Coldain Shawl #4: Fur-Lined Coldain Prayer Shawl  

Ok, after completing this 4th quest I said the following, "/say how can i further advance my reputation". he stated that i should continue hunting for a while since i was not of high enough level (i'm level 40). Anyone have an idea what level one must be?

that is not part of the 5th shawl quest but related to a different quest - he always has been saying that at random intervals. I will try the quest phrase later tonight to see if theres really a fifth leg of the quest in...

I know the part where you actually combine the velium and the vial uses the brewing skill. I think my brewing is still 1. Should I get it up to make sure I finish this quest, or does this step never fail?

What is the quickest way to master Pottery?

GRRRRRR! The only trigger i seem to hit is the one for the Death Squad. I drop Invis and Lev and walk up and down the ramp and to the left and right near the top. I can oly get the death squad to pop.

Am I doing something wrong or just getting bad rolls. Do you suppose the trigger spot is a random as to whether is Tanik or death squad? Any advice would be apprectiated as dying in hell level sucks :( Well and in all the other levels also :P I did easily outrun them with SoW one time.. even stopping and turning around to see them. But other times the gained and caught me with SoW. Lag seemed to be the same.

I also noticed that after I zoned back in despite them being far away they came running back for me. I was at Kael zone line and they were about half way to the front gate/ramp area.

HELP !

Noslom Tallone
45th High Elven Wizard <Salvation>
EMARR

i had posted this in the feeding the coldain section before they had this quest up...so i'll put it here to. :)





ok this is a complete spoiler for the 4th step of the shawl quest in thurgadin. leave now if you want to quest and figure it out yourself.


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ok. here we go. first a complete step by step.

first, talk to loremaster borannin in the thurgadin library. say "what brewing?" (continued from the 3rd shawl).

You say, "What is brewing?"

Loremaster Borannin says, "Ahh yes good to see you again Clairan. I wish it were under better circumstances that we meet today. For some time now we have sent teams of our finest rogues to gather intelligence for the Dain. Tanik Greskil on one of our best. He was recently sent into the heart of Kael Drakkel on a very important mission and had not returned. He is now long overdue, and fearing the worst, our wise council has asked me to dispatch a rescue party to determine what has become of him and return him to safety. I have decided to give you this opportunity to build upon the trust you have earned from the council. Will you accept this mission?"

You say "I will accept this mission."

Loremaster Borannin says "The council will be pleased to hear of your acceptance, Clairan. Scour the region surrounding the city of the Giants. Discover what happened to Tanik and, if possible, return him to Thurgadin. If you are successful, remember to hand me your woven shawl. We seem to be running low on them, but I must say Mordin has never had so much help in the kitchen. Anyway, I will eagerly await word of your findings. Good luck, and may Brell protect you."



now head to eastern wastes and the kael ramp. Tanik is a triggered spawn. the way to trigger him is to run up and down the kael ramp. (worked best for me when i ran zig zag). he spawns down towards the bottom of the ramp and is laying on the ground.



You say, "hail Tanik Greskil"
Tanik Greskil says "Outlander! Thank Brell you've found me! I am the last surviving member of my unit. Our mission was somehow compromised, the bloody Kromrif knew just where to find us... I can't imagine how they knew. I was barely able to escape with my life and wandered into a trap here. I am badly hurt and need your help."

You say, "i will help"
Tanik Greskil says "Quickly, give me a vial of Veluim Vapors so I can return home, I am in desperate need of some attention from our clerics."

You say, "what velium vapors"
Tanik Greskil says "Drat! Are you telling me you don't have one with you? Run back to Thurgadin at once and speak with Frundle, she can make you one. I will do what I can to stay alive. I may need to move about a bit to keep from being discovered. Hurry now outlander, you're my only hope."


so now you have to run back to thurgadin. Frundle can be found in one of the three buildings across from the paladin guild (near the library).



You say, "what velium vapors?"
Frundle Frenkler says "Ahh, you come seeking my family recipe? After all you've done for our people it's the least I can do. First you must fashion a velium vial, then combine the vial with two small pieces of velium in this jar. That's all there is to it. Please keep the recipe a secret."

You say, "what velium vial?"
Frundle Frenkler says "I'm no potter mind you, but if I remember correctly it's a small brick of velium, three crystalline silks, and two glass shards. Then you'll have to finish up by firing it in a kiln with a high quality firing sheet."


she will give you a 4 slot purifier. it is a container, so you will need an open inventory slot.

now you need to collect your ingedients. go to CC. everything you need is there. hunt the miners up top for the small pieces and small bricks of velium. then drop (make sure you have lev!) down to the bottom, run through the dorf town, and into the hall with the velium crawlers, spiderlings, and webmasters. the spiderlings die in one nuke (688). the crawlers die in one nuke and one ES dot (688+300=around 1k HP). webmasters are tougher and i avoided them. in about an hour, i had a stack of these and gated out.

head back to thurgadin. go in the bank. the vendor on the very left sells crystal shards and HQ firing sheets. buy 2 crystal shards and 1 HQ firing sheet.

go click on the pottery wheel in the bank. put the items in like this:

crystalline silk
crystalline silk
crystalline silk
glass shard
glass shard
small brick of velium

do not stack the silks. also, even though all other pottery i've done always requires a water flask, do not use one. i tried and it didn't combine. so NO WATER FLASK! i'm around 100 in pottery and it was not trivial.

you will get an unfired velious vial.

right next to the pottery wheel is the kiln. combine the vial you just made with a high quality firing sheet. this will produce a velious vial. it was trivial at 100.


now, open that purifier box that you got and put in the vial, and 2 small pieces of velium. make sure they are not stacked.

small piece of velium
small piece of velium
velious vial

hit combine and you will have a vial of velium vapors. this looks like it can be used by characters as well. it has one charge of "thurgadin gate" and apparently will gate you to thurgadin, although i didnt try.


now run back to eastern wastes and find tanik again. give him the vial of velium vapors and he will thank you and then poof, leaving you a note to deliver to loremaster borannin. go back to thurgadin and turn your woven shawl along with the note to loremaster borannin and you will get faction and your shawl will be updated.


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:) good luck


P.S. WORDS OF WARNING! when trying to make tanik pop, there is a chance that instead of tanik, you will trigger the kromriff death squad. this is a group of very nasty giants that have high MR (even after my group debuffed him, i couldn't land a snare). they also run at nearly sow speed. if anyone has ever fought warden bruke in EW, it's like having a handful of him all spawning on you at once, except they have more HP and see through invis. our group (ranging from mid 40s to 50s) had trouble killing one. we finally succeeded and got a nice large class only woven vest (18 ac, 10 str and some other attributes). my friend had between 8-10 spawn on her at once. she got a message of "you have been giant ambushed" and they killed her in seconds. i took a screenshot of the dead one we killed if you need proof...but i don't lie. so be careful

also, the quest once again stop at this point. figures. now we wait another 2 months for them to add the 5th part. wow, by Christmas this shawl will be worth wearing!

Clairan Cutewolf
54th druid - Tribunal


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I suggest making one of these bad boys after you are done w/ the quest. The gate potion does work well. I used it the other day after hunting in DL for awhile I needed to get back to thurgy. Works like a charm. the ingrediants are easy to get and to have one of these bad boys laying around does make it nice to get back to a safe place after hunting

ok i started this quest around 10:00 pm last night. my pottery was at 23 i believe from having to make the pie tin from the earlier quest parts. I raised my pottery to around 130 in about an hour and 1/2 because i was running around the zone killing the spiders for their silk. when mana ran out i ran back to bank and made pottery. don't bother with firing your products, it's a waste of time, just delete em.

anyway i would sit and meditate while making pottery till my mana was full and start killing spiders again. once i hit 130 i knew it should be trivial so i went to the caverns, all the way to the queen area and killed about 10 spiders got around 13 silks, and killed my way back out. on the way i wound up with 2 bricks and about 3 pieces of the velium. luckily i already had a stack of 20 still in the bank. I went back made the vial, fired it, got the purifier combined it and everyone is telling you about the loc of tanik. here's the easy part. go to the top of the ramp like you are about to go to kael drakkel. you are almost on top of tanik at this point. he was like straight out and slightly to the right. gave him the potion and gated back. grabbed my shawl and still hit the sack at just after 12:30am. =) all in all pretty easy for a druid. now i'm gonna make one to see if it realy works as a gate potion. i know some very very happy warrior types who's sure like these.

I didn't see Tanik but I did see the Death Squad. All four of them. I wandered around for about 20 minutes then got ambushed. I tried to outrun them with JBoots but they ran as fast as I did, and then my harddrive went nuts, screen froze, and they caught up with me and killed me very quickly. I'd advise anyone trying to find Tanik to have a real sow on. All things considered I'd rather have to do some more baking.

or does it stop here? Don't know if I'll bother getting all those skills up if the end result is ths shawl.

It is nice that trade skills are actually mattering for once ^_^

Takes less than an hour and 10pp to get from 0 to 122 in Thurgadin or Halas. And just going down the ramps in CC on our way to the crystal spiders allowed for the gathering of enough Velium for 3 attempts.

All the stages, from the unfired velium vial, to the Velium vial and the Vial of Velium Vapors are NO DROP. But only the final result is NO DROP and LORE. You can have as many velium vial stored as you want and the small pieces of Velium stacks.

What's non-trivial about the quest are the Kromriff Death Squads. Got them triggered *5* times while trying to get Tanik to show up last night. Tanik despawns pretty fast too.

Heh... Nice blues at 55 tough. If they don't 'adjust' the spawn rate, I may put a group together and go farm those big dummies for exp. They're not any harder than the Kromriff Guardsmen, really.

#1. How long do you have to be in the area where Tanik is supposed to be before he or the hunting party shows up?

#2. Do the giants see through invisibility/camo?

#3. Has anyone bothered to ask Loremaster Borannin anything on the subject of reputation?

"The next time we meet be sure to ask me how to further advance your reputation with the coldain."