Help Wanted!

So You Want to Help?

This is good, as Zam users are the contributors that make this site a great community and resource!

Here's some tips on how to be most productive in your help:

New items: really it is just best to run "Lucy" the item collector. Yes it gets broken nearly every patch, but that's the way it goes. We don't create item entries in the database (I have no access to a way to do so)... we need stuff run through the item collector. This is also true for spell effects.

New NPC: post in the thread under the zone you found the NPC in. This is really important with the Dev team recycling more and more NPC and zones so that we can keep it all straight. /loc, level, purpose of NPC is all stuff we get from you  -nothing is autogenerated on NPCs. NPCs have pictures because you upload them (thanks!) --we could use a lot of new pictures of older NPCs too.

New Quest: (or task, or whatever they decide to call something next) it is best to post under the NPC that started it. Unknown, then post in the zone you did it in (How does that happen if you haven't run the quest? Answer: We get contributions from all sorts of sources, and sometimes it is passed along information such as a list of quests for a new zone). Under the NPC is best because we have to flag the NPC as quest before we can link anything internally.

For updates, most of the time it is obvious: new zone info for a zone do the zone page, new quest info for a quest use that quest's page, and NPC /loc on the NPC's page, and so on. When you do an update, resist the urge to reply below an old post as it gets buried in the thread, instead start a new post and quote the old post there so it is at the top of the thread now. There's a few situations that are a bit different though as far as where to post to make it easier for us to update quickly:

Updating NPC faction and quest involvement is best on the NPC page.

Updating item drops is best done on the item with a link to the exact NPC you got it from. (Less screens for us to click through on our end). If the NPC has a confusing name (with 3 other versions of the NPC, or there are 5 of the NPC in 5 different zones) then it may be best to post that item drop under the correct NPC entry (even though it is more clicks to do for us... it is correct so we won't have to redo it).

Another way to help is to Rate-up the people contributing. About 90% of the information for The Broken Mirror so far has come from less than 10 Zam users.

Speaking of TBM, a lot of the entries have been done, but cross-referencing is tricky when stuff doesn't exist initially. "New stuff" posts decay here so we miss things. So another way to help would be for some people to review all the TBM info so far and repost under the NPC, quest or item any known but not updated info. Feel free to quote a post you think we missed updating. For example: I know that many quest NPC aren't yet flagged that way so a list under them of all their known quests would expediate that getting corrected.

In a related vein, though I almost hesitate to say it as it will likely result in a flood of work to do, Old Sebilis information needs some verification. We've noted a lot of missing drop information (particularly with the spectral Iksar models so far) in respects to Kunark era drops. I'm also finding that a lot of info posted circa 2002 on places such as Old Sebilis didn't get all entered and/or verified. This is likely due to the "you must submit logs" policy being a more firm thing and the workload on Allakhazam's Magical Realm staff at the time, we have registered users with trusted Karma nowadays so while logs are nice, you don't have to provide them if you know stuff.

Finally, a big list of updates after the jump:

New Items: Preserved Peacock Feather ;  Flaking Ring of Emollious ;  Plaguemonger's Shoulder Guards ;  Vibrant Vapor Ring of Grannus ;  Skullstone of Last Breath ;  Radically Robust Ring of Emollious ;  Infinite Protective Vapor Orb ;  Innoculated Guardbraces ;  Fumigator's Alacrity ;  Dancing Steam Ring of Grannus ;  Rancid Bloodseeking Shoulders ;  Grim Scale of Brawny Bits ;  Swirling Ring of Cleansing Steam ;  Sensitizing Thought Orb ;  Soulcatcher Earhoop ;  Bulging Bloody Stone ;  Sliver of Emollious ;  Feverpitch Martel ;  Disease Dragon's Buckler ;  Sharpened Scale of Emollious ;  Grannus' Steamcleaner ;  Emollious' Shield of Shedding ;  Malintent ;  Blightforger ;  Poignant Pestulator ;  Crusty Club of Emollious ;  Grannus' Grumblecruncher ;  Steaming Mitts of Grannus ;  Spike of Lasting Vapor ;  Damsel of Decay Leather Legs Ornament ;  Spirit of Influence ;  Scaled Ring of Emollious ;  Scaleflinger of Emollious ;  Morbomancer's Mantle ;  The Tainted Maw ;  Diverting Ensouled Shoulders ;  Pallid Billowing Defiler ;  Bloodclot Charm ;  Damsel of Decay Leather Feet Ornament ;  Eye of Decay ;  Damsel of Decay Chain Chest Ornament ;  Shield of Dreams

Updated Items: Jarsath Battle Sword ;  Tuft of Fox Fur ;  Crystallized Sulfur ;  Fulginate Ore ;  Fox Skull ;  Sap Stained Boots ;  Simple Binding Powder ;  Sunshard Pebble ;  Natural Silk ;  Flawed Defiant Plate Bracer ;  Mark of Unfeeling Flesh ;  Mud Veil ;  Decayed Diaphanous Strips ;  Reaper's Resort ;  Spiraled Opalescent Eye ;  Warded Ailette ;  Hate-inscribed Adornment ;  Bloodstar Pendant ;  Curtaincaller ;  Raw Deathseeker's Wristguard ;  Avarice ;  Rusty Morning Star ;  Worn Great Staff ;  Halfling Clavicle ;  Drop of Dread

New Quests: Seal of Approval ;  Into the Temple (b) ;  In Defense of Health ;  Bane of Decay ;  The Final Assault ;  Grummus ;  Familiar Haunts

Updated Quests: Sowing Dissent ;  God Learner ;  Us and Them ;  Seductive Subterfuge ;  A Drowning Suspicion ;  Fate Rewards the Bold ;  The Handmaiden

Updated Recipes: Backpack Leather

Bestiary Updates: Talin ODonal ;  Klimmer ;  Coercer T'Vala [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Avatar of Abhorrence [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Djaa Xeda ;  Komazz ;  an arcane incantator ;  an arcane elementalist ;  Mardoon ;  an arcane shapeshifter ;  Leatherfoot Sergeant ;  Zed Sticklebush ;  Yranik Blackguard ;  Elishia Blackguard ;  Warlord Urgalth ;  Soothsayer Greyal ;  Tjey Xeda ;  an orc centurion ;  spectral commander ;  a Doomscale deacon ;  Magi P'tasa [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  High Priest M'kari [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Tarl Punox ;  Varnor Clegg ;  Mayor Salvador West ;  Evay Smit ;  an honored resident ;  an aloof bokon ;  a respected mortician ;  a diligent guard ;  a bokon ;  a bartender ;  Maestro of Rancor [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Lapa the Escaped ;  a squeaking sneak ;  a Basher captain ;  a Champion of Innoruuk ;  a Craknek emissary ;  a Disciple of Innoruuk ;  a Dismal Rager ;  a Greenblood Emissary ;  a Greenmist Diplomat ;  a haunted chest ;  a Heretic of Odus ;  a kiraikuei [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Knight of Innoruuk [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Kotiz Ambassador ;  a loathling lich [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Minister of Bertoxxulous ;  a Nightkeep Warder ;  a revultant rat [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Sage of Innoruuk [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a scorn banshee [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Seeker of the Dark Truth ;  a spite golem [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  a Steel Warrior ;  an abhorrent [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  an Agent of Innoruuk [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  an ashenbone drake [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  an elite dragoon [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  an Evangelist of Hate ;  an ire ghast [Planen of Hate: Revisited] ;  Cleric of Innoruuk [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Grandmaster R'tal [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Hand of the Maestro [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Innoruuk, the Prince of Hate [Plane of Hate: Revis ;  Innoruuk's Chosen [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Lord of Ire [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Master of Spite [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Mistress of Scorn [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  thought destroyer [Plane of Hate: Revisited] ;  Unsar Koldhagon

Zone Updates: Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay ;  Sul Vius: Demiplane of Life ;  Plane of Health