Saturday, July 26, 2014

Faction Walkthrough: Hand of Glory (Turan)

One of the only good things to come out of the 2011 Conan movie was the Savage Coast of Turan adventure pack.  This provided another level 50-55 leveling area, two solo instances, a group instance, and a Tier 3.5 Raid that almost nobody did due to difficulty for the rewards given (I think that's changed recently).

This walk through will provide a basic guide to joining the Hand of Glory, advancing in the ranks, and listing the quests available.  It also contains some story spoilers.  This chain has some fun dialog and many of the characters you meet have some fun non-game advancing lines that are worth a read if you're lore hound and enjoy tie-ins, even if its from a relatively bad movie.


Saturday, July 12, 2014

Walkthrough for The Weakling, The Warrior, and The Wanton (Unchained)



Dreary place
Outside of raiding and PvPing, one of the best ways to get better gear is by gathering Rare Trophies that can be traded in (with gold) for purple gear.  One of the easiest Unchained instances to gather rares is Dead Man's Hand.  It generally takes longer than Island of Iron Statues and Refuge of the Apostate but is easier than both and significantly easier to access than the latter.

All a player needs to access this (and Island of the Iron Statues) is the Turan Adventure pack (which costs 1300 Funcom points or 6300 for the Jewels of Turan version which has several additional features including the Sand Demon combat pet).

To start the quest, talk to Artus in Ardashir.  The first time this quest is run, there's some extra steps (that I won't cover here) that set up the story for the recurring section.  After the first run through, the island only has four recurring quests.  Despite not paying much in silver (four to six silver, compared to 10 to 12 for Khitai quests), these are fairly easy to complete and in your general path through the island.  The fourth quest is available on the island but since completing it takes you off the beaten path, it's not covered here although it is pretty straight forward.