Tier Progression

Tier Progression is part of the current end-game experience on Karana. Each Tier rewards a variety of new options for Armor, non-vis gear, weapons, tasks, and more.

Tier 1-3 is built on the Lost Dungeons of Norrath Adventure system, with point tokens awarded for completing tasks and found as loot in the zones for the tier. Pro tip: T1-3 share points at the vendors, but like with LDoN vendors on Live, you must earn at least enough points in each tier to cover the cost of an item to purchase items from the vendors using points earned in other tiers. Some tiers are more efficient for farming than others...do with this information what you will...

Tier 4+ use Alternate Currency to purchase gear items from their respective vendors.

Tier 1 - Halas Expeditions

(3 Instances)

• Savage Lords in the Guild Lobby
  • Savage Lord Chadder
    • He will offer you easy, medium, and hard. Complete each for rewards!

Tier 2 - Crypt of Shade

(Open World & Instance)

• Vendor - Commander Rael in the Guild Lobby
  • Pick up task from Commander Rael before zoning into Crypt of Shade
  • Trash in Crypt of Shade has a chance to drop T2 point tokens, non-vis armor, weapons, and more

Event/Boss

• First of the Four
  • Hint is in his name
  • Tips & Tricks
    • Be prepared to control your bots
    • No matter what your old raid leader used to say the answer is not always “burn the boss”
    • Not all golems are created equal, some resist more, some hit harder, with creative positioning some can be ignored entirely
    • Their name doesn’t necessarily indicate priority
• Rellom
  • Final boss of Tier 2
  • Various gear and upgrades[1]

Tier 3 - GukA

(Open World & Instance)

• Vendor - Quellious Hand
  • Pick up task from Quellious Hand before zoning into GukA
  • This is a true dungeon crawl zone
  • Limited to 5 bots per PC; unique classes
  • Mini-nameds drop non-vis loot for most classes
  • Speak to "A Friendly Ghost" near the entrance and work your way toward "A Broken Soul" to uncover the source of the corruption in the zone.

Event/Boss

• Mutrus
  • Ignore spawns at your own peril
  • Don't be surprised if you die sometimes, even if you think you did everything right
  • Positioning is important...a spawn in a wall still must die
  • Various weapon, armor, and aug upgrades (loot hidden on Allaclone)

The Storm/Bristlebane

• A Howling Wind in the Guild Lobby directs you prevent The Storm from breaking through into our realms. Will you aid Karana?
  • Collect 4 "Torn Egress" shards and return them to A Howling Wind to form an "Unstable Force"
  • Pick up task 'Tricky Storm' from A Howling Wind and visit Zenyra Ravenshrine in the Broodlands can use the Unstable Force so you can destroy those behind the incursion.
  • Find and defeat 'The Storm' nearby
    • First source of Power Source items
  • Find Magnus Bottomhill in Gorge of King Xorbb (Beholder) and give him the evidence of the link to Bristlebane
  • Find and defeat the Charlatan to spawn Bristlebane the Trickster, the one who has orchestrated the incursion of the storm.
    • Bristlebane the Trickster drops T3 BPs

Tier 4 - Plane of Shadow

(HUGE Open World & Instance)

• Vendor - Karana Champion
  • Currency - Chronobines
• Taskmaster Jarcoon in Plane of Shadow offers many tasks that reward both currency and items upon completion
  • Click "Rewards" in his dialogue to see items rewarded for each task

    

• Various mini-nameds around the zone offer unique non-vis loots
  • Frail Heroes
    • Named for several players active on the server when T4 was launched
    • Drop various rings for all classes
  • Fabled Evil Eye
    • If it can see you, it will let you know
    • Unique aug to complement your collection of Redfeather Sand Stones
• 5 Nameds around the zone drop weapons, tier armor, augs, ranged items, and more
  • Some loot is shared, some is unique to each named
  • Lady Brownie
    • Mess with her little ones and she will mess with you
    • Immune to melee damage...
  • The Deep
    • Witches are always up to something...if you interrupt them there is no telling what may be released
    • Immune to spells...
  • Akkstaff
    • If you think his room is full of elementals before you you fight him...just wait...
  • Nyrein the Beguiled
    • If "You can't hit your target from here" designed a fight...this would be it...also adds
  • Nicol Bolas
    • Source of the Shadow
    • I hope you remembered the lessons you learned fighting First of the Four and Mutrus...if not, you could be in for a bad time.
• If you are able to kill Nicol and rid the Plane of his evil Shadow, speak with Lord Karana for a special reward.

Tier 5 – Hidden Vale of Deceit (Rujarkian Hills)

Vendor: Sinister Plenipotentiary (Guild Lobby/Pok)

Start: Hail and choose “See my task list” or “Assign All” (auto-assigns every T5 task).

Note: Progress is via named kills/tasks and direct boss loot.

Tasks (from Sinister Plenipotentiary)

• Bat-Hiss-trophe in the Shadows – Clear bat packs in the Vale.
• Once the Orcses are dead! – Cull orc squads.
• The Hound Hunt – Track and eliminate hounds.
• The Wisp Whisperer – Disperse/manipulate wisp clusters.
• Cipher’s End – Wing culminating in Enigma Turing.
• Lapin à la Crème – Wing culminating in Thumper.

Bosses you’ll face

• Rellod/Rellok Twins
• Rellops Ambassador
• #Rellov The Enslaver
• Thumper – A cute bunny.
• #Enigma Turing – puzzling.

Forging (Sinister Plenipotentiary – after kills)

• Enigma path: Hand in Enigma’s Re-gearing Kit + a class Mold → receives your class chest upgrade.
• Thumper path: Hand in Thumper’s Foot Foot + your PoShadow Chestpiece + a class Mold → receives the Thumper-forged chest upgrade.
  • NPC will list examples via “the rewards”