Jhet Bhlak

Thank you to Benjimann for pointing me to the EQ Jewelry Calculator. It lets you calculate what gems give you what stats with any metal type. For instance you could choose to make a Dwerium Trio Ring with a Marquise Cut Amber Nihilite in the type 11 slot, a Round Cut Onyx in the first type 10 slot and a Round Cut Opal in the second type 10 slot. The calculater will show you that the stats for this ring would be: AC 10, Dex 12, HP 100, Endurance 375.

You can calculate anything from silver to dwerium, solo to trio and any gem type.

*UPDATE: The site is really there even if you get an error sometimes. I’d guess the owner is updating it frequently

The Wailing Sister in the Plane of Nightmare was pretty easy. Me and a 78ish necromancer dropped her pretty easy. It took maybe a minute or two. As a 75 sk I probably could have solo’d her without much trouble. If you wait at location 1077 x -714 she will walk up to you and you can get her with no adds. Next up are the five shadowknights.

The Wailing Sister PoN loc 1077 x -714

I really thought this was going to be a difficult fight. Honest I did. I mean I see that Fraga hits for 2850…quad!…so I think I need some real firepower to take him out. So I get the usual group together from the guild, which just happens to be the entire guild (all 6 of us), and prepare for a pretty hectic fight.

Let me tell you…the longest part of the fight was pulling him to the group. There were no adds and once I pulled him to the group he lasted all of 20 to 30 seconds.  I think my hp may have dipped to 85ish percent at one point but that may have been because no heals came my way until that point. I’m not sure, it just went too quick. It pretty much went like this:

 Me: “Gimme agro!”
 Wizard: “Booom!”
 Group: “Mmm tasty frog legs!”
 Fraga: “Would you like fries with that?”

I’ll update this post and the previous mob location post with Fraga’s loc once I get home. Thanks again Crimson Snow!

Next post will be on killing The Wailing Sister in PoN.

*UPDATE: Fraga’s location is -1092 x -652 in the Plane of Valor

First off a big thank you to Halfnotez of Valorguard on the Nameless server for dragging the Amy Warrior to me that had the Eye of the Dark God. Good luck on the Beastlord epic piece you were looking for!

This drop took me a while to get. The mobs were boringly easy to kill solo but the zone apparently has a 12 hour repop. Bleh! The third warrior that I killed finally had the drop I needed. The warriors and knights that drop the eye wander the zone and also pop inside of the giant ring of fire.  If you miss where the ring of fire is in the Plane of Fear your are quite frankly blind.

I was a bit confused on where to find A Gloom Nightmare so I thought I’d give some specific instructions.

When you zone into the Plane of Nightmare head East to the river/lake that is on the North edge of the zone. Go under the water and into the cave. Keep heading straight (North) until you reach the first intersection. It is a 4-way intersection so make a right (East) and follow it through. You will run by a bunch of mephits down this tunnel. Towards the end you will come to a drop off that ends up in a big round room. At the back of this room is another tunnel that is the only other exit out of this room. Follow this tunnel until you come out onto what everyone calls the plateau.

You should be at approximately location 1626 x -648.  You will have to wander around a bit to find the nightmares but it’s not really all that large of an area so it should be easy. Watch out for Vhaksiz the Shade. He doesn’t hit all that hard but has a ton of HP.  It took me a couple of minutes just to get him down to 99%.

Kill a few of these mobs and you’ll have your Gloom Nightmare Hide in no time. I got mine on the second kill.

Ok so I finished my shadowknight 1.5 prequest without much difficulty. The Plane of Hate part took the longest with Mistress of Malevolence taking the longest to finally show up. I think I camped her for 4 or 5 days off and on. She was very easy to kill. I did it with self buffs only and solo.

The next step was getting the Murkglider Breeder to show up and killing him. I expected this to be a very long camp with all the posts about how people have sat there for weeks trying to get him. He showed for me on the second day (yesterday). 

Now that he was up I thought I would go ahead and give him a try 3 boxing my shd, cle, enc combo. If I could have separated him from his Murkglider Spawn’s and kept the normal repops at bay, I might have been able to beat him down. That didn’t turn out so well though. I probably died half a dozen times in the attempts I made.

I started off trying to pull the Spawn pops through the west tunnel and then up north. I had some success with this and at one time I had 4 Murkglider Spawn mobs parked to the North of me (I was in that west tunnel fighting). When I pulled the Breeder though I got one add right off the bat.  Then his 2 Spawns poped. And then the hall started poping. The Enchanters (70) aoe mez seemed to work on the Spawns but not the other repop mobs. Later another enchanter was saying that she was not having success with the aoe mez so it may be hit or miss. Needless to say with 6 mobs pounding on me I took a dirt nap pretty quick. Further attempts by me 3 boxing were even less successful.

So I got my other four guildmates (yes we’re a small guild) and another former guildie to help me out. The group consisted of shd (75), cle (75), dru (73), enc (75), wiz (80) and nec (78+).  Our first attempt didn’t work out too well. This is where the enchanter was having trouble with aoe mez. On the second attempt the chanter used single mez and it went better. I was only able to drag one Spawn out of the way so it got a bit hectic. We ended up burning the breeder down pretty quick. I had to loot the egg quickly while the dru evac’d us to the zoneline. It wasn’t pretty but it worked.

Thank you Veit, Narine, Ezraziel, Keignomemight and Dakrayne!!!

I’ll tell you what though. I gave that A Gelatinous Murkglider Egg to Grand Librarian Maelin in a way he sure didn’t expect and took that stupid book from him while he was still squeeling and squirming on the top floor of the library!

Stupid gnomes…

I was able to easily 3 box Olidan once I found him.  He was in the Southwest corner of the Northern building around location -2000 x 200 as I mentioned in previous post on shadowknight 1.5 epic mob locations.

To get him solo I ran to the outside of the Northern building by the South west corner. This agro’d Olidan and another giant through the wall. I kept a boxed 75 cleric and 70 enchanter parked out of range. I ran my 75 sk to the tree outside the building and snared the non-named giant and FD’d to get him single.  Once Olidan went back to the building and I lost agro I killed the remaining giant. I repeated the same trick to get Olidan to run out to me at the tree and killed him there.

My sk tanked, the cleric healed with 1480 heal over time spell and the chanter slowed / nuked. It took a few minutes but there were no real issues. He dropped the Stormborn Phylactery on the first kill.

I had a hard time locating Olidan for the 1.5 sk prequest. I finally found it on evilgamer.net but it never showed in a Google search so I’m going to post it here in hopes that I show up in a search for other people.

1.5 sk Prequest mobs:
Ritald is in Dulaks Harbour @-480 +125
Captain Varns in Dulaks Harbour @-1000 +2300 back of luggy caves
Mistress of Malevolence in the Plane of Hate @-398.38 +556.79
Overlord R`Gahbsa Rough loc -700 + 400 alternative to Mistress of Malevolence (???)
Olidan in the Plane of Storms@ -2000+200 in building at Ocean giants map (North of the small red square near the bottom)

1.5 sk quest mobs:
Sienn Kastane in the Plane of Knowledge @ -887, 232
Grand Librarian Maelin in the Plane of Knowledge
Murkglider Breeder in the Ruined City of Dranik @ -770, +890
Amygdalan Knight/Warrior in the Plane of Fear. In the temple surrounded by fire to the North and they wander the zone. 12 hour repop for PoF.
A Gloom Nightmare in the Plane of Nightmares 1626 x -648 (near here)
A Rolling Plains Steed in the Plane Of Growth. 2 mobs just North of zone in. All over the zone.
Fraga in the Plane of Valor in tent near Grave Yard -1092 x -652
The Wailing Sister in the Plane of Nightmares @+1100.78-491.46
Gilina Yilzior in the Plane of Knowledge @-665, +1025
Silithis Sisnta in Timorous Deep @+5349 -1279
Gubblegrot Smashfist in the Ocean of Tears @-1880 -1340
Skurza Slickutt in the Swamp of no hope @+289 -545
Giligattabus Igglebix  in Iceclad @ +1303 -2726
Tarnamil in Kith @+577, +1665
Sir Elmonious Falmont In Western Wastes @-3200, -2300

Some of the mobs do not have locations but I will add them as I find them.

I just upgraded to Secrets of Faydwer for one of my accounts and I noticed something a bit evil that they did. If you buy gear with heroic stats on them you will NOT get the stat bonus until you activate SoF on that account.  I’m wondering what other stats do not take effect until you activate SoF.  The extra avoidance, etc. on the tradeskill augs? I think this is the first expansion that Sony has done this on. Sure you were limited before on what gear you could get from an expansion if you didn’t own it but I have never noticed gear not giving the full benefit until an expansion was ordered before.

My guess would be it is a code limitation. The bonus is applied through SoF program code and that code is not in effect until the expansion is activated.