Not loosing shadow crypt access

[aennae]

I don t want to do the same mistake than i did for the bloddy crypt, i did it got my tier 1 necklace around 6-7. Then i returned solo to do the tombs and lost my flag.

Now i did the 4 shadow tombs, and i really don't want to ever do them again. The one in which i had to swim down and up was a total mess (with 2-3 level and 2 d map).

So when i get the shadow crypt quest what should i do ?

Never claim the reward ?
Never repeat any shadow tomb quest ?

According to what i read i should never had taken any tier 1 tomb quest to keep my bloody crypt flag, but i m not sure it works the same. I hope that the one who designed such horrible content and broken flagging foud another job.

[Rumbaar]

To keep it, you'll not be able to do it.

This is why many have an 'opener'. Which is a character that has done all 4 flagging quests, but never done the end one. So you use that one to open it for all your other toons.

[Ilindith]

You cannot repeat Shadow Crypt or Bloody Crypt legit, you have to re-flag everytime you finish it. The only one that can be repeated in the necro 1-2-3 is the Cursed Crypt.

[FrozenNova]

You run the flagging quests on a toon designated as your pemenant crypt opener.
Then, form a group with this opener and open the quest.
Log out, log onto the toon you'll be playing, get reinvited, join the group inside, and window farm to your heart's content.

[t0r012]

yeah the swim is long and boring but the fights aren't tough
the second is annoying that you can't solo
I happen to like the one with all the traps (sorry I always confuse the names)

to me its shadow swim, shadow can;t solo, shadow traps and shadow lag crypt.

so they have their annoyances but other than swim they aren't "bad" imo. and if anyone would be sick of them it would be a serial monk roller/reroller who need devoutes , like me.

[JollySwagMan]

yeah the swim is long and boring but the fights aren't tough
the second is annoying that you can't solo
I happen to like the one with all the traps (sorry I always confuse the names)

to me its shadow swim, shadow can;t solo, shadow traps and shadow lag crypt.

so they have their annoyances but other than swim they aren't "bad" imo. and if anyone would be sick of them it would be a serial monk roller/reroller who need devoutes , like me.

You can solo that other one - the Shadow Lord I believe - but it does take a hireling. And perhaps a few re-entries/D-doors as you work out the schematics of it, I can't remember offhand.

most of my martial artists in DDO are Cleric-Monks, so at least they get to have fun blasting undead...but I find window farming to be repulsively boring.

Ideally, necro 1 and necro 2 would follow the same flagging mechanism as necro 3. but I'd settle for the Devouts being bound to account.

Also, regarding using an opener - i'd recommend quitting the client and restarting rather than switching via logouts, in order to help head off some of the lag.