Adept Promotion
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Calita |
December 13, 2010 @
6:15 pm |
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After struggling through the Initiate ranks, it’s finally time to be promoted. Congratulations! Now you need to prove your loyalty to your society by tracking down a rogue thief and recovering an ancient Falatacot relic.
Preparation
To be ready for promotion, you will need to have turned in 95 Commendation Ribbons to your society. Since you can only turn in a maximum of 50 ribbons a week as an initiate, you will need to wait at least two weeks from joining a society. After you have turned in the last set of ribbons required, the ribbons officer will send you to the Inspector of Adepts. Now go find him and and he will give you your task. You will be fighting Undead and a couple humans, so a fire rending Undead Slayer would be your best bet. The undead wield hollow weapons, so plan accordingly. You will also want to soft tie to the surface portal to the Mage Academy, which is almost due north of Neydisa Castle. When you are ready, go into the nearby Corrupted Catacombs, located at 74.8N 18.4E. Go inside and buff up.
Keys
Once you are ready, you will need to fight your way through the north, east, and west corridors, which are protected by Undead and then later by humans loyal to one of the three societies. The humans of your society will not attack you on sight (and you shouldn’t attack them!). At the end of each passage is a Captain. Kill the two Captains of opposing society and you will find keys on their corpses. Your society’s Captain will hand you a key when you talk to him. Save yourself some time and portal recall after you have a key from each wing. Once you have all three keys, look to the south. The passage is blocked by a locked door. ID the door and use the matching key to open it. Fight your way through this corridor and open the other locked doors in the same manner. At the end, you will find more humans, but these are loyal to no society. Dispatch them and their commander, Benedino. On his corpse, you will find the Lens of Filinuvekta, the item you were instructed to recover. Grab it and hurry back to your society’s stronghold – like the mana stone from your initiation, this item has a lifespan. Return it to your Inspector of Adepts and you will be rewarded.
Rewards
Your Inspector will send you to the Promotions Officer. The Promotions Officer will give you a large chunk xp (capping at 600 mil) and your promotion to Adept. Additionally, you will receive 10 society coins, and an Adept’s Treasure Key. This key has two uses on the nearby chests.
First and foremost, you will become a member of your society, which will grant you the ability to enter the nearby stronghold. Additionally, you will receive a treasure key that can be used to open one of four chests near your society’s promotions officer. These chests contain random tier VIII gear. Read the chest before you choose – each chest is more likely to spawn a certain kind of gear, be it spell components, weapons, or armor. You will also receive an armor writ. Find your society’s armorers and hand in your writ for a key to the particular chest you want (note that you need to be a specific rank to receive various pieces of armor). Finally, you will receive a good chunk of XP, capping at 200M or so.
