pent

SSince the Pentagram Quest is constantly being solved, new players often wonder what it is, where it is and how to solve it. If you to ask these questions then read on.

The Pentagram Quest, also known as pents, is located at the north-western end of level one of the mines. The mines, are north of the main crossroad's in town (The on with an altar (shrine) on it). Once you have found the mines, follow the path that first leads west (left) then south (down) then west again and then heads north (up) until you reach a door (This path is normally fairly wide and supported by beams).

Once there, take a deep breath and before opening the door make sure that:
1) You are above sergeant.
2) You are all spelled up and ready to rock.
3) It is helpful to know your strength and what rank is suitable for you to pent at.

If this is your first time in pents, don't open any doors once inside, these normally lead to area's with much stronger grolms and gargoyles inside. In pents every gate (a large opening with fires burning on the sides) you pass through is a new area. The further north (or west) the more difficult the area (The grolms/gargoyles are a higher rank and therefore stornger). One last thing to keep in mind, always pent at two or one ranks lower than yourself when you first begin, latter on there are times when you may pent at your own rank, but this depends on your stats.

What do you do in pents? How do you solve it? What do you get for solving it? Well, beside getting to see your name in read saying you solved, you get more experience points.

Here's how it works, when you first enter pents, you'll notice that on various rocks are red pentagrams (either glowing or dull). The dull ones are guarded by monsters so after dispatching them, touch the pent (shift+left click) this will activate it (It will now glow red), it will also cause three more monsters (in this case grolms) to appear.

Once you've killed these grolms look in your message window, it should display a message saying how many points you've got for activating that pent (If it's not there, use the "page up" key to scroll up the window until the message is displayed, just don't forget to "page down" to the bottom afterwards). You get experience for each pent you activate. Howerever, you only get this experience once pents are solved. You only get the experience for the top 5 pents you've activated (i.e. the 5 pents which give you the most exp.). Don't worry if you have to leave before pents are solved, you'll be rewarded the experience in your absence. The idea then is to travel from pent to pent killing monsters and activating pents, but how do you solve?

Well pents used to solve when the 54th pentagram was activated, but fro various reasons (ask me if you really interested its to much to go into here) players felt this was unfair. So now pents are solve on a random number (based on the number of players times 2 I think, I'm not really sure but it does seem to based on the number of players online).

Once you have your 5 pents keep getting more pents until they are solved or there are no more available to you (Don't forget you get bonus exp over and above your pents if you solve).

However, just a friendly tip, if you are penting in an area with two or more players just take 5 and leave the rest for them to share. Don't be greedy and take 10/15 of the pents and leave the other players with only one or two.

Well now you have a pretty good idea what penting is all about (I hope)? It's one of the best sources of experience when pents are fast AND fun too. Keep in mind the thing's I've said and have fun.

Good Luck Penting!!