New Shoulder item

[Stavenh]

<DIV>In Feerrott, in the camp south of the entrance, are 4 new quest givers.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tarin, gives four quest. The first 3 give silver or gold. They are catalog and scouting quests</DIV> <DIV>The last one, also a catalog quests gives a choice of four sleeves, the VLA are as follows</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sleeves of Swamp Knowledge</DIV> <DIV>+14 int</DIV> <DIV>+14 health</DIV> <DIV>+25 power</DIV> <DIV>+240 disease/posion</DIV> <DIV>69 mitigation at 45, they were white to me.</DIV>

[adamflanagan]

nice stats there. i might have to do that. ive had a fair bit of trouble getting shoulder items with int. <div></div>

[Sorano]

<P>Thanks for the info. The +INT is nice, but the other stats are strange. +14 to health? The power and hp values certainly aren't in line with a T5 item, unless they some how believe that the +14 INT makes up for that? I really wish they would make decent caster items with nice all around stats. The T5 rare shoulders would be just about perfect if they swapped the WIS stat and made it INT. It's like they just seem to randomly drop stats onto items, without regard for who will actually wear them. Oh well, I guess we will just have to be patient and give them time to fix stuff.</P> <P>BTW if anyone is interested in what the exact stats on rare VLA are, check out this site. It's an excellent resource.</P> <P><A href="http://www.eq2tailor.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5" target=_blank>http://www.eq2tailor.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5</A></P>

[Sliverhammer]

thanks for the heads-up mate <div></div>

[Ironcleaver]

Ahh Haa, ok, yea i did his first quest, and saw he gave another, but I never figured it was a quest chain. very nice, I know what I'm doing <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> thanks for the ehads up! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[Tanit]

He's not giving me a quest <div></div>

[Raminicus]

<P>maybe there's a level requirement?</P> <P>what are the magic affinity numbers for the shoulder piece?</P> <P> </P>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Tanith_ wrote:He's not giving me a quest <div></div><hr></blockquote>Sorry should have added, only Qeynos people get the quest from this camp. To the north, is another camp, that Freeport people get. Now, I can't say that the quests are the same and give the same rewards, but I assume they are similar and similar rewards.The health is kinda low on this, and some shoulder items have more stat boosts, however, I'm looking for as many High End int items as I can get. My reason is this. I don't see much need to go past 200 int with buffs. So the fewer items I can use for getting to this spot, that means I can look for items that offer high AGI and STA. If they ever make INT do more, at least I will be in a good spot to gear up more int.I believe the magic affinity started at 200, capped at 250.<p>Message Edited by Stavenham on <span class=date_text>04-22-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:00 AM</span>

[Ironcleaver]

Ive spent some time working on this the last few hours solo. it's: Catalogue Place Beacons Catalogue Catalogue I am on the very last item to catalogue, bouncer hurd. Ive always seen him up, but go figure, the one time i need him hes no where to be found haha.. A level 40 item hu? very nice indeed. <div></div>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Ironcleaver wrote:Ive spent some time working on this the last few hours solo. it's: Catalogue Place Beacons Catalogue Catalogue I am on the very last item to catalogue, bouncer hurd. Ive always seen him up, but go figure, the one time i need him hes no where to be found haha.. A level 40 item hu? very nice indeed. <div></div><hr></blockquote>he was still green to me, so I rooted him, cataloged and then ran for it. As I've spent alot of time in Feerrott lately, he seems to be around commonly enough to complete this.

[Ironcleaver]

Aye, i have no worrys about finding him, as i know he'll be around. It's just that i saw him a few hours ago when I was off catalogueing other critters, then I guess someone killed him. haha yea, I had to use "root then catalogue" a lot when doing this quest chain, it works quite well. Bouncer Hurd is 40++, so he is yellow to me still; though I have no worries that root will hold long enough to catalogue and depart <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Ironcleaver wrote:Aye, i have no worrys about finding him, as i know he'll be around. It's just that i saw him a few hours ago when I was off catalogueing other critters, then I guess someone killed him. haha yea, I had to use "root then catalogue" a lot when doing this quest chain, it works quite well. Bouncer Hurd is 40++, so he is yellow to me still; though I have no worries that root will hold long enough to catalogue and depart <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div><hr></blockquote>So far, I'm really enjoying these solo quests, are you? The second and third one the erudite gives are fun, having to find the 4 different ferns along the river. And then the styles from the orcids.If you haven't done them, I won't spoil them.The halfling one is broken right now, till they change it from acrid blooms to bitter blooms.

[Raminicus]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Ironcleaver wrote:<BR>Ive spent some time working on this the last few hours solo.<BR><BR>it's:<BR><BR>Catalogue<BR>Place Beacons<BR>Catalogue<BR>Catalogue<BR><BR>I am on the very last item to catalogue, bouncer hurd. Ive always seen him up, but go figure, the one time i need him hes no where to be found haha..<BR><BR>A level 40 item hu? very nice indeed.<BR><BR><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>so you don't really even need to fight anything to finish this quest and receive a +12 Int +25 power sleeve?  wowzers i know what i'm doing tonight.</P> <P>After that I'll just have to level from 37.6 to 40 :smileyvery-happy:</P> <P> </P>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Raminicus wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Ironcleaver wrote:<BR>Ive spent some time working on this the last few hours solo.<BR><BR>it's:<BR><BR>Catalogue<BR>Place Beacons<BR>Catalogue<BR>Catalogue<BR><BR>I am on the very last item to catalogue, bouncer hurd. Ive always seen him up, but go figure, the one time i need him hes no where to be found haha..<BR><BR>A level 40 item hu? very nice indeed.<BR><BR><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>so you don't really even need to fight anything to finish this quest and receive a +12 Int +25 power sleeve?  wowzers i know what i'm doing tonight.</P> <P>After that I'll just have to level from 37.6 to 40 :smileyvery-happy:</P> <P> </P><hr></blockquote>Keep in mind, you have to get within aggro range of the mobs to catalog them, and at 37.6, they are all going to aggro you. Even at 44 and 45, some mobs are still aggro, or in aggro areas.

[IllusiveThoughts]

<P>thats actually not a bad item, I imagine it would be orange to someone at lvl 40-41?</P> <P>has to be the highest int i've seen on an easy quest item..</P>

[Raminicus]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Stavenham wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Raminicus wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Ironcleaver wrote:<BR>Ive spent some time working on this the last few hours solo.<BR><BR>it's:<BR><BR>Catalogue<BR>Place Beacons<BR>Catalogue<BR>Catalogue<BR><BR>I am on the very last item to catalogue, bouncer hurd. Ive always seen him up, but go figure, the one time i need him hes no where to be found haha..<BR><BR>A level 40 item hu? very nice indeed.<BR><BR><BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>so you don't really even need to fight anything to finish this quest and receive a +12 Int +25 power sleeve?  wowzers i know what i'm doing tonight.</P> <P>After that I'll just have to level from 37.6 to 40 :smileyvery-happy:</P> <P> </P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Keep in mind, you have to get within aggro range of the mobs to catalog them, and at 37.6, they are all going to aggro you. Even at 44 and 45, some mobs are still aggro, or in aggro areas.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>Hehe it'll be fun.  I've never actually catalogued anything so I think I'll practice in EL or Zek first.  My plan is to invis up to range, root mob, catalogue, run.  Hopefully it works.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the tip though</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Admh]

lvl 45 and below that shoulder is a great item. Once u passed it and @ lvl 50 find something that has 30+hp and approx 30+ power cuz that 14int is very tempting to some.. but at 50 and having 200 int.. it doesn't make much of a difference...

[Asterra]

Freeport side may be a trifle bugged.  The beacon quest requires, among other things, a visit to the Tower of Vul.  I've scoured that tower, and every bit of land within about 500 feet of it.  The item refuses to glow.  Nor does it glow for several other obvious landmarks, such as the ruined Druid ring.  In fact, I've only gotten the bridge and the waterfall to update, so far.  Tried camping and coming back.  No luck. Fun fun.  EverBetatest.

[massem]

<DIV>Im having the same problem as Asterra. Only waterfall update for me so far ...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[BlazTink]

With today's patch, it glows for me everywhere now, except for the Tower of Vul(Freeport Side).

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>BlazTinker wrote:With today's patch, it glows for me everywhere now, except for the Tower of Vul(Freeport Side).<hr></blockquote>Thats really odd. On the good side, no problems, I've even lead some guildmates through the quest. And i think one was from Freeport. When i did it, the beacon glowed as soon as I got close. I would think they just used the same code with changes in the NPC.

[Ironcleaver]

What's funny is that I didn't even know the beaken glowed at all until I read this thread; I just ran to each location and examined the beaken a few times until it updated. I take it the beaken glows in the chat channel? This might be why I never saw it as I have my chat highly filtered. Well good quest and a pretty good reward <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Though, I'm still looking for Hurd personally. I've been able to see all the other bouncers a few times now, but Hurd is MIA for me it seems <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Ironcleaver wrote:What's funny is that I didn't even know the beaken glowed at all until I read this thread; I just ran to each location and examined the beaken a few times until it updated. I take it the beaken glows in the chat channel? This might be why I never saw it as I have my chat highly filtered. Well good quest and a pretty good reward <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Though, I'm still looking for Hurd personally. I've been able to see all the other bouncers a few times now, but Hurd is MIA for me it seems <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div><hr></blockquote>I think he's tired of people running up and taking his picture and asking off questions.Bouncer Hrud, whats it like to be undead?Do you miss the old days? Whats your views on the Shattering? Whats Elvis really like?

[BlazTink]

Today's patch notes are correct. The Tower of Vul is updating for me now. Kindda surprised they fixed this so quickly, heh.