SoF Tradeskill Quest #5: Counting Shadows  

If you have hidecorpse one it will hide the box after you open it. Scared the hell out of me after doing all that the box disappeared and I had no loot in advloot. I camped out and came back in thinking maybe I was bugged. Then I thought, 'Maybe it is on a hidden "corpse" so I have to loot it.' and bingo. Got the loots. This is a extremely annoying task. Not so bad if you box because you can do stuff and watch time from another character.

How about you have to scribe the Making Shadowspike Arrows before you can Create 2 Shadowspike Arrow's using tradeskills - 0/2 - (ALL)

The following information is not true as of 1/29/2019:

Dragonscale Hills: Brownie Camp (not too uncommon off trash. Always dropped by Tangler Timbleton).

I just killed Tangler Timbleton and he did not drop the box.

Edited, Jan 29th 2019 2:36pm by Karnivool

For clarity the sequence of events

1. Gem Covered Box (doesn't matter which one) and 1 x Celestial Essence - Trivial 0 (12 AM Combine. Get your combine ready before.)
2. Gem Covered Box (doesn't matter which one) and 1 x Vodka - Trivial 0 (between 1 AM and 11 AM)
3. Gem Covered Box (doesn't matter which one) and 1 x Juice of Quellious - Trivial 0 (11 AM Combine. Get your combine ready before.)

THEN

4. At 12 PM (noon), first, stand on the south of the altar, face north, put any Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and right-click it to place it on the altar.
5. Next, move to the west of the altar, face east, put any Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and right-click it to place it on the altar.
6. Lastly, move to the east side of the altar, face west, put the last Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and right-click it to place it on the altar.
7. Now you need to wait for 1 PM game-time to open the correct box... while you wait, move to the west of the altar and face east.
8. At 1 PM game-time, target and open (/open) the box nearest to you (it has a neat opening effect)... the other two boxes will disappear.
Now loot the Shadowspike Arrow Tip Mold, Black Gem Grade Faycite and Making Shadowspike Arrows from inside that box!

Edited, Sep 13th 2018 1:34pm by Plough

When trying to repair the book with a book binding I get a message saying "This seems correct but something is wrong. Perhaps you need to know something more in order to combine this." Has anyone else run into this? Does it require a certain SoF flag or is there a quest step I missed?

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. I just needed to scribe the recipe from Eron.

Edited, May 13th 2018 4:15pm by Maitreya

OK, I just did this quest yesterday, and thought I'd post a quick comment, which I saw later was posted in the second oldest comment, but I didn't see it beforehand:

When it says to stand "on the west side of the altar", etc, it doesn't mean "on the altar", which is how my literal-focused mind interpreted it :)

Stand on the ground (green grass) very close to the altar, and click the shadow boxes from there.

One other helpful piece of info: if you fail and get DT'ed like I did, you don't have to go back to Eron and "reset invisible flags", or whatever was mentioned in one of the comments. The DT death also poofs whatever unclicked shadow boxes you had, so you can just go and get new ones. Worked without a problem for me the second time.

Oh, and while you're sitting there waiting for 11AM to roll around, take a look at your achievements, and see if there's something you can work on. I noticed that my Divination was at 316/380, and Divination Specialization was at 65/225! Only Div spell a druid would cast is Camo, and we have an AA for that, and AA clicks aren't eligible for skillups, so I was way behind. I made three new achievements while I waited, LOL!

Tat

Not sure the three pages are "common" drops. I've cleared the tunnels six times now and seen 4 copies of Page 3 and NONE of the others. Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but they seem a bit scarcer than "common."



Edited, Sep 26th 2016 3:50pm by Sippin

The above information is incorrect. This is a Blacksmith Combine, Place those 3 items inside a Forge for a successful Arrow Tip Combine

I did the following from http://www.bonzz.com/eron.htm precisely and worked like a charm:

Things to know:

Be sure you have a bag slot open as well as having a fletching kit;
Despite what the lore in the book says, it is never sunny in this zone, so that line of instructions is really a red herring (misdirection);
It does not matter which Gem Covered Box you use to make any one of the Shadow Box... all that matters is that you make them at the right times;
If you fail a combine, the box will "crumble" and you will have to get another one to replace it;
If any combine fails it means one of two things... most likely your timing was off or your flagging for this task is bugged and it will take a GM to get it corrected;
It does not matter which Shadow Box you place first, second or third... just place them as noted below;
Once you start to place the three (3) Shadow Box, you only have 20-minutes game-time (one minute in real life) to place them... so don't rush it, but don't take it too slow, either;
WARNING: If you place the boxes in the wrong order, at the wrong time or if you open the wrong box after they have been placed, you will either suffer a 325K death touch or be swarmed and killed by MOB's that spawn and attack you! Even worse, you will lose all three (3) boxes and have to try again!

Now, follow these steps below in the order listed and at the times noted, and you should not have any issues.

A) Position yourself so that you are south of the altar, facing north;
B) Wait until it is 12 AM (midnight) (feel free to set up the first combine, so it is ready, as noted below);
C) At midnight game-time (12 AM) combine a Gem Covered Box (any one of them) with a Celestial Essence (do this one first!) (Fletching Trivial 0), to make a Shadow Box (Magic, Lore, No Trade; Weight 19.0; one charge of "Place Box");
D) Now take your time, there is no rush on this one (no time limit or set time), so don't get excited. Combine a Gem Covered Box (any one of them) with a Vodka (Fletching Trivial 0), to make another Shadow Box;
E) Now wait (or come back) for 11 AM game-time (feel free to set up the last combine, so it is ready, as noted below);
F) Once 11 AM arrives, combine the last Gem Covered Box with the Juice of Quellious to make the third Shadow Box (Fletching Trivial 0);
G) Now wait until 12 PM (noon or mid-day) game-time. This is when you will need to place all three Shadow Box on the altar in the proper order, as noted below;
H) While you wait, free up an inventory slot (bag slot);
I) At 12 PM (noon), first, stand on the south of the altar, face north, put any Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and click it to place it on the altar;
J) Next, move to the west of the altar, face east, put any Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and click it to place it on the altar;
K) Lastly, move to the east side of the altar, face west, put the last Shadow Box in an open inventory slot (bag slot) and click it to place it on the altar;
L) Now you need to wait for 1 PM game-time to open the correct box... while you wait, move to the west of the altar and face east;
M) At 1 PM game-time, target and open (/open) the box nearest to you (it has a neat opening effect)... the other two boxes will disappear;
N) Now loot the Shadowspike Arrow Tip Mold (No Trade, Weight 0.1); Black Gem Grade Faycite (No Trade, Magic, Weight 0.1)); and Making Shadowspike Arrows (No Trade, Weight 1.5) from inside that box!

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I had done some of the task in the past just to get the arrow mold and then deleted the quest. This resulted in me not being able to combine the boxes. I can confirm that handing in the book of shadows to Eron reset my task and Im now on the right path again :-)

/cheer Zarmak

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