Shackle of Steel  

I want to kill the Interrogator in droga. Could anyone specify his lvl range of if a lvl 35 in a group coud take him. I Got the Nickle key from a friend. So i'm half way there.

Lvl 35 Iksar Monk
Nakumi Punchingterror <Benevolent Light>
Saryrn

Guide for Camping the Penmaster in Dalnir:

I did this at level 33, with max fd for level. From entrance, run up to the T interserction and FD. Run from the T, around the corner and to the temple and FD before the drop. Make sure you are good, Get up, jump and FD as you are falling, provided nothing started to cast on you, if you dont see the has begun to cast a spell message you are good. When you are on the second floor, look around for non aggro's and casters, if there are none just run down the steps and fall through the checkered floor to third level. If there are Casters then do the same, and just make sure nothing casts on you and you can FD safely on the third level.
You should now be lieing on the third level, with the way you need to go behind you. Use your camera angles to make sure it is good to go, turn around and run to secret door area and FD again. Make sure it is clear, Mend if you have to so you are good on health, and get through the door. If you have to FD do so, but when you are done this is a good pause area if you need a break or something. When you are ready, run up the rocks all the way till before little room, and FD there. Now, your first fight starts. Only one wanderer goes in and out of the room, and only one spawn spawns in the corner. If both of these are aggro, make sure you /disc resist, and run into the room and fight. Kill the both of them in the room. and set up camp. When you get the wanderer to be a non aggro spawn, you can start simply camping the corner. It is a long spawn time, so if you get bored, goo spawn just outside teh room, and dont run so you can kill those for xp or boredom, but for safety dont go much further. If you start pulling sarnaks, pull them into the room, so they get stuck trying to run out on the door and kill them.

Now for the escape, this is where your courage and thinking come into play. If you go down with an invis potion, you can just run out. If you did this on a whim ( a la me ) you need to FD your whole way out. This takes luck, and an understanding of the game. Fd'ing to the dining room is easy. Once you are as far into the dining room as you can safely FD, make sure you have full hp, mend, and /disc resist all ready, and just make a mad man screaming dash all the way to teh exit.

I took a druid and monk down (via the pit), cleared the area from the interrogator room. Druid pulled the slave out with snare and gated when the slave got to our room. I hailed him, handed in the stuff, and go the shackle.

I had the druid bound outside of the dungeon - over by the OT zone valley. Ran him back in, dropped down the pit, evac'd out.

Okay people, here's the real deal on this quest.

I, a level 46 monk, attempted to finish this quest in Droga last night by myself. I didn't have invis potions, so needless to say it is tough. The zone is literally swarming with goblins and they are all underconned. At my level nearly everything was green, but the warriors hit consistently for 75ish and there are also lots of wizards with 200+ nukes. This quest is very doable by yourself as long as you are high enough level to solo these goblins, and you have an invis potion and a shrink potion. I found the easiest way to do it was drop down through the pit trap (make sure you're been practicing your Safe Fall). When you fall through the pit trap you'll be in a cell with the goblin penkeeper, kill him but don't worry about looting his keys you won't need them. Shrink yourself, and you are able to walk through the holes in the gates of the jail cells, you can do this for all the cells. If you already got the "A Nickel Key" from Dalnir then you're all set. The only thing you HAVE to do down in the jail is kill the goblin interrogator. He spawns in the cell that has the door knocked off and lying on the ground. He is a necromancer and conned blue at 46 and he will run when low on health and needless to say he wasn't easy to kill. Once you kill him you'll get "A Copper Key". Put that in the key base that you got from Master Rinmark along with the "A Nickel Key" that you got in Dalnir and you'll have "A Coppernickel Key". When I was down there I never saw "a crazed iksar slave", the proper one was already spawned. You can just walk through the gate, give him your shackles and the key and you get your Shackle of Steel! Now comes the hard part, getting out. A map of the place and an invis potion are necessities I would say even if you have 200 Feign Death. I didn't have the invis potion I was lucky a 59 druid came in (that zone is always empty) and TPed me out of there. Even if no one comes to your aid though and you die trying to escape it's still worth it. This bracer is better than any of our planar gear. I would say the only better monk bracer than this would be the Wrist Guard of Thunder off King Tormax, but that isn't exactly attainable at 46. Good luck all, it's not an easy quest but definetly worth it.

Just asked Veltar about the whistling fists, this makes him despawn so you have to wait to do the shackle or do the shackle first and wait for him to respawn. He says his quest has brought him here looking for the gnome metal contraption to decipher a spectral scroll in COM. even if the whistling fists quest is broke, this would be a good thing to do if they do decide to restart it.
oh key words i used "what of the whistling fists?"

I just finished this quest today... I went LD right after turning in my tin box, and could NOT get Rinmark to respond to me after I re'logged. Typing "where is the student?" finally yielded a response.

Grrr!

I tried EVERY combination involving the word student I could think of. Why can't Verant fix their parser? C'mon! You shouldn't have to be so freakin' precise just to START a quest!

Maybe it was just my server, maybe it has happened with some patch, but the doors that lead to the Iksar slave did not open with either key gotten off of the penmaster yesterday. The only way that I was able to get my Shackle was to thank a guild mate, he is a halfling <tap ya know who you are;) > and as we were sitting there with the keys NOT opening the doors he happened to walk right through the gate! If you have this problem, get a shrink, and run through the left side of each door and you pass right through the bars. Maybe they will fix the problem one day, heh

Ssirus- Keepers of The Balance

Yesterday I had completed this quest.

The goblin penmaster inside the jail had dropped two times a Stone Key (that open the cell on the extrem left with a goblin taskmaster who drops nothing interesting) : so no Bronze Key :(
We had killed "a crazed iksar slave" three or four times to make Veltar spawns.
My shaman friend had shinked me two or three times so I can go through the iksar prisonner grid (under the lock).

I think that several Shrink + Invisibility/Superior Camouflage can allow a small group to go inside the right cell from the table room or from the trap.

The penmasters keys are not necessary if your size can be reduced.

Veltar spawns in the middle of the cell, his pher is the crazed iksar slave. Don't kill the iksar slave that spawns on the right half of cell or you will get bad legion and mystics faction.