The Scholars Guide

[quarter775]

I have passed hand bound tier3 books use the journals that scholars sell thank goodness Now to find a Navy Dye Recipe

[Souhei]

Rivendell sells leather bound.

Trestlebridge sells cloth bound.

I'm pretty unhappy about it.

[SBarastl]

Rivendell sells leather bound.

Trestlebridge sells cloth bound.

I'm pretty unhappy about it.

Checked North Downs (Trestlebridge). Nada. Note, the vendors there are missing names. Their titles are showing as their names. I suspect that it may be bugged. Checked most of the Shire Vendors, Rivendale, and Bree ones. Found many novice scholars, even the expert ones. None of them had the Hand-Bound books. The locations listed from beta are also not working which would most likely be indictive of a bug as I noted above. I suspect those NPC's are suppose to have them, but don't and spawned with bogus names and the default placeholders. If you look closely, it says, "Novice Scholar, Novice Scholar". Most will be "Jane SuchandSuch, Novice Scholar"

Just did a bunch of searching to try and help fellow kinship people get the books. Thought I'd pass along the info.

[FireofRage]

Black Dye is a master craft version of Rust Dye.

It requires Grand Master Scholar to craft.

All black armor is sweet, let me tell ya.

so does that mean you get it Automatically then? or what?

[Dynamite1]

DarkkHero writes: You get the [Hand-Bound Journal] from the Novice Scholar in Trestlebridge, North Downs.

Hand-Bound Journal ....... On Vilya Server at least your Information is wrong or the Novices in that location are bugged. They have no names, so they may be bugged. The Scholar's Name is Novice Scholar and her title is Novice Scholar.

There cannot be just one location for this item that is used in Tier 2 Recipes. I admit its kinda stupid for Lore Masters to be able to purchase the same books from Trainers at a cheaper cost than what a Scholar can make that at.

[DarkkHero]

so does that mean you get it Automatically then? or what?

Consult the guide for the recipe of Rust Dye. In other words, no. It's an extremely rare recipe. I was the only one with it on all of Brandywine, as far as i know, for the duration of Beta.

[DarkkHero]

DarkkHero writes: You get the [Hand-Bound Journal] from the Novice Scholar in Trestlebridge, North Downs.

Hand-Bound Journal ....... On Vilya Server at least your Information is wrong or the Novices in that location are bugged. They have no names, so they may be bugged. The Scholar's Name is Novice Scholar and her title is Novice Scholar.

There cannot be just one location for this item that is used in Tier 2 Recipes. I admit its kinda stupid for Lore Masters to be able to purchase the same books from Trainers at a cheaper cost than what a Scholar can make that at.

I was quoting from memory. As far as I know, these havent been seen since beta. I have sent a private message to Patience in regards to these, requesting either she, or a DEV answer this question. I get many private messages asking about this as well. So, we'll see what they have to say.

[Pallotar]

must crit success rust dye to get black dye. for all of you who are lazy.... haha. btw, i need to find a cheap way to make morale pots.... hmmm.

[Bansidhe]

I really hope someone in the Dev community understands how much we'd actually like to USE our book recipes and that the hand-bounds really aren't in the game. I'm dying to see the next patch. There are so many things I hope get fixed with crafting, if even one of them goes through it'll tide me over till the next patch.

[smilingsage]

I admit its kinda stupid for Lore Masters to be able to purchase the same books from Trainers at a cheaper cost than what a Scholar can make that at.

Hahaha. Oh man you've got to be kidding. Crafting in this game is an absolute disaster.

[Vilyakeeper]

This is a phenomenal guide. Thanks for the time, it must be intense.

I found the Dwarf-carving for the Artisan quest at the Cairn of Honour, in Angmar at location 4.8N, 36.8W. Hopefully this can help aspiring scholars with locating it, since it's such a scary place. :P

Thanks again for all of this, it's quite helpful!

Belegil
Landroval

[atteSmythe]

I admit its kinda stupid for Lore Masters to be able to purchase the same books from Trainers at a cheaper cost than what a Scholar can make that at.

No player-crafted item should ever be available from the infinite magical vendor supply.

[Pallotar]

for 20 silver you can go to duillond and buy a work order, i got two dwarf carvins and some sindarian pages out of those. i bought two so far and i should only need one more. now to just get that ballad....

[Bansidhe]

This is a phenomenal guide. Thanks for the time, it must be intense.

I found the Dwarf-carving for the Artisan quest at the Cairn of Honour, in Angmar at location 4.8N, 36.8W. Hopefully this can help aspiring scholars with locating it, since it's such a scary place. :P

Thanks again for all of this, it's quite helpful!

Belegil
Landroval

The only thing you need to get is the satchel, as I recall, and definitely not in Angmar! Everything else can be found in a vase (Vase is T3, right? Whatever, you get the picture) or in a Duillond Esoteric Lore Work Order. As for the satchel, it takes a little sneaking if you don't plan on killing the 20 or so wargs/wolves that stalk the North Downs hillside around it, but you can do it without any killing (I wrapped mine in open beta as a level 15 and while I did have to run for my life, I didn't get hit)

[DarkkHero]

The [Ruined Dwarf Carving], in Angmar, is for the Artisan quest.

The Satchel is for the Expert quest.

[Dynamite1]

The [Ruined Dwarf Carving], in Angmar, is for the Artisan quest.

The Satchel is for the Expert quest.

HAHAHA I went looking for the Ruined Dwarf Carving at level 24 and Angmar is full of many nasty Stealthy Worgs. Was very ready to yell at DarkkHero before he posted the clarification. But Hey ..... I now have more mapped out than most 30+ players. Giants are your Friends..... Whew.... had to check and make sure I was wearing my Brown Pants after running past my first one.

Cracked Dwarf what commonly drops them would be helpful.

I know the Passages I got in North Downs off the Shades. Got all 3 in minutes at Amon Amrun, had to buy dwarf from Auctioneers.

http://mehq.net is extremely helpful for pinpointing locations.

[Jonathantom]

Inorder to get the Aged Scraps of Text in the most efficent manner. I took the advise of a kinsman and started hunting goblins.
I have been using my level 15-16 champion to sweep thru Clovendale (Near Gondamon). The goblins are ranged 9 to 11. The droprate is about 15 per hour. I have not seen anyone else hunting here. There is good profit to be made by selling the receipies that drop.

[tomandshell]

Looks like I should head to some different goblins as the ones I've been fighting just don't seem to want to drop text scraps.

So far, my time as a scholar has been spent going around to the few places where level 1 pitchers spawn, only to find them gone or to have someone camping out waiting for it. When I'm not doing that, I am failing to loot aged scraps of text from defeated enemies. I frankly don't see how I am ever going to get proficient in this trade, LOL!! But like an idiot, I keep trying. All the later stuff looks cool, but until I get more pitchers and scraps, I'm not going anywhere.

[Cuthillian]

Looks like I should head to some different goblins as the ones I've been fighting just don't seem to want to drop text scraps.

So far, my time as a scholar has been spent going around to the few places where level 1 pitchers spawn, only to find them gone or to have someone camping out waiting for it. When I'm not doing that, I am failing to loot aged scraps of text from defeated enemies. I frankly don't see how I am ever going to get proficient in this trade, LOL!! But like an idiot, I keep trying. All the later stuff looks cool, but until I get more pitchers and scraps, I'm not going anywhere.

Where are you hunting and what is your level? If you are in Ered Luin, Ringdale is a good spot for pitcher camping, plus the dourhands drop the occasional text and lots of other goodies. The dwarfes tend to be 10-11ish.

[roborobo]

Just so you know, the Greater potion recipes are backwards atm. I submitted 2 bugs on it. The recipe titled Greater Essence of Athelas is actually Greater Celebrant Salve and vice versa. Same thing seems to be the case with Refined, the Refined Essence of Athelas Recipe turned out to be Refined Celebrant Salve. Don't know about Pure since I don't have any of those yet.

[fugori]

Just so you know, the Greater potion recipes are backwards atm. I submitted 2 bugs on it. The recipe titled Greater Essence of Athelas is actually Greater Celebrant Salve and vice versa. Same thing seems to be the case with Refined, the Refined Essence of Athelas Recipe turned out to be Refined Celebrant Salve. Don't know about Pure since I don't have any of those yet.

It's in the latest known issues thread. Looks like they're going to fix it.

The recipes for Greater Celebrant and Greater Athelas are backwards; Celebrant teaches Athelas, and vice versa. Hang on to the recipes, because we'll fix this retroactively in an upcoming patch.

[tomandshell]

Where are you hunting and what is your level? If you are in Ered Luin, Ringdale is a good spot for pitcher camping, plus the dourhands drop the occasional text and lots of other goodies. The dwarfes tend to be 10-11ish.

Thanks! I am a human and have been in Bree-land. I will head to Ered Luin for a while.

[Smuggler]

This is an excellent guide and it has helped me out quite a bit in reguards to what purple (mastery items) I need to be saving)

For those having a hard time locating tier one scholar nodes I think the best strategy is to pick a weekday night/morning and go to the Midewater Marshes in Bree-Land. The Fort has at least eight different places a pitcher can spawn and cocoons and supply crates that can be looted that contain texts, recipes, and other interesting items.

Just circle the Fort spamming delete to locate the pitchers, turn on floaty names so you can see them, and you can even use /follow if you are having a problem locating them.

In a couple of days I was able to pull out enough texts to master my apprentice level and have enough left over to put up for sale at the auction hall and give some to a couple of other scholars who helped me finish a quest.

Also it should be noted that Woodsedge has at least four spawn points and it is just a short run northeast of the Fort. Depending on your graphic settings you can probably see the ruins from the Fort when looking northeast.

Also the Goblinhold Ruins have pitchers in them, but be careful as there are plenty of midgewater goblins roaming around that don't take kindly to having their home pillaged.

If you get bored camping you can work on your neeker-breaker and sickle-fly deeds and the goblins in the Marsh will drop texts and trinkets and recipes from time to time. Don't be afraid to take a few of them on.

[Caducus]

Anyone found a Superior Study yet? I checked where the guide says and there's not one in the library.

I hope it wasn't removed with the rest of the studies :/

[Arcin]

The superior study IS the entire Library at Rivendell. Just do the quest, and being in the library activates the formulas that need it.