Shield of Bane Warding  

 

I kept casting Sense the Dead. There were times when the kitty had popped,
and it was stuck in the wall or wandered off without me seeing it, so I got into
the habit of checking this way. An added perk is that if there are enough folks
hunting in the zone killing the other pesky undead, you might pick up one of the
kitty pops from the other spawn point as well (near the center of the zone).

I spotted one on Sense the Dead radar, and asked a ranger to bring it to me,
and he did!

The placeholders do periodically pop in the tree, and sometimes are very hard
to see. Keep a timer and look around until you find a bat, grol baku soldier and
rarely, a grimling orefinder to kill every 5-6 minutes. You can't just sit there
and wait for the PH to smack you. It won't every time.

Three guild clerics did this quest recently, and I would say that our camp drops
averaged a little over 1 skull per hour. Good luck!

I have been sitting at spawn spot 1 for 6 hours nowe. I have killed 60 placeholders and not seen one single Vah Shir. wtf is goign on here? Is the game broken or did they suddenly stealth nerf this?

The BP was a pushover, I heard from many people he cant be snared or rooted, he CH'es, blah blah blah. I pulled with epic snare, which gets resisted twice as much as a regular snare, and doesn't work on the mobs who "are immune to speed affecting spells" or whatever the message is, well anyways it stuck fine, root stuck fine, and wildfire lit him up just fine, he CH'ed once, but a couple more nukes, and he burned up just fine. Pretty easy solo, the brains are harder than this one. Scenery got really boring though ;)

Icewing 60 Suk Dru

After a recent patch of the patch by Verant, I logged onto Rodcet Nife. I was camped in TM. A guild ranger was in SD checking out the new uber mobs that were just installed there. He sent me a tell saying Burning Priest is UP! Of course, after weeks of trying to get the rotting flesh to pop, my immediate response was OMW!!!

Here's the tactics we used:
He's level 53 ranger, I am level 52 cleric
He pulled the BP, I immediately fired off Epitaph of Life, he snared, then I hit Dread of Night.

No concerns about the mob CH'ing himself. Total summation of my casts: Two "Dread of Night", Two "Epitaph of Life", and one "Banish Undead" to finish it off.

Oh yeah, my ranger partner only sustained one bub of damage from a "Retribution" cast by the Priest before "Dread of Night" kicked in.

Hope this helps someone out when they finally get the guy to pop.

Kindo Short
Level 52 (almost 53) Cleric
Mythical Miscreants
Rodcet Nife Server

I just did the shield quest. Here's some info that i have not seen posted. Rakshasa is a shaman type mob. He does dispel your buffs btw...so load up on either clickable buffs first...like jboots and shrunken goblin earring or fake buffs you don't mind losing. His max hit on my 53 paladin was about 136pts Max, i have read that he can hit for 145pts. I have fought this guy 3 times so far. He's got a ton of hp's. My group consisted of 53 paladin, 51 cleric, 46 war, and 52 druid. My paladin received about 5 cheals too. This mob is immune to stun, root/snare, and pretty high MR. He cons blue at 53, but a total undercon to say the least.
Make sure to have MR, PR, and DR buffs to bring your resists up vs his spells. He does try to cast the Shammy slow line of spells, which will make your fight last longer. Hope this provides some insight on the last mob.

<( '.')>/ engarde A Rakshasa approaches with an evil gleam in his eyes....***swing, miss, riposte, miss, double attack, miss miss, bash, 1pt of dmg***...wtf???...oh yeah i'm a nerfed paladin...LOL

Maverickpoet Daemonbane
53 Paladin of Tunare
Xev Server

Edited, Fri Apr 19 19:06:28 2002

Hey guys I just completed the Walkthru for this item it's at:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~webdaug/Quests/Shield%20of%20the%20bane%20warding.htm

Hole it helps.

Okay, the description of the quest and the quest you are talking about don't seem to be the same one. The quest listed requires skulls whereas there is an amulet and other things involved? Why isn't this listed and if it is, where?

The Burning Priest is on a spawn timer of 31 minutes, his placeholder is a Sun Reaver or Sun Revenant, and can be found at the follow loc in The Scarlet Desert: 560, -778. He has approximately 6,000 HPs, is relativly resistant to fire-based spells, and will CH himself. I would recomend one melee and one healer of levels 54+ to take him down easily. He does not summon, so can be kited as long as you are prepared to interrupt his CH's.

Personally, I had to camp him for 19 hours, but I have heard of camps anywhere from 2 hours to over 30.

Best of luck! =)



Edited, Wed Mar 13 05:41:44 2002

This shield is fantastic, the wisdom on it puts me over 255. As for SBS over this shield. I have the sbs in my resist gear bag which I carry with me at all times. So as for which is better, niether, one has one use, the other another. And the charisma is not useless. Just because I am a level 60 druid does not mean I am not going to charm animals. Using a charmed animal to kill greenies in a zone, is better than the druid pet.

Ananiel Mor'Lokai
60 Hierophant
Affliction
Emarr

Got all 4 items need to finish my quest in 4 HOURS. In fact my longest camp was for the brains on the thought leech! Got coal first pull on Umbrous Toilers in ME, got Medalion 2nd pop in Scarlet Desert..took about 2 hours of killing thought leeches to get brains (some dumb mobs ... no brains) :) Unbelievable. Many thanks go to Aaedaie and Caewen of Mark of Honor in Ayonae Ro server. MoH rocks :)

Kia

Edited, Sat Feb 2 07:30:58 2002

Can this item be worn on back?

While the 20 wisdom is nice, I'd rather take an SBS over this. The charisma is totally useless really unless you plan on charming animals (which you probably will never do post 50 anyways) Wisdom is easy to get in other slots, and the added HP and resists on the SBS more than make up for it, in my opinion.

this would be great for druids/shamans because they can both charm animals but 8 CHA is always good to have when buying/selling