Elven puzzle weapons guide

[destroyermaker]

Just threw this up to get all the info out there on it in one place https://www.neoseeker.com/the-bards-tale-iv/guides/Elven_Puzzle_Weapons Should help some people. If you know of anything not included there, feel free to add it (or tell me and I'll add it).

[Apples]

I solved tier 3 of Acidic Gaufroi's wand. Go to Skyhenge and enter the mother hazel into the geode. It opens a portal to a room with some wooden stakes. Inspect the weapon and press the corresponding key to the wood pole that has a node on it.

Ability has the following text added: If they have no armor, they gain a stack of melting, taking extra physical damage.

SPOILER
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[middleman.one]

If this helps, I've activated and identified some weapons and and their puzzle nodes:


1) Electrifying Axe of Kiel (found at AG) - 2x Thistle seeds, activation node near Boar geode at Sacred Grove
2) Acidic Zagoth Zantas Reliquary - 2x Lily seeds, 3rd level activation code 5-7-1-8-5-6
3) Sacred Hope's Beacon - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level activation code 7-6-5-6-5-4-2
4) Acidic Downfall - 2x Bluebell seeds, node outside near Castle Langskaal?
5) Dispelling Discipline Axe - 2x Lily seeds
6) Smouldering Eye Of The Storm Sword - 1x Thistle seed
7) Flaming Antler Axe (found using Deer geode at Skyhenge) - 2x Daffodil seeds, activation node at Baedish Lowlands past the mansion house, north of the inn
8) Shocking Heavens Might Axe (found using Grandfather Sky geode) - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level activation node at 3rd floor AG
9) Venomous Dorsal Sword (found using Salmon geode inside Mathans Grove) - 2x Daffodil seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
10) Hallowed Wasp Sword - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
11) Shocking Rivers Current Sword (found using Grandmother River geode) - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
12) Strategists Contaminator Sword - 2x Hellebore seeds
13) Keen Deforestor Axe - 2x Thistle seeds, 3rd level solution at start of Isle of Stronsea
14) Shocking Mangars Reliquary - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level solution 5-4-5-4-3-6-5
15) Flaming Acorn's Flight Wand (found using Grandfather Oak geode) - 2x Daffodil seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
16) Father's Rage (found at Harkyns Castle after battle) - 2x Hellebore seeds, activation node at Skara Brae docks accessed via grapple point)

[Spikenard]

Discipline is a bow for me. And that's not the sequence that worked for me for Zagoth's Reliquary. The solution for me is on a stone wall in the forest just after you enter the area that holds the Red Vault. Had to climb up a rope to see piles of coins on the wall. For me it was 2465761

[russalky]

I have found 4 other weapons:

Gaufroi's Wand (from Gaufroi?) 3 tiers
Thorn (Dwarven Ruins offering shrine) 3 tiers, 3rd req. killing a Goblin
Wasp (Cabbage Farm offering shrine) Needs Bluebells
Plaguebearer ("Old Key" Chest, SB Below) Lily x2, 3rd references "Dual Daggers..." haven't looked for a shrine yet)

It seems a lot of them require Bluebells, and I have a shortage thus far. Instead I have 12 Lily sitting in my inventory, along with 3-4 of each of the other colors of seeds. Annoying.
Add to this that I have an offering shrine to backtrack to that wants a Bluebell as well.

And Discipline was an Axe for me as well.

[Lord-illidan]

Originally posted by middleman.one:

If this helps, I've activated and identified some weapons and and their puzzle nodes:


1) Electrifying Axe of Kiel (found at AG) - 2x Thistle seeds, activation node near Boar geode at Sacred Grove
2) Acidic Zagoth Zantas Reliquary - 2x Lily seeds, 3rd level activation code 5-7-1-8-5-6
3) Sacred Hope's Beacon - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level activation code 7-6-5-6-5-4-2
4) Acidic Downfall - 2x Bluebell seeds, node outside near Castle Langskaal?
5) Dispelling Discipline Axe - 2x Lily seeds
6) Smouldering Eye Of The Storm Sword - 1x Thistle seed
7) Flaming Antler Axe (found using Deer geode at Skyhenge) - 2x Daffodil seeds, activation node at Baedish Lowlands past the mansion house, north of the inn
8) Shocking Heavens Might Axe (found using Grandfather Sky geode) - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level activation node at 3rd floor AG
9) Venomous Dorsal Sword (found using Salmon geode inside Mathans Grove) - 2x Daffodil seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
10) Hallowed Wasp Sword - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
11) Shocking Rivers Current Sword (found using Grandmother River geode) - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
12) Strategists Contaminator Sword - 2x Hellebore seeds
13) Keen Deforestor Axe - 2x Thistle seeds, 3rd level solution at start of Isle of Stronsea
14) Shocking Mangars Reliquary - 2x Bluebell seeds, 3rd level solution 5-4-5-4-3-6-5
15) Flaming Acorn's Flight Wand (found using Grandfather Oak geode) - 2x Daffodil seeds, 3rd level yet to be unlocked
16) Father's Rage (found at Harkyns Castle after battle) - 2x Hellebore seeds, activation node at Skara Brae docks accessed via grapple point)

Number 15 - i Think you should kill some undead or Practitioner because there is no such shrine. I just finished the game and that is only 1 weapon that i could not open lvl 3 =)

[Lord-illidan]

Originally posted by russalky:

I have found 4 other weapons:

Gaufroi's Wand (from Gaufroi?) 3 tiers
Thorn (Dwarven Ruins offering shrine) 3 tiers, 3rd req. killing a Goblin
Wasp (Cabbage Farm offering shrine) Needs Bluebells
Plaguebearer ("Old Key" Chest, SB Below) Lily x2, 3rd references "Dual Daggers..." haven't looked for a shrine yet)

It seems a lot of them require Bluebells, and I have a shortage thus far. Instead I have 12 Lily sitting in my inventory, along with 3-4 of each of the other colors of seeds. Annoying.
Add to this that I have an offering shrine to backtrack to that wants a Bluebell as well.

And Discipline was an Axe for me as well.

Plaguebearer - everybody think that its a bug, BUT no! You should FIND assasin enemy WITH Only 1 Dagger in his hand and kill him. And It will be Unlocked =) The best way to do it - finish Castle Langskaal, leave main Gate that was locked and there you met a spawn of bandits. In their rows will be such enemy that we are looking for )

[destroyermaker]

Thanks guys; lots of great info here. I'll add it in. If anyone could take screenshots that would be awesome too so I could add the weapon stats and such (or you could add them yourself to that page). Also interested in which phrases match which weapons.

[Lord-illidan]

Originally posted by destroyermaker:

Thanks guys; lots of great info here. I'll add it in. If anyone could take screenshots that would be awesome too so I could add the weapon stats and such (or you could add them yourself to that page).

Sorry, but no time for activities like that.

[russalky]

Plaguebearer: For those who missed the ones just outside Langskaal, there are a bunch of Assassins in Inshriach afterwards, scattered around the maze. They are with the groups of guys in furs, and have TWO weapons (there are other groups here, cultists in red robes and the like).
The other weapons requiring kills seemed more forgiving though, for whatever reason I had to kill 3 groups with these assassins before the weapon registered the kill.

[russalky]

Acorn (Grandfather Oak): For me this was a Bow, not a wand. Tier 3 references Lost Souls..., sounds to me like I need to kill a ghost or somesuch. Don't think it's a skeleton, as there was a different rhyme for them on a different weapon.

Still short on Bluebells and can't upgrade Wasp. Still haven't found an "elf" for the River's Current. Have just started the Sewers.

[destroyermaker]

You can find an elf after you exit Iwon Rheg (after the rock).

[76561198869474821]

So I see Contaminator described as a sword, is this a sword? {LINK REMOVED}https://imgur.com/a/oESBylQ

[The Relentless]

Originally posted by pewnatious:

So I see Contaminator described as a sword, is this a sword? https://imgur.com/a/oESBylQ

aaparently some elven weapons can be more things, and what oyu get is randomized each playtrought.

[The Relentless]

Originally posted by pewnatious:

So I see Contaminator described as a sword, is this a sword? https://imgur.com/a/oESBylQ

also i have that kind of axe too, how do you solve the tiles puzzle? the second one, were you must make a sun figure.

[76561198869474821]

slider puzzles were a big thing in the 60's