The Lost Quest Guide

[curiousgis]

I have been reading through the guide and while I find it very useful it seems spread out over several pages and is at times difficult to navigate. I would attribute much of this to this being a new tool for me. However, it seems this information would greatly help the community if it was on the DDO Wiki, is there a reason it isn't?

[ShastaHawk]

Although it's not organized, great thread

[Cedrica-the-Bard]

I wish this was a sticky.

[Arly]

I recommend setting the puzzle first, then turning on power, this way you will not inadvertently trigger a trap onto the Worley brother.

OMG Thank you so much!! I had been killing myself for hours with this puzzle. I had only one tile left to power, and I couldn't solve it for the life of me... Turns out, after going through your guide, it was one stinking 'corner' tile that was out of place.

Arly

[SilkofDrasnia]

hmm bump

[kraznor]

And the Dead Shall Rise…

Quest Giver: Siendra d’Jorasco, in a small alcove straight north of the House of Wizardry in House Jorasco
Level: 11 party
Patron: House Jorasco (6/12/18)
Length: long
Entry Point: The Spire of Validus in northern Delara’s Graveyard
Prereqs: none
Recommended Party: standard, a rogue is nice, and someone who can cast bless
Base Experience: 3,700
Quest Info:
--Creatures: wraiths, zombies, skeletons, mummy, lich
--Traps: acid, air, blades

Walkthrough:

Step in and clear the bottom hall. If you have someone who can cast bless, have them bless the water of the fountain in the middle. Pick up the resulting stones.

Begin the very long trek up the Spire. Clear the halls as you go, when you get to the junction rooms use the stones on the altars, they will help fight the undead. Keep an eye open for traps and secret doors on the way up

It gets repetitive, but don’t be lulled, the fights stay difficult and you only get one shrine. When you get to the top you will find yourself in a room with 3 altars, clickin on the altars will send you to the peak of the tower and activate the fight with the lich.

To make things interesting, the floor becomes ethereal, and while the lich can walk across it, you cannot. He will bombard you with lightning, fire and acid spells, as well as the occasional disintrigrate. Use range on him to get his attention, and melee when he gets close enough. You can jump from corner to corner if you have a jump buff and good hopping skills.

Also, community member Thailand_Dan added this tidbit for you casters choosing which spells to use (thanks for the heads up!):


At the end drop down to the very bottom to snag a chest and behind a secret door, his phylactery.
End Reward: standard loot choice

FYI: Disintegrate works 100% against the Lich. Took me a couple casts on normal setting.

[Ravanys]

Mirra’s Sleepless Nights

Quest Giver: Mirra Parthilcar in the Drowning Sorrows Tavern
Level: 6 Solo/Party
Patron: House Jorasco (4/8/12)
Length: medium
Entry Point: just outside the Drowning Sorrows, by the Haunted Library
Prereqs: none
Recommended Party: any, rogue is nice
Base Experience: 760
Quest Info:
--Creatures: wights, skeletons, zombies, ghouls
--Traps: cold

Walkthrough:

The quest is linear and fairly quick, so this will be the quick run guide.

Head north, in the first chamber go west. This will check off first objective.

Head north again, in the second chamber go east, this will check off second objective and complete.

End Reward: Standard loot choice

Is there no way through the magical barrior to the iron golems and the passageway beyond?

[Glenalth]

Is there no way through the magical barrior to the iron golems and the passageway beyond?

Turn in the quest and pick up part 2.

[bkasavan]

[CENTER]Setting the Wards: The Patriarch’s Crypt


Get ready to run as you purify the main altar. The wraith of Marguerite is invincible, and she wants a piece of you! The gate to the north opens, make a sprint down the hall. Oh ****! Closed gate. Quickly pull the levers on either side to open it. Aaaargh, they are trapped with fire, owe! Oh well, heal up and go, go, go. Oh bugger, another locked gate, quickly hit the lever and hope there aren’t any more traps. Phew, in the clear! Grab the stone tablet off of the altar and get out of there! Phew.

End Reward: none

End reward, NONE, my fav

[FranOhmsford]

Taming the Flames.

The Necromancer seems to have developed a passion for Phantasmal Killer - Not seen him use Slay Living though.

[ranthrock]

Ascension Chamber

Quest Giver: Sir Rohine Stiedra in the Norther Necropolis
Level: 15 Raid
Patron: The Silver Flame (6/12/18)
Length:
Entry Point: Top of the Black Masoleum in the Northern Necropolis
Prereqs: Completion of the Litany of the Dead, all 4 alternate endings
Recommended Party: A good one.
Base Experience:
Quest Info:
--Creatures: Wheeps, Mummies, Quells, Shadows... and a big, almost god, Super-Lich.
--Traps: Don't drink the water.

Walkthrough:


Yea... Right.


End Reward:

I love this walkthrough.

[Laethe]

Just simply amazing! A lot of work this took! Thanks!

[KatzyBaby]

This thread has helped so many, with so much, for so long. Thank you!
>^*^<

[Bolo_Grubb]

brief panic when I lost this book mark. Glad i was able to find it again except none of the link in the OP seem to work anymore

[Saekee]

Taming the Flames.

The Necromancer seems to have developed a passion for Phantasmal Killer - Not seen him use Slay Living though.

Any guides out there for Genesis point yet?

The maps would be a lot more complex and detailed if I could get them from inside my head to an actual picture on the interbutts.

I can't wait for a True Neural Interface, where a person can memory dump directly into a file...



Very well done for the equipment granted.

Fun part about thread necros is seeing some familiar faces

[Lost_Leader]

Word. So this thread was necroed after a few years of gathering dust, so I figured I would do a quick history for nostalgia's sake. Way back in '07 the forum mods decided to hold a contest for player written strategy guides and player guides. At the time there was nothing like this. The ddowiki didn't have a comprehensive quest guide and it was before spyderwolf was making his videos. I decided that this would be a great tool for myself and other players, so I set to it. In the end it took 3rd place in the contest, after SableShadow's Notes of a Dancing Rogue, and MysticTheurge's Ask a Loremaster. We each got the forum title "Scholar Of Adventure" and the other two got some other ingame gifts or something.

Anyways, fast forward a couple years and the mods come up with the compendium. In order to bring more traffic there (or whatever reason) they decided to copy the winning guides to the compendium. But joke was on them, I got an email telling me that there was too much info to move the Lost Quest Guide over to the compendium and it would take too many man hours for them to do it, so this guide wouldn't make it over there. Also the editors over at ddowiki were beginning to get the quests section filled out and the wiki was really becoming the go-to source for that kind of info. While I'd like to think that some of my project here helped them to make that resource better, I know that those folks do a huge amount of work to keep that wiki awesome. Still, I tried to keep this thread going for a bit longer as it was my pet project.

Fast forward a few more years and I'd stopped updating at all really, the wiki crew has more than done a great job filling this niche and I prefer to spend my time playing. Then the ddo forums made a big change in software and all the old links were broken. This guide I think helped quite a few folks over the years, but it is out of date, and I didn't really see a need to spend the hours necessary to fix it all.

So now here we are in the future. DDO has gone thru many devs and ownerships. I am still here and playing, at least from time to time, and I still enjoy the game. I've made some great friends. Have some great memories. I plan to continue that. Cheers to you all! Everybody Drink!

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Welcome home Lost Leader! This is one of the all time best threads on these forums. I used it back when you first created it.

Nostalgia and camaraderie for the win!

[Cordovan]

Closing at the request of the OP.