05-03-2004, 07:07 PM
Well Bolty, me, Mongo and another mage were doing this Harpies quest yesterday. Seeing how all of us were spellcasters, the Silence made it somewhat difficult. Add in the fact that the Hapries kept knocking us down, pacified and disabled us, and you get a picture of three guys often lying on a floor, getting wacked by harpies, unable to do much. Tremor totem did nothing for removal of negative effects, neither did remove curse, disease or poison, or dispel magic. Argh.
But we took that without a hitch, thanks to shields, buffs and some totems. We made our way into the deep reach of the cave, and saw the "foodstuffs". Apparently the quest is slightly bugged. When we opened the boxes, the harpies started coming to us in waves of threes. After fourth wave or so we saw the Boss Harpie that we were waiting for. But after killing her, the waves did not stop. Soon we fought the boss harpie again. And the waves kept coming, and coming. It really turned into a "Test of Endurance", as the quest name implies.
So don't open the food boxes unless you really need to. The mage in our party told us that sometimes you can get the Boss to come out just by killing waves that were left over from other groups. =(
But we took that without a hitch, thanks to shields, buffs and some totems. We made our way into the deep reach of the cave, and saw the "foodstuffs". Apparently the quest is slightly bugged. When we opened the boxes, the harpies started coming to us in waves of threes. After fourth wave or so we saw the Boss Harpie that we were waiting for. But after killing her, the waves did not stop. Soon we fought the boss harpie again. And the waves kept coming, and coming. It really turned into a "Test of Endurance", as the quest name implies.
So don't open the food boxes unless you really need to. The mage in our party told us that sometimes you can get the Boss to come out just by killing waves that were left over from other groups. =(