Level 50 Mage Quest

The New Mana ball Quest!

First off I have noticed a lack of guides on the level 50 mage quest with pictures! I am going to post this quest up to hopefully help other players who hit level 50 as a mage to do their quest. When I hit level 50 with other characters I will be sure to post there level 50 quest as well. I would like to thank Charlie Danger for originally posting this guide up on the forums. I will use his steps he posted in this guide with my own experiences.

http://boards.lineage.com/showthread.php?t=13968

Before I begin I would recommend you are level 51 at least to start this quest. The reason why is because you have to head down to Temple of Shadows as a part of this quest. This quest isn't as easy as it looks! I failed three times at doing this quest, and took me a total of 5 hours to complete!

here we go!

1. Talk to Dicarding in Ivory Tower 3f next to Talass. Talk to the NPC behind Dicarding (Assistant). They will tell you to goto the Sorcerer's Temple to find this NPC that has something for them. The Sorcerer's Temple is more commonly known as the Sanctuary of Evil (SOE).

2. Stock up on supplies 60+ magic gems, Blue potions, clears. Things can get difficult in the Sanctuary of Evil so I suggest clears. Have Pots, Escapes, Heal, Cancel, Immune to Harm, and Absolute Barrier (if you have it) on Hotkeys.

3. Equip your fastest running morph and goto SOE. Stay in the beginning part without running into the area with the priests. Cancel every single oum you see and one will eventually turn into an NPC that looks like a guard. Talk to him

Note: I find that the oum's to the north of this map are most likely to be the guard once canceled. You can spends a long time Canceling oums doing this part! You might have to get more magic gems!

4. He'll tell you he dropped something, down there and to find it and bring it to Dicarding.

5. *This is the hardest part of the quest.* Stay by the entrance of SOE and kill oums and only oums, Heavy and middles. (Stay close to the entrance because you'll probably run out of mana points and instead of teleporting home you can just run back over the pad and it brings you to that area without mops to regen) Don't waste your time and resources on the other monsters but try kill Oums efficiently without summons.





Blind/Darkness does not work anymore on Grave Guardians, but will work on other mops. It took me about three plus hours of hunting Oums to get the drop, who knows you may get lucky and get it faster. One will drop Secret Intelligence Document.

6. Once you get this document go back to Dicarding and give it to him. Now its time to stock up on magic gems and **IMPORTANT** cure poison potions, Twigs, or a Zenith Ring!. Hotkey the cure poison potions. (there are traps that silence you, paralyze you and poison you on 2f). I have died doing this quest being paralyzed!!!! In SOE you probably realized there is a little Red Crystals floating in the air. The one nearest to the entrance is the one for mages. Goto it. Now you can talk to it and Teleport in. **You cannot escape from this area only restart**


***NOTE*** There is a time limit on this quest! If you do not complete it in the time limit you will be booted out of the quest dungeon!

Just a quick first look of the quest dungeon level 50 mage quest.












7. Once inside run down and to right ignore the Dancing swords. Go down a hallway and kill the Guardian Armors and the Phantom Knight in the group, I recommend using a strong area spell (MS/LS) because you'll find them in a group, there should be some residual dancing swords following kill everything including the phantom knight looking mop. Once you get the key, killed everything, and made the room safe it's time to regain your mana. Regenerate full mana and make sure your Cures are hotkeyed. Double click the 2f key.


**NOTE** Phantom Knight in the group drops you the 2f key needed to get to the next area. This first area has more than one group of Guardian Armors and Phantom Knights. You must find the right group to get the 2nd floor key. This took me 3 groups to find the 2nd floor key.

2nd floor first look. These Guardian of Noble Will hurt!!!! They can spawn when you walk on the wrong tile. Just a warning here ^^.











8. Once on the 2f you'll see a beholder, and these two big red mops that pulse out damage. They hurt but just ignore everything. Run down the long hallway to your up-right ignore the red mops that spawn. Keep finding a way around these rooms there should be a hallway that leads somewhere until you reach the end. The end is a boss that looks like a Demon and is surrounded by Gargoyles. Immune yourself, kite/darkness the demon around the room as you mass kill the gargoyles with Meteor or LS. (weak to fire) once they're finished you can kill the boss. To make it easier Darkness the boss but get close enough so you get the 3f key immune yourself and spam eruptions (weak to earth). It dies fairly quickly with eruptions. Once its dead and the room is safe, time to regenerate. Get full mana double click the 3f key.
**NOTE** The directions above sound easy, but this is a larger task then you think. I rounded up all the Garoyles in the room with the Demon and nuked them all with Meteor Storm. Then Immuned myself and killed the Demon with Sun Burst. The demon will drain you of all your mana points, so regain if possible in his chamber after you kill him.

9. Once you're here just ignore the mops that aren't aggressive (they look like drowned sailors) but you'll run around and get swarmed by silhouettes, kite them and nuke them until you get "Ma's Horn". Then run to the top wall and you'll see an NPC you can talk to, he'll give you a crystal that you double click and it will bring you to the altar room.

**Sorry no picture here haha I got lazy and wanted to finish this quest**

10. Once here regenerate your mana all the way and stand on the little dark cell infront of the altar, Immune yourself and click Ma's Horn. A lich will appear nuke it with eruptions and it dies really fast. (sometimes Deaths spawn but you can kill them easy with SB or Erupt.) The Lich will drop you this medicine. Regenerate some mana.







11. Double click the medicine and begin to hit the altar with your staff and nuke it (weak to fire). When the altar gets weak, it will spawn Dancing swords, immune yourself and a couple firestorms should finish them off, but never stop hitting altar with your staff. Once it dies you'll get a fragment of the altar and will be teleported out in 10 seconds.






Almost done!!!!!













12. Bring this fragment of the altar to Dicarding and he'll give you a shiny new Mana Ball.












Once again I would like to thank Charlie Danger on posting this detailed guide for the mage quest. I just added in screenshots to help players get an idea what this quest looked like inside the dungeon. I will say just the writing did help me a lot, but I did get lost during the quest on where to go sometimes. I really enjoyed doing this quest but still I found it frustrating at times. I hope this updated guide helps lineage players in the future, and enjoy your new mana ball.