Diren Hold - Order of Echelon

GOOD TANK EPIC

WALKTHROUGH INCOMPLETE. EPICSODE 1-2 ONLY

Credit to: Teralis, Telchar

Epicsode 1 - Good Tank

1) Speak with Recruiter in Klick'Anon.

2) You are sent to Palidan Talimas in Thedruk (NE), standing in front of a tree. Talimas requires 2 crystals off Takesir Miners, located in The Great Waste (W). This part of the quest cannot be solo'ed easily, as they are level 60, varying from melees to casters.

3) The Coldwind Guard of Halas has asked for assistance: Goblin invasion armies are currently attacking the Treants in Guardian Forest (W) and (NW). They must be stopped before the Treants are defeated, as Halas will be their next target. You need to slay the goblins to protect both the Treants and the Coldwind Guard of Halas. Loot two Enchanted Warbeads from Goblin Soothsayers and Assassins.

4) Return to Palidan Talimas with the beads. You are sent deep into Guk, to speak with the Froglok Herbalist. The herbalist is at the bottom, past two bridges, just to the right of the latter one. He asks for 3 ingrediants:

Spotted tounge: Frogluk Channelers/Forgers.

Swamp water: Frogluk Channelers/Forgers.

Mycanoid spores: Fungal Cavaliers/Hunters.

Talking to the Herbman with your ingridients will initiate an event in which you must protect the herbman. 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 for 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 Paladin Talimas.

Good Tank Epic 2:

1) Talk to Paladin Talimas

2) She gives as assignment to kill bandits in Freeport and take the NTL coin drop to Jakai in Diren Hold. 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. Loot the coin purse and proceed to Jakai in DH, who is located in the fort, atop the large mountain. She asks you to farm sirens in Odus, until you find a key that opens a treasure chest. She wants you to bring back a "legacy," which consists of two swords and a ring.

4) The mobs you need 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. You can approach and open the chests without aggroing the sirens if you are very careful.

Each different zone gives you the items that you need.

Ring � Vastly Deep (E)
Sword 1 � West Toxx (SW)
Sword 2 � Kerra Isle (SW)

Note that the siren mobs are nasty. They are usually empty of loot, and they have a 1500 mana drain that does not appear resistable, even with all resists maxed. Their nukes seem to be LR, but there is another attack mixed in there somewhere. The AoE occurs at the beginning of the fight and any change on aggro. The best strat we found is to use a resist cleric and pets - RSD and BE work very well, since the mobs are mainly casters. We put Avatar on RSD, or used BE to taunt and had minimal aggro changes. Underwater potions are nice since you can stay down and fight on the bottom.

5) Take the legacy (two swords and ring back) to Jakai in Diren Hold.

6) Jakai now asks you to pass judgement on a current prisoner named Calidux. She tells you that he is in Qeynos Prison and that you need to determine if he is guilty or innocent.

7) Go to Qeynos Prison and talk to Calidux. He is located deep in the main prison, and cons white to a 60. He tells you a long sob story about how he got in a fight with his master, and was imprisoned after his master killed himself and went to the other realm. He says his master is now undead and he is looking to prove his innocence. He wants you to get a toxic siren gland (hey, guess where you get these) and bring it to him so he can open up his master's journal.

8) Kill the Plagued Siren at any of the siren camps on Odus. It's a rare spawn that roams between the two sets of four, and is a little tougher than the regular sirens. Loot the gland and return to Calidux.

9) Calidux prepares a potion of "undead soul decay" and then asks you if you want him to call out to his master, warning you that he is very powerful. He also says his master can be found in Southwest Tunaria, in the swamps.

10) The undead Menace is a mob named �Ancient Corpse�s Soul� and is located in Basher�s Enclave (N). This mob is on a trigger and despawns after 20 minutes or so if not engaged. You can re-trigger him by returning to Calidux and choosing �I failed he�s nowhere in sight�. A tank, healer, and several petters can take him out with no problem. This mob Buffed will require a raid party. He drops 4 NTL items. Loot and return to Calidux.

11) 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 return to Jakai for 30 Mil xp and 10K tunar.