Dwinn #6: The Black Crystal
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This is the sixth of nine tasks in a quest arc for a +25 Purity augmentation. It begins with Dwinn Axeheaver who can be found in the Loping Plains in the Fang Breakers camp near the zone-in from the Steamfont Mountains at -1407, -3264. At the end of the previous task:
Dwerin Axeheaver says 'An Ambush? Ye managed to fight yer way free of it I see. Good Work! But the orcs mentioning those Shadowmane has me concerned. What significance does the Shadowmane attack on the orcs have? Are these orcs infected with the curse of lycanthropy? It would surely explain much that we've been investigating. If that is true though, it brings up a new [question].' You say, 'A new question?' Dwinn Axeheaver says 'If the orcs have gained their power from lycanthropy, what use do they have for the crystals we have been researching. We must have one of those crystals to examine. In the cliffs below us are several crystal mines. There are minotaurs in the mines, but they must trade with the orcs to provide them with these crystals. I need you to go into these mines and recover one of the black crystals for me.' You have been assigned the task 'The Black Crystal'. Bring Dwinn a black crystal from the mines. Loot a Black Crystal, a drop from minotaurs in the mines. The item is pre-lootable. Dwinn Axeheaver examines the crystal closely, squinting at it and tapping on it with his finger. 'Well Bozacks, this doesn't look like anything special. How do the orcs actually get any benefit from these rocks. Might be they just use them to bash things and we've been getting a head of ourselves. We need more '[information] about these.' You say, 'Information?' Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Take that crystal with you and go back to the ambush spot. See if you can turn the tables and force those orcs to tell you how to use the crystal. Might even be a good idea to beat them over the head with it, see if it wakes the rock up.' Search out the orcs who ambushed you See if you can get any information out of the orcs Kill all four orcs this time. Return to Dwinn and tell him what you found from the orcs You say, 'Hail, Dwinn Axeheaver' Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Did you find anything [new]? Yer back and still have the rock so things couldn't have gone too badly.' Completion of this task leads into a seventh task in the series. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dont waste your time looking for black crystal's at the zone in ramp with the mino's -- go streight to the mino's cave over by the carnival...
So, after having so much trouble getting the crystal for 4 toons I went to do the ambush part. I ran 1 toon over to do the spawn. brought 4 mobs back to camp. when the first mob got to like 10% it warped away. i looked around and could see it down the road. without thinking i ran to get it.. 2 toons still on Autofollow.. killed that mob, spawned 12 more. couldnt get them under control and wiped. As many others seem to have mentioned now the task is completly broken. They will not respawn and I am majorily pissed.
devs suck major A**
devs suck major A**
Majique Dangereuse
Agnostic Wizard of The Rathe
Agnostic Wizard of The Rathe
I did not actually count I will admit but it was an easy 120 to 150 mobs before i saw one of these and then I got two in one pull.
Majique Dangereuse
Agnostic Wizard of The Rathe
Agnostic Wizard of The Rathe
Exactly 72 kills for one of these stupid crystals...
so i had the same problem described below: i killed 2 spawns, and when i went back for the other two, they were no where to be found. zoning, camping, didnt work, so i went and did the Babeliyna quest 2, and that worked!! the ambushers from that quest caused this one to update and finish!!
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Thank you -so- much for mentioning Babeliyna #2: The Daring Rescue as a way to finish this task if something goes wrong.
One of my ambushers died to a DS, which didn't update the task. I was able to get The Daring Rescue again and the bloodmoon ambushers from that quest counted for this one as well. I didn't have to go farm another Black Crystal and start the quest over.
One of my ambushers died to a DS, which didn't update the task. I was able to get The Daring Rescue again and the bloodmoon ambushers from that quest counted for this one as well. I didn't have to go farm another Black Crystal and start the quest over.
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Spawn at They spawn around -1567.25, 1201.25.
I only had to bring one of the ambushers down to about 50% health to get the update, they poofed at that point.
Graeme Faelban, 125 Barbarian Shaman, Erollisi Marr
<Phoenix Ascending>
<Phoenix Ascending>
To finish this off, if you aren't able to kill all 4 ambushers that you spawn, it works to just kill any ambushers in the zone, regardless of the level they are.
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Thanks that was a great Tip.. I finished the task by getting the task "Babeliyna #2: The Daring Rescue". both tasks finished at the same time
The mines near where you kill the High Shaman work fine for the drop. Only, my guildies and I had to clear the whole cave almost twice to get one drop, so 20-30 mobs? I'm guessing it's about as rare a drop as the other items up to this point, so it's just a matter of luck and/or perserverance.
Now, we also failed to kill the ambushers/assassins when they spawned, they didn't fail on killing all of us though =(. When we recovered and tried again, I couldn't spawn them, I'm guessing because the task updates when they're spawned. Tried to track for them hanging around the area, didn't see any lvl 80 or 81 mobs anywhere close, so if they were still up, they ran pretty far into the zone.
Anyone have a similar problem? Guessing I just need to delete the task and get another crystal for Dwinn to try again, though, that's pretty annoying...
Now, we also failed to kill the ambushers/assassins when they spawned, they didn't fail on killing all of us though =(. When we recovered and tried again, I couldn't spawn them, I'm guessing because the task updates when they're spawned. Tried to track for them hanging around the area, didn't see any lvl 80 or 81 mobs anywhere close, so if they were still up, they ran pretty far into the zone.
Anyone have a similar problem? Guessing I just need to delete the task and get another crystal for Dwinn to try again, though, that's pretty annoying...
5 posts
Zoning, and coming back to trigger point will respawn them. I had the same issue.
I've died, rezzed, zoned, succored, rehailed - nothing is letting me repop the ambushers. Going to try camping and if that doesn't work - wait for the Orrel camp to open up so I can do the task that spawns the ambushers over there and try that....
Aanuvane Bristlecone 350 Baking, Brewing, Jewelry Making, Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Fletching, Pottery, Research, 250 Fishing
Muertenie Petitmort 350 Master Tinker
Kadcea 350 Master Alchemist
Orelinde 350 Master Poison Maker
Kynsh/Rabon/Atracker and a whole host of additional alts
Povar via Quellious via Rodcet Nife
Muertenie Petitmort 350 Master Tinker
Kadcea 350 Master Alchemist
Orelinde 350 Master Poison Maker
Kynsh/Rabon/Atracker and a whole host of additional alts
Povar via Quellious via Rodcet Nife
There seem to be several mines, of different depths, throughout Loping. Anyone able to give some info as to which mines they were clearing and how far in they were when they got their black crystal? I've hit a couple of the mines and killed from several rooms and still no luck.
Thanks,
Dyllwin
Thanks,
Dyllwin
I got my black crystal from the cave with the crystallos base. Cleared it and got one on last mino in cave, so 8 mobs. I would suspect it can drop from any mino in zone. I also got updates for 'Victim of the Minotaurs' task for killing here.
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Got mine from the mine near the Festival place. Killed maybe 7-8 mobs
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Since it was only 7 or 8 mobs, I assume you weren't that far in?
Dyllwin Dalewalker
Heirophant of the 100th Season
<Cazic-Thule>
Heirophant of the 100th Season
<Cazic-Thule>
Dwinn Axeheaver examines the crystal closely, squinting at it and tapping on it with his finger. 'Well Bozacks, this doesn't look like anything special. How do the orcs actually get any benefit from these rocks. Might be they just use them to bash things and we've been getting a head of ourselves. We need more '[information] about these.'
You say, 'information'
Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Take that crystal with you and go back to the ambush spot. See if you can turn the tables and force those orcs to tell you how to use the crystal. Might even be a good idea to beat them over the head with it, see if it wakes the rock up.'
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You say, 'Hail, Dwinn Axeheaver'
Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Did you find anything [new]? Yer back and still have the rock so things couldn't have gone too badly.'
You say, 'information'
Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Take that crystal with you and go back to the ambush spot. See if you can turn the tables and force those orcs to tell you how to use the crystal. Might even be a good idea to beat them over the head with it, see if it wakes the rock up.'
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You say, 'Hail, Dwinn Axeheaver'
Dwinn Axeheaver says 'Did you find anything [new]? Yer back and still have the rock so things couldn't have gone too badly.'
drops from minos and is prelootable
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