Sunday afternoon was slow and we had finished all our chores, more or less, so we decided to play a little EQ. Before we could head off and do something constructive, Aleksey asked us to assist him with his 8th Shawl turn in fights. This is all pretty easy for 60+ people since it was a Velious designed quest. But, we could only come up with 9 folks and it took a certain amount of herding to get everyone there and ready. Aleksey decided to DB his paladin for some extra DPS and Vanelina DCed a Frost Giant for the same.
Despite the low numbers, if worked OK. Tigon, Tristairn and myself offtanked giants and wolves as they spawned and we beat things down pretty quick. The shawl is pretty nice, FTIII back item, so we are happy to help finger-wigglers in the guild get it. Some nice loot drops on the way too, but nothing that any of us could really use, so it all went to the guild bank. While I was waiting in the gnome village for the dwarf to show up and end the quest I hit track. We were the only people in the zone, not too unusual, Iceclad Ocean is pretty out of the way these days, but there is usually someone camping Lodizal or Stormfeather. No turtle, no surprise. His spawn is dialed down quick on a server reset and whoever gets it farms it hard. The loot still fetches 10-20K pp and he drops 2-3 items. However, Stormfeather was up. WHAT?!? I looked again. Yep. I couldn't even speak. He is a legendary spawn with no real known pattern, just a long, boring contested camp. I never really had the patience to sit there and wait for him, so even though I had the map part from the wolf and the part from Lodizal, I never figured I would finish the quest because I would never sit there for 18+ hours only to get KSed at the last moment. Nope, he was still there. I raced NE to him and beat him down quick as can be. Then I looted the map and cheered as did the rest of the raid when the realized where I went.
Now I had to finish the quest. Off to Great Divide to hunt Tizmaks and then turn in meat for the final piece. That took way longer than it should have. I ended up zerging the Tizmak caves (they are all green anyways) to get the last piece. Damn Bloodmaw was agro to me and almost died on my damage shield when I tried to turn in. I ended up sneaking even though Alla's said that didn't work. THEN, I had to run from the bottom of GD, through all of EW to the NE corner of IC. But, it's done (and 2 bank slots freed up for another quest):
Eyepatch of Plunder
LORE ITEM MAGIC ITEM NO DROP
AC: +10 Str: +10 Dex: +10 Magic Resist: +6 Fire Resist: +6 Cold Resist: +6 Poison Resist: +6 Disease Resist: +6 HP: +50
Weight: 0.5
Classes: All Classes
Races: All Races
Inventory Slot: Face
Effect: Captain Nalots Quickening
1: Increase Attack Speed by 20%
Type: Triggered
Charges: Unlimited
A very nice upgrade to my Platinum Ruby Veil.
It's been a good week. Finavar has had major upgrade to two of his weakest slots and a bragging rights upgrade to his chest. Net HPs up about 300.
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