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With the recent alchemy change, you can no longer make the essence of concealment, and a new potion with a different recipe has replaced it called Philter of Concealment. Has the quest been updated to use the Philter, or does it still require the old essence? Here is the recipe for the Philter:

1 exceptional shissar blood
1 gemmed potion vial
1 balm leaves
2 horehound
2 burdock root
trival at 270

Allo, ready to hand in to Neb, and looks like Slani Veekilaleeki maybe the PH, if so do i have to take the hit and kill him for Neb to spawn? thx for any info

"Conflicting reports about how much faction you need with Neb."

I just did turn in to Neb with default faction, worked just fine.

Confirmed... It takes no less than high dubious for Neb turn in.
Fyr Jen blood- Took about 3 hours of normal 1-3 mob pulls to get 2.
A poison frog tounge- Im sure i got lucky, 3rd kill off a tempest toad in PoS.
Zombie bane- Rogue did a combine after i finally found a few sacks for sale in the bazaar, this will probably be the most challenging piece.
A bottle of Double Brewed orcish Stout- Bought for 3k in the bazaar... price gouging sucks.
Essence of Concealment- 100p in bazaar.

Took me about 2 days from start to finish and i wasnt constantly on it.

Edited, Sun Aug 22 10:28:05 2004

well finally got my turn in piece again (sigh) and obtained the ornate velium pendant, i went back to check faction again using the pendant, still dubious with the 100 faction hits from pendant :/, i wont try a turn in till pendant gets me to apprehensive, but this is how many hits i have gotten so far: started off with threatening, 30 kills got me to dubious, another 100 kills, still dubious, plus the 100 hits from pendant, so dubious range has at least 205-235?, i killed another 10 (died to one of those damn wandering traps) but didnt go back to check. i'll try to keep update on how many hits are within the dubious range.

Edited, Fri Aug 13 01:51:32 2004

started out threat, got to dubious with alliance spell and Neb ate my turn in, but friends at default faction got the note, so there's a certain cut off point within dubious. gonna try to get to apprehensive to make sure i guess, although paebala faction is slooooow to increase.

Will sneak work for the turn in? yes or no, im rdy to attempt turn in and would like to onyl have to quest once :P

nt

Edited, Thu Aug 5 20:32:24 2004

"A tempest toad" also drops the tongue. Saw one glowing so I decided to kill him, and sure enough.

I finished collecting all of the items for this quest in a day, so I figured I would share my experience with people here as a reference.

Fyr Jen Blood: These mobs are level 54-58, Have probably 20khp, and assist one another. They do NOT summon, so root-rot soloers rejoice. I was able to solo them easily, slowing with my epic before switching back to my damage weapons. You should take a friend if you cannot heal yourself or at least to keep you company (Umbral is lonely). The tunnels that connect the open rooms is the best place to fight, do not fight outside the tunnel system as the Dathors and Elysians will aggro and annoy you. To make pulling exceptionally easy is the fact that you can cast through the walls here. Target one and bind sight (if you can) or invis in to get your targets one at a time. Back out and pacify from a distance, then pull with a spell (snare works great). Took me 20 kills to get one blood, Total time: 2.5 Hours. I had no buffs other than my own, was relativley easy.

A Poison Frog Tongue: This, like the Fyr Jens is also simple. These mobs are snareable, rootable, and do not summon. They are in the forest area of PoStorms. I found the best place to pull to is the open area to the right of the underwater tunnel, next to the fort wall (Go east after you emerge). These hit for 300-500, so I would not suggest meleeing them unless you have a group. The other mobs in the area do not assist them, only the other frogs will. I would estimate 30-45khp on these. Be careful pulling them to your camp, as running by a giant or two can get you killed quickly. They are often camped by necros/wizards/druids as they are all 60-61 and are good xp for soloers. If you find yourself not finding many up, ask around to see if they are being killed and if the tongue is needed. Took me about 20 kills for these also, Total time: 3.5 Hours (not having a constant spawn flow due to others killing them).

Zombie Bane: This is going to be more trouble finding than you would expect. You wont often see it for sale in the bazaar, as the components to make it (Undead Shissar Venom Sack) are used in a very nice DD vs. Undead poison. My suggestions would be to look through vendors in PoK and PoTranq, and check the bazaar for the venom sacks. Once you get one or two (High trivial so extras are good), find a rogue friend to do the subcombines for you. Everything else is vendor buyable. Total Time: 20 minutes or so, Cost me about 500pp.

Essence of Concealment: Easy to get. You cannot use a 10 or 5 dose, and there are not often single doses sold in the bazaar, so collect the ingredients on your own. Swamp Vine is found in the bazaar easy, or on LDON vendors at the camps (It's a guk forage). Ask your guild and friends that forage often if they have any, I had a few myself from an adventure a few days prior. The rest of the items are all buyable in a few locations. I found Abysmal Sea to be perfect for all of this stuff. Once you have it all together, find a Shaman friend and ask them to whip some up. Total time: 30 minutes (Long run to abysmal and getting lost on the boat sucks). Cost about 100p.

Bottle of Double Brewed Orcish Stout: Buy pondweed in the bazaar. Get the rest of the ingredients in PoK. Purified Water is 2 waters and a celestial essence (made in a mixing bowl now, no more mortar and pestle). Give to a brewer friend or make it yourself (I failed once and Succeeded once with a skill of 176 against the 226 trivial). Total time: 15 minutes. Cost about 100pp for each pondweed and less than 10 for the rest of the stuff.

I have yet to finish my faction work and get my Cipher, so I dont know the details of the turnin in DN or VP. I will edit this when I get that information :) Hope this helps!

Edited, Wed Jul 28 14:37:17 2004

Just a heads up, when u goto Nexona to hand in your piece and are jumping for joy, or your just going to get the vial, be invis, buy a potion or get a levatite, ash basiliks, lava basiliks scowl they are VERY VERY annoying, was a mood killer and a half when i was ready to turn in and i died at nexona's feet, talk about insult to injury. Oh yeah while you at it, feedback like hell too they need to be changed, or if they want to be independant creatures of the peak then perhapps your "allies" should help you.

As for Jen fyr blood, not terribly uncommon but still uncommon, I moved in and went into the empty room with the pillar in it (2 rooms in then on the left) to start pulls and such, getting swamped by these buggers is very easy, because they run and have such mass hitpoints i must say finishing blow is the win!.

Neb, this was a lil bit of a pain, once you enter DN, you need to invis up again head to the first doors (apprently standing on them while opening is a bad idea friend 20k'd a few times off them), head down advoiding the bones, there is a spike trap in the middle of the tunnel where it gets narrow and 2 blobs that will agro, if you don't have help pacify is your friend =/. once past stick on the wall to the right, swim in the water bob your head under in a small tunnel your in the peabla tunnel as soon as you come up.

Oh well hopefully useful information to ya's good luck on the quest.

Edited, Wed Jul 28 05:32:57 2004