Dunadan Ranger Quest

Prerequisite: Level 21+.

Location: Near Weathertop (from Nen-I-Sul bridge: 6w, 2n, open culvert, e)

Quest: Ranger will teach his lore to well travelled and good aligned persons (“sent to Arda” is enough, “firm believer” doesn't fit) when they complete his given task. The task involves three objects that must be brought to the ranger. The items may be different for each person, the following items are known as possible quest items.

• White fur from the Huge White Bear in the southern Misty Mountains. (2 spots, one west and one east of OOC)

• A claw from a Cavern-wing in Moria (actually any Cavern-wing will do). They don't always load claw.

• The heart of the Ice-Demon in the northern Misty Mountains. (1 zone west from ZOC)

• A sickly green mushroom.

You must find these items ALONE (means: no same side player can be in the zone when you pick up these items). When you pick up an item in question (mushroom, icy heart, etc), noone can be in zone, you should NOT be grouped, (grouped with mount is ok) and you should NOT be following anyone. I am still not sure if it is ok for another person to kill the mobs for you and let you butcher (under conditions above). - [I have found cavern-wing dead and butchered corpse for talon and it worked for the quest. I can't tell if it was killed by whitie or darkie and whether that would have any effect.]

Dunadan Ranger will accuse you of cheating if you buy items from a shop and try to give to him.

New Tp Requirements

If you try and get the quest at a higher number of TPS than the current lower limit and fail then raise the lower limit to the number of TPS you had when you tried. If you succeed then reduce the upper limit to your current number of TPS. Eventually we will find the exact limits for each level and we can calculate the formula.

Here's my first stab at a graph of the data, please keep posting upper and lower limits. If that level 40 lower limit point is right and the relationship is liner then we are pretty much there!

Updated graph 28 Mar 14.

To me (Elestir) it seems, the formula is: tps_required = 4000 x level - 38000

Old Tp Requirements: You need 54k tps to start the quest at lev26. (Level 22 and 40k tps works too) On higher levels amount of tps can be approximated by formula 2.5k*level. It isn't real formula, though - but it works until lev33.

If you fail the quest (i.e. Ranger is dissatisfied with the way you got the items), your slate is wiped clean in about a RL month. Sickly mushrooms once decayed on me in 15 minutes (but usually can lie in your backpack for days rl), icy heart decays in around 2 RL hours or so. Lastly, if you have the last item for the quest, and you walk into Ranger's room with another person and give ranger the item. He won't give you the quest (“I will not speak of this in front of other people” - or smth similar). You have to show up alone and ask ranger herblore to finally get it and complete the quest.

Reward: Travelling herblore.

If you level during the quest and end up having less tps than required the ranger will be dissatisfied and you'll have to get the extra amount of tps before you can continue. /Erik

I've added the collumn for date of the experiment, as the requirements can change in time.