Diren Hold - Order of Echelon

EVIL CASTER EPIC

credit to: Mothorill, Odacer, Sanadil, Sweetone

Epicsode 1
1) Talk to the Recruiter in Freeport, Southwest of the coach, under the tent.

2) You are sent to speak with Animator Jen'Tylis, who is located in The Green Rift (W), in a camp.

3) You are sent to The Great Waste to procure 2 Glowing Crystals. To do so, you will need to farm the Taksehir Miners - Great Waste (W).

4) Return the two Glowing Crystals to Animator Jen'Tylis.

5) Kill Treants, in Guardian forest (SW), to retrieve two Enchanted Treant Branches. They are located both atop a hill with a stonehenge in the center; AND on the hill northeast of that one.

STRATEGY: To get everything to spawn, you must let the Treant Prisoner, and the Goblin Prisoner LIVE, DO NOT KILL THEM. After the Treant Prisoner makes it to the stonehenge, light blue conned Treant Defenders and Diviner will start spawning in the nearby woods - you must kill these to get the higher level ones to spawn, which con White and Yellow. Those drop the BRANCHES that you need, even though your quest log requires Barks.

NOTE: If you let the Treant Prisoner make it to the first rise before the Stones, and you see the NPC chat in Say occur, you can kill the Treant Prisoner, and keep him fresh. Do not let the body disapear; also, you must NOT kill the Goblin Prisoner. This way, you should get spawns every 10 minutes or so.

NOTE 2: There is a semi-insta spawned Treant Diviner on the North side of the hill, with the stonehenge.

NOTE 3: There is an insta spawned Treant Diviner on the hill NE of the one with the stonehenge. Be sure to keep looting the insta after you kill it or it will stop insta'n. You must loot it before you kill the next one.

6) You are asked to visit the herbalist in the Guk. THe herbalist is at the bottom, past two bridges, just to the right of the latter one. He asks for 3 ingredients:

Spotted tounge: Frogluk Channelers/Forgers.

Congealed Swamp water: Frogluk Channelers/Forgers.

Mycanoid spores: Fungal Cavaliers/Hunters.

7) Talking to the Herbman with your ingredients will initiate an event in which you must protect him. Every five minutes, 2 mobs will spawn - this will occur for 3 rounds. In other words, you will see the first 2 mobs every fifteen minutes. This will last about an hour.

The order in which they spawn is: Two watchmen, two Guardsmen, and finally, a Lookout and a Scout.

Their cons:

Watchmen: dark blue
Guardsmen: white
Lookout/Socut: yellow/red respectively

Eventually, Bouncers will spawn - they con red, and are very difficult. They are NOT to be under-estimated!

During the chaos, the herbman will give you a teleportation shard, and will later port you Guk (S), where a human spawns. Upon speaking to him, he will give you a potion.

NOTE: If the herbman dies while you are making potions, you will have to wait until someone else triggers the event. Since the popups have an Area of Effect, your quest will still be advanced, if you have the necessary items in your inventory.

Return to Animator Jen'Tylis to receive 20 million xp.

Epicsode 2
Speak to Jen'Tylis in Green Rift (W), standing next to the well, in the Gal'Saris camp.

Upon speaking with him, you are told: "Go to Tak'Xiv West and take out the bandit leader. Take his coins and bring them to me. I'll get it back to Freeport."

Your destination is Tak'Xiv (C), which is immediately WEST of the Oasis of Marr. Along the river there, you will find a camp of Desert Marauders / Pillagers / Henchmen. These enemies hit considerably hard; a tank with high AC and AGI is required - even then, the damage will range from around 250 to 400 per strike. Farm these - one to three hours � until Sothimus the Brigand spawns. Kill him and loot the coin purse.

Return to Jen�Tylis with the coin purse.

He now sends you to procure an Engraved Ring, from the sirens in Odus. Doing this entails your farming one of the following three Enchanting Siren camp locations:

-- Vastly Deep (E)
-- Kerra Isle (SW)
-- West Toxxulia (SW)

Each camp contains eight mobs - two sets of four - with a treasure chest located (blank con) in the middle of each set. Farming the sirens will yield a NTL key - now, some important notes on the keys.

There are three different types of keys, which are totally indistinguishable. They are all NTL, with the same description and same name. Each different key opens up the chest at a different location, but you cannot tell which one opens which location. The best strategy is that when you are at a camp, loot up a key and test it on the chest. If it opens, you lose the key and get your item. If it does not open, continue farming until you can loot another type of key, and then check the chest again. If you are unlucky, you will know that you can open the chest when you have all three different keys.

Return to Jen'Tylis with the Engraved Ring

He now sends you to "...Search out Ualdius� ghost and he will tell you more. I believe he was slain somewhere near the lair of Lady Vox.."
Ualdius' ghost roams, on the ice, in right in front of the ice cave entrance to Vox Castle.

Ualdius sends you to find and kill Teledic, who is located in Vox Castle.

Proceed through the MAIN entrance to Vox Castle (Bridge). You will come to a room with four (4) passageways - one to the WEST, one to the EAST, and two to the NORTH. Take either one of the NORTH passageways. You will come to a room with a fountain in the center. On the NORTH wall, there are two passageways - one on the far left side, and one on the far right side of that wall. Go through the one on the far right side. Teledic spawns in this hallway, yet periodically roams to several other hallways in the general area. Teledic quads a solid tank for damage between 200 - 300. Be warned though: he has a 500 fire-based DS, a 860 damage fire-based nuke, and several self-heals. Additionally, he has very high AC and AGI. A resist cleric / druid, a tank, and some damage (preferably petters) are necessary.
After killing him, return to Animator Jen'Tylis.

Your instructions: "Travel to the prison in Qeynos. There is a man named Calidux awaiting trial. See if you can either prove his innocence or seal his fate as a condemned man."

Your destination: Qeynos Prison (E), in the dungeon, under the central housing. Calidux is located at the end of the passageway that is next to Ulthud the Wall. Upon talking to him, you are told to slay the undead menace, in the swamps of Odus. However, you are really going to Basher's Enclave (N), which is west of Grobb. The mob you need to kill is "An ancient corpse's soul". Eight or more people are needed, due to its high AC / AGI. Four NTL ancient corpe souls drop - take one of them back to Calidux.

You have been betrayed! After acquiring the soul, Calidux reveals his true intentions. He becomes KoS and attacks you; you will need a group to finish him off. After killing him, loot an Alizander's Journal from his corpse, and take it back to Animator Jen'Tylis.

Having learned your lesson about trust, Animator Jen'Tylis rewards you with 30 million experience points and 10,000 tunar.

Epicsode 3
1)Log quest from Animator Jen'Tylis in Green Rift(W) once again.

2)Travel to Freeport and speak to Serverudipus. He is located in the caster area. He is standing near a wall, watch out for Rea werebeasts!

3)Go to Guk and kill fungals for 1 mycanoid stem. Easy to obtain as it is a regular stack item.

4)Return to Serverudipus in Freeport. He will present you with pie

5)Head to Rivervale to speak to Biddleby. He is located north of the east entrance to Rivervale on a hill. You are looking for the Biddleby that is in halfling form. The shroom Biddleby is for good healers.

6)Return to Animator Jen'Tylis. Speaking to him will spawn your next mob, an Avatar of Hate. This mob drops 8 talismans.
Information taken from SoE forums on an Avatar of Hate:
1. 2000 damage nuke--possibly AR
2. 1205 damage nuke--possibly PR
3. 500 damage taunt
4. 350 damage AoE--possibly PR
"All elemental spells do 0 damage to him and melee damage does hardly anything."

7)Hand in the talisman to Animator Jen'Tylis.

8)Travel to Spider Mines(SW) to find Avatar of Love. It is found just west of Ruddish the Devout on the north side of the river. Speak to Avatar of Love to make this mob attackable. " At 2 reds this mob casts a heal proc on herself, making it impossible to kill once casted." Loot an Arrow of Love.

9)Return to Animator Jen'Tylis and turn in the arrow of Love to recieve 100 million XP. Speak to him again and he will tell you to travel to Shon-to Monastary where you will receive your rehab and ability. You will then be sent to another npc next to the Recruiter in FP to collect your Epic Item!