Burning Rapier  

 

Well, doesn't seem I'll be getting my updated walkthrough added here. Guess it wasn't that good. :) Anyhow, for those who want to work on it for a taste of the old world:

http://www.ewpz.com/eq/burning-rapier/index.html

Screen shots, faction hits, dialogs, etc, all here. Hope it helps.

I completed this quest today and I am very proud to say that I didn't buy anything from any players. I did this quest the way it was meant to be done. I enlisted the help of higher level players and as a group we went after the harder drop items. They were actually happy to lend a hand in doing a "old school" quest.

This brings a smile to my face now when I stand at a Wayfarer camp with my rapier on fire. I get so many inspects and requests for a link. I even get the occasional Kudos when I tell people I quested it.

Dundirche
"Mom always said I was a pain in the back"

This quest can actually be done below level 30 if you want to bother to take the time. Most of the drinks are buyable, so that's a piece of cake. Had a shaman friend help me in OOT to get the bottle (he casted levitate and enduring breath) so that was easy, too. Went into MM at level 25 to get the Blood Spirits and a charitable high level monk let me come in and loot it off the hemo. The skins aren't too hard to come by these days with the bazaar up and running. After that, you're just spending money. This is more a status item than a real valuable weapon these days just because of the low damage. Still, because of level specifics, this one should be in your off-hand in your 30s just because of the added perk of having that proc. I was pretty dang proud when I finished this one up.

What does this item look like equipped?

Edited, Sun Nov 30 12:04:54 2003

I decided to start this quest the other day while I was in Sol A with a guildie. After we got done, I decided that the Blackburrow Skin drops (being described as the longest and most tedious part) would be a good place to start. It took three nights, approximately 3-4 hours per night to collect all the components. The cask I traded to a shaman for a Large Tailored Bag full of Studded Collars and Cracked Staves. The first skin I bought for 25pp at the Bazaar. The rest I was given by two duos (both P-Levelers and their charge) who were XP grinding in the GR and Commander area. One skin dropped from an Elite in the Green Room, the other two (perhaps not so surprisingly) dropped from Lord Elgnub. He spawned twice in about an hour's window, and he had the skin both time.

From there - on my way out - I popped the two Pups near the entrance, scored one scalp. Dinged a second one in Q-Hills, and got a match. Clicked the pop-up book to the PoK, checked the barb brewing vendor inside the tradeskill plaza, ch-ching - two Ol' Tujims. Presto!

Rhoth Fairson
Human Rogue 31
<Valiant Heroes>
Lanys T'Vyl

What lvl does Ignite work at?

I did this quest some time ago with my rogue around level 35 or so. I did it in tandem with another rogue in my guild at the time (I think she was level 34 then). The quest can be a serious pain to complete if you don't have any backup to getting the various peices (most notably, the Mistmoore portions), but with a supportive guild it's an easily attainable item at any point after gaining level 30.

My point though, is that I still carry this little gem around with me, even at level 47. Honestly, I keep it in my off hand most of the time and I will sometimes equip it in my primary hand if I'm in a group where the MA (Main Assist) is lower level than I (it's a lower damage ratio with smaller Back Stabs so that I don't over-taunt the taunter).

So, even though there are far better weapons than this one, unless you have the money to buy something better, or have another character to twink your rogue, this is one of the better items available to us in the 30's.

Please keep in mind that not everyone in the game has a 60th level character to go farm the "ubber" items for them. This quest is still viable.

I need a Quest Walk through better than the one they give us, tanks a lot

-Oombak Fatalwind

Ok, this is what I have found out by being a rogue. We LIVE for Backstab right? Ok, that said, why the hell would you want a low damage wpn in either hand? The higher the damage of a piercer the more BS damage. Also, the delay of an offhand weapon is negated. Its better to get a very high damage weapon in BOTH hands if you really want to do some damage as a Rogue.../petition Why do almost all the quests in this game SUCK for your level? Grrrr.. 8P

For all you cheapskates out there...yes you have to buy the sapphire...Noresa Sparkle is impossible to pick pocket. Have a skill of 141 pick pocket and gave it a try for about an hour, I didn't get a dime outta that stingy broad. She is green at level 30 so i considered killing her, but i don't know if she would drop the sapphire or if i'd be taking a meaningless faction hit. Any one want to try killing for me?
As far as being better than the serrated bone dirk, i think it will be...i've had the SBD proc about 6 times in one battle, and mobs tend to resist...with a better delay and the agi and dex buffs on it, should be a good secondary weapon. Currently have 145agi 150dex...think i can get 10 procs in one battle??

- Vespis Pursecutter -
- Sollusek Ro -

just finished the quest and i must say it is quite a doozy, completed it at lvl 35.

the first thing i di after studying the quest was start with the skins and the cask, i took my necro there and killed the green room elites and the elites around the corner from them for about 3 hours 2 skins /sigh went back there later in the week when my druid was in the area (farming another fishbone earring for the guild) droped into bb auctioned buying bb cask 100pp 2 tells :) auctioned buying skins bought 1 for 50pp and on my way down i found a single elite gnoll in my way to the green room, 1 nuke and i had another skin :) at this point i almost wet myself then relized i know had to make some tjs brew, 20 points into brewing some quick practice to lvl 50 brewing, and then started trying tjs brew, 4 tries later success

ok with that done i started porting all around grabbing all the drinks from around the world, got the oblong bottle no problem, dmf grab and port out of there.

ok now the part i didnt relize was so hard... the blood, what a pain in the neck.... got a 53 necro (kunin, my boy with ALL the hookups) 52 druid and a couple friends from kabald.

the oil and the sparkle purse, easy all that took was 100pp woke up at 3 am /w all warrior 60, was one in lavastorm 100pp later we marched in got the oil and the purse and marched out, and which point he gave me my 100pp back, what a guy.

after that went to the temple got the note
went to dagnors got the axe
went to highpass got the box
inserted drinks and combined at the same trip ( i hate going to highpass) got that gem
went to wc turned in sparkle purse, bought gem, turned in gem to toxdill
went to get gem case
went to bubar in ec tunnel
went to the orc in sro.


i had to do alot of reading on this quest to extract those simple steps, makes life easier
i recomend you do them in this order or maybe put the oil and the sparkle purse first.
good luck fellow rogues
Jimmy
proud owner of a druid rogue mage necro cleric paladin and bard :)
The Seventh Hammer

I helped a rogue guildmate this past weekend get 4 skins. We did it in about 2 hours, maybe 3. One skin was given to me by a lizard monk who wasnt ready to start his sash quests because of factioin issues. The other 3 were dropped off of Elite's, the Gnoll High Shaman, and the Commander.

The best place to look for these are in the "green room". It has 5 spawns in it and all are either shaman, elites, High Shaman, an occasional commander, and named gnolls. These are the only things that I have seen that drop skins. The room is on a 6 minute respawn if I remember correctly. Once you clear that room, go out and run to the left to the little ramp up to the left and you will see anothe room that has 4 spawns in it. One is a guardsman, and the other 3 are an Elite, a commander and either an elite, commander, or splitpaw. Between the 2 rooms you should be able to collect the skins in a matter of a few hours.

As to the location I have seen on the brewer, I am a Ranger and have a druid. Both are wearing a cloak of the Jaggedpine, which took me 3 casks each to acquire. Flame me if you want, but I wear it with pride. The brewer and master brewer both spawn at the same spot just as you come down the ramp past the main bridge. You have to turn left at the big rock and sit there until the guardsman or the brewer spawns. They are on 18 minutes almost to the second. It took me a long time to get those casks. I even almost gave up on the first cloak and traded 2 casks to another fellow who already had 1, when I was running through the zone and saw the bear up top. I went to the spot and there he was with the cask. So I started all over again.

A note about the bear, if he is up top then it is a good bet that the next spawn will be a brewer. Just a bit of FYI.

Good luck, and good hunting.

Okay I've been camping the cask and BB skins for the past week (on and off). A lvl 56 rogue friend of mine was telling me that the cask isn't the rare drop...its the skins that are a pain. Well i found out from experience that this is true. The brewer isn't a trigged spawn..he has a place holder. I just sat under the elite ledge and wait for the spawn. The brewer or his PH(a gnoll guardsman i think) will spawn close to the barrels. Seems to be on a timed spawn of about an hour.(unless he spawns twice in an hour and i've been missing him) I killed 2 brewers and one master brewer(which dropped the cask). So the whole week i've been campin him i've had 3 skin drops and was only able to purchase one skin. I didn't however figure out the his spawn until later in the week. So understand...the cask isn't the problem...the skins are.

Sindayl
30 Rogue
Erollisi Marr

I started camping about 1am, stayed there til 5am, 1 brewer, no cask... Killed time by helping newbies and tryin to get bb skins, when the elites werent camped...THIS is the most difficult part of the quest. Fighting mobs is nothing compared to the repeated disappointment of a guard spawning instead of a brewer. It is worth it, though. The proc, combined with the extremely low delay makes this weapon equivalent to a trakasaur tooth. (except for bs, of course) The battle for the items dropped from the difficult mobs will be quite pleasant, once i've actually gotten the cask.

BTW BR is WAY better than dragoon dirk (6dmg 23dly 2DEX 3sv vrs magic)