Deserting the Ranks  

an ornate chest spawned at -123, 8, -68, at the trap floor spot near the entrance

after looting the Carved Nargil Triangle and clicking the door:

The stone door groans and slides open as the nargil triangle clicks into place.

after you give the "Shiliskin Heirloom Shoulder Guard" to a corpse, the task step for "Place the Deserter's Shoulder Guard on a Shiliskin Corpse (0/1) - The Nargilor Pits" is updated:

Your task 'Deserting the Ranks (Hard)' has been updated.

Each time Emperor Draygun is summoning a corpse to life, it shows:

The shiliskin's corpse shivers violently as Emperor Draygun begins channeling a dark spell.

after 7 "a reanimated legionaire" attacks and dies, the group of 2 lego's and 1 captain spawns. Not sure, why but they were misspelled as legionaire in the log.

Emperor Draygun says, 'I leave my newly created minions to deal with your intrusion. May your death serve as an example to all outsiders who cross into the hallowed walls of Illsalin.'

after the group of 3 dies:

You hear the mechanical clanking of unseen latches as the coral door unlocks.

after you loot the Shiliskin Captain's Insignia, "Take a Captain's Insignia as Proof of your delivery" is updated:

Your task 'Deserting the Ranks (Hard)' has been updated.

every kill for Guardian of the Pit, a reanimated captain, and a reanimated legionaire gave a faction hit:

Your faction standing with Fallen Guard of Illsalin has been adjusted by -1.
Your faction standing with Free Traders of Malgrinnor has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Scions of Dreadspire has been adjusted by 1.
Your faction standing with Agents of Dreadspire has been adjusted by 1.

Enter the Nargilor Pits 0/1 Ruins of Illisan
Find the Remains of the Shillgrave Legion 0/1 The Nargilor Pits
Place the Deserter's Shoulder Guard on a Shiliskin Corpse 0/1 The Nargilor Pits
Take a Captain's Insigina as Proof of Your Delivery. 0/1 The Nargilor Pits
Deliver the Captain's Insignia to Zahn 0/1 Undershore

edit...scratch all that, figured out what I did wrong

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 8:32am by kuaharra

I can confirm that the Earring of Grey Waters drops in normal missions, we got one not 20 min ago when we finished the mission. Also had the murky pearl ring drop off a mob at the beginning of the zone that no one checked. Glad I looted that body. Brought my bst up to 8.4k unbuffed at 74. <----Happy camper!

If you have to bail out of this mission (like when work or wife calls!) it's possible to abandon the mission and retain the two mission-critical pieces, the shoulder guard Zahn give you and the triangle key out of the chest which opens the door to the final fight.

I strongly suggest making sure everyone in your group confirms they don't posssess either of these, even in the bank.

I had both on my druid. I had my warrior get the instance. He got a shoulder guard. We zoned in and killed the Guardian. NO CHEST SPAWNED! This was troubling. I actually wanted to have the warrior loot a triangle so we'd have two shots at the door if we ran into problems in the final event.

I outsmarted myself. We opened the door, went in and turned in the shawl. The Emperor did spawn and he summoned one mob. We started to fight it and then.... <poof> ZONING PLEASE WAIT.

Entire party reappeared outside the zone-in. Instance still running. But when I zoned back in I discovered a fully repopped zone, with a new Guardian.

Not having the time or inclination to start over again with a potentially seriously bugged instance, I called it a morning and a lesson well learned:

DESTROY LEFTOVERS!

Lake Tamer Staff as of today confirmed drops in normal mission , NOT in hard ;)

Last night (aug22) we just had our monk get the quest and open the door. When we opened the door, he ran down to the pit, and everyone else camped out right inside the door. He handed in the shawl, and flopped. The mobs spawned normally, when they'd all spawned, he contacted us on trillian, we logged in, he pulled the captain, we killed him. Also, he dropped the plate legs, so they indeed do still drop. (The irony is they were the one drop no one in the group would use.)

As of 19 Aug the greaves no longer drop in this mission as far I know. My group is currently:

6xDeepskin Head Band
3xSharp Tooth Fossil
6xUndershore Fish Liver
6xIllsalin Enforcer boots

Thanks to SoE for having the DoD mask quest busted so we could waste so much time trying to get greaves that dont drop either.

If anyone cn prove me wrong let me know.

We had this dropped off Captain last night. Earring of Grey Waters.
Ac 12,dex 12, sta 11, cha 12, wis 12,int 12
Hp 195, mana 195, end 195, sf 15, sd 12, sc 15, sp 12

once you get past the guardian of the pit, you can only open the door once, so you better make sure everyone is ready and able to go thru the door.... if anyone is left outside or you die and it puts you on the other side of the door or you Evac outside the locked door you might as well leave the mission and start over.... we all got kicked to Character screen. This is as of May 30, 2006

IF you die when the captain is being fought, or anytime after unlocking the door you can NOT unlock the door.

We tried to pet pull the captain though the door after we were locked out, no luck. We got kicked out of the instance and into Illsailn, mission respawned and had no shawl to complete mission.

Looted tonight on the hard setting:

Undershore Fish Liver

Magic, No Trade, Augmentation
Aug slots 7, 8
Mana +45, Enduarnce +45
Regen +3
Slot: Head, Arms, Wrist, Hand, Feet
Required level of 70
Class: All
Race: All
Class XVI distiller to remove safely

Finished this tonight on Saryrn. Did it on normal new loot not mentioned

Dried Coral Mitts
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
AC: 42
STR: +12 DEX: +10 STA: +12 WIS: +12 AGI: +11
HP: +200 MANA: +190 ENDURANCE: 190
SV FIRE: +12 SV DISEASE: +12 SV COLD: +12 SV POISON: +10
Recommended Level of 70. Required Level of 65.
WT: 3.5 Size: Medium
CLASS: RNG ROG SHM BER
RACE: ALL
SLOT 1, TYPE 8: EMPTY