Diren Hold - Order of Echelon

GOOD CASTER EPIC

credit to: Kimosabie, Skronk, Telchar

Epicsode 1
1) Talk to the Recruiter in Klik'Anon

2) Talk to Maji'kot in Elemental Towers (W), along the shore line, close to a tower where the 55 Mage Spell Giver is located.

3) Get two Ghostly Goo's off powerful undead in Centaur Valley (E) - Wandering Spectres and Wandering Ghosts. North up the river, along the east side from Blackwater. You will eventually see the broken bridge with the undead mobs on both sides.

4) Return the goo to Magi'kot and he tells you next he'll need two enchanted war beads, which are from goblins in guardian forest (NW). When I first got there it was a roaming sea of light blue goblin assassin's and soothsayers. After a few minutes of killing them the camp spawned yellow/white versions of these around a fixture which in the middle has an Elder goblin spawn, which didn't drop anything different than the regular mobs. Farm these until you have two of the beads.

5) Upon return the beads to Magi'kot, you are sent on the final step of this first epic-sode - finding the heart and brain of Aktana the Flamekissed, and bringing back his soul. Lavastorm Mountains (E). You will need to farm Animated Lava. After you getting the heart, head North to a Gargoyle statue of Aktana. Place the heart into the statue and it will become an unconnable roamer. Run North around the mountain to find a group of Gargoyle Patrollers that have now spawned. Farm these patrollers until a Fire Imp Protector spawns, which will eventually drop the Brain. Return to the unconnable statue to spawn Aktana the Flamekissed, from a popup. Return to Magi'kot with Aktana's Soul to receive 20 million xp.

Epicsode 2
Good Caster Epic 2:

1) Talk to Magi'Kot in Elemental Towers (W). You must have completed Epic-sode One to be eligible for this quest.

2) The Magi tells you he wants to kill bandits in Freeport and bring him the NTL coin drop. This mob spawns with two Desert Henchmen, in the Middle Road of Freeport; and has a 1-2 hour spawn time. Bring a good tank and healer to assist - He will hit for 450 per swing, on a well built tank.

3) Desert Brigand drops 3 NTL items, allowing three people to do this quest once. For casters, you must be in the kill group to advance your quest log. Check your log when you get the kill - it will say something like "You have killed the lead brigand, take his loot back to Magi'Kot." Loot the coin purse and return to Magi'Kot.

4) Magi'Kot now tells you that he wants to summon Vylinnuza, and you need to help him get her consciousness. The conscioussness is in three parts, but must be constructed together using six items. To do this step, you will need a jewelry kit (you can have level zero skill in jewelcrafting, so don't worry about being a crafter) and the correct combination of items. If you don't craft them correctly, they will disappear.

The mobs you need to farm are Enchanting Sirens, and there are three camps of them: Vastly Deep (E), Kerra Isle (SW), and West Toxx (SW). Each camp contains two sets of four mobs each, with a treasure chest located (blank con) in the middle of the four. 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.

Here are the six items that a good caster will need:

a) Fragment of Logic - random drop at all three camps.
b) Fragment of Passion - random drop at all three camps.
c) Fragment of Restraint - random drop at all three camps.
d) Fragment of Calculation - chest reward at Kerra Isle camp.
e) Fragment of Motivation - chest reward at Vastly Deep camp.
f) Fragment of Complacency - chest reward at West Toxx camp.

5) Now when you have all the items, it's time to craft. Equip a jewelcrafting kit, and make the following combinations:

Complacency - Restraint
Logic - Calculation
Motivation - Passion

You will create three NTL gems - Turquoise, Azure, and Cobalt. Take the gems to Magi'Kot, and bring your raid force.

6) Raid force? That's right. When you turn in the gems to Magi'Kot, he despawns and summons up Vylinnuza of the Tide. She walks in from the north, and is a beast of a mob. She crits for 1200, melees for 1020, nukes for 400 (with max CR and LR), AoEs for 1000, and has tons of HPs.

She resists all nukes (to zero!) except lightning, which hits for a reduced amount. At one or two reds left, she begins hitting the tank much harder. You will need 5-8 healers to MT the mob, depending on the build of the tank. Tank must max up CR and LR, and have high AC and AGI.

Killing her gave 860k for a group of 60s, so she must be pretty high level. Kill this boss mob and she will drop four NTL Vylinnuza's Soul items. Loot one of them and wait for Magi'Kot to respawn.

7) Turn in the soul to Magi'Kot and you will receive his thanks, plus 30 million XP and 10,000 tunar. Drink an XP potion to increase your bonus (an Excellent one gave 40 million for my quest).

Epicsode 3
Talk to Magi`Kot. He sends you to find Boldunder in the deserts of Odus

Head to North Barren Coast (C). At the base of a hill, near a large depression you should get a popup telling you you feel the ground rumbling. Walking away from the hill toward the depression, you should get two more popups, then Boldunder spawns and tears you a new one.

You'll need a good-sized force to take out Boldunder. He resists all nukes, and hits hard. We had a 60 SHA kite him without too much trouble, but it took a while to bring him down. He drops 4 souls. Bring one back to Mag`Kot, and share the rest with the nice folks who got owned along with you.

When you turn in the soul, Magi`Kot tells you to speak with him again to port to the plane of sky to witness the ultimate summoning.

Gather up a sizable raid force, and talk to Magi`Kot. He'll port you and everyone in about a 15' radius to PoS (the usual first island, where the Isle of Wonder port is). Once everyone's ready, talk to Magi`Kot again, and he'll spawn Ahriaana the Ultimate. She looks like a gigantic ghilan, but fights like Boldunder on steroids. Nukes do no damage. We had reasonably good luck pet-grouping her. Supposedly, she can port whoever has aggro off the island, but we didn't see that happen. Anyway, kill her. She'll drop 8 "torn journal page"s for 8 lucky questers. After she's dead, head NW of the IoW port to talk to Magi`Kot's ghost. There appears to be a glitch in the quest at this point where, if the quester does NOT talk to Magi`Kot's ghost, it's difficult to get the ghost to reappear. We got around this by repeatedly jumping, talking to Magi`Kot, and waiting around a long time for the ghost to appear.