>Where do you find the start of the katana quest?

I hadn't heard about it being out yet, is it?

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Ok.

It's a quest. I know quests are supposed to maintain an air of mystery to a certain degree, depending on the quest and who designed it. But..a simple request. Please. Tell us if this is a permanent implementation or not? I spent 5 hours running around gathering truffles last night (and I'm not even close to being done..hee!), but MY problem is..I don't know what ones I need or anything yet..so if I hear someone who KNOWS they need blah blah kind or whatever, I try to help them out when I can and give or trade them one of mine. While chatting, someone invariably comes into the room and grabs the truffle that grew while I was yakking..har! While this is entertaining and all, I'd LOVE to know if I need to stress on finishing this immediately. I hate races. I'd much rather roleplay and be friendly to the other folks trying this, than run around trying to beat other folks out of truffles or whatever like I'm seeing happen. Can someone enlighten us as to whether or not we need to race to the finish or not? Do we have a couple days? A month? Until the end of time? Thanks.


Athena

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason" ~ Andre' Gide

Curious..are these one per character..account..? I'm hoping per character, since it will be way too hard choosing which person gets it if it's one per account. Please say it isn't one per account!


Athena

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason" ~ Andre' Gide

>And is the fact that they are not attuned a bug?

I'm wondering if it is, considering the SHOW changes like it does.

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From my elven bard, who got it:

The blade of the katana exhibits the typical precision of Erithi workmanship and forging. Its highly reflective surface is polished to a mirror sheen, with a line of distinct semi-circular patterns where the steel transitions between hardened edge and flexible sides. The hilt is wrapped in yellow silk braid and bears two small silver bat ornaments. The butt cap is of iron and engraved with a fox head.

To my half elven rogue:

The blade of the katana exhibits the typical precision of Erithi workmanship and forging. Its highly reflective surface is polished to a mirror sheen, with a line of distinct semi-circular patterns where the steel transitions between hardened edge and flexible sides. The hilt is wrapped in orange silk braid and bears two small silver wagon ornaments. The butt cap is of iron and engraved with a fox head.

To my erithian sorceress:

The blade of the katana exhibits the typical precision of Erithi workmanship and forging. Its highly reflective surface is polished to a mirror sheen, with a line of distinct semi-circular patterns where the steel transitions between hardened edge and flexible sides. The hilt is wrapped in purple silk braid and bears two small silver crystal ball ornaments. The butt cap is of gold and engraved with a fox head.

There's more, but I'm lazy.

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Oh, they seem to be random, but are of the constellations.

Bats, wagons, crystal ball, silver star, gryphon, trident..all of which are constellations.

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Thank you :) I don't have any real interest in owning a katana (or going on the quest) unless I were to roll up a character who'd use one, but I was curious about the differences in the SHOW.

I would recomend doing the quest once the crowds die down. The first part right now is an exercise in frustration because of the competition for access to the materials and location you need. If not for the people, it could be entertaining I think, but hard to say as my experiance with it was rather ruined I think.

The second part where your going it alone is just plain damn cool. Figureing out the puzzles is fun. Even if you don't want a katana, I would recomend doing it at least for the second half.

Asmodea Drey'Haus

>Oh, and I would guess they're not random,

Random as in not related to birthdate, age, gender, profession, race...in character random.

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Here's my elven sorceress':

The blade of the katana exhibits the typical precision of Erithi workmanship and forging. Its highly reflective surface is polished to a mirror sheen, with a line of distinct semi-circular patterns where the steel transitions between hardened edge and flexible sides. The hilt is wrapped in blue silk braid and bears two small silver dragonfly ornaments. The butt cap is of mithril and engraved with a fox head.

Two more constellations: shield (The Paladin) and The Dragonfly.

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>I believe there is an Elanthian equavaliant of a zodiac, but my character at least does not have a birthday set, so no idea how that would work.--Asmodea

http://www.play.net/gs4/info/tomes/constellations.asp

For reference - Human Rogue with green silk braid and silver rose ornaments. The character's birthdate falls under the Gates constellation, however - not that of the Mistress of Adoration. She is also Aeia-aligned and with no culture selected, if that potentially has any bearing.

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I am the snake; tempting, that bite you _take
Let_ me free your mind, leave yourself _behind
C'mon_, c'mon, now take the _chance
That's_ right -- let's dance

Again, I'm late to this..BUT! (Yay the big but!)

I had a friend hand me their katana so I could look at it..and the show definitely changed. It's NOT profession based because we were both the same profession and when she had it it was orange braid with um..copper? (cant remember the butt metal for sure..and gryphons. When I had it it was yellow braid with mithril and stars. The color of braid, ornament and the metal in the cap changes depending who has it. I'm concerned because I got one as a gift for someone else, since my healer witch can't wield one..heh. I'm hoping it is random and doesn't signify "original owner" and "unoriginal owner".


">I believe there is an Elanthian equavaliant of a zodiac, but my character at least does not have a birthday set, so no idea how that would work.

Asmodea Drey'Haus">

I can't remember if I ever picked a birthday or not..but..IF this is a factor..it could be that if you have no birthday set already there is a specific setting for that as well. A default or whatever..for everyone with no birthday picked already.

>"I'm not sure why I keep getting the exact same katana details for all the new characters (read: delete and create) though. It's really rather odd. Hopefully some light will be shed on the subject.

Meanwhile, I think my warrior might just deal with silver/stars/copper for now.">

I'm wondering if it isn't maybe an account thing at this point? Has anyone tried to get multiple katanas on the same account..and if so..are they all the same? Hmm. I was thinking it was random before, but now..I dunno.


Athena

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason" ~ Andre' Gide

<< I'm wondering if it isn't maybe an account thing at this point? Has anyone tried to get multiple katanas on the same account..and if so..are they all the same? Hmm. I was thinking it was random before, but now..I dunno. >>

Perhaps, but I doubt it. My other characters all have different significantly different details.

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<< If you've rerolled the various characters in the same slot, that makes me think that the description is tied to the character slot in much the same way that elemental attunement used to be. >>

It is. I tested a 'reroll' first thing. Katana didn't change. I've come to the conclusion that a character's katana details depend on when that character was created. The ornaments I'm getting on new characters match the current constalation in influence in-game, the Sun God. I have a feeling that anyone who makes a character today will get silver/stars/copper. I'm going to try after midnight, and see if day plays a part in wrap/cap detail.

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A character in the same character slot rerolled alot will keep much of the same internal identifiers. I rerolled characters during the time the butterfly charms were being given out, and kept getting the same colors from it. If anything, I would say that a rerolled character having the same features in a katana would support my belief that it's using the same id stuff the butterfly charms used.

The issue with the show being a script makes me wonder if they're able to be altered though.

Asmodea Drey'Haus

Hah, now we know your listening Elnath! Big mistake! Now comment on if these are supposed to be attuned, or if it's a bug that anyone is able to use anyone else's and that it's going to be fixed! People already wanting to buy/sell them is a good indication someone should at least comment on it.

Asmodea Drey'Haus

>the decision was made to sell katanas 'off the shelf' in a shop. Still one per character, no other limitations.

Err.... Sell katanas off the shelf? Magic metal or just normal or what? Is the one per character a limitation of just the quest? Or will it apply to the shelf ones too?

Asmodea Drey'Haus

Sorry, one KQuest katana per customer (phraseology was a little backwards there).

> and the katana depends on what it's made out of

Do you really think heavily crit-weighted enchanted weapons are going to be sold off the shelf?

I thought not.

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The word ala GS radio was that store sold katanas would be new style (weighted two-handers) and be sold up to vultite. They didn't specifically state that they would also be sold in mithril/ora/imflass/glaes/mithglin, but I imagine a few of those metals will be available as well.


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