The Search for Vel'Arek

Level 85SignatureHeroic

Walkthrough

Prerequisites

To complete this entire quest line, you must have the following:

the Bone Bladed Claymore and the Screaming Mace completed AND ON YOU to start the quest or you cannot progress. If you have sold either of these, or want them for your house then visit Shady Swashbuckler on Nek forrest docks. Replacements cost 86g 40s each.
Thulian (Lizardman Language) to speak to Kelteez the Covetous in The Temple of Cazic-Thule to give him The Screaming Mace.
7p 20g in coin
+40,000 faction each with the Legion of Danak and the City of Jinisk
12 of each of the following:
Make sure you have either completed or do not have the quest Safely-Kept Soul or you will auto update that quest and not have the Phylactery in your inventory to Spawn Ganak!

Starting

Take The Bone Bladed Claymore with you to Jimbo in Windstalker Village in Antonica He asks you, “Wow! Is that it?! Is that the magic sword from Stormhold Keep? THE Bone Bladed Claymore?” His tone changes as he says, “hmm… well it is kind of impressive that you got it, but it isn’t thaaat great. Now if you were to find a real legendary sword that would be impressive.” He convinces you to give him the sword to join their guild for information on finding a powerful sword from the great lead his grandmother told him about, used in a battle over 200 years ago.

Steps

Head to The Commonlands, to , and click the scroll in the water next to the skelly to receive a Scroll of Froglok Flesh. Read the scroll to update your quest. It's on about a 5 minute timer. Must be in the Water to read it.
Go to Feerrott and pick up a tablet at
1. When you first click this, a yellow solo mob will attack you named Medic Chief Gorza. He's easily solo killed.
2. Click the tablet again to receive a Broken Thulian Tablet. Examine the tablet to update your quest.
Go to The Temple of Cazic-Thule (Normal works) and head inside the temple to Kelteez the Covetous at .
1. He asks for The Screaming Mace, so make sure you have it on you.
Head to Jarsath Wastes, inside the Danak Shipyards. You need to purchase the Rallosian Garrison Journal from Eviss Ryiss for 2 Platinum, 40 Gold.
1. Read the book
Go to the Kunzar Jungle. At you'll see a wall you can 'break'. Note that the rockface doesn't visually fall down, you are just able to walk through it after you strike it. Then go in to . Click the sword, and the ghost of Vel'Arek will pop up. Talk to him.
You are sent to kill Urduuk the Desecrator. (He's in Shard of Fear at , but first you must break him out of his prison. Hail him and he tells you 4 items are needed (which can be gotten in any order). It's a good idea get Terror (the first item)since you're right there anyway. The four items are:
1. a fragment of this plane (Terror in Shard of Fear.)
2. a censer of the Faceless (Censer of Cazic) to place the fragment (The lizard freaks' priests will have the censer, as they were always favored of Thule.) This is from a Sathirian archon and a Sathirian spiritist in Sebilis. Grey mobs will drop this item, it is a body drop.
3. an ancient sigil of divine undoing, this is a ground spawn ([tiny black mound]) in Chelsith with a question mark over a small black pile of dirt on the ground. Update: There are five possible locations for this ground spawn. Each of the five outer smaller circles with a named, can have this spawn. Only one location is currently placed on the map.
  - Idol of Obedience
  - Idol of Sustanance
  - Idol of Dominion
  - Idol of Exaltation
4. an essence of a God curse (The curse essence will only be found on one such as I, cursed to be tormented by the gods for all of eternity! This is from Garanel Rucksif, the Cursed in The Estate of Unrest) You will need a group of 3 people (not mercs) to get past the hag. You will need to mentor down so that final mobs are not grey in order to get drops to spawn Garanel.
After you get all four updates, head back to Shard of Fear but you have to zone in a new one, or Urduuk won't give you updates. Speak to him and he will escape, also you get Shackles of Horror.
Bring the Shackle back to Commonlands, where you found the body at ( 619, -57, 208 ) , use the shackle and Urduuk the Desecrator will spawn as a lvl85^^^ mob, kill him and get the updates.
Back to Kunzar Jungle and raise the ghost of Vel'Arek,back underground in cave behind waterfall . You'll see the wall you can 'break'. Strike it and walk through as before, then go in to . Click the sword, and the ghost of Vel'Arek will pop up. Talk to him. He wants you to recover 8 tags from military units of Rallosian of Glory. Tags can be gotten in any order:
- Cusmar's RoG tag (it's like the An Old Military ID Necklace dropped by Impaler Tzilug, except the purchased one says "The name on it is 'Cusmar'", and it's tagged as Required by the Quest "The Search for Vel'Arek" ): Purchased from Dealer Zaynx (faction merchant) in City of Jinisk in Kunzar Jungle for 4p 80g (40,000 faction with The City of Jinisk required)
- Eloc's tag: Harvestable (pile of tan dirt with ? over it) in Danak Shipyard in Jarsath Wastes e.g. , , (random along the beach it seems, you can use a gnomish divining rod which helps significantly)also try
- Rabid's tag: Drop from Impaler Tzilug in Charasis: Maiden's Chamber instance in Jarsath Wastes
- Modi's tag: Drop from trash in Skyfire Mountains in Jarsath Wastes (Wurms, devourers, wyverns. Personally I got mine off first kill from elder skyfire wurm close to Temple of Red Lord)
- Tank's tag: Harvestable in Court of Korucust instance in Chardok
- Elno's tag: Head to Fens of Nathsar clean trash mobs will spawn lvl85^^^ Digmaster Bonerattler with adds, kill it get the update.
- Limik's tag: Limk's tag is from Thunderbelly in the Kromdeck Village (by Field of Bones) in Fens at . You need to bring him 12 of each Crispy Fried King Prawn Heads, Torsis Tea Ice Cream, Juicy Cranberry Cobbler, Cocoa-dusted Wedding Cake.(You can buy on the broker or search a Provisioner for help)
- Remej's tag: Clickable skull of skeleton next to Vel'Arak in Kunzar Jungle
After turning in the tags to Vel'Arek, he sends you to kill who was responsible for the siege of Tallon's Point. This is Ganak, so go to the Charasis: Vault of Eternal Sleep, and grab the phylactery from in front of the final named. If you have multiple Guardians in your group, only one can take the phylactery per instance (will have to wait for it to expire or reset in 17 hours).
- NOTE: Make sure ALL PARTIES know NOT to click the Phylactery or you will NOT get the item you need!
- NOTE: Make sure you have either completed or do not have the quest Safely-Kept Soul or you will auto update that quest and not have the Phylactery in your inventory to Spawn Ganak!
After getting the phylactery, take it to Ganak's old tomb behind the Reet camp in Kunzar Jungle. Use the phylactery inside the tomb and it will spawn Dominus Ganak as a lvl85^^^ mob, kill the guy. (He despawns after 4 minutes) Go back to Vel'Arek and get your weapon. (Note that if you are not at this step but used the phylactery, Ganak will spawn as an Epic mob.)

STOP! If your goal is to have the Item for the Epic Conversion Timeline, you do NOT need to do the RAID version. You can begin that timeline now.

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Quest information

Journal Category: Signature
Introduced: LU42
Journal Level: 85
Journal Difficulty: Heroic
Starting Zone: Antonica
How to Start: Talk with Jimbo at in Antonica
Timeline: Guardian Epic Weapon Timeline

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Timeline

Guardian Epic Weapon TimelineStep 1

Previous: Safely-Kept Soul
Next: Revitalizing Vel'Arek

Rewards

XP: 13,422

Reward data may be incomplete for choice rewards and conditional items.