Balrog Boss quests

Would a level 52 Spearman be able to kill a Jrog?

Definitely not....

Well maybe, but chances are no.

Is there any hint that you need to do a pre-quest to fight it like Zak/Pap? Quest #4 seems to hint at it but there's no specific details of actually needing to do quest #1 to fight the boss.

I wouldn't be able to tell if that were the case from the quest data. If I could read the quest text then maybe. Seems like it would be easier to just wait for it to hit official and find out that way though.

any storyline from the quests Isaac?

Wow. Good thing I finished Manji's Gladius quest like last year. (It was really screwed. I did the quest to obtain the Skull Earrings, but after all my trouble, i just had to click the Hero's Gladius option by accident. I was like WTHHHHHH when i did that. After that, i just bought one )

Hmm. These quests give a lot of EXP for a level 50 quest. Not that a level 50 char would be able to defeat Jr Balrog, much less the Balrog Boss...

Another question. Does the Balrog Boss work like Zakum? As in, u go into the room, summon it by hitting/dropping something, then it spawns? Or is it a boss where u have to wait for it to spawn?

Wow. Good thing I finished Manji's Gladius quest like last year. (It was really screwed. I did the quest to obtain the Skull Earrings, but after all my trouble, i just had to click the Hero's Gladius option by accident. I was like WTHHHHHH when i did that. After that, i just bought one )

Hmm. These quests give a lot of EXP for a level 50 quest. Not that a level 50 char would be able to defeat Jr Balrog, much less the Balrog Boss...

Another question. Does the Balrog Boss work like Zakum? As in, u go into the room, summon it by hitting/dropping something, then it spawns? Or is it a boss where u have to wait for it to spawn?

I think the best guess is similar to HT as Isaac pointed out the reactor that looks like a gem is also on the boss. So you probably hit it a few times, then it summons.

any storyline from the quests Isaac?

Like I said, couldn't read it in any detail. Got some basic ideas but it wasn't anything revolutionary.

double post but for good reason:
Here's the quest UI alteration I mentioned earlier.

They haven't adjusted this for all quests yet, only a few. Basically that bottom window down there shows the reward of the whole quest chain, and it'll indicate who you need to talk to and what you'll need to collect.

I really don't like having the quest window this long, it's hard to use it well like this.

I really don't like having the quest window this long, it's hard to use it well like this.

Yea, but we do have the quest helper which can be a lot smaller. I think it will work just as well as the old quest UI.

Yea, but we do have the quest helper which can be a lot smaller. I think it will work just as well as the old quest UI.

Mostly, it's hard to actually open the quest helper and forfeit quests because the buttons are down there over the quickset and chatbox.

Oh. I didn't notice that. Still, I don't think it will be much of a problem but I obviously have yet to try it.

I personally love the larger quest window. Makes it easier to look over Available and In Progress Quest, which I have 30+ on most of my characters.

Ok, so last night I did the Manji and the Old Gladius quest so that I could get down there and start working on these new quests. You can't even enter the new area unless you have that quest completed, which is pretty annoying. I pretty much ended up doing a myriad of other quests just to get the materials to complete that one. Anyway, once you've beaten Manji's quest you can go freely through the new doorway.

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long path down.

I found the guy with the ball and chain around his ankle here. He is the one who makes those scrolls for the Balrog shoes, apparently:

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He has a quest where he wants me to get 20 Balrog Leather. These only drop from the big balrog, so that's kinda tough.
I got down there to Muyoung, who is in the room at the foot of the path.

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There's a trash note NPC at the Beginning of the Ant Tunnel with a quest to take the note to Muyoung, so I did that. Upon delivering the note, I was warped to this map:

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I killed the Balrog and it stayed dead behind him (as you can see in the extraction.)
Once I did this and accepted this quest, I was warped back out, but then was able to enter the portal on the left side of Muyoung's room. Tristan is in here as well, though no timer and no balrog:

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What does he want 200 of? No idea. Maybe kill the Balrog 200 times? You can see the quest he gave me here:

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a medal... Maybe it is a Balrog Slayer Medal? No idea.

the last bit of news to report is that you need a party of at least 3 to enter the Balrog boss map. Muyoung wouldn't let me in with any less.

Bonus pics: Jr Balrog killing. :p

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yeah I died and I had one of those Magic wheels which let me revive in the same map. It didn't act as a safety charm though. >_>

yeah, he wants you to kill 200 balrogs for the medal. me and some friends tried to go to balrog today, since it says in the first chat dialog that you need 3 people in a party to form a squad.. we misread it and thought it was just 3 people total. apparently you need 6 people in the squad before going in.. hopefully we'll get enough people to finish manji's quest soon so we can show some screenshots of the new boss.

200 balrogs. The killing part isn’t hard but waiting for it to spawn while countless others will be hunting it. That sounds a real drag.

200 balrogs. The killing part isn’t hard but waiting for it to spawn while countless others will be hunting it. That sounds a real drag.

by "balrog" it means 200 of the new boss, not jr. rogs lol.

What is it’s actual official name?

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You need the following items:

Star rock <- Not very expensive before and practically free now because of ore hackers
Ancient scroll <- found in FM all the time for 500k-1m
Flaming feather <- dropped by Selkies and pretty common; I have like 5 of these
Piece of Ice <- easily obtained from the quest Arwen and Ellinia, which only requires you to kill 100 Green Mushrooms

The only way it's in any way annoying is that the reward isn't worth the time it takes to find this crap. I just do it on one of my characters whenever I get my hands on an Ancient scroll.

I sense a change in prices starting today

What is it’s actual official name?

plain old "Balrog".

I sense a change in prices starting today

you should definitely get the items while they're still cheap.. everything was basically worthless before the patch, then right after it everything was selling for 100m+.. now it's gone down, but still around 8m for ice, 16-30m for the feather, and about 13m for the ancient scroll.

also, one thing to note is that with this patch, they disabled arwen's quest to kill 100 green mushrooms for the ice.. >_>

Oh great, now when someone mentions balrog I am going to have to think twice about which one it is.