Quel'Serrar hunting

[Grul]

So far Krktie and Nakash have this shiny sword in our raid group.

Any of you folks got any tips on finding the book that starts the quest?

Info that I've heard so far:
- All bosses in DM West and East have a 0.1% chance to drop it.
- Ogre King has a 0.4% chance to drop it.
- All but the first boss in DM North have a chance to drop it.
- Dusty tomes that spawn in DM West and North have a 2% chance to contain any book (equal chance for it to be Foror's or any class book).
- Soloable tomes in DM West were removed

Tome spawn points in DM North that I know about are:
- Next to Cho'Rush the observer
- In the NW corner of the outside of the second big courtyard

I've heard two views on the best way of finding one:
- Do DM North tribute runs. Chance of books from Dusty Tomes and from King.
- Do DM East boss killing runs, 4 x 0.1% chance of it dropping (4 bosses in there). These runs are pretty easy can can be done in about 40 mins with a good group.

Anything else to add anyone?

[skrallik]

Do you know if it is BoP or BoE? If BoE, I can always keep an eye out for a bargain on tha alliance AH... seems to be a lot of people selling things on there without checking first to see what they are selling..

eg..

19 FR ring for 3g
20 Black Dragonscale for 10g
Hunter books from DM seen on there for 30g
Eye of Shadow at a bargain price too

[Zianna]

*smirks*

[Grul]

It's BoE... but they're very rarely sold, most people know guildies/friends who need it. When it does sell, I've heard that if goes for between 1000g and 3000g...

[Felbane]

there was one on the alliance ah a day or two ago.
2000g bid, 3000g buyout

[Grul]

There was a thread on the US forums recently about someone who bought one on the Gadget AH for 1s... (assume someone was doing a Horde/Alliance transfer).

That's gotta hurt...

[krktie]

Other tome spawn points:
- DM:N First courtyard, in the SE corner with the bugs.
- DM:N below the ramp leading up to the first floor next to the skeleton, after the room with the goblin.
- DM:W in one of the corners in the first big yard, think it was SW.
- DM:E next to that elf boss lady.
- DM:E next to the shapeshifter satyr boss (final one).

Don't know if any of those have been removed or I just imagined them.

Well my best advice is, have patience and don't get too obsessed about it! If you look at the drop rate (the 'real' one, not the 0.0whatever %), someone will eventually find it for you (or you'll find it yourself). Fun comes first, epix are added bonus, right? (It's kind of easy to fall into the 'everyone has it but me' with this sword, but that's not true of course. It's just easy to spot with all the glowing. *grin*)

[Grul]

Yup, don't think I'd ever specifically go out and farm for one, too many other things to do! While I'm doing these countless DM runs for my Redoubt Cloak, I may as well know where to look for it