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Quest Name: Strength CM Statistic Boost

Level: 20-60
Class: Any
NPC: Goran the Strong
Location: Halas (C), in long hallway
Reward
By: Shadowphox
(submitted to Singz website)

Meet Goran the Strong in the Hallway of Halas(C) as if you were leaving the city.

Goran will ask you a series of questions testing your self-confidence and integrity. If you fail to answer the series of questions in 4 tries, he will RH you and you will have to come back.

I have saved you the trouble and these are the answers to the multiple choice questions in order as they appear.
1. I bow to no one!
2. ...
3. I am strong enough.
4. I can take anything you throw at me.
5. Cave, Bandit Hill, I got it.

He sends you off to Bandit Hills (E) (travel 1 zone east of Jared's Blight to reach Bandit Hills)
To reach the serpent cave, Follow the road east of Darvor Manor and when you reach the fork in the road, choose the left path (the signpost will tell you that this is the Runnyeye Trail). On your left you will see a lake, stay on the path and travel till you reach the end of the lake. As you near the end of the lake, look to your right and you will see a gloomy looking valley. If you enter that valley you will also see a cross with a flag marked with a skull on it. Keep traveling in that direction.

You will need to come back to this place numerous times. On the right hill is where the Old Man is located, and on the left hill is where Malisarisent the little gnome woman is.

Trial 1- Bulging Muscles
1. Go to the right mountain where the Old Man is located (you do not speak to him in Trial 1 though) and roam around near the eastern part of that mountain. You will get a pop up that will state that you are ready for the first trial of Goran, and 2 'Goran's Beast' will spawn, I believe level 25. Didn't hit for more than 5 on my GwH Ranger, and had a crit in the 200's. 2 of them spawned, medium aggro range on them (I assume based on the 3rd trial), and pretty good amount of Hp. I was only hitting them for 150-170, but weapon/spell procs and abilities hit full. Loot the 2 Beast Tail to turn BOTH in.

Return to Goran the Strong and he advances you to trial 2. Congratulations, Bulging Muscles 1(5cm cost, 10str) is now available for purchase.

Trial 2- Bulging Muscles
2. Again, you will be sent to Bandit Hills (E) to look for the Old Man on the right mountain. Speak with the Old Man and he will spawn 3 of "Goran's Beast". Once again, to a 60 they were green. I assume level 35, because their proc slowly moved up but they still had good defense (hit me for 10, I hit for 110, 300ish crit). Loot the 3 Beast Furs. Return to Goran to advance to trial 3.

Congratulations, Bulging Muscles 2(10cm, 20str) is now available for purchase.

Trial 3- Bulging Muscles
3. Again, you will be sent to Bandit Hills (E) to look for Malisarisent located on the right side of the valley mountain. Speak with her and 4 Light Blue mobs probably level 45. The medium aggro range came from this trial. I was immdeiantly attacked by 2 from behind. 500'ish critical hits, still didn't hit me for no more than 20. Loot the 4 Beast Claws and return to Goran for the final trial.

Congratulations, Bulging Muscles 3(15cm, 30str) is now available for purchase.

Trial 4- Bulging Muscles
4. Again, you will be sent to Bandit Hills(E). This time, it is to kill Goran's Pet. Speak with Lairt'tsal outside of the cave, that will spawn the mob. Then fight you way past Goran's Beasts, and take the right hand fork inside the cave. Goran's pet CONS DB@60. He isn't too bad, isn't as resistant to my melee, but has a 700 or so FR based nuke and does take some time to kill. I was not able to solo him, so I had a 60 Hero by my side to assist. Kill the pet, Loot Eye of the something.

Return to Goran the Strong and he rewards you be unlocking the final mastery of the cm line. Congratulations, Bulging Muscles 4(20cm, 40str) is now available for purchase.

Tips- Any 60 can kill if they have patience. Each mob does take a little bit to kill unfortunately, but you can basically afk till its dead because they don't run. On the last part, you don't need max FR to do it. I know he's soloable, just I couldn't do it at the time. Took me hour and a half to kill. Good Luck and I hope this helps.

Reward:

There are four trials to the Strength Quest. After the successful completion of each trial, a new CM will open: Bulging Muscles 1-4. For the cost of a total of 50 CMs, you can buy 100 points of strength for your character (remember, this CM line does NOT affect Maxes).