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OK, I have sorta played a necro before on the PC (I played a couple of months around the time PoP/LoY came out), and since I bought a Mac, I decided to go back in time and play on Al'Kabor (they seem to have nothing new since PoP so I sorta remember a lot of the low level stuff). So this thread will be similare to persephonae's thread with the tiwst that it's a guide to trying to make it untwinked on Al'Kabor
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Levels 1 to 11
First let me list some of the things that do work and are helpful to an untwinked necro on Al'Kabor:
1) Fire Beetle eye quest works great. Head to the top floor of the necro guild and hail the quest NPC (Noxhil V'sek) and say, "I will collect beetle eyes" and he will hand you a box that has 10-slots, tiny, no weight reduction. You collect 10 beetle eyes, combine them, hand him the box, and get around 15 sp and a decent amount of exps (at level 5 like 15% maybe of a level).
2) Newbie armor quests (given by Talorial D'Estalian) work, but the stats are not the same as those listed at alla because they were upgraded on the PC and we never got that upgrade. Even if you are not gonna do the newbie armor quests, you can get the 10-slot, large size, no weight reduction box (weighs 10-pouds so it isn't light) to use as a container. It's better than nothing as you have no containers starting out.
Here are some of the stats on the Al'Kabor, newbie armor (I am working off memory and will correct the stats when I edit this post later today):
Bracer: AC1, 1 int 2 mana
Boots: AC 2, 1 int, 3 mana
Legs: AC 4, 1 int, 4 mana
Sleeves: AC 3, 1 int, 3 HP
Gloves: AC 2, 1 int, 3 mana
Cap: not obtained yet
Robe: not obtained yet
Getting the halfing skins is easy. The "newbie log" area is where you farm the Halfling Scouts. Usually 2 walk up about every 15 min. The matted halfling hair is fairly common drop. There is a third one you can pull that is near the hobbit circle, but it's tricky. You need to park your pet fairly far behind you on guard when you pull. If your pet is next to you, when you aggro the hobbit, he will nuke you and your pet will run up to hit him. At that point ALL the other hobbits in the circle will add and you will die. If you park your pet a ways away on guard, you can eventually pull the scout far enough from the hobbit circle so that when you pet attacks the other hobbits won't add.
I have had ZERO luck getting embalming dust from the zombies and lesser mummies that can be spawned at the undead camp near the EC zoneline. Killed maybe 20 without a drop so I can't make my robe. I have everything else. I am gonna try along the west zoneline near the Rodocet Nife camp where I saw some zombies and lesser mummies walking before. Maybe they drop it since the ones at the EC undead camp sure as heck are not dropping embalming dust.
I have had almost ZERO luck getting deathfist scout scalps (2 in like 40 kills). Unlike the hobbit scouts that spawn 2 at a time and walk back and forth from the hobbit circle to the newbie log along a known path making it easy to farm them, the deathfist scouts spawn at two or more spots. One is south of the river where they walk back and forth from the EC area undead camp to the deathfist encampment west of the road. The other one is north of the river just a bit and they walk back and forth between the 2 deathfist encampments that are located near the east and west zonewalls just north of the river. This makes it harder to farm them since the guards killem fairly often when the scouts cross the road. What a pain in the arse!
There is a spot north of the river near the east-side orc camp around neg 30 neg 180 where you can park yourself and wait for wanderers. I spent a few hours there and discovered there are 3 mobs that spawn and wander back and forth between the east-side and west-side orc camps. It seems that legionaires, templars and scouts all can be one of the 3 wanderers but that scouts seem to be the common spawn of the three. These three seem to spawn on a 15 min timer. It's slow going but at least you can farm them. You can kill black mamaba's to that wander through for some extra tiny exps while you wait.
3) If you just want more containers for bank storage, there is a quest giver for newbie armor for every class that can start in Neriak. I actually wandered around and gather up a few to stick in the bank for additional storage slots. These boxes work well for that purpose and are FREE but at 10-lbs they are too heavy to carry more than one around at a time.
4) The woven grass amulet quest works. Collect these when you are killing the halfling scouts and turn them in 4-at-a-time to Perrin in the cleric guild in third gate for exps.
5) The leatherfoot raider helms quest works. Collect these up 4-at-a-time and turn them in to Narex T'Vem at the warrior guild in commons for exps, 4 gp, and a 12 dam/56 delay weapon that at this level ROCKS as a pet weapon. I just wish the darn thing was magic (it isn't) so that it could hit wisps! I will post the name of the turn-in NPC later.
6) Selling spiderling silks in Bazaar worked to make pp. I sold 2 stacks for 40 pp total which allowed me to get my remaining level 8 spells and a couple of level 12s.
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Things that do not work:
1) You can't get a fine antique poinard from the Carver in Grobb by handing him 4 halfling foot bones. His quest text is different on Al'Kabor and you can only do the Cleaver quest. What a friggin waste of time farming halflings for footbones. I just destroyed all 4 I had collected. I think the fine antique poinard quest was added after the trolls were relocated to Neriak after the next expansion (LoY). You can still get it out of PoK from the collector's box series of quests but forget it. I can't get those needed items.
2) You can't get the froglok skin mask on Al'Kabor from Ranjor. Well, at least I couldn't even at indifferent con (hid behing Ranjor). If you hand him a black wolf skins and a ruined ash drakling scales he hands them back. His quest text only says, [willin ta test]. At dubious or indifferent con, he won't give the next quest prompt if you say, "I am willin ta test". He says you have bad breath and to go away.
Maybe if you had aimiable it would work, but I sorta suspect this quest was added after the next expansion when the Trolls were relocated to Neriak (LoY). If anyone has any info about this maybe it would be helpful. I mean, is that the correct first prompt for the froglok skin mask quest for instance? Also, is there an easy way to raise troll faction and finally what faction do you need to complete this quest if that is the case? I guess I better save money for a sarnak blood and try and get the fine antique mask.
3) I found the Griknar Kobalds in Steamfont to be a complete waste of time. The drop rate on the fangs and skins was too low to be worth trying to farm for gp and on Al'Kabor these kobalds ARE social. So at level 5-6, you will probably end up dead. At level 8+ where you could farm them they are all green. At level 7 you can farm them but most are green, so again it's a waste of time.
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Levels 1 to 11
First let me list some of the things that do work and are helpful to an untwinked necro on Al'Kabor:
1) Fire Beetle eye quest works great. Head to the top floor of the necro guild and hail the quest NPC (Noxhil V'sek) and say, "I will collect beetle eyes" and he will hand you a box that has 10-slots, tiny, no weight reduction. You collect 10 beetle eyes, combine them, hand him the box, and get around 15 sp and a decent amount of exps (at level 5 like 15% maybe of a level).
2) Newbie armor quests (given by Talorial D'Estalian) work, but the stats are not the same as those listed at alla because they were upgraded on the PC and we never got that upgrade. Even if you are not gonna do the newbie armor quests, you can get the 10-slot, large size, no weight reduction box (weighs 10-pouds so it isn't light) to use as a container. It's better than nothing as you have no containers starting out.
Here are some of the stats on the Al'Kabor, newbie armor (I am working off memory and will correct the stats when I edit this post later today):
Bracer: AC1, 1 int 2 mana
Boots: AC 2, 1 int, 3 mana
Legs: AC 4, 1 int, 4 mana
Sleeves: AC 3, 1 int, 3 HP
Gloves: AC 2, 1 int, 3 mana
Cap: not obtained yet
Robe: not obtained yet
Getting the halfing skins is easy. The "newbie log" area is where you farm the Halfling Scouts. Usually 2 walk up about every 15 min. The matted halfling hair is fairly common drop. There is a third one you can pull that is near the hobbit circle, but it's tricky. You need to park your pet fairly far behind you on guard when you pull. If your pet is next to you, when you aggro the hobbit, he will nuke you and your pet will run up to hit him. At that point ALL the other hobbits in the circle will add and you will die. If you park your pet a ways away on guard, you can eventually pull the scout far enough from the hobbit circle so that when you pet attacks the other hobbits won't add.
I have had ZERO luck getting embalming dust from the zombies and lesser mummies that can be spawned at the undead camp near the EC zoneline. Killed maybe 20 without a drop so I can't make my robe. I have everything else. I am gonna try along the west zoneline near the Rodocet Nife camp where I saw some zombies and lesser mummies walking before. Maybe they drop it since the ones at the EC undead camp sure as heck are not dropping embalming dust.
I have had almost ZERO luck getting deathfist scout scalps (2 in like 40 kills). Unlike the hobbit scouts that spawn 2 at a time and walk back and forth from the hobbit circle to the newbie log along a known path making it easy to farm them, the deathfist scouts spawn at two or more spots. One is south of the river where they walk back and forth from the EC area undead camp to the deathfist encampment west of the road. The other one is north of the river just a bit and they walk back and forth between the 2 deathfist encampments that are located near the east and west zonewalls just north of the river. This makes it harder to farm them since the guards killem fairly often when the scouts cross the road. What a pain in the arse!
There is a spot north of the river near the east-side orc camp around neg 30 neg 180 where you can park yourself and wait for wanderers. I spent a few hours there and discovered there are 3 mobs that spawn and wander back and forth between the east-side and west-side orc camps. It seems that legionaires, templars and scouts all can be one of the 3 wanderers but that scouts seem to be the common spawn of the three. These three seem to spawn on a 15 min timer. It's slow going but at least you can farm them. You can kill black mamaba's to that wander through for some extra tiny exps while you wait.
3) If you just want more containers for bank storage, there is a quest giver for newbie armor for every class that can start in Neriak. I actually wandered around and gather up a few to stick in the bank for additional storage slots. These boxes work well for that purpose and are FREE but at 10-lbs they are too heavy to carry more than one around at a time.
4) The woven grass amulet quest works. Collect these when you are killing the halfling scouts and turn them in 4-at-a-time to Perrin in the cleric guild in third gate for exps.
5) The leatherfoot raider helms quest works. Collect these up 4-at-a-time and turn them in to Narex T'Vem at the warrior guild in commons for exps, 4 gp, and a 12 dam/56 delay weapon that at this level ROCKS as a pet weapon. I just wish the darn thing was magic (it isn't) so that it could hit wisps! I will post the name of the turn-in NPC later.
6) Selling spiderling silks in Bazaar worked to make pp. I sold 2 stacks for 40 pp total which allowed me to get my remaining level 8 spells and a couple of level 12s.
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Things that do not work:
1) You can't get a fine antique poinard from the Carver in Grobb by handing him 4 halfling foot bones. His quest text is different on Al'Kabor and you can only do the Cleaver quest. What a friggin waste of time farming halflings for footbones. I just destroyed all 4 I had collected. I think the fine antique poinard quest was added after the trolls were relocated to Neriak after the next expansion (LoY). You can still get it out of PoK from the collector's box series of quests but forget it. I can't get those needed items.
2) You can't get the froglok skin mask on Al'Kabor from Ranjor. Well, at least I couldn't even at indifferent con (hid behing Ranjor). If you hand him a black wolf skins and a ruined ash drakling scales he hands them back. His quest text only says, [willin ta test]. At dubious or indifferent con, he won't give the next quest prompt if you say, "I am willin ta test". He says you have bad breath and to go away.
Maybe if you had aimiable it would work, but I sorta suspect this quest was added after the next expansion when the Trolls were relocated to Neriak (LoY). If anyone has any info about this maybe it would be helpful. I mean, is that the correct first prompt for the froglok skin mask quest for instance? Also, is there an easy way to raise troll faction and finally what faction do you need to complete this quest if that is the case? I guess I better save money for a sarnak blood and try and get the fine antique mask.
3) I found the Griknar Kobalds in Steamfont to be a complete waste of time. The drop rate on the fangs and skins was too low to be worth trying to farm for gp and on Al'Kabor these kobalds ARE social. So at level 5-6, you will probably end up dead. At level 8+ where you could farm them they are all green. At level 7 you can farm them but most are green, so again it's a waste of time.
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