Most difficult part / worst bottleneck of the Warrior epic quest?

[Soothsayer]

The warrior epic quest is generally understood to be one of the more painful and difficult epic quests to complete in old EQ - certainly not the most difficult, but still a major pain in the ass compared to several other classes. But what specifically makes it so bad? Green dragon scales? The fearsome, almighty goblin wizards in Permafrost? Persuading Kargek Redblade to give you his wax sealed note?

What is the main bottleneck / main reason the Warrior epic is such a bear to complete?

[pokishi]

Green Scales. You need a raid force to take down either if the two Dragons that drops them.
And if you plan on the purchase route, good luck. They are extremely rare on the market and will cost you a half a million of plat at the very least.
With the amount of Warrior mains and alts, your only option is to join a guild and have rhe rest of the quest completed

[Soothsayer]

Figured as much. Gathering raid items like the maestro hand and Spiroc Wingblade sounds annoying enough, but those scales... man, those scales.

[Tunabros]

The entire epic seems to be a bottleneck on paper tbh

[enjchanter]

Maestro hand , small bottleneck because no one will ever feel like killing this mob. It takes like 2 groups and it's in plane of hate.

Green scales are locked behind having to join a raiding guild and also outbidding the squadron of warrior alts.
Everything else is basically doable in a day besides maybe the golem ball but that's a rot status 3k mq at worst

[Tunabros]

Originally Posted by enjchanter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maestro hand , small bottleneck because no one will ever feel like killing this mob. It takes like 2 groups and it's in plane of hate.

Green scales are locked behind having to join a raiding guild and also outbidding the squadron of warrior alts.
Everything else is basically doable in a day besides maybe the golem ball but that's a rot status 3k mq at worst

how contested would you say is Maestro?

[Sabin76]

Originally Posted by Soothsayer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Figured as much. Gathering raid items like the maestro hand and Spiroc Wingblade sounds annoying enough, but those scales... man, those scales.

Spiroc Wingblade is one of the most farmable items in Sky. I don't expect that to be a bottleneck at all. As a matter of fact, I'd be surprised if any currently raid ready warriors were still looking for one at this point on Green.

[kaizersoze]

Green scales for sure. The last like 8 hoshkars ive been to have not dropped scales.

[Bbeta]

Greenscales IMO is the item most warriors get held up at in the quest line.

For green server if the chardok queen doesn't drop the blade everytime like blue did back in the day. Welcome to the other bottle neck it took me about 24 queen kills to get the blade back in 2012 2013ish. In kunark gear the queen is a no joke mob, good fuckin luck

Originally Posted by Tunabros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how contested would you say is Maestro?

In the first year of epics / kunark, insanely contested aka perma camped and tracked. Also in early days the hand doesn't drop everytime. Hard core mode boys

[Zipity]

Originally Posted by kaizersoze [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Green scales for sure. The last like 8 hoshkars ive been to have not dropped scales.

Hosh has dropped greenies recently but yes very rare, on blue right now a million plat will still get you crickets for the scale. On green Maestro is rotates I believe but still very much competitive on earthquakes? Your best bet for scales is to join Seal Team and have a high raid attendance. GL OP!! Alternatively some of those VP swords are amazing ratios and aggro for Kunark!