Mysterious Cube in Bonemire

[Talathion]

<p><a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect">http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect</a></p><p>You think ya can change it to be a little more friendly and more or less a puzzle that doesn't require items, or requires 1 item.</p><p>the puzzle itself is confusing.</p><p>Its really hard to understand and only a few people seem to know how it works.</p><p>Can you please change it to be more reasonable to players? <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Banditman]

<p>That article you linked explains it pretty well . . . you use an item, depending on what item, you get different names.</p><p>This is !($RocketScience)</p>

[Talathion]

<p><cite>Banditman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>That article you linked explains it pretty well . . . you use an item, depending on what item, you get different names.</p><p>This is !($RocketScience)</p></blockquote><p>"This cube does nothing".</p><p>apparently it only takes an item on a certain day of the month for each item.</p><p>This named has only been killed three times in the last 2 years, something needs changed.</p>

[Geothe]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Banditman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>That article you linked explains it pretty well . . . you use an item, depending on what item, you get different names.</p><p>This is !($RocketScience)</p></blockquote><p>"This cube does nothing".</p><p> apparently it only takes an item on a certain day of the month for each item.</p><p> This named has only been killed three times in the last 2 years, something needs changed.</p></blockquote><p>Its not hard at all. the correct ghostly shade thing needs to be up in the perimeter around the cube first. Use the special item to activate each one of those names.. killing them gives a body drop for each. Having all the body drops allows you to activate the end named.There is no certain day of the month or anything.</p>

[Gungo]

<p>The should just get rid of the cube activation items. Keep the ghazi named activation items.</p>

[Talathion]

<p><cite>Gungo@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The should just get rid of the cube activation items. Keep the ghazi named activation items.</p></blockquote><p>I agree greatly, can we change this?</p>

[Lera]

<p><cite>Geothe wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Its not hard at all. the correct ghostly shade thing needs to be up in the perimeter around the cube first. Use the special item to activate each one of those names.. killing them gives a body drop for each. Having all the body drops allows you to activate the end named.There is no certain day of the month or anything.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed... not hard to understand at all. But since it's all level 70 stuff, why go through all that when most raiders are off doing Velious raids?</p><p>No reason to nerf it at all - there's nothing wrong with requiring players to actually have to do things.</p>

[Talathion]

<p><cite>Lera@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Geothe wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Its not hard at all. the correct ghostly shade thing needs to be up in the perimeter around the cube first. Use the special item to activate each one of those names.. killing them gives a body drop for each. Having all the body drops allows you to activate the end named.There is no certain day of the month or anything.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed... not hard to understand at all. But since it's all level 70 stuff, why go through all that when most raiders are off doing Velious raids?</p><p>No reason to nerf it at all - there's nothing wrong with requiring players to actually have to do things.</p></blockquote><p>This named has only been killed 2 times in the past 2 years on ALL servers.</p><p>I think its subject for change.</p>

[Tahuti]

<p>First you say it has been killed 3 times... then you say 2... where are you even pulling this number from?</p><p>There is nothing wrong with the cube.  It requires players to solve the puzzle by obtaining various items.  The reason no one really does it anymore is that it's a 70x4.  It's not because it's "confusing" or "really hard to understand".  It is explained perfectly in the article that you linked, it just requires the player to go get the items, rather than click the cube and say "open sesame" to get the event going.</p>

[Talathion]

<p><cite>Tahuti@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>First you say it has been killed 3 times... then you say 2... where are you even pulling this number from?</p><p>There is nothing wrong with the cube.  It requires players to solve the puzzle by obtaining various items.  The reason no one really does it anymore is that it's a 70x4.  It's not because it's "confusing" or "really hard to understand".  It is explained perfectly in the article that you linked, it just requires the player to go get the items, rather than click the cube and say "open sesame" to get the event going.</p></blockquote><p>You need to get rare spawns and farm zones nobody does anymore, you need several nameds to obtain one named that has a 15% chance to drop an item you want for appearance.</p><p>THATS WHY nobody does this mob, And THATS why it needs fixed.</p>

[Tahuti]

<p>Seeing that you're from AB.... I think it's safe to say that there are plenty of people running those zones on a regular basis.  I know there are on CB.</p><p>Even if there was not three people in the world that wanted to run those zones... If you only want it for appearance, that probably indicates you're 90 and at least poorly geared, if not well geared.  Duo it.  The necessary zones take less effort than pools.  As someone said earlier... it's not rocket science.  Farm the pieces, farm the puzzle, get the appearance piece you want. Solved.</p>

[Seidhkona]

<p>I have never seen you post anything, OP, except whines to make it easier.</p><p>To do the Cube, you need trigger items that drop in Halls of Fate, The Bonemire, or Labs of Lord Vyemm.  The trigger items include:</p><ul><li>Umbral Circlet</li><li>Ebony Draconic Wing</li><li>Moonstone Talon</li><li>Adamantine Heart</li><li>Sanguinite Orb</li><li>Serpentil Ring </li></ul><p>The named that can spawn from the Cube are:</p><ul><li>The Barbed Duke, from the southeast phylactery, by using the Moonstone Talon.</li><li>The Ravaging Maw, from the south phylactery, by using the Serpentil Ring.</li><li>Bearer of Gore, from the north phylactery, by using the Sanguine Orb, it drops Essence of Ghazi's Core.</li><li>Bearer of the Carpus, from the northeast phylactery, by using the Ebony Wing, it drops Essence of Ghazi's Carpus.</li><li>Bearer of the Crux, from the west phylactery, by using the Adamantine Heart, it drops Essence of Ghazi's Crux.</li><li>The Umbral Keeper, from the southwest phylactery, by using the Umbral Circlet. </li></ul><p>Every cube Named drops the essence from that Named. When you use ALL the essences on the Cube it spawns the Shade of Ghazi.</p><p>I don't recall the schedule on which the phylacteries spawn.  These days, frequently ALL of them are up.</p><p>Stop whining and play, man!</p><p>Do note that these are Kingdom of Sky x4 raid mobs, which means that if you are level 60-70, take some friends.</p>

[Cratoh]

<p>I'be killed it within thel ast 2 years. And I've also seen them not up a lot, and thats just on one server so I call BS.</p>

[Seidhkona]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect">http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect</a></p><p>You think ya can change it to be a little more friendly and more or less a puzzle that doesn't require items, or requires 1 item.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;"><strong>the puzzle itself is confusing.</strong></span></p><p>Its really hard to understand and only a few people seem to know how it works.</p><p>Can you please change it to be more reasonable to players? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I should have mentioned that for the love of Holy Erollisi, THE WHOLE POINT OF A PUZZLE IS TO SOLVE IT! No one is requiring you to kill these mobs, so if you are not into puzzles and too lazy to look up the step-by-step guides on EQ2i or ZAM, then maybe you need a new game. Say, like tic-tac-toe.</p>

[Sethimothy]

<p>So do we have any idea what spawns the various monolithic phylacteries?</p>

[Felshades]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lera@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Geothe wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Its not hard at all. the correct ghostly shade thing needs to be up in the perimeter around the cube first. Use the special item to activate each one of those names.. killing them gives a body drop for each. Having all the body drops allows you to activate the end named.There is no certain day of the month or anything.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed... not hard to understand at all. But since it's all level 70 stuff, why go through all that when most raiders are off doing Velious raids?</p><p>No reason to nerf it at all - there's nothing wrong with requiring players to actually have to do things.</p></blockquote><p>This named has only been killed 2 times in the past 2 years on ALL servers.</p><p>I think its subject for change.</p></blockquote><p>Because it's 5 year old content.</p>

[Velenda]

<p>So that's what it is...</p><p><img src="http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l514/Ayane778/EverQuest%202/EQ2_000004a4.jpg" width="1024" height="546" /></p><p>I was sneaking around at a low level, (just something that I like to do), and I came across this...It was one of those amazing 'what is that' adventure moments for me.</p><p>I love all the mysterious stuff in this game. ^_^</p>

[Mystfit]

<p>Heck, my guild on Bazaar managed to kill these guys a couple of years ago, and if poor old Baz can do it.....</p>

[Chakos]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You need to get rare spawns and farm zones nobody does anymore, you need several nameds to obtain one named <span style="color: #ff0000;">that has a 15% chance to drop an item you want for appearance.</span></p><p>THATS WHY nobody does this mob, And THATS why it needs fixed.</p></blockquote><p>The highlighted portion is the whole reason for this thread, it has nothing to do with confusion or anything else; as always with Tala, if he wants a particular item for appearance, then it needs to be made easy to get, for his sake. He posted the same kind of garbage over the Icy Keep raid zone, due to some shoulders he wanted out of there for appearance.</p><p>Devs, please just put a perma-ignore button on Talathion as he will never have anything worthwhile to contribute to the game or anyone else's play experience.</p>

[Wirewhisker]

<p>Tal's also full of it on his "only been killed 3 times since xxxx" assertion...because I'm also on AB, and I have personally killed the Ghazi cycle, including Ghazi, at least a half-dozen times this year with my inquisitor -- mostly over the summer, when phylactery spawn parts were fairly cheap on the broker.</p><p>Since then, there is a gentleman who came from another server, also an inquisitor, who meticulously kills old KOS/EOF/DOF content solo and SLR's the drops if they have any immediate value, or otherwise brokers or mutes them. And if HE doesn't get them, I sure as heck do, for the same reason.</p><p>Tal's mad because he can't get a certain appearance item from this contested and well-used cycle. I'm sorry, but he'll have to settle with just farming Deathtoll, Labs, Lyceum, and other instances to get his sparkly toys -- or figure out the cycle and beat one of the rest of us to it.</p>

[Seidhkona]

<p><cite>Sethimothy wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>So do we have any idea what spawns the various monolithic phylacteries?</p></blockquote><p>They are on a timer. I don't recall how long it is until they repop after being killed. If you scroll up and find my first post in this thread, I detailed how the encounter works.</p>

[Valonia]

<p>Always remember: You have to work at it and really want to open the box!</p><p>OP obviously is not interested in learning about the twisted pleasures the little box might be able to offer after all! <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Wirewhisker]

<p><cite>Valonia@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Always remember: You have to work at it and really want to open the box!</p><p>OP obviously is not interested in learning about the twisted pleasures the little box might be able to offer after all! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Oh, we have such sights to show you...</p>

[Greenmist]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You need to get rare spawns and farm zones nobody does anymore, you need several nameds to obtain one named that has a 15% chance to drop an item you want for appearance.</p></blockquote><p>Are you sure he even drops appearance items since the stat revamp? <a href="http://eq2.zam.com/db/mob.html?eq2mob=7253463114efb95ca8f46e2995da379d" target="_blank">Zam only shows him dropping charms and earrings now.</a></p>

[ranga]

<p><cite>Sigrdrifa@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I should have mentioned that for the love of Holy Erollisi, THE WHOLE POINT OF A PUZZLE IS TO SOLVE IT! No one is requiring you to kill these mobs, so if you are not into puzzles and too lazy to look up the step-by-step guides on EQ2i or ZAM, then maybe you need a new game. Say, like tic-tac-toe.</p></blockquote><p>This lol.</p><p>I have one of each piece in the bank. They have been there since KoS days when there was too much to do to even think about a raid in an open zone.</p><p>One day I want to go back and do it for real so please Devs, don't change it.</p><p>To the OP if you can't do the puzzle, I believe you can buy the individual starters from the broker, go try that, kill each mob in turn and save the body parts.</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p><cite>Sigrdrifa@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect">http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Ravasect</a></p><p>You think ya can change it to be a little more friendly and more or less a puzzle that doesn't require items, or requires 1 item.</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;"><strong>the puzzle itself is confusing.</strong></span></p><p>Its really hard to understand and only a few people seem to know how it works.</p><p>Can you please change it to be more reasonable to players? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I should have mentioned that for the love of Holy Erollisi, THE WHOLE POINT OF A PUZZLE IS TO SOLVE IT! No one is requiring you to kill these mobs, so if you are not into puzzles and too lazy to look up the step-by-step guides on EQ2i or ZAM, then maybe you need a new game. Say, like tic-tac-toe.</p></blockquote><p>That is one of the finest posts I've seen in a long time.</p>

[Valdaglerion]

<p><cite>Talathion@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lera@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Geothe wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Its not hard at all. the correct ghostly shade thing needs to be up in the perimeter around the cube first. Use the special item to activate each one of those names.. killing them gives a body drop for each. Having all the body drops allows you to activate the end named.There is no certain day of the month or anything.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed... not hard to understand at all. But since it's all level 70 stuff, why go through all that when most raiders are off doing Velious raids?</p><p>No reason to nerf it at all - there's nothing wrong with requiring players to actually have to do things.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">This named has only been killed 2 times in the past 2 years on ALL servers.</span></p><p>I think its subject for change.</p></blockquote><p>I know that is completely incorrect because I myself have killed them all at least half dozen times over the last 2 years for the AA on them with various toons and guildmates.</p><p>Something else to consider is that everytime something like this is changed it inevitably goes horribly wrong. It works as it is but it may not if it gets changed and they may never get around to fixing the fix. Leave it be I say, its easy enough to do as is.</p>