TOB - Harbinger's Cradle Merc & Part

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UPDATED AS OF 10/30/2024

Mercenary Tasks
All from a norrathian scout /loc 0, -115 – in beta, you had to do the partisan tasks first... in live you don't have to

Declaw the situation say “food”

1. Eliminate livestock

Kill the carapace mobs

Blood with Love say “manipulators”

1. Kill the scalewrought handling livestock

kill the scalewrought caregivers…the other scalewrought standing by groups of carapaces (e.g. a scalewrought farmhand, do NOT work)
Cull their forces say “muscle”

1. Kill thescalewrought protecting the area

Kill sentries and brutes
Clip their wings say “flying”

1. Slay airborne

Kill flying mobs (supervisors, deliverers and couriers)


Partisan Tasks
#1 Smell what the Scalewrought are Cooking: Say “Venture” to Impha Quae /loc 5, -120 (right at the theater of eternity zoneline)

1. Go to the southeast area and see what the scalewrought are up to
   -300, -95 for update (note 3 of 4 characters all got as soon as I hit that point… Name, however, had to run around in circles for about 30 seconds before I got update)
2. Return to Impha Quae and tell him your findings
   return and hail
3. Impha Quae suggests going west, lets try to find more info
   /loc 140, 295 for update
4. Report back to Impha Quae
   return and hail to get steps 5 & 5
5. Collect blood from the slim looking scalewrought
   any of the skinny, underfed scalewrought. They drop Manipulator Blood
6. Collect blood from any carapace
   hard or soft shell, it doesn’t matter
   They drop Carapace Blood
   
   once both 5 and 6 are done, you get step 7
7. Deliver the scalewrought blood to Impha Quae
   give him the Manipulator blood
   get step 8
8. Hand the carapace blood to Impha Quae
   simple enough
9. Collect the neutralizer from Efiren in Hodstock Hills
   *sigh, back to Hodstock* Efiren Soltai is on find and /loc 1235, 1730
   Hail her
10. Use the neutralizer on the dead pile of carapace on the butcher table
    Back to Harbinger, same spot as step 3 – clear the area first – then, give the neutralizer to “pile of carapace”
11. Report to Impha Quae on finishing your task
    hail to finish task

#2 Explosive Start: Say “plans” to a norrathian scout /loc 0, -115 (pre-req is partisan # 1)

1. Go find the Hangar Bay
   updates at -50, 480
2. Look for the battle plans the scalewrought could have laying around
   ground spawn at 164, 1060 *far NW corner, behind the cushions* looks like a scroll… They reduced the respawn time of this...think it's about 1:45 now
3. return and give the Scalewrought Orders to the scout
   He gives you an Igniter, which can be clicked for effect, “Ignite Supply Crate”
4. Find crates in the Hangar and Ignite them
   In the hangar area, along the southern wall are a couple of sets of crates. Clear mobs in the area then target a crate and click your igniter…rinse and repeat 5 times until you’ve got the task step done. *after clicking on the Firestarter, it takes a few seconds then the crate disappears… takes kind of a long while for them to reappear, so if you’re doing for a group, there will be some hold up here*
5. Fight your way out (0/6)
   Kill 6 mobs (pretty sure it can be any 6, name or trash)
6. Return the igniter to the scout and report what happened
   Turn in the igniter
7. Impha Quae has a method of handling the drop ships
   Hail Impah Quea and receive 5 x Poison Mixture
8. Use the item given to you by Impha Quae on the drop ships
   Go all the way to the top of one of the ramps in the hanger… Hand the poison to a weak point (had to stand right at the edge of the top to get it to work, and clicked right under the name – kind of a pain to find the right spot, it seems they've changed it since Beta, and you now can't just give all to one...not sure if you have to go to each ship, or if there is just a "cool down" before you can give to the same ship again...i handed to each ship)
9. Report back to the scout
   head back to zone in and hail to finish task…

#3 Maniacal Findings: Say “notes” to Impha Quae /loc 5, -120 (prereq is partisan #1 & 2)

1. Find more notes
   Step task text says, “He mentioned it may have to deal with the orange eggs. Best to check there first” So, find the orange eggs…
   /loc -335, -60 – there is a mound with orange ovals on it – behind that mound is a ground spawn “burnt research note”
2. Deliver the note to Impha Quae
   self explanatory
3. Explore zone find the next research note
   again, looking at task notes, you’re looking for purple eggs this time
   This one is at /loc -283, -245 (mostly hidden under a plant) is gorund spawn “bloodied note”
4. Deliver the note to Impha Quae
   self explanatory
5. Expore zone find the next research note
   seeing a pattern yet? This time it’s pink eggs
   /loc -275, -395 is “research note”
6. Deliver the note to Impha Quae
7. Explore zone find the next research note
   no color mentioned, but there’s only one color left (green)
   again, hidden under a plant - /loc -360, -290 is “research diagram”
8. Deliver the note to Impha Quae
9. Find research note from Observers or Supervisors
   kill for this one – drops what is currently called “Expermination Research” which I think an awful typo for Experimentation… Note: this will drop as long as you have the task, but you can’t preloot it…
   … anyway loot it and…
10. Return to Impha Quae with your findings
    Turn in the Expermination research