Soot-Blackened Mark?

[Merlyn]

Hey! Just got done with the troll troubles event, and I thought I should have all the parts of the soot-blackened set the story teller needs.

Turns out, I was missing one. Had the gloves, apron, tongs, and hammer, but I guess I need a mark?

Game hasn't been long enough to find out where it's at, so figured I would ask here and see if anyone knew.

Thanks for reading this, and if you could help that would be awesome

[xarfaks]

Sadly not
I wanted ask if you were able to find all the pieces of the helmet? I found 9 already still not enough to put it together.

Maybe it is in the troll dungeon where the moon and the sun disks are that never worked for me....
I put it in the position as on the lower level but nohting happened. It might be there.

[Merlyn]

Originally posted by xarfaks:

Sadly not
I wanted ask if you were able to find all the pieces of the helmet? I found 9 already still not enough to put it together.

Maybe it is in the troll dungeon where the moon and the sun disks are that never worked for me....
I put it in the position as on the lower level but nohting happened. It might be there.

Yea I only have 9 too.
I don't remember which ones I grabbed and which ones I didn't, but I know there are supposed to be 3 at the ruined watchtower, one at the lone house, and six in the fort. Don't know much more than that :(

[xarfaks]

Well looks like we missed the same spot.
We both lack the mark and one helm fragment.

This games preception hidden rolls are sometimes a royal pain in the backside....

Did you solve the moon and sun disc puzzle at the troll dungeon/fort?
I suspect its there.

[Merlyn]

Originally posted by xarfaks:

Well looks like we missed the same spot.
We both lack the mark and one helm fragment.

This games preception hidden rolls are sometimes a royal pain in the backside....

Did you solve the moon and sun disc puzzle at the troll dungeon/fort?
I suspect its there.

I did. It gives you a full plate +2 set, which is awesome if you have a paladin. Can't equip it if your character isn't good so couldn't give it to valerie.

You gotta go onto the upper floor and match up the runes (little rotatable things) to the corresponding places on the sun and moon disc. The moon disc (left) has a little fish rune, and the sun one (right) has an S thing. So you go to the left rotating thing and change it to fish, and the right one to the S.
But yea I have no idea where to find the other stuff.

[xarfaks]

Originally posted by Merlyn:

Originally posted by xarfaks:

Well looks like we missed the same spot.
We both lack the mark and one helm fragment.

This games preception hidden rolls are sometimes a royal pain in the backside....

Did you solve the moon and sun disc puzzle at the troll dungeon/fort?
I suspect its there.

I did. It gives you a full plate +2 set, which is awesome if you have a paladin. Can't equip it if your character isn't good so couldn't give it to valerie.

You gotta go onto the upper floor and match up the runes (little rotatable things) to the corresponding places on the sun and moon disc. The moon disc (left) has a little fish rune, and the sun one (right) has an S thing. So you go to the left rotating thing and change it to fish, and the right one to the S.
But yea I have no idea where to find the other stuff.

Thanks for the info I thought I did exactly that.
Hmmm seems the last piece is somewhere there...... With the last smith piece....
Its probably in the dungeon althrough i am pretty sure I explored everything there.
Well have to go there and get that armor anyway maybe it was a bug....

[Ventus]

Not sure this is helpful, but I have turned in all the black soot marked stuff to the story teller.

I completed the witch hut and troll stronghold. I've not done the verdant, lizard village, muddy bog (for the 2nd witch quest).

This is old, by maybe it will help
https://www.gamerguides.com/pathfinder-kingmaker/walkthrough/chapter-2-troll-trouble/troll-trouble-troll-lair

[Greb]

The Soot Blackened Brand was among the first relics I came across when entering Act 2, although I can't remember exactly where I found it. Did you fail a Perception check maybe? Try some of the areas closer to your Kingdom than further away.

Pretty sure it wasn't found in a particularly important location, either. Just under a bush somewhere. I know it was for sure found really early. It may have been on a corpse of some poor unfortunate. I don't believe it was after any of the major boss battles I.E the wyvern or the giant Tzatlwyrm etc, though. It may have been being guarded with a giant and annoying slug? I don't recall, it was 12 hours ago at least

What did I do immediately though? Hmm..

I went straight to the Verdant Grove or whatever to deal with the Dryad, but I dealt with everything I came across along the way. I started in the North and worked my way South of the new zone, though.

Gah I wish I could remember more. I'm sorry.

[xarfaks]

So its either the witch hut or the troll stronghold.
I did search the whole location.....
Seems I missed something sometimes those perception checks dont work

[Greb]

It's definitely not the Troll Stronghold. I've just cleaned that place out. I don't think it's the Witch Hut either, since that place is far South.

Make a hard save in your Capital and then do a quick run and explore of the areas to the North of the Troll zones (forget the official name of the places, Njaalguard or some taff) and when you find it, take note and then just quickl;y rush over there to avoid wasting any time?

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do I wish this game kept an EXTENSIVE log of everything that has happened that you could always check on if you needed to. Maybe even with a search function built in. Or even printed some extra info on each item "found in the X of Y on MM/DD/YY"

[Ventus]

Originally posted by Greb:

It's definitely not the Troll Stronghold. I've just cleaned that place out. I don't think it's the Witch Hut either, since that place is far South.

Make a hard save in your Capital and then do a quick run and explore of the areas to the North of the Troll zones (forget the official name of the places, Njaalguard or some taff)

Remember your playthrough difficulty.

Don't assume you didn't miss any Perception DCs.

On the LOWEST setting, theres perceptions of 26. On normal, 36. The guide I linked clearly tells where some of the Soot-Blacked items are, the gloves being in the troll lair (as an example, not going to sift through it).

Remember, it's difficult to assume anything because we can't tell what is a hard feature and what is bugged (you probably didn't even know your suppose to have a calendar in your kingdom management. Keybinding is even still in your options, but its missing too!)

Good luck. Tank the difficulty if you have a hard time hitting the perceptions needed.

[Greb]

I've been running on the lowest difficulty ever since the Spider Swarms, not ashamed to admit that. I also didn't like the idea of missing any items, so my main character began with high Intelligence and Willpower and always invests points into Trickster and Perception at each level up, plus he's wearing headgear that adds +5 Perception and competency on Perception rolls. I don't think I've missed anything, finding lots of purple outlined stuff, practically tripping over it, in fact.

Even with all that perception stacked on him, it's usually other characters who "detect" the objects and comment on it just as much as me, unless the party itself gains the highest characters perception and shares it, simply commenting on whoever was closest to the object, anyway. Either way I found the Soot Blackened Brand first, I remember because I stopped to examine it wondering what it was, it looked like something out of Dark Souls or whatnot.

Also, I've never revisited any areas after the first time, pretty much. I ended up travelling to the Abandoned Hut looking for the Dryad because I didn't notice the Verdant place on the world map initially, but after I did I travelled South from there, exploring all the new stuff as I went about it. Somewhere around there, I must have picked up the Soot thing.

Speaking of things I didn't know, is there a way to leave your Kingdom area quicker than walking out of the throne room and then across the town to the exit grid? It takes so long each time and I do it so often, it's tedious. Very tedious.

[Ventus]

Originally posted by Greb:

I've been running on the lowest difficulty ever since the Spider Swarms, not ashamed to admit that. I also didn't like the idea of missing any items, so my main character began with high Intelligence and Willpower and always invests points into Trickster and Perception at each level up, plus he's wearing headgear that adds +5 Perception and competency on Perception rolls. I don't think I've missed anything, finding lots of purple outlined stuff, practically tripping over it, in fact....

Speaking of things I didn't know, is there a way to leave your Kingdom area quicker than walking out of the throne room and then across the town to the exit grid? It takes so long each time and I do it so often, it's tedious. Very tedious.

- No, there is no fast travel out of the Capitol to the map, only from Map into the Capitol.

-" I don't think I've missed anything..." I gave you the link to the guild that describes where everything is. If you're at the same point I am, and don't have the Soot-Blackened set, then its EXTREMELY likely you missed something as there's not much order to events other than what was mentioned. Use the guild, see what pieces your missing (theres only like 5 or something).

Cheers and good luck.

[Shadrus]

the guide lists it in the ford across the skunk river directly east from where you enter there is supposed to be a camp to find it but there is no camp there

[Greb]

I think you're confused. I HAVE the Soot Blackened Brand. It was the first relic of the set I came across.

I was just trying to let the OP know I found it first, and the direction I began exploring the new zones after Act 1 in, to give him some advice and tips on where it might be, me not remembering myself where I found it.

If your link contains the information, then that's great. Can you plumb it, find where it says the Soot Blackened Brand is found, then tell the OP? I don't want to spoil anything else by looking at a guide etc etc. Cheers!

[Ventus]

Originally posted by Greb:

I think you're confused. I HAVE the Soot Blackened Brand. It was the first relic of the set I came across.

I was just trying to let the OP know I found it first, and the direction I began exploring the new zones after Act 1 in, to give him some advice and tips on where it might be, me not remembering myself where I found it.

If your link contains the information, then that's great. Can you plumb it, find where it says the Soot Blackened Brand is found, then tell the OP? I don't want to spoil anything else by looking at a guide etc etc. Cheers!

Ahh, ok. You kept saying the Soot-Blackened Brand (which is one of the items in the Soot-Blackened Set, like the Soot-Blackened, the Brand, the Gloves, etc).

I get ya now. Sorry for the confusion.