Request for info about the golden bird/jade figurine quest <

[Taniniver]

Request for info about the golden bird/jade figurine quest

Hi all

Anyone know the *exact* details of this quest, the first one in act 3?

In general, it seems the first random unique monster you kill drops the jade figurine, and all is well.

But it doesn't always seem to work.

I just had a level 45 character in NM trying to get the quest there. I made the game, so I am certain the quest was available to be completed. A friend was assisting me, in party, with a high level sorc, doing the killing. We killed many uniques, superuniques, champions etc... without the figurine dropping, in many areas of act 3.

I also tried getting the actual kill of a random unique myself, instead of the friend doing it, including without the friend in party, and then even without them in the game (though it was tough going). Also tried remaking the game several times, to no avail.

This is by no means the first time I have had trouble finding the figurine.

A little help? :innocent:

 

[Cosmosis]

If the first unique you kill drops another ''quest item"(The Gidbinn or Khalim's Flail) then the jade figurine will never drop in that game. Something along those lines, anyway. I know MongoJerry had this trip him up a bit in his Maldar build.

-Chris

 

[mhl12]

its totally random. it only drops from a superunique monster. just go to travincal and kill the council members and one of them will drop it.

 

[TheDiceman]

My gf had the same problem once and we were killing the council in a game she had made (I provided wp) and she spent a good hour trying to find the damn thing. Found it on another day, but I think there is a rare glitch that screws it up from time to time.

 

[Taniniver]

Just a little update - I just entered NM again with the same character (I initially tried hours ago, earlier today), and got it from the first random unique I killed.

TheDiceman's theory about a random glitch is looking pretty good atm.

Oh and mhl12 - evidently it CAN drop from random uniques, not just superuniques, since I just got it from one.

I'd still like more info though, if anyone has any, since I need to get it in hell too with a low level character, to weak to actually kill a random boss in hell.

 

[Cleglaw_Himself]

In my experience,

The first unique monster you meet in act 3 will drop the jade figurine only if you haven't done quest.

If another char who has done quest kills that monster, it usually won't drop that game.
If another char who has done quest travels to travincal or somewhere else in act 3, the jade won't drop that game as they spawn the first unique and because they have done quest, that unq monster won't be holding the jade. (My belief anyway from experience).

To have lvl 1's etc to be able to get the jade, my favourite way is to have a higher lvl char that has never done quest. Then you can get the jade figure with high char, transfer this to your lowly lvl 1 dude, leave game with high char. Lvl 1 gets quest, high lvl doesn't and so can repeat at will.

 

[dogfood]

Council won't always drop it.. I usually do figurine + lam esen tome in a private game for skipped quests. Start by killing council, then run to the bazaar killing bosses on the way, and usually have the figurine by the time I reach the ruined temple.

I heard that the place you first visit outside kurast docks determines where the bird will be, but it seems also that the times I got a khalim flail off the first council member, then the bird was in upper kurast or the bazaar. So maybe there is something to that flail drop.

 

[mhl12]

Council won't always drop it.. I usually do figurine + lam esen tome in a private game for skipped quests. Start by killing council, then run to the bazaar killing bosses on the way, and usually have the figurine by the time I reach the ruined temple.

I heard that the place you first visit outside kurast docks determines where the bird will be, but it seems also that the times I got a khalim flail off the first council member, then the bird was in upper kurast or the bazaar. So maybe there is something to that flail drop.

as i said before.. it is TOTALLY random. there is no trick for it to drop.

 

[Pitboss_2000]

as i said before.. it is TOTALLY random. there is no trick for it to drop.

Actually, you first said it can only drop from a Superunique.

 

[Taniniver]

Actually, you first said it can only drop from a Superunique.

Indeed. And my own experience is that most often, when it does actually drop in a given game, it's from the first unique you kill, not any subsequent one. Sorry mhl12, no offence, but I'm not inclined to trust your facts on this one, especially after you already stated something as fact which I personally know to be false.

 

[Frosty_The_Snowman]

A friend was assisting me, in party, with a high level sorc, doing the killing

I think that's your problem. I had the same while self-rushing with my Lvl 93 Sorc.
The char that needs the quest must kill the bosses HIMSELF.

 

[mhl12]

Actually, you first said it can only drop from a Superunique.

ok ok lemme clear this up srry for all the confusion..

i mean totally random as in it drops randomly from any unique/super unique monster.

srry for the misguided info about only super uniques before.. i thought from my previous experiences that it could drop from a super unique but that's a long time ago and i dont play anymore. so someone said it could also drop from a unique monster than thats all fine with me.

hope this makes sense now.

 

[dogfood]

Actually, you first said it can only drop from a Superunique.

Indeed. And my own experience is that most often, when it does actually drop in a given game, it's from the first unique you kill, not any subsequent one.

It has dropped from a non-superunique boss for me before, but very rarely. 95% of the time it has been one of the first 5 superuniques I kill (sometimes it takes until battlemaid sarina), and 5% it's a regular boss on the way. I've never seen it drop after like the 5th superunique. YMMV.

Edit: actually, those bosses might have been uniques.. not sure which bosses are always on the street level of upper kurast/bazaar. They usually die before I see their names.

 

[krischan]

1. It's definitely not the first super-unique you kill. In the Spider Forest there are no super-uniques and I normally find the figurine there.

2. It's not the first monster you kill, else one of the councils will drop it all the time when you get rushed (providing the quest can still be solved in that game) which is not the case.

I'm quite sure that the first boss that gets spawned by the game server will drop it which might not be the first monster you kill. It might be enough to run to the tp area in the Docks of Kurast to spawn a boss in the Spider Forest, but often this is not the case, so the Councils will probably drop it if you use the usual rushing technique for act 3.

I never tried it, but a good technique might be to get the Travincal wp, then go to another act, create a a new game and go to Travincal from that act. That way you will never be near the Spider Forest, so the figurine will most probably drop from one of the three Council bosses.