Gold Explorer's Badge quest...additional info
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:02 pm
Now that the bug in the gold badge quest has been fixed, here is some additional info about completing it.
The wiki entry for it can be found by clicking on 70+ in the "exp zones section", then click on Tipt.
Like the wiki says, fight your way to Jeral Blackheart. You can try to Sneak there with a rogue, but my guy didn't get very far. If you want to save some time, station a coh-capable toon next to Jeral.
I'm not sure if its necessary to reset things by zoning out and zoning back in. But doing so will definitely be faster than fighting your way back to where the first Blood Enraged mob will be.
See the below attachments for where the quest mobs spawn.
The first, Blood Enraged Cragbeast, was fairly easy to spawn. At the entrance to the cragbeast area is a wandering mob...it could be a flinty cragbeast, a treacherous cragbeast, whatever. Kill it. Then have your questor run to that patch of pavement thats a little ways into the cragbeast area. For me, thats all it took. If he does not pop right away, then wait about 10 minutes and move your questor a step. When I was spawning the Blood time after time, for testing, I could coh my questor to that spot on the patch and that would be enough to spawn the Blood (assuming that I kept killing the wanderer). At other times, I would wait the 10 minutes and move the questor just a tad and pop! there the Blood was.
This seemed to be the pattern for most of the other seven Bloods. Kill the trash at the entrance, wait 10 minutes, move my questor towards the Blood spawn point. I say "seemed" because other than the Cragbeast, its hard to be sure if a spawn comes because you just did a kill, or because a timer has timed out.
Do the rest of the Blood spawns in the order you see in the wiki. I don't think the quest works in any other order.
The pookas are on the trail rather than in a side room. I didn't see him spawn, actually. I just started clearing the trail after crossing the reservoir and I looked up and there he was.
The Blood Enraged Ikaav spawns in a small building to the right.
It doesn't seem like I needed to kill trash aneuks to spawn the Blood Enraged Aneuk., just the talosian peasant or perhaps one of the other trashes. She appears between the aneuk building on the right and the chasm.
After you get the last blood, hit the combine button on the container. It will change to Completed Blood Collection, item 120883. If you can, station yet another coh-able toon right there. Now head back to Jeral but don't hand it in.
After doing the Hail and stuff, go back north to where you were and continue across the bridge and to the end of the zone. The statue is obvious. When you get close to it, your questor will see a grey message saying "An Inktu'Ta Guardian manifests out of thin air and judges you not worthy...prepare to die." Also, the Inktu'Ta Guardian (a dragon) spawns a little ways off.
Kill the dragon, loot Guardian Dragon Blood, item 120883, hand in to Jeral. Then Explorer May spawns next to where Jeral was. Like she says, hand in your silver badge and the Collection and she give you the gold badge and an Orange Adventurer's Pouch, item 18498.
Here are the various bloods and their item numbers, just cause:
Cragbeast Blood, 63832
Hynid Blood, 63831
Ukun Blood, 120880
Pooka Blood, 120881
Spikeshelled Turepla Blood, 120882
Ikaav Blood, 67480
Noc Blood, 55850
Aneuk Blood, 88336 (looks like a heart)
Note 1: See that zone out on the map, written in white text, right after crossing the bridge? Its not there.
Note2: Clicking on the statue at the end of the zone will port you to zone Inktu'Ta, the Unmasked Chapel as long as you have done completed the gold badge quest. If not, the statue tells you that you are not worthy. The zone is filled with trash and names but all are 70. According to the Allaclone, there are no bosses nor loot. I didn't do any exploring there.
The wiki entry for it can be found by clicking on 70+ in the "exp zones section", then click on Tipt.
Like the wiki says, fight your way to Jeral Blackheart. You can try to Sneak there with a rogue, but my guy didn't get very far. If you want to save some time, station a coh-capable toon next to Jeral.
I'm not sure if its necessary to reset things by zoning out and zoning back in. But doing so will definitely be faster than fighting your way back to where the first Blood Enraged mob will be.
See the below attachments for where the quest mobs spawn.
The first, Blood Enraged Cragbeast, was fairly easy to spawn. At the entrance to the cragbeast area is a wandering mob...it could be a flinty cragbeast, a treacherous cragbeast, whatever. Kill it. Then have your questor run to that patch of pavement thats a little ways into the cragbeast area. For me, thats all it took. If he does not pop right away, then wait about 10 minutes and move your questor a step. When I was spawning the Blood time after time, for testing, I could coh my questor to that spot on the patch and that would be enough to spawn the Blood (assuming that I kept killing the wanderer). At other times, I would wait the 10 minutes and move the questor just a tad and pop! there the Blood was.
This seemed to be the pattern for most of the other seven Bloods. Kill the trash at the entrance, wait 10 minutes, move my questor towards the Blood spawn point. I say "seemed" because other than the Cragbeast, its hard to be sure if a spawn comes because you just did a kill, or because a timer has timed out.
Do the rest of the Blood spawns in the order you see in the wiki. I don't think the quest works in any other order.
The pookas are on the trail rather than in a side room. I didn't see him spawn, actually. I just started clearing the trail after crossing the reservoir and I looked up and there he was.
The Blood Enraged Ikaav spawns in a small building to the right.
It doesn't seem like I needed to kill trash aneuks to spawn the Blood Enraged Aneuk., just the talosian peasant or perhaps one of the other trashes. She appears between the aneuk building on the right and the chasm.
After you get the last blood, hit the combine button on the container. It will change to Completed Blood Collection, item 120883. If you can, station yet another coh-able toon right there. Now head back to Jeral but don't hand it in.
After doing the Hail and stuff, go back north to where you were and continue across the bridge and to the end of the zone. The statue is obvious. When you get close to it, your questor will see a grey message saying "An Inktu'Ta Guardian manifests out of thin air and judges you not worthy...prepare to die." Also, the Inktu'Ta Guardian (a dragon) spawns a little ways off.
Kill the dragon, loot Guardian Dragon Blood, item 120883, hand in to Jeral. Then Explorer May spawns next to where Jeral was. Like she says, hand in your silver badge and the Collection and she give you the gold badge and an Orange Adventurer's Pouch, item 18498.
Here are the various bloods and their item numbers, just cause:
Cragbeast Blood, 63832
Hynid Blood, 63831
Ukun Blood, 120880
Pooka Blood, 120881
Spikeshelled Turepla Blood, 120882
Ikaav Blood, 67480
Noc Blood, 55850
Aneuk Blood, 88336 (looks like a heart)
Note 1: See that zone out on the map, written in white text, right after crossing the bridge? Its not there.
Note2: Clicking on the statue at the end of the zone will port you to zone Inktu'Ta, the Unmasked Chapel as long as you have done completed the gold badge quest. If not, the statue tells you that you are not worthy. The zone is filled with trash and names but all are 70. According to the Allaclone, there are no bosses nor loot. I didn't do any exploring there.