Khati Sha Recruit (Beastlord #2)  

The lesser shades also drop shadeling silk

You need to combine 2 shadeling silks to make a shade silk thread, then combine 2 shade silk threads to make a silk bandage. When you start out, making the threads is no fail but making the silk bandages is not.

I recomend collecting at least 4 stacks of shadeling silk, then combine them 2 at a time until you have at least 2 stacks of threads, then combine the threads 2 at a time untill you run out of threads. hopefully you'll have at least 1 stack of silk bandages (used in this quest, but also for the "bandaging" skill)

doing it this way will give you the material you need for this quest as well as promote your tailoring skill (which you will also need for the quest since the combines for this quest are based on tailoring).


Fanatical Banana
Sadwen Eymbroak
Rhodger Moore
Kaftan <<surname pending>>

Kane Bayle server

The young rockhopper tails portion isn't the last step... but I'll address your questions

by doing the Whiptail Poison Glands in the Shar Vahl "pit", you can eventually get a full suit of padded armor. You can also get better armor by doing a number of quests that start in Shadeweaver's Thicket, like Ghulam Armor

Also, by doing these other quests along with your primary quest (Khati Sha), you will earn experience and levels... the beatles and rockhoppers in Hollowshade Moor are going to be a bit tough till you're level 10 or above since they have a rather large "agro range" and tend to double or even tripple up on you if you're not careful. I got my butt kicked in Hollowshade Moor (even with armor) 'till I reached level 15 and got my next pet and new spells... and even now at level 15 I'm careful.

Fanatical Banana
Sadwen Eymbroak
Rhodger Moore
Kaftan <<surname pending>>

Kane Bayle server

I was on last night and had no joy with molars until someone told me to hunt near the Grimling Forest zone (in the Moor).
Still didn't drop for a while but 2 of us managed to get 2 molars each.
There are a lot of wolves around there and not just the pups, so take a group.

You can get the molars off of the sonic wolf pups. If you follow the road from the entrance to Shar Vahl, follow it and just keep going straight. It will turn to the left when you get to the water, go left. Follow it until next split, go straight here too across the bridge and just keep following the road until you get to the other bridge. Cross this bridge and this is where you find the sonic pups. There are not many of them around, compared to the wolflings and wolves, but they are mixed in. I had to kill only a few of them to get the molars, but a friend of mine had to kill several of them before he finally looted the two he needed. Good luck.

Kittyman, Vah Shir Beastlord
Knights Prestige

In my experience, the alternate product message means you failed but one or more of the items used in the recipe wasn't destroyed by the failure. For example, if you combine a rusty weapon and a whetstone but fail, you'll get the alternate product message and you don't lose the weapon.

There seems to be a lot of questioning about what does what in the pit. I can tell you from my own personal experience (and about 20+ hours of hunting in the pit) that there is no "official" placeholder for the young hoppers. They seem to be on a random spawn cycle with the rest of the normal mobs (needle hoppers, beetles, and both scorpions) but they have a lower % chance of spawning. I've been the only one in the pit and hunted ONLY needle hoppers or scorpions or beetles and still managed to spawn a number of the young hoppers. Also, there does not seem to be a "level" cap to their spawning. Last night I was helping a friend with a new character gather whiptail glands for newbie armor and was trying to get the whiptail scorps to spawn. I left the young hoppers up but killed everything else just to seem how many I could get to spawn. I was the only one in the pit and hunting with a 30th level ranger. Before I left I ran the pit and counted how many hoppers were up and Murphy's law was DEFINATELY in action. Because I was NOT looking for them, there were no less than 30 young hoppers up at once. I sent out a shout about it and nearly got trampled by the group running to the pit. ;-)

Edited, Wed May 15 12:08:23 2002