Innoruuk's Dark Blessing  

 

Got this beautiful 2.0 tonight on my 81 sk. A friend named Healer soloed anguish so I could get ord (My sticking point) and basically one shot the last boss. Man it feels good to finally have the 2.0. In all it took me 16 hours to go from no epic to 1.5 to 2.0 spread over a week. Honestly tailoring was my biggest time sink. Good luck out there to all my fellow Sk's and yes the weapon is still very much worth it! Swarm's away!!!

Does this focus work on our self procs?

With release of new expansion, the Effect now works on spells up to Level 75,not 70 anymore.

"its not easy but well worth it". Plase, this quest is CAKE! i did the eniter 1.5 in 3 nights. thats from square 1. 0 tailoring skil, no 1.0. I did prequest, got tailoring to 100, all the drops, and all the kills in 3 nights. I admit i got VERY VERY VERY lucky with the breeder. went to RCOD killed PH 1 time, and he spawned, called in the troops (4 people, shamy, chanter, wizzy, cleric) burned that biznitch down and the rest is history. I would say total time spent was around 15 hours from start to finish of needing a GLOBE for lhranc kill in RCOD, so were talking 2.0 as well. ALL of which except the final kill in WW (one grouped) and the breeder, was soloed or duoed with a shammy. 1 night i did prequest, was allready late so i called it a night afte i did the turn ins. 1 night i did the farming for the sheeth (hate was kind of a pain as all the adds are more than annoying) and skill upped tailoring to 100. The hides from PoN were kinda crappy too, 4 spawn on the platform past the hobgoblin camp. but they arent normal respawns, kinda sucked because i didnt get a hide from the first 4 that were up, had to wait 2 hours for respawn, then one dropped. PoG drop was more than easy, took about 20 min.

on a side note tailoring is cake! go to PoK buy mandrake root(every item listed is vendor except high quality cat pelts) combine 2 at a time in a sowing kit to lvl 66. they combine to make woven mandrake. Then go get smithing up to 37 doing combine of waterflask, file, and small brick of ore (all sold in pok for nearly nothing) that yields steel boning. combine, in a sowing kit, woven mandrake, which you made earlier, and steel boning to make picnic baskets to lvl 75. then go buy quiver patterns (sold in pok for nearly nothing) and go buy or farm some high quality cat pelts, very common in east karana or usually a bunch in bazarre for 20 plat each (pretty inexpensive). combine those 2 items in a sowing kit to make tailorred quivers that will get you well over 100 (115 tivial). all in all costs you about 1k if you buy pelts, if not probably like 300(possibly not even that).

1 more night for me to complete 1.5 from making the sheet, killing wailing siste, killing 4 sk's, killing the 6 pallies, and getting holy symbol and doing all the turn ins in between. this was a pretty long day, about 7 hours total because the sk's are so far spaced out and i was out of gate potoins and low on cash(friends lowbie toons are plat sponges) with gate potions you could easily do all this in 4 hours or so. However, NOTE^ the pallies in kithicore can NO LONGER BE PET PULLED! with a recent patch that was nerfed so either bring a group or be a well geared sk (im not amazing but 12k unbuffed isnt shabby) This part was tougher than expected when i found out i couldnt pet pull them. Had to tank them all at once. they dont hit that hard but lots of hits coming in at once and quick. disc out at the beginning and be sure to use decrepit skin, lots of fast hits means it will go off non stop and mitigate a LOT Of damage. 2.0 parts were easy, i even had to get howling stones key (which was a time drainer but simple, both the mob in keasora and lake of ill omen were already up when i got to them) lhrancs ring was very very simple, pendant was a little more of a bish, as i could only get 2 reavers to spawn at a time (not like the 72 in a row that i have heard horror stories about when people were very less geared) 2 hour respawn time on these made the camp kinda long, got it on 3 spawn on black reaver that spawns ghiosk. Bracer was kinda a biznitch but nothing like the horror stories on theboards of 40+ hours. took about 3 hours, be sure to take a haste potion or 10 if your going to go solo it, they drop a lot faster, easy to get them going in a cycle and not have a lot of down time. SO, on out next anguish run i am more than certain i will have myself a shinny globe and then ill be off to pop lhranc in RCOD and will be the proud new owner and 1 of maybe 20 other sk's on my server with the 2.0. hope this was informative. quest is NOT hard by no means, if your an average player i would rally suggest getting the 1.5. you can do it all easy with a single group except maybe the breeder, that that guild give you a hand. you'll have a nice weapon and it looks amazing btw.

Am I correct in assuming that this effect is a leachcurse effect for every group member?

So a rogue banging away at somewhere near 1k dps (say an augmented 2.0 rogue with Yarusha's Fury in offhand, non-disc'd) has the effect of a 6000 per tick heal over time? That seems like one hell of a group heal over time. Even if your melee dps is only 300, thats still a 1800 per tick heal over time. Seems like a fantastic group heal over time effect for a melee group. Not to mention the fact that it stacks with all other HoT's.

One other question, I noticed that the Accuracy effect is 40% for the group and 70% due to the recourse effect. Does the recourse affect the ShadowKnight only? Meaning +40% accuracy for the SK's group and +70% accuracy for the SK?

Thanks in advance.

Edited, Thu Jun 8 16:17:33 2006

I just got this two days ago and let me tell you, You talk about one awsome weapon I get complements from all sort of people all the time, the animated graphic is wicked and the dang weapon's design screams SK, We started at the spawn point at filingo the slayer, a raid of 19 people mostly anguish and lower suited characters, I hailed did my turn in and said ready at which time 1 minnion of lhranc spawned dark blue con to me spawned we beat him down with the quickness and 1 more then one more after the third on died the real lhranc spawned we beat him down like donkey kong I looted the essense of shadowknight and turned it in boom I am the new proud owner of Innoruuk's Dark Blessing the whole fight took maybe 5 minutes and to all the whiners, Dont be a hater because the SK epic looks so awsome this thing hits constant 600's and up and crits for 1000 and up not to mention it increases our lifetap which is what makes us so better than the pallys and and wariors any ways, If you ask me sony finaly did something right for once I wouldnt want any other weap besides this, I am in a top level guild we do anguish, all the don dragons and if you think 50 ac makes that big of a differance when you are geting hit for 2500 your wrong it dont mater if you have 16k or 15.5 you drop the same,quit complaining on what the other classes have and dont have and be proud of you are a sk's that what we are if you dont like it delete your character and start a new one. I have sent a picture of itit looks like the 1.5 and has a black mist over the blade and yellow or gold light coming from just above the handle.

Edited, Thu May 11 08:55:29 2006

dying to see one. not the stats, but a pic of the actual graphic added to the 1.5.

please post one or a link if you have one plz, thx!!

now this makes the game worth while...gonna be hard **** to get tho lol

this wepone rocks, the pally one is better,but much harder to get, let evil prevale, yah

This is one great 2hs weapon SOE did it right the Epic should the weapon we all strive for. This weapon I bet looks sweet, good luck to all you SK's out there that get this weapon use it proudly, because I would.

Fredster Spiritheart
65 Paladin
Drinal

can you say holy **** thats a beast of a weapon lol.