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Message ID: 23525
Date: Thu Jan 25 03:25:46 GMT 2001
Author: Amy Pratt
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Eldrig the Old


Welcome to the life of a bard.

"We need you to sing while we kill this uber mob. But hush up when it's
time for loot distribution. Bards aren't worth uber loot, or spending
effort on" <-- General attitude of guilds towards their bards.

Kaelrei



> I've never seen him on the Black Scar cycle, only on the Fairie of Dismay
cycle. In any case, he wasn't
> that hard to get. We just go into Skyfire from BW between Ixlblat Fer
pulls for the Clerics and pull any
> named MOBs to zone. Usually see him within a couple of hours.
>
> I'm still five pieces short. My guild is apparently bored with Fear (why
go when only a few people need
> things?), so the whip may not be that easy (I'm hoping to multi-quest).
Phinegel is a sticking point; my
> guild will drop anything for anyone's epic MOB but Phinny. We haven't
taken him in a month. (Our senior
> bard got his spine by buying a multi-quest from some group that looted it
and had no bard.) Red Scale I'm
> still behind several warriors. White Scale is stupid, either kill the
hardest dragon in Kunark or kill a
> dragon that Verant won't let me fight. And Trak guts? Bah. My guild
doesn't seem interested in
> bothering with Trak now that they can get so many easy BP drops in PoG.
And it's not like this is a
> guaranteed drop, like it is with Ragefire (who is a pansy by comparison).
I think it's on the order of a
> one in six shot. I'm not a happy bard atm.
>
> Kenross Cantoforjado, 56 songs, Innoruuk
>
>
>
> "Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)" wrote:
>
> > i heard he can be on any of the named cycles. the concert hall epic
quest
> > board may have more info for you on him:
> >
> > http://pub5.ezboard.com/ftheconcerthallfrm7
> >
> > Eldrig was my hardest piece. took me a week every day in skyfire to get
> > him. i hardly ever actually hunted for him. i showed up every day, let
the
> > zone know i needed him, and asked a member of each group there to let me
> > know if they saw him. a lot of regulars there so i became known during
that
> > week, and finally i get a tell one night that he was up. booked over
there
> > and nailed him.
> >
> > Shada, 58 Bard
> > Afterlife
> >
> > > Greetings...
> > >
> > > I was in skyfire the other night trying to get Eldrig to spawn. The
> > > question I have is if he is on the same cycle as Black Scar, and the
> > > other named ones? Seems like black scar, and some other named
> > > chromodrac spanwed every time. Is Eldrig just rare? (Like the lava
> > > walkder?) Or is there some other trick to get him to spawn?
> > >
> > > Laluni Songhammer, 51 Bard of E'Ci
> >
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