Bastion of Thunder

[EZ_Hoppkins]

What items are needed and who to hand them into?

It is my understanding you need :- Head, Bone, Beard and ?

Yuo need good faction to hand in?

Also where is this BoT zone in?

Im guessing the area at the top of the whirlwind is for that frog city ive been screweing my faction with.

[EZ_Lannlaar Crimsonlite]

the head bone beard and symbol are just the begining of the quest. u need alot more. that takes a few groups to get. and BoT is up the whirlwind but im not 100% on that

[EZ_Hoppkins]

Any idea where the quest starts? or with whom?

[EZ_egraaf]

You need Head, Bone, Beard and Sash and two medallions. The quest starts with Askr the Lost.

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Tivorr

[EZ_Gath Dragonsong]

The quest giver is Askr the Lost, I handed in a storm giant head and was asked to collect proof from the other giants.

I now have in my possession a head from each clan, a bone, a sash and a beard. I have tried handing these in in many different combination but just get them back each time

Can anyone help?

[Underdawg Darogue]

** Edited by: Underdawg DaRogue at: 11/26/02 1:41:50 am

[EZ_Fatsow99]

NT Edited by: Fatsow99 at: 11/25/02 11:48:11 pm

[EZ_Sheiba]

So is this safe to say does not work or is it the correct items have not been found?

Where do the medalions come from?

[EZ_Ambershine]

I have done this quest partially. You need (only one head) , a sash, bone, beard for the 1st part. There are three types of giants, coastal, desert, and forrest, you need to gather the above items from them. Each type drops a specific item.

The second part consists of killing named mini-bosses. We have killed the named mini bosses in the coastal camp but havent found the named mini bosses from the other two camps. Bring a tracker to help for this. There are three types of giants as mentioned above, you need a medalion off 2 of them. The medallion has to be from 2 different giant types.

Once you have finished part 1 collect the 2 medallion pieces and turn those in to gain the final medallion and access to BoT.

[EZ_Wex5]

Amber nailed it. Also, askr is very buggy, it may take you a few times to get the right text out of him. I have told my people to try turning in the head first, if that doesnt work, have them say "it was me" then turn in the head, then say "it was me" yet again. Dunno, for some reason that seemed to fix him so you could follow the rest of the quest to get flagged and get the quest for the key.

Duke Wexler Judicata
HCoN - Drinal

[EZ_GreyKnight]

Obligatory whine: How about hailing the quest NPC and actually reading the text?

Ok, since that's out of the way, don't expect to get these too quickly. Main issue is that the giants that drop medallions spawn on zone up, which means if you're not early morning, you'll see them rarely only.

So far, there doesn't seem to be a mass keying event for BoT in Plane of Storms, which sucks.

Oh ya, it seems very important that you trigger all the quest text. After handing in the giant head, it's "it was me, it was me, continue, continue, continue" then hand in the giant items.

[EZ_Tathlyn]

I was just trying to hand in the items that Askr requested, I received experience, but he returned the beard to me. Then he wouldn't give me any new text, even when I tried repeating previous conversation and giving him the beard again, nor a beard and a head, and he still wouldn't say anything else.

Anyone know if the "experience" message means I just need to get the 2 medallions now?

If not, are there 2 different types of beards or why wouldn't he take this one from the coastal giants?

[EZ_Wynson]

From what i've been told you have to actually follow the text through all the way, or he will hand stuff back, so you cant just hand in the items and expect it to work, go through each part of the conversation just to be safe.

And someone said theres a 24 person event in PoS that flags you for BoT, dont know if its true or not but its worth a shot if you got the people.

[EZ_SeiryuEQ]

To solve the problem with Askr not responding to certain keyword I just typed up all of what Askr said...EQ did the rest and parsed whatever it needed to unlock the next paragraph.

[EZ_Memore]

Even following through the text completely he'll give items back sometimes and give exp but no flag. Just give it back to him again and he'll take it. Happened to myself and a few others. He's buggy that way bust just force it on him and it will work.

[EZ_GreyKnight]

Good ole VI trying to killing MQing, and the code sucks and doesn't work. Askr ate my first batch of items and I had to redo it.

Anyhoo, there is no mass key event in PoS that we could find, and we've killed everything in the zone

[EZ_Wynson]

I dont know where it is but theres supposed to be some thing where to 'protect the tree's' i think, maybe someone who knows will say. Its supposedly 24 person as i said before, and flags you for BoT (kinda like the ponb flag i guess)

[EZ_Graznoth]

Relv the Mysterious is the quest mob, and the event does not flag you for anything.

[EZ_Tathlyn]

blech, guess back to regathering since I did the whole conversation :(

[EZ_Sheiba]

Can anyone say exactly what the names of the medallions are called and the names of the named giants that drop them please? LOCS would be nice too .

[EZ_Fastasia]

lol sheiba. not hard to find and you dont need locs.

walk up to fort, look for larger sized giant in the middle with Lord in the name.

Problem is you have 2 mini bosses in each house on the coast fort that can be killed with 2 good groups. That gets you one medallion. The problem is that you need a second medallion from one of the other 2 forts and they do not have minibosses.

That means if your guild cannot kill a quad 1500 hitting named giant with about 100K hp and adds that come in the middle of the fight then you will not be getting into BOT (even if you do kill it you will only get 4, yes four, medallions).

I can even understand this point if they only want uber access to pot but then why even put mini bosses in on the coast?

[EZ_Dirtydorf]

Not that it matters a ton, but we've gotten 5 medallions for each Lord we've killed.

[EZ_the hawnz]

ya, it's like 5 medals every kill off lords and named.

you should start the quest when you have the head and the 3 items.

tell askr "what problem?". then turn in your head off any of the giants in POS. then run through his quest dialogue (pretty easy to follow). eventually he'll tell you about the pieces he needs from each giant. turn them in to get first flag.

you need:

head - random off any giant
sash - forest giants
bone - desert giants
beard - seashore giants

these are all pretty common, but random drop items off the respective giant tribes.

when you turn all this in, he'll give you more text. you can stop here and do the rest later if you want, as you are flagged for it. the next step requires 2 medallions. the medallions drop off of the lords of each tribe as well as the named.

to kill the lords, you have to kill all the giants in the area and he will become targetable. they all have their own little special abilities, which i'll let you find out on your own. lords seem to always drop 5 medals and 1 loot item. their loot items range from really nice to eh.. the named also seem to drop 5 medals all the time, but are easier to kill.

you need 2 medals to complete the BOT key quest from this point. all the medals are named the same thing, but they're not. you need any 2 different ones. you will need to kill at least 1 of the lords.

possible medal combos.

any lord medal + named medal
any lord medal + either one of the other two lord medals.

it's pretty much a waste to use 2 different lord medals though since it's a waste as the lords are harder, and have set respawn where as named are easy and faster respawn.

go back to askr and tell him "what bastion of thunder?" and he will ask you for 2 medals. give him the 2 medals and you will get another character flag. the first time you zone into BOT, you have to do it from POS. in the desert area there is a spinning cloud in the sky by a waterfall. next to the waterfall is a cave full of KOS frogs.

invis up and go in the cave and there is a small lake with a tornado in the middle of it. on the edge of the lake is a white stucture. click on it to zone into BOT. you will receive another character flag when you do this, which will let you zone into BOT from POT now.

the BOT zone in in POT is right behind the POS zone thing. it's a stone with lightning etched on the side of it.

hope that helps.

[EZ_the hawnz]

here's some of the loot that drops off lords:

Earring of the Raging Typhoon
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: EAR
AC: 10
STR: +14 WIS: +6 INT: +6 HP: +75
MANA: +75 SV FIRE: +8 SV DISEASE: +8 SV COLD: +8
SV MAGIC: +8 SV POISON: +8
Recommended Level of 58.
Effect: Aura of Health (Worn)
WT: 0.6 Size: TINY
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG BST
Race: ALL

Earring of the Stormcloud
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: EAR
AC: 10
STR: +10 STA: +10 WIS: +7 INT: +7
HP: +85 MANA: +65 SV COLD: +8 SV MAGIC: +8
SV POISON: +8
Recommended Level of 58.
WT: 0.7 Size: TINY
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG BST
Race: ALL

Falchion of Storms
LORE ITEM MAGIC ITEM
Damage: 12
Delay: 18
Ratio: 1.5 Amazing
Agi: +5 Dex: +5 Magic Resist: +10 Fire Resist: +10 Mana: +50
Weight: 2.0
Weapon Skill: One Hand Slash
Classes: Warrior Rogue Bard Ranger
Races: All Races
Inventory Slot: Either Melee

Dirk of the Ravaging Wind
LORE ITEM MAGIC ITEM NO DROP
Damage: 20
Delay: 26
Ratio: 1.3 Amazing
AC: +8 Sta: +10 Dex: +12 Int: +8 Cha: +5 Magic Resist: +6 Fire Resist: +6 Cold Resist: +6 HP: +75 Mana: +75
Weight: 2.0
Weapon Skill: Piercing
Classes: Bard
Races: All Races

Idol of the Tempest Storm
LORE ITEM MAGIC ITEM NO DROP
AC: +12 Sta: +12 Dex: +12 Int: +10 Magic Resist: +8 Fire Resist: +8 Cold Resist: +8 Poison Resist: +8 Disease Resist: +8 HP: +60 Mana: +80
Weight: 0.6
Classes: Cleric Druid Shaman Wizard Magician Enchanter Necromancer
Races: All Races
Inventory Slot: Ranged Weapon
Effect: Extended Enhancement IV

[EZ_Pasteton]

There are other named in the forest/desert camps besides the Lords, but so far have not seen them drop medals.

[EZ_the hawnz]

far as i know, only seashore named (non-lords) drop medals.

[EZ_tideni]

Are the named non-lords also on a three day spawn?

It looks like nobody is killing the lord by the beach on my server but I dont usually see any other notable spawns. I caught the zone at server up this morning and noticed 1 lord and two nameds in each region. Edited by: tideni at: 12/4/02 8:47:41 am

[EZ_Cheriffe]

When I hand Askr the head he responds with something like, "he looks at you funny and doesn't know why you're handing him this yet", then returns the head. I started indifferent and have killed enough giants to get heads/bones/sashes/beards for most of my guild, and I'm still indifferent.

[EZ_the hawnz]

you can't just hand him the head. you have to talk to him first before he'll accept it. same with all the other pieces too.

[EZ_Cheriffe]

I thought I had walked through the quest text completely, but regardless I went back and tried again after the patch, made sure I went through everything, and it worked fine. I don't know if it was going through the text or they turned the flagging process off while they replaced the quest with the bag/combine version, but it worked while I was indifferent.

Thanks for the help

[EZ_slippery tom]

Identify is your friend.. you need a north and south medallion, which.. drop off north and sout bosses.

Item Lore: Section of the North
Item Lore: Section of the South

With the latest patch he hands you a bag to combine them in to fix the multiquesting problems. Both medallions in Askr's Bag of Virity combines into Esoteric Meld which when you hand it back to him gives you the character flag to go enter.

[EZ_Telon]

Section of the North drops from the forest giants.

Section of the South drops from the coastal giants.

The desert giants drop Section of the West.

You need ANY 2 of these 3 for BoT flag.

[EZ_Jessyka Nahsferatu]

The earrings mention above, are they from the Lords in Plane of Storms? Or are they from Bastion of Thunder?

[EZ_the hawnz]

they are from the POS lords

[EZ_Undaine]

Lords now only drop THREE medallions, which apart from being utterly stupid, makes them worthless to kill apart from their loot for the most part since the mini's are up all the time now.

[EZ_realmsunbound]

Ok question how do you get the lords to become targetable? we cleared allthe giants from the forest giants and Lord Neffiken was still untargetable.

We killed the lord from the coast giants, Jaspen, twice and he dropped nothing but air.

Please help if you have any info.

Rogosh Eagleeye
65 Overlord
Guild Leader Forsaken RN
forsaken.fdn.com

[EZ_Loko EQ]

You maybe missed the forest giants outside of the fort?

WARNING - Spoiler info about the sea giant below

























As for the sea giant: he is different from the others. You clear the giants and Jeplak, Lord of Srerendi spawns. You kill him, and when he dies he doesnt drop anything. He spawns a level 65 confused castaway in the place where he was pulled from.
(if you hail him, he wakes up and asks if he misbehaved. Say he misbehaved and he remembers having an odd name and asks for it. Remind him he was called Jeplak, Lord of Srerendi and he will remember it all and.. poof. No exp, no faction, no reward).

Together with the confused castaway, a new Jeplak, Lord of Srerendi spawns in the building behind the one you pulled the first one from. Clear the giants for him to become targetable, and well.. good luck!

He's buggy as hell. When we tried him the first time he summoned 33 adds right off the bat. (Lost Souls, blue cons, hit for 350), the second time we got 39. He's definitely harder than the desert and forest lords although his melee stats are the same. Good luck!

[EZ_Overon The Beastlord]

Ocean fort is bugged.. when there up on track there L65, and when you spawn them, they become higher level. Ocean Lord has a habit of becoming targetable at his L65 version, which means no items/medals are loaded on to him. As for desert and forest lords, make sure you've cleared every single one, desert for instance you have to clear the fort and 6-7 around the corner from fort to turn him targetable.

[EZ_Jireg]

We completely cleared the Ocean fort. We killed Jeplak the 1st, we cleared the rest of the fort. We starred at Jeplak the 2nd trying to target him. No go. Trackers found nothing up (giant wise) so entire fort was cleared. Anyone know what is up with this encounter at all? He was the only lord up on PoS at the time we were there, so may have been bugging other guilds as well.

[EZ_OlarinOrchrist]

After handing in the storm, sash, bone combo, and you get the 2nd bag for the medallions.. I didnt have the medallions so i destroyed the bag. Can't find keywords to get a new bag, anyone have this problem?

-Olarin Orchrist

[EZ_Loko EQ]

"what bastion of thunder"

[EZ_OlarinOrchrist]

Tried saying "what Bastion of Thunder" again after he gives you the bag the first time, but then his text changes and you don't get a second bag, should you have gotten rid of the first, at least it wasnt working last night...

-Olarin Orchrist

[EZ_allamar zultheiron]

you have to redo the head part.just get a new giant head and turn it in and should work again.
thats what i had to do when i handed in the head and got exp, i zoned out to get a Quest part and came back he wouldnt respond to me,erased me ever giving him the head,so i got a new head.then it worked fine.

[EZ_GraywolfLongleaf]

“you need 2 medals to complete the BOT key quest from this point. all the medals are named the same thing, but they're not. you need any 2 different ones. you will need to kill at least 1 of the lords.

possible medal combos.

any lord medal + named medal
any lord medal + either one of the other two lord medals”

The hawnz

Is this still true? People have told me I just need any two metals


Graywolf

[Lindianae]

All the minis drop 3 medals. There is no need to kill any lords. Just need 2 medals. It used to be back just after pop was released that you needed to kill lords but that was changed with the addition of the desert and forest minis.

[EZ_Leprah Khan]

you need a HEAD and BEARD from the giants... you need SASH from forest(i think) and BONE from desert, you also need two different medallions off two different camps off the minis, there are i think 3 or 4 camps in PoS of giants, then go to the zone out and talk to askr the lost neer the zone... he will give you some crap then you go to the frog cave and zone into BoT from there.WOOHOO BoT flag .. im almost done with mine and lvl 55 *smiles*

[EZ_AsturiasAurora]

Ok, recap here...

A lot of his dialogue is convoluted so if anyone has exactly what you say to him, post it here if ya could please. Not even the info on Allakhazam's was right last I looked.

Anyways, to start the quest, bring Askr a Storm Giant Head, which drops from any giant in PoStorms.

When you give him the head you will get a 4-slot bag in which you combine a Sash (from Forest Giants), Bone (from Desert Giants) and Beard (from Coastal Giants). After ya hit the combine button on the pack and hand it to Askr, you will get yet another pack (2-slot if I remember correctly).

Now take a fairly good raid force and head towards any of those same areas you got the beard, sash and bone from and kill things until named giants spawn. The Giants you need have 'Lord' in their title (i.e.- Jabawhatzhisnuts, Lord of the Srependi). You need a total of TWO medallions from any of the three Giant forts there. Yes they are lore, but since you need them from different camps, you should never have to worry about getting a duplicate. As far as I was able to tell, the Lords can spawn at any of the three encampments. I myself got my medallions from the Forest and Desert lords (mainly because fighting those annoying coastal giants is annoying with how buggy they are and how they make ya FD in the middle of the fight with their procs).

Combine those two medallions into the pack again and hand them back to Askr to get a necklace. Put it on then zone into BoT from WITHIN PoStorms there (head into the center area with the tornadoes and frogs). You must enter BoT from this point the first time; after that you can use the PoT zonein outside.

Info is good here but too many tangents.

~Coins Malone~

[EZ_ceno controldacrowd]

Erm, No.

There are three 'camps'. Naming convention on the rathe is 'desert','ocean' and 'forest'. Each has two minibosses, they do NOT have 'Lord' in their name :

Faruek The bold
Laruken the rigid
Paruek the strong
Pendubk the turbulent
Solnebk the unruly
Zertuken the unyielding

Good monks/SK's/Rangers can generally split these mini's with almost no need to clear.

They're on a timer, so if someone did them recently, killing giants isn't going to make them repop.

Each will drop 3 esoteric medallions. You need 2 medallions, and they must be from different camps.

The Lords are much tougher, one per camp. They only become targettable once you kill all the normal mobs in that camp. If all you want is BoT keys, do the minis. And do them. Then do them some more. Keying for BoT was teh suck.

And once you have your BoT key, welcome to the new KC. Camp stealing, named KS-ing and training to zoneout from deep south are normal everyday occurrences.

Cen.

[EZ_Pernicus]

LOL the other forts have minis just get yurself a couple druids with charm. Get a couple frogs and take out any of the minis watch out for the spawned storms. When they head to you, just run adjacent to their direction of travel. Sometimes only a few feet. They dont have many HP DS takes em out. I have killed every named in PoS with 2 druids 1 chanter and a cleric including lords. Frogs are awsome KIlling machines the more the better only 5 maybe 6 spawn in zone however =( They double BS and have 5 times tankage HP. Crit heals are a bonus hehe. Never done the quest though. The save the tree's quest I mean

(edit) Hmm I wonder if I can take the froggies into the event, or summon them in after ZI, may try that =) Edited by: Pernicus at: 12/5/03 2:48 am