Quest Issue: Deepwater Harpoon

[Garette]

Hello!

There are some issues and discrepancies with the Deepwater Harpoon quest vs how it functioned in classic era. I saw the original thread for P99 regarding this in 2010 for the trigger that fixed that her starting her escort after the bottle turn-in (vs. disappearing upon turn-in like happened previously.) I also noticed the differences in the end text after the bottle hand-in at the guard before her from historical text on these websites I mention below.

But from multiple sources from 2001 going all the way up to 2014 these are some of the key differences I found with Sentry Xyrin vs. original (before Ragefire patch):

1) No turn-in was required to trigger the final escort portion. This is pretty much unanimous, and the first part of the quest could be used as a faction farming strategy. As long as her spawn is triggered in Sister Isle and the correct key words are used, she starts to run towards the Spectres immediately. 2001 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20011217...html?quest=621

2) There are many reports of the Spectres not aggroing her and her despawning, dropping the Harpoon in the center of the Spectres (or dropping the harpoon after naturally despawning). I tried it twice, and she aggroed them instantly both times. I also waited over 2 hours and she did not despawn, only fought some aggroed gargoyles and skeletons occasionally. I tried it twice and she got aggro immediately in both instances.

At the moment, this definitely can't be completed at level 1 like all of the reports and the comment threads suggested even in Classic era because of the above.
Aug 2003 Wayback Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20030825...html?quest=621

2001 Wayback Source (same as above): https://web.archive.org/web/20011217...html?quest=621

Not a 2001 source, but the website sure looks like it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Just another to show what I meant - https://web.archive.org/web/20121211...om/harpoon.htm

Currently she runs into them after potion is given, but the reports above mention her "trigger" to run being the correct key phrases in her regular speech.

3) Sentry Xyrin currently doesn't despawn after 15-30 minutes. You can see in the above sources they all cite this as well (not the 1 hour reported in the last thread on the subject). I've been by her side for several hours now and still no despawn either.

Thank you very much for your time,

Garrette

[tid3]

just to reiterate, can confirm what the OP is stating. Currently does not work as it was back in the day.

Other examples:
http://www.bonzz.com/harpoon.htm
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621



Cheers.

[tid3]

Originally Posted by tid3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just to reiterate, can confirm what the OP is stating. Currently does not work as it was back in the day.

Other examples:
http://www.bonzz.com/harpoon.htm
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=621



Cheers.

edit: on green, that is

[soronil]

Just to pate the relevant information directly here:

Posted @ Thu, May 10th 12:35 AM 2001 Score: Default[2.00]
i've done this over 20 times... talk to the chick on the island to make the sentry spawn. swim out to garg island, and hail the sentry. ask her about the words in [ ]... "what boat disaster?" and "what is a potion of marr?". DO NOT GIVE HER A POTION- if you do, she will try to fight specs, and you'll have to kill them to keep her alive. wait a few minutes, and she'll run away, up to the specs. after 12 minutes or so, she'll disappear. i usually keep her targeted and sit and play gems, heehee, when she's not targeted anymore, she's gone... then, simply invis vs. undead, run up to where she was standing, and the DW harpoon will be on the ground- looks like a big stick laying between a few specs.

Clearly it is a bug and not the designers intent, but it seems like:
/say "what is a potion of marr?" - This causes her to walk up and eventually drop the item
giving her the potion - This causes her to aggro the Spectres.

[stewe]

Why do ppl keep wanting to take advantage of bugged quests so bad on this server, this quest was never meant for a lvl 1 to get the weapon solo The Harpoon is 18/40 +5 str/sta, a mithril 2hander is 21/40 31% haste (BiS for knights til planes), you shouldnt be getting a weapon at lvl 1 that will take you all the way to BiS 2hander for knights til raid planes are opened up, yes the mithril (gotta kill lvl 47 king in lower guk) blows it out of the water but 18/40 at lvl 1 come on now, you should atleast require a high lvl friends help to get it, not just make a rogue, talk to her, then stealth and wait for her to drop it.

Yes classic is what they are aiming for, but not everything is going to be exactly like it was, unless they are letting ppl kill raid bosses with the hoops and tumpy tonics giving massive exp they already changed things from classic before green even starts, last i checked there wasnt a list either, enjoy the server and quests without having to rely on exploiting a clearly bugged quest that the DEVs have fixed the way it was suppose to be.