Not a total bust.
Drops:
Royal Honey
Restores 50 hp and 35 mana.
Doesn't spawn enough to camp, unless you are really bored and still get some non-elite low 20s xp.
For those who roll warrior and are confused on how this ability works -- additional ranks are automatically learned as you progress through levels. Once you hit level 10, you learn Rank 2. Level 20, you learn rank 3, and at level 30 you learn the final rank of 4. This is a "Combo Ability" per the dev team - and it behaves strangely compared to other abilities.
Even if you learn the new ranks, your strike of breaking will always start out at Rank 1 on your technique bar. If you use rank 1 on a mob, it starts a 30 second cooldown timer on rank 1 and "unlocks" rank 2. Your Technique bar will show that Rank 2 is available to use. If you do not use Rank 2 within 10 seconds, it will downgrade back to Rank 1 and any remaining cooldown on Rank 1 will still be ticking. Every time you use a lower rank and have a higher rank available, the Rank "upgrades" to the next one in your technique bar.
Rank 1 does some damage and threat, puts a debuff on the mob, and a buff on you. When you use rank 2, it overwrites the debuff on the mob with the stronger version and gives you the stronger AC buff. Same with rank 3, same with rank 4. This ability does NOT behave like a "stacking" debuff -- each rank of the strike of breaking is its own unique debuff. This allows for some weird behaviors such as:
- If you are tanking multiple mobs, you can stack 3 ranks on mob A and then use rank 4 on mob B. Mob A will have -30% AC, and mob B will receive the -35% AC debuff of rank 4 right away.
- If you are tanking in a long fight such as the White Wyvern or another mob that has a big health pool and the mob lives long enough for the Strike of Breaking cooldown to refresh -- you start out back at Rank 1 and the Rank 1 debuff will overwrite the Rank 4 debuff on the mob. It does not refresh the "full strength" version of the self buff and the mob AC debuff so if you want Rank 4 + the max rank AC buff, you have to do the full cycle of Strike of Breaking again. This is clunky from a threat generation standpoint if you leverage Strike of Breaking as a staple threat ability because you are changing your +AC% buff to lower values and the mobs -AC% debuff to lower values until you can get the full Rank 4 version up again.
- Other classes that have AC debuffs will shut off the AC debuff component of this ability. Shamans that use the AC/Speed debuff will turn off your ability to debuff the mob's AC. Rogues corrosive poison debuff will do it too. You can still do damage+threat, and I believe that the self AC buff works.
I tried it at Wycan camp to try and remove the CC they do to our healer, no dice. However my restoration skill was only a few points at the time. No idea if skill actually matters or not.
Breathchar stone is in a treasure chest on top of the table in the room before the drop down to the start of the engraver.
Ashen Wraps is in a treasure chest right next to Cindrel ph
Dragonbone Prayer beads is in a treasure chest atop the table in Nahlira's room
Ritual is the clickable floor tile in Lich room, only works when you have all 3 items and you will get perception msg's and runes will light up as it channels. No mobs spawn.
Treasure chests only appear when on the quest, not sure how long respawn is but its longer than 15min.
Showed up to chief today.. first time ever since being a lowbie months ago and killed the ph three times and the chief popped and dropped the dust covered cloak… first kill. Spent exactly one hour there.. thanks RNG gods
Finally add a decent arrow for rangers and gatekeep it behind what could be considered the rarest mob in the game if you factor in the drop rate of the hair.
Okay i got the arrow. It procs 100% of the time on ranged auto attacks the dmg it does most often i see is 3 dmg at lvl 43 against heavy fire resistant group mobs.. it can crit and do abit more damage but it is basicaly a free chaotic imbuement buff for you ranged attacks
As an owner of this shield i can tell you this shield holds power not listed.. wearing this shield vs the brace of claws or another shield is night and day difference in how much healing you need. The offering plate makes you much more sturdy in battle. Ive had alot of healers comment on how much easier it is to heal me and keep me up when wearing it.