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Angelina · May 24, 2006, 03:42 PM

Posted by st0rmie at the VN Boards:

I've been on the test server, checking out the upgrading of Light's Hope Chapel to a "quest hub". And now I'm here to tell you about the latest set of "casual epics" that will be made available in 1.11.

What it boils down to is collecting Insignias of the Dawn and Insignias of the Crusade. Yes, there are some Scarlet Crusade ambassadors at LHC working with the Argent Dawn in what appears to be an uneasy alliance. You then turn in large numbers of these Insignias for blue and purple rewards. Much like the Cenarion Circle field duty quests and badge collecting, with two major differences:

1) You only need Friendly with the Argent Dawn rep to get all rewards. Instead, as you reach higher rep levels, you need dramatically less Insignias to buy a reward.

2) While some of the Cenarion Circle field duty quests were soloable, for some classes, Insignias can be gathered by farming high level non-elite mobs, and thus will be soloable by everyone. Also they will be effectively purchasable (see below).

A bunch of NPCs in LHC have repeatable quests to gather 30 drops. These are things like bone fragments, crypt fiend parts, elemental cores, dark iron scraps, etc. They will tell you where to get these things: e.g. bone fragments drop from skeletal undead in the Plaguelands and in Stratholme and Scholomance; dark iron scraps drop from mobs in Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes and inside Blackrock Spire and Blackrock Depths.

A brief farm of skeletal mobs in EPL made it look like the drops are reasonably frequent. And the questgivers suggest that drops will be "more plentiful" from mobs in instances. Anyway, gather 30, turn it in, and get an Insignia (some drops are good for an Insignia of the Dawn, some for an Insignia of the Crusade, some for either).

Important news: these drops are NOT bind on pickup. So I expect a big market to open up, especially since it sounds like there will be mobs in EVERY endgame 5-10 man instance that drop something for these guys. There will be a lot of these entering the economy in the hands of people who weren't deliberately farming them and who may well have no interest in collecting them. Result - lots of bone fragments etc. on the AH.

There is also a guy who gives out "tradeskill writs". Give him one Argent Dawn Valor Token, and he'll give you a writ, which is a random quest like the CC field duty, to gather some material. I got one - it was to gather 30 Plated Armorfish, and the reward was a choice of either Insignia.

Now, the rewards! Here's how many Insignias you need, according to AD rep:

Friendly: 60 Insignias total (30 of the Dawn, 30 of the Crusade) for a blue, 220 total for an epic
Honored: 40 for a blue, 150 for an epic
Revered: 14 for a blue, 90 for an epic
Exalted: 12 for a blue, 54 for an epic

And the rewards? Here are images:

Blues - http://tinyurl.com/ptmwq
Epics - http://tinyurl.com/nmoq7

If those links are blocked for some people let me know, I can copy the info into the thread...

May 24, 2006, 03:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Angelina Member	New Light's Hope Chapel Posted by st0rmie at the VN Boards: I've been on the test server, checking out the upgrading of Light's Hope Chapel to a "quest hub". And now I'm here to tell you about the latest set of "casual epics" that will be made available in 1.11. What it boils down to is collecting Insignias of the Dawn and Insignias of the Crusade. Yes, there are some Scarlet Crusade ambassadors at LHC working with the Argent Dawn in what appears to be an uneasy alliance. You then turn in large numbers of these Insignias for blue and purple rewards. Much like the Cenarion Circle field duty quests and badge collecting, with two major differences: 1) You only need Friendly with the Argent Dawn rep to get all rewards. Instead, as you reach higher rep levels, you need dramatically less Insignias to buy a reward. 2) While some of the Cenarion Circle field duty quests were soloable, for some classes, Insignias can be gathered by farming high level non-elite mobs, and thus will be soloable by everyone. Also they will be effectively purchasable (see below). A bunch of NPCs in LHC have repeatable quests to gather 30 drops. These are things like bone fragments, crypt fiend parts, elemental cores, dark iron scraps, etc. They will tell you where to get these things: e.g. bone fragments drop from skeletal undead in the Plaguelands and in Stratholme and Scholomance; dark iron scraps drop from mobs in Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes and inside Blackrock Spire and Blackrock Depths. A brief farm of skeletal mobs in EPL made it look like the drops are reasonably frequent. And the questgivers suggest that drops will be "more plentiful" from mobs in instances. Anyway, gather 30, turn it in, and get an Insignia (some drops are good for an Insignia of the Dawn, some for an Insignia of the Crusade, some for either). Important news: these drops are NOT bind on pickup. So I expect a big market to open up, especially since it sounds like there will be mobs in EVERY endgame 5-10 man instance that drop something for these guys. There will be a lot of these entering the economy in the hands of people who weren't deliberately farming them and who may well have no interest in collecting them. Result - lots of bone fragments etc. on the AH. There is also a guy who gives out "tradeskill writs". Give him one Argent Dawn Valor Token, and he'll give you a writ, which is a random quest like the CC field duty, to gather some material. I got one - it was to gather 30 Plated Armorfish, and the reward was a choice of either Insignia. Now, the rewards! Here's how many Insignias you need, according to AD rep: Friendly: 60 Insignias total (30 of the Dawn, 30 of the Crusade) for a blue, 220 total for an epic Honored: 40 for a blue, 150 for an epic Revered: 14 for a blue, 90 for an epic Exalted: 12 for a blue, 54 for an epic And the rewards? Here are images: Blues - http://tinyurl.com/ptmwq Epics - http://tinyurl.com/nmoq7 If those links are blocked for some people let me know, I can copy the info into the thread...