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Only with tabbard from shrine battle.
Combine it with tabbard, then everybody can wear it. If you havent done the quest now to get the needed items to enter the room via an Island West of skara, ask a friend
Combine it with tabbard, then everybody can wear it. If you havent done the quest now to get the needed items to enter the room via an Island West of skara, ask a friend
Very nice and sweet! I got 2-3 tabards from the recent Archlich event, so all i would need is this quest? nice! Is there info somewhere? Very much thanks!
But this option needs Real money for the potion. The other is for free.
Gee they could just fix and have gargoyle ones drop
Much more fun with a group.
Go kill 3 captains at Blackthorns alone. Pretty much the same idea. Just more open.
That's the only way to answer that question.
I play CC and the tabard looks a helluva lot better than the robe, and like someone above said, the same tabard can be worn by human or gargoyle.
Here's what happened:
The frags easy to find. This was a lone tamer, using DR Tamer 120/120 lev 3 mag mastery, Fully trained Triton with 120 Discord, 120 healing, 127 wres, 175 spell resist, other stats 115, 20 hpr, 5 stamregen, 30 manaregen, 750 hps. In the hopes to be able to use death ray on the "captains". DR did not work due to the rubberbanding and busy spawn area, so switched to Tamer mastery III, using taming masteries, that still did not work well due to the rubberbanding.
Tamer was able to dispose of 4 Bone demons, a number of succubi, enraged elementals, several demons and strange looking demons, etc etc. The final fight was:
-First the necromancer -- corrupts mana, loong fight took about 30 minutes to kill him between pet debuffs and tamers damage spells including DR. Reward was a Fellowship spear pack drop. Woopiee!.
- Second the assassin : very frequest level 5-6 poison breath AOE, stealthing on off, and cannot draw away to stay away and fight. Died 2 times to this one, and pet died 4 times. Rubberbands a lot. Fight never ended.
- Third captain Sampire: Also rubberbands, stealths, does a lot of sampire spells EoO, CW, hits pet really hard, I think also stealths. Fight never ended.
**All these retarget you a lot, and they have lots of hps, some
The captains will follow you if you try to use a nearby house open to public, will get in the house with you and attack you, so do not think you can use a house nearby to cast spells from etc., lol.
Conclusion: Content is pretty hard to say the least, and you need to have lots of time in your hands to do this alone. It can be done, but you may blow away 2-3 hours to do this with a tamer alone. Meant for several people in team with likely melee fighters, and also may utilize pets for tanking.
However there may be some better tactics and preparations that may speed this up? For exaple, this was my very first shrine battle, and did not bring undead slayer book for the sampire with (not that it would have made much difference).
Challenge is ok, but the time loss is not ok, if you got better things to do or more fun content to do.
The rewards are ONLY the enjoyment of playing the game, rest of the stuff including the Fellowship items and the "tabard" are absolutely worthless items, as is the gold that drops there (got away with 40 k gold for the time I spent there lol).
Most people are unaware of the "shrine battles" and likely few people are doing them, likely just for the challenge.
Final conclusion: If you are doing the Shrine battles just to get the transformation of Hawkwind's to Tabard form, you have a choice: Blow away time at the shrines, likely at least 3-4 hours (since you need to defeat 8 captains of the same shrine), (so to calculate RL $ value : 4 hours x $15/hour at McDonald's = $60 RL cost). Other alternative is BUY a transmog potion for one fifth that cost from the ingame uo store. Time is money, and time is life.
Overall, for just fun is ok, but must be with a team of folks, some melee, and some rezzers tamers.
By golly, I will try again solo but with Samurai.
The frags easy to find. This was a lone tamer, using DR Tamer 120/120 lev 3 mag mastery, Fully trained Triton with 120 Discord, 120 healing, 127 wres, 175 spell resist, other stats 115, 20 hpr, 5 stamregen, 30 manaregen, 750 hps. In the hopes to be able to use death ray on the "captains". DR did not work due to the rubberbanding and busy spawn area, so switched to Tamer mastery III, using taming masteries, that still did not work well due to the rubberbanding.
Tamer was able to dispose of 4 Bone demons, a number of succubi, enraged elementals, several demons and strange looking demons, etc etc. The final fight was:
-First the necromancer -- corrupts mana, loong fight took about 30 minutes to kill him between pet debuffs and tamers damage spells including DR. Reward was a Fellowship spear pack drop. Woopiee!.
- Second the assassin : very frequest level 5-6 poison breath AOE, stealthing on off, and cannot draw away to stay away and fight. Died 2 times to this one, and pet died 4 times. Rubberbands a lot. Fight never ended.
- Third captain Sampire: Also rubberbands, stealths, does a lot of sampire spells EoO, CW, hits pet really hard, I think also stealths. Fight never ended.
**All these retarget you a lot, and they have lots of hps, some
The captains will follow you if you try to use a nearby house open to public, will get in the house with you and attack you, so do not think you can use a house nearby to cast spells from etc., lol.
Conclusion: Content is pretty hard to say the least, and you need to have lots of time in your hands to do this alone. It can be done, but you may blow away 2-3 hours to do this with a tamer alone. Meant for several people in team with likely melee fighters, and also may utilize pets for tanking.
However there may be some better tactics and preparations that may speed this up? For exaple, this was my very first shrine battle, and did not bring undead slayer book for the sampire with (not that it would have made much difference).
Challenge is ok, but the time loss is not ok, if you got better things to do or more fun content to do.
The rewards are ONLY the enjoyment of playing the game, rest of the stuff including the Fellowship items and the "tabard" are absolutely worthless items, as is the gold that drops there (got away with 40 k gold for the time I spent there lol).
Most people are unaware of the "shrine battles" and likely few people are doing them, likely just for the challenge.
Final conclusion: If you are doing the Shrine battles just to get the transformation of Hawkwind's to Tabard form, you have a choice: Blow away time at the shrines, likely at least 3-4 hours (since you need to defeat 8 captains of the same shrine), (so to calculate RL $ value : 4 hours x $15/hour at McDonald's = $60 RL cost). Other alternative is BUY a transmog potion for one fifth that cost from the ingame uo store. Time is money, and time is life.
Overall, for just fun is ok, but must be with a team of folks, some melee, and some rezzers tamers.
By golly, I will try again solo but with Samurai.
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Archlich tabard... if you use the ankh inside to convert the Tabard, it keeps the shard bound tag. If you use the cloak transmog potion, the shard bound is removed because it takes on the stats of the original item.
I personally went into the well of souls for a guild member (when they first got it from the event) and he got upset with me because he didn't understand that it would keep the shard bound. (i explained it 3 times but he wasn't paying attention to what i was saying)
Ty for the insights!
Accidentally bumped with a group of 4 folks doing shrines, and ended doing 3-4 battles i.e. 9-12 captains in a little less than 2 hours! There was one person acting as the leader who knew the ropes well, and coordinated efforts 3 fighters, and one tamer, also I played the tamer, usind DR and pure energy debuff/CB/Disco triton, also used mostly a Repond Slayer Book. DR did nice damage 450-550 every 3 seconds. The techique was to first off all immobilize the captains with energy fields. No more running all over. The 2 pets and Colossus summons to tank, and the rest of the team blasting away. Challenge was the assassin due to the poison breath AOE, and also partially the Disco one with the satyrs. Only 2 pet deaths and one grey robe for me.
@Pawain was right, much more fun with a team! Also I got the Tabard and Hawkins robe now looks a lot nicer!
Will try more shrine battles. They are fun. Problem is the Fellowship items you accumulate, no turn ins for these and no value? Or what is their value/use they tend to accumulate pretty fast?
Would it make any sense to allow turn-in for Blackthorns turn-ins since they use the same captains?
Also looks like after you get a tabard on one character in a shrine, you cannot get another tabard by fighting in a diffrent shrine?
Accidentally bumped with a group of 4 folks doing shrines, and ended doing 3-4 battles i.e. 9-12 captains in a little less than 2 hours! There was one person acting as the leader who knew the ropes well, and coordinated efforts 3 fighters, and one tamer, also I played the tamer, usind DR and pure energy debuff/CB/Disco triton, also used mostly a Repond Slayer Book. DR did nice damage 450-550 every 3 seconds. The techique was to first off all immobilize the captains with energy fields. No more running all over. The 2 pets and Colossus summons to tank, and the rest of the team blasting away. Challenge was the assassin due to the poison breath AOE, and also partially the Disco one with the satyrs. Only 2 pet deaths and one grey robe for me.
@Pawain was right, much more fun with a team! Also I got the Tabard and Hawkins robe now looks a lot nicer!
Will try more shrine battles. They are fun. Problem is the Fellowship items you accumulate, no turn ins for these and no value? Or what is their value/use they tend to accumulate pretty fast?
Would it make any sense to allow turn-in for Blackthorns turn-ins since they use the same captains?
Also looks like after you get a tabard on one character in a shrine, you cannot get another tabard by fighting in a diffrent shrine?
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the drops can be unraveled for relic fragments or turned in for cleanup points.
and you have to do the shrine battles with another character to get a different tabard. they are not shard bound, so you can do the battles on a different shard on a new character and bring back to your main shard.
and you have to do the shrine battles with another character to get a different tabard. they are not shard bound, so you can do the battles on a different shard on a new character and bring back to your main shard.
Sweet! Of course UO is more fun with others! I use a couple of Tabards. I like to match and color my armor.
I use my account that does not have transfer tokens to get more Tabards. I have 2 spots that I can make guys on.
I name him the same when recreating him so macros work and stay the same. I have soul stones with 100 in melee skills, 75 in Parry. I start a new char with 50 lumberjack and 50 Chiv. Put those skills on him, go to the spellbinders and get Resist.
He uses this weapon that someone gave me.
He has these skills.
He can't fight alone. We have plenty of tamers on LS to tank. I use my Bard on another account to run Peace songs, another player runs Provocation songs.
He is near invincible when the songs are running, even when he is the captains target.
I can also use a Mage template that does EV's and uses Death Ray. I have 110 Magery on him and 100 Eval. Eat a Magery Primer I. 110 magery is for EVs, they fizzle with 100.
I have this many spare tabards.
You can also get the cloaks. They can be dyed and they look good on Vendors.
My Fel Castle has an army of Fellowship Mannequins with all the different suits.
Keep doing content with others. The Spring event will be perfect for groups. 8 players can get Cargo from a Beacon if they all do damage. 1 cannon shot will do when there's 8.
Have fun!
This template can also do the Quest for tiles, which is also 1 per toon. I change to a dragons end sword when fighting Dragons.
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was really hard to get one of each, this took a year to complete with all the virtues.
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