Velious Armor Quests
General Information: For each class, three of the armour sets are the result of very similair quests, while the fourth is dropped off planar creatures. While the dropped armour is often considered the easiest set to attain, the level to attain these armour sets is about level 55 or higher. A person in a guild who is lower level may be able to attain the odd piece, but you're going to need people of level 55 or higher to work on most of these pieces.
In order of difficulty, the Skyshrine quest armours of often considered the hardest, followed by the Kael Drakkel quest armour, followed by the Thurgadin quest armour, with the Plane of Growth/Plane of Hate dropped armour being the easiest to attain. As a rule, the armour sets which are dropped in the planes of Growth and Hate are about equal, the Skyshrine armour has the highest statistics, while the Kael Drakkel armour has the highest armour class.Dropped Armour: For each class, the (possibly) easiest and certainly fastest to aquire set of armour is the dropped set. For most classes, the armour may be found in the Plane of Growth, for Druids, Rangers and Paladins the armour may be found on the second floor of the Plane of Hate. The creatures which drop the armour do so very rarely, but as a rule in the Plane of Growth you can expect to see about 8 to 10 pieces in an 8 hour session clearing the plane. The armour pieces tend to be found on level 55+ creatures.
Quest Armour: Three sets of quested armour are available for each class in velious, one per major faction group. The Thurgadin quests require the "Coldain" faction which all players start with at apprehensive. The Kael and Skyshrine quests both require the "King" factions, Tormax and Yelinek respectively. In each case, in order to perform the quests, you need to have your faction at the highest possible level.
In each quest, you are required to turn in three gem components plus one armour component. For each particular piece and class, the gem component always remains the same. The armour piece is the differenciating component which makes the quests specific to city. In other words, if you have attained the gems for the Enchanter Thurgadin Leggings, the same gems will work for the quest from Kael or the quest from Skyshrine. All items for these quests are dropped.Factions Required:
Thurgadin Quests = Coldain Kael Quests = King Tormax Skyshrine Quests = Claws of VeeshanIn all cases, many of the quest armour components are shared between classes.
Plate: Warrior, Shadow Knight, Paladin, Cleric, Bard
Chain: Ranger, Rogue, Shaman
Leather: Druid, Monk
Cloth:Enchanter, Magician, Wizard, Necromancer
The gems components are split into three groups:
Melee: Warrior, Monk, Rogue, Paladin, Shadow Knight, Ranger
Priest: Cleric, Druid, Shaman
Caster: Enchanter, Magician, Wizard, Necromancer
Quest Armor Drops:All the armor drops needed for the quests are found in the following zones.
For Thurgadin Quests: Kael For Kael Quests: Temple of Veeshan, aka ToV (west wing) For Skyshrine Quests: ToV (east wing, aka Halls of Testing (HoT))