Journeys with Jaye

Marks of Manaar, Seals of Arad, Battleground Tokens, and Void Shards, Oh My!

This is more of a “thinking out loud” post to get all the EQ2 tokens straight in my head.

Above:  The Caertaxian Legion lobbing a cannon at the enemy in The Hole.  The cannonball?  A trapped ratonga prisoner in a barrel.

Marks of Manaar

First off, the main token from Sentinel’s Fate that players will be accruing is the Mark of Manaar.  There are several ways to get these, and they can be turned in to NPCs Jeleth, Falakhar, and Jarnera in Paineel for various armor, jewelery, and weapons. (Found just up the ramp from the collector NPC/mailbox.)  **Update – I forgot to mention the gear vendors in Moonfield Hamlet.  So I assume there are more to be found**  You can get them from running Sentinel’s Fate instances, both by killing instances bosses and finding the key mob that opens the chest in the zone.  You can also get them from the daily mission in the Hole, offered by Jael.  In addition, you can get them by killing bosses in any of the TSO instances that scale up to level 90.  Yes, the same instances that offer..

Void Shards

These are the main token currency from the previous expansion, and these were used to make the 4 different sets of TSO “tier” armor.  You could get void shards from group instance quest rewards, unlocking chests within the instance, by killing certain bosses, and from running the solo shard mission in Lavastorm.  No, I don’t believe there is a solo mission for Marks of Manaar.  No, I don’t know why that is, don’t take my head off!  **Update – There is actually a solo Mark mission when you reach level 90.  Thanks Gnova for the hat tip!**  Generally speaking, the lower tier sets will be sub par compared to the new gear you can get from group drops and Mark armor.   There is an important difference between TSO and Sentinel’s Fate – in TSO, all armor was purchased with the same currency – Void Shards.  In Sentinel’s Fate, you purchase “heroic” (group) armor with Marks of Manaer, but you purchase “fabled” (raid) armor with…

Above:  “I don’t know what I want to purchase, all right?!  …pushy Erudins!”

Seals of Arad

These tokens drop from raid encounters, and are used to buy Fabled raid gear from the Traders of Arad in Paineel, Sehesh and Kal’Jeketh (found just up the ramp from the collector NPC).  The raid gear has an important benefit – you can put two adornments in them.  The white adornment is a player made item that can be used on all types of Sentinel’s Fate armor.  The red adornment, however, can only be placed on raid armor, and is the equivalent of a set bonus.  The upside to this is that you don’t have to face that issue of wanting to wear an upgrade but not wanting to break up a set and lose the bonus.  If you think you finally have it all straight, think again, because there are also…

Battleground Tokens

And not just one type of token, but three!   Each of the three Battlegrounds has its own type of token currency – Klak-Anon Cogs for doing the 6 man relic instance, Battlefield of Ganak Trophy for running the 12 man capture the flag instance, and Smuggler’s Den Special Reserve Rum for running the 24 man control territory instance.  You get three tokens for winning a match, one for losing.  You can purchase Battleground gear, with PvP-friendly stats, from merchants in the city, and many items require a combination of more than one type of token, along with some coin.

Above: 6 players, 7 undead pets, one skeletal cow pet, a ghostly wolf, and one tiny wolfman pet, versus some poor slob.  (seriously, what the heck *is* that little two legged pet in the middle of the fight?!)

I hope I got it right, please help correct me if I missed something!  And of course, you can always choose to forego all tokens and focus on building up faction in various areas to purchase armor.  Let’s see, there’s Kerran, Caertaxian, Guardians of the Underfoot, Defenders of the Seal…..

Oh man.

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