Butcherblock Here I Come
Posted by Stropp on March 5, 2008My foray back into Everquest 2 continued over the last weekend.
Ssirius the dragon-like Sarnak Shadowknight finally completed the majority of the quests in Timorous Deep with the exception of one or two that I couldn’t find my way to. The Sarnak home city is Gorowyn and is located in a vast cavern inside a active volcano. Property values must be cheap there. Available quests in EQ2 are represent by a hollow orange circle on the mini-map. Try as I might I couldn’t find the way to the last one.
I also didn’t do the tradeskill quest chain. I’ve mined my way up to a skill level of 60 though I haven’t really touched the other harvesting skills. I figure if I end up working on tradeskills it will probably be one of the metalworking ones, either for armor or weapons.
The bulk of the Timorous Deep quests were about the ongoing struggle the Sarnak were having with the Haoaerans, one of the Aviak races. Seems the Haoaerans were horning in on the Sarnak lands, digging up Sarnak relics, and overall being bad neighbors. These quests effectively took me from level one and petered out around halfway through level 19. It was here that the last questgiver directed me to head to the Butcherblock mountains where I was to check out a possible alliance between the Haoaerans and the Aviaks there.
So like a dutiful Shadowknight I caught the first griffon to the Butcherblocks.
Apart from going back to Gorowyn, since I keep all my stuff there, the next time I’ll see the Kunark content is when I get to the 50’s or 60’s.
The problem now is that the Butcherblock quests are a little tough for level 19. Once I hit twenty some of the fights got a bit easier, but there are still a few ^ mobs that I have to kill as well as a few orange quests. I don’t really expect to progress quickly here, at least for a couple more levels.
That’s one of the differences between EQ2 and WoW. Properly geared in WoW, I normally don’t have much trouble with mobs 2 or 3 levels above me. Once they get above that my hit miss ratio heads more towards the miss. With EQ2 even two levels drops my hit rate drastically. That could be gear, but I’m wearing all the quest reward gear, and have picked up some nice drops as well, so I’m not sure it’s that.
One thing I know, is that it has been a while since I’ve everquested so I’m not necessarily up on all the knowhow, or all the changes. One thing though, EQ2 has a lot of depth, and a huge amount of content.
The downside of EQ2 is that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of current content. The forums have some good info, but I haven’t really been able to find any good guides to Shadowknight AA, or just to Shadowknights in general. A lot of what I’ve found by googling is related to earlier content, or even to the original Everquest.
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As far as the quest, was it near Mok Rent and the Ruins? There’s two underground there that can be easy to miss. You have to swim down the in the pipes in the middle of the skeleton ruins.
In Butcherblock, head to the far side of the zone near Greater Faydark. There’s a good set of quests there that are a tad easier than the ones near the docks.
For Shadowknight AAs, a lot of solo people go down the Reaver line. INT is good to get the Spell Crits (4-4-8). Also, STR and STA lines are good too. I have (most of) the Reaver line and find it to be very useful.
Hope this stuff helps
Hi Mordraeth,
No, that wasn’t the quest. I found that one - the Shadow Lords iirc - it was heroic and I need to be a couple of levels higher, but I did it. Nice rewards too. The quest was in Gorowyn somewhere towards the back (or maybe the front) there were a couple of other questgivers that I had to do some hunting to find, that was one I wasn’t able to find.
Thanks for the BB quest tip. I’ll make my way over the next time I log in.
Heh. I was looking at the Reaver line, and started down it. It seemed to make sense for what I was doing. Thanks for the ideas on the Crusader AAs. I’ve already invested into the STR line, but not into the others yet. I’ve dropped 8 into STR so far, from what I’ve read since I probably should have only put in 4.
Your comment has helped clarify a few things. Thanks.
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