Gates of Discord

Progression

There are some shortcuts available for the progression in Gates of Discord.

Besides those, the regular progression applies: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/eq:Gates_of_Discord_Overview

Smith Rondo Event

  • You need to do step 1 of the Breakdown in Communications quest in order to start this event.

  • The four NPCs that drop the items to trigger the event are static spawns with a respawn time of 19 minutes.

  • Defeat Smith Rondo and hail his spectral memory. This grants the flags for the four Sewers, Vxed and Tipt. This means you are directly flagged for Kod Taz and can skip Vxed and Tipt.

Breakdown in Communications

You can acquire the Dirty Green Gemstone from Adrienne for 3 Tokens of Legendary Might. (Make sure you get the correct one for your class.)

L’diava Rexxen in Abysmal Sea accepts you handing in Xounii’s Journal Page 1 without being flagged for it. This means you need to do step 1 and then can jump to step 114 at http://www.bonzz.com/bic.htm.

Tradeskills

Tradeskills are required for Progression in Gates of Discord.

  • You should have a priest with Tailoring 100 for the Kod'Taz quest line and the Ikkinz raids.

  • You should have a caster or priest with Research 100 for the Ikkinz 2 and 4 raids.

  • You should have a character with Blacksmithing 210. Blacksmithing is required to make the Icon of Altar, which is the key for Ikkinz raid 4. There are mulitple combines required. They can be successful with a lower skill, but the ingredients are very costly.

  • It is helpful to have a high Alcohol Tolerance when doing the Uqua raid.

Blacksmithing and Tailoring 241 are required to make the Abysmal Armor. (241 can also be reached with a skill of 210 and a 15% skill modifier item, such as the gloves from blob 1 in VT.) However, Meldstones and the crafted items are tradable. Thus, you can ask other players to do the combines for you.

Teleports

There are various cross-zone and in-zone teleports available, some of which have to be unlocked.

Plane of Knowledge

Ella the Wolf offers teleports to:

  • Abysmal Sea

  • Barindu

  • Natimbi, by Wayfarer Camp

  • Natimbi, by Madronoa

  • Yxtta, Uqua side - requires flag / level 65

Chuck offeres teleports to:

  • Ferubi, zone line to Barindu

  • Qvic, zone line to Intuk'Tu - unlocked after having hailed Ghost of Aganetti

  • Txevu, zone line to Qvic - unlocked for players in possession of the Polished Stone Key

  • Txevu, High Priest area - unlocked for players in possession of the Polished Stone Key

  • Txevu, save passage in northwest - unlocked for players in possession the Jade Inlaid Key

Kod Taz

Ghost of Tublik at zone in, offers teleports to:

  • Tublik Narwethar near Yxtta zone line

  • Entrance to Ikkinz Raid 4

Yxtta

Lucifer, at zone line to Kod Taz, Uqua side, offers teleports to:

  • Uqua zone line - unlocked after having hailed Ghost of Uqua

  • Primal area - unlocked after having hailed Ghost of the Primals

Ghost of Uqua and Ghost of the Primals can send you back to Lucifer.

Qvic

Ghost of Aganetti, at zone line to Intuk'Ta, offers teleport to:

  • Zone-in

Unlocking Level 67

Unlocking level 67 requires two steps.

Soul Essence of Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk

  • Obtain Cipher of Txevu through this quest to gain access to Txevu.

  • Defeat Ixt Hsek Syat in the gladiator pit event and loot Polished Stone Key. (The Polished Stone Key will allow you to get direct teleports to Txevu from Chuck in Plane of Knowledge.)

  • Defeat High Priest Nkosi Bakari and loot Jade Inlaid Key.

  • Optional: Gather Huvul bane weapons from the four named in Qvic: Zun`Hexxt Pvin Nki, Zun`Pixtt Llan Kvish, Zun`Pixtt Invi Mal, Zun`Hexxt Jkak Miq. Note: ZMTZ can only be damaged by pets, unresistable damage (e.g. Berserker's Rage Volly or Rangers Hail or Arrow) and Huvul Bane weapons.

  • Optional: Do a practice run in open-world Txevu of the Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk event.

  • Request a Txevu instance from Chuck in Plane of Knowledge of mode "Normal" or higher. This instance expires after 5 hours and has a lockout of 3 days, regardless of success.

  • Defeat Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk. His treasure chest (only available in mode Normal or higher) drops two Soul Essences of Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk.

  • Give the Soul Essence to Sir Daniel in Plane of Knowledge to receive a flag. No worries, you get it back, since it's also a decent augmentation.

Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk is immune to melee damage and spell damage. He can be damage by pets, irresistable attacks and bane weapons. He casts Wanton Destruction, an AoE curse with a mana drain over time. This should be cured either with two casts of Radiant Cure or a single cast of Remove Greater Curse. E.g. by adding the following line to your E3, and replace "Lisa" with name of your character you want to have cured.

Cure=Remove Greater Curse/Lisa/CheckFor|Wanton Destruction

If you cannot defeat Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk in an instance of mode Normal (which corresponds to 12 level 66 characters), you may want to team up with someone and to defeat him and gain access to Tacvi. Then gear up in Tacvi, gather more bane weapons from Qvic and come back to Zun`Muram Tkarish Zyk afterwards.

Tunat`Muram Cuu Vauax

  • Once in possession of Zun'Muram's Signet of Command, request an instance for Tacvi from Hamari Nedu at zone line of Txevu. This instance is not tied to Might and you can bring any force you like.

  • Defeat Tunat`Muram Cuu Vauax and hail Spirit of Tunat to receive a flag.