Coldain Shawl #4: Fur-Lined Coldain Prayer Shawl  

Just to help anyone trying the quest even though it's said below, make a pet if you can and run around near top of the ramp, got him to pop in 1 minute using this technique. Didn't see a death squad, guess I'm lucky.

Veng Z'Myne
52 Illusionist

I believe I may have seen a small trick in getting Tanik to spawn. It seems to help to have someone help you by spawning the Death Squad and taking them away.

I was roaming around the area looking for him. The Death Squad had already poped on me twice (Thankies for me Jboots.) When I saw a druid come running by pulling a corpse with the Death Squad after him. Right after all of the Death Squad had popped and ran off chasing the other guy.. Voila there was Tanik laying on the ground right where they had ran thru.

This was at the top of the ramp to the right side when looking out from Kael and then back toward the wall. I believe from reading others posts and seeing it myself he could pop anywhere in the general area of the ramp.

Hope this information is usefull.

Majique Dangereuse
48 Wizzie of Rathe

well the best way to do this quest is by far with a necro, you can feign death before the kromrif deathsquad ever has a chance to load there agro table.

useing the /pet guard here, and /pet guard me commands you can easily point to the next squad/tanic, it took about 4 DS triggers to get a tanic triger, easy stuff..

triger /fd wait 3 minutes and there despawned, and a new trigger is poped up.

Noraseas Thirdmoon
54 vicar Prexus server

when attempting to spawn tanek using the no drop item, i noticed each time the DS spawned the message was 'you are too far away from You have to trade' and when it was finally Tanik, the message for his trigger spot was 'you are too far away from You stumble to trade'. Good luck on it, there may be two triggers floating around out there i dont know.

I used the holding a no drop item trick tonight and found Tanik.(Thanks Irky)
I do want to add a bit more info though.
There are two messages you will see when you are clicking on the spot that will cause the spawn.
"You are to far away from You have to trade." = You have been ambushed by Frost Giants!
"You are to far away from You stumble to trade." = You stumble over a pile of snow exposing a Coldain!

Kastell 52 Enchanter of the Dragonguard on Innoruuk.

Hello again. I have been a little slow to write my encounters with the 4th shawl quest, you know EQ, it takes a lot of time. And this darned post is cutting into that time :-) oh well here goes

My first bit of advice, please dont waste your time trying to find Tanik in the beginning. Make the Velium vapors that he needs before you go try and find him.

Here is a list of the necessary items and where to get them

Small pieces of Velium (2), Small brick of velium(1). These can be found in two places that I know of. They drop from the orcs in the Crystal Caverns, entry to the Crystal Caverns is by clicking on the orb located in the small gated room in the rygorr fort. The other place you can get these ores is in Velkentors Lab. This is a very high lvl zone, so if you go there be careful. The crystal Caverns is a 35ish zone and the orcs can be found right at the entrance, near the zone. The pieces dont drop terribly often. The drop rate for VL is also low but the players in that zone are so high that they will often let you loot any of the velium ore drops as they are not worth a large amount.
Crystalline silk(3) can also be found in Crystal Caverns and in Velkentors Lab. Deep in Crystal Caverns, past the Dwarven city is a path leading to the Spider queen. there are a large number of spiders. You can get three silks very easily, perhaps from your first spider.
Glass Shards (2) these are also easy to get at any pottery store. The only one I can think off off the top of my head would be the one right outside the RV/Misty Thicket zone. The first hut on the right as you exit the zone. I am sure they can be found very easily.

I would recommend getting enough pieces for multiple attempts.

You will also need a pottery wheel, a Kiln and a High Quality Firing sheet. What luck, they can all be found in the thurgadin bank!!
They have very nicely stated the steps you need to go through when making the Vapors so I will not put that in here.

Frundle Frenkler can be found in a shop very near the Loremaster, in one of the shops across from the Paladins guild. I think she is an alchemist but I wont swear to that. That is where the jar to start the building process.

So you are set except for one small thing, POTTERY. The trivial is 130 for the finished Velium Vapors. Pottery is easy, if tedious to raise by making Medium bowls. I raised my skill in pottery from a 1 to 122, the trivial for Med Bowls, in a few hours in North freeport. When working on your medium bowls, buy a bunch of blocks of clay, a bunch of medium bowl sketches, and a bunch of water, equal amounts of all. Clay can be found in Groflahs forge, Sketches can be found in the building right next to the bank and water can be found in the building next to the Jade Tavern, the store directly opposite from the bank. Dont waste your time firing the successful bowls. you gain no skill from it and the firing sheets will take up backpack space and will add to your costs. Just destroy the unfired bowl, and continue pottering.

Finding Tanik.
This is the tricky part. Tanik will spawn near the ramp to the Kael Drakkel zone. this can be found in the SW corner of the eastern wastes. You have to search out Tanik and you also have to watch out because in addition to spawning Tanik you have a chance of spawning a Death Squad. These are 3-5 nasty giants that were yellow to a LvL 51 druid. They are slower than sow, thank Karana, but they hit hard. Any trigger spot seems to have a random chance of either Tanik or the Squad so be prepared.

There is a lot of discussion on where he spawns. I have spawned him 5 times, three times by accident and twice on purpose. All 5 were on either side of the ramp. I have never spawned him on the ramp itself but that could just be me. In addition to the 5 tanik Spawns I have spawned the Death Squad twice.

How to find him. Here is the trick, this was a super timesaver. Find a high spot on one side of the ramp or the other. Get something out of your inventory and hold it in your hand. The trick here is to hold a No Drop item, I used my Seb Key. Now slowly turn and click your item holding mouse pointer on the ground as you turn. Make a pass and then lower your mouse, or raise your mouse, and then rotate the other way clicking as you go. The thing you are looking for is the message "you are to far to trade with that person" or somethign to that effect. That means that right on that spot that you clicked is the trigger for either Tanik or the Squad. These spots slowly move over time so as you approach make sure you keep clicking until you are fairly near. Then put your item in your pack and run through the square. You should have SoW or JBoots and you want to run through the trigger just in case its the squad, so you have a running start. If tanik spawns he will just lie there, and you can come back. If you spawn the squad run to zone, and try again, if you get Tanik give him the Vapors and then head to the loremaster with your note and shawl in hand.

A note: you use the no drop item so you dont have to keep clicking the No of the do you really wanna drop this item. Verant has kindly said you cant drop these items so that is convienient for those of us who want to find a guy buried in the snow.

ONE WORD OF WARNING, be very careful here if this is your first time. In addition to the Death squad I mentioned before, the walls of the ramp are EXTREMELY steep, and can kill someone very easily. A 46th lvl warrior friend and I were going to get our WL keys and he fell down and died here, and he has 2300 HP, way more than this poor lil caster. So either have Levi on or just be careful.

This is a long post but I hope it helps and if anyone on Morell Thule has any questions please feel free to send me a tell, this is a fun quest and not terribly hard to do with a great reward.


Irky Timbers 54th Druid of Karana
Morell Thule

There are approximately 6 "positions" - 3 on each side of the "valley" path entering kael before you get to the two guards. the positions are on the flat part, about 10 bodies away from the edges. Each "position" is a random - changing if you zone or logout, so each one can either be a giant ambush, Tanik, or nothing. Tanik is the hardest to find.. and he seemingly moves. This way, nobody can give you an exact loc for any of this. So: you have a 1-in-12 chance of hitting the right one, provided you hit a spot.

Can Someone tell me where to get glass shards?

so, i'll ask this question again since someone already did. how do u get the purifier? i saw someone mentioned from a woman, can you be more specific?

I have been using the pet trick for about 3 hours today, and have had 17 death squads in a row. Am i doing something wrong or am i just very unlucky? Do i have to say the phrase to the guy in Thurg and then gate back? Please help as i am very frustrated after spending a total of about 5 hours running around that damn ramp.