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1.	Tía Marlene
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3.	Las Crónicas de Villa Darrow

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Comentario de Torfear

Voy a explicar esta quest, dicen que no se diferencian los libros, he estado buscando comentarios en inglés y algunos dicen que sí y otros que no.

La diferencia del original es que se pueden distinguir las páginas si miramos los libros de lado. Los falsos las páginas aparecen borrosas, me refiero que no se ven correctamente el perfil de las página ssi vemos el libro desde el lado donde se ven las páginas.

Sí que es cierto que cuando llegué ese libro no estaba, apareció uno y vi que se podian distinguir las hojas correctamente del resto.

Saludos.

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Comentario de Deshank

The book you're searching for, is in the middle, and huge building near Araj.
A lot of "Musty Tomes" is scattered on the floor. The book for the quest has a 20% drop chance, so just keep opening them until it "drops"

There's two groups with 4 peeps guarding the building, so to get inside you'll have to suicide if you're below lvl 59/60 probably.

When you use a book, upon completing the "spell" one or two level 55 undead will spawn (they give you an annoying debuff as melee).

Starts the quest Brother Carlin.

Done as 58 Warrior.

Comentario de 808

The trick with this quest is to carefully examine the books on the floor. "Trapped" tomes that spawn guards have a clear white/gray split on their pages, whereas the real thing has a smooth transition from white to gray. This may only become apparent if you zoom in and highlight a book, but it's worth it to avoid unneccessary fights.

Also, if you're doing this as a 'lock, use Life Tap and Hellfire to suicide in and out, as you won't lose durability and won't have to fight to undead out front.

Comentario de 4615

Leads to Brother Carlin (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5210)

and eventually the BAttle of Darrowshire
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5721

Comentario de 11501

At 56 I was able to sneak in and out without aggroing the 4 guard parties (as a pally). Also, the tip about the books above is very neat - thanks for sharing!

Comentario de Boroxxar

This is very easy to sneak in if you are 56 or higher. Sneak around the building from the west and south and hug the building close and you will not aggro the 4 man mobs. However I have clicked on 10 booksand still do not have it. The book also spawn 2 55-56 mobs.

cheers

Comentario de Trix017

I noticed that no one has said where the town hall actually is for this quest. It is the large building in the center of Andorhal, cords are aprox. 43,69. Also, there may be one mob or two, it seemed to swing on the flip of a coin.

Comentario de Glow

Smooth book worked for me ;)

Comentario de 23528

This quest is a cruel joke I swear, opened 30 books waiting for actual one to spawn. Gave up :o

Comentario de 22987

Okay the REAL trick is this, the debuff called Musty tome trap expirees in about a minute. When it does the ghouls die with it automatically. You just need to stay alive for 30 seconds and you can loot all the books you want. Handy for my 52 druid that solod this quest.

Comentario de builtforsin

Like the dude posted above with the picture, i went in there lvl 52 looked at all the books first person view saw the book that was all Grey on pages opened it and bam! it was that easy! thanks for the good tip man!

Comentario de InfernoMan

When my wife and I did this quest, we weren't aware of the shading difference between the "real" and the fake books, but we did notice the "real" one spawned in the same place, along the back wall behind a barrel. only opened 2 of the fake ones, found the real one by accident, then waited for it to respwan without opening any others. Not sure if it was a fluke or not, but might be worth a shot to check that location first to possibly avoid any debuffs/annoying battles (that give no xp as well)

Comentario de 38234

Not sure if this has been mentioned before and sorry if it has, but if you stand behind the books when you open them, more often than not (for me at any rate), the trap is not activated. You just see a strange blue eve that shoots beams(??) in a direction and goes back in.
NOTE: This does not work 100% of the time

Comentario de BoJlk

Location: 43,69
There is a group of 5 mobs outside spell caster and melee which are hard to go through.
* Bring a Friend to help

The Spawned Critter has a 2 minutes debuff which stacks.
Reducing Strength and Stamina by 100 (stack x 5)
And 47 sec debuff to movement imparing by 60% and Attack speed by 28%
It becomes harder to fight them.

Comentario de plasmasnakemg

I can 100% confirm that the real book definitely looks different from all of the other books, I just did the quest yesterday and posted about this here on the book's page a few minutes after.

First and foremost, the fake books are indeed all bottom half white pages and top half gray pages.

Secondly, the fake book pages look to be a lower texture resolution. They don't look like actual pages if that makes any sense. The real book's pages will look like pages are supposed to look. When you see it, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

And be sure to hover your mouse over the books to light them up some, the room is rather dark. :)

Comentario de 42445

Another note, the stuff you have to kill doesn't give any experience.

Comentario de Nahri

I did this quest at 54. The mobs inside are not to bad. but then again I am a shaman Lol! The debuff can stack on you up to 5 times totaling for a loss of 100 stam and 100 str.

If you do this at a low level like I did watch those debuffs it will make or break you.

Make sure you have free bag space. If you dont physically loot the ruined tomes it will stay on the floor and not make way for what could be the book you are there to retrieve. Also has a chance to respawn the mobs and you will have to fight them twice for something you already cleared and waste your time.

Good Luck!

Comentario de 50394

Just did it awhile ago and the correct book surely looks different. As the above poster mentioned the correct book might not be there, so you have to open the wrong ones to get the correct one to spawn. Tested on 10th May 07

Comentario de 50449

This quest is a waste of time if you're unlucky like me... 30+ bad tomes, no book, no xp, just a headache.

Comentario de 52141

the book trick works perfect!! Walked in and found the right book with in seconds!

Comentario de MikeWho3

I did the quest today 5/30/07 and the book trick did not seem to work. The book looked no different from the rest of them, they all had the white line and it seemed to be just a random spawn. It was easy to sneak past the mobs in front of the building as a 57 paladin, just fight your way around the side, avoid the 57 Elite undead patrolling and then hug the wall, jump the stone ramp and walk right in. The stackable debuff the mobs put on you can be removed with cleanse or other powers, but the one you get from the book itself cannot be removed. Sitting in the middle of the room with the books the coords are 43.5, 69.5

Comentario de 57088

Book trick seems to still work, just look for the one with the white top and bottom. Got mine on the first try!

Comentario de Keruza

Not exactly needed to point this out. But the color trick still works as of 9/6-07. Just did it and got it confirmed

Comentario de Caylie

Very easy to stealth/prowl in and do it.

Done as 53 Druid.

Comentario de 61148

43,69 room entrance cords. Simple quest only had to kill 3 of them to get the book.

like said above, there are many mobs in front of the building, simple hug the wall and no aggro :)

57 Pally
-Barlo

Comentario de 62198

As a rogue this was mindnumbingly simple. Stealth over to the house, stealth inside, find the right book as per the instructions above, restealth and sneak back to Chromie... Took me around 1 min, with no fighting at all...

Comentario de 36213

soloed as a 51 paladin

63 pally was clearing out the front steps so i just walked in, no proper book for minutes so started opening false books.
after about 1 minute the zombies from traps disapear

Comentario de sloppyjoes

The most tedious quest I've done to date.
Basically you have to run naked and suicide several times into the town hall, once you reach it you look around the room for the book, if you can't find it, you have to open the fake books until the real one spawns. The real book does look like the picture, and it is a higher quality model (the pages look more real), but it was hard to get.
It took me about an hour to complete, and about a 1.5 gold repair charge (didn't go naked until the 4th or so death) on a mage.
But it's worth doing, for the quests afterwards are easy.

Comentario de 70823

The Book IS a random spawn. You may have to burn a couple of the fake ones to get it to spawn.
Go into your video options, MAX out Terrain Texture, and Terrain Detail. Then, get into first person view and look at all the books carefully. The real book will appear to have more pages, better graphics, all one-coloured pages and a faint X on the back of the book.
Confirmed in 2.1.2.

Comentario de 76523

Did this quest tonight, and of 9 books, all of them were fake (checked the coloring as above and they all were top half grey, bottom half white). Not a single one of them was all white.

Wouldn't have been so bad if the spawned mobs actually gave experience :/ Blech. Many minutes wasted not gaining experience.

Comentario de 22103

Same here. All of the books had distinctly different halves, there was no discernable difference even at max settings.

Comentario de 61232

Confirmed, though I found the color difference more pronounced if I didn't mouseover the books.

The faint X on the spine of the book was easy to spot, though.

Comentario de 29534

Did this with two people. First person got the tome in 3 tries, 2nd person had to open up 33 different books to get the darned real one to spawn. >_< Bothersome.

Comentario de 44711

The easiest quest so far, in my view. Asa 57 'Lock, I sneaked around the entrance and into the Hall, no agro, picked up the right book first time (gray in the middle) and hurried out. Just remember to take it easy out, and don't do as I did, bumping into the lvl 56 elite...

Comentario de 44284

Either get a group, or suicide your way in. Pick up books until you get the right one. Go out, use a swift speed potion and run the hell out of Andorhal.

Turn the book into Chromie

Comentario de SharkBait

Lol look around and 2 of the books looked like they had X's on the spine and the rest look like they have E (or whatever that symbol is). Anyway the first X book I choose had the book I needed.

Comentario de 10617

As a 57 Pally I jus' snuck in, found the book by lookin' at the colors of the pages. To sneak in jus' go behind the building to the south side and stick to the wall as close as possible. Make sure that elite pat outside doesn't catch you.

I dunno what level could do that, but I think a 56 might not be able to do it without a fight.

Comentario de 31645

I did this with patch 2.2 and none of the spawned mobs gave XP when killed, even though they gave my rogue a very unhappy debuff that decreased my strength and stamina, stacking up to 5 times.

My rogue was 55 at the time and the spawned mobs were 55 - 56, thus "yellow" to me. I petitioned a GM and from the conversation I had with the GM, these mobs *should* give XP when killed. He filed a bug report. Not a huge issue IMHO but I am surprised that nobody else reported it until today.

Comentario de 70946

Had to clear the room twice before it popped, and it was a surprise when it did as I could see the distinct page split and there was no 'X' on the cover. I actually cancelled the loot to examine the book more closely, but I still couldn't discern between the right book and the wrong ones.

On top of that, the mobs still aren't giving experience. A painful process in an otherwise decent line.

Comentario de 58040

I was able to sneak into the building as a 57 mage by hugging the wall EXTREMELY tightly. Don't have to suicide your way in

-edit-
Casters, make sure you take a little bit of a break inbetween the tomes. The Debilitating touches stack up quickly and you'll soon find yourself with triple digit hp again...

-edit 2-
After 2.3, the tome you're looking for is the one that DOESN'T sparkle...

Comentario de 93569

I just finished this quest. I had to clear a few books before the right one spawned where the first book I'd cleared had been. It did sparkle and it did still have the different pages as detailed above. Still not getting xp from the Decripid Guardian guys.

Comentario de Brazz

Well i got in at level 56 simply by running, jumping over the little edge of the stair and then turn left... i even had a level 56elite abbomination in my heels he didn't even pull the group outside its not that hard just relax and do it no big deal

Comentario de 59396

Opened 12 ruined tomes before the right one finally spawn. And no, it did not blink like the others.

Comentario de Mik3y92

As if patch 2.3, I got 8450 exp at level 59.
It also took me ~12 books to open to finally get the book.

Comentario de 96444

i found out that pages dont really matter... its all the light, i noticed that if i stood at it a certain way, all of them were grey/white split. so i think its just all luck

Comentario de Irulan

I abandoned this quest, all teh books look exactly the same, after 10x i realised i coudl have got double the xp in the time i wasted in that room.

Comentario de Darter

As some one else said. The book your looking for does NOT sparkle. I spent nearly two and a half hours opening books. If your doing this for XP and not the quest chain. DON'T. You can make 10 times as much XP killing the mobs out side the building then you will doing this quest.

Comentario de 10013

I found the right book within about 10 minutes or so... even if you're on low texture resolution you can tell the difference.

On low texture detail, all of the fake books have solid sides, but the real book you can see stripes for pages.

Comentario de 123449

I have done this on 3 characters and everytime it was a pain. I have submitted two screenshots this time.

Two things to remember to keep it easy.
1) if you have some sort of CC the ghouls despawn after a set time of about 1-1.5 minutes. out of 13 clicks i got 2 ghouls 11 times and 1 ghoul 1 time.
2) sometimes you have to click a wrong book to get the right one to spawn if it's not already there. upon inspection the correct book is in very good condition and the wrong books are torn up and tattered. it's not very hard to see the difference.

Comentario de LumiyaSpellsong

I approached the entrance to the building from the left side of the door (left if you were facing the doorway head on), coming up and around towards it from the south. From the left side of the building I simply hugged the wall and moved slowly. I was able to do this all the way around and in the front door at level 57 with no aggro from the groups of mobs standing out front. If you come at the door from the left side of the doorway and hug the wall tight and take it slow and easy to make sure you're hugging the wall and doorway as closely as you can, you will be able to get in without attracting aggro.

Then use the method of examining the book's pages -- the all white pages is the one you want, and the ones with half gray/half white pages are fakes. I was in and out with the book in the blink of an eye, and exited the same way... by hugging the wall and heading back out the left side of the building (again, left being the direction if you were facing the front of the building.)

Good luck!

Comentario de 132480

The Fake Books have a darker blue spot in one corner, and do not lines for pages when you look at the side. The real one is all a plain blue and does show pages. hope this helped ^_^

Comentario de 44899

Well i did this quest at 56 on my feral druid and lets just say ive clicked every book like 6 times and its just kinda gay to tp have this low drop on something so simple

Comentario de ypsllon

if you are the type of guy how hates ridiculous quests, dont even bother with this one! and the mobs that spawn don't even give xp! you'll be spending quite some time until that damn book decides to spawn!

Comentario de 123811

this is quite easy as a druid or rogue as all u have to do is stealth/sneek and jump the wall pulling nothing

Comentario de 60138

The real book is indeed a different texture, but you may have to open a few dozen fake books before it even spawns into the room. Unless you get lucky. It didn't spawn for me until after I'd opened 11 fake books.

Comentario de Dolphudbud

After reading the comments above, I started opening the tomes on the floor waiting for the 'different' one to appear to complete the quest. After a few minutes it hadn't appeared, so I decided to just open every book on the floor hoping this would prompt the quest item to appear. More than 30 minutes have passed (I know this because my self buffs expired) and I can't believe it still hasn't appeared. I am abandoning this quest. What a waste of time.

Comentario de 115037

very easy quest for a level 61 warlock. coords for the book is 44.69. To turn quest in to Chromie is about 39.67.

Comentario de dimon7777

this fukin quest took me 1 hour..... there were only black books :S

Comentario de Ladno

The book most definitely is random.
What's more, the guardians cast a debuff on you called 'Debilitating touch' which stacks up to 5 times, with each stack reducing your stamina and strength by 20.

It also appears that the guardians die randomly if you tank them long enough.

Comentario de 79333

I got it on the first try. My texture resolution and filtering are both on very low settings, so the books all looked pretty much the same. I may have just been lucky, but I chose the book with the cover that seemed to have a lighter shade of blue than the others. Don't know if that will work for anyone else, though.

Comentario de 153015

I used a strange tatic, but worked at first time too. Around 43.5 67.4 there is a group of scarlets, and they helped me.

I just called the mobs at the door, and ran very close to building wall, so the casters should follow me, cuz of LoS. Once they would attack me, the scarlets came and started to fight them too. At end, there was only me, a ghoul and a scarlet medic. Ghoul died and Scarlet medic evaded, so I could refresh mana and life, kill the medic (optional) and enter building in safety.

Inside the building, you shall notice the spawns really die in about 1 minute. Plus, they don't give loot or experience. So it is REALLY not necessary to kill them. Just keep yourself alive (ofc, if you have heal). As a paladin, I used turn evil twice and they disappeared. Ofc, you may turn only one, and the other I used to recover mana with seal of wisdom.

Comentario de 169775

Is it just me or does anyone else notice that the room she is staying in of the inn has only one bed, and yet she is there with a male blood-elf Jeziba.
Gossip?
Drama?
Romance?
oh yes.

Comentario de wingsofscion

The full quest chain for The Battle of Darrowshire:

Villains and Heroes do both need to be completed in order to get Marauders. However, Defenders of Darrowshire (the Uncle Carlin chain) does not need to be completed in order to get to The Battle of Darrowshire.

Comentario de 177335

Wildhorn, very clever, thanks very much - what he said is abo^&*!ally right, don't go scouting for it by opening random tomes, follow Wilhorn's 'trick' and you will have it done in no time! :)

Comentario de 176454

i tried to find right book over hour and then i gave up, really annoying quest. now, while im 70, ill try to do that q again so i can save redpath. E: it was in first book this time

Comentario de Nastrodamous

the real book has alot more color than the fake ones got it on the first ttry

Comentario de reapersheart

doing it as a 57 rogue right now, i found that if you stand as far away from the book as you can and still grab it, you can stealth right after its done "casting" and you dont have to fight the spawn then.

and when i came in they were all bad =(

Comentario de 149389

Seriously, this is one of the most annoying quests i've ever done >_<
The right book never spawned, and i got 2 zombies on me each time i tried open one, this quest takes time, skip it imo.

Comentario de 196243

I did this quest at 54 and if you hugh the wall of the building you can avoid having dieing but if your a hunter you can run into the building and feign death when in the room with the books. It's better to dismiss your pet when doing the feign death or trying to get in your pet my attract the enemy.

Comentario de mikael11

Thanks! Wildthorn isn't lying or something! realy saved me much time and i didn't have to suicide as a level 56 mage, just try lick wall or something in that style ^^

Comentario de Oswald

Confirmed the grey-shade trick once again.

I probably looted over 50 books, knowing about this trick before I finally got one to spawn... This quest sucks lol, the summoned mobs don't give any EXP, their debuff sucks if your melee, and the double-ghouls can be rough if you aren't prepared.

Comentario de Avery

They made this quest easier (as of 3.0.2). There are glinsters above all books now, the one with the smallest glinsters is the one you need.

Comentario de 171081

hes right was looking on here scrolled to post a note and i saw that. LOL turns out i was right in front of it the whole time. thanks dude

Comentario de 235182

If you look carefully at the sparkles coming off the books, the ones with the sparkles going high are useless, look for the ones that the sparkles dont go as high. 3 of the books contain the annals.

Comentario de 141922

44.21, 69.19 is the coords of the building you are looking for.

Comentario de childofnewlight

It took my guildie and I about 40 fake books before we were able to get a good book to spawn. If you pay close attention to the advice here regarding looking for a smooth gradient on the open end of the book when the right one spawns you should notice it.

Keep in mind that whether you have to mouseover or not to see the difference depends on your screens gamma and brightness. My screen is bright enough that when I hovered over the books I could see no difference. But when not hovered over could see there was a distinct difference between the top grey and bottom white.

THE IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP IN MIND: The GOOD book may not be there when you enter. It may not be there for a few spawns. You may have to clear the room a few times. It may be even worse if you're sharing the room. Be patient. If you're sure you're the only one in the area. Consider going outside and killing things to keep your XP ticking up. The mobs that spawn from the books give NO xp.

Comentario de 102628

Its in the large building behind Araj the Summoner. Coords:

Comentario de 273169

Ok this is so much easier if you do it this way. Look at the stars above the books. All of the stars above the books are more separated and higher up, the right books stars are more condensed and close to the book itself. I noticed that right away when i went in to look for the book. I fought nothing at all inside the inn.

Comentario de 276841

Well, i think that this is a fairly easy quest (other than the books are annoying to open) I did this with a level 53 Human paladin, without suiciding, I chose the left side of the building (if you're facing the back of the building) as there were fewer other mobs sitting around, and had no problem taking the 4 level 55's sitting there (note paladins have special spells for undead, which i have macro'ed as well) i used my bubble, and didn't need to heal, so i think healers 55 and below should have no problem doing this quest without suicide, reguardless of the comment about 58-59 or less have to suicide the mobs, i'd say 57 of any class can take these if you know even basic tactics.
Stay with the books... i had to open 17 of them to get the book lol but hey, that happens. although.. it is kind of bad that the spawns from the trapped books give you exactly 0 exp.

Good luck questing!

Comentario de 290399

This quest is so lame I cant get over it I've let it respawn 7 times! Nothing! Blizzard really did it this time.

Comentario de 290399

codenamecng's is the best idea of all I've seen as soon as i read it I found it no problem!

Comentario de chickaboom

Fallium was right on the money. Looking for the sparkles is the way to go. The sparkles are not as tall on the correct book. Look for knee high to an elf. :)

Comentario de Golgathoth

Wildhorn is totally correct. I went in there as a lvl 54 (after aggroing only one lvl 55) and got the book on the very first try.

Comentario de Frances

Wildhorn's comment is very good! thankyou, did it as a rogue and before using Wildhorns theory i vanished after i'd opened a book. Its at times like these you wish every race had vanish! Oh and look for the 'x' on the spine of the book, also works.

Comentario de Elessa

Drop rate seems to be pretty low. I opened all the books and didn't find the quest item.

Edit: opened all the books again, and no Annal.

Comentario de 328218

the color of the pages was spot on - all white is good....

Comentario de 327594

Ok I have been working on this quest forever but I accidentaly made a discovery...

If you have and only if you have the questhelper addon just put your mouse over all the books whatever one says open this and you'll get The Annals of Darrowshire is the real one.

The fake ones do not do this!

Comentario de Derren

very easy to find the real book even with no mods, just move your pointer on the books:

Fake books: Musty tome.

Real book: musty tome, the anal of darrowshire 0/1

Comentario de 392111

Its seems that they *fixed* the white/grey-half theory
What I did notice was that the right book is slightly different from the others,
the outer casing (dont know the right word) is blue just like all others,
but the pages are more yellow, and thicker, you can see the different pages.
Itcomes to this => the pages look older

Hope this helps some of you

Comentario de Halshar

Today when I was doing this quest I noticed that the in-game quest tracker will actually tell you which tome is real. All of the fake tomes will simply be called "Musty Tome", but the real one will also have underneath it the quest tracker text (The Annals of Darrowshire: 0/1) as well as being called "Musty Tome"

Comentario de Vesper

The Anals of Questing.

Debuffs that stack and last two minutes and another debuff that gets re-applied each time you open a faulty tome.

Mobs do not give XP and drop no loot.

And you have to open them all if the correct one doesn't spawn.

The right thing to do is not wait for the drop, but drop this quest and get the hell out.

Comentario de Skreeran

Why is Chromie letting us change Joseph's fate?

Especially when in the Culling of Stratholme instance, she sends us to make sure Arthas slaughters all the people of Stratholme?

Comentario de 464800

I did this quest as a lvl 55 warrior, and i did suicide to get into the hall and I had read on this site to look for grey in the middle so I did and I had looked for a grey line straight across but what it really is, is a brownish-grey "line" not in the center of the book going up and down not side to side, I just thought i should post this so no one in the future gets confused.

Comentario de 164250

Just... read properly the name of this quest...
One player couldn't make it.

Comentario de luxurybob

I can confirm both of these clues are still available.

Easiest to spot the sparkle difference for a distance - probably waist high on a human. The sparkles on incorrect books go close to the height of the ceiling.

Looking at one end of the book, it's easy to see the difference in page colour. However, not as easy to spot on a mouse-over.

I had to open 4 books to get the correct one to spawn.

Comentario de DavivMcD

Just in case you are going crazy trying to identify which one is the real one by looking at the shading differences....there is a chance that NONE of the books currently spawned are the real one.

In fact I just cleared the entire room TWICE and haven't gotten the real one yet; very annoying.

Edit: *sigh* Make that three clears and no book yet...

Edit 2: It finally decided to show up on the fifth clear.

Comentario de 499990

Ok,good advice everyone but I just opened the first book I saw and it was the Annals of Darrowshire ...Lol....

Comentario de 552269

VERY HELPFUL WILDHORN.
went thorough about ten books thinking i was just unlucky, but u were right. very good hint.

Comentario de 555928

We just did the quest and I think they decreased the drop rate to about %5

Comentario de Immoovabull

With the relatively new built in quest helper, only the real one will have the quest information when you mouse over it

Comentario de 573885

Lol i tried ages with the X on the bind and the white/black pages trick and kept getting in fights and it turned out the right one says musty tome annals of darrowshire while the rest just say musty tome........I feel retarded for only noticing that now lol

Comentario de 139402

Easy quest as a lvl 55 druid. Prowl in, find the book with the X on the spine (it was the one closest to the door btw) an prowl out. Easy XP. Also, the X is very faint, kinda hard to see.

Comentario de 609710

I just got sooo lucky with this quest, I was standing beside the building and suddenly someone distracted them,and they started running towards him/her, meanwhile I got inside and took the annals :))
lvl 56 human mage

Comentario de 595223

Just did this as a lvl 54 druid. Prowled in, grabbed the book, prowled out. Didn't aggro anything. The comments helped for finding the right book. I noticed when you point at the right book Questhelper tells you that the book has the item.

Comentario de Thottbot

Building located at 43,68. Inside there is a bunch of musty tomes second one i clicked on turned out to be the quest item. Do not know if it is random or not but i found it in the very book in the very top right hand end of the room. Hope this helps :)

Comentario de Thottbot

When you had in the quest, it continues to:

Brother Carlin
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=5210/carlin-el-hermano-de-joseph

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http://members.home.nl/nerusai/wow/Annals_of_Darrowshire.JPG
You might need to increase graphic settings to see the difference between the two book types.

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must have opend like 50 books before i got the right one. And i did know of the color diff. Got help from a 60 warrior in the end, thx craz ;) The q is kinda &*!@ed imo.

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I got it on first try using the color difference, like he said, you gotta move your cursor over it to really notice the difference. It helped me out loads, and I got in really easy by just sneaking around the right side, nobody saw me going in or coming out. Easy quest. And you might have to enhance you graphics setting to notice the difference.

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Just did it - though I inspected every book first and they were all top grey, bottom white. Figured they'd fixed it and started clearing clockwise from the entrance. Cleared them all without any luck. Of course more than half of them had re-spawned by the time I got done with the last one, so I inspected the re-spawns and sure enough, one was a blended grey. Popped it and out came the Annals.

So the color trick still works - but it appears there's no guarantee that at any given time that the book will be there. Might have to open a few duds to get the good book to spawn or come back later after some other sap has gone through a mess of them and given up not realizing that one of his respawns was the good one.

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on my first attempt to get into the building, i aggroed a mob in front of the fountain, died mercilessly...then on my second try, i rushed in, didnt aggro....then i remembered how the real book looked once i moused over it...and it worked!..first try and got the right book...ty!

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Finally got the book when I tried this method.

1)Turn up the Gamma in the video options screen

2) Look at the spines of each book. The correct book has a faint, but noticeable 'X' on the spine.

Select that one and you'll get the tomb. Worked first time for me after spending hours looking!

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I have just finished opening every single tome in the room and not one is the right one.

Does it, or does it not, respawn?

As I understand the quest, there's only the one room and a finite number of tomes. It did allow me to pick one up, the wrong one.

The gamma trick only works if the book is there.

Suggestions?

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Thanks so much to whoever sent that coloring trick in. Did the quest at level 53 and got the book the first try. The difference is actually pretty easy to see if you know what to look for - if the top of the pages are gray and the bottom is white, it's not the right one, if the pages are a uniform grayish white color, that's it!

There are no enemies in the actual town hall building so I used the Run and Rez cheap method. /shame

Thanks again, and by the way the coords for me were 43,69, on the floor right by the steps.

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Took quite a while for the right one to spawn, few things you should know.

1: Wrong ones can spawn 0,1, or 2 guys to kill you. Generally 55.

2: You get instantly debuffed with -25% speed and 33% more time between attacks

3: One type of guy gives you a debuff that stacks up to 5 times. Debilitating Disease or something. Each stack is -20 stamina and -20 strength, and it lasts 2 minutes. Each time it stacks again the 2 minutes is reset. So plan on doing this with -1000 health and -100 Strength. I'm a 55 rogue and it was annoying, but I never died.

Here are 2 pics of what the real one looked like. Front and back.

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/8913/untitled1lv7.png

-Sorry if the red disturbs the pages - but you can still see there is a lot less 'contrast' between top and bottom (these are both on mousover)

IMAGE AND INFORMATION BY ZPY FROM
DESTROMATH - ALLIANCE

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I just want to be sure good info gets out there! I did this quest today, and I definetly saw the 'X' and the pages were def more uniform in color. I took screenies, see below. It didn't spawn tho for awhile, I had started just opening all the books thinking maybe the X thing was not good info, as some people have said. I don't know what book they were looking for, it was absolutely on the Annals of Darrowshire for me, lol. And it was very obvious, especially after looking at all those books for awhile.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9784/mustytome1hl3.jpg

Even at this angle, you can see that it looks like an 'E'

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7082/mustytome2qq1.jpg

When I didn't have it selected, you really couldn't see anything.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5214/mustytome3bx3.jpg

This is the unselected view of the page colors on the junk book.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3925/annals1ai3.jpg

Note the obvious 'X' shape, this is an unselected view.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5299/annals2ef5.jpg

Same view, this time I have the book selected

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2152/annals3kf8.jpg

This is to show the obvious difference in page colors as well, the non-quest books are all grey on top, dark grey when unselected, this book is obviously not that way. This is the unselected view

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7671/annals4om7.jpg

Same view, book selected

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8144/annals5nx5.jpg

And here it is from a distance, def different than the other books. You may not be able to tell as well from these pics, its very obvious in the City Hall. I didn't have to adjust my settings at all, but they may be fairly high already. I did this as a 60 NE Druid, and it wasn't too bad.

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all that trouble of changing colors and brightness to avoid fighting 1 or 2 nonelite undead. you should be able to handle 2 at a time by the time your here

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Those pics rocked !
The building for those who don't use coordinates.
It's the only standing building at the intersection toward the middle of the ruins. The intersection that has the named elite mob "Araj", you can get inside without aggroing any by jumping up the side of the stairs.
Run around in first person view til you see a book with a faded "X" on the binding. All the others don't have an "X". Totally simple.

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To save peoples time the Cords given are for WPL not EPL !

Books can be located at 43,70 "Western Plaugelands" In city hall of Andorhal.

GL

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IMO dont bother looking for the X as its too faint to really notice, Go by the color of the pages

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Actually, it is random, and i did see the "X" on the binding of the book. I believe looking for the X is the best way.

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I was killed by the 56 Elite just before I got to the entrance, but the upside of that was that I was able to avoid all the mobs at the entrance by going in in spirit form and rezzing inside the room with the tomes. As somebody else stated....I did have to open about three of the fake tomes (and fight the guardians) to get the right one to spawn....it definitely wasn't there when I first went in.

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scroll over the books and the book with the lightest blue is the right book.took me a while to get it to spawn

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Yeah I'm not one to complain about difficulty of quests, but this one gets an F-U blizz from me. If you're going to make this many spawns required to find the book, make them worth experience. This is ridiculous to get no xp and have to grind for well over an hour to get the damn quest done. GG.

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This quest is complete bull. I cleared the room three times and the correct book never appeared. The worst part: you kill 55-56 monsters when you click the wrong book, and you get NO experience for it. WTF?

Not to mention I'm a rogue and I can't detect the traps... I don't know why Blizz bothered with the detect trap ability anyway, if you never get to actually use it.

Of all the annoying quests in the game this one gets my #1 vote. Bliz, PUT THE STUPID BOOK IN THE ROOM. This quest sucks.

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The book isn't always there i was looking for the X and the pages but i couldn't find it, if click a few books, fight the mobs, and wait for it to respawn. The right book will show up =)

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I tried like 10 times and still didn't get it. So I used the color that one of the comment discribe. If it is the real one, when mouse over, the gray and white are mixed together, the fake one's gray and white are separated.

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The real book wasn't there at first. The real book has all gray pages when you don't scroll over it. The fake books are grey and white.

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I was begining to think this was the urban ledgend of all times! But by golly! What everyone is saying about the X on the binding and the Grey blending is for real. Thanks alot- You have made my day!
After getting hammered on the first three at random openings--I went in and read and Looked close till I found the rigtht one . Just do it It Works Again Thanks alot.

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OMG I HATE THAT QUEST SO DAMN MUCH! for like 25mins i have gone to book to book and not one was it. it never droped so i said $%^& it!

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first book I picked, thank you so much to the people before me! No X was visible, but the SHADING to grey on the pages gave it away, dummy books were white on bottom half, grey top half. Thanks again luvs

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Its true turn your texture all the way up and you'll see the X
i didnt believe it before but it is there.

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If you are a Warlock use your Eye of Killrog, you can get a much closer look at the books. ;)

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The Books dissappear randomly. After 5-10 minutes of looking the book with all white pages appeared in an area whereas 2 minutes before was a half white-half gray paged book.

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took 15 tries. tip loot the chest while you wait its not trapped and chances are its gonna take you so long it will respawn 2 or 3 times

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I just finished this quest on June 12, 2005 on the blood hoof surver.

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I got the correct book on the 5th try, and so did the other player in my party. Once he got his book, which was on the bench-like area against the wall, the book disappered. I grabbed several others which spawned the mobs, then another book spawned right by where the other correct book was found. This was the correct book for me as well.

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Went through at least 12 books so far waiting on the right one to spawn... Still doing the same quest... These things are tough at 53 especially when you get 2 at a time and the fact that you get ZERO exp from killing them makes this quest even more lame :( I hope the right book spawns soon :-/

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This is EASILY the worst quest ever thought of. They don't even give exp on the mobs!.....bring on Outland

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Find the Town Hall at (43,70). You might have to kill a few mobs on the way in. When you get into town hall, you will see sparkling books all over the floor.

Here's the easiest way to see the right one-
*The fake books have two color pages: one half dark and one half light. The right book should have all light colored pages.

**NOTE** If you go around the room, sometimes all the books have dark and light pages. You need to open a few books until the correct one spawns. Either one or two ghouls come out when you open an uncorrect book.

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It took me cycling through 21 books, while a pally was cycling through them, for the right book to appear.

0_o

If it's taking a while, it's not broken, it's just the worst quest design ever.

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Im a rog..

Walked in and picked the one on raised area... the one closest to stairs,.. got it first time. then buddy did the same.. maybe chance ?

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**edit**
double posted

Edited, Wed Apr 20 17:53:46 2005

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es - fixed last patch: note- there are a whole bunch of books to open. opening one giving a musty tome instead of the annals also spawns 1-2 ghosts to kill (no exp or lootability)

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Yeah thx a lot for hosting the images, helped med get it too :)

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Found in the building at 43.69

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just to bump kessinaterok's good work:
real vs fake

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Yep worked for me just put the gamma high at Video options and youll see em whit the pic

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WTF! I HAVE SPENT OVER 3 HOURS TO COMPLETE THIS MOTHER#$%^ING QUEST ARGH! FFS BLIZZ DONT YOU EVER DO THIS KIND OF QUEST AGAIN! ARGH!

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"Most books have pages where the first half is darker and the second half (closest to the floor) is lighter. The one to chose is the book where neither half is lighter or darker, but where the edges of the pages are shaded to just look a bit spotty or worn."

even with low settings, this worked perfectly. got it on my first try

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The guy that pointed out that the books with half light and half dark pages are all the Ruined Tomes and the one that is all the same shade is the quest book was Dead on. I picked up 7 Ruined tomes fighting those stupid guardians before I read his post. After reading it I zoomed to 1st person and looked at all the books until I found one all the same color and that was the right one.

On a side note, you can get a room with ALL ruined tomes, if you do you have to pick some up and wait for the respawn.

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I dont know what peeps are going on about with different coloured books and lighter/darker pages.....its really NOT helpful.
The truth of the matter is litterally x marks the book. if you look on the spines of the books there are some small patterns - all but the desired book have an 'E' design. The actual book has a 'X' instead of an 'E'. sometimes the X book is not there traight away so you got to do some fighting before it "turns up".......Simple really :)

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Well, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Kinda.
I walked into City Hall, hearing someone fighting, and I was ready to help. Turns out, I was too late, because the guy died! After fighting off 2 (!) ghouls, I picked up the first Musty Tome I saw, and.... I got the Annals of Darrowshire! Not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

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Woohoo... the tomes are littered across the floor of the building near the north central area... there are no npcs inside, so if you are a rogue you can slip past (taking care not to alert the elite level 61 Araj standing in the middle) ... only problem is when you open one of the tomes, a level 55 elite spawns to fight you (assuming you pick one of the fourth out of five tomes that is the wrong one) ... took me several tries and a few deaths to find it...

my copy came out of a tome on the slightly raised balcony... there were two tomes there at the time and the one i found was on the right hand side when facing the balcony from across the room... that one did not spawn a guardian, but then again i have no idea if its the same one every time either.

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Yep. Killed the two elites and no books or anything inside. Bugged as 22/04/2005 after the honour patch.

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i had to open 6 (SIX) fake tombs on purpose to make the actual real tomb to spawn... booooooring! :P

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OMG OMid your fuking genius man i put gamma on full and one had fully dark pages and it worked that was the rihgt one all u do is put ur agmma on max and see the odd one out ur a genius man thanks :)

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Easily done w/ lvl. 52 rogue. I love stealth. Sometimes I feel like I'm cheating. Stealthed around the area into the house at 43,70. Opened one book and fought one lvl. 56. Tried another and two lvl. 56 appeared..vanished. Looked for a book that LOOKED DIFFERENT. Found it. THE BOOK IS LIGHTER THAN ALL THE OTHERS. And bam got it.

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I dident see any difference in the book, when first entering the room was just old ruined books, opened a few of theses and killed some ghouls then eventually! the book appeared! colour

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As of May 19th this is still broken. Reported it.

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Found the book in the same place as the poster below me. It didnt spawn there the first time though. I got it on the second try.

This seems to be the book to open.

Be ready for either one or two ghouls if you get the wrong book. They cast a nasty plague on you and you also get a trap that reduces your movement speed.

~Charmed

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If you need to do this quest, look very close, all the pages of the real book are white, the rest will be half black, half white. Find the one that is all whitish grey and that will be the book.

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Looted 18 Musty Tomes before finally getting the Annals. And must've killed about 10 guardians. Said guardians despawn after a minute, come in 1 or 2 packs.

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This quest is a load of #$%^&*. I spent the entire evening in that cramped room opening every tome that respawned, and subsequentally killing the guardians (gives neither exp nor loot). Finally after 2½ hours a good book spawned and boy was i pissed. You should stay away from this quest unless you want a nervous breakdown and your evening ruined.

Edited, Jul 16th 2006 at 10:28pm EDT by toepk

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First book I tried to open randomly I got jumped, then I tried to see if any of the books looked differently from the others. With your cursor over the books, they have the top half of the pages gray, and the other half white. The book that contained the annals had both sets of pages gray, I hope this can be of help to anyone.

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Uncertain about previous posts, but the loc is right.
As of 31/08/06 the below is what I found.
After opening 4 books because they all looked alike, one respawned and when the cursor was held over it neither of the halves stayed grey, but lite up quite brightly. I didn't see an x on it either. When I looted it I got the annals.

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This quest got worse and worse. I had to open a total of somewhere around 30 books just to get the right one to SPAWN.

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I was doing this quest last night and after picking up the wrong book first, I had 2 undead pop. I am a priest so I shackled one while killing the other. Shackle broke early so I reshackled it about 10seconds short of the 1st one lasting the full length. By the time I bandaged and mana'd back up, the one that was shackled was gone. I am assuming if you have a method to root or freeze these mobs for 30-40seconds you need not fight them at all. Also, to find the 'real' book the method I used was. 1.)zoom into 1st person view 2. Move to the book so you can see the pages and mouse over it so that it lights up (the room is dark and hard as heck to see in there). 3. Looking at the book closed, if the pages at the front of the book, the top 1/2 of the pages, are GREY and the bottom 1/2 of the pages, the last pages of the book, are white. It is NOT THE CORRECT BOOK. The correct book will have uniform colored pages throughout , top to bottom or front to back, however you wish to consider it.
Good luck.

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As others have said, the book will be pretty noticeable when you see it. I originally thought that it would be some slight color difference but when I found it, but it was noticeable.

I just wanted to make clear that when you walk in the room and see all the books that it is very possible that it isn't currently one of the ones there. I ended up with 18 of the junk books (which you can't even NPC for a little extra silver) before the correct one spawned. For me it was the book almost directly in front of the doorway.

This quest wasn't hard but it was so annoying. The monsters you fight when you chose the wrong book are around level 55 but killing them grants no experience, no +argent dawn rep or even allow you to loot the body. Ended up doing so much killing and got 0 exp from it. Got around 8500 from the quest itself but it would have been nice to get a little from killing the spawned mobs.

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Yeah.. watch the searing ghouls.. They have an AOE permantly on.. so it breaks sneak ((

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Sorry folks... this quest is still broken. There are no books in the City Hall @44,70. If you're are headed there anyway... be careful of the two elite skeletal Warlord in the inside room.

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43,70 in the town hall main room.
I think it spawns randomly.. the right one for me was behind the broken barrel with no chairs around.
Damn books :P

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Real vs Fake

Edited, Wed Aug 3 14:10:49 2005

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Triple post :(
Stupid post message button /kick

Edited, Thu Nov 24 09:35:59 2005

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Edited, Wed May 17 13:49:00 2006

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Look for the book which does not have dark corners, the book will b entirely light blue with no dark corners.

book is at
43,70 for Titan Panel mod

Good luck all!

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spawned after opening 7 books. it was easy to spot since it is indeed lighter than the others.

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The arguments are moot as the books now sparkle as quest items since patch 2.3 :) As druid just stealthed in, saw sparkling books at back of hall on raised part. In fact two sparkling books there. Opened and then stealthed out and returned to quest giver in couple of minutes.

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It's the 2nd time I did this quest and I hate it iven more now... I did ALL books and still didn't find it. I got 13 tomes now and the 14th was the correct book.

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Mine was on balcone right side as I was facing it.

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Has anyone found this since the patch yesterday (19 April)? A group of friends and I killed the two elite undead guys in the city hall (at least, what looked like the city hall), but there were no books there!

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Same thing here its is not there i think we can now call this 1 bugged

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The books are in the building directly north from Andorhal City Hall (wasted building with big keg (?) near it BUT after honor patch you won't be able to pick them up becouse they are floating in the air (no way to get them - too high)

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I soloed this quest today, and I must have opened 5 books before I found the right one. The right book for me was on the left side of the room, on the far side of the floor.

If you open the wrong book, a worm or eye pops out of the book, and spwans two ghost ghouls that don't drop anything. So if you need to wear an extra protection trinket, do it, you will not get any scourge stones.

They are both lvl 55, and attack with melee while keeping two curses on you. One lowers your stats, the other lowers your attack speed. Keep some food/health potions on you for after the fight.

In my opinion, the items at the end of this quest chain aren't worth it for a lvl 60 Rogue, so I dropped it after I finally finished this part.

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Very helpful post on those pics, I have done this quest a few times and never noticed that.

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Just did this quest on second try. The correct book is the one with dark pages only.

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"Look for the book which does not have dark corners, the book will b entirely light blue with no dark corners." it's a litle more shiny than the others
if you can't find it this way.. it's because it isnt spawned =)
open some books and wait for them to respawn
59 rogue.. open with autoloot.. Stealth fast =P

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for me the book was the only one that did not have the sparkles around it, and it moves around the room

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Easy of course wrong post sorry

Edited, Feb 18th 2008 4:05pm by WoWMaMa

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thanks to kessinaterok for the great link on real vs fake book. made this much easier.

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it's the 3rd time i complete this quest, first with lock, then druid then rogue.

The first time i did not know and opened all books till i found the one...
The second time, after reading the posts here I DID find a little X on one book.
The third time (tonite), i did not find the X but one of the book had a slightly washed out color compared to the others, and it was the one!

So... I think THERE IS something different, it's simply a matter of spending the time to look and keeping the eyes wide open.

Hope this helps.

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Most books have pages where the first half is darker and the second half (closest to the floor) is lighter. The one to chose is the book where neither half is lighter or darker, but where the edges of the pages are shaded to just look a bit spotty or worn.

As a previous poster said, it might help adjusting your gamma or the brightness of your screen.

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Right, you may have to go through a fair few tomes but the book will look like this once it has spawned: It will have a brown stain like accross the pages and an X on the spine of the book.

The X is easier to see if you hover the cursor over the book.

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Thanks to the pictures, there's at least some guidance. The lack of xp from these guardians make it really the most useless quest I've been on the entire game, and that's saying something. :P

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You can definately tell which one is correct. I noticed that all of them looked identical except one. Picked that one and it was it. As some people have pointed out, most have dark coloured pages on top and light coloured at the bottom. The correct one had kinda greyish pages right through the book unlike the others. Just go for the one that looks different.

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As of May 18, 2005 there was no books in the town hall. There was two Elite Skeletal Warlords in there. I reported it as bugged.

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Here's the skinny on this quest:

It's no longer all that difficult, as some previous posts would indicate. Go to the city hall (at approximately 43, 69). Inside will be about ten sparkling books, and one of them (randomly) will be the annals you are looking for. Every time you open a book either one or two ghouls will spawn, so make sure you're ready for a fight. They're non-elites and not all that difficult to kill, but yield no XP and drop nothing.

More of an obnoxious quest than a difficult one.

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No one person placed the location of the building. Who cares how many time you took to do it. Who cares how much xp you received. My God people. Post something that contains real info.

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Ok the Location on the books is 44, 67. If you cant see them look up, WAAAAY up. They are floating in the sky. At least its proof positive that it is bugged at the moment.

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I was in City hall, opened all books (also killed all spawned mobs) and in last book (first book from doors to left) there was needed book.

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My level 54 priestess had no choice but to suffer a painful death on the way in. The mobs are about that level and VERY plentiful, probably 6 followed me into the inn and killed me in seconds. There was a level 61 Elite that didn't follow as I'd feared but there was a total group of at least 25 hovering near the entrance. I'd recommend either removing or repairing your armor if you can't stealth as even a 60 would die in that mob. Correct book was easy to find, the others all had solid black at the top quarter of the pages.

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the post up tward the top is right in how to tell if it is the right one or not, but if you dont see that one when you walk in you have to keep opening books till it spawns

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I had to have looked at every book at least 5 times before I finally just gave up with the pictures and opened a couple. After about a minute long fight each time I realized I really didn't want to do that 20 times, so I moved all my graphics settings up to their max and restarted (so they take effect). As soon as I logged back in it was crystal clear which book it was.

So in other words if you can't tell which book it is, turn your graphics settings up.

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I thought for sure id have to fight them (66 rogue) but i tried something, shift+click the book to auto loot and just as you get the book stealth, then back away from the mob, if it hasnt been attakced when your curse runs out it dies, and you dont have to fight. Rogues only though unfortunately

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Works fine now (Feb 19), first book I checked.

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Turn gamma on high from Interface options and you will be able to tell which book had the "All Gray" papers. Got book on first try. Thanks so much for the pics.

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yeah ignore what the guy said about the *real vs fake* thats a load of crap lol i went in looked at all the books and they all were half white half grey... which apparantly means all fake according to that guy lol anyway open my first one and the item was in it :P

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I opend 1 and got it! so lucky..... completed this qwest at lvl 51 warrior

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Got to the coordinates listed below (43,69) by using lesser invisibility to get passed the dudes outside. Went to the podium, opened the first book I saw (I honestly didn't even see any other tomes, until after I opened it) and it was the right one. Seemed almost TOOO easy.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Took me a while to actually come back and re-read this posts in here. The book is the ONLY one with all white pages. If you look close the others all have half black half white. Simple Really. The mobs that spawn don't give XP either :(

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Quest details have been updated. Please let us know if this is incorrect.

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First Try, white pages, Thanks!

Comentario de Allakhazam

If you look at all the books in the room, they are dark blue on the bottom and light blue on the top.

The real one is light blue on the bottom and the top.

You can avoid corpse running as long as you inspect them carefully.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Annals of Darrowshire was the 12th "Musty Tome" I opened. The spawned mob(s) on the "Ruined Tome" live for only 60 seconds and, as undead, are Shackle-able...

Comentario de Allakhazam

I went in there to find only 10 tomes lying around, counted. I opened the one near the stairs and a level 56 ghoul appeared, killed him, no luck.

Waited 15 mins and no book spawned for me :<

Comentario de Allakhazam

I tried every book in a circular motion and not a single one worked.

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doing this with 56 warrior i die already if 2 ghouls spawn..debilitating touch is unbearable

Comentario de Allakhazam

I don't see why everyone is complaining about this quest so much. It only took me a couple of minutes.

I walked down the path from Chromie's building toward the east - she said it was in the ruins of the town's hall, so I looked for the building that looks like all the other town halls in the game.

I got in the front door without aggroing the mobs outside by hugging the wall of the town hall. Then I clicked the book that obviously looked different than the others, and got it on the first try. I left in the same way as I came in and again did not aggro the skeletons outside.

Comentario de Allakhazam

It was dead on! The first book with all white pages was it.

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All the rumors are true - it's the book with all the same pages. Not black and white like all the other ones. I got it first pick. Great hint all - thanks.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I also got it from the one on the raised platform. I looted like 5 others with no luck.

Oh, it should also be said that this leads to the quest: "Brother Carlin"

Edited, Fri Feb 25 14:16:27 2005

Comentario de Allakhazam

Most of the posts in this extensive thread are correct in stating there are brown streaks running the length of the pages and a small dark blue X on the spine, but they are incorrect in stating that its always there. The respawn on those books is random, so you might have to loot quite a few before a book meeting the 'top and bottom halves same color' criteria. In fact, the book you are looking for has slightly higher resolution in its texturing... Looked a little different to me at least. After looking and looting many and knowing what worthless ones look like before looted, you will immediately recognize this one as different. Just takes time. 45 minutes before I got a spawn.

Edited, Nov 15th 2006 at 6:53am PST by Hashimuro

Comentario de Allakhazam

just run close to the house, and resurect inside.
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The books were all identical.
I opened 4 books and 1 or 2 ghouls spawned every time.
Then a book respawned with no sparkle.

No sparkle.

Comentario de Allakhazam

ok this is really annoying now, cleared all the books out 5 times (40 books in total).. none of them are the one required, what is the drop rate for it :S

Comentario de Allakhazam

OK, glad they finally fixed this quest. When you go into the town hall building you want to go up the stairs on the left of where the podium is. Right as you climb up the two or so stairs there should be a book in front of you. Don't know if it's reliable or not, but this was the one that dropped it for two of us back to back...

Comentario de Allakhazam

Thx for the pictures. The book is really obvious, if you can't find one that isn't 1/2 and 1/2 just wait for it to spawn.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Ok I went in there not really knowing what everyone was talking about, not being able to find the right book. I looked at them from the side like it said, they all looked the same. Even after playing with my gamma. Well I opened the one on the far left ledge when you walk in. The ghouls jumped out. I opened two more and the same thing happened. Then I just happened to run by the one on the ledge again and it looked different, so I opened it. It was the right book. It was really weird. But whatever I got my book finally. Only one death.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Contrary to Vidler's post my tome did NOT have all white pages.

All the Tomes in the room had the same gray/white combo. Infact I cleared the whole room and did not get the drop. I got mine on one of the respawn tomes.

1-2 level 55 undead zombies will spawn if you open the wrong tome. They are stacked on each other so targeting can be hard. Nothing wanders into the building and there are no spawns except for the trap zombies. So if you can handle two at a time you can set your own pace and don't have to rush.

Also Note: When you open one of these trapped tomes it will put "a worthless Tome" into your inventory. They have a purple cover and can not be opened by right-clicking. Remove these from your inventory so you don't have problems getting the quest item or end up having to open the same tome twice in order to check it (and spawning more zombies).

My drop came from a book on the right and up near the dias as you face it

Comentario de Allakhazam

Found the books in a building that looks like a schoolhouse. Hugged the wall to go in to avoid aggroing the horde of undead outside. No way to tell which tome is correct, trail and error. Wrong tome means 2 mobs beat up on you. Relatively easy, soloed as a 56 pally.

Comentario de Allakhazam

SWEET Definitely worked thanks! :)

Comentario de Allakhazam

The Annals(The Book you are after) has a smaller glow then the others, who have a very big glow.

As of right now, this is correct... Untill they patch it again to throw us all off!

Evil people.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I can confirm that it is the book that has a little sparkle- it's very noticeable

Comentario de Allakhazam

Advice: Get naked and charge into the building. Res/loot/repeat as necessary until you get the copy. As far as I can tell it's a random 1in5 or so to get the valid copy. I looted a book I had already tried on a previous attempt and got it.

Comentario de Allakhazam

i was trying to find it earlier today too... but couldnt find it. I was in the "city hall" thing for about 20 min and they didnt spawn. i heard from someone that they drop off a mob now.... i dunno what or where. not too sure if this is true or not.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Look for one with a tiny fiat "X" on the binding. Tough to spot, and not too clear, but it is there

Comentario de Allakhazam

You can see an "X" on the spine in slightly darker blue. Most of the "fake" books have a "v".

Comentario de Allakhazam

I just walked by all the mobs to get into the building without agroeing a single thing

~58 warlock

Comentario de Allakhazam

I found the correct book in Andorhal, Western Plaguelands, at coords 43,69 which was on the floor in the corner between 2 broken chairs near the one under the window on the ledge (left corner opposite the doorway you enter from). The book was all dark pages except a sliver of light gray/white in the middle. The other books looked half dark, half light pages. I did not adjust my screen at all to see it.
I did not have to open any other book, but it is not always present. It is a random spawn of the 10 books in the room. The book I "opened" respawned as one of the other books.

If you are lucky like I was, you will not have to open any other book. If not, there aren't any mobs in the building so you can take your time waiting for the correct book to spawn.

Comentario de Allakhazam

had to open about 10 books before i saw the 1 with all black pages.. its the 1 NW

Comentario de Allakhazam

I looted this two nights ago (after the patch) with no problem. It was the first book I picked up even.

Comentario de Allakhazam

About time! Fixed as of 1.5 June 7th!

Comentario de Allakhazam

Got it on the second try!

Comentario de Allakhazam

Find the real on my first try lol, thanks for the link on real/fake book. Though you might have to pump your graphic to high to see the difference

Comentario de Allakhazam

Mirror for the image:

Real vs. Fake

Comentario de Allakhazam

i found a faint X on the binding and not an E

Comentario de Allakhazam

This quest is easy for lvl 55. The pictures below of the books are accurate, I got mine on the first try. I took the left bridge into town, and only had to kill a few MOBS before I got to the building (Coord. below. You don't have to kill any of the MOBS around the fountain. If you stick to the building as close as you can you can get in without aggro'ing them.

Comentario de Allakhazam

it took about 30minutes of constant openin of tomes for the real one to spawn just slkighty pee'd me off

Comentario de Allakhazam

This quest is the biggest load of garbarge ever. I saw some guy post below,
"i had to open 6 (SIX) fake tombs on purpose to make the actual real tomb to spawn... booooooring! :P"

Well boohoo that you had to open 6 cause I so far have spent 3 hours (1 hour on seperate days) trying to get this damn quest finished, and every time I go I open probably around 10 "real" tomes, and no annals of darrowshire. There have even been times where I have cleared out a full room of tomes, then waited for respawns, and not had even ONE SINGLE "real" tome spawn.

If you want my advice on how to do this quest, I suggest this method. If you farm epl or wpl lots this works well, I do lots of epl/wpl farming and such and whenever I run by Andorhal, I check the building for any "real" tomes, open them, then leave and come back later. Thats just my opinion though, perhaps I just have the worst luck ever. At least with this method tho you are wasting a minimal amount of time on this craptacular quest.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I zoomed in all the way and really found no difference in the one which was correct and the previous ones I had opened.
Anyway, after you open a few, you end up with the correct one.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I found that 2 Ghouls always spawned when I had 2 of the dusty motes in my inventory. After I noticed, I kept destroying them. Iunno if that's a legit connection, though.

Edited, Aug 1st 2008 9:29pm by Aydah

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Sorry, folks. Books are still floating as of May 17th. Reported this as broken.

Comentario de Allakhazam

I can confirm the books are there and on the ground (july 17th) They can be found inside the main hall of the Darrowshire Town Hall. When you open the wrong tome 1 of 3 things happens.

1. You get attacked by TWO lvl 52 ghouls with debuffs and slowdown from the book.
2. Same but its just one ghoul.
3. No attack at all (empty book)

I had FIFTEEEN wrong books before I got the annals.

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Soloed as a 54 Warlock. The book's pages are not seperated to grey and white sectors... but all one color. I snuck around the west side and was able to get in without pulling aggro on me. My void pulled aggro... but after they killed him they left and I was alone in the room. You should be able to get in without aggro

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I can't seem to find the place to look for the book... the coords are not working for me (I have titan bar not cosmos) I would appreciate any help.

nevermind i found it

Edited, Wed May 17 14:05:24 2006

Comentario de Allakhazam

43, 70
is where I found the book and both the top and bottom were dark shades compared to other books though I had to zoom in all the way to tell that

First try btw. Thanks everyone for the posts about the shades.

Edited, Aug 3rd 2006 at 11:22pm EDT by CastleAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Comentario de Allakhazam

Yup, looked for a book with no shade difference, FP view and sat down and i could see an X on it. Opened it up, first try. 5 min tops only cuz I had to find the right building. 43, 70

Comentario de Allakhazam

First time..

went for the one with pages all the same color - there were two like that.. but must have been lucky.. :-)

Comentario de Allakhazam

I thought that the trouble in here was getting in, because there were at least 2 groups of 5 undead and if you aggro one, you aggro them all. So what i did was I looked around and saw some members of the scarlet crusade. I arranged a meeting of 5 undead and 4 scarlet crusade people, and presto! I don't have to fight them! All the scarlet crusade people died and left me with a 1/2 health undead, which I easily slaughtered. Anyway, the spawn on these is NOT from a certain book, it is actually random, and it takes awile to get it.

Comentario de Allakhazam

you dont have to kill the spawns, just survive them for 60secs and when the trap debuff fades, they die. as a druid i just pop into bear form and wait it out. although if you get 2 you may need some healing.

Edited, Aug 11th 2007 4:07pm by Sahuagin

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Go To 43,70

Don't look at the pages of the book, just hover over each one until you see the one that says Annals of Darrowshire instead of Musty Tome. Right click and pick it up

I kept looking at the pages of the books thinking it held some secret meaning. I don't know if they changed it or what but the right one will say Annals of Darrowshire on the tooltip.

If it's not there at first you may have to open some musty tomes.

I opened every single one and didn't find it until I went back and it was right there.

Hope this helps

Edited, Jul 11th 2009 11:34am by DarkTussin

Comentario de Allakhazam

The correct book the pages are all white. When I first entered all the books were the same, I looted a couple and killed the spawns, then the one I needed appeared. The pages on the book were all white. All the other books are ruined and half black.

Comentario de Allakhazam

since the new Patch ... no book lies on the floor anymore ...*sigh*

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Jun 2, books are STILL floating high in the air. Impossible to reach.

Comentario de Allakhazam

This is fixed in 1.5 patch, books are in house. co 43,69,

Comentario de Allakhazam

My book was inside on the right before the steps as well. Just to see if others worked I opened about 15 with no luck. Then went to that spot (after doing it the first 2 attempts) and it was right there.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Thanks for rehosting the image! I stealthed in and there were 12 books. Got it on the first one thanks to that.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Yes the books are at 43,70. It is tricky getting in. As I was solo, the only thing I could think of it to do a suicide mission. There are no mobs inside(thank god)

Comentario de Allakhazam

To keep you from making the same mistake I did:

43, 70 is the correct location, but you can be standing in the ruins of a smaller building and get the same coords. The building you're looking for is large and is the model used for town halls.

I did not see an "X" or any other distinguishing marks on the books, even after playing with the gamma. But it's very easy to find the right book, just look at it from the side; the upper and lower half of the pages will both be dark gray, rather than half white, half gray.

Comentario de Allakhazam

This quest is very very hard. When you obtain the quest from Chromie you go to the City Hall which is depictured in every ghost town as either a city hall or a schoolhouse. The City Hall is at 43,70. It is four houses up north east from the inn where Chromie is.

When you eventually walk in after a ghoulish fight, you have six Musty Tomes laying on the ground.

Be warned, you will die opening these books alone. You have to fight two ghouls defending each book you open and it's not easy to take them down. I had my 55 hunter and my pet was stalking the ghouls while I was opening every single book.

I opened three books per death and got it after opening ten books. This quest is as low drop rate as any other kill the mobs and get the item later method.

So unless you have a group expect to die alone one book per death without a guardian.

Edited, Sep 17th 2007 6:50pm by Waylo

Comentario de Allakhazam

go to the clock tower killin mobs on your way in.
the mage Dathric hold the annals, when you kill him it will drop

Comentario de Allakhazam

well i am trying it 7 now makeing sure i opened a differnt one each time .. I die each and every time because im a warrior.

Gotta love how they play favorites and make it so 3 classes can mroe or less solo this. I cant think of any quest that only a warrior can solo. but plenty that rouges/druids hunters and Paladins can.

Comentario de Allakhazam

Wow... read a few of the responses... YES.. the book i slighter than all the rest but some seem equal. In any case, the location is right, just gotta find the right book. Wrong ones spawn bad guys. Throw them away. The pages are not a good indicator btw - black or white not key. Lighter cover is key. Maybe some other brown spot, idk. Bad spawns cast curse.

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Have done this before with at least 2 other characters, prior to 2.3 patch, with no problem at all. But now it seems to take forever to get the right book.

Most annoying things is that you don't even get XP for killing all the decrepit guardians that keep popping up. And no loot off them either. It would be nice to at least get the kill XP, since you can be in there a long time trying to get the right book to drop.

Don't waste bag space on the Ruined Tomes(s), they have no sell price to any vendor.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 9:12am by Goldyyloxx

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I just wanted to add that if you are a rogue you can do this easily. I would open the tombs and stealth immediatly almost before i was finnished opening. Most of the time I got lucky and would go stealth before they spawned. i just stayed stealthed in a corner and waited out the Musty Tomb Trap timer which i think is a full minute, then the guardian would just duisappear and the book would respawn. I finnished in like 20 minutes only having to fight 2 or 3 times. Good Luck Guys
Finnished at 54 rogue

Comentario de Allakhazam

I went into the town hall and didn't see any books that had different color pages. All the books had black and white pages. I opened all of the books and did not get the annals. Had to let the books respawn and then got it on the second book I tried.

Comentario de shadosan

Here's a good tip : if you open a wrong book, there's 1 or 2 guardians that will pop up.
Thing is, they will despawn after a set amount of time. So if you are a priest like me, you can shackle one and kill/survive the other.
Then just wait a while, refreshing the shackles a few times.
Save you mana and headaches.

Comentario de exikutirer

I went throught 15 books and as warry it is hard to survive two of them mobs.

Comentario de nzeigler87

Just when I was about to give up the book spawned. I was getting su frustrated thinking my eyesight was really bad or something because that all looked the same.

Comentario de Eurodancer

The "Real Book" for me was mostly closed, and pages were not visible.

Comentario de Nobleshield

In addition to looking almost imperceptibly different than the fake books, it's also a random spawn. I was helping someone and we checked every book that had spawned, and none of them was the right book. We had to wait for another book to respawn, and then wait some more for the real one.

Comentario de SlivTaMere

It is completely possible that at some point there is no "real" book spawned. By using the fake ones, eventually a real one spawns. It took me 12 fake ones to spawn a real one.

Comentario de BigBadNoodle

The trick with the color is still working in Classic.
However in my case the the whole room was just full with false book, so I needed to loot some of them until right book spawend.

Comentario de silverage

Can confirm the color is different on the real book. Look at the pages on the side, if they are white it is the correct one, if they are half white, half black it is the fake one. I had to open 10 fake ones to make the real spawn.

Comentario de NatPaggleIsaPOS

what a dumb quest. Spend 10minutes opening 5 tomes and don't get xp for killing any of the mobs...better off just grinding mobs or doing dungeons. Most worthless quest ever. I just abandoned it.

Comentario de Aetthus

This is a pretty frustrating quest if the book takes a while to spawn.

Basically, you're looking for a book with pages that are ALL the same shade of gray. You'll notice most (if not all) books in the room are black on top and white on bottom. Clicking these will spawn 1-2 lvl 56 ghouls.

If the book with evenly gray pages isn't there, you'll need to start clicking and looting the others (i.e., useless tome) to force them to respawn. I had to respawn at least 20 of them before I finally got the Annals of Darrowshire to drop.

Comentario de kredes

Insanely annoying quest, fake books everywhere. The vanilla trick checking the color still works, but i looted what feels like 15+ books before a real one spawned. The mobs that spawn from the fake ones has normal HP numbers, and they usually spawn 2 and do not grant XP.

Comentario de Orcthelad

One of these books is not like the other. Get close and observe the books, the pages on the actual book are uniform lines and look the most like actual pages. Since there is only one real book at a time (there is a respawn timer), I'll say the book's pages look the most realistic. Not much polygon bending.

Comentario de Eyecandy

If you don't see the different one, you might have to click a few. I picked up about 12 books before the faded/different one spawned.

Comentario de Xtolyrexes

A little tip for rogues:

If a real book isn't spawning, keep your cursor on your stealth button as you start opening one of the fake books. As soon as the loot window opens, stealth and walk away from the spawns. When the musty tome trap debuff expires, the decrepit guardians despawn. Keep opening false books until a real one spawns.

No muss, no fuss.

Comentario de Chetlet

As already said, the real book isn't two toned and it is obvious when you see it.

However it's important to note that despite posts here saying 'got it first time', it isn't always there ready and waiting.
I had to use four trapped books before this one spawned (no-one else doing the quest).

Comentario de Fier11

as of patch 1.13.7.38631, being able to tell between the fake and correct books seems to be impossible. I'm 99% sure they changed the models so where they look exactly the same. I was able to find the correct book on most of my characters, but I can't now. Also, I swore before these ghouls were elite, but they aren't ><.

Comentario de zeiz

I'm just doing this quest and ALL the books are fake, done it many times before and I know how to spot the real book by looking at it. Is it bugged currently?

Comentario de Woorloord

The book you are looking for is slightly lighter color than the others. Tho it might not be present when you enter the room. Just open the books as long as the right 1 spawns and you are done. For me it was the 9th spawn.

Comentario de Battlescar2112

Another pathetic quest from Blizzard.

After opening ten books I've given up. Each time, two ghouls (lvl 55-56) appear, give me 5 stacks of Debilitating Touch and one other spell that slows movement/attack speed. Then, after killing them and having almost no health left, I have to wait the two minutes for the spell to end.

Dumb quest. It doesn't need to take that long.

Comentario de Tribert

Fun fact: the good book is on its own spawn timer separate from the other ones. So it's entirely possible to open literally every book in the building and not have any be correct.

Comentario de fwcain

As others have mentioned, it is more than possible to do a COMPLETE clear (i.e. all ten spawned books), WITHOUT finding the one you need. I ended up with SIXTEEN Ruined Tomes before finally getting the objective.

Comentario de LoKHor

There are a lot of comments noting how to tell the difference between the fake tomes and the real one. What isn't mentioned here is that the Decrepit Guardians which spawn will despawn after around a minute. If you are a tanky class, just hold out and try to kill one. But they will both disappear after some time.

The correct tome can take a very long time to spawn. I had to clear 20-30 fake ones, which took me well over half an hour—maybe closer to an hour. It doesn't feel worth it unless you really want to do the follow-up.

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