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Ranger of the Abyss Part 1: A Light in the Darkness
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1 Quest Description
2 Quest Objective
3 Quest Lore
4 Reward
5 See Also
This is the first part of the quest chain for the Humans and Elves given by Dexter the Royal Mage inside the Castle British.
Quest Description
This quest is part of a series that will determine who will win one of two housing plots in the Stygian Abyss (the other is winnable by a gargoyle character). Obtain the following items and bring them to Dexter: a lantern, a silver sapling seed, a rare serpent egg and a dark wisp orb from Ilshenar. When you have the items, he will give you a lamp of spirituality.
So, you are one of the candidates for the position Ranger of the Abyss? Very good, I will help you prepare.
For Dawn's campaign you will need a lamp of spirituality. A lamp of spirituality detects extreme levels of good and evil. In this case we are using it to detect evil... and err, good.
Anyway, it doesn't detect the garden variety evil that one might normally find in Britannia or it would just be changing color all the time and not be very useful. It detects infernal evil, as in arch-demon levels of evil. You are going to be using its power to detect the influence of the Slasher of Veils! When you are in the Stygian Abyss, you will see that its light turns from white to purple, this is due to vice corruption.
I will make one of these lamps for you but you will need to gather the ingredients. The ingredients are both common and rare, but I assume that you are prepared for adventure? The ingredients are... are you writing this down? The ingredients are:
1) a lantern
2) a silver sapling seed
3) a rare serpent egg
4) a dark wisp orb
I hear the rare serpent egg can be found near the lair of Medusa in the Abyss... very dangerous, better you than me... err, no offense intended. The wisp orb is an item that is usually protected by dark wisps. I understand that there are some in Ilshenar, if you see some wisps look around for a treasure chest, a wisp orb will be inside... it's weird, I know. Hmm... I wonder how they open the chest? Anyway, I'm pretty sure you are going to have to kill the wisps to break the spell on the chest.
Are you prepared to take on this dangerous quest?
-Dexter the Royal Mage
Quest Objective
Obtain 1 Lantern
Obtain 1 Silver Sapling Seed
Obtain 1 Rare Serpent Egg
Obtain 1 Dark Wisp Orb
Quest Lore
From the easy one to the more difficult ones:
A Lantern can be bought from any Provisioner or can be crafted by tinkers.
A Seed of the Silver Sapling can be obtained from The Silver Sapling which is the white tree north of the Underworld entrance of the Stygian Abyss Dungeon.
A Dark Wisp Orb can be obtained by killing the Dark Wisp Guardians on the second level of the Wisp Dungeon. Once you kill the guardian, click the chest nearby to make it disappear and the orb will be put into your backpack:
You quickly reach into the chest and retrieve its contents before it vanishes in a puff of smoke.
A Rare Serpent Egg can be obtained from the Serpent Nests near the entrance of the Medusas Lair inside the Stygian Abyss Dungeon. It can be searched from the nests directly or they can be obtained by using a Snake Charmer Flute on Silver Serpents and then targeting the nests.
Mark them all as quest items and return to Dexter:
Very good, it will only take a minute for me to combine these.
Dexter moves quickly about the lab, dipping the ingredients in strange chemicals, putting them into strange contraptions, and occasionally hitting them with a hammer.
Here you go, he says with a satisfied smile. One bona fide lantern of spirituality. If you ever need to refill it, you can use regular lamp oil. Take this to Sir Geoffrey, he will tell you what to do with it. You can find him at the guard station by the gate of the castle.
-Dexter the Royal Mage
Reward
Lamp of Spirituality
See Also
Ranger of the Abyss Part 2: Seeds of Virtue
Sir Geoffrey the Captain of the Royal Guard
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1) a lantern
2) a silver sapling seed
3) a rare serpent egg
4) a dark wisp orb
These are the items needed to finish the first part of the quest.
Just make a lantern with a tinker
Silver Sapling Seed is a pain since you can only get 1 per char unless you got some stocked or can get them...
A rare serpent egg ( the key you get from snake charming or just double clicking the nest )
and last a dark wisp orb is received by being the first to double click the red chest (i think you might have to dmg the guardian but im pretty sure you dont have to after watching a few people ) BUT ( hold down last object ) when it goes grey incase people are trying to compete for it? but I havent tested alot cuz maybe everyone will get one. but I found stocking these in my house and coming back again to get another ( for my weaker chars ) works but putting them in the bank wont let you get another? I havent tested to prove all these things but its something I was noticing from the 3 times I did it.
And when your wearing the lantern I found my green spot north west of the spawn where you get essence of passion coming down from the underworld but supposedly its suppose to change
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As long as you are within the general location (not sure how many tiles) you get the orb no matter who opens the chest after it goes grey.
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Sweet, thanks for the posts and tips guys!!! I have to try this as soon as I get home!
JaF
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Well, I am sad to say that I completed the quest on a couple of different characters and did not get any nice cloak or anything nice at all as a matter of fact. What I go was a piece of junk kryss and a piece of junk axe. Both of which were approximately mongbat quality loot drops. So much for that idea! I am not especially interested in the housing plots, except that they would be worth major major gold!! lol.
JaF
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So far I have gotten 3 cloaks so I am pretty happy about that.
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Ya my results from 6 characters is 1 talisman... I think I am gonna try to do this on more shards if I can find the time away from learning this scripting language! hehe
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Could folks post up pictures of the cloaks, talismans and whatever else they get?
Anyone know how long this event will last?
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Yes, please, what are the stats on these cloaks / talismans? Is it worth me "wasting my time" on? I don't do many quests unless there is something that will enhance my playing / pvping. I have some pixle crack, dont get me wrong, but its mostly a by-product of going after something I really want to make my char better with.
JaF
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Not sure what the tali brings to the table but the cloak is great for using to make an imbued suit even better.
5% (don't remember the name but it takes damage and converts it to health)
3% SDI
1% LMC
Pretty sure that is right, I will post up confirmation after I get home and can look at them, haven't messed with using them yet but I know exactly how I will use them.
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Yes, please, what are the stats on these cloaks / talismans? Is it worth me "wasting my time" on? I don't do many quests unless there is something that will enhance my playing / pvping. I have some pixle crack, dont get me wrong, but its mostly a by-product of going after something I really want to make my char better with.
JaF
Frostguard Talisman
Cold Eater 5%
Mana Regeneration 1
Lower Mana Cost 5%
Cold Resist 3%
As Xclio said the cloak is;
Warden's Armor of Augmentation
5% Kinetic Eater
3% SDI
1% LMC
5% SSI
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Thanks guys!
hmmm... is it worth it.....i guess maybe a char or two a day could do it, but i surely wont run all 8 of my accounts thru for those small props. But again, thanks for the info!!
JaF
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Is there a trick to doing the nests? I just mash them all, setting loose a bunch of snakes from time to time.
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Your suppose to use a snake charmers flute. and there are tricks to doing that if you haven't tried you probably wouldn't notice. but be hidden when you decide to charm a snake so it won't pause or decide to follow you instead... it will just go straight to the hole!
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Using the snake charmer is in my opinion the easiest and fastest way, only takes a few minutes and you have enough eggs for an entire account.
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Yeah, I figured there had to be a better way. I was just dbl clicking the nests and I probably did 40 in half an hour with no luck.
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does your target need to be a silver serpent?
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Okie: On Getting The Eggs:
Go on a stealth toon and use the snake charming flute on any snake while in stealth. Target the snake, then target a nest. Stand more than four steps away from the nest. The possible results are: Nothing, nest implodes with no other effect, nest implodes and the snakes attack, or egg. If you are four away and hidden you get the snakes attack message, but you stay hidden and safe. If you are closer you are revealed.
You can have snakes working on 3-4 nests at a time. There is a three or four second timer on the flute and the nests take about 15 seconds. Stealth around the open snake area sicking snakes on nests and you will have a bag full of eggs in no time. I spent about 15 minutes and got ten.
Easy Peasy.
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The Wisp Orbs are a bit harder to get than the snake eggs. You have to fight guardian wisps in the wisp dungeon. The chests are red and spawn in six locations. Two are right by the entrance, one at either end of the long corridor North and South in rooms, and one in a large square room to the East. Leave the one to the East the room is too open and you get smoked alone. Run back and forth between the others until you get what you need.
You can't get an orb if there is one in your pack, so bring two toons and leave one just up the stairs on the first level to hold orbs. Each chest spawns with two guardians and you need to kill them to turn the chest from red to standard metal chest color. When it turns anyone can dbl click it to make it go poof. Anyone withing a couple of tiles gets an orb.
I fought here with a sampire. Its a good template because everything poisons there, but nothing deadly. Stratics says to carry a peice of blackrock in your pack to negate the guardian wisp sheilds. I did and didn't notice any sheild. I also recomend a whirlwind weapon with dispell on it. Most of the crap you fight casts revenants. The only time I died was when I had three or more revenants on me.
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Could someone who knows the bury the seed locations post them up?
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Best option is to probably dig up the "node" threads located on stratics.
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Well I found 2 spots one with the four pillars right outside of the stairwell to the east and the one behind the stairwell from the underworld. and I've heard there is another in the medusa lair but those are the only ones im aware of and I guess there are 2-3more depending what day you read this...
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I've found the one in Passion, Order, Skeletal Dragon Area, North East Side of Medusa, West end of Undead Spawn, so far. Hunting the rest.
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Is there a trick to doing the nests? I just mash them all, setting loose a bunch of snakes from time to time.
snake charmer flute. play it , target snake, target nest and be patient u will find eggs after a bit. as for orbs we should get in there as a guild for an hour and farm the crap out of them as they dont have timers like the eggs. then u will have that done for all your characters. just all bring a BOS and send the orb so u can can keep getting them
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Ok so far ive found 6 places where you can plant the crystal. i wish there was a way to save the picture from uocartographer so i could post it. ill see if i can figure that out. ohh i could post the cords for them i guess that is a start.
1. 65.33'N 56.23'W around the corner from the stairs down when you first go in
2. 66.42'N 50.33'W just to the east of #1 in the fire ant area think theres 4 pillars
3. 71.16'N 45.50'W down where the skeletons and patchworks spawn
4. 75.45'N 55.53'W believe this is the goblin area
5. 80.51'N 59.12'W up where the skeleton liches spawn
6. 84.6'N 35.30'W Medusa area
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Thanks tandj99!!
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Anyone ever think to check the Spawns?
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which spawns? if your talking the 2 champ spawns the lamps dont turn purple while in them.
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Why would they mention FEL in the notes then? Weird. Lamp Does Turn Purple while in the underworld though. Might be worth taking a look around.