Druid quest

[Figger]

The druid quest has 3 options, this time i picked Taxwood and the Minstrel asks me to prove myself by getting 4 colored druid barks from trees, i have chopped 30+ trees nearby and havent gotten any colored bark, only the regular bark, where or how do i get the colored bark, he didnt give me a special axe to get it. This doesnt make sense.

[alk760]

You chopped the taxwood trees that were through the portal?

[Amairgen]

If you seek Taxwood in Carrowmore Grove the Druid asks you to first prove your Lumberjack skills by gathering special bark for him.

The sentinel gives you clues as to what bark to get and where to find it.
UO-Traditions Quest Tip: Read the quest dialogues carefully and in some cases maybe even make notes.

He asks for Green, Red, White and Yellow which good lumberjacks have come to know as Heartwood Bloodwood Frostwood and Yew. If you chop enough of those trees . . you have a 37% to 40% chance on each to get the special bark sample the sentinel needs.

[Figger]

I got alot of all logs and didnt get even 1 from the trees nearby, he never said where to get them, i chopped almost every tree in area.

[Figger]

Another Druid quest problem. I did the equipment option on my sampire and finished it and decided to try it on my fighter, but when i went to Doom to kill Wickerman, i searched all of Doom twice and he was nowhere in there. I have noticed on some quests that quest monsters spawn when you get to the area they are at but maybe Wickerman is a timed spawn because he wasnt in Doom when i went there.

[Amairgen]

Trust me . . he spawns there if you are on the quest

[Figger]

First time my sampire faced wickerman he wasnt on a mount and he was possible to kill, second time he is on a mount and impossible to kill and the local mobs are tougher and respawn faster when he is there. Very unfair.

[Lucian Kaine]

Just knock him off the mount and then bam he can be killed just as easy.

[Figger]

i dismounted him but that didnt make any difference. The first time i fought him, it took 15 arrows to kill him, the second time it took 650 arrows plus 10 more minutes of melee, huge difference.

[Amairgen]

As I mentioned to you in an in-game post . . many quest monsters and mobs are scripted to spawn with random AI, skills and stats so they can show you a different challenge at different times.

[Figger]

Posted by AmairgenSep 8, 2018 at 9:38am

If you seek Taxwood in Carrowmore Grove the Druid asks you to first prove your Lumberjack skills by gathering special bark for him.



The sentinel gives you clues as to what bark to get and where to find it.

UO-Traditions Quest Tip: Read the quest dialogues carefully and in some cases maybe even make notes.



He asks for Green, Red, White and Yellow which good lumberjacks have come to know as Heartwood Bloodwood Frostwood and Yew. If you chop enough of those trees . . you have a 37% to 40% chance on each to get the special bark sample the sentinel needs.



I just spent over an hour, trying to get the colored bark. I used marked runes of the trees and chopped random trees in forest, i got lots of the wood and not one piece of bark. You might as well change that 37% to 40% to   0% because there isnt any.

Warning if you do the druid quest : JUST SAY NO TO TAXWOOD

[Amairgen]

Okay . . I have one correction to make that may help . . . The bark asked for can come from any tree (does not need to be Heartwood, Bloodwood, Frostwood or Yew). My information . . "you have a 37% to 40% chance on each to get the special bark sample the sentinel needs" is accurate. More specifically the chance for drops are:
- Yew = 37%
- Heartwood = 38%
- Bloodwood = 39%
- Frostwood = 40%

You need to be a GM Lumberjack to get these items and pass the Sentinel's test.

That being said . .
a) If you are having bad luck then put your big boy pants on and keep your "JUST SAY NO TO TAXWOOD" comments to yourself. They are not helpful.
b) If your complaints cannot be expressed in a positive way then send me a PM and we can discuss the problem to see if there is a solution.

Thank you.

[Figger]

i did all the marked runes i had for heartwood, yew, bloodwood and frostwood, then went into forests and chopped all kinds of random trees. If it doesnt have to be the special trees then something is wrong because after an hour or so, i didnt get any bark except for the regular bark you get from trees. So maybe it is broken.

Later i did it a different way and got into the grove and chopped all those trees but in the second area, the druid sanctuary, i couldnt chop any of the taxwood trees, it gave message "you can't use an axe on that". Are they fake trees? There are some regular trees there too and i got other wood from them.

[Lucian Kaine]

So I just ran into this problem for the first time. I have done this quest, for equipment numerous times without an issue. This is the first time where I got Wickerman's Legs as "his loot". Bei Chuille would not talk to me this time. 


-Just and FYI : Since I saw that folks were having issues, when I do this quest I take ALL of his lot, yes everything....I even carve his body and keep all the body parts. This did not make a difference this time.


Edit: Some more information just incase it may help....every time I fought him he was on foot...this time however he was on a mount. 

[Figger]

first time i did it, he was on foot and was easy, second time he was on  mount and was as tough as davy jones, and the three times i did it and didnt get a reward, he was on a mount and 2 of those 3 times he was as tough as davy jones.