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New task! "Mastering the Grandmasters" length: Medium

Completed with a lvl 64 bard,
1. Speak with Shikez Kaelsorath in Lake of Ill Omen
He's located at the mouth of the river feeding from Firiona Vie to the lake. location: 900, -1450.
2. Explore the round room with a large pillar through the middle.
"This is a very dangerous place where reports suggest a rebellion may be forming. You must go there and determine whether or not this is true."
At this point I zoned into Veksar and lulled my way past all the undead, to the area where the Highborns are, Fading when necessary. Once you drop down from where the shopkeepers are, enter to the right, lull the highborns in front, and run into the left room near the thin pillar, you'll get the task update, then run away and fade/feign.
3. Kill 10 Grandmasters.
"It looks like the insurgents are forming quickly..."
For this part, I used Call of the Banshee (lvl 64 charm), lull, mez, slow, snare, and heal songs. From the highborns, head north along the corridor to the end and take a left, you'll find a sort-of tiered room with some initiates and some Grandmasters. Find a nice pet - animated hands work nicely - charm it, and then lull-pull a grandmaster out to the corridor. snare, slow, and sic pet. keep the Grandmaster snared, and when charm breaks, recharm, reslow, snare, and heal. Took me about 4 minutes to kill one Grandmaster this way (they chewed me up big time, so meleeing was out). Not so tough, and decent AA at level 64..
4. Speak with Socaldoor Waycrest in Firiona Vie.
Follow the green mark on your compass when you arrive in Firiona Vie.

Level 64, AA 100%, i recieved: 111plat, 3 silver, 1 copper, and about 4 blue bubbles. On retrospect the reward wasn't worth it, however Veksar is a nice zone, and i think i'll go back there again soon.
All in all, not too difficult. The Grandmasters do hit kinda hard, but any pet class could excel on this task. Good luck !!

Also gives a task, think it was called "Exploring the Inner Sanctum" or "Investigating the Inner Sanctum." Pretty much the same as Filth of the Goblins, instead of exploring dining hall have to explore bridge leading into inner sanctum, then kill 10 flame masters.
Final hail npc is in LOIO instead of Dreadlands.
Reward was about 122pp and roughly 4% regular exp. at lvl 63.

Edited, Fri Jun 2 14:39:37 2006

not lvl 40-- is red to my 43 ranger