Vanguard: On The Way To Halgarad
My Dahknarg adventures eventually lead me to the Silvermane house where I am supposed to find a Vulmane named Hador. He tells me that I need to select a clan and gives me choices. There is the Ghostclaw, which is adept at casting, Swiftfang, which is adept with light weapons and armor, and Nighthunters, adept at heavy combat. Naturally, as a druid, I chose the Ghostclaw clan.
They want me to prove myself to my new clan, so I am sent to find a Vulmane named Gnakel, who is under the influence of a Bloodhowler. I am to slay him and wash my hands in his blood. Gnakel is under guard at the campfire near the center of town. It was an easy fight, which is good, because his guards didn’t help me. My reward from this quest was 60 copper and 1459 experience points.
Next up was the Okhnom’s Supplies quest. My suggestion is to save this quest until you have finished all of the other Dahknarg quests. You’ll need the levels and it leads you to your next city and quest hub which is Halgarad. I had to take some supplies to Shalen who is out on the road some ways east of the gnoll cave. I found her standing next to a large boulder cowering in fear. Turns out there is a band of bloodhowlers up ahead and she is too scared to go on. She wants me to kill a bunch of them and then go find a guy named Armol Furth who should be further up the road.
The bloodhowler’s are 3-dot mobs, so they are a little tougher than the standard ones. You can pull singles if you are careful. I knocked off the required amount and then went past their camp in search for Furth.
I found Furth a good ways up the road. He had fallen on tough times because the bloodhowler’s invaded him, tore up his wagon and stole his supplies. He wants me to go slay the bloodhowler’s that did this and get back his supplies. I found them just up the road from him in a camp on the right-hand side of the road. The very first gnoll that I pulled dropped the supplies.
After recovering the stolen supplies, I was tasked with taking them on to the city of Halgarad.
–Wolfen
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So the very last quest found in Spirit’s Rest told me to get my furry butt over to Dahknarg. It proved to be a much larger town than Spirit’s Rest, with many more quest givers. Class trainers can be found here as well.
The quest had me report to a guard named Mikah who is found just outside the gate. I tell him about the alliance between the Broken Fang and Bloodhowler gnoll clans and I receive 20 copper and 150 experience. I then get the quests Cull the Pack and Lobo head. This required me to go just a short way beyond the gate and slay lobo’s and procure a pristine lobo head. These were easily done and I was rewarded with just a few coppers and a few hundred experience.
Nighthunter Marudak, who stands next to Mikah, gives a couple quests, including Forrah’s Patrol, which has me patrol a few different patrol points and kill any gnolls I find. This is a virtually an exact copy of the quest I had in Kojan except that the hidden attackers are gnolls instead of orcs. I just run along the path until a hidden gnoll pops into existence and starts pounding on me. Rinse and repeat for the four patrol points and you’ll get 244 experience.
I run a few more quests and then I am eventually directed to the NW gate to find Nighthunter Valas. He gives me the Bloodhowler Raiders quest and Okhnom’s Supplies quest. Okhnom’s quest is significant later on because it will eventually take me to another quest hub much further out onto the continent. The Bloodhowler camp is a ways out of town and up on a high hill. The camp has several tents and a bunch of angry gnolls. Luckily, they are easy to pull solo if you are careful. I killed the required amount and received 30 copper, 781 exprience, and a pair of Ghostclaw Gloves for my trouble.
Back at the south gate, Varin gives a few quests. They are Bloodhowler Threat (kill 8 Denwatchers), Bloodhowler Defenses (explore their defenses), and lastly The Foreman (kill 2 taskmasters and the bloodfang Foreman). All of these take place at the same gnoll camp that is up on a hill. Again, if you are careful, these can be pulled singly from the perimeter. The Foreman is a little ways inside the camp but just be careful and you can get to him solo. The Foreman quest gave 70 copper and 1177 experience. I should note that I did these quests while between the levels of 6 and 7.
Near Valin is Nighthunter Dakken. He gives a couple quests, including Stop The Flow. This one wanted me to find and kill the Bloodhowler Runner who runs between the gnoll camps delivering information. He runs along the paths and as you spend time in the area it will be impossible to miss him.
Nighthunter Jerl then gives a few quests, including Bloodhowler Attack, which needed me delve into a cave full of gnolls and kill some Gatekeepers. Another one wanted me to remove some contents from barrels within the cave. Yet another needed me to rescue a vulmane captive being held in the cave.
The cave is up on a hill a good ways east of Dahknarg. The Gatekeeper is found just inside the first wooden stake wall you come across. The captive vulmane can be found by taking the first right-hand turn once inside the cave. You’ll have to fight a few gnolls to get to him. Just past the captive is a dead-end where a named gnoll spawns. He is called Angimor the Watchful. He drops armor pieces, including a very nice set of trousers for my druid.
I was adventuring solo, so I didn’t go too deep into the cave, but it sure did remind me of the Blackburrow dungeon from Everquest.
–Wolfen
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