Coldain Military Wristguard  

Did the quest today. The Broodmother never became a pet of Korf, she just charged the other dwarf at the camp and stood there for the rest of the time. Once Korf died, she walked back to her cave, she didn't despawn.

Also, there is a faction hit for killing Korf, +kromrif and +kromzek, -Dain and -Coldain. Don't know exactly how big a faction hit, but a hit none the less.

Last but not least, the Harness you want for this quest it the War Wolf Choker, dropped by a Coldain War Wolf. It's not the harness that drops from the Drakkal Blood Wolf.

As of today on the 7th hammer this quest was still broke. I have sent emails to many different locations requesting when they might GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND ACTUALLY FIX SOMETHING, but no responses yet. Its junk like this that holds players back. They can make up new ideas to make themselves more money, then they just forget about the people on the regular servers. We may not pay $40 a month but we do still pay for a service and its not too much to ask for them to fix a quest thats been broke for months! If anyone has any idea on who to annoy to get this fixed please post.

You cna get gem of persuasion from turning in rod of coldain ancients (droped of spider queen in cc) and turning it into one of the dwarves at the bar in thurg one closest to the door. I did it for the legging quest dont see why it wouldtin work for this. Then you dont have to mess about with the giant faction.

mmmmk since everything here is sorta confusing i am going to post this..

OK on ym rogue i have a bottle of KArsin acid and on my druid (the one who is going to get Belts/bracer unsure which yet..) i have the Blood wolf belt thingy. can someone explain what i need to do now? (for both quests preferably).

Thanks.

I followed the previous posters advice about crating a troll warrior. I have access to two accounts so it was much easier for me. When it came to the Broodmother part, the troll handed the harness to her and then I ran my druid to the dorf caves from the wurm caves. (I was at the south end of the wurm caves and ran straight to the dorf caves when I handed the harness to her with the troll). The troll died quickly at the hands of the guardian shardwurms but that didn't matter. My druid saw the 2 dorfs outside the caves just standing there. Not very long after (maybe a few minutes), I saw the broodmother coming. Once she got near, Korf started running and I snared him and rooted him and put winged death on him. All I did was root and winged death from there and he died with 2 bubbles of mana left at least. The broodmother stood by him as though she was a pet, but she never attempted to attack me. Overall an easy quest for me.

Kandaan Nimbletoe
54 Druid
Vazaelle Server

I have my wolf harness and my bottle of Karsin acid...

Last night I went to Thurgadin ... I was Invisible and attempted to hand the bottle of Karsin Acid to Erdarf (sp?) to recieve the gem of pursuasion. Immediately upon attempting to hand him the item I was attacked by him and about 10 other dwarfs. By the time I reached Icewell I was down almost 2 full bubs of health with a pack of about 30 dwarfs following me, hell bent on my destruction.

I am max KoS to Dorfs
I am max Ally to Giants

Has the quest changed so that you cannot hand in the bottle of Karsin Acid while invisible? BTW, my invis didn't wear off, it was dropped when I initiated the trade. Previously I had no problems handing in dwarf heads or kobold paws to Capt. Bvellos in the Kael bank while invis (was ally to kromzek, but scowl to kromrif) and it didn't cause my invis to drop either.

I will attempt to get the gem again tonight while invis.. perhaps last time was a mere fluke.

Does anybody else have any ideas regarding this?

Thank You,
Panteroo Mcgillakudy
54 Vicar of Tunare
Fennin Ro

To the addition of all that...
according to Illia's, the giant wolf tamer is lvl 52.
So lvl 39 charm spell (Cajoling Whispers, cap lvl 41)
and lvl 49 charm spell (Allure, cap lvl 51)... won't even work on him...
So you'll need the lvl 53 charm spell (Boltran's Agacerie - cap lvl 53).
So you need a pretty high lvl enchanter to do that 40'ish quest... sigh
if it can do with charming at all...

I came to the conclusion that CHARM the giant wolf tamer won't work at all or you need some VERY GOOD puller for it.
First off, getting to the giant wolf tamer involves going through some see through invis guys.
Secondly, the giant wolf tamer was sourrounded by 4 other Dire Wolves (all red to a lvl 50).

Ok, there are 2 ways of doing this quest, depending on whether you're KOS in kael or not. For both you'll need to be at least level 50 to attempt this solo.

Method 1 (KOS)

Make a new character, a warrior (any race) with a religion of rallos zek. Get him buffed up with sow and invis then ported to Iceclad. Run to crystal caverns, and log at the zone. Then log in your main character and start pulling orcs to the zone. When a bottle of karsin acid (no drop) drops quickly log on the warrior to loot. Alternatively, if the queen is camped, get someone to invis your warrior and run him down to the queen room and ask to loot a sceptre of the coldain ancients (lore no drop) from her. Obviously, this is quite tricky, but I managed it first attempt with help from guildies camping the queen.

Next, run your warrior to thurgadin. Hand either the sceptre or acid to Erdaf Restil (both result in the same item: a gem of persuasion). Get someone to bind the warrior here and camp him here. Get your main character killing drakkal bllod wolves for a blood wolf harness. Once one drops, loot then have someone hand it to your warrior.

With the warrior again, get sowed and invised and run to kael. The wolf tamer is under the bridge near the tormax area. He won't respond to hails (he should con dubious) but will hand out items correctly. First give him the gem of persuasion, to recieve a giant's gem of persuasion. Then give him the blood wolf harness and the giants gem to recieve a giants control harness. Get translocated or run back to great divide.

The broodmother is unlikely to be up, she's on a 12hr spawn timer. Get someone to invis the warrior yet again and proceed with caution into the wurm caves. Log him out in the cave just past the guardian shardwurms (this is where the broodmother pops).

The final stage is a series of triggered events. When you see the broodmother's up, run your main character to the entrance of the coldain mines in which Korf Brokenhammer resides, and log out. Log the warrior back in and hand the broodmother the harness then IMMEDIATELY log the warrior back out and your main character back in. You have approximately 4 minutes before the broodmother reaches the mines.

With a reasonably fast PC, you should log in to see the 2 dwarves stood outside the cave with the broodmother still some way off. Target Korf and sit and wait (He will be approximately level 45 now). Eventually, the mother will arrive and attack, at which point you will lose your target. This is because korf depops then immediately repops with the bracer, and starts running. Retarget, then throw a quick snare at him (assuming you're a druid or ranger), and he'll attack you. The broodmother will be his pet and attack if you get too close to him, so root dotting or bow kiting is ideal. As a 54 druid, he took 2 rounds of breath or ro and winged death to kill, meaning he has around 5000hps... I've no idea what he hits for because i didn't get close enough to find out. Every snare and root I cast stuck fully, making things easy. When he dies, the broodmother should depop and you can walk over and loot the bracer.

Method 2 (non KOS)

This is similar but you save yourself the hassle of needing the alternate character. In CC, loot the acid or sceptre then hand in whilst invis in thurgadin (The quest intends for you to slip the acid in his drink, poisoning him and letting you steal the gem whilst he's distracted, although you can give him the sceptre and he hands the gem over willingly - no faction hits in either case). Kill a coldain war wolf in GD, and loot the war wolf choker. Hand the choker to the wolf trainer to get a drakkal blood wolf harness. Hand the gem in to get a giants gem of persuasion. Hand both these items in simultaneously to get your control harness. Give this to the broodmother to trigger the event, and follow the advice given in the previous section for killing korf.

A few facts...

If KOS to kael you CANNOT do this quest without using the warrior multiquest method above. You are GUARANTEED to be attacked in kael if you try handing in invis, and the items will in all probability be lost.

Korf is NOT 55 in the quest, as mentioned above he's nearer 45 with low MR and FR. He is however 55 when not in the quest, which obviously leads to some confusion.

You MUST wait for the broodmother to attack and repop korf before attacking him, if you attack prior to this you won't get the bracer.

You can depop the broodmother by killing whichever mob she's attached to as a pet... you don't need to kill the mother herself. She's a remarkably bugged mob and whilst will probably take Korf as a master she may pick a passing wolf or anything instead. It's common courtesy to depop her after you've done the quest if she doesn't automatically depop since if she's left wandering round following a wolf it's A) a nasty surprise for anyone that attacks the wolf and B) stops her respawning so others can do the quest.

Do you pull both the Gwalk and Fergul away out of aggro range to get the quest to loop? Or do you just keep Gwalk alive or both? heh

Well my cousin has a human warrior that is agnostic and he is not kos in Kael, he did kill a few dorfs though so not sure if he was kos before that, but he only killed maybe 4 or 5 dorfs total.

Alagarn

I have a troll shaman follower on Innoruk, is it possible that he might be ok factionwise to do this quest?

Does anyone know if the originator picked troll warrior/rallos Zek faction for a reason, or if any other race/class/religion combinations would work?

I'll try this tonight with my innoruk troll and see what happens...wish me luck...

I read this thing and figured it would be as easy as Kromrif's military leggings...well I was wrong.
Actually, Krom's legs is one of the easiest quests I have done, I have legs for my ranger, druid and shaman. Unfortunately, just to finish that quest, you need to kill giants(Furgul). So, although the description says you can "either do the legs quest or this one" it is way not that simple. I know that I am KOS in Kael, and I am ok in Thurgadin, so I can get the gem of persuasion, but I will need a boat load of faction to get to the trainer.
I tried with help today, he's actually called "a frost giant wolf tamer" and he is under the Icebridge by King Thrax or whatever...I made it to him invised the whole way, and made it out alive too. The problem was, he glared at me threateningly the whole time, so there is no way I could have given him anything. So, my plan is to do this quest more than once, so I can't kill my Coldain faction, but I need Kael faction-which I can gain by killing coldains. It's kinda a double edged sword. I think I might try the troll trick, but it would take alot of luck and a whole lot of help from my guild. I have a shaman who can make invis and sow potions, that might be the way to go. I've heard dragons in WW will raise both Coldain and Kael Drakel faction, but WW is hard to get to, and the dragons are all 50+...it could be messy. I guess I'd sit the troll at the zone in Crystal caves and hope I see the karsen's acid, then hope he can make the run to Thurgadin without dyng, and then the run through to Kael without dying and then run back to the Broodmother in GD to sit and wait. It seems like a really big streatch...but hell, if it works, they are better than my mith bracers.

Ok, I am dubious to both the coldain and the giants. I handed in the karsin acid with out talking to the giant wolf tamer, and i did not get the gem of persuasion. If i talk to the wolf tamer first will erdarf give me the gem this time? rather than just say i don't deal with your kind... or something like that