Ruins of Trengal Keep concerns

[Tudana]

This place is meant to be an exciting place, lots of work went into it.

But I have a few concerns and was wondering if anyone else is experiencing them or is that something I am afflicted with alone.

I like places like this because of the lore an adventurer can learn doing the different quest series it offers, however I learned this quest line backwards. I found after coming to Trengal Keep that it really starts in Coastal Graveyard. Coastal Graveyard is very gray to a lv 27- up player, which is close to the start lv of Trengal for some serious adventuring inside.

My concerns are in having the attaching "crux" quest line in a different chunk all together causing the main content in ROTK to be pass over? Has anyone spawned Karujin yet on any server?

One has to have followed the "crux" quest line to know what I am speaking about. I will go over it slightly and in short.

Attuned Torque of the Houndmaster - lv 18 dungeon
Attuned Armband of Razranu - lv 19 dungeon
Attuned Armband of Ashiji - lv 19 dungeon

These 3 items are needed to progress to the main event in ROTK, before you level up to start working on the quest series in ROTK. Without them, you will be back farming gray mobs. Easy enough but still would be nice to have this closer to ROTK lv (or even in the same chunk- from what I have learned Coastal Graveyard has many quests and is mostly inhabited by small grp, duo or solo players).

Next concern of mine is the whip drop rates for summoning the 4th son, Nishek.

I don’t recall the drop rate being this low while in beta, I know it was a rare drop, but in Live it seems to be moved to UR. The group I was with did get one a couple weeks ago and we gave the event a shot. Not knowing what to expect when Nishek was summoned, we promptly got our butts handed to us by his guardians.
Having to learn an encounter (small that it is, its still going to take more then 1 shot most cases for a single group) with using the only rare drop whip item received is a real concern, this is just the 4th son. Sons 1,2 and 3 we rather simple once you figured it out and the drop rate was much better on the items needed to summon or start their events.

Am I missing some key drop mob here for the whip? quest says kill all for the whip.

I really want to summon Karujin (lv 38), and would feel let down if I out leveled ROTK common mobs (30-33) trying for a rare drop to advance my quest line.

Tudana
lv 32 Warrior
Shidreth server

[Danth]

"My concerns are in having the attaching "crux" quest line in a different chunk all together causing the main content in ROTK to be pass over? Has anyone spawned Karujin yet on any server?"

When I did the Karujin encounter, he was a surprisingly easy mob (only 4-dot, while the last of his kids was a 6-dot) and he dropped extremely sub-par items. Oh, he also dropped a seemingly-broken quest item (heart). That was quite some time ago, probably still February (early March at the latest), so it may have been fixed since then.

Crappy end reward or no, I very much liked the "Crux" quest line as it took roughly ten levels through three zones to complete it. Vanguard needs more quests like that.

Danth