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Here's a bunch of stuff describing how the quest worked great using a newbie Rallos Zek alt, who would start dubious with both Coldain and Kromrif. People note on several occasions that they would not get quest dialogue with dubious faction but that the turn-ins were still functional. Pretty much every walkthrough of this quest written since early/mid 2001 endorses the newbie Rallos Zek alt method.

I also put in a few examples of people claiming success using sneak.

The most relevant bits are in bold.

Originally Posted by Alla June 2001

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...99836489095114
This quest is almost as easy as the leggings.
Faction is not that big a deal for it...
all you need is sneak.
Most druids have it, and all rangers have it.
Just either have a ranger do everything up to the broodmother (beyond if you are brave) and then Killing the dorf is cake.
He is originally like 55 or something, but his quest incarnation is closer to 45.
I know, I killed him twice, got a wristguard for my druid and my shammie.
It was cake.
Do this quest.
Best free bracers this side of Karnors Castle.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...99348624918503
Ok, there are 2 ways of doing this quest, depending on whether you're KOS in kael or not. For both you'll need to be at least level 50 to attempt this solo.

Method 1 (KOS)

Make a new character, a warrior (any race) with a religion of rallos zek. Get him buffed up with sow and invis then ported to Iceclad. Run to crystal caverns, and log at the zone. Then log in your main character and start pulling orcs to the zone. When a bottle of karsin acid (no drop) drops quickly log on the warrior to loot. Alternatively, if the queen is camped, get someone to invis your warrior and run him down to the queen room and ask to loot a sceptre of the coldain ancients (lore no drop) from her. Obviously, this is quite tricky, but I managed it first attempt with help from guildies camping the queen.

Next, run your warrior to thurgadin. Hand either the sceptre or acid to Erdaf Restil (both result in the same item: a gem of persuasion). Get someone to bind the warrior here and camp him here. Get your main character killing drakkal bllod wolves for a blood wolf harness. Once one drops, loot then have someone hand it to your warrior.

With the warrior again, get sowed and invised and run to kael. The wolf tamer is under the bridge near the tormax area. He won't respond to hails (he should con dubious) but will hand out items correctly. First give him the gem of persuasion, to recieve a giant's gem of persuasion. Then give him the blood wolf harness and the giants gem to recieve a giants control harness. Get translocated or run back to great divide.

Originally Posted by Alla 2002

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...02934569742183
I did this quest w/ a monk... FD and sneak works well...

Originally Posted by Druid's Grove 2002

http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-2326.html
CountessKrak
07-01-2002, 07:45 AM
OK this is a trivial quest. Took me like 40 min tops to do the whole thing. Blood Wolf Harness is tradeable so no problem there. ihad one in my bank. PLEASE NOTE - when you complete this quest with a Troll Warrior of Rallos Zek you STILL have teh Blood Wolf Harness - it is not used up. So you can do it as many times as you need to for all your buddies. Anyway back to the walkthru. Go into CC and you wil lsee dozens of bodies lying on the ground. People l\kil the mobs for the ore and leave teh NO DROP Karsinic Acid on them. Loot until youget an Acid. I got mine on a corpse 20 feet inside the zone. Elapsed time 10 seconds. Port the little guy to GD and run into Thurgadin and turn in Acid to Edarf for the Gem. Port the little fella to WL and run into Kael. Hand in the Gem ONLY to Giant Wolf Tamer. He hands yo back the Giant version of the Gem of Persuasion. Hand in the new gem and the Blood Wolf harness adn you get back teh Blood Wolf Harness adn the Giant Harness fo Control. Go to Broodmomma and give here Harness. Kill dorf and loot bracer. Total tiem for me was about 20 min. I then did it a second time for a friend adn that took another 25 min so in 45 min I had TWO Bracers. Ridiculously easy quest. Now if Verant would only realize that the Grey Flesh Gloves which drop off alevel 55 mob and are a very rare drop ought to have Affliction 3 instead of 2 we would have two items to pursue. :-)

Iuwene
08-07-2002, 11:38 AM
I tried this today with a Ogre Warrior of Rallos Zek and the wolf tamer wouldn't talk to me.

So I guess dubiously to the giants isnt't enough anymore.

Iuwene
08-08-2002, 12:48 PM
I could hand in the items though he didn't talk... so the one time ogre still works.

Originally Posted by Alla 2003

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...06167209537559
I did this quest a few days ago as a 61 ogre shaman ( my main ). This walkthrough is pretty good but there are a few points Id like to add:

1. My shaman has never done any CoV/dwarf/giant faction work in Velious, so I was dubious to all involved

Originally Posted by Eqcleric 2004

http://www.eqcleric.com/threads/6533...ary-WristguardStep Number 2: Create a Halfling Warrior (needs to be a short race) and chose Rallos Zek as your god. Go to Thurgidane and get someone to bind you there. Grab your potions out of the bank and head EW Zone. Mobs in Great Divide will not agro on you.

Step Number 4: Log your Main Character in and start killing every orc you see. It has never taken me more than 15 mins to get a Bottle of Karsin Acid to drop. Once one does drop. Log out, relog the Halfling warrior, loot the bottle, and death gate (suicide). I like to cannonball into the mine, but to each your own.

Step Number 5: Now find Erdarf. He is in the bar near the cleric’s guild in Thurgidane. Hand him the Bottle of Karsin Acid and you will receive the Gem of Pursuasion.

Step Number 6: Now run over to Kael avoiding every mob you see in the Eastern Wastes. Once in Kael, find the Wolf tamer under the bridge that leads to King Tormax's Throne room. Hand him the Gem of Persuasion you just received from Erdarf. Then re-hand the Giant the Gem he just gave you back. That’s right you hand him the gem 2 times. You will now have the Giant Control Harness. Now Suicide on the nearest giant or go say hi to mobs in the arena.. eventually, you will find one that just turns you into paste. It is funny to run around in the arena saying HI to raids and shaking hands with the mobs they are killing.