Dorina #4: Dorina's Personalized Gift  

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Edited, Nov 4th 2018 5:32pm by Thazager1

Finally i got my bags on both of my toons.
My main tailoring skill is 136, succeeded on her 1st attempt.
And my alt tailoring skill is 131, succeeded on her 3rd attempt.

My advice to everyone doing this Hero's Journey quest is:

1. Everytime you kill any wolf , snake or spider in Goru Kar Mesa, or anywhere else for that matter, is to save these three main ingredients: Large Snake Fang, (no drop) Wolf Canine, and Spider Silk.

These three items will be needed in mass quantities should you fail the combine.

The recipe calls for one Spool of Spider SIlk Thread (Tailor Trivial 50) this is made by combing 8 spider silks in a loom, If you fail you will lose all 8 spider silks so you might weanna do cheap tailoring to raise your trivial before attempting or risk losing all your spider silks.

Then for the String of teeth you will need 5 Large Snake Fangs and 4 Wolf Canines which with a sewing needle (made by smithing) can be converted to Wolf Canine bead or Snake Fang Bead both (Tailoring Trival 50) if you fail the tailoring combine you will keep your needle but lose your fangs / canines.

I suggest you get your tailoring as high as possible with out breaking the bank, Because if you combine your strin of teeth, the spool of spider silk thread and the supple wolf pelt and fail you lose it all and have to start over. That combine in the looom takes a (170) trivial to pull of, of course like someopne said earlier you could get lucky and do it at 130 but its a risk.

I did some tailoring quests with bought items only which helped raise my tailoring skill, it can be costly I think it was around 3- 4K to bring my skill up to pass this on my ranger, zek, now I am working on it on Bertoxx.

This post is intended for players who reach this quest by following the Hero's Journey.

Don't panic. If you're an old school player like me, you will see the 170 trivial on a tailoring combine and grimace. It's not really as bad as it sounds. It does take some work, but it is not as time consuming, expensive, or difficult as it sounds.

The keys are (1) you don't need a 170 tailoring skill to have a reasonable chance of succeeding on the combine, and (2) if you fail, it is easy to gather another set of components. I have completed this quest with two characters, one with a 158 tailoring skill and one with a 135 tailoring skill. Both of them succeeded on the first attempt. Maybe I was lucky, but the point is that this is not as tricky as, say, the prayer shawl combines back in the old days.

As you know, tailoring can be difficult and expensive at higher levels. But you don't need a high level tailoring skill to complete this quest. Even if you fail, it's not that hard to gather the materials and try again.

Here is a walkthrough:

1. Go to Crescent Reach and complete the tradeskill quests for tailoring and smithing. This will get you a skill of 54 in both.

2. Get your tailoring skill within a reasonable distance of 170. There are a lot of ways to do this. If you've been saving the various animal skins and silks that you've gotten up to this point, you're already in good shape. Here is an old school guide for raising your tailoring skill:

http://www.eqtraders.com/articles/article_page.php?article=g111&menustr=040110000000

If you make woven mandrakes to 66, you can use the woven mandrakes to make picnic baskets (not mentioned in the guide), and you can have your tailoring at 76 before you even consider the other options. You can go all the way to 158 making Wu's armor (which requires lots of spider silks, a lot of brewing, and an enchanter to make vials of viscous mana), but you don't really need to go that far. Here is a new school guide that includes all of the animal pelt and silk drops:

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/eq/showthread.php?33385-Complete-Tradeskill-Guide-6-1-%28Serverwide-Drop-Edition%29-Rev-Apr-2009

The recipes that are important to you are the ones that use sullied, crude, and rough animal pelts, or sullied, thick, and crude silks. The cost numbers in this guide are misleading because the author assumes that you are buying the pelts and silks, and because he does not account for the resale values of the resulting product (vendors will pay a high percentage of your cost).

3. You need to make a sewing needle using smithing. This is something that is not sold by vendors. The trivial is only 31. You can buy high quality ore from a vendor in PoK, but you will need to go to Surefall to get the steel (or, for evil races, send an alt to Surefall). One trick here: You will need to buy a Smithing Chisel, but you may not be able to see it on the vendors unless you click off "show items I can use."

4. Now you are ready for the combines. Be sure to do them in the order specified by the task. You will get a "task stage completed" message when you finish each one.

5. You will need the same components that you gathered in Dorina #3: 32 spider silks, 1 recluse spider fang, 4 wolf canines, and 5 large snake fangs. The spider silks are the only thing that takes time to gather. All of this stuff is tradeable and common. You may be able to find some of it on the vendors in the Mesa if you look. But even if you farm every bit of it, there is no shortage of spiders, wolves, and snakes in the Mesa.

Again, don't panic. You can do this if you want to finish the HJ quests in the Mesa.