GETTING THE NEW MOUNT: HOW TO DO IT?

[Autastic]

SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW, FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T MADE IT THIS FAR:

I gathered the bird egg from the nest without dying - believe me, it was hard - and now I'm wondering how I'm supposed to get *500* Hoots currency (!) to exchange the egg with Queen Malik for the bird mount, in a reasonable amount of time. I'm asking because the boat merchant near the chapel only supposedly gives me 5... for 20 pieces of pyrite. This doesn't seem fair, because gathering pyrite takes FOREVER. Is there another, hopefully easier way to get the bird tamed? I gathered around 20 hoots currency from the queen's underlings, but I can't find any more of them to loot from! How am I supposed to do this?

[Dslim]

Im as the same part, its either farm the pyrite or kill the new clan that drops hoots, guess that would be good since i need to level up anyways. The bird for me was super easy, the pathing of it is messed up and i just killed it with a bow and it barely moved...

[jenefaner]

Do you know how many nests there are? I found one and got the egg, do you know if there are other spawns?

[Autastic]

I have no idea. That was the only egg I found.

[Dslim]

Originally posted by jenefaner:

Do you know how many nests there are? I found one and got the egg, do you know if there are other spawns?

Ive seen 3 nests.

[TallgeeseIV]

I just got the bird after farming pyrite for hooours today. dropping the exchange rate for hoots from 20 for 10 to 20 for 5 was an unnecessary grind increase on the devs part, but I can say the bird seems to be worth the time.

One tip for everyone. get the icarus wings first (you'll have to kill a bird for feathers, but you have to to get an egg anyway), it makes navigating the undercroft and getting the pyrite higher up on the walls much, much easier.

Second tip, get your strength attribute to around 25, it makes pyrite take 2 hits instead of 3 from the pickaxe.

Third tip, the colony spiders in the undercroft level you like craaazy and never stop coming, and if your strength is 30+ you basically one shot them with the pyrite greatsword. Just make sure to bring plenty of heals.

[william_es]

Make the new aetherian weapons.

The greataxe is especially nasty. the damage listed in codex of 32-48 seems to be _per_ blade, it has two. And it's insanely fast. And since it's a bigger base damage number, the % increase from the newly added damage stat has way more impact on it. Bigger base numbers, so even a small % of that is still a huge extra bonus.

I've seen regular hits of 108, and power attacks of 198. I have level 46 damage attribute now.

With the aetherian greataxe, you can slice and dice the new hostile smallfolk very easily and quickly. In 20 minutes of raiding two encampments, I got 34 hoots. That would have been about 185 pyrite mined. One is fun, one is slow. They both earn hoots.

[Autastic]

UPDATE FROM MY LAST POST:

I finally got the bird. I spent hours gathering hoots from the bad guys scattered around the map, and I finally got enough to get it from Queen Malik. However, I don't know what to do next in terms of the story. does anyone have any tips? I know when I started all this that I was supposed to find the wizard...

SIDE NOTE: I started this at around lvl 2 this morning, and now at the end of today I'm lvl 52. That should give ppl a general idea of how long this took.

[why]

u have to farm and sell pyrite to the vendor in the south? oO

[william_es]

Originally posted by why:

u have to farm and sell pyrite to the vendor in the south? oO

That's the slow and incredibly boring way to do it.

It's MUCH faster to kill the new hostile smallfolk over in Forbidden Monuments, the aetherians.

Aetherian scouts drop 2-3 hoots occasionally, and elites drop gauranteed 10-12 hoots. I hit 5 separate aetherian scouts, with an average of 4 guys per site, and made 103 hoots. All aetherians drop healing items (lesser and regular healing potions, and healing patches, the ones made with honey), and food items. Unless you get a lot, you will generally gain healing items and food faster then you use it up.

[why]

Originally posted by william_es:

Originally posted by why:

u have to farm and sell pyrite to the vendor in the south? oO

That's the slow and incredibly boring way to do it.

It's MUCH faster to kill the new hostile smallfolk over in Forbidden Monuments, the aetherians.

Aetherian scouts drop 2-3 hoots occasionally, and elites drop gauranteed 10-12 hoots. I hit 5 separate aetherian scouts, with an average of 4 guys per site, and made 103 hoots. All aetherians drop healing items (lesser and regular healing potions, and healing patches, the ones made with honey), and food items. Unless you get a lot, you will generally gain healing items and food faster then you use it up.

okay tank you :)

[Jackal777]

FYI, there are large quantities of pyrite in the Historian's cave, using the southern ocean entrance.