Yet another easy aug quest with no killing

[dirtynumbangel]

This is another quest for a decent augment with minimal effort on your part.

A stonefed chip
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE AUGMENTATION
Augmentation type: 7
Slot: HEAD FACE EAR NECK SHOULDERS ARMS BACK WRIST RANGE HANDS PRIMARY SECONDARY FINGER CHEST LEGS FEET WAIST
HP: +50 MANA: +50 ENDUR: +50
Spell Shield: +3%
Recommended level of 70. Required level of 63.
WT: 0.0 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Item Information:
You must use the solvent Class XV Augmentation Distiller to remove this augment safely.


This quest starts in Icefall Glacier with an orc named Gnashclaw Stonefed.
He is located in the orc area in the north eastern side of the zone.
You can acquire this quest one of two ways.
You can A; Faction your ass off killing kobolds thus wasting your time.
Or you can B; Shroud to a rogue, sneak hide into the orc caves, stand behind him and drop hide, then as quickly as possible hail and hide again. This will keep the KoS orcs from attacking you, unless you take too long hitting hide, or the server is in the middle of a save.
Ask any experienced rogue about this they can fill you in if you don't quite follow.

Once you are hidden again, Reposition yourself behind the npc, as he will have turned around to face you after you have hailed him.... type out the trigger text, and have it ready to be said, (do not hit enter yet), then drop hide and quickly hit enter to speak the phrase, then hide again.
Keep doing this untill you have the quest.

ok now the easy part. Head over to the port in landing, there are two Kobold caves, The one you need to go into is the one to the east of the port in, not the one on the western zone wall.
Wander back into one of one of the rooms, you will see a large, flatish pile of rocks in the middle of one of the rooms click on it like you would a door. A
Stone will apear on your cursor. They are lore and you will have to deliver one to Gnashy poo before getting another crack rock from the pile for him.

If you happen to have a working version of mq2give you can just use it to hand the stone to Gnashclaw, and then pick up another stone... and so on and so on. Otherwise you're going to have to A; Run it back and hand it in rogue style. Or B; Warp your lazy ass over there and hand it in.

If you do not have MQ2give and MQ2hail, rinse and repeat untill you get to the last stone. Once you are ready to turn in the last stone you should be ready for agro. As Gnashclaw Stonefed is going to become powered up dragon ball Z / PCP addict style, aoe you and thus agro the entire cave on you. You will need to hail him quickly and haul ass to the Valdeholm zone line. Otherwise use mq2give and mq2hail and totally avoid the aoe and agro / training.

And bam the quest is finished, yet another easy aug with no killing involved.

If by chance this guide is confusing to you in any way, feel free to ask any questions you need to. If my answers are still not helpfull and you can all be patient with me, when I get home I'll revise this post with loc's and perhaps a screen shot map.
I am going from memory when I did the quest a couple weeks ago.

GL, enjoy, and remember kids....

Dirty likes red cents too.

 

[majin1970]

Dammit. Why can't they pull cool shit like this in expansions I own!!

Nice find though Dirty. I'd redcent if I had TSS. :p

 

[dirtynumbangel]

Dammit. Why can't they pull cool shit like this in expansions I own!!

Nice find though Dirty. I'd redcent if I had TSS. :p

well I suppose it's the thought that counts or something......
*mopes away*
/emo off
hahaha

 

[thez]

Nice.

Red cent for joo.

 

[Mikiky]

aye, nice find Dirty!!

 

[rayana]

red cent, at least i think so as i pay for the site

 

[ss44]

You can get into TSS with the newest version of Redquest. There is a plugin in there that allows you to gain access...

 

[ss44]

At least that is my understanding of the plugin, I havent tried it yet.

 

[Acigaretteandsex]

This is Harder than it sounds especially when someone else uses 2 of the 4 rocks you are allowed to grab cus then you have to deal with the AE earlier on. Lost 17% exp in rezz's trying to get this.

Mq2Give would be a god send

 

[dirtynumbangel]

This is Harder than it sounds especially when someone else uses 2 of the 4 rocks you are allowed to grab cus then you have to deal with the AE earlier on. Lost 17% exp in rezz's trying to get this.

Mq2Give would be a god send

I was unaware that it would count items turned in by other players.
Since this is a task I would have thought that the turn in's others did would in no way affect your toon, as the Tasks are a character flag system tailored for each character ID (name);
but considering how the Timmi fell down the well task, and Avalanch event can become bugged all to hell, I don't find this to be all that surprising.

You lost 17% in rezes ?!?! That's how many attempts / deaths? Ouch, you are far too tenacious for your toons own good <jk>
I would have left the zone for a while and come back a little later allowing the npc time to reset.
All of the Icefall quests seem to have the potential to become bugged, but they will reset themselves after a while. Although when it comes to turn ins your characters progress will be saved.

I would say to do a /who and see if anyone is shrouded as a goblin or kobold rogue. if so come back later when they are gone, becasue someone else is doing the quest most likely. Though that isn't much help for normal rogues doing the quest prior to your trying. *scratches head....* hmmm.

but wow... 17% in rezes.... Man I'm sorry to hear that.
The 10 toons I have done this on never died once. I think the npc was just bugged out is all.

Thank you for bringing this bug to light though.

 

[buckeyesfan1]

could you use ghost to do the hails and stuff?

 

[Salemwin]

btw you only have to say can help with him targeted to get quest save you the trouble of 3 hides

 

[dirtynumbangel]

btw you only have to say can help with him targeted to get quest save you the trouble of 3 hides

Sweet, I couldn't remember the trigger phrase. Thanks for posting it.
If I hadn't already used my red cent for the day it would be yours, I'll have to drop one in your can tomorrow.

 

[disparu]

all he replys wiht is "not hungry for stones no more"

broken or something?

 

[dirtynumbangel]

someone had just finished the quest then. That's what he tells you if you hail him again after giving him the last stone. So it must be bugged from someone elses completion. Give it 30-60 minutes to reset the npc's quest status.

 

[disparu]

someone had just finished the quest then. That's what he tells you if you hail him again after giving him the last stone. So it must be bugged from someone elses completion. Give it 30-60 minutes to reset the npc's quest status.

seems been like this all day =(

 

[dirtynumbangel]

seems been like this all day =(

Look at how many views this post has had..... It doesn't surprise me. The more people there are doing this, the more likely it is to become bugged. just be patient and wait a bit for the hype to die down some.

 

[disparu]

Look at how many views this post has had..... It doesn't surprise me. The more people there are doing this, the more likely it is to become bugged. just be patient and wait a bit for the hype to die down some.

thanks

 

[Salemwin]

he is very easly pull out of cave and soloed by a necro just an idea highest hit was 400-500 no summon no special abilitys just an idea spawns 20 min after death as normal

 

[disparu]

he is very easly pull out of cave and soloed by a necro just an idea highest hit was 400-500 no summon no special abilitys just an idea spawns 20 min after death as normal

are you suggesting that i kill him and use his fresh spawn?

 

[Salemwin]

yes hes suposed to be killed after you finish quest
why he attacks you he will reset after a few hours anyways but he will respawn in 20min upon his death

 

[anon 456]

I just finished this quest using a rouge shroud. Died a few times, seems whenever you give Stoney a rock, you get alot of agro in the cave. Anyway, I was shrouded when I hailed him the last time, and agroed the other mobs and died. Respawning in POK, I had a completed quest notifcation window and a select your reward option, problem is, it wouldn;t let me select nor recieve the aug. After a few minutes of trying, I went and summoned my corpse, and got a rez, and poof! No more reward. Really sucks. Of course, I'm sure that SOE will rush right out and give me another aug when they read my petition......

 

[dirtynumbangel]

I'm, really sorry to hear about people having issues with this quest... I did it with all 10 toons on my account and didn''t have a problem at all.

 

[disparu]

nvm

 

[dirtynumbangel]

am i doing something wrong he doesnt respond with anything but hateful remarks

sneak hide.... stand behind drop hide say "can help" VERY QUICKLY put hide back up or you will get agro from near by mobs. So you're going to want to queue the text up before dropping hide.

 

[money4935]

I want to thank you Dirty, this was actually a fun quest.

A couple of hints: When you first go to get the quest. Create a Hotkey for the Hide drop and rehide. Mine looked like this:

/target Gnashclaw; /doability 4 (hide); /say I can help; /doability 4 (hide).

with this hotkey, I had no problem rehiding quickly enough. Just remember that you need to sneak before you move!

The only MQGive I could find was a MQ2GiveNPC that I had to be standing next to the mob to perform. So I ran back and forth to give the stone. I did get lazy and use warp target for the last one though. Reminder: Once you give Gnashclaw the final stone, he sees invis and crushes you. I took the death as part of the cost of the augment. However, I respawned in Icefall and ran right back to try and hail Gnashy-poo to finish the quest and got killed again. Finally I got smart and hailed from the zone line and completed the quest.

If there is a working MQ2Give out there, it would really simplify this quest, but its still pretty easy if you have access to at least one rez.

Thanks again thanks to Dirty for providing information about this simply and easy quest with good augment...

 

[Crystane]

Anyone got any info if the Faction changes sony screwed up on made the rogue way obsolete???

 

[swag]

bump

 

[anon 456]

I've tried this on 2 different toons using the Rogue method, and Gnash simply insults me and does not give the quest. Appears to be totally faction related now.

 

[kable]

No it still works, the quest just gets Fubar'd because he is not being killed. I completed it yesterday. Just wait a day and he is usually reset. Thats what I have had to do for a few toons once he says he doesnt want any more stones.

 

[dirtynumbangel]

I've tried this on 2 different toons using the Rogue method, and Gnash simply insults me and does not give the quest. Appears to be totally faction related now.

You only need indifferent faction, and when standing *behind* a mob with sneak and hide on and dropping only hide, you will still be behind and still be sneaking and thus be indifferent still, and thus able to acquire the quest.
For this to work every time you speak with him you have to be positioned behind him and sneaking.

 

[dice107]

there are large 'flatish piles of rocks' all over the place in here...some with see invis kobolds...


any chance of a loc ?

 

[Destro]

any chance of a loc ?

+1800, -40

 

[Destro]

Does the rockpile despawn? I had done 3 runs of the stone back to the quest npc. When I got back the 4th time the rockpile was gone. Quest shows 3/4 complete. And the orc gives me the lame old "not hungry for more stones" text.

 

[Bolt]

I had done 3 runs myself,on the 4th the pile despawned.Tryed a few hours later
still missing.Had to wait till the next day to finish.

 

[Destro]

Did the pile just reappear? I was wondering if it was somehow spawned when you initiate the quest or something like that.

 

[bigsnafu]

There is a second quest on this line where you have to kill Gnashclaw and return the item to the kobolds. You get a similar aug.

 

[dice107]

I finally found the right rockpile that night, and had 11 corpses at Gnashclaw when I was done. (Thank you Expedient Recovery) On one of those corpses was a stone ...I died before I could hit GIVE...and just went and got a 5th one...so the rockpile doesn't despawn after you grab 4 stones.

 

[daemonrebel]

item not found on allakhazam.

 

[sduchac]

This quest still work? Cant seem to find the rocks