Fusibility Research  

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Rating:
*****
Information:
Time:days
Level:55
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:Yes
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Quest
Quest Goal:
  • Loot
Quest Items:
Related Zones:
Related Creatures:
Era:Scars of Velious
Recommended:
Group Size:Solo
Min. # of Players:1
Max. # of Players:1
Appropriate Classes:
  • All
Appropriate Races:
  • All
Entered: Mon Nov 5 20:08:17 2001
Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
This quest starts in Western Wastes and is given out by Makil Rargon. When Makil is hailed he will talk about the fusibility of elements and ask you to bring him 4 items to combine in a box he gives you. After you combine the 4 items and hand the combined box back to him he will give you the Strength of the Elements. The 4 items that are needed are:

-- Fusible Coral Ore - Off Phinigel Autropos in Kedge Keep
-- Fusible Earthen Ore - From An Animated Construct in the Hole
-- Fusible Igneous Ore - Ground spawn by the large volcano in Sky Fire mountains around 900, -1500
-- Fusible Velium Ore - Off a large air elemental named Guardian Kozzalym in Western Wastes.


You say, 'Hail Makil Rargon'

Makil Rargon says, 'Greetings, _____. I am Makil Rargon, an esteemed Assistant to the great wizard [Al'kabor]. What can I help you with?'

You say, 'Who is Al'kabor?'

Makil Rargon says "Al'Kabor is the most powerful wizard on all of Norrath. He is currently back to his Combine Empire research. Being his most trusted assistant, he assigned me to follow up on his fusibility [research] findings. Do you have any information to offer?'

You say, 'Research?'

Makil Rargon says, 'Ah. Yes, his fusibility research. Al'Kabor has been studying the melting point of minerals. Here. Take this journal. It explains what fusibility is. Over the last few years, he has conducted several tests on [fusible ores].'

Receive Fusibility Study: Part 1

You say, 'Fusible ores?'

Makil Rargon says, 'An ore is considered fusible if it can be melted. Now, this book explains the most unique forms of fusible ore that the master has conducted [experiments] on.'

Receive Fusibility Study: Part 2

You say, 'Experiments?'

Makil Rargon says, 'So far his research has been quite successful. This journal explains what he has been able to accomplish. He has managed to create several magical items including an artifactual scepter of great power. While only he can grant permission to a worthy wizard to possess the artifact, if you are willing to help me complete a [fusibility test], I can offer you another item of great strength against the elements.'

Receive Fusibility Study: Part 3

You say, 'Fusibility test?'

Makil Rargon says, 'Very well then ... Fill this Empty Fusible Ore Crate up with four different fusible ores then seal it. Bring me back the Full Crate of Fusible Ore and I will use the compound to create a magical item that was developed by Master Al'Kabor.'

Receive Empty Fusible Ore Crate

Combine Fusible Carol Ore + Fusible Earthen Ore + Fusible Igneous Ore + Fusible Velium Ore in the Empty Fusible Ore Crate to receive a Full Crate of Fusible Ore.

Give Makil Rargon the Full Crate of Fusible Ore.

Makil Rargon begins to examine the contents of the crate and proceeds to conduct an experiment. He then turns toward you and says, 'Excellent job! As promised, here is one of Master Al'Kabor's fusiblity research creations.'

Your faction standing with Temple of Sol Ro got better.
Your faction standing with Shadowed Men got worse
You gain experience!!
You receive 26 copper from Makil Rargon.
You receive 26 silver from Makil Rargon.
You receive 41 gold from Makil Rargon.
You receive 28 platinum from Makil Rargon.

You receive Strength of the Elements.
Rewards:
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Good Luck
# Feb 07 2005 at 12:07 AM Rating: Decent
As of this writing a banished efreeti for the Solro backflag quest is kos and kills Guardian Kozzalym in WW. Its fairly impossible to catch him up when hes being killed by another mob in zone atm.
Good Luck
# Mar 28 2009 at 3:56 PM Rating: Decent
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As of this writing a banished efreeti for the Solro backflag quest is kos and kills Guardian Kozzalym in WW. Its fairly impossible to catch him up when hes being killed by another mob in zone atm.


This must have been a bug of some sort as I camped this mob and he actually floated right past the Efreeti and both ignored eachother
Dialog
# Aug 06 2004 at 12:35 PM Rating: Decent
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You say, 'Hail, Makil Rargon'

Makil Rargon says 'Greetings, Felicite. I am Makil Rargon, an esteemed assistant to the great wizard [Al'Kabor]. What can I help you with?'

You say, 'who is Al'Kabor'

Makil Rargon says 'Al'Kabor is the most powerful wizard on all of Norrath. He is currently back to his Combine Empire research. Being his most trusted assistant, he assigned me to follow up on his fusibility [research] findings. Do you have any information to offer?'

You say, 'what research'

Makil Rargon says 'Ah. Yes, his fusibility research. Al'Kabor has been studying the melting point of minerals. Here. Take this journal. It explains what fusibility is. Over the last few years, he has conducted several tests on [fusible ores].'

You say, 'what are fusible ores'

(and he hands you a book - http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=18290)

Makil Rargon says 'An ore is considered fusible if it can be melted. Now, this book explains the most unique forms of fusible ore that the master has conducted [experiments] on.'

(and he hands you another book - http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=18293)

You say, 'what experiments'

Makil Rargon says 'So far his research has been quite successful. This journal explains what he has been able to accomplish. He has managed to create several magical items including an artifactual scepter of great power. While only he can grant permission to a worthy wizard to possess the artifact, if you are willing to help me complete a [fusibility test], I can offer you another item of great strength against the elements.'

(and he hands you yet another book - http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=18294)

You say, 'what fusibility test'

Makil Rargon says 'Very well then . . . Fill this Empty Fusible Ore Crate up with four different fusible ores then seal it. Bring me back the Full Crate of Fusible Ore and I will use the compound to create a magical item that was developed by Master Al'Kabor.'

(hands you an Empty Fusible Ore Crate, http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=17408 , a four slot container.)

(Put the four fusible ores into it and combine to make Full Crate of Fusible Ore, http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=24069 ,and give the result to Makil Rargon)

Makil Rargon begins to examine the contents of the crate and proceeds to conduct an experiment. He then turns toward you and says, 'Excellent job! As promised, here is one of Master Al'Kabor's fusibility research creations.'

(hands you Stength of the Elements)

Your faction standing with Temple Of Sol Ro got better.
Your faction standing with Shadowed Men got worse.
(random coins follow)
You receive 4 copper from Makil Rargon.
You receive 24 silver from Makil Rargon.
You receive 48 gold from Makil Rargon.
You receive 60 platinum from Makil Rargon.
Yael no longer needed?
# Aug 03 2004 at 12:14 PM Rating: Default
Anyone done this recently? I see from the quest text that Yael is no longer involved....anyone know for sure?
quest level
# Jun 27 2004 at 4:29 AM Rating: Default
quest NPC will not speak to a low level character, i'd guess min level is 45 at least, might be higher.
RE: quest level
# Dec 08 2004 at 2:23 AM Rating: Default
My level 33 Ranger could not get the quest, however my son's level 40 Warrior could, and now owns these.
Loc of Makil Rargon
# Dec 31 2003 at 6:34 AM Rating: Decent
18 posts
To the best of my knowledge this NPC does not move unless agroed. Loc is n1125,n2915

Might prove useful )
Sneak?
# Dec 02 2003 at 1:30 AM Rating: Decent
Will sneak work for turning this in. I had fine faction but not sure what it is now after helping a cleric with her epic in temple of sol ro... God I hope I can sneak and do this quest.
Apprehensive
# Nov 16 2003 at 5:00 AM Rating: Default
Just completed this quest with Apprehensive faction.
Hole Drop
# Oct 07 2003 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
Since the revamp these drop off "an Animated Construct". They are guards to The Guardian of the Seal. Guardian is a level 70 mob. Constructs were dark blue at level 65 I believe. All 3 spawn where Master Yael used to spawn.
The Hole
# Sep 10 2003 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
Has anyone done this quest since the Hole revamp? I am just interested to know if there have been any changes since I will be doing this quest soon. Thanks for your time.

Ulic - 57th Warrior of Rallos Zek
Salkan - 54th Druid of Tunare
Crocodillia - 51st Shaman of CT
Torvo
RE: The Hole
# Sep 12 2003 at 8:15 AM Rating: Decent
Found what I was looking for under the link for Fusible Earthen Ore.
Fusibility quest
# Jun 09 2003 at 3:03 PM Rating: Default
I have confirmed that Markil Rargon is in fact on Temple of Sol Ro faction. You can increase your Temple of Sol Ro faction the fastest by doing the quest below:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=305

I went from KoS to Amiably with 4000 gold pieces. The named orc, Ortallis, is on ToSR faction, so you may have to root him away from the camp and then do the turn in. The turn in mob will not talk to you if you are kos to ToSR but will give you faction anyway if you do the 30 gp turn in.

Regarding Guarding Kozzarym, he is not as rare as is indicated in the previous post. However, there are alot of folks that do this quest so he is killed often. He can be found out near zone in to Dragon Necropolis, which is where I pulled him to to kill him. He likes to path along the edge of the canyon down there. Track comes in handy for this but DN is a good starting point. One other thing, he is not snarable, he is immune to changes in run speed. I solo'd him with my 62 Shaman and my 59 Druid, and the druid didn't do much during the fight. He slows easy and all dots landed pretty easy.

RE: Fusibility quest
# Aug 23 2003 at 12:59 PM Rating: Decent
Aye he is very easy but i found him in the northern part of the zone in the water. He was fighting a dragon so i killed him both. Cake.


Guardian Kozzalym is the bottle-neck !!
# May 08 2003 at 8:12 PM Rating: Default
Okay I have had all drops except the one from Guardian Kozzalym in WW for some time now.

Master Yael was not a problem at all, you just need to track him which is very easy. Ok he is rare spawn but so what at least you know how to track him.

Phinny is more than gimp and easy, you track him and kill. He is 12 hour spawn so no problemo.

Skyfire ground spawn is a laff hehe

GUARDIAN KOZZALYM?? Who the (#¤/U¤/ is that? You claim "he is always up" but he is not. Try to track him and see. I have got help from LOTS of ranger lvl 60+ they have ran around in the zone many times. He is DEFININTELY not up "all the time" hehehe, he must be as rare as Master Yael.

Some people claim Master Yael is the bottle-neck but thats not true, talk to ANY high level who is doing this quest, they usually end up with having all items EXCEPT the one from Guardian Kozzalym...

So please could anyone give any good, effective and reliable information about this Guardian Kozzalym? How rare is he? How do you track him? I heard you need see invis in order to track him but still that is not enough. We know exactly how to track all other mobs in this quest, but not this one.

Please if someone can help here, i would really appreciate it.

/Horun
SK 65 morell Thule
RE: Guardian Kozzalym is the bottle-neck !!
# Oct 25 2003 at 4:11 PM Rating: Decent
I've found Guardian Kozzalym several times off the map or below the world in the southwest corner of zone. Swim around in the water there and eventually he will come smack you. Confirmed this a couple times with my druid. If he's not up in a normal path through the zone, try checking there.
RE: Guardian Kozzalym is the bottle-neck !!
# Jul 13 2003 at 6:08 PM Rating: Default
I just finished the quest today.

I got my piece from KK off of phinny while helping a wizzy friend work his epic(I was 52 at the time). Phinny is about a group mob and soloable by many. Not too tough just a matter of setting up a ranger to track him and move there fast if he is up.

Next I got Guardian kozzalym in WW. For me (57 now 55 at the time ranger) he was very easy to track and kill with a couple friends... Basically I just started killing mastodons, hounds and brontotheriums until I found kozz on track. I spent maybe 10 hours in the zone gettign pretty good exp off the animals and looting high priced pelts i later sold for a ton of money... When I found Kozz on track he was wandering in the southwest part of the zone then i called up a few buds and took him without any trouble.

Master yael is the most difficult fight in the quest and easy to check on using a halfling rogue i snuck down to the ledge that looks over his spawn point. I would check occasionally for him to be up and found that when he was he generally didnt live long... Just be sure to have friends lined up ahead of time and move fast to him... a mage on the ledge to coth the group down most of the way is a nice bonus.

After then going to skyfire to get the last piece (ground spawn) I headed to WW for the turn in... Ironically i saw kozzalym on track and made the turn in to makil rargon. Happily now i wear the stregth of elements. Good quest... Took the span of like 4 months but was worth the maybe 20 hours of total time placed into getting it.
ground spawn
# Apr 27 2003 at 8:23 PM Rating: Decent
The ground spawn part of this quest is giving me a huge headache, does anyone have any information on it other then "loc 900 1500" ?
RE: ground spawn
# Jun 09 2003 at 3:07 PM Rating: Decent
Your coordinates need pos and neg indicators. The correct location is positive 900, negative 1500. They are on the ground at the edge of the lava there, they look like bags.
RE: ground spawn
# Apr 29 2003 at 2:48 AM Rating: Decent
its on one of the pillars in the middle of the big lava pit, you need levi of some form to reach it
RE: ground spawn
# May 03 2003 at 6:24 PM Rating: Default
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Not sure if there's one out there, but I got mine just south of the volcano, out of the lava. There was a small pedestal there, and a bunch of groundspawns around it, maybe 10 or so, all the same. Looks the same as the groundspawn items in EW or GD, a black and orange speckled-looking thing.

Sir Falloraan Saskiir
59 Knight - Tholuxe Paells
Faction needed?
# Dec 06 2002 at 4:25 PM Rating: Default
So do you have to be better than indifferent to do the quest? I am pretty sure I am not liked at all by Sol Ro faction minded peeps as I am an Iksar. I don't want to waste my time chasing after this if it can't be done with sneak to do the turn in. Thanks in advance for any info :)
RE: Faction needed?
# Jan 09 2003 at 7:53 AM Rating: Default
Everyone starts out non-KOS to Temple of Sol Ro, AFAIK. To check your faction, head over there and con one of the entrance guardians.
Markil gargons faction???
# May 14 2002 at 2:32 PM Rating: Default
was KoS to him and others in my group wasn't.We all were on CoV/Dorf factions so i'm not kos to dragons in WW. Does anyone know if hes on a certain faction and what I could kill to raise the faction? Thanks in advance..
RE: Markil gargons faction???
# Jun 20 2002 at 11:42 PM Rating: Decent
It says at Graffe's site that Markil is on Temple of Solusek Ro faction. Hope that helps.
RE: Markil gargons faction???
# Feb 19 2003 at 12:14 PM Rating: Default
It seems highly unlikely that he's on Sol Ro faction -- very few people kill any mobs that would make them KoS to the Temple of Solusek Ro - the only ones I can think of would be Ortallius in South Ro and the renegade shadowed man in Mistmoore (Enyti?). That, or 'hail' the named Efreeti in the Temple of Sol Ro till they got to KoS.
RE: Markil gargons faction???
# Aug 30 2003 at 3:57 AM Rating: Default
Its not hard to get KOS to SolRo faction if your bored. There is a guy in the basement that gives you negitive faction from hailing him. I remember sitting there spam hailing him for fun watching my faction drop like a stone, then training the whole place to the zone. (whoops) Of couse then I had to fix my faction to do the quest hehe
RE: Markil Rargons faction???
# Apr 19 2003 at 6:40 AM Rating: Default
It may well be that Markil Rargon is just racist (or species-ist). :)

As of last night, Markil Rargon was KoS to an Iksar Monk, and Amiable to a Wood-Elf druid; using Wolf Form moved the Monk to Amiable also, which was quite enough to obtain the quest, and complete it.
shoulders
# Mar 09 2002 at 1:40 PM Rating: Default
this quest sounds not mq'able...is that true? Also how hard is yael to take down..phinny is not that hard

RE: shoulders
# Dec 02 2002 at 1:17 AM Rating: Default
22 posts
None of these mobs are "hard" to take down. The difficulty comes in catching them up and beating the contending people to it. Phinny is fairly easy because he spawns roughly twice a day. The ground spawn you of course just pickup, and the air elemental in WW is almost always up. The ***** of the quest is Yael.

Now, Yael isn't a complete wimp. He has 32k hp, hits for 167's, and nukes so easy there, but he also DT's every 30 seconds. So make sure you drop him and drop him fast.

His difficulty is his spawn time. Which is completely fuX0red. It's like a 2 week spawn or more, and he does NOT spawn with a patch. Then you topple the fact that this shoulder piece really is killer so there is tons of competition on this one bottleneck in the quest.

Best advice is either camp an assling rogue there or make a lowbie Erudite to jump from the top and check for him every day you sign on.

Got him last night just outta chance. Wish you the same kind of luck.
RE: shoulders
# Mar 20 2002 at 6:19 AM Rating: Good
You are correct, because the quest requires you to combine no drop items in a no drop container.

You have to be the one to combine the items in the Box.

Any quest that requires only 1 item turned in cannot be MQ'd
1st quest
# Feb 18 2002 at 2:45 PM Rating: Default
The quest for the shoulders went live after the server-wide GM event happened. During the GM event Al Kabor needed help to kill an air elemental in the wurm caves in GD to complete the fusible ore collection. He then gave a scepter to the wiz that helped him.

Now you gather the ores and combine them in the box from Markil and give back the combined box to get the shoulders.
No faction for Guardian
# Dec 03 2001 at 6:49 AM Rating: Default
Guardian didn't give me faction hit. Also, I am ally to both CoV and Sol, and Guardian immediately aggroed.
spawn?
# Nov 22 2001 at 9:59 AM Rating: Default
Whats guardian kozzaryms spawn time?
RE: spawn?
# May 12 2002 at 3:58 AM Rating: Default
From everything I've been told, he spawns with patch and is down for 5 days if killed. He's usualy up, though, so it shouldn't be some huge camp like Yael.
Guardian Kozzalym
# Nov 09 2001 at 5:24 AM Rating: Default
Does anyone know if the Guardian is on CoV faction? Or any faction at all ? Thanks

Drizal Bladestorm
55 Scaled Meatshield
RE: Guardian Kozzalym
# Nov 10 2001 at 6:29 PM Rating: Default
He is on temple of Sol ro faction. I have done the quest and have shoulders now.. i am reading this page to find out information about the sceptor he talks about .. if anyone has any information concerning this it would be appreciated.

I dont know if this somehow has to do with the staff of alkabor which is an artifact (or maybe relic).. which means only one per server.. a wiz on VZ has this staff (it is amazing btw .. has a 10 pt mana regen built into it and c2 stacks with it and similar/better stats as epic). The wiz (nayfear) won this staff in a gm event so i assume that there is no relation between them .. only asking about this because i caught the end of a conversation in guildchat when someone was talking about both the staff and the quest from makil. Also makil is supposedly alkabors most trusted assistant so it would make sense that he would reward a staff of alkabor or something similar.

Emron 60th wiz Defiant of VZ
#REDACTED, Posted: May 12 2002 at 3:56 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) A guildie of mine actually has this staff. It's an artifact (one per server) and I believe she actually got it in GD. Not 100% sure on the location though. I am sure I could direct you to her if you have further questions. Pretty sure she'd know better than I would. :)
Scepter
# Nov 08 2001 at 12:02 AM Rating: Default
on would assume that the scepter can more than likely be obtained by a caster character by turning in the shoulders, however, if you REALLY dont wanna do the quest again, dont try this, i havent yet
faction
# Nov 07 2001 at 9:15 PM Rating: Default
Yes, he definatly is on a faction, and i suppose the last poster was right, becuase i also got nuked by him...and am kos in sol temple.

Dragons assist him, by the way, so dont aggro the bum.
#Anonymous, Posted: Nov 07 2001 at 10:14 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Makil is on beta neutral faction,
RE: makil's faction
# Nov 28 2001 at 7:41 PM Rating: Default
jesus man, you kill stuff in temple of sol ro and it leads you to believe hes on BETA NEUTRAL? DUH hes on sol ro fac man, USE YOUR BRAIN
handing in the reward
# Nov 07 2001 at 8:29 AM Rating: Default
has anyoe tried turning it back in like the robe of bev quest or the tormax head quest?
Are the Components No Drop?
# Nov 06 2001 at 1:13 PM Rating: Default
I have only one question. Are the fusible pieces you need dropable? Because if so you could get them with one Char and turn them in with another. Thanks Just curious.
RE: Are the Components No Drop?
# Nov 07 2001 at 1:44 AM Rating: Default
The piece from Phini is no drop, so I would assume they all are.




Edited, Sat Aug 10 20:56:21 2002
RE: Are the Components No Drop?
# May 12 2002 at 4:00 AM Rating: Default
They all are. :)
Faction?
# Nov 06 2001 at 9:28 AM Rating: Default
Can someone please tell me what faction Markil Rargon is on, and what level that faction has to be at to do this quest? Thanks.
RE: Faction?
# Nov 07 2001 at 7:20 AM Rating: Default
16 posts
He's factionless so anybody can do the quest.
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