Just want to post this so other peeps know....
I have killed many gnolls that I was able to obtain 189 fangs. I turned them into the lady NPC in the Pit of Doom in Halas and got faction with the steel warriors. Remember you have to turn in THREE fangs at a time to get it to tigger.
Went back to South Qeynos and they all con indifferent. Dammit! I was pissed. So I logged and when I relog the next day. They all conned Amiable. GO FIGURE. Looks like zoning really does not change anything. If you are in a similiar situation try camping out and logging back in in about 30min and see if that helps.
Just my 2cp.....
The Escaped Catman
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This is the quest for the Hero Bracers. You must do the first part at least once. It is possible that once you have done the first part, you can just get the shackles each time you do the quest. You also need to do the Steel Warrior initiation quest before doing this. You probably need a high faction with the steel warriors to complete the quest. Here are the details:
Go to the basement of the arena in South Qeynos and talk to Grahan Rothgar. Grahan Rothkar says, 'Hail ____! What business do you have in the pens of the Qeynos Arena? Have you a report of the [escaped catman]?' You say, 'What escaped catman?' Grahan Rothcar says, 'We had a catman imprisoned here for use in future gladiator battles. He escaped. In the process, he bit off my assistant's hand which held the key to pen number seven. I now seek to hire a warrior to [retrieve key seven].' You say, 'I will retrieve key seven.' Grahan Rothkar says, 'Hmmm. You seem a bit young, but I shall give you a chance. Seek out the catman named Nomala. He most likely returned to [Kerra Isle]. He is not very powerful, but his people are surely watching over him. Retrieve the key for me and be rewarded.' Nomala will spawn by the fire. Once killed, he will not spawn again for another hour or two, so figure on taking a while to do this. Be warned that you lose faction with Prexus for killing these catmen. Anyway, he will stand there for a bit, then walk off toward the shore down by the dock. Milla is standing around close by, but if you wait about one minute, she will walk off and leave Nomala all alone. Kill him - but don't let him run, kill him quick. Best bet is to hit him once then run a few feet down shore away from their village. He does not always have the key. You say, 'Where is Kerra Isle?' Grahan Rothkar says, ' Kerra Isle is a dangerous place. The Kerra are not a friendly race. There is an island between Erudin and Qeynos which is inhabited by a more docile tribe of Kerra. I hear they took some of their Kerra beetles along with them to the island, too.' You need to have at least around +207 faction with Steel Warriors before you do this turn in. You offered 1 Pen Key #7 to Grahan Rothkar. Grahan Rothkar says, 'I thank you. I must admit I had my doubts, but you have proven yourself a true warrior. I salute you. You can be of some assistance to me. It seems as though there has been a [second escaped gladiator] and I have a reward waiting for a human warrior.' Your faction standing with Steel Warriors has been adjusted by 10. Your faction standing with the Guards of Qeynos has been adjusted by 2. Your faction standing with Corrupt Qeynos Guards has been adjusted by -1. Your faction standing with The Freeport Militia has been adjusted by -1. Your faction standing with Knights of Truth has been adjusted by 2. You receive 4 copper from Grahan Rothkar. You receive 7 silver from Grahan Rothkar. You gain experience! (0.009%) (At level 43, con amiable as an enchanter). You say, 'Tell me about the second escaped gladiator.' Grahan Rothkar says, 'It appears our prize gladiator has escaped. He is a minotaur hero! Trained by our best. He took down five of our greatest warriors during his escape. Rumor has it he fled to his homeland in the Steamfont Mountains. They say he is an outcast and does not live with his people. He appears during times of great need to champion the minotaurs. Return his shackles to me and glory is yours!' You have offered 1 Minotaur Hero Shackles to Grahan Rothkar. Grahan Rothkar says, 'You are a true Steel Warrior! Now you shall wear my hero bracers. I designed them for my greatest gladiators and you have shown yourself mighty enough to wear them.' Your faction standing with Steel Warriors has been adjusted by 75. Your faction standing with the Guards of Qeynos has been adjusted by 15. Your faction standing with Corrupt Qeynos Guards has been adjusted by -11. Your faction standing with The Freeport Militia has been adjusted by -11. Your faction standing with Knights of Truth has been adjusted by 15. You receive Hero Bracers. You gain experience! (2.333%) (At level 43). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ok Me and a good friend have been trying to do this quest for 2+ months. We both did the newbie quest then started the real quest. Both of our factions are Amible with the Steel Warriors. We get the orders to kill Momala so we do. We also kill Nomala who is on like a 2 hr spawn cycle. She is a druid so she is bond at the island and gates there every 2 hrs while playing. I am a war so i got to take the boat or transporters guys on the docks. No key has droped after we each have atleast 100+ kills on both mobs.
We tryed the quest with out the key, but only lost our hero monitor bracers wich are a pretty easy camp.
Anyone see anything wrong with what we are doing or have had simalar problems? Please shed some light on the quest if we are doing something wrong.
Edited, Tue Jul 30 23:30:48 2002
We tryed the quest with out the key, but only lost our hero monitor bracers wich are a pretty easy camp.
Anyone see anything wrong with what we are doing or have had simalar problems? Please shed some light on the quest if we are doing something wrong.
Edited, Tue Jul 30 23:30:48 2002
Anonymous
There are two slavers that need to be killed. The one right inside the cave, that everyone knows about. Then there is another outside of the cave. I have killed them both many times and each time the mino hero comes up on track. Just thought I would let you know. There is no reason anybody should be camping him for more than 5mins.
Also I dont know if this matters, but I always kill the one inside of the cave first and then kill the one on the outside.
Also I dont know if this matters, but I always kill the one inside of the cave first and then kill the one on the outside.
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Okay I did this w/o having to do the 7th Key quest. Here's how I did it. I made a human wariror and started him in Qeynos. I forget which deity I choose but one will let you start in Qeynos. Anyways I did the SW initiation quests. Which had me getting batwings, snake scales, and some light running around. Anyways so I did the quests. And then went down into the dungeon and skippes strait to the 2nd gladiator quest and asked him about it. Anyways long story short I got the shackle and turned it in without having to do the 7th key quest from Nomala. I checked my faction before turning in the shackle and I was aimble. Oh and the mule I turned the shackle in hasn't killed anything so he's taken 0 faction hits except from the initiation quests. Hope this helps.
Anonymous
If you are a Steel Warrior does that meen that your faction will already be good enough to do this quest?
Also does anyone know what the man who starts the quest has to con to you? (indifferent, amiable eg..)
Also does anyone know what the man who starts the quest has to con to you? (indifferent, amiable eg..)
Anonymous
The process of getting my faction up with the Steel Warriors, and then actually handing in the shackles for the Hero Bracer, completely ruined my Corrupt Qeynos Guards faction. Normally I wouldn't care, but it's *really unpleasant to have Lt Dagarok kill you when you enter Qeynos.
A great way to fix this is with the Note for Rebby, https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=613,
and Note for Janam, https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=612,
quests in E. Freeport. They mean a run from the East Freeport docks to the Theater of Tranquility in West Freeport. Quick and they *only raise faction!
A great way to fix this is with the Note for Rebby, https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=613,
and Note for Janam, https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=612,
quests in E. Freeport. They mean a run from the East Freeport docks to the Theater of Tranquility in West Freeport. Quick and they *only raise faction!
Anonymous
As a native daughter of Freeport (human Quellious monk) I was a little concerned about becoming KOS to FP militia as a result of doing this quest. To avoid this I did the Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quest before going to WC to give milk to Mojax Hikspin to raise Steel Warrior faction. The idea is to get your guard faction up enough to absorb the faction hits you'll take when you raise Steel Warrior faction and hand in shackles so you never sink low enough to become KOS to guards. I was already amiable to FP militia when I started as a result of mistakingly handing in a small number of DF belts to guard captain when first trying to raise Steel Warrior faction. After doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quest 15 times I was kindly to Coalition of Tradefolk but still only amiable to FP militia. After 25 times, I was warmly to tradefolk but STILL only amiable to militia. At this point I'd had enough and I went to WC to give Mojax about 3 stacks of milk, after which he coned kindly to me (I had previously turned in 46 DF belts to Caine Darkmoore in FP warrior guild and was amiable to Steel Warriors but not amiable enough to get quest from Grahan Rothgar in Queynos Arena).
Got a port to Surefall, went to Queynos Arena and asked Grahan about second escaped gladiator. Although still only amiable he gave me the quest this time and the hero bracer when I turned in shackles. At the end of it all I'm still amiable to FP militia so I have to conclude doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quests 25 times was worth it.
One final note: the most direct route from E FP tunnels to Janam and Rebby in Theater of the Tranquil is via the staircase marked "B" on the EQ atlas map. Nestral T'Gaza, who gives Note to Rebby quest, is at #9 and Harkin, who gives note to Janam quest, is at #11. Once you get their notes go up the stairs,turn left at the top to go through a secret door, and you'll emerge in the basement of building #11 on EQ atlas E FP map. This is in the dock area. It's then a relatively short run to Theater in W FP. You can of course use the same route to get into the tunnels.
Never having played an evil character I didn't know the tunnels very well and the first time I tried doing quest I got access through the abandoned building #13 on E FP map. NOT a good idea. Back when I was in the 20s I often went to the merchants down here to buy backpacks to hold materials for tradeskills (was the only place in E FP where I knew I could get them - this is #6 on E FP tunnel map). Obviously I've taken some faction hits since then because this time evil cleric trainer attacked me, hitting me for 331 and 321 points of damage (not that's just not right). Were it not for FD and a enchanter friend who came down and cast invisibility on me I probably would not have made it out alive. If you walk the path of light do yourself a favor and avoid this area.
Got a port to Surefall, went to Queynos Arena and asked Grahan about second escaped gladiator. Although still only amiable he gave me the quest this time and the hero bracer when I turned in shackles. At the end of it all I'm still amiable to FP militia so I have to conclude doing Note to Rebby / Note to Janam quests 25 times was worth it.
One final note: the most direct route from E FP tunnels to Janam and Rebby in Theater of the Tranquil is via the staircase marked "B" on the EQ atlas map. Nestral T'Gaza, who gives Note to Rebby quest, is at #9 and Harkin, who gives note to Janam quest, is at #11. Once you get their notes go up the stairs,turn left at the top to go through a secret door, and you'll emerge in the basement of building #11 on EQ atlas E FP map. This is in the dock area. It's then a relatively short run to Theater in W FP. You can of course use the same route to get into the tunnels.
Never having played an evil character I didn't know the tunnels very well and the first time I tried doing quest I got access through the abandoned building #13 on E FP map. NOT a good idea. Back when I was in the 20s I often went to the merchants down here to buy backpacks to hold materials for tradeskills (was the only place in E FP where I knew I could get them - this is #6 on E FP tunnel map). Obviously I've taken some faction hits since then because this time evil cleric trainer attacked me, hitting me for 331 and 321 points of damage (not that's just not right). Were it not for FD and a enchanter friend who came down and cast invisibility on me I probably would not have made it out alive. If you walk the path of light do yourself a favor and avoid this area.
Alas i gave him 16 milk (4 stacks of 4) and he said to me 16 Times
Mojax Hikspin says 'Work on the ways of valor before we discuss such things. You are on the righteous path of the Truthbringer, but there is more work to do. '
Mojax Hikspin regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
Maybe i will have to get faction another way, going to go mame and destroy the gnolls
Mojax Hikspin says 'Work on the ways of valor before we discuss such things. You are on the righteous path of the Truthbringer, but there is more work to do. '
Mojax Hikspin regards you indifferently -- You could probably win this fight.
Maybe i will have to get faction another way, going to go mame and destroy the gnolls
I'm a lvl 40 High Elf Enchanter on Zeb, and happened to stumble across (and kill) the hero while helping a friend out behind the gear in Steamfont.
I had no trouble getting the second part of the quest when I used Illusion:Human and Benevolence (faction increase self only buff) so I got the bracer without doing any sub quests.
So my tip is, that if you have an enchanter friend that is lvl 20 or higher, make him loot the shackles if possible, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble...
Edited, Fri Apr 12 07:52:51 2002
I had no trouble getting the second part of the quest when I used Illusion:Human and Benevolence (faction increase self only buff) so I got the bracer without doing any sub quests.
So my tip is, that if you have an enchanter friend that is lvl 20 or higher, make him loot the shackles if possible, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble...
Edited, Fri Apr 12 07:52:51 2002
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I all im a 34 rngr on the innork server.I started quest 1 week ago after doing my research on allykz here this is what i discovered>)
I started right of by raising my faction with knights of truth,buy killin lots of orcs in west commons,i did this by camping the group in west ledge and spent 3 hours just killing. I went from indeffervt to amiable with thempreaty good i thought. side note i also took time to avenge myself on past transgression by that mean mother kizdean gix the dark elf killed hom twice,word to the wise even at 34 he still he hit me for 176hp damage with spell but i still toasted him,hee.
I then went to north freeport and bought tons of milk to give to mojax by lake,the first tripi took 360 bottles(for those of u who dont know u buy milk usually 6-9co apieace they stack up yo 20 per slot in bag,when u give to him he gives 4 spaces for total of 80 milks in first hand off)
hes there for about 3minutes from the time he pops.at least so u can give milk,then he gets up and wonders off,take the time to imptove your swimming in lake if your hogh enough lvl pirana are mean.
ok so i went back to qeynos(port of coarse),went to steel warriors found out still to low to get second part of quest(.by the way ignore the first part of quest its usless,just work on getting steel warrior faction up thats the key for this quest.
I traveled to halas fist but the wolves were indef or dubious so idid my side quest to get ivy stone from redwind, i got it to,so sow myself and ran back to blackburrow and informed the the good adventures there that if it so much as moved i was killing it(lucky me ,more than enough gnolls to shake a stick at). This part of quwst was easy,everthing conned green but mean to me.I spent 2-3 hours playing the Elven ginsu machine. during this i got 10 teeth,i feel that part of quest was usless,so i moved on.Apperantly im going to be a steaming pile of offal that the wolves steepd on
Now to the truly hard part the MINO HERO,
i started first day some one was camped so i logged,got on the next day same agian,came back agian,finally got on in morning all mine.i camped the inside left side of wall to see when the miino slaver poped just keep hitting him and wait for mino hero if u dont have tracking.my first encounter with hero was about 2 hours after i killed the slaver in front,it went bad i had all my ranger buffs for that lvl, hes hard to snare he hots on average 39dmg,96 a coulpe of times. i had to run to guards he regens preaty quick,my advice bring a healer.i lost camp to 53 bard i hung out so when he left i could have agian. I was there another7hours,got imkisd twice by wizzy who nuked him and gated out. A 43 rngr showed up and hung out with me,by now i was paranoid of someone stealing,this was my first real big quest.Kyrn healed me when i finally got hero agian,boom i got shackle at 9 hours and 25 minutes. the druid gated me to surefall and i went to qeynos,my faction was still not good enough so i did milk agian 700 more bottles. then i was good to go. i asked gram"what second gladiator" and if he tells u about him give shackle and boom i had bracer.
-gnoll teeth,worthless in my opinion.
-killing death fist orcs in west commons,for knight of truth excellent.
-halas quest only if u wanna soend hours in teeth part,not me,bad.
-milk to mojax in west commons lake,take minamum1000 bottles over as many trips as needed,excelleny inexpensive and easy.
mino hero,hes tuff long wait,and possible players stealing,its realy the only part of the two quest u need to do,forget the cat man part i did and have bracer now. oh 1 more thing u can tell when hero will spawn,how i saw a slaver pop outside cave this is indication that hero will pop in next half hour,it happend all 4 times before hero popped. well good luck to u.
I started right of by raising my faction with knights of truth,buy killin lots of orcs in west commons,i did this by camping the group in west ledge and spent 3 hours just killing. I went from indeffervt to amiable with thempreaty good i thought. side note i also took time to avenge myself on past transgression by that mean mother kizdean gix the dark elf killed hom twice,word to the wise even at 34 he still he hit me for 176hp damage with spell but i still toasted him,hee.
I then went to north freeport and bought tons of milk to give to mojax by lake,the first tripi took 360 bottles(for those of u who dont know u buy milk usually 6-9co apieace they stack up yo 20 per slot in bag,when u give to him he gives 4 spaces for total of 80 milks in first hand off)
hes there for about 3minutes from the time he pops.at least so u can give milk,then he gets up and wonders off,take the time to imptove your swimming in lake if your hogh enough lvl pirana are mean.
ok so i went back to qeynos(port of coarse),went to steel warriors found out still to low to get second part of quest(.by the way ignore the first part of quest its usless,just work on getting steel warrior faction up thats the key for this quest.
I traveled to halas fist but the wolves were indef or dubious so idid my side quest to get ivy stone from redwind, i got it to,so sow myself and ran back to blackburrow and informed the the good adventures there that if it so much as moved i was killing it(lucky me ,more than enough gnolls to shake a stick at). This part of quwst was easy,everthing conned green but mean to me.I spent 2-3 hours playing the Elven ginsu machine. during this i got 10 teeth,i feel that part of quest was usless,so i moved on.Apperantly im going to be a steaming pile of offal that the wolves steepd on
Now to the truly hard part the MINO HERO,
i started first day some one was camped so i logged,got on the next day same agian,came back agian,finally got on in morning all mine.i camped the inside left side of wall to see when the miino slaver poped just keep hitting him and wait for mino hero if u dont have tracking.my first encounter with hero was about 2 hours after i killed the slaver in front,it went bad i had all my ranger buffs for that lvl, hes hard to snare he hots on average 39dmg,96 a coulpe of times. i had to run to guards he regens preaty quick,my advice bring a healer.i lost camp to 53 bard i hung out so when he left i could have agian. I was there another7hours,got imkisd twice by wizzy who nuked him and gated out. A 43 rngr showed up and hung out with me,by now i was paranoid of someone stealing,this was my first real big quest.Kyrn healed me when i finally got hero agian,boom i got shackle at 9 hours and 25 minutes. the druid gated me to surefall and i went to qeynos,my faction was still not good enough so i did milk agian 700 more bottles. then i was good to go. i asked gram"what second gladiator" and if he tells u about him give shackle and boom i had bracer.
-gnoll teeth,worthless in my opinion.
-killing death fist orcs in west commons,for knight of truth excellent.
-halas quest only if u wanna soend hours in teeth part,not me,bad.
-milk to mojax in west commons lake,take minamum1000 bottles over as many trips as needed,excelleny inexpensive and easy.
mino hero,hes tuff long wait,and possible players stealing,its realy the only part of the two quest u need to do,forget the cat man part i did and have bracer now. oh 1 more thing u can tell when hero will spawn,how i saw a slaver pop outside cave this is indication that hero will pop in next half hour,it happend all 4 times before hero popped. well good luck to u.
#Anonymous,
Posted: Jul 01 2002 at 11:30 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Just to berate the previous "under 10" post of course, since they've obviously made it to the next grade level in English. Since they must be 11 years old, let me, a 12 year old, provide some berating:
#Anonymous,
Posted: Jun 30 2002 at 8:45 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) I'm not even sure why you bothered to post this, being that it has NOTHING to do with the item or quest
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The shackles is easy to get (at least for casters). To help clear up some of the possible misinformation you are sifting through, or to reiterate what has already been said--- a minotaur slaver resides at the entrance to the minotaur caves in NE Steafont. Immediately or almost immediately after you kill him the minotaur hero will pop behind you in the little clearing/valley near the cog (I have often found him behind the giant cog). You do not have to go through any elaborate rituals killing certain rats, walking backwards in circles etc. Just kill the slaver and check for the hero, rinse repeat. It's a really easyquest to do once you have raise your steel warriors faction (many people kill gnolls to raise it. I however am a rich and lazy druid so I go and buy DF belts and do "the good version" not with the captain of the guard but with the pally faction one in warrior guild in West Freeport. It raised my faction quite nicely and not as tedious as the gnoll fang quest in halas.
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i have done this quest soooo many times it makes me sick =) so ill help any of yall out who may be a tad confused...
first of all, you dont have to do the first part of the quest involving the cat man
all you have to worry about is faction. easiest way ive found to do it is to give mojax something or other, a LOT of milk bottles =) 4 at a time. he resides at the lake in WC. hes fishing with his buddy behind the inn on the other side of the lake from the barabarians. He gets up and wanders around, drops something near a pillar, for some pally quest i believe, and eventually finds his way back to the inn to take a nap. take this time to stack milk bottles in groups of 4 since you dont really have time to do that while your chasing him around the zone =)
getting faction in this manner WILL make you KoS with the militia...but if your high enough to take the hero, your high enough to deal with all of them outside of FP except for slate, and i HATE FP so for me that was no big deal.
the trigger for the hero is the first slaver inside the cave, always a good idea to pull him across the valley before ya kill him so you wont get KSd. i always get paranoid while camping the hero and if you ask me its for good reason. i cast see invis on my self from time to time and look around =) ive made several casters gate out merely by waving at them heh.
The big guy spawns between the 2 trees opposite the valley from the mino caves then wanders behind the big gear and walks around for a while. eventually he'll find his way to the windmills, and take out several guards before he bites the big one so be sure to get his attention as quick as possible =)
i have 2 characters with faction good enough to do the quest now, so when i need cash i generally camp him 3 times in a row. loot the first with my warrior, loot the 2nd with my druid, get my **** to qeynos and back before someone takes the camp, then loot a 3rd shackle with the druid and sit around EC for a little while =)
think thats about it
oohh and be sure youve got lots of reading material around the house before you sit down and cmap this guy. he can keep ya waiting anywhere between 6 minutes YAY....or the longest ive sat there, 9 hours BOOO. that was rough =/
good luck to yas
Semajecap Nitburell 38 Woodelf Warrior
Semaj Ecap 39 Woodelf Druid
Cazic Thule
first of all, you dont have to do the first part of the quest involving the cat man
all you have to worry about is faction. easiest way ive found to do it is to give mojax something or other, a LOT of milk bottles =) 4 at a time. he resides at the lake in WC. hes fishing with his buddy behind the inn on the other side of the lake from the barabarians. He gets up and wanders around, drops something near a pillar, for some pally quest i believe, and eventually finds his way back to the inn to take a nap. take this time to stack milk bottles in groups of 4 since you dont really have time to do that while your chasing him around the zone =)
getting faction in this manner WILL make you KoS with the militia...but if your high enough to take the hero, your high enough to deal with all of them outside of FP except for slate, and i HATE FP so for me that was no big deal.
the trigger for the hero is the first slaver inside the cave, always a good idea to pull him across the valley before ya kill him so you wont get KSd. i always get paranoid while camping the hero and if you ask me its for good reason. i cast see invis on my self from time to time and look around =) ive made several casters gate out merely by waving at them heh.
The big guy spawns between the 2 trees opposite the valley from the mino caves then wanders behind the big gear and walks around for a while. eventually he'll find his way to the windmills, and take out several guards before he bites the big one so be sure to get his attention as quick as possible =)
i have 2 characters with faction good enough to do the quest now, so when i need cash i generally camp him 3 times in a row. loot the first with my warrior, loot the 2nd with my druid, get my **** to qeynos and back before someone takes the camp, then loot a 3rd shackle with the druid and sit around EC for a little while =)
think thats about it
oohh and be sure youve got lots of reading material around the house before you sit down and cmap this guy. he can keep ya waiting anywhere between 6 minutes YAY....or the longest ive sat there, 9 hours BOOO. that was rough =/
good luck to yas
Semajecap Nitburell 38 Woodelf Warrior
Semaj Ecap 39 Woodelf Druid
Cazic Thule
Excellent post except for one thing.
My guildmates and I have done this quest many many many times (hundreds of times if you add all of the times that each one of us did it) and I can say with 100% certainty, that ANY minotaur slaver death has a chance of spawning the Hero, be it outside near the minotaur caves where they are somtimes found, or in the minotaur caves where they are mostly found. Tracking and simply watching for him to spawn while others kill the slavers proved this time and time again.
Although, we all agree that the slaver spawn that never moves at the door is somehow has a better chance of spawning him than others.
Moral of the story: by wiping out any slaver you see, the longest wait we ever had was 20 minutes to get the Hero to spawn, not an incredibly unecessary 9 hours.
Edited, Wed Feb 26 23:53:07 2003
My guildmates and I have done this quest many many many times (hundreds of times if you add all of the times that each one of us did it) and I can say with 100% certainty, that ANY minotaur slaver death has a chance of spawning the Hero, be it outside near the minotaur caves where they are somtimes found, or in the minotaur caves where they are mostly found. Tracking and simply watching for him to spawn while others kill the slavers proved this time and time again.
Although, we all agree that the slaver spawn that never moves at the door is somehow has a better chance of spawning him than others.
Moral of the story: by wiping out any slaver you see, the longest wait we ever had was 20 minutes to get the Hero to spawn, not an incredibly unecessary 9 hours.
Edited, Wed Feb 26 23:53:07 2003
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For added perspective...
As someone who's run this quest more times then I want to think about: I have found that, if you pull the slavers out of the mine and across over to where the Hero pops ( between the two trees on the wall opposite the mine entrance ) this will greatly increase the chances of the Hero popping. Done right it will bring it to an almost 1 to 1 ratio.
As someone who's run this quest more times then I want to think about: I have found that, if you pull the slavers out of the mine and across over to where the Hero pops ( between the two trees on the wall opposite the mine entrance ) this will greatly increase the chances of the Hero popping. Done right it will bring it to an almost 1 to 1 ratio.
Anonymous
The problem with this, is for paladin's you MUST get to the guild for a number of important quests. You can take the tunnel through the aqueducts, but a reasonably strong necromancer spawns inside.
Anonymous
Do i need to ever bother with odus? i killed hero and i got good faction with the steel warriors....do I need to go kill that NPC in odus?
Kindawen level 42 ranger
Kindawen level 42 ranger
3 posts
Just to inform you that you do not have to do the first parts of the quest just go talk to the guy and say what about the second escaped gladiator and as long as he is amiable you'll get the bracer, no need to do teh first parts of the quests. If you do need faction do the milk quest in WC i think thats the name you just have to hand in about 2 stacks of milk to him seperate of course and your faction should be high enough to get you to amiable. Good luck
Anonymous
Word to the wise: if Grahan Rothgar won't tell you about the Hero Bracer quest (says something like "Although we have no cause to dislike you you have not yet sufficiently proved your devotion to our cause" when you ask about it) do NOT give him the shackles -he'll take them, repeat the part about not having sufficiently proved yourself, and give you NOTHING in return. I conned amiable and decided to give him the shackles thinking that if faction wasn't high enough he'd return them (NPCs generally return quest items they aren't interested in now) - DOH!!
Anonymous
Tried to get Steel Warrior faction up with my 42 Dwf Paly to no avail; stuck at indif after 120 Gnoll Fangs to Barb chick in Halas and 15 Dorn kills in N Ro. I really wanted to solo this with my Paly. So I bring in my 40 Hef Warrior and I have Amiable faction already, doh ). Off to Wisp Isle...
I get the key off Nomala on first smack then head back to Qeynos for second part.
With Druid buddy porting me along and providing heals and nukes we pop the Slaver PH several times. After a few PHs, the Hero spawns behind the Big Gear in the ground (approx: 1700, n1300). Hero has alot of HP but finally drops. Good to go.
Port back to SFG, run to Qeynos, and turnin shackles. Did it all again and hooked up Druid friend with Hero also. I'm KOS to the Corrupt Qeynos Guards but its worth it :) .
I get the key off Nomala on first smack then head back to Qeynos for second part.
With Druid buddy porting me along and providing heals and nukes we pop the Slaver PH several times. After a few PHs, the Hero spawns behind the Big Gear in the ground (approx: 1700, n1300). Hero has alot of HP but finally drops. Good to go.
Port back to SFG, run to Qeynos, and turnin shackles. Did it all again and hooked up Druid friend with Hero also. I'm KOS to the Corrupt Qeynos Guards but its worth it :) .
Anonymous
Do you have to do the first quest with the key to get the bracer? or can you just get the shackle and hand them in
Aesir on Brell
Aesir on Brell
Anonymous
I killed Nomala on Wisp isle and turned in the key only once. I've turned in shackles for bracers 3 times. I would not risk losing the shackles by not turning in key at least once before a shackle. Getting the key off Nomala is very easy and you you only need to catch her once with it.
Anonymous
If I am a edrudite necromancer, how am i suppost to even turn in DF belts because i am KOS to everyone in the good cities?
Anonymous
Wolf form =)))
Wolf form won't repair bad faction as a result of religion, and i'm pretty sure won't fix class as well, all it does is make you non-KoS if your race is the deciding factor (Ogres, trolls, DEs, Iksar in good cities)
6 posts
I´m a 41 Bard on Tunare faction and I could not get the Hro bracer part from Grahan Rothgar.
I used the lev 11 spell Cinda's Charismatic Carillon to get from Indiffrent to Amiably and then I could finish the quest.
Instrument I used was the Lyssa´s Darkwood Piccolo +35% to wind songs, my main looted it from Casic.
Found a stack bug with this and Fingerbone Hoop!
When I put on the Hoop the +5 PR/DR on the Hero bracer turned in to -5PR/DR insted! :(
Reported it to a GM.
I used the lev 11 spell Cinda's Charismatic Carillon to get from Indiffrent to Amiably and then I could finish the quest.
Instrument I used was the Lyssa´s Darkwood Piccolo +35% to wind songs, my main looted it from Casic.
Found a stack bug with this and Fingerbone Hoop!
When I put on the Hoop the +5 PR/DR on the Hero bracer turned in to -5PR/DR insted! :(
Reported it to a GM.
39 posts
some people think that quests are a waste of time and boring... but not me and many others because questing is what the game is for, leveling is there so you can do other quests, even if you quest for a half decent item it still proves that you know the true meaning to the game.
btw i am lvl 38 soon to be 39 mage and when i get those new spells im everQUESTING hehe
pss i already started my mage epic haha
btw i am lvl 38 soon to be 39 mage and when i get those new spells im everQUESTING hehe
pss i already started my mage epic haha
Anonymous
i totally agree with him on that
47 posts
haha i started my druid epic at level 2 but only because i accidently forqaged all my items then while trying to get skill up :P
16 posts
...the second part of the quest.
The Steel Warrior Initiation quest gives you 6 faction hits.
1 for turning in the bag
1 for turning in the first letter
1 for turning in the skull head
1 for turning in the second letter
1 for turning in the third letter
1 for turning in the lion pelt
Edited, Fri Dec 21 07:41:48 2001
The Steel Warrior Initiation quest gives you 6 faction hits.
1 for turning in the bag
1 for turning in the first letter
1 for turning in the skull head
1 for turning in the second letter
1 for turning in the third letter
1 for turning in the lion pelt
Edited, Fri Dec 21 07:41:48 2001
1 post
This quest IMHO is one of the best ingame :)
I am a high elf Paladin, and purely from a roleplaying point of view its great, but you get a damned nice item as well. I have so far done the quest 6 times and counting :)
I first did my faction for steel warriors by gnoll teeth - like 500 of them - still wasnt enough, but nice side effect being get ally to Halas guards etc :)
Then I did the kobold hides quest, much better faction improvement for steel warriors, plus killing the kobolds gives good faction with erudites :)
Nomala quest-Blurred map quest- I'd say dont bother, too hard/long do them whilst on the way to warrens for the kobold hides quest but otherwise I dont see much point.
As to faction needed- you CAN do it at AMIABLE, but it must be HIGH Amiable. When I was first amiable Graham would NOT give me the quest, but after doing the kobold hide quest (5 backpack fulls of hides) a few times, although I was still amiable he DID give the quest.
Neways, to the camp- I have popped Hero 6 times so far longest took 6 hours, shortest took 1 hour.
Honestly dont think there is ANY way to speed up his spawn I think its purely random (ala AC spawn)
Having said that it does SEEM that if you butcher everything in the area repeatedly during camp he has popped somewhat quicker but might just be coincidence, certainly killing Mino lord and/or Necro has NO effect on Hero spawn.
Whilst camping the PH (which is the first mino slaver in the tunnel) you can keep busy by doing lotsa stuff which makes this not to bad a camp even if it takes many hours.
1- Kill the minos in the caves behind- They drop axes which sell for plat or are good for newbies. I give them to newbie melees in gfay :)
They also drop gold sometimes, and mino horns which can be handed in two at a time in akanon for good faction hits to the little gnome behind library. The minos also have a nice faction hit + gnomes :)
2- Kill rogue clockworks- They drop black boxes which can be handed in at Akanon, also scrap metal which can be handed in 4 at a time in Akanon, for small coin reward, faction, small xp. Also killing these is SUPPOSED to help trigger the spawn of Nilits clockwork which drops the gnome toy which is needed to complete the kerran toy quest, nice range item for mellee classes. I have spent 40+ hours at mino camp however and have only ONCE ever seen Nilits spawn. It is very rare indeed and talking to the inventor seems to have no effect on its spawn at all.
3- Kill EVERYTHING around caves in an attempt to get MIST elementals to spawn, their rare drop is Swirling mists which is a much sought after component in HIGH level cultural smithing- I have seen smiths offering 20pp each for these. There are also several ground spawns at mino cave area of components which are needed in tradeskills- pick these up too they might come in damn handy for someone :)
Happy camping!
Edited, Fri Dec 14 08:22:06 2001
I am a high elf Paladin, and purely from a roleplaying point of view its great, but you get a damned nice item as well. I have so far done the quest 6 times and counting :)
I first did my faction for steel warriors by gnoll teeth - like 500 of them - still wasnt enough, but nice side effect being get ally to Halas guards etc :)
Then I did the kobold hides quest, much better faction improvement for steel warriors, plus killing the kobolds gives good faction with erudites :)
Nomala quest-Blurred map quest- I'd say dont bother, too hard/long do them whilst on the way to warrens for the kobold hides quest but otherwise I dont see much point.
As to faction needed- you CAN do it at AMIABLE, but it must be HIGH Amiable. When I was first amiable Graham would NOT give me the quest, but after doing the kobold hide quest (5 backpack fulls of hides) a few times, although I was still amiable he DID give the quest.
Neways, to the camp- I have popped Hero 6 times so far longest took 6 hours, shortest took 1 hour.
Honestly dont think there is ANY way to speed up his spawn I think its purely random (ala AC spawn)
Having said that it does SEEM that if you butcher everything in the area repeatedly during camp he has popped somewhat quicker but might just be coincidence, certainly killing Mino lord and/or Necro has NO effect on Hero spawn.
Whilst camping the PH (which is the first mino slaver in the tunnel) you can keep busy by doing lotsa stuff which makes this not to bad a camp even if it takes many hours.
1- Kill the minos in the caves behind- They drop axes which sell for plat or are good for newbies. I give them to newbie melees in gfay :)
They also drop gold sometimes, and mino horns which can be handed in two at a time in akanon for good faction hits to the little gnome behind library. The minos also have a nice faction hit + gnomes :)
2- Kill rogue clockworks- They drop black boxes which can be handed in at Akanon, also scrap metal which can be handed in 4 at a time in Akanon, for small coin reward, faction, small xp. Also killing these is SUPPOSED to help trigger the spawn of Nilits clockwork which drops the gnome toy which is needed to complete the kerran toy quest, nice range item for mellee classes. I have spent 40+ hours at mino camp however and have only ONCE ever seen Nilits spawn. It is very rare indeed and talking to the inventor seems to have no effect on its spawn at all.
3- Kill EVERYTHING around caves in an attempt to get MIST elementals to spawn, their rare drop is Swirling mists which is a much sought after component in HIGH level cultural smithing- I have seen smiths offering 20pp each for these. There are also several ground spawns at mino cave area of components which are needed in tradeskills- pick these up too they might come in damn handy for someone :)
Happy camping!
Edited, Fri Dec 14 08:22:06 2001
Anonymous
I have done the majority of this quest and just have one question. Got key from nomala, turned it in, faction is amibly. Grahan then asks (second escaped gladiator)and when i try to reply he states something along the lines of "you are still not experieneced enough" or something to that effect. Is this normal? or does he usually reply with something else? He has said nothing of Mino Hero only (second escaped gladiator). Should i give him the shackles? would hate to lose them after camping damn Hero for 4 hours. BTW, have done the steel warriors initiation quest and as stated faction in amiable.
Anonymous
I have done the majority of this quest and just have one question. Got key from nomala, turned it in, faction is amibly. Grahan then asks (second escaped gladiator)and when i try to reply he states something along the lines of "you are still not experieneced enough" or something to that effect. Is this normal? or does he usually reply with something else? He has said nothing of Mino Hero only (second escaped gladiator). Should i give him the shackles? would hate to lose them after camping damn Hero for 4 hours.
3 posts
If anyboy would be willing tohelp me with this quest i would be really greatful =). Send a tell to Aarop or E-mail me at Bobzilla95@aol.com. Thanx all ).
Aarop Crystalyn
45 ranger
Solusek Ro
Aarop Crystalyn
45 ranger
Solusek Ro
You know I thought I'd posted the scoop here before but I don't see it so here goes...
Milk to hojax or whatever blows, nothing like being kos in the center-of-norrath city of Freeport huh? pass!
Gnoll teeth 3 at a time in Halas works pretty good but can take some time and the easiest way is....
Bring an Enchanter or Bard friend with you to Steamfont silly, not only does having one along make take down of the hero easy even if he's yellow/red but they also have a simple spell/song that INSTANTLY GIVES THEM ENOUGH FACTION TO DO THE QUEST! All you do is let your bard/enchanter friend loot shackle then when your in Qeynos have them use their faction spell/song and say, "what second escaped gladiator" and turn in the shackles for a new Hero Bracer, just make sure they don't have one already because they are lore!
P.S. The catman quest blows, isn't required to get a bracer, and doesn't give any special amount of faction to make it any better than milk or gnoll teeth. Rangers who kill animals are only poachers if they don't use all the parts they find and leave giant carcasses laying around all over like those National Geographic pics of dead elephants with their tusks sawed off.
Milk to hojax or whatever blows, nothing like being kos in the center-of-norrath city of Freeport huh? pass!
Gnoll teeth 3 at a time in Halas works pretty good but can take some time and the easiest way is....
Bring an Enchanter or Bard friend with you to Steamfont silly, not only does having one along make take down of the hero easy even if he's yellow/red but they also have a simple spell/song that INSTANTLY GIVES THEM ENOUGH FACTION TO DO THE QUEST! All you do is let your bard/enchanter friend loot shackle then when your in Qeynos have them use their faction spell/song and say, "what second escaped gladiator" and turn in the shackles for a new Hero Bracer, just make sure they don't have one already because they are lore!
P.S. The catman quest blows, isn't required to get a bracer, and doesn't give any special amount of faction to make it any better than milk or gnoll teeth. Rangers who kill animals are only poachers if they don't use all the parts they find and leave giant carcasses laying around all over like those National Geographic pics of dead elephants with their tusks sawed off.
4 posts
I'm doing the hero bracer quest, and i guess i got really lucky, the best thing to do I guess is for the Mino hero get to the camp kinda late and ask the person (if there is one) how long they hvae been camping the quest, if its been at least 6-7 hours ask them to send you a tell when they are finished. Now I dont know if that really works but I went to SF to camp the hero and there was a guy camping it who had been there for 6 striaght hours. He let me take the camp and almost exactly 1 hour after I took over I got the shackles. For the key I don't know what to tell you about Nomala spawn, I just went to the island and killed em got the key, sorry have no suggestions for that. But what I need to know is will amiably faction to SteelWarriors be enough for the quest, I was apprehensive and now I'm almost amiably, lthough now every guards in East and West FP haet me now, NFP love me though, thats what matters. But can it be done with just indifferent? I sneaked behind him and he still wouldn't say anything to me and told me just short of get lost. Anyone know for sure?
Anonymous
Yes absolutely-you need to have amiable faction with Steel Warriors. The best way is to get your Knights of Truth up with Mojax in WC and give him milk!! I gave him maybe 400-600 milk. Cheap and easy way to get up SW faction. Just do the deathfist belt quest to get knights of truth up and kill lots of Deathfist Orcs!!
Anonymous
Ok this is insane. Trying get get the $%$%#!@! key from Nomala to finish the Hero Bracer quest. Have killed him 4 times and still no key!! Spawn time is almost 2 hours!!! This is ridiculus! I think this is really idiotic to have a Mob spawn every 2 hours and not have the loot you need at LEAST every other spawn or so. Really takes the fun out of EQ. it's bad enough we spen alost three weeks getting shackles from mino hero (another joke) and getting faction up with SW, but this is supposed to be a game, not a test of patience!!!! Anyone have any suggestions on lowering his spawn time? What if you just kill everything on island? Would that make Nomala spawn? Please help! I'm ready to lose my mind
Anonymous
Ok update on Hero Bracer quest. If your faction is high enough with Steel Warriors you can complete this quest without needing to camp camp Nomala! If you ask Gram "What second escaped gladiator?" and he tells you the tale of how the mino hero escaped you can just give him the hero shackles from the mino hero and you get the Hero Bracers! But make sure he gives you the answer or you will loose your shackles!
Anonymous
Hey all. Had a bad experience today. After camping Namala for 12 hours I finally got the key. I'm a druid helping a fellow guild member get hero bracer. After my excitement of getting the key I teleported to NK and continued my journey to SQ.
When I opened my inventory to turn in key, it wasn't there! It poofed. I made no stops during my trip to SQ, so I couldn't figure it out. After going thru the typical q&a with a guide, they transferred me to a GM.
I retold the story to the GM and he/she went thru the logs and came up with nothing! NOTHING! I don't get it. They said that it wasn't in the log files so they could help me out.
I have a rollplaying website I've been working on (nothing up yet) and I've been documenting alot of the quests that I do and put a story behind them. So I had a screenshot of me getting the key. I'm sure it wont hold its weight, but I sent it to the two email addresses that the Guide had given me to report my problem to if a GM wasn't able to get to me before I logged.
So here I am again, checking on Namala every 85 minutes (seems to be right about there for spawn), in hopes that I'll get a key before 12 hours are up this time. Everyone wish me luck.
Regards,
Travlyn
40th Druid
Veeshan
When I opened my inventory to turn in key, it wasn't there! It poofed. I made no stops during my trip to SQ, so I couldn't figure it out. After going thru the typical q&a with a guide, they transferred me to a GM.
I retold the story to the GM and he/she went thru the logs and came up with nothing! NOTHING! I don't get it. They said that it wasn't in the log files so they could help me out.
I have a rollplaying website I've been working on (nothing up yet) and I've been documenting alot of the quests that I do and put a story behind them. So I had a screenshot of me getting the key. I'm sure it wont hold its weight, but I sent it to the two email addresses that the Guide had given me to report my problem to if a GM wasn't able to get to me before I logged.
So here I am again, checking on Namala every 85 minutes (seems to be right about there for spawn), in hopes that I'll get a key before 12 hours are up this time. Everyone wish me luck.
Regards,
Travlyn
40th Druid
Veeshan
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