The archive holds this quest's journal text and not where the four reagents are. Every ledge, in order.
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Sylanthra · 2007-03-22 03:36
This is a missive quest first avalible at level 29.
Objectives
Master Sorlen of Heartsworn Keep is seeking someone to collect the different magical regents from the hidden communities of the Fae Nisse.
Deliver the regents to Master Sorlen on the ground floor of Heartsworn Keep once you have them all.
Enchanted Bones (3)
Lotus Bloom (3)
Description
Master Sorlen of Heartsworn Keep has posted the following missive:
The Fae Nisse are curious creatures.
They have an amazing affinity for magic, and each of their tiny communities practice a different form of it.
Once they thrived and could be found throughout this region, but now they live only on secluded ledges up along the mountainside.
Find the hidden ledges of the Fae Nisse and collect different magical regents from each.
Deliver the regents to me once you have them all
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This quest is not popular because no-one know where to find these items. It took me two hours to scour every ledge of all the surrounding mountains before I found all 4, but it is really worth it.
The quest involves very little fighting. The items are "guarded" by fae but they don't aggro - be careful not to attack one by accident though since attacking one will cause all nearby fae to also aggro. When collecting the times, there is a small chance that a sprite will spawn and attack. The sprites are level 32 2 dots. At 29 killing them is somewhat tough since they resist quite a bit.
Here are the locations of the items
Fire mushroom: head from the village along the road that leads to the north west. On your left there is a mountain and you can actually see the ledge from the ground. There is an easy path that starts slightly south of the road and goes up to the ledge - easy to find.
Frost Mushroom: go to the road that goes north east from southwatch. After passing the yeti, but before getting to the lighthouse at the switchback, look down. the ledge is there. You can jump down, or go to the light house and walk from there. This one is also easy to get to, no tricks involved.
Lotus bloom: continue past the lighthouse until the next switchback. at the turn there is a rock, go around it. On the other side there is a rock sticking out of the face of the cliff. It is probably possible to jump onto it - I haven't tried. With levitation you can't get on it, but you can go along it and you will reach the next ledge on the other side. Be careful here as falling will mean you death. You can get back on the road by going over the rock that sticks out of the cliff face.
Enchanted bones: continue past the second switchback and keep going. If you have done the first quest given by the griffin lady, than you need to get to the griffin she wanted you to talk to (if not, continue along the road until you see a small cottage, talk to the lady and she will mark you the location). At the griffin, look down the last ledge is right bellow you. The kicker though is that it is pretty far down and i didn't feel like testing whether it is possible to live through the fall - not at all sure about that. With levitation it doesn't pose any problems. Once down there the bones are covered by mushrooms, so you might not notice them right away. From my experience the bones also have the highest chance to spawn a sprite of the locations. The only way to get off this ledge without falling to your death is evac or levitation.
Because of the extensive use of levitation and evac, this quest is ideal for sorcerer, imo. There is very little fighting and you can do the whole quest in under 10 min. It certainly beats the other level 29 alternatives which involve killing a lot of high level mobs.
P.S. In the process of doing this quest I think i have visited EVERY ledge along the mountains surrounding southwatch. I can say that levitation is insanely powerful as it allows you not only to fly from one mountain peack to the other, but also climb up almost any mountain side - as long as it's not a featureless wall, you can fly up it by going back and forth over the imperfections.
a poster · 2007-03-22 04:15
Levitation used to be even better. you can't climb 89.9 degree angles with it anymore.
Gotta love the utility rings.
Anyway thanks for writing this up. However it'll probably eventually get moved to quests since it does belong there.
Sylanthra · 2007-03-22 04:49
Someone should post it in wiki too. I suck so i can't do it
Mherim · 2007-03-23 12:19
I'll add the text right away and get on with formatting when I have more time.
EmiliaSEB · 2007-03-23 12:36
Levitation used to be even better. you can't climb 89.9 degree angles with it anymore.
Aw crap
I wonder whats the impact with stuff like Upper Sanctuary (see Kronus)
Illusive · 2007-03-23 11:27
I wonder whats the impact with stuff like Upper Sanctuary (see Kronus)
you can still lev up top to him