The Ark of Harclave (Trial of Harclave)  

I did this at level 28 on my Fury. No real problems. It just took a long time since my map didn't work. I just made sure to pull the wanderers solo. As others have said, if you have inviz, this quest is a breeze; unfortunately I didn't..LOL

Oh! I forgot to mention if u have taunt it helps..with the fungus king. There is a tunnel path that is a dead end to the left when u enter. Use this area and draw in ur enemies. This way you only have to fight 2 mobs of about 6 and the king all in 3 seperate sessions (Ex. one mob ,then the second mob, then finnaly the king). the process should only take 3-5 minutes.

Wait a minute or so before clicking the chest. Make sure you are behind the chest, (between the chest and the wall), and centered.

It worked fine for me just now.

Also... *for others reading), get the first plank and put it on top of the second plank to extend the jumping area to the shrooms.

Good luck =)


Claddagh Lovelorn
Fury - 27

Finished this quest today - 3rd time's the charm, heh - After you get blessed by the Ark of Harclave, the rest of the quest should be cake -- just manage your agro carefully. MOBs are not too social, I was able to pull a group using a CA, and the group standing right by them ignored me.
Beware of the wandering agro -- many MOBs wander the tunnels off the open cave areas -- I went through and killed all wandering before I started working on a roomfull of encounters.

Easily cleared the whole zone as a 44 Conj - some of the encounters were 47 Heroic - and I could nearly have done it without pet at all, the Blessing makes even someone wearing Papeir Mache and Cheap Cologne into a serviceable tank -- I normaly have 2400 HP and 3000 Power, the blessing gave me total of 9,000+ HP and 13,000+ Power. There also seems to be an excelent Rejuvination factor -- was getting healed for hundreds of HP - even in a fight.

I did this with my mage eons ago. Yes I tanked but only while I recast my pet spell. I had a good friend that gave me a master pet spell. The giant spider one. I believe I was 37 or 39 when I did it. failed below those lvls.
Remember you will have the short duration spell that adds 5 mini pets. The spell gnoll and skeleton Master's. And your heroic opertunities.
Good luck

If you jump off the ledge immediately after you open the Ark, then the undead will not spawn and you won't have to deal with them.

tried the quest with a 64 defiler tonight - got to hear the story, but it didn't start the quest. Guess it doesnt scale forever!

@ lvl 60 ~ 7 % not bad for 20 min =)

mhh anyone know when you exactly cant do it again???

Sarchel no longer offers me the quest as a 55 Fury. By that point it's scarcely worth doing anyway, since at 54 I only received about 8% exp for completing it, but that was still 8% exp in under ten minutes with only moderate risk, plus about 5g worth of guaranteed chest drops from the two named that you're required to fight.

If you have invis and can solo toe to toe with even con mobs, then this quest is almost trivial to complete. The only mobs you are required to fight are the Zygomid Spore King (plus about six adds) and Rosch Val Gornas (plus two adds). Not only do you not have to fight the swarms of heroic mobs in between the Ark and the Throne, doing so is usually a complete waste of time--these mobs are super-nerfed and give you almost no exp, and only rarely drop anything of worth. It is worth popping in here every time you level for some easy exp.

If you cannot invis, then you will have to waste close to an hour fighting your way through tedious and worthless mobs to get to the throne, and by your late 40's your time is better spent in an exp group.

Just FYI, the timer lockout once you die is now 8hrs..

After the last live update the mobs give very little experience for killing them. You get more for killing an even con solo mob then you do one of these group mobs in here. I did get around 5% for completing the quest at 47 though. Assuming you killed everything and completed the quest you would probably end up with around 15% of your level (at least in the 40's).

They did really nerf the drop rate of chests too. Not counting the Spore King or the end boss, I only got 2 chest drops.

A couple more tips. If you're a caster then take the normal level until you try it and know that you can do a harder level.

Don't fight the mobs at intersections of the tunnels because you will pick up roamer mobs also. Pull back into whatever tunnel you just cleared before you start the fight.

The ark seems to use a root effect on the mob that you have targeted and sometimes on others. If you have trouble with a group then back away and keep fighting - will reduce damage to you from melee at least for a few seconds.

There is a comprehensive summary of this quest on Clan Whitestorm's guild website in the forums > Library if you don't want to have to read through all the separate posts to get all the info. www.clanwhitestorm.com

Died 1st try on 2nd gap (fell to my death) . Definitely best to use both boards in crossing 2nd gap. Great exp, but market is saturated with this type of loot. Adepts should fetch a few gold, though.

Shammi wrote: With any new group, kill the healers first. Herbalist, sulphurous secretions, skellies named forlorn, blighted, ghastly, deathless - there may be more but these are the ones ive noted.

as far as the gnoll skellies the healers are all Nisch regarless of other titles

This quest can be done while sleeping, it is free xp and good for the taking, once you get the buff, if you take one mob at a time, you don't have to do anything, i was watching TV when i did it, fight was finised, just move to the next mob. As i said, free xp.

Hmm, seems when you get the blessing allweapons are improved but you have to examine then rather than hover the cursor to see that =P

EBBC has a rating of 131.2, dmg 151-454 =D

hits like a muther heh

Here's one tip I did not see posted.
After you open the Ark and kill the undead that spawn at the Ark, you have to jump down amist lots of mobs. If you happen to agro to many, which I have done. Run and jump back up to the Ark area so the agro will clear. You can also try to jump down on the left and start with those mobs. There are a few roaming groups that will agro and that's where you can get too many to handle. Just run back up to the Ark area. Rinse and repeat...

Xizokat Numenorian
38 Paladin, The Forsaken
Unrest
"Farewell, wherever you may fare"

When I look down the cliff I can see 2 teleports but I have no idea how to get down there. I tried jumping but it kills me. Anyone have any idea how to get down there.

One strategy for dealing with mobs in the room after u become a hero is kill all u can then run back up your box staircase jump to the area where u became a hero and they cant follow. Pwr and health up descend kill what u can run back repeat till done.

Hey, had the same problem with the plants at the start >.<

as for the named's spore king is to your left where u light the 2 braizers.

and Rosch Val Gornas is
-107.57, -71.41, -78.60
Looking NW you will see him just above you..

my mates doing it atm, and shouldnt have a problem, hehe

anyways GOOD LUCK ppl

It was the scroll wheel, you were right. What a relief to get that finally. I did it twice before using the two board approach, fell and had to zone out because I couldn't get over the first gap again. Like Penstar. Heck of a tip, scrolly wheel ;-) thanks

have a good one
Six

I did the same as Roisan. I put one box right on the edge, then put the plank on top, rotating it so it pointed the right way, and was angled the way I wanted. I was able to jump onto the board, run and jump to the other side easily.

I do not recommend the two board approach. I tried this once, and while it was easy to cross, later on I fell in the pit, and had to use the cog elevator to get back up. The elevator deposits you on the first ledge. But now you have moved your board, and you cannot get back to the second ledge. :( Had to start the whole thing over.

I did this thing WAY too many times, so have a couple more strategies. If you have sneak or other invisibility, you only have to kill 2 gnolls before you get the godlike powers. You kill the first one on the first ledge, recover (I was in the red). Then make your bridge to second ledge, cross and stay by the wall. The second gnoll will come to you. After you kill him, go invisible and light all the torches, including the ones on the ledge by the ark.

After you touch the ark, you will be imbued with many powers, which come in handy to kill the undead gnolls that spawn around you. Both the skeleton master and gnoll master skills work on these, as well as on the other gnolls in the zone.

After killing the gnolls around the ark, pick your next group carefully. I had best luck by shooting an arrow at one directly below the center of the ledge, then jumping down. That avoided a couple single aggro ones on the sides.

Then work away on the groups one by one, pulling them to a cleared place. While you are in this room, you have an additional godlike power. The Ark will heal you! I was healed regularly, for up to 800 some Health at a time! It was not hard for me to stay at nearly full health, even when I accidentally pulled 2 groups of gnolls.

This healing happens anywhere in that room, so after the room is cleared, try to pull the gnolls from the next room into the healing room to fight them.

Clear every dang gnoll from that side of the ledge. Now it is mushroom time. As some have said, pull one group of mushrooms by shooting it, or probably using some sort of spell. They will figure out a way to get on your side of the ledge. Once they were there, they tend to hit a couple times and then run back. I solved this by mezzing one of them. The rest stayed around even when the mez wore off. Pull the second group of mushrooms and handle the same way.

Cross your bridge and jump to the mushroom ledge. Clear all mobs between you and the next room where the spore king is. Once you have done that, use a ranged pull to pull just the Spore King. He comes alone, and is not hard to defeat with your super powers.

Invis again and find the Skeleton King, move boxes around while invisible to climg to his ledge. With your back pressed to the back of his ledge, near the throne, attack him, and his two helpers. Touch the throne and you are done!

This quest no longer gives 9 gold, but around 10% xp and the Skeleton King dropped a chest with a couple pieces of armor in it.

Sixtus - the boards may be like house furniture to rotate. You use the scroll wheel on your mouse and it rotates the items... If you don't have a mouse wheel check your keybinds for rotating stuff in Options etc.
Hope this will help - I haven't gotten to this quest yet you see...

To rotate the boards (or barrels/boxes etc) use the mouse wheel. The boards will "stretch" further if the thichest end is closest to you.