The Empress's uncle Bashalab visited Ilrusi Atoll in secret and lost his ring, the "Eye of Zahak." Escort the royal family's hired agent through Ilrusi Atoll and find his lost ring.
A = Aggressive; NA = Non-Aggresive; L = Links; S = Detects by Sight; H = Detects by Sound; HP = Detects Low HP; M = Detects Magic; Sc = Follows by Scent; T(S) = True-sight; T(H) = True-hearing JA = Detects job abilities; WS = Detects weaponskills; Z(D) = Asleep in Daytime; Z(N) = Asleep at Nighttime; A(R) = Aggressive to Reive participants
Find the ring by locating and touching ???s throughout the area.
(This walkthrough was taken from an Allakhazam post.)
This is a game of "Hot and Cold" with the NPC you're escorting.
Once you talk to the NPC, Tian Tian, she will follow you fairly closely, making escorting the easiest part of this assault.
If one of your teammates talks to her, she will follow them instead.
Once you grab your NPC you can exit off either end of the ship.
There are are a few krakens in the area but they have a very narrow true sound aggro range.
When you talk to the NPC, she'll pause for a moment and tell you what she feels.
Her messages come in varying degrees from "I don't think we'll find anything around here." to "Yes!... it's very very close."
When you get the message, "It's very very close!" target around and try to find a ???.
If you don't see it immediately, move around a little and speak to the NPC again. The ???s appear and disappear VERY quickly, each ??? appearing for a shorter time than the previous.
The results from touching a ??? can be any of the following:
The Eye of Zahak
A hint. Footprints, Strand of Hair, etc. These are not items, just messages you get from the ???
Seaweed (Weight effect; NPC will add "But... I don't think this is it." once you get "very very close".)
A crab. The crab is very weak, but hate is locked on whoever touches the ??? (NPC will add "Oh! There is a frighteningly powerful energy in the air here!...")
When you pop a crab, the NPC will continue tracking this spot. A few seconds after it's dead, it resumes normal search, and there might be another ??? close or not.
Every time you find a hint, your NPC will gain a new ability.
0 Hints- NPC gives you "Hot" and "Cold" messages.
1 Hint- NPC will tell you which member of your party is closest to the ring. Once you get this ability, use triangulation to find the next ???.
2 Hints- NPC will give you exact directions (North, South, Northwest, etc.) where you can find the ring. At this point her "Hot/Cold" directions are actually misleading and you should focus on your #1 and #2 hint abilities.
3 Hints- NPC will tell you how far you are from the ring in 'yalms' (10 yalms is about 1-2 seconds of running)
It is not needed to have all hints, though at least one is required to locate the ring. The hot/cold hints do not refer to the rings position. Hint #0 will only help you find hints.
Once you have at least one clue and the NPC begins to tell you who is closest to the ring, have party members spread out on the map and follow who she says its closest to. Have that person stay where they are and others circle that person and talk to NPC again. This will narrow down where you have to go. When NPC begins to say you are very close, have the person it mentions stand still and others crowd them. The area to find the Eye Patch seems to be very small ~within 3ft.
The final ??? will appear for literally 2 seconds then disappear again, so you have to be FAST when clicking. If you are getting mixed signals from the npc it is quite possible that you are on the final ??? and were unable to click it before it despawned.
It seems you have to speak to the NPC to pop the final ??? and possibly do something else too (like having the NPC stand closer than 3 yalms away from it ?). Speak to it then locate and click the ??? within 2 seconds. The hints can get very confusing just because the goal is just here but the ??? isn't popped, no matter how hard you search it's just not there.
The Rune will appear at the start point.
Strategy
Chose someone to lead the NPC, at the beginning everyone stay close around it and tab for the ???, when you find the first hint, have everyone to spread around the whole map then stop, the NPC-commanding player will follow the direction of the closest PT member until you get a "very close" message, then start tabbing around and repeat until you find the ring.
Remember that the NPC "we will not find something close" refers to the hint and not to the ring, while when she mentions a person she refers to the ring, so focus on that.
Do not forget the final ??? is not up until you bring NPC close to it and speak to it. Then again, it's up for only 2 seconds or so and if you miss it you have to speak to the NPC again to pop it again. There is no point tabbing around for the final ??? when you didn't just speak to the NPC because IT IS NOT UP.
