Kiki's Turtle Soup  

I would not expect that two hours would be a reasonable estimate for this quest. If you finish the quest in two hours then the RNG was working in your favor. Here is my experience, which I believe is more typical.

I first did this with my cleric. Very first mob dropped a succulent meat. So far, so good. A few guildies then joined me and we pulled the turtles from both sides of the river for about two hours without any drops. The second night we had a similar experience. One meat dropped right away and then we kept the turtles cleared for another 3 hours without any more drops. We called it quits and killed the druid's pet. Wouldn't you know it, it had a meat on it. Three down, one to go. Here's where fortune smiled down on me. Several hours later I zoned back into Natimbi and the zone was empty. All the turtles had been cleared by the zone in, but there was one fresh turtle corpse there. I had to wait a minute before I could loot the corpse. Not only did it have a meat on it, it also had a blue diamond. Needless to say, I was pretty pleased. Still can not figure out how the corpse got there though.

For my druid I was soloing. When I started I was halfway through level 51. I was not able the keep turtles on both sides clear until level 53, so I can not directly compare the hours camping the turtles to my experience with the cleric. Up until halfway through level 53 I still had only one meat. I did the last three yellow bubs in 53 in one session and that paid off with a second meat. I returned later that day after getting my 54 spells. I killed the four turtles on the zone-in side of the river and got one meat. Crossed the river and the second turtle on that side also dropped a meat.

As you can see, it all depends upon the random number generator. But I would suggest that it would take 4-6 hours of clearing turtles from both sides of the river to get all four drops.

I have one meat on my ranger how would I MQ this for my necro? my necro is only 38 so it will be a bit before he can hunt them on his own or with a group.

Had three people:

51 enchanter (me)
52 cleric
52 mage

We completely stomped the tureptas. They have about 6-7k hp, hit for 129-137 max, and were wusses once slowed. As a 51 enchanter I *can* solo these guys but it takes most of my mana bar (about 2600 mana unbuffed) to keep my pet from dying. Two of the meats dropped, and the other two were offered up to the zone (I was the only person in the zone who wanted them, woo).

I estimate we were there for about four hours altogether, but judging from some of the other messages here I think we got lucky. I'm gonna be using this book for quite some time...

I did this quesat for a 27 necro buddy of mine... a 56 cleric and a 57 sk went through 2 and a half casts of Kei (about 12 hours) and got about 20% xp killing the turtles. Also killed the fierce one a couple of times and dropeed 2 ceremonial stiched wraps, one iridecent turepta shell and a ton of meat. Not a bad place to hang out... except on Rallos the Curse will wait at the Magus and kill you before you screen refreshes because the lag is horrible in this zone...

Just thoughtyou would like to know

Easy solo for a 56 cleric.

Anyone put any concerns in the "You must be very careful when hunting these creatures, or the meat can become quite bruised and inedible.". Does that mean we must avoir certain spell types or weapon types?

The book is deffinately MQ'able. I quad these turtles with my druid for xp. If you are on the rathe and would like this book contact Takisiss. If I still have any succulant meat left I will mq for you also. I mq'd for Ivaan he was very happy. 5-13-04



Pervious Everstarr

Got all 4 in about 8 turtles, took me about an hour. I just pulled em from the spawn point near the camp and kited em around it, no adds at all, incredibly easy.

EDIT: Kited around the camp, not the spawn point, hehe

Edited, Sat Feb 28 13:48:52 2004

How rare are these meats??