listing on Oct 9, 2007 https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=68014 ok, figured it out, just have this book on you (I had it in a backpack, this appeared to work just fine) while you hunt the mobs required. There are no drops, no collections, just kill the required amount of mobs and occassionally you will be "inspired" to make an impression... i.e. you kill, and sometimes you get credit for making an impression... so just kill the mobs and stay within spell range for exp.

I went back and got my Eminent Impression Book from the bank, and after killing seven more strong sentinels I got two updates for making impressions. The yellow emote appeared in my 'other' box before looting the corpse and read: "You find a pattern that speaks to you of your culture and make an impression of it." This was followed by two white emotes which both said "Your task 'Eminent Impressions' has been updated", presumably one for the kill and one for the impression made.

The advice from Jesserin the Irrelevant on a good kill spot for 'a strong sentinel' is dead on. http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=19524 I just wish the pop rate on the strong sentinels was better. It seems to be at most one in five, but not worse than one in ten sentinels of various types killed.

I don't know what the other Eminent Cultural Books require for questing, but wouldn't be surprised it it was the same as the Wood Elf book. I hope this helps all those who are doing this somewhat dated quest. However, note that there is the possibility of new relevance due to the rumors of new AAAA's, and new augs from them in the upcoming new expansion, Secrets of Faydwer. DON cultural armor may become even better.
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