Feldon It appears the Game Update 56 notes left out an interesting and (for players with many alts) fortuitous quest tweak.
The quest To Speak as a Dragon needs almost no introduction. It’s a crucial language quest which is key to completing many other quests in EQ2, including Epic Repercussions. This quest requires crawling the depths of 26 different dungeons to find the necessary runes to learn the language of Draconic. Despite dramatic improvements in travel since EQ2’s launch, it’s still a tedious quest, especially if you have done it with 2 or more characters.
So this quest received some changes with Game Update 56. From Domino (clearly branching out from tradeskills):
As of the launch of Game Update 56: Halas Reborn, any character that completes “To Speak As A Dragon” will receive an heirloom Tablet of Draconic Runes in addition to learning the dragon language.
While this is an important quest and was a very exciting and community-building event in its time, it is not longer necessary for every alt to do the quest individually. At least one character on your account does need to do the quest the “full” way, but all subsequent alts can simply acquire the quest in the normal manner, then study the tablet when they are on the step to learn the runes. In essence: your first character made excellent notes on the runes s/he studied, it allows him/her to teach your alts the runes directly.
Of course, if your alts prefer to finish the quest the long way by collecting all the runes, they can still do so.
Any character who had already completed “To Speak As A Dragon” before this change can obtain a copy of the Tablet of Draconic Runes from Shady Swashbuckler in Nektulos Forest if they wish.
Apologies that this somehow didn’t get into the full update notes, but hopefully this calls it out so everyone will be aware of it now.
OMG Thank you domino!!!111one
You wont believe the grin i had on my face reading that. Was like when i was 8 and got my Nintendo for Christmas. XD
Yeah it was funny. During my last run of this quest on an alt with a Guildies alt I said to my friend. Damn than rely should have this quest give you a heirloom item that alts can learn the language from. And to our suprice thats exactly what we got 🙂
However wish we had known that we could just have bought it from the Shady Swashbuckler.
Loved this change, and makes a lot of sense. I like that you still have to have one character on your account do it (which I did a long, long time ago) but my main now had done every language except this one – no longer, consider me an Etymologist!