Shovel of Ponz  

 

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My mage is at lvl 61 now and I put all the four focus items in the bank for storage and later epic work. I never use the reclaim pet spell since I always head back to POK after grinding exp to bank and sell loots and rearrange packs, restock food n gems, etc.; and that always allows me to regen mana to full anyhow. I dont need to reclaim any mana from my own pet's demise.
I never use it during exp grinding either. If I am chain casting pets I have to hit the pet-go-away button mid cast of a create-pet spell and dont have time to reclaim energy of an old pet and still have time to create a new pet.
I suppose their exist some instances where I would win a long fight and my pet would be at like 2% health where it would be more mana efficient to just create a new pet instead of healing up that one. In that case it would be more mana efficient to just reclaim its energy instead of healing it. BUT, in those cases I am always low on mana have have to med some anyway. If I go afk for 3 min and come back, my pet has regenned up also. So I dont need to do that anyway.
The last thing I should remind ppl is that your focus items stop proccing when you are using your higher lvl pets, so I dont even bother equipping it anymore. If I am creating a lower lvl pet it is only because I am in POK and am working on spell skills like divination or evoke or something and need a handy target to shoot at.
In those cases I dont need the focus bonuses anyway.
Now, that being said, I when I was lower levels I did notice a difference in my pets when they were summoned using the focus items. If I accidentally created a pet without the focus items it seems to have needed more healing, has less HP, less damage mitigation etc. So using it during summoning of a pet then swapping out for more efficient primary/secondary is very good thing to do. It is well worth the time to do the quests and create the four items when you are younger so you have them when you are sufficient lvl and they start proccing.

Edited, Mon Nov 8 14:12:21 2004

If you are after Ice, Fire, Hill, and Cyclops toes...Go to Ocean of Tears and kill the named giant Gronit. He drops all of them. Says he is lvl 33-37 but a definite under con (was LB to a lvl 53 druid). I have read that he is camped alot but has a spawn rate of just under a minute. His location is on the same island as the Seafury Cyclops' near the pirate camps. Hope this helps!!


Edited, Wed Jul 9 14:13:36 2003

Are the 4 focus items no drop ? Can my high lvl ench do this quest for my mage ?

OK, I started these focus item quests because I picked up a 'stein' one night in Najena and decided to look up what it was for. Since then I have returned to Najena whenever I get downtime and have nothing better to do. I have picked up the shovel, the stein (many times) and the torch. I am currently rounding up the last pieces needed to make the 'Shovel of Ponz' and if it does 1/2 what the 'Torch of Alna' did for my fire pet.... Good Mother of Mithanial Marr !! The 49 fire pet was a brute to start with and now it's just downright kickass. Also..just for general knowledge. Using the 'Reclaim' click effect on your 49 EarthPet will gain you about 7%mana per cast. In other words carry tons of Malachite and go from next to no mana to 100% in less than 2 minutes. Mages the time spent getting these items is well worth it.

What to do:
Talk to Vira (Gnome p415,p90, per EQATLAS near #7) in Temple of Solusek Ro to get the info on 4 items she needs for each quest you are doing for each of the 4 Mage pet focus items.

Hints:
None of the items are no-drop, so the best thing to do is hit the vendors in the surrounding areas first or auction in the zone. Go to OOT and check vendors for toes, if none there try Everfrost, and then try Nejena (go to the floor where you get the 3rd key and kill those mages) then buy needed gem and go to back to Vira.

The main items broom, torch, stien & shovel drop from mobs called 'An Alligator' the Swamp Alligators do not drop them.
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Shovel of Ponz (increases size and power of Earth Elementals above level 34) requires:

A Shovel-Magician (9-24) in Najena or "An Alligator" (18-34) in Cazic Thule or Feerrott.
Eye of Gargoyle-Mistmoore (level 22-36) or Gargoyles in OOT (level 18-20).
Toes of a Hill Giant--in EK, NK, or WK, Rathe Mountains, WC (level 33-37), or Gornit in OOT.
A Ruby-from vendor.
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Torch of Alna (increases size and power of Fire Elementals above level 34) requires:

Fire Drake Scale-Fire drake (level 9-11) in Lavastorm Mountains.
Fire Giant Toes-Fire Giants are in SolB (level 47-51) or Gornit in OOT.
Torch-Magicians (level 9-24) in Najena and Alligators (level 18-34) in Feerrott.
Fire Emerald-from vendor.
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Broom of Trilon (increases size and power of a summoned Air Elementals above level 34) requires:

Griffen Feather-most any griffens near Karanas or vendors in Rathe, NK, and probably Jaggedpine.
Cyclops Toes-SeaFuries in OOT (level 39-42) and Cyclops in SK, RM, WK (level 28 - 42) or Gornit in OOT.
Broom-Magicians (level 9-24) in Najena and Alligators (level 18-34) in Feerrott.
Star Ruby-from vendor.
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Stien of Ulissa (increases size and power of a summoned Water Elementals above level 34) requires:

Mermaid scale-Sirens on the spires in OOT
Ice Giant Toes-Ice Giants in Everfrost Peaks or from Gornit.
Stien-Magicians in Najena and Alligators in Feerrott, Magicians (level 9 -24) and Alligators (level 18-34).
Sapphire-from vendor.

[these notes were gathered from my experience and other posts, thank you for your help you know who you are]

Sorry if I am bein a little like a newbie but it says alligators DROP this is it listed there just 4 the quest or is it like some rare drop on a lvl 34 alligator plz reply)

All the focus items make stronger pets starting at lvl 34.