EverQuesting: An EverQuest II Heritage Quest guide

Now that you know the tips and tricks for running EverQuest II Heritage Quests in an efficient manner, it’s just a matter of choosing which ones to actually run! Do you want to complete them all in order, or do you just want to pick and choose depending on the reward? Maybe you just want to see if there is one for the zone you are currently in. Regardless of how you want to go about it, you still have to know where the HQs are before you can start them. And the best way to do that is with a snazzy guide! Oh sure, you could just wander Norrath and try to find them all, but with so many quests scattered about the landscape, you are sure to miss a few. Besides, this method doesn’t quite fit in with the whole “efficient” angle. So here’s a list to make acquiring — and working on — the Heritage Quests a smoother endeavor.

Like the previous leveling and dungeon guides, this one won’t be broken down and listed simply by level. Instead, certain quests that share steps will be grouped together in order to increase your efficiency. Trust me, unless you really love Nektropos Castle (and most folks don’t), you’ll want to know all of the HQs that need you to enter so you aren’t going back again and again and again. And again!

Additionally, this guide also won’t offer spoilers or spell out each individual step, both in deference to those who want to figure things out on their own and in the interest of brevity (such that we can have it). Because there is no small number of Heritage Quests, and each one has a slew of steps, we will only list enough information to help direct you where to go/what you need to begin the adventures. However, if you need any pointers or hints, you’ll find a complete breakdown, each HQ is linked to its EQ2i wikia page. And don’t forget to check out any prerequisites before you start!

In the beginning

HQs begin fairly early on, at level 19. But that’s quest level, not character level. The quest level does not mean that is the minimum player level needed to begin it; instead, most can be started a few levels before.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starting NPC	Reward
In Honor and Service	19		Kelethin	Captain R.K. Irontoe (136, 112, 98)	Dwarven Ringmail Runic
The Return of the Light	20		Commonlands	Burned Out Lightstone (Lightbringer Wisp drop) (roams) (702, -60, -138)	Greater Lightstone
These Boots Were Made For…	25		Antonica	Hwal Rucksif (-559, -12, -316)	Dwarven Work Boots
Dragoon K’Naae of the Thexians	30		Nektulos Forest	Dragoon K’naae (-1373, 30, -1336)	Shiny Brass Halberd

Cove of Decay/Ruins of Varsoon

These could be called the Thundering Steppes HQ. Two need you to enter the Cove of Decay, and three need you to enter Ruins of Varsoon. For Hadden’s Earring you also have to head into Nektropos Castle, so it is included on both lists. Note: Some quests start by examining drops, so the when possible, the mob that drops the item is listed as the starting NPC.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starting NPC	Reward
An Axe from the Past	30	Y	Thundering Steppes	cracked stone hand ax (quest reward)	Polished Granite Tomahawk
A Strange Black Rock	30		Antonica	Scholar Al’Quylar (-1039, 14, -665)	Glowing Black Stone
Hadden’s Earring	30		Thundering Steppes	Kerath McMarrin (-467, -18, -447)	Fishbone Earring
Stiletto’s Orders Intercepted	35		Thundering Steppes	Stilleto’s Orders (Stiletto drop) (various spawn points)	Manastone

Nektropos Castle

This is the trip few want to do twice. However, unless you have someone in your party who has already completed The Everling Lockets quest to gain access to the basement, you will have to return a second time in order to kill enough dolls to advance the A Missing Mask quest, which is started in the basement and completed within the castle. You will need to plan carefully.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starting NPC	Reward
Hadden’s Earring	30		Thundering Steppes	Kerath McMarrin (-467, -18, -447)	Fishbone Earring
A Missing Mask	35	Y	Nektropos Castle	castle basement clicky (-15, -13, -32)	Guise of the Deceiver
War and Wardrobe	35		Butcherblock Mountains	Ancient Koada’Dal Brooch (Aqua Goblin Oracle drop) (785, 51, 222)	Robe of the Oracle
Restoring Ghoulbane	36	Y	Qeynos Capitol District	Toranim Skyblade NQ (535, -31, -174)	Ghoulbane

Antonican life

If you are good aligned, you might as well also pick up The Stein of Moggok: It Can Be Rebuilt when sneaking into Freeport to save yourself one trip (you will have to return a few times during the quest).

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starting NPC	Reward
The Reaching Blade of the Assassin	40		Enchanted Lands	Leelav Yekl  (220, 0, -53)	Serrated Bone Dirk
The Teachings of Yoru	45	Y	Antonica	Yoru the Old (-1814, -38, -519)	Flowing Black Silk Sash
*The Stein of Moggok: It Can Be Rebuilt	40		Freeport	Rumdum EF (-236, -55, 12)	Stein of Maggok

Deathfist Citadel

Although it doesn’t seem to inspire the dread that Nektropos Castle does, Deathfist Citadel is a pretty long endeavor that you may not want to have to repeat multiple times just to kill Emperor Fyst; there is no quick run to the boss since you can only spawn him by killing all of the mini bosses throughout the dungeon.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starting NPC	Reward
The Rescue of the Green Hoods	40	Y	Zek	Sashra Thaltalis (342, -20, -464)	Short Sword of the Ykesha
Training is a Shield	40		Zek	Grozmag the Trainer (420, 10, -149)	Shiny Brass Shield

Lavastorming

Each of these have kill or gathering components in the zone, so it can definitely save time to complete all of those steps together.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
The Lost Legend of Lavastorm	45	Y	Lavastorm	Fendaris K’Lorn (-126, -115, 628)	Crown of King Tranix
Saving Soles	50	Y	Lavastorm	Charly Ashlash (roams)(-323, -130, 355)	Golden Efreeti Boots
A Thread of Hope	55	Y	The Deep Forge	gather shiny (-10, 1, 32)	Flowing Black Cloak/Robes

Midlife levels, mid-level life

There is another quest and an extra step tied to The Bone Bladed Claymore that will reward you an electrified bone bladed claymore. You’ll need to finish Berik’s Revenge in Stormhold to obtain that reward.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
Foomby’s Stolen Goods	40		Enchanted Lands	Foomby Slopdigger (-685, 0, -638)	Bag of Sewn Evil Eye
An Eye for Power	45		Everfrost	Master T’Lys (38, -16, 107)	Tobrin’s Mystical Eyepatch
By Hook or by…	45		Rivervale	Rukir Pineleaf (-806, -6, -276)	Hierophant’s Crook
The Bone Bladed Claymore	45	Y	Stormhold	grab the glowing sword at the top of the spiral stairs (-150, 6, -96)	Bone Bladed Claymore
The Wondrous Inventions of a Crazed Gnome	65	Y	Bonemire	Gimdimble Fizzwoddle (“an ambushed gnome”)(110, 70, 580)	Bag of the Tinkerers
The Symbol in the Flesh	68		Loping Plains	Glyph Tattooed Flesh (a glyphed ghoul drop) (-104, 49, 150)	Crested Mistmoore Shield

Chain events

These Heritage Quests are all chained together in a single timeline, so you will need to complete them in order. Note: While The Journey is Half the Fun is a level 50 quest, players can pick it up as early as level 15 in order to run races in the lower zones. However, you’ll need to be at least 30 to complete the route in Feerott.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
The Journey is Half the Fun	50		Antonica	Cru Naseto (147, -22, -13)	Legendary Journeyman’s Boots
The Screaming Mace	50	Y	Feerrott	Ill-Fated Cleric Journal (Agony drop) (-1860, -22, 639)	Screaming Mace
The Staff of the Observers	50	Y	Steamfont Mountains	old telescopic lens (kobold drop)	Staff of the Observers
An Ancient Desert Power	55	Y	The Pillars of Flame	an ancient desert parchment (drop)	Scepter of Rahotep
Casualties of the War of the Fay	60	Y	Kelethin	Master Bowyer Mossberge ( 460, 97, 360 )	Rain Caller

Kingdom of Sky is the limit

Although Blood of the Brood and A Mark of Awakening are signature quests and not HQs, it would be advantageous to complete them alongside the two HQs as you’ll be traveling to the same instances.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
Draco Mortuus vos Liberatio	70	Y	Tenebrous Tangle	Sinephobis (-104, 265, 871)	Bone-Clasped Girdle
A Thorn of Old	70		Barren Sky	Fuzzmin the Lost (-581, 51, -424)	The Wurmslayer

The end of levels

If you thought leveling up to the top would give you a break from Heritage quests, you’d be mistaken. There are plenty to occuppy your time in those last few levels.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
The White Dragonscale Cloak	84		Miragul’s Phylactery: Scion of Ice	Sailing with Three Sheets to the Wind(-213, 14, 109)	White Dragonscale Cloak
The Book of Thex	85		Befallen: Cavern of the Afflicted	A Curious Tome (Fallen Scholar Edgars drop) (68, -0, -55)	Thex Mallet
Justice for JoJo	85		The Sundered Frontier	a mysterious scrap of leather (1321, -42, 2469)	Mystical Claws of Jojo
Digging in the Dirt	88		The Stonebrunt Highlands	Kalaish Al’Rabin (236, 412, 1182)	Grimblade
My Dear, Deloris…	90		Demitrik’s Bastion	corpse of Taglfitz Von Gearbender (-379, -23, 318)	Shiny Robe of the Underfoot
The Essence of a Prophet	90		The Great Divide	Osh (-1633, -535, -2428)	Lodizal Shell Shield
The Legend of Froststone	90	Y	The Great Divide	Grand Historian Elred Wintershade (1065, -457, 502)	Snowchipper
Tangled Roots of Growth	93		Eastern Wastes	Bilvee Hummingwing (-1234, -537, 3197)	Blessed Scimitar of the Emerald Dawn
A Source of Malediction	94		The Stonebrunt Highlands	Nabih Qusafi (475, 244, -57)	Paw of Opolla
Waters of Norrath	100		Siren’s Grotto: Alluring Embrace	Click water (74, 4, 24)	Cloak of Crystalline Waters

Timeline series

At this point, Heritage Quests started taking on the traits of signature quests. In the case of these series, there are some where multiple quests within the series count individually as Heritage Quests. In other cases, only the final quest in the series is an actual HQ.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
Cloak of Flames Timeline	70		Echoes of Faydwer	An Old Memoir (collection quest)	Cloak of Flames
Trail to the Past	80		Moors of Ykesha	Gabblin Bittlegrip (1656, 453, 877)	Shiny Metallic Robe
The Name of Fear	80		Emperor Atrebe’s Laboratory: The Fabled City of Kor-sha	harvest a statue (-115, -60, -134)	Greenmist
Dark Mail Gauntlets Timeline	85		The Ruins of Guk: Halls of the Fallen	a Mysterious Symbol (on hanging skeleton) (99, -37, -190)	Dark Mail Gauntlets
The Bow of Underfoot Timeline	90	Y	The Sundered Frontier	Ritsy (832, -284, 3240)	The Bow of Underfoot
Coldain Insignia Ring Timeline	90		The Great Divide	examine an ice-encased corpse on the Ring War Battlefield	Velium Coldain Insignia Ring
Beauty’s Only Skin Deep Timeline	90		Tower of Frozen Shadow: Shadowed Corridors	book (-85, 75, -100)	Embalmer’s Skinning Knife
Hero Bracers Timeline	103		Steamfont Mountains	click/read book (-1093, 160, 1640)	Hero Bracers
Zlandicar Timeline	104		Thurgadin, City of the Coldain	Loremaster Dorondal  (474, -210, 275)	Class specific heroic or epic item
High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion Timeline	103		High Keep: The Bloodless Incursion (Contested)	click on zone items	Choice of a bloody weapon

Crafting!

Believe it or not, there is one single crafting Heritage Quest in EQII. You must be crafting level 90 or higher in order to take this quest.

Heritage Quest	Level	Prereq	Zone	Starter NPC	Reward
What Dreams May Come [14]	90	Y	Great Divide	Tora (inside the Vision of the Past)	Blessed Coldain Prayer Shawl