Ranger Epic 1 - Swiftwind and Earthcaller

The Beginning

First go to Telin Darkforest (Level 55) in Burning Woods. He roams near to the Skyfire zone and has been sited at +3234, +2871. Ask him "what action" and he will give you a note. If he doesn't, then your faction is too low. Faction can be built up fast by doing the muffin for Pandos quest in Freeport quite a few times.

Next, find Faelin Bloodbriar in Greater Faydark. Faelin spawns at +1500, +500. The placeholder is a roaming orc pawn that spawns at 6 minute intervals. The best tactic is to roam around. Once you do find her, give her the note and you receive a ring. After giving her the note she despawns.

Giz X'Tin (Level 40) is found in Kithicor near the path from West Commons to Highpass Hold. Give him the ring and he gives you a dark metal coin. Giz roams along the path. After you hand him the ring a level 50 Darkelf Reaver spawns and attacks you. Be prepared and have Spirit of the Wolf cast on you so that you can run away.

Go back to Telin Darkforest and give him the Coin. He will give it back to you as worn metal coin. He tells you to find Athele. Find Athele in East Karanas. She can be found just north of the barbarian fishing village. Give her the worn metal coin and receive a worn amulet. Give this amulet to Sionae (spawns -2300, -930), then to Nuien (spawns -3650, -300) and finally to Teloa (spawns -3800, -2860).

When you give the amulet to Teloa the Dark Elf Corruptor and two Darkelf Reavers (All around level 50) spawn. You should have one of your druid friends stand on the hill east of the river (loc -1500, -1000). He will depop after 10 seconds if not attacked so have the druid kite the Corruptor over to you. You needn't worry about the Reavers, they will head towards the four druids. Just kill the Corruptor and get the tome. The Reavers will probably just kill the druids which is fine because Athele will spawn in about one hour. Note from Saffron, alternatively get a few higher levels (70 plus or so) to help you to kill both the corruptor and the reavers, so that the reavers will not kill Athele and the other druids, as you will need to hand the tome to Athele which drops from the Dark Elf Corruptor. Otherwise you will have to wait for Athele to respawn.

Give Athele the tome and he gives you an Earth Stained Note. Bring this to Ella Foodcrafter.

Ella Foodcrafter in Misty Thicket is this wanted women that wanders the zone. Give her the earthstained note and she will tell you that she needs a mixture. She will give you her mixing bowl. It is a Container so you need a free slot in the Inventory. She also mentions some kind of ancient bowl that she needs.

The Hardened Mixture

You must forage 4 no trade items that you have to combine in Ella's mixing bowl:

Chilled Tundra Root from Everfrost Peaks.

Sweetened Mudroots from Misty Thicket.

Speckled Moldy Mushrooms from Innothule Swamp.

Heartfruit from Greater Faydark.

Go to these places and put the "Forage" button into your hotkey, find a nice safe space and hit forage continuously. This can take several hours so be prepared. When you get the items, combine them in the bowl and you get a Hardened Mixture.

The Runed Bowl

Now go to the Chess Island in Timorous Deep. The easiest way to do this is to take the barge from the Oasis docks to Timorous Deep. From this island, cast levitate, Sow and invis (there's a deadly Iksar on Chess Island, you want to avoid him) and run south. Do it from something elevated, like the docks, so you skim over the water. Run straight south. Use track to locate Alrik Farsight. He's at about -6500, 2000.

Uninvis yourself, hail him, then say "How do you make an ancient bowl?" and "I can take the artifact." He gives you a crushed pot and sends you to Felwithe. Hail Farios Elianos in Felwithe South before you give him the crushed pot. Farios is in the merchant building near the caster's guild. When you enter Felwithe South, you'll see the entrance to the merchant straight ahead, whereas the entrance to the caster's guild is to the left. Note - if Alrik or Farios will not speak to you then you need to raise your Keepers of the Art faction to amiable. This can be done by doing a bat wing turn in quest detailed here. Buy bat wings from Dashelo Dalroshan in the Bazaar. You will probably need 120 - 200 wings to get from indifferent to amiable faction. Head back to Felwithe South, run to the mage guild, and hand in wings, 4 per stack in all 4 give slots, to Niola Impholder, a trainer in the Felwithe Mage guild.

Once Farios cons amiable and talks to you, give him the pot and you receive a grocery list. He will give you the receipt for the bowl if you do a job for him. Bring this grocery list to Merchant Nora in the Shop of All Halos in Felwithe north, which is near the cleric guild. She gives you in return a bag of Provisions. Bring it to Farios and he gives you the receipt for the ancient bowl. Head back to Alrik Farsight in Timorous Deep. He will give you an ancient pattern when you give him the receipt.

The pattern says that you have to combine it with a piece of enchanted clay and platinum speckled powder in a pottery wheel. No skill in pottery is required.

Platinum speckled powder can be obtained through another sub quest.

Forage a Rose of Firiona in Firiona Vie and give it to Merdan Fleetfoot in Surefall Glades, a male ranger in the back of the zone, near the water. The old wooden painting that you receive has to be brought to the human skeleton (Level 40) that roams the western part of Frontier Mountains . It can be found wandering on the western and southern areas, far from the giant fort.

Invis yourself to be left alone by the wandering mobs. Look for "A Human Skeleton" on track. Give him the painting and he will crumble, and you'll have a silver chained locket in your inventory.

Back to Surefall Glade. Give the locket to Niera Farbreeze, a human female in banded armor, also near the water but close to the druid guild building. She will hand you the platinum speckled powder.

Enchanted clay can be obtained through Kinlo Strongarm in Kaladim's EverHot Forge. If you ask him "what mud" and "do it for me" he will tell you that he would like to have a colored axe for his service. He wants a Jade Reaver that can be found in the City of Mist off of a Black Reaver who is about level 52. This is not easy at all. The Reaver is a rare drop and the Black Reavers are a real pain to take down. You will need at least one full group of 50+ players if not two, and one must be a rogue with high lock picking skills. (Saffron's note - a Jade Reaver can be bought from other players, as it is droppable, however it may be pricey) 

Hand Kinlo the axe and you get the enchanted clay. If you hunted dwarf citizens in Butcher, invis yourself and head to the forge. The merchants, thankfully, are on a different faction table. Just go to the Everhot Forge and hand Kinlo a Jade Reaver to get the clay. Now combine the pattern, clay and powder in any pottery wheel to make the Rune Crested Bowl.

The Stones

Go Back to Misty Thicket and hand Ella Foodcrafter the hardened mixture and the rune crested bowl. She will make for you a softly glowing stone from it. Ella tells you to find one such as yourself.

In preparation of your next trip to Karnor's Castle to kill the respawned version of Venril Sathir, cast the spell Dance of the Fireflies (at night) to Summon a Firefly Globe. You will also need to buy Resurrection (a cleric spell). Saffron's note - There are two versions of Venril Sathir and one is harder than the other. The one you want to kill spawns from the remains only. If the harder version of Venril Sathir is up, he needs to be killed to spawn Venril Sathir's remains, which will appear approximately 24 hours later. Slightly confusing, I know.

Go to Karnor's Castle. You should look for Venril Sathir's remains on track. If they are up, give the Firefly globe to Venril Sathir's remains (don't kill them). Then the Spirit of Venril Sathir will spawn. Again, don't kill it, hail it and give it the resurrection spell, which will spawn Venril Sathir, who you now have to kill!

Saffron's note - Venril Sathir (spawned from the remains) can be soloed by a ranger in their mid sixties, with approx 10,000 hps buffed (possibly less?). Take as many healing/heal over time potions as you can and be buffed to the hilt. I did it some time ago and survived to tell the tale!).

After you kill this respawned version of Venril Sathir you will get the Pulsing Green Stone.

Go to Firiona Vie (where the good npc's now live on the north east sector island) and give the Softly Glowing Stone and the Pulsing Green Stone to Foloal Stormforest to get the Warmly Glowing Stone.

Head back to Burning Woods and give Telin Darkforest the Warmly Glowing Stone to get the Ancient Longsword.

The Hammers

Now head to The Hole which is a zone adjacent to Paineel. Find Jaeil the Wretched (level 50). Jaeil can be found deep below the city, overlooking a small pond. Use Sneak and then go behind Jaeil and give him the Shiny Tin Bowl. Make sure you have a raid party in the room ready for battle. He will scream at himself and then Jaeil the Insane will spawn. Saffron's note - if you are level 65 or over, you should be ok to fight Jaeil the Insane with a small group, or even solo 70 +. There are some see invis on the way to down to him so is a little awkward to get to.

Now the raid party (or group) goes into action and kills Jaeil the Insane. Loots from Jaeil the Insane a Soulbound Hammer.

Go to Erudin and find Mairee Silentone. She is in the jewelry shop, by the bank. Give her the Soulbound Hammer and in return she will give you the Dwarven Smiths Hammer.

Now go to Island 5 on the Plane of Sky and kill the Essence Tamer. He spawns on the fourth island and drops the Swirling Sphere of Color. As of May 2008, you can teleport to the Plane of Sky via the Guild Hall portal or get a port from Relm M`Loch in the Plane of Tranquility. Alternatively, a wizard can cast their Alter Plane Sky spell to port up a group. Saffron's note - this part of the quest can be mq'd (multiquested), however this is frowned upon by Sony Online Entertainment.

Take the Dwarven Smiths Hammer and the Swirling Sphere of Color and give them to Mairee. In return, she will give you the Hammer of the Ancients.

Go back to Kinlo Strongarm in North Kaladim and give him the Hammer of the Ancients.

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