Tunare Initiate  

As a level 4 Half-Elf Druid, I was able to complete the bone chip portion multiple times. I was told my faith was not strong enough for the Initiate portion.

Aradune TLP - Initial launch

Edited, May 30th 2020 9:56am by Selerra

Turning in the bone chips:

[Wed May 04 21:22:03 2016] Your faction standing with Clerics of Tunare has been adjusted by 2.
[Wed May 04 21:22:03 2016] Your faction standing with King Tearis Thex has been adjusted by 2.
[Wed May 04 21:22:03 2016] Your faction standing with Anti-Mage has been adjusted by 1.
[Wed May 04 21:22:03 2016] You gain experience!!

I'll try to find out the information for the ghast hearts hand-in, soon....(just wanted to post the first hand in, for the moment)

Anti-Mage +1
Clerics of Tunare +2
King Tearis Thex +2

If you are interested in faction.

I can confirm the rancorous ghasts are capable of spawning as early as 8:00 pm game time.

I would begin clearing the wandering undead around 5:00 pm game time to spawn the ghasts, then stop at 6:00 am game time to allow everything to repop before continuing the following "game" night.

That being said, this quest was trying on the nerves. It's still a fine item, being a free root, but you definitely have to "want" this item to get past the ghast grind. I averaged 1 heart for every 10 kills, with 1-3 ghasts spawning per game night. That lead to quite a number of real-life hours... be prepared for a commitment.

edit* Oh, and do yourself a favor to help speed up the process; while camping the ghasts, always be certain to clear the bottom step of the undead obelisk (little totem/statue structure), so that you have a shot of spawning the dark elf necromancer required for the next step of this quest. Like the hearts, he was painful to grind out time wise.

Edited, Mar 6th 2009 10:46pm by JangostheRogue

At level 8 you had better be careful. With all the red mobs now in the zone, even my 21 Cleric must run to zone quite often. Unless you have a high level tracker, who is also killing for you, this is a very frustrating quest. I have killed about a dozen ghasts between evac runs, but not a single heart yet.

Hello,

Just yesterday (8/27/2003), I killed three ghasts in a row, and each of them had a heart. They were killed at 3PM to 8PM. Must be early risers.

Happy Trails

I completed this quest as a Druid , now I'm going to try as a Cleric.

I left a very long post with regards to Initiate and Dicsiple on Dicsiple board - so check that out for details.

I would say that yes they spawn at night, yes the more undead that is wandering around that you kill the more frequent they will pop.

But they don't drop too often, at least they didn't for me- but it may have been my level.

I started fairly low, before I had Wolf Form spell, and the brownies were too much to contend with.

After I had WF I came back , and tracked all undead and all Ghasts.

This took me a couple days - that's real days not EQ days...to get all four.

Brownies and paitence proved to be the only obstacles - for at level Circa 18 when I continued the quest - the Ghasts are green and an easy kill.

Good luck.

Koombye Yaah
37th Druid
Tuanre

I completed this quest in about 3 hours, would have been quicker if not for the brownies. The ghasts pop all over the zone so you will have to venture a bit. I bound myself at GFay zone ventured out to find ghasts then when trouble appeared I gated back. Worked well for me ! Good luck all!

Kailie Lifebringer
Lvl 20 Cleric
Bertoxx server

I’ve been trying to finish this quest for over 20 levels now and the better part of a year. From reading the posts it looks like I just have rotten luck in LFay. I was camping the necro and hunting ghasts at the same time. After days and days and days of camping, I never got the necro to spawn. All I ever got were the placeholders. And after killing over 50 ghasts I only found 1 heart. I even had my guild join me one evening and we never got the necro or a single heart. Eventually, with a couple of friends helping me, we managed to get the necro to spawn and I got both heads and the crate. I even managed to get a second heart. And of course, as I hunted for hearts that day the necro spawned two more times. At least the last time I was able to help someone else get the heads and crate he needed. As things stand now, I still need two hearts and the pouch of red dust for the final symbol. I have everything else. And I just found out that a friend who has give up on this quest has two hearts in the bank. So we are going to try to multi quest the first symbol.

Dangers of the zone:
As others have stated, the main dangers in this zone are the brownies. If you can take wolf form then you will be fine. You can also try to keep camo up, but it will drop every time you attack an undead and if a brownie is near you… But for me, the true danger of this zone is Equestria the Corrupted. That damn black horse has attacked me more times than I like to remember. It can, by the way, see through camo and it hates wolves. I believe its level is in the low to mid forties, but it’s also a spell caster and it hits very hard. And it was up almost every single time I entered the zone. The day I got my crate and second heart a kind 60th level druid killed the beast for us. And I swear it can detect people from half way across the zone. So be very careful. And if you have someone of helping you that is of the evil bent, have them stay clear of the Pained Unicorn. A lizard monk friend found out the hard way that she doesn’t take kindly to evil creatures in her zone.

So if you get the items you need quickly, count your blessings. And if you are having rotten luck like I am, just keep at it. You’ll eventually get your prize.

The best way to do this is to go after the ghast with track if you are a druid and at the same time look for the skeletons. Since the ghasts don't like the day time then kill the skeles untill the ghast come back. Once you have all of the chips and hearts go and turn in the bones then the hearts and kill two birds with one stone then you can wait for ever to get the other dudes for the next step to appear.

I am a lv 26 paladin on tholuxe... I have found that the best way to find the ghasts is to be busy doing something else. never knew about this quest until a few days after my LFay trip. Indeed they do olny spawn at night, but are just as annoying in the daytime. I ran into about 20-30 of these running around near the pixie tower, they all attacked me, and all died quickly. only one DIDN'T drop the heart thing. I disreguarded these and decided to just look it up later. I went back once i knew there was an actual possibly worthwhile quest for them i went back to LFay, in about 5 days i haven't seen a single one. as soon as i got into a fight (rather i was running for my life) with a brownie scout I had 2 aggro on me... I zoned and waited a few second for them to go away from the zone and the brownie finished off the second one and reaggroed on me.

TIP: don't try to find them they find you! (unless you are really bored)

GOOD LUCK TO ALL

I have about 3 stacks of bone chips. If i give the guy i got this quest from a lot of chips, will that mean more ghasts will appear and more frequently?