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3. Go to Neriak and talk to Dartain ( -708, 32, 233 ) . He'll offer you The Bones of Insanity quest. At this point you will need to be prepared to duel him at lvl 85^^. If you are not ready to duel him you can choose to wait. Come back with some help if needed. Safest to do this step with another necro or other partner. You don't actually kill him, but he gives up after getting him to 10-20% (??).
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I was not able to solo him the first time. I didn't try again.
When I came back with a full group he tried to give up at 10% but we accidentally killed him.
He respawned right after he died and gave the next step without a problem.
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5. Kill Qurst. 85 ^^^ with 2 85 ^ pets - Kill pet (Cry of Madness) first. Pet hits like a truck - need well-geared full group for this step. Necro's pets seem unusable for this fight - but swarms work fine.
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I hear if you stun (or fear) him at beginning of the fight, he won't cast his pet and he's much, much easier to kill.
UPDATE: He is apparently NOT stunnable any more. We wiped a few times then upped our magic resist then went back and took out the adds first then killed Qurst. Magic Resist seems to be the key to success.
Speak to Tohsa B'hondus in the basement of the FP Mage Tower.
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These steps can be done in any order:
Temple of the Red Lord
Temple of the White Lady
Harbinger Freglor in Crypt of Agony
Chardok: Korucust
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Steps 6-7 Head to the Temple of the Red Lord and the Temple of the White Lady in Jarsath Wastes and kill Trash.
These are soloable - depending on your level and AA specs, of course.
Once the chest drops with the item that you need to see the shiny, you need to head all the way into both Temples to harvest the shiny.
At the Temple of Red Lord, if you kill the mobs standing in the circle at the Temple itself it will spawn a named that is also soloable. This is not required for the epic.
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After you do the four steps above in any order return to Tohsa B'hondus in Freeport.
She sends you to:
Charasis: Maidens; and
Charasis: Vault of Eternal Sleep (VoES)
You can do these two in either order.
Return to Tohsa B'hondus again.
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Kill the Queen in Chardok. The PH standing in front of the throne will also work. The best way to do this is to take at least 2 groups to safely get there. Then ungroup to kill the Queen. A raid will not get the sinew to drop as it's a chest drop. (Some other epic steps can be done in raids, like the Templar.)
Repop time on the Queen/PH is 10-20 min. We camped it and got multiple updates for all our necros.
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Head to the entrance of Venril Sathir's Lair deep in Sebilis and harvest the necromantic orb at the feet of the named standing there.
This is another step that really needs at least two groups to get there as the respawns in the lower levels are insanely fast. Since it's a harvest, you can probably do it in raid, but you might want to break raid to be safe.
OK, this step is more or less broken. Quite a few people, including myself, have had to bring a GM in to advance this step. But others have had no problems. You need to harvest the orb in front of the named at the entrance to Venril Sathir's lair. Only those with the quest can see the orb. The named does not have to be up to harvest the orb. You will most likely need to clear the praetorians and maybe the named to get to the orb unless a passing raid just cleared them.
If the quest is broken for you, you will see the message "Nothing found" and told that it slips through your fingers. I tried collecting it nonstop for about 5 minutes - from the time we cleared the mobs until they repopped. We tried twice.
If you can't harvest it you will have to park yourself in the safe corner just to the side of the door just past the chemistry table and /petition a GM. I had to wait almost 24 hours. I strongly suggest being online as much as possible during that time so that they can find you. If you're not online and they send you an email because they can't find you, you may have to petition again because they need to advance it manually and they like you to be there.
After you harvest the orb (or get the GM to advance it), head to the Mage tower in N Freeport for the final fight!
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Return to Tohsa B'hondus. Speak to her and she makes the epic item. Unlike most of these quests, where they betray you, you are the villain this time. She becomes attackable but does not seem to attack you. Kill her. She is level 85^^^ with three 85 adds. Not hard for a standard group of 80s.
Done!
Enjoy your epic and start looking for a nice adornment for it. You'll probably have it for a while.
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Head back to Neriak to the 3rd floor of the K'Lorn Library in Cristanos Plaze and speak to Dartain again. He gives you the mythical version of the quest: Shattered Sanity of the Mad. Not that you're likely to advance the quest any time soon unless you're in one of the top raiding guilds in the game.
Edited, Mar 8th 2008 3:06am by Vardiss