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Ok getting page 30 is easy, compare to those of us KOS to the corrupt guards. I am talking about Lieutenant Dagarok a 50th level corrupt guard Shadow Knight that harm touches for 800-900 points, that hangs outside of Crows. So to keep it short, you can't run and if you want to know if your getting to close to him, you probably already dead. No invis does not work unless you at a level to not worry about him in the first place. I was 26th when I started this quest and 25th when I finished. Bottom line go into Crows when the LT has moved in front of the entrance to Southern Qeynos. Once in do not leave, gate out. Kill Flynn Merrington who also probably hates you. Do not let him run and do not follow him. If he does not attack you great. Now you can give the gold to Moodoro Finharn whether he likes you or not. He will try and leave the tavern. Let him do not follow. He will come back. Keep giving him the 5gp inside the tavern do not leave until done and then gate out or have a spotter tell you that the LT is in front of the entrance to SQ you have been warned 6th deaths went into figuring this out. Good Luck.

I had a very easy time with this quest. I spent about 45 minutes killing the necro at the dock in Tox for faction. He is on a 6 minute spawn time. He's easy, Root, DoT, and then expulse summoned on his pet. I went to Queynos and the Jester card was the first card that I got dealt. I ported to NK and ran to HighPass got to the spot when Dylinn spawns and he was being camped. I camped out came back at 7:30 in the morning, I got there just as he was walking away from his post, I followed him down the waters edge. I figured it was now for never, I attacked him and he eventually ran away into the water, and died from the DoT. All in all I spent about 3-4 hrs at most and most of that was travelling.

Read this board last night and decided to try the quest with my level 17 wood elf druid. Went to Queynos and talked to Moodoro. He conned dubious and told me "I didn't know that slime could walk" or some other charming phrase, but I gave him 2 gold and he forked over the book. I had 200 gold on me cause I had heard it can take a while to get the jester, but I gave him 4 gold and he coughed it up on the first try. Then i went up to highpass with a level 54 wizzie friend watching my back. Dyllin was camped by a level 29 druid who said he'd been there for 5 hours and he was going to get some level 50+ guildemates to help him in case the big smuggler aggroed. This shook my confidence a little but I bound there and went out on other business. At about 9:00 pst the druid told me that he had just killed dyllin and he is an 8 hour spawn. I got on at 6:00 AM pst the next morning and who was standing all alone next to me but Dyllin Starshine. The only other mob in sight was a smuggler who conned blue, so I decided to seize the day, despite being without my wizzie friend. Attacked him and the smuggler aggroed immediately, and they killed me:( Respawned right next to my corpse, and still no big smuggler so I tried again, with a little more strategy this time. I noticed that the cliff off to Dyllin's right is directly above the zone into the hold, so this time I levitated, put on a skin buff and damage shield, and cast harmony on the smuggler. I rooted Dyllin and then backed out of meelee range and nuked him until root broke, then meeleed and nuked. Dyllin was well over half dead when harmony broke on the smuggler and he joined in. I finished off Dyllin and looted him with the smuggler beating on me, then ran off of the cliff and zoned with half a bubble of hit points to spare! I was in the shower by 6:30 and my druid is the only level 17 on his block with a testament of vanear and 151 wisdom. Woohoo!

If you really want it, and don't want to sit and wait for hours on end, then just wait until the server is patched. Patch day yesterday, I leapt straight on, as soon as the servers came back up, and there he was.

Btw, I didn't kill him straight away, if you have a little patience and wait for him to walk about, he'll walk down to the point where you enter that smuggler's place, out of sight of all the smugglers, and you'll not have to worry about the big Level 50 smuggler when you start bashing away at him... he did run, but he actually started to swim out, rather than run to the smugglers.

By the time I got my Testament I was on my third Dylin kill. The first time I'd helped a friend do the quest and the second time I stupidly forgot to hand the Jester card back to Moodoro and combined it with the page from Dylins corpse to get the dreaded 'those items do not combine' message.

Anyway, when Dylin popped, he aggro'd on me straight away which was rather worrying as the red smuggler was standing right there in his little spot. I had been planning to wait for him to start his little journey but no such luck.

When Dylin attacked me, I didn't fight back straight away - I cast harmony on the smuggler first (being a druid helps!) but note that it took a while before I could get the cast off in-between Dylin hitting me. The smuggler did not attack at all - but at this point I had not fougt back against Dylin so perhaps that was why.

Once the smuggler was harmonised then it was time to teach Dylin a lesson. At level 29 this was kinda easy =)

Assuming you're NOT kos to Dylin and are not surrounded by kill stealers then watch that red smuggler. He makes several trips. When he wanders down the pathway to your right, you're safe to engage Dylin as the smuggler with be gone for around 2 mins. If you're about level 22ish or above then you need not worry about any of the other smugglers, they'll be too low and wont aggro on you.

Good luck.

This guy who cons red to me at level 25, patrols the area and actually parks right where Dyllin spawns. Where is a safe spot to engage Dyllin without pulling this guy? Up the ramp has two smugglers...granted they are blue or green, but the last thing you want is more mobs to fight off. And the whole clearing area is no good because Mr. Red con walks entirely across it.

If you're struggling cuz you cant get the container and the jester card from Moodoro, because your faction is bad (and wolfform doesnt help) there here is a guaranteed solution.

Moodoro belongs to Crimson Hands faction, as I researched and tested it. So the easy way to better your faction with Crimson Hands is to go to Toxx forest and find a lvl 7 Necro named Elial Brook. Really easy to kill, and increases your faction with CH. I killed him maybe 10 times and when i came back to Qeynos, Moodoro judged me amiably. You dont loose any faction with Elial either, other then Heretics, which as you probably already found out is really bad anyway, unless you're an evil race (i'd assume).
So there you go. Hopefully that solved your problems, as it did for me

Odee Unleashed , Quelious

I just did the quest just recently on Nov. 16, 2000, and here's what I found:
The smugglers around him will assist, if they're a high enough level. Also the red smuggler is definately red, and does hit for 117 and backstab for 369. First time I tried him I got beat up by him, but I respawned, rememmmed spells, and then watched him better. You do have to wait until he goes down to the water, because on his normal patrolling of back and forth he will aggro on you if you're fighting Dyllin.
As for Moodoro Finharn, he was dubious to my Wood Elf druid, and refused to give me the book or playing card when I handed him money. Fortunately, I tried using wolf form. He then conned aprehensive to me, and cooperated with my gifts of gold. I had to sink about 130 gp into him before I finally got a jester, and also received zero knights. Ah well, saves a trip to OOT. =P
Anyhow, just clicked the combine button...yee-haw! +10 wis, baby. ;-)

- TheMaster42

I just completed this quest today, so I thought I'd share my experience in case it helps anyone else.

First I went to Qeynos, since I didn't want to risk being KOS to the corrupt guards after killing Dyllin. I locate Moodoro outside of Crows (by the pond) and pay him 2gp for the book (thus avoiding a trip to Erudin). Then I start giving him 4gp until he eventually (about 60-80gp later) gives me the Jester. I gave him the Jester and he gave me page 34 of the book.

Note: I also kept the Knight cards that Moodoro gave me. If you go to Eriolissi Island (aka the Sisters Island in the Ocean of Tears -- first stop off the boat from Freeport), find a campfire with a dwarf standing next to it. There should also be a hut next to it. Inside the hut is a dwarf who'll sell you armor. If you give him the Knights, he'll give you some exp and a piece of armor. Being a druid, I couldn't wear it, so I sold it back to him for a few plat. Helped recoup the money I paid Moodoro to get the Jester. Be sure to give it to the dwarf who sells armor, though. The other guy, well, he will take the Knights from ya, but you'll walk away empty-handed.

Ok, so now I've got the 2-slot book and page 34. Now all that is left is the awful part -- killing Dyllin.

Dyllin spawns in Highpass Hold. To find him, go to the pond in the zone and jump in. An underwater passage will lead to a cave. Climb up into the cave and eventually you'll see a bigger room. Inside the room there is a corner with a stove, rug, and a tent held up by some posts. This is where Dyllin spawns. One way to recognize it is that there are often people there waiting for him to spawn.

The first time I went there, nobody was in Dyllin's room. Neither Dyllin nor any campers. I wandered around until another player walked up. I asked if it was where Dyllin spawned, and he said yes. He camped soon, and I kept waiting. I bound myself there and wandered off. Came back later and someone was sitting in front of the spawn site. I came back later, and the same person was there, but so was Dyllin's corpse...without the pages. (He did have Bayle Letter III, though). I came back once more before I camped for the night. One person was sitting there, but Dyllin wasn't there. I woke up this morning and checked, and Dyllin was there. Woo-hoo! So was the camper from the night before, but she evidently wasn't at the keyboard. I waited a while to see if she would attack, but she didn't. So I harmonied the nearby smugglers and attacked Dyllin.

I hadn't been attacking Dyllin for very long when I was hit for 115 damage by a smuggler. They con apprehensive to me, so perhaps that's why they helped him. Not sure. Anyway, I had to run. Eventually they killed me out in the middle of Highpass. Since I was bound, I reappeared in Dyllin's room. I went to go find my corpse, figuring someone would wander by and kill Dyllin.

Evidently not. I found Dyllin standing over my corpse. One player was looking at him, but then wandered off. This time nobody else was near Dyllan, so I was able to root him and lightning him to death. Woo-hoo! I grabbed the pages off him, looted my corpse, hit combine, and now I have a Testament of Vanear. I started this quest one night at 6pm, and was done by 9:15am the next morning. And most of the intervening time was spent sleeping.

So here's my advice to anyone pursuing this quest:

1) Do the Qeynos part first. It's simple, and although I didn't test it, I've heard that the faction hit for killing Dyllin can make Qeynos a dangerous place for you.
2) Keep the Knights that Moodoro gives you, if any. Helps cover the cost if you end up giving him a LOT of gp before you get the Jester.
3) Don't just sit and camp Dyllin. For one thing, as like as not, other people will know the time when he is supposed to spawn. They'll show up just before he appears and steal him from you. Someone explained to me that this was their plan when I was talking to them last night. I warned the people camping Dyllin, and then went on my merry way. If you want to get the spawn to yourself, just log on at non-peak hours. At 9am this morning there were people in the zone, but Dyllin was all mine. If I had missed him this morning, I would have tried again tomorrow morning. Just bind by his spawn site and check back periodically.
4) I've heard varying reports on Dyllin's spawn time, from 6 hours and 45 minutes up to 8 hours. I don't know what is correct.

Good luck to you. And thanks to everyone who has previously given advice on this quest. It helped me out a lot.

Dignan Grubfinder
Level 22 druid
The Nameless

ok I have the page from Dylin and Moodoro will not tlak to me he hates DWF and he will not talk to me he would not talk to me before I even kill Dylin how do I get him to talk to me so I can finish this quest I have killed 1000 Gnolls and the fation in Qeynos is Amably they all love exept the poeple in the bar place where he is how can I get him to talk to me so I can get this quest over with and gain all the lvls I have lost since I started this headace of I quest please please help me anyhting I will try I have tryed killing Gnolls I have givin gold he say he has nothing to do with it and I have tryed camo from a druid any more Ideas I am up for just about anything thanx have a great day
Farmon Finefellow (test Server)

It can be a long time camping Dyllin Starsine (not starshine). If you camp him during peak hours, you will have to stick very close to the spawn point to defend it from KSers. During off peak hours you can practice brewing, begging, fishing, pottery and cooking, as all the necessary items and facilities are available nearby. Since you'll probably be the only one in the zone, you can wander away from the spawn point a bit. Ironically, the only smuggler who cares if you attack dyllin is the level 50 one. I Learned that one the hard way.

I am a paladain and this looks like a really coll quest to do. Does anyone have any advice on how to go about getting the testament? I would really appreciate it