Aid Eino  

This event can be started as early as 8pm game time, but not exactly at 8pm, I had to wait a minute or so after /time showed 8pm before he would spawn.

You only get one attempt per in game day. If he dies (or presumably after success) you have to wait until the next night to trigger him again.

This does work in DZs (and respawns after each in-game day). I recommend using DZs and pre-clearing the field if you can, as he walks right through as many roamers as he can and they will slowly whittle him down.

1st wave: 4 banshees roughly level 54-55, charmable, mezzable, summon.
2nd wave: 2 nightstalkers both level 60. I was not able to get Eino to engage. When I engaged them, he walked right past me and died while I was killing them. On my next attempt, I stayed far away, they did not aggro when they spawned and I was able to harmony them... then Eino just walked right past them. They are mezzable if you decide to kill them.
3rd wave: 5 hobgoblins roughly level 55-56, charmable, mezzable, don't summon
4th wave: 4 banshees, 3 bats roughly level 55-56. Bats are charmable, banshees are not. Banshees summon.

I was able to solo to this point (level 65 bard) but the 4th wave simply overwhelmed Eino too quickly for me to get them under control. Eino cannot be mezzed, I'm not sure if you can aggro him, maybe I'll try with AE slows and see if that can keep him alive long enough

Edit: using bard trickery, I was able to pull the 4th wave away and keep them from aggro'ing on Eino, at that point I could fade them off and they corpse camped... Eino doesn't care if they're up, he'll take his 5 minute break and proceed to the next spot.

Final boss (level? conned dark blue to 65): Difficult solo, but not impossible, especially if you can charm a spider/raven/tree to use as DPS. Much easier than the shenanigans required for the 4th wave.

Edited, Jul 20th 2021 8:39am by Treb

Unlike other escort quests you cannot buff or heal him. Memblur did not seem to work and he has next to no HP or regen. We basically mezzed all the mobs off him or taunted them off him and tried to preclear the path.

I was wondering if anyone has done this recently. If so what kind of level/group/etc.

Thanks

Did this quest last night, I'll try to write it up on facts, seems to be a lot of speculation on it. :)

My group was all 65 Elemental/Time geared. Paladin, Shaman, Rogue, Magician, Druid, and Enchanter (me).

Once in Nightmare, it must be 11pm game time or later, you must be at that *exact* location, -512, 1682. It's Go south from zone in and it's on the other side of the river, slightly south of the tree that looks like it's glowing. Say 'Quellious be my guide.' (no quotes) and he'll spawn and start walking.

You'll have to deal with any adds that roam, and at three different points, waves of mobs will spawn. The waves themselves aren't too bad. First wave was 4 Tortured Banshees. Second wave was 2 Nightstalkers. Third wave was 4 Hobgoblins. Fourth wave was about 3 Tortured Banshees and 3 Tenacious Bats (don't think name is right, but they were bats). Finally, he gives you a rest for about 5-10 minutes and The Dreamkeeper spawns, looks like a banshee, wasn't very difficult at all. She drops a Strand of Nightmare. The person who the quest is for needs to loot this, then you escort him back to the Plane of Nightmare graveyard and hand him the strand for the earring reward, as well as the essential pre-flag of the Essences of Power quest.

When I say the waves weren't bad...it's not entirely true. The 3 or 4 mobs themselves would be easy, but these fight locations are near where roamers spawn. The first, third, and fourth waves were a nightmare (no pun intended). I don't know if any mobs nearby are attracted to this fight with greater aggro range, or if these were wave spawn adds and we were too busy fighting to notice or what, but we had up to 8 mobs in camp at once, usually about 6. I've got about 6k mana, and I went oom and had to Gather Mana on the first encounter, later encounters I used trans rods as often as possible.

Note - These mobs summon.

On the bright side, Aid Eino in a fight himself is no pushover. He's a monk, has insane regeneration, and during our encounter he actually tanked a spider on his own because we weren't paying attention. I have to give them credit, he's a fairly powerful npc and well balanced for this quest. After a fight he's almost instantly at 100% health. He hits for 157 or so. Another note, he can *not* be mesmerized to give your group(s) recovery time, he's immune to mezzing.

Was told it couldn't be done with 1 group, but it can, it was just difficult, though a very fun challenge. If you aren't Time geared, I'd suggest 2 groups or more, treat it as a hedge maze run with the possibility of even more adds, but with a much weaker boss.

Now I just need Coirnav to drop his Essence of Water so I can complete my quest. :)

Nanvel Heartwarder
65 Dark Elf Enchanter
Morden Rasp


Edited, Mon Mar 22 13:09:22 2004

Anyone Know how this event compares to the difficulty lvl of the PoNB hedge event?


Thanks ...

Thanks to 13 other folks on Terris Thule, I was able to finish this last night.

After getting the Tiny Gold Fist, go back and talk with Eino again. He will tell you to talk with Kerasha. Hail Councilwoman Kerasha and say, 'I will aid the Taanan', she responds, blah, blah, blah. You then say, 'What essences of power?' she responds,

"The powers that watch over the four elemental planes all gaurd their respective essence of power. You must defeat each of them in turn and place them all in this sacred bowl. Once I have the combined power of the planes I can begin the ceremony and set the foundation of the city to rights."

She gives you 'A Sacred Bowl', a four slot container.

Will post more info as I progress.

Thanks again to everyone that helped out.

Anyone have any mob info on the mobs involved in this quest? I havent been able to find numbers or levels anywhere?

What is the loc of this tree? I tried doing this quest but I dont know if I was at the right spot.

According to the Safehouse (http://pub146.ezboard.com/fthesafehousefrm13.showMessage?topicID=5871.topic) the result of this quest is:

Tiny gold fist
Ear
ac:8
Str 5, Dex 5, Sta 5, Agi 5, hp 50
Sv disease 5, Sv poison 5
effect: see invisible
weight .1
All/all

No drop I believe. Pretty nice trinket