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Broken? Frozen Skeleton Merc

Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Eanelder, Jan 29, 2017.

  1. Eanelder Augur

    Just wanted to bring up an issue I came across the other day with Frozen Skull of the Cursed, the "Quest" item that allows you to hire a Frozen Skeleton Mercenary. The quest seems to have been altered, and I don't know if it was intentional or if it is broken.

    Currently, when you hail the Special Mercenary Liaison in PoK, he says:
    If you have the Frozen Skull of the Cursed on you , he SHOULD say:
    On my most recent turn in of the skull, the Liaison did not provide this text on hail and on turn in of the Frozen Skull of the Cursed did not give me the customary response ( see allakhazam for text ). My toon received the Mercenary (and flag) but he did NOT receive the Frozen Skull of the Cursed back, which I believe he is supposed to. At least it was returned every previous time I completed the quest on an alt (it is heirloom).

    The only difference I can see is that Liaison is not properly responding to the hail or providing the right quest completion text. This leads me to think it is broken.

    tl;dr - Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed [ Special Mercenary Liaison] in PoK maybe broken as he is not returning the Frozen Skull of the Cursed on turn in. This prevents claiming the Skeleton Mercenary on additional characters on the account, which it had always done in the past.
  2. Benito EQ player since 2001.

    I hate to say it but it sounds like it was "fixed" and that multiple Heirloom claims weren't intended.

    All of the other LoN Merc Contracts (i.e.Drachnid, Rallosian Orc) are one-time claims, so I don't see how Frozen Skeleton could be justifiably different (other than quest aspect). I'd pay $$ to claim the Rallosian Orc 999 times on my account.

    DBG is also looking to generate more revenue.
  3. Eanelder Augur

    It could be the case that this was intentional, but the other contracts are 1 time clicky items, not a turn in "quest". The only reason I think its broken is cause of the change of / wrong Quest text.

    I've claimed the merc several times on alts without issue, and was able to petition it this last time to get it back, so I guess I got full use of it. Others might not have been so lucky. or even aware of it, so thought it was worth bringing up.
  4. Helsgirl New Member

    I just got the Item but not able to open it up. Have a empty merc slot. Can you give some advice.

    Thank you
  5. CatsPaws Just getting rid of the old

    You need to give us more info. Just got what? All 3 items? What is the item that you are not able to open?
  6. CatsPaws Just getting rid of the old

    Here is a rundown of how this quest works:

    You collect 3 specific items from LON packs by "claiming" them. They are Trapped Soul Gem, Empty Glowing Skull, and Frost Covered Gem. Only certain packs have them.

    And a head's up on this: years ago when it came out this was one of the rarest items in the game and quite a status symbol if you were fortunate enough to get one. So you can imagine how super super rare it is to get one now.

    Once you have those three items in your inventory you go to POK and use your find key and under the letter M look for "Merc Liaison special" and over on the right column it will say "Frozen Skeleton of the Cursed" Click that and follow the path. It goes to the evil side,

    Once you get there you hail him, follow the text, hand in those 3 items and he will flag you to get the merc.

    His last bit talks about how he will give you it free for this first time and he will either pop the merc for you or you click on him and "buy" it (no charge) the first time. Make sure you do not have another merc up at the time

    If you choose in the future to use a different merc and then come back to this one then it would not be free but you would buy it from this NPC like other merc liaisons.

    The 2 item box is not used for this. There is nothing to open unless you mean the LON pack?

    When players talk about the Frozen Skull of the Cursed they possibly mean an item he used to give back on the quest that allowed alts on your account to also get the skelly merc. Or they are just confused as there is no data on that item and all links just go to the quest.
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  7. Flatchy Court Jester

    That is why I was so cheesed off they got rid of LON game. I never did finish that one. Yes I know you can still buy packs but when it was going there was a lot more movement in trades on items.
  8. Sissruukk Rogue One

    I think the Path of Skulls nimbus is probably the hardest one to get. At least, it was for me.
  9. kyong Augur

    I have the frozen skelly merc, and got it very early. I checked my bank after reading this, very doubtful I would have deleted the items back then or any other time. I wonder back then, if the liason didn't hand the items back at all and ate them and he got messed up to hand them back at some point.