Beginner Combat Manual Quest

Beginner's Combat Manual

You must first complete Willamina's Needle Quest before starting this quest.

Zauvudd Gigoth is in the Westernmost building in the Evil Area

1. Equip your 'Traveler's Manual' and find Zauvudd Gigoth (-650, +900) in the evil section of The Plane of Knowledge.

2. Hail him, say 'I am willing to learn' and 'What planar blood brew?'

Bloody Drink!

3. He gives you the follow ingredients for the brew:

Planar Blood Brew (trivial between 200 and 220)
    -Nightmare Mephit Blood - drops off the Mephit in the Plane of Nightmare
    -Slarghilug Blood (no drop) - drops off the Slarghilug in the Plane of Nightmare
    -Bubonian Blood - drops off the Bubonian Flies in the Plane of Disease
    -a Cask - Basur TuQual (105, 250) in PoK
    -Soda Water - combine Soda from Caden Zharik (-340, 755) in PoK and a Flask of Water.
    -Grapes - Caden Zharik (-340, 755) in PoK
    -a Cork - Tabben Bromal (-392, 540) in PoK
    -a Corking Device - Tinkering 174 or 600pp in Bazaar

Since the Slarghilug Blood is so easy to obtain I suggest that you might to want just take
a Grandmaster Brewer for a quick trip to the Plane of Knowledge so that they could loot
the only No Drop item (Slarghilug Blood) and do the combine for you.

Since it produces 3 Planar Blood Brews you could promise him as they fetch about 3000 pp
in the Bazaar (Jan 2004).

4. Head to the Plane of Disease or to the Crypt of Decay (AKA Ruins of Lxanvom) and kill Bubonian Rats until they drop 'Bubonian Blood'. The Bubonians in CoD are much easier to get to in terms of distance, but require a good group to clear the right tunnel so you can access the rat room (high level Enchanter is needed for crowd control).

The Bubonians in Plane of Disease are easier to get to in terms of mob level, but are quite a distance into the Spider Caves (follow the left wall from zone in to Spider Canyon continue to follow left wall until you find tunnel). I found that the blood only dropped from the Bubonians that were really deep.

The Bubonian Castle has many Bubonian, but single pulling can be hard.

5. Now head to the Plane of Nightmare. First off head to the Slarghilug area south of the central lake. Beware as most mobs see through invisibility and therefore killing your way through them (ravens, werewolves, trees) might be the order of the day. Kill them until they drop 'Slarghilug Blood' (No Drop).

If you walk South along the cliff edge you will see them below at the south shoreline

6. Now for the hard part. You need to head into the Mephit Cave which not only has an entrance guarded by Hobgoblins, but is also crawling with all manner of evil. It is also a one way dungeon so as soon as you drop down unless you have a porter you must fight your way out.

Get a Levitation up and head to the "jumping stone" on the cliff edge. Get on top of the stone and run looking up a bit to make it to the other side of the lake. You will probably be attacked by a crocodile once you are over there so it is a good idea that your group all go over at the same time. Once you are over there on the Northern shore you will see Hobgoblins. In the water underneath the rocks is the tunnel entrance to the Mephit Cave. You can either kill all the Hobgoblins around the shoreline to clear aggro once you swim down there OR you can have some one that can run fast aggro all the Hobgoblins and train to the Hedge zone out point.

Mephits are Rogues and Misery Mephits are Wizards. They are mezzable, slowable and charmable.

Once you swim down into the tunnel you will emerge in a underwater cavern. You must kill your way North until you reach the 4 way junction. A word of warning some of the mobs when killed spawn 3 smaller spawns in their place and therefore an Enchanter is a must for this escapade. Once you reach the 4 way junction take the right (East) tunnel until you see Nightmare Mephits. Kill them until they drop 'Nightmare Mephit Blood'. You can leave the caverns by continuing up the tunnel, but nightmares reside at the exit plateau so be ready to make a dash East to the Hedge Zone out.

This blood is purple. Bubonian is red and Slarghilug is green.

4. Combine all of the ingredients to make a three 'Planar Blood Brew'. Now take this horrible drink back to Zauvudd Gigoth and ahdn it in with your 'Planar Traveller's' manual hand it to him to receive your Beginner's Combat Manual:

Intermediate Combat Manual To Come

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