Xanthix,Feb 15 2006, 11:26 AM Wrote:I was under the impression that the blue sinew was for the epic quiver, and the black (BoP) sinew was for the bow/staff.
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Luminon,Feb 14 2006, 06:22 PM Wrote:The real bottleneck is getting Onyxia to drop her sinew though, the droprate is absolutely terrible and I'm fourth in line; though rumour has it that the droprate's been increased with 1.9.
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Shriek,Feb 15 2006, 01:30 PM Wrote:We've taken Ony down every reset since 1.9, and I think there *might* have been one instance where she *didn't* drop the sinew.
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Bolty,Jan 16 2006, 11:30 PM Wrote:Yes, Dwarf females in 1.9 have lopsided shoulderpads - the one pad is always much larger than the other.  Nice, Blizzard.

Quote:Another change they made and one that surprised me is that you can legitimately do the quest with another priest. I was grouped with a priest when he started the event and the game asked me if I wanted to start the quest too. I agreed and between the two of us we managed the event and received our staves.

Quote:I wouldn't be too sure that that was "legitimate" without reading a Blue post saying it was intentional; you always got that quest dialogue box because it is implemented as an escort quest type, and they always show the "blah is starting X - do you want to start it too?" questions to anyone in your group also eligible. It seems remarkably odd that they'd choose to take a quest designed and tuned to be done solo and make it zergable by up to five priests.

I suspect the Cleaner simply arrives to detonate anybody in the area not on the quest.

The 15 minute wait instead of a 3 hour one is a very welcome change, however. It was a pain having to camp the NPC to get mine a few patches ago due to somebody else doing the same thing and repeatedly failing.:)

Quote:Seems remarkably odd to me that if they were designing an encounter that was a solo event that they would keep that quest flag in. Especially since I talked to other priests who had help on their attempts and the other priest was not given the dialogue "'Priest' is starting {insert quest name} would you like to start?"

Quote:When I did the quest a couple of patches ago, it took me 4 tries. Before my first try, I helped a dwarf priest who'd been giving me tips on it. She'd attempted it a couple times, and we'd spent the better part of an hour grouped together discussing the quest. Then the NPC popped.

She hit the NPC, and even though I was grouped with her, I received no "do you want to start this" dialogue, and after she (successfully) finished off the quest, I did not 'succeed' at it either. That would be reserved for 4 tries (on the 2 hour timer) later.

This is a new change/tweak.

I am curious though Tal, if your help moved at all. I was told/have seen the cleaner not mind helpers, as long as they don't move. The helper finds a good position to help from, and turns into a statue, dispensing heals, hands off any of the movement keys. They can cast whatever they want, but a single step brings in the Cleaner. Or used to. Did your helper move, or statue?

Oh, and Grats! =D

Quote:Seems remarkably odd to me that if they were designing an encounter that was a solo event that they would keep that quest flag in.

Quote:Especially since I talked to other priests who had help on their attempts and the other priest was not given the dialogue "'Priest' is starting {insert quest name} would you like to start?"

Quote:Before my first try [...]
Then the NPC popped. She hit the NPC, and even though I was grouped with her, I received no "do you want to start this" dialogue, and after she (successfully) finished off the quest, I did not 'succeed' at it either.

Quote:One wave would always zone in before the previous wave was about halfway to the NPC zone out. So I would be forced to leave the previous wave to do with renews while I tried to save those in the new wave taking heavy disease damage.

Quote:Seems remarkably odd to me that if they were designing an encounter that was a solo event that they would keep that quest flag in. Especially since I talked to other priests who had help on their attempts and the other priest was not given the dialogue "'Priest' is starting {insert quest name} would you like to start?"

Quote:It's always worked this way. There's a quick "turn-in" talk you do to the NPC, and THEN you can start the Balance of Light and Shadow. The Priests who didn't get the escort quest notification didn't do the pre-req talk beforehand.

Quote:Abolish Disease and Renew remain the best spells in the quest. Cast-on-the-run instants are superior, especially since they're fire-and-forget - once a peasant has abolish and renew (rank 4 or 5, perhaps) on them, they're going to make it through and you can ignore them the rest of the way.

Quote:The first attempt I made - when I was certain that the priest would get pwn'd - he had done the pre-quest talk with the NPC and was looking at the "In light and balance" quest screen. He did not receive a "Krystian is starting" dialogue when I started it. I'm wondering if you get it if you have it sitting in your questlog as failed?

Quote:From what I was seeing I would hit them with abolish and rank 5 renew about 3/4 of the way to the priestess and there would still be some who would get poisoned afterwards and die or darn near be dead by the time they zoned out.

Quote:There's a little mini-click-to-complete-quest just before it (called something like "A Warning" - this is where the quest text comes from that explains you'd do well to attempt it solo, or face the consequences). Unless you've done that, you won't get the pop-up, as you haven't completed the pre-requisites, like any multi-stage quest. See also "Jailbreak!" ;-)