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#1 Oct 05 2005 at 12:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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I started the DoN High Elf Cultural armor quest the other day. Part of the quest is to go to Ocean of Tears and kill 10 aviaks and loot and return with 1 Aviak Talon. The loot part of the quest is supposed to take place in Ocean of Tears.

But, if you look up Aviak Talon on Alla, you will find that aviaks don't drop the Aviak Talon. Only Krag Elders and Krag Warriors drop them. This in itself makes as much sense as a solar powered flash light.

[rant]Hello!!! AVIAK Talon! Hmmm, what do you suppose should drop this? Maybe a freaking AVIAK!!![/rant]

Anyway, since I had to kill 10 aviaks anyway, I made my way, very slowly, to Aviak Isle. After killing about 20 or more aviaks, it was time to go to bed. Not a single Aviak Talon.

So, my question is this (yes, I do have one) Is the information on Alla correct? At the bottom of the Alla's listing someone said "At Aviak Isle these talons drop frequently." But I did not see any drop the entire time I was there, and Alla's database says they won't.

Also, if I do need to hunt Krag Elders and Krag Warriors, anyone got any good suggestions as to where to hunt them? I have read that the Krag Elders are a rare sight. Any info on where in the zone these creatures can be found would be most appriciated.

One last thing. In the task menu, it says this task is for Ocean of Tears. Does it make a difference if I get this item from say, Butcherblock, as long as I get the correct item?

P.S. I just noticed that most aviaks don't look like parrots. Take a look at the ones in Ocean of Tears. Then you will get the "Polly want a cracker".

Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:43:09 2005 by mrtiedye
#2 Oct 05 2005 at 1:31 AM Rating: Default
well seeing as how you linked the mobs that drop Aviak Talon I would assume that you actually looked at the links you posted.......If you did this then you already know which mobs to hunt so why ask?????

But if you must AK has the following mobs listed for droping the talon

Butcherblock Mountains
A Krag Elder

Steamfont
A Krag Elder
A Krag Warrior



Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:41:35 2005 by elorianBLAH
#3 Oct 05 2005 at 1:35 AM Rating: Good
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elorianBLAH wrote:
well seeing as how you linked the mobs that drop Aviak Talon I would assume that you actually looked at the links you posted.......If you did this then you already know which mobs to hunt so why ask?????

MrTieDye wrote:
Is the information on Alla correct?

MrTieDye wrote:
Also, if I do need to hunt Krag Elders and Krag Warriors, anyone got any good suggestions as to where to hunt them?

MrTieDye wrote:
Does it make a difference if I get this item from say, Butcherblock, as long as I get the correct item?


I never asked which mobs I should hunt.


Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:44:10 2005 by mrtiedye
#4 Oct 05 2005 at 1:37 AM Rating: Default
erm sure


yes
yes
yes

sure wth


if it says you need talons then ya hunt the mobs that drop them........

come on you know how to post a magelo but not how to follow instructions........... =/



Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:50:43 2005 by elorianBLAH
#5 Oct 05 2005 at 1:42 AM Rating: Good
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At Aviak Isle these talons drop frequently.

This is also a little misleading. What do you make of it?
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if it says you need talons then ya hunt the mobs that drop them........

come on you know how to post a magelo but not how to follow instructions........... =/

It also says I should hunt these mobs in Ocean of Tears. So, if I follow the instructions, I will obviously never get anyhere. Hence, this post.

Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:58:06 2005 by mrtiedye
#6 Oct 05 2005 at 1:45 AM Rating: Default
absolutely nothing.......


No if you took the time to look at the quest and research the mobs on AK then you would know where to hunt for them.......but you probably know this already(no noob would go to this effort to troll....... >_>)

Edited, Wed Oct 5 02:55:53 2005 by elorianBLAH
#7 Oct 05 2005 at 1:55 AM Rating: Default
CZ??
#8 Oct 05 2005 at 1:57 AM Rating: Good
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It should be obvious that I took a lot of time to reasearch this before posting. But as far as the mobs, the Krag Warriors don't have any information as to where in the zone they can be found, and everyone says the elders are extremely rare. I have never been to Steamfront, so I have no idea where in the zone to start looking for these guys.

And no, I am not trolling. I don't consider myself a newb either. I am not sure why you are on my case so hard. To me, my questions are legitimate. I even took the time to link every piece of info I have dug up in case someone needed to look at it.

EDIT: What is CZ?

Edited, Wed Oct 5 03:08:53 2005 by mrtiedye
#9 Oct 05 2005 at 2:06 AM Rating: Good
To answer your question - you must hunt the Aviaks in Ocean of Tears - else they will not count for the task.

It's island 3 on this map: OOT MAP


Edit: Alla does not have all of the DoN info updated yet - so I'm sure once you finish the task they could benefit from you sending in what you learned bout it.

Edited, Wed Oct 5 03:20:29 2005 by Netos
#10 Oct 05 2005 at 2:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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Edit: Alla does not have all of the DoN info updated yet - so I'm sure once you finish the task they could benefit from you sending in what you learned bout it.


Thanks Netos. I think I know what I need to do now.


Edited, Wed Oct 5 03:22:33 2005 by mrtiedye
#11 Oct 05 2005 at 5:17 AM Rating: Good
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The Aviaks in OOT do drop the talons. I got mine there just a week or so ago. Just need to be patient.
#12 Oct 05 2005 at 8:44 AM Rating: Good
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I did this a LONG time ago. Honestly, I do not remember the drop rate being ridiculously low.

You MUST loot the talons from mobs in Ocean of Tears.
#13 Oct 05 2005 at 2:23 PM Rating: Decent
Had 2 drop while killing the required # of birds but if you think that is frustrating wait till you get to the expert part of quest the phos powders in lower guk I had to kill like a huindred undead frogs to finish that one.
#14 Oct 06 2005 at 11:54 PM Rating: Good
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Well, I went back to Ocean of Tears. I wanted to get a Collector's Shark Tooth while I was there as well, but after killing at least 200 hundred sharks (not an exaggeration), and not seeing one, I decided it wasn't worth it. Maybe one day when I have more time, I will try again.

Anyway, after the sharks, I headed back to Aviak Isle. I began moving around the island, killing Aviaks as I saw them. I had an Aviak Tanager charmed. I came upon a camp of aviaks, with a little fire and a dwarf standing there. I sent in the tanager to kill one of the Aviak Starlings while I root rotted another. The one the tanager was on broke root and ran away with the charmed tanager on his heels. I thought to myself "That is the one that is going to have the talon because I will never find his stupid corpse".

I let the tanager chase him while I finished off the Aviak Starling I was working on. Then I began killing the last one in the camp of three. The tanager came back and we made short work of the last starling.

Now, time to loot. With fingers crossed, I right clicked, and what do you know? A talon! YAY!!! I went ahead and looted the other one because I hate seeing anything go to waste, and what do you know? Another freaking talon. WTF? I kill 20+ aviaks one day and no talon. I kill 6-8 the next day, and get 2 talons, back to back.

I am going to submit my findings to Alla right after I click on "Post Message".

EDIT: OMG! When I click on the "Submit Information" link, my computer freaks out and starts opening new internet explorer windows. I imagine if I let it keep going, it would eventually use up all the memory and crash, but I went ahead and shut it off after it opened a couple hundred windows. hehe. I forgot this computer does that when you click on a mailto link. Something to do with the way Outlook is installed.

Anyway, I guess I will use my yahoo account...

Edited, Fri Oct 7 01:27:23 2005 by mrtiedye
#15 Oct 07 2005 at 4:13 AM Rating: Decent
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mrtiedye wrote:
Well, I went back to Ocean of Tears. I wanted to get a Collector's Shark Tooth while I was there as well, but after killing at least 200 hundred sharks (not an exaggeration), and not seeing one, I decided it wasn't worth it. Maybe one day when I have more time, I will try again.

You're joking, right? The Collector's Shark Tooth only dropped during the 5th anniversary scavenger hunt, and that was 2 years ago...
#16 Oct 07 2005 at 4:45 AM Rating: Good
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You're joking, right? The Collector's Shark Tooth only dropped during the 5th anniversary scavenger hunt, and that was 2 years ago...
DOH! And no, I wasn't joking. I saw the mention of the scavenger hunt, but nothing on the page indicated that it was only for the scavenger hunt. I thought it was just a normal item that happened to be used in the scavenger hunt. Oh, well, thanks. I feel like an idiot now.

Hey, at least I got about 15 stacks of shark skin out of it!

Edited, Fri Oct 7 06:02:31 2005 by mrtiedye
#17 Oct 07 2005 at 5:50 AM Rating: Decent
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mrtiedye wrote:
I thought it was just a normal item that happened to be used in the scavenger hunt.

Just a question, if you didn't look for it to complete the quest (which isn't possible anymore), why would you look for it then? A piercing item with 18/5, no effect, nothing special... why would you want to have it?? Smiley: confused

Maybe there should be something similar to the mob graveyard, some kind of "item graveyard"... Smiley: lol

If I played on FV, you could have mine... but I'm on Xegony, so the tooth is rotting in the bank - no trade
#18 Oct 08 2005 at 10:22 PM Rating: Good
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why would you look for it then?

I did a search for High-Elf Enchanter piercing weapons, and it seemed easliy attainable for my lvl 26 enchanter. Plus, I was all ready there killing sharks for the DoN armor quest, so it just seemed to fit. It beats the sharpend dagger I am using now.

Yeah, there were other weapons in that search I could have probably went for, and now I guess I will search again. I don't want to get my gear from the bazaar this time like I did last time. I want to earn everything my character wears. Just fot the sense of accomplishment.

P.S. I finally made all of my Journeyman DoN armor. WOOT! Now all I have to do is find enough jade shards (not gonna happen) to make the symbols.



Edited, Sat Oct 8 23:37:56 2005 by mrtiedye

Edited, Sun Oct 9 01:48:18 2005 by mrtiedye
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