Uklo's Magic (Illusion Guktan - good)  

If you accidently lose this or give it to the wrong person you can just Hail Uklo and he'll give you a new distiller so you don't have to start over from square one.

WHO DROPS SHIELD!?!?!


thank you

Wow this quest looks annoying! Was hoping to do it at 52 with my ench but I am really worried about the fight with gribnor the small. My enchanter on tribunal has the following steady group.

51 War
51 Shm
51 Ench (me)
47 wiz (me)
48 cleric
48 SK

What level would this group have to be to kill Gribnor? How hard does he hit? Approx HP? How hard do his thugs hit?

Seems kinda silly to have such a hard fight for a lvl 52 spell :0/

ok, walked around this entire japanese type tower, both in and out on 2 different occasions with my lvl 1 de scout, and i am not seeing this troll and his friends. Is the spawn in the tower out of othe tower, near that dark elf and his helper ghouls or what?

Ayana
65 coerver
lanys

Ok, just did the neriak troll. Here is some tips don't listen to what people say he is NOT slowable he can't be snared or rooted his guards can't be either. My group did it with only a 65 SK and me 65 chanter and a 65 druid (didn't even need to heal) and a 65 cleric and that's it. Concentrate on the small guy the guards aren't much and there is a cleric green con mob that walks by the zone in he heals the small guy he can be mez'd your roll in this fight is to chain mez the cleric guard and try to nuke the little guy. Remind your group don't hail the spawn after the little guy is dead or you have to do it all over again. After you get the item just gate or prt out. Hope this helps ya =)

Yumaman KB

Just killed the small guy last night. We set up at the Neriak 3rd gate/foriegn quarter zone. Had a 65 necro with rune and his harmshield loaded. He nailed the little guy and ran all the way to the necro guild over the water befoe stopping to check his progress. He ended up using his harmshield on the way cause the little guy is fast, he lost the 2nd thug right after that and was able to get grib al lthe way to the zone with no adds. There we had 64 mage with air pet, the necros pet a 64 beastlord, myself 65 chanty and my 65 cleric, also a 53 cleric , and 59 druid, as a warning no spells will land ever from leve l65s. A disease type life tap landed for 80 points, he als ofears and does dot you. It was pure melee fight cause hes highly magic reist even with mala and tash, all we did was kee pthe pets alive. Good luck hope this helps

I just completed this quest and I must say it was a great deal of fun and the storyline was interesting. A couple tips I can offer:

The skyash bile can be purchased in the bazaar as it is a pretty common drop. I hunted in SFM quite a lot and destroyed many of these common items. Save yourself a silly run-around and go buy one in the bazaar. It's not a compelling part of the quest, nor a challenge to go get yourself, just a waste of time so go buy one for 1p.

The fire drake ash is No Drop so you have to loot it yourself. Take the Neriak stone from PoK and run north into Lavastorm mountains. The drakes right near that zoneline will drop one very quickly.

The pile of froglok remains is in the corner of a building remains in Rathe Mountains which is easy to see.

The corrupted gnome explorer is through a pit trap in LGuk. The easiest way to him is to head through the bedroom toward the storeroom. When you get to the walkway near where the gargoyles sit (before the ***/sup room) jump off the edge. Upon landing, turn around 180 degrees and follow the hall. You will see a red square at a hallway intersection. The trap is just left of that. The CGE is very MR and I only got a mezz to land once. He repeatedly resisted root even after tash. It's best to have someone melee him.

Gribnor the Small is really hard. His encounter is a massive undercon and he is on par with a small epic raid. I did it with a 65 Shaman, 65 Mage, 65 Druid, 63 monk, 62 paladin, 62 monk, 54 cleric, 56 enchanter (me) and 53 ranger. The mage and ranger died and I died twice. We had trouble splitting them and finally got to just Grib and one Thug. Make a level 1 DE necro or Sk and scope out the area so you know the way in. We had to clear a few wandering mobs so we could pull to the cove (over the bidge you will see when you get there). Also if you have levitate or SoE you can lev to the cove and avoid running through part of the city. It's hard to describe so make a scout and go look then you wil see what I mean.

The final fight was fun but I didn't even need to help Chalex. Once I spawned him i had about 15 sec until the General spawned. Teh general's minions came right aftr me and left Chalex alone to kill the General. The minions appear very slow almost snared and I outran them easily with RS3. There were about 6 of them - all large green dulak-like trolls. The hit me very hard and I was knocked down to 40% health by the time I ran out of range. I led them a safe distance away and mezzed them all easily.

The funnest part of the quest was completing it and watching Chalex's big goofy grin and wave as he thanked me - it was certainly a Kodak moment.

A reminder too - if you bring friends, make sure nooone hails the spirit that is spawned at each step. Whomever hails it gets the reward and it then despawns immediately. People sometimes hail a mob when they see it out of habit (to announce it's presence, etc.) make sure that noone hails it.

Many EQ quests are stupid and painfully difficult for the reward. The Gribnor encounter was a little harder than it should have been (having to travel to the very deepest part of Neriak already) but other than that, this is a well designed quest and lots of fun.





Edited, Mon Sep 29 11:00:35 2003

Did the guys in Neriak last night; we had (all level 65) 2 rangers, 1 shaman, 1 ench. I used my summoned pet, but the DE who paths back and forth into the building and towards the city is DC-able and also mezzable. The quest NPC and his two guards are not mezzable, slowable etc - also neither Dementing Visions nor Insanity landed on any of the three.

The first time we just about wiped since I hadn't looked here for details on the mobs. :) However the second time we knew what to expect and although it was a sloppy fight, we still won. I cast Illusion: Fire Elemental on us for the added damage shield, the ranger pulled. Combination of ranger melee/bow usage, my pet jumping in, and - since the mobs were pretty much immune to anything I cast - I pulled out my dagger and waded in. :) Lot of HP on these little fellas, and they hit in the 250+ range, which isn't much if you're used to hunting POP mobs, but adds up quickly if you don't have a lot of HP, since you can't slow these guys. The thugs dropped rusty swords.

Heehee... that little itty bitty teeny troll is too cute though. :)

The troll is KOS to everybody. When I was first trying to find him, I used my DE SK (Innoruuk worshipper), and ran her up into the building to see who else was with him on the balcony. Got a message about "everybody comes to laugh at me!" (something to that effect) and then he and his thugs proceed to beat you senseless. :)

I finished the quest today. Had a group help me with the mobs in Neriak. I did the invis trick on the turn in to the frog bones in Rathe Mountains, so I was able to watch the fight. None of the troll undead assisted in the fight, it was quite boring.

Anyway, I knew the illusion was still broken, so I scribed it and cast it. I turned into a human male that is smaller than a usual human male. Even though I knew the spell was broken it still made me angry. Somehow I was expecting it fixed already. Stuff like this shouldn't make it past the test server. But I guess it's too much to ask. It's truly sad. Anyway, I plan on logging a bug report in game several times a day until it gets fixed. I'm sure spam will annoy SoE as much as it annoys me.

Etude
65th Enchanter of the Lupine Order

So far in my experience:

1st piece: You have to start the quest by talking to Master Uklo or you will not be able to say the words " I wish to recover what is lost" in Rathe Mountains at the battle spot. Once I spoke with the Master I was able to complete step 1.

2nd piece: 'A corrupted gnomish explorer' had been killed on my way down to him in Lower Guk. He is near the Arch Mage room. There is a false floor you fall into just past the safe hall on your right. Location 1075, -750. Anyway the spirit was up when I got there. I hailed him and received the 2nd piece. There is conflicting posts here about hailing the spirit. My guess is it can't be just anyone to hail. Only someone who has spoken to Master Scribe Uklo to become in a sense 'flagged' for this. But I did not test this to be sure. To be on the safe side. I asked my group not to hail the froglok spirit.

3rd piece: By far the most difficult to get. I have project illusion (aa ability) and as a side note I learned that turning my group members into Dark Elfs did not change their faction. Although Dark elf illusion on myself worked just fine throughout. We had to invis to get to 3rd gate and we set up camp at the zone in.

On the first attempt we had myself 65 enchanter, 65 warrior, 65 druid, 51 ranger and 51 cleric. There is conflicting posts about being able to stun. First, I was unable to pacifiy Gribnor the small(used pacification) This did not aggro them. I got the message 'your target is unaffected'. Second, I was unable to slow, ae stun (color line), dot (strangle), dd (insanity) this was after I pulled with Howl of Tashan.

Being in Dalk Elf illusion allowed me the ability to NOT aggro any gaurds during the pull. When I pulled, I had Arcane rune, Rune of Zeb and Eldrich Rune ready to go. I was HT'd immediatly, which ate the Rune of Zeb or most of it. I didn't stop to check buffs. =)I got turned around on the way to the zone and the mobs knocked off my runes. I casted Eldrich rune (aa ability), which allowed me to get back to the zone alive. I resisted fear, which is nice. So make sure you have Resist Magic on. I also had Flight of the Eagles. But I stayed on the path and didn't go over any water.

Fight notes: During this battle our cleric had to go through many (5 I think she said) CH's on the MT. The druid had his epic and said that the epic dot took hold. I zoned out then back in and casted my 62 pet and sent him into attack (aa ability I have full control over pet). We killed both Thugs first. Then it was just Gribnor who was down to 50% when he aggroed the druid (who was right next to the zone) Gribnor summoned the MT who got turned around and zoned out by accident. Needless to say things went south. The MT came back in got aggro with 20% health but the cleric was in the middle of a CH for the ranger and the druid had already been killed. MT died and we had to zone out and try again.

2nd attempt: We had Gribnor all alone. The druid had to camp. So just the 4 of us left. I pulled him to the zone again and it was pretty elementry from there. Straight fight. Although I casted a few Runes on the MT while the cleric was CH'ing and Gribnor does ENRAGE so be ready. The spirit spawned and I hailed right away and got the 3rd piece.

Going to complete this quest tonight. I hope the information was helpful.

Vivix Captivate
65 Enchanter
Bristlebane

Just got my spell, after 1 near wipe in neriak, our cleric noticed he could stun these mobs. So I did AE stun, at lvl 62, they didnt resist any of my stuns. The spell - illusion guktan, however has an effect error in it, it turns the player into a MALE HUMAN, yes even females. A female chanter showed me the effect from her spell. In Rathe, the last fight, keeping him alive, is not to hard, just agro and run with sow, or run3. There are about 8 of the trolls that spawn to try to kill the frog. In LGuk, the gnome is in some pit, we fell in and there he was. Conned lt blue to 62.

Thazager
Level 62 Dark Elf Enchanter
Morrel Thule

OK we went to do this and as posted above, Gribnor has some friends. Gribnor is indifferent but he has 4 dark blue mobs (to 65) around him scouling to attack, all unmezzable unrootable. 60 cler, 55 war, 63 sk, 59 druid got our butts handed to us. Tried dotting from far and no luck. We were able to split once but he feared the warrior then ate the cleric as a snack. It looked like there were only supposed to be two helper mobs but that it got bugged and two more popped.
I don't think we thought to try this in troll form but not sure it would have mattered.

Malodorous Crimsonmoons
HIgh Cleric of Brell
Crimson Warriors Guild
Tunare Server

lolz, 279 is hard? i could udnerstand if it was 470 but thats still not hard at all.. aka means all u need is a cleric a pally and a dps as rogue monk or beasty prolly and can kill the troll np. my 2cents are if 279 is hard and the troll is the hardest part then this quest is cake.

Yes, the troll in Neriak was much harder than the gnome in LGuk. Did the troll with a single group levels 57 to 65 - and while victory was certain, there were more than a few CHs involved.
Same group ganked the gnome in seconds. NOW, when you kill these two, an undead froglok pops. Whoever hails this froglok will get the piece.

Whoever hails this froglok will get the piece. While this part is MQable, it pays to repeat that whoever hails this froglok will win the piece. So if peeps are watching you, warn them not to hail the froggie.

Ok, after you get the three pieces, return them to Uklo. You will want an open inventory slot. If you forget and find you have Uklo's Complicating Device (not the official name) stuck on your pointer, you can destroy it, as hailing Uklo will get you another one. (Hail Uklo after each step and witness his increasing exasperation). Ok, after you get the container, you will need a skyash bile from Skyfire Mountains, and Drake Lava Powder from the Lavastorm Fire Drakes (cannot remember if this is no drop, but we got it on the third kill). You combine these to make a 'Vial of Magical Blade Restorative', which goes BACK to Uklo. Now he gives you the blade to return to the remains spawn in Rathe Mountains. When you give the sword to the spawn, Chalex spawns and is beset by Troll Captain Krignok. They fight. At the same time a SWARM (lost count at 8) of trolls spawned and tried to kill our bard (natch). Chalex and Krignok fight for less than 30 secs and Chalex wins (I don't think this is left to chance). Now redeemed, Chalex repops from an undead froglok to an epic-wielding Guktan. But you still hold his true sword. Hand it to him once again and receive Memory of Chalex, or something like that. Looks like a pocket watch. Take THIS back to Uklo and you are done! You will receive Spell: Illusion: Guktan, which is NO DROP. Chalex spawns next to Uklo, looking pleased. I hailed him but nothing happened. He was still there when I left, red to 61.

The whole thing took maybe 3 hours total. I'd like to send a big thanks to my fellow members of Death Misdealt here on the Sol Ro server: Geniely, 65 Cleric; Calib, 64 warrior; Gunger, 61 Warrior; Kilwraith, 63 Warrior; Balzaak, 63 Paladin (and his alt Cherribomb, 52 Wizard); Calian, 61 Druid; Winyene, 62 Bard; and Mendriel, 57 Bard/Trouble Magnet. Never needed more than six at any step along the way, and could probably have done it all without the cleric (but she is so darn cute).

Edited, Mon Aug 11 11:53:55 2003