Paladin Test of Love  

You say, 'Hail, Dason Goldblade'

Dason Goldblade says 'Greetings, Bonzz. Are you pure of heart and soul?'

You say, 'I am pure of heart and soul'

Dason Goldblade says 'Then choose. Do you wish your purity to be tested by Gregori or Dirkog?'

You say, 'I wish to be tested by Gregori'

Dason Goldblade says 'Gregori is a true and faithful warrior of Tunare. Read this book and, when you feel confident, hand it back to me. I will summon Gregori to test you after you have done so.'

(Recieve the book: 'Virtuous Knight')

(Return the book to Dason)

You gain party experience!!

Dason Goldblade says 'Farewell.'

(Dason despawns and Gregori appears)

Gregori Lightbringer says 'May faith guide you always.'

You say, 'Hail, Gregori Lightbringer'

Gregori Lightbringer says 'Hail and well met! You have traveled far indeed to cross my path. I will be testing you in compassion, sacrifice, and love. Are you ready for the test of the heart, Bonzz? If you've already passed one of these tests I may have something else you might be intrested in.'

You say, 'I am ready for the test of the heart.'

Gregori Lightbringer says 'As I said before, the test of the heart is in three parts. Compassion, sacrifice and love. Choose one and we will begin.'

You say, 'I am ready for the test of love.'

Gregori Lightbringer says 'Love is what brings us close to the gods we follow. Without it, we could not truly worship them, and would be lost. Prove yourself to me and return with a dark spiroc feather, ethereal topaz, and a sphinxian claw. In return, I will give you Thelvorn.'

(Hand-ins completed)

Gregori Lightbringer says 'You are indeed worthy of this divine sword, Bonzz. As long as you wield Thelvorn, you will follow the true path.'

You gain party experience!!
You gain party experience!!

(Recieve 'Thelvorn, Blade of Light')

The Spinx Claw is a rare drop of the Sister of the Spire
Dark Spiroc Feather is a somewhat common drop on the The Spiroc Guardian
The Ethereal Topaz is a reasonably common drop... Alla has it listed off a bee, but I am pretty sure I got my off a drake on Pegasus island.



Edited, Feb 28th 2011 7:52pm by GOMN

I have at momement a level 55 pally. I know of LOTs of Dark metal falchions on my server,no proc but still great stats and awesome look. I have never seen anyone with one of these, not saying there is not one, just no one bothers with air that much with SOV out and Soon SOL.
As for 2hs 1 hs debate. No contest 2hs wins sorry
and I have maxed skill in all weapons class but 2hb. As a matter of Fact some 2hp kick the snot out of the average 1hs Sheild combos. I have Narandis Lance which altho it only adds 8ac it has a boat load of stats to offset the lack of shield and a 44 dmg 45 dly ratio with a 500 point dot proc.
Another example I have a natures defender. Combine its dmg with the 45 ac and its stats and procs, and who wants a shield. If bash is included for all 2hs as rumored for paladins in SOL, this argument becomes antiquated.
I only want a shield these days if it is one of the really nice back equipable ones like Lodizal etc. This is all accomplishable for you paladins if you work hard. I do not belong to an uber guild buy I have worked smart on my char, and it has payed off
Thangorim

This isn't that great now with SoV and quest items are way too rare. Better to go to SoV and get some *uber* weapon, this ones good but not that good.

Well i have never seen any Paladin with such a sword,i myself have been going to the planes every
month ,and my Guild goes up to isle 8 and kills the Hand of Veshan ,i have never got 1 quest done up there. Its true that silvery belts,dark spiroc feather and few single items drop but the important drops like a spinxian claw,large sky diamond,ivory sky diamond actually never drop....
the result of my 23 sky raids is not a single PoA quest for Paladin on the other hand i have seen
all other classes finish almost 3 of thier quests

Somehow these Pal PoA quests are not working and i am not joking

Hello all,
Well the results of my first sky raid were very nice. I landed a belt of virtue (which btw has a 16% haste according to tests I ran and then confirmed with other sources), 1 piece of my quest haste belt, 1 piece for the "rumored" Erudite only sword, and most importantly I got the Dark Spiroc feather from one of the pegasus on the Isle with Overseer (isle 5 I think), and Ethereal Topaz from one of the bees on Isle 6.

So now I am one piece from getting a Zephyrwind.

My question to those who have found it where and what drops the sphinxian claw needed to finish the quest?

Telumehtar Ben'Kiriath Bristlebane server

With a bit of luck I'm planning on going to a sky raid within a week here. This will be my first raid to this plane and as such I'm overly excited about it cause of several reasons. Firstly I love exploring so thats obvious.. but secondly and perhaps most importantly I pray to get a shot at obtaining one of the finest paladin weapons in all Norrath.

First let me state I'm an Erudite paladin with my shield of the stalwart seas. As such I'm biased into using 1h weapons. However the following statistics have been obtained using Copelands Weapons Analyzer (a program that figures dmg ratios and dmg per minute that has been very heavily developed by the number crunchers who parse their logs).

I have set the stats of the paladin using the following weapons at 120 STR (a number I figure any paladin at 45th or higher can obtain) and am showing a spectrum of dmg/minute values over 15 levels at 5 level intervals.. i.e. 45,50,55,60.

Wurmslayer (common weapon as reference)
45th = 510 50th = 541 55th = 592 60th = 626

Sword of Morning (common kunark upgrade to WS)
45th = 530 50th = 574 55th = 639 60th = 681

Halcyon Broadsword (THE ultimate 1h pally weapon)
45th = 609 50th = 656 55th = 729 60th = 776

Rod of Faith (The best pally 1hb I could find)
45th = 598 50th = 636 55th = 699 60th = 740

Zephyrwind (Second only to the HB by single digit difference in dmg/minute ratios)
45th = 611 50th = 656 55th = 727 60th = 773

Keep in mind these numbers do not include the additional dmg from bashing which while minimal has some importance when comparing to the 2handers which I will post their dmg/min ratios next

Nathsar (common 2h weapon used by many)
45th = 560 50th = 618 55th = 718 60th = 778

Arbitor's Combine (a highly sought after upgrade)
45th = 624 50th = 666 55th = 746 60th = 796

*note the next are SUPPOSED to be the best weapons for paladins so it only makes sense they blow all other away however its also a pain in the **** to get these*

Fiery Avenger
45th = 694 50th = 735 55th = 817 60th = 869

Fiery Defender
45th = 785 50th = 831 55th = 922 60th = 980
(these values are without the added bash damage either)

So yeah its obvious the 2h weapons do a bit more damage (lots more if you can do the epic but are most pallies going to complete those?)

However there are some issues with 2h that one handers clearly do better.. firstly is taunt. a fast 1 hander will always taunt better than a slow 2 hander.. even when missing. I.e. I've seen rangers quad attack miss and taunt a creature onto them without ever touching the taunt key. Swing rate affects taunt.

Secondly the use of 2 handers prevents using shields. And in this game AC is King so are you REALLY sure you want to give up another source of AC?

Lastly the ability to bash while not a major damage factor becomes critical in Kunark and Velious against casters. Without the ability to bash how many more trains would be created cause of a caster mob gating away or how many times have you saved yourself or another from a chain casting mob by totally interupting their fast cast cycle with a well placed bash.

Lastly its very obvious that Verant's "Vision"TM is that paladins are NOT damage dealers. We are tanks. As a paladin I base the success of my position not on how much damage I did but how long I kept the mob focused on me and off my wizards, rangers, monks, rogues cause for every second they are not being attacked and stunned they are doing more damage than I could ever hope to.

Anyhow the point of this whole mess is to show very blatantly that 1 handers are not the "sucky" weapons of paladins and if played correctly 1 hand weapons are probably the boon of paladins.

Telumehtar Ben'Kiriath
Paladin of the 51st Sword of Light, Servant of Quellious, Bane of Heretics everywhere.

P.S. I'll let you know if I complete the Zephyrwind quest and post the details I learn from my run through it.

threads are nice and all, but could we get some info on how to do this quest? i mean all ive read from this quest thread is how kunark weapons own this weapon and how something sucks or what not....does any paladin know how to do the quest?
1. Where/ and what drops these things
2. how hard is it to do the quest
3. strategy to do it

sorry if im being a pain, but heh i want info, not tabloid arguments

We paladins need to petition verant and make the proc Dismiss Undead that would actually be helpful instead of doing dd on mob pets like they ever do anything. Yeah this swords is hard as balls to get but hey it looks kool and can go great w/ a shield of the immaculate when you need to bash caster skulls in. Plus i think paladins look stupid as hell runing around w/ big *** hammers and sticks.

I confess, I'm left scratching my head by the messages here. Though it's raw damage barely different from a Halcyon broadsword after taking into consideration that your damage bonus will be striking with delay 26 instead of 25, it is a smidge better, and it does have a useful stat. The proc is rarely useful, but so what?

At this level, where most of your equipment is the best you can get and you've spent days agonizing over how to niggle here and there to statistically maximize your efficiency, the game is all about small marginal improvements. This weapon is not crushingly more powerful than its alternative, but halcyons aren't short camps either, and so what? You don't carefully plan to get a weapon like this from scratch - if you do, you've got serious priority problems, or are too low level to be worrying about it anyway. Go to the PoS with your guild, enjoy yourself, and see if the parts start dropping into your lap. Eventually one guild paladin will have two of them, and then it's just a matter of hoping to complete it on the next few raids.

There are more damaging two handers, but the choice between one- and two-hander is a personal one, and often situation-dependent. I'm disinclined to give up the benefit of a Sarnak Battle Shield or a Shield of the Stalwart Seas for a two hander in most cases. No matter what I do, I cannot be a serious damage dealer compared to some of my other tank friends anyway. I don't have a nice crushing paladin two hander like a rod of mourning. And there are precious few cases where I'd dump a battle shield for an Arbitor's Combine Greatsword.

The argument that there are better Kunark drops for one handers than this weapon is spurious. For paladins, there simply aren't.

(Well, perhaps there are some undiscovered VP ones, or what have you, but obviously this sword is easier to get those.)

Khoren
53rd Paladin

i like 2-hs. its cool killin stuff in 1 hit i might not know about it cause oim only lvl9 but i thnk that waep is not worth it, i have a weap thats 21dmg 40dly its not the best but it gives me serpent sight also

to me its sad that most quest items are crap compared to items that drop without any questing at all...EQ seems to discourage questing by making quest items such as FA (verry verry good but not worth the effort) and Zephyrwind weaker than a lot of campable items that take hours or sometimes days to get instead of weeks and weeks or even months of questing to get an item that when compared to the camped itmes is only slightly better or not even as good as the camped items that take a fraction of the time and effort to get. so i think they need to make the quest items better or people will just stop questing all together...

Armi

This item is from the sister of spire, the second highest level of Sky. And let me tell you.. nobody who actually goes that high will actually want to use this weapon. There is no reason to use it over the green jade axe or granite face grinder unless you enjoy doing less damage (and paladins need all the help they can get in that regard)

A very disappointing weapon, given the useless proc and weak damage/delay (sk's get a better weapon in SEBILIS for christ's sake)

Finally I can forget about dragons and start leveling again.