Tenaro the Arcane [ Missions ]  

Someone's dropping the ball on not listing Tipped Balance as a quest since it's a good one. Odd though that it isn't well documented in-game since the only way to get it is as others have described. Nice that you don't have to do Tenaro's first quest to get this second one.... sometimes EQ is generous. ;)

The elementals don't summon so a kiteable quest, in theory. I say "in theory" since kiting space is very scarce inside this zone. Since IMO kiting at a zone-in is one of the mortal gameplay "sins", I suggest using the only other spot in the entire zone without wanderers. If you don't know where that is, TOUGH!

JK. It's the area with the circle champion mission. The champions don't aggro and nothing paths through here. Fortunately, the elementals you need spawn right outside.

You will get adds dragging elementals to this arena. The best trick is to snare the elemental you want, then kite the adds around the arena until the snared elemental gets there. Then clear aggro however you can, FD, zone, evac or my favorite, get CoH'd by a mage.

Decent rewards for not-too-much work. While you're tagging elementals keep your eyes peeled for rare nameds. This zone is a blast and really rather unique for having such a huge population of uncommon named "rares" and "semi-rares." They don't always drop anything good but often enough to make it worthwhile to go "named-huntin." Most don't summon altho it's good to have in-group a tank who can absorb some 1300-hp melee hits for the occasional exception.

Last comment, the four elemental types are not equally common. I found the water spouts to be uncommon (water mobs are usually "sprites" which don't count) and the damn piles of shi---er, dirt, earth elementals are downright rare. In fact, I camped without finishing those and plan to come back later, hoping maybe there's some kind of cycle to how they spawn.

In terms of difficulty, the fire ele's are the worst. They nuke hard and can strip off half your HPs just with nukes. Plus since they stop to chain-cast they take forever to pull. The earth mobs can root you, of course, which can be a problem while pulling. The water variants run FAST even snared. The air versions are the weakest, four or five nukes and they drop dead.




Edited, Aug 7th 2006 at 4:18pm EDT by Sippin

Anyone find this yet for the "Lost Brother" quest?

Is it on the same level as Tenaro, or is it on the upper level somewhere?

Inquiring minds want to know . . .

Sunny

Edited, Mon Mar 27 21:14:48 2006

After saying Correctand getting mission Tipped of the Balanced we killed in a courtyard 4 of each elemental type completing the task.
After talking to Tenaro again ...

Gem of the Lost Mage
Range
AC12 STR8 DEX7 STA14 CHA13 WIS6 INT6 AGI13
HPS195 MANA210
F15/D8/C15/M7/P13

Required level 68
Casters/Priests

Also:
Belt of the Lost Mage
Waist
AC13 STR6 DEX8 STA10 CHA13 WIS6 STR6 DEX8 STA10 CHA13 WIS6 INT6 AGI10
205/205/205
F11/D14/C13/M8/P14

Plate/Chain classes

Required 68

...the loc for this one is in front of Porthios The Second...

- DuVuvier, Officer of Chaos Might

I have problems with the first step in this mission.
Tenaro says that the Explore Courtyard of Contemplation is just North-East of where he is,a nd quite right - there is a large open area where the mobs has names that include court, so it looks correct.
Only problem is that after running around in the area for 10 minutes, and clicking everything I could find, I could not get the task to update.

What is the trigger for having done step 1 in this mission?

Greetings Gukak Kluelezz

Gives a task titled "Lost Brother" -- It requires you to explore parts of Relic (bazaar, courtyard, upper platforms) and kill 2 mobs from each upper platform.

I haven't seen it completed yet so no idea on reward.