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Scarab Wing Vest

Used by those of a non-pious nature who prefer armor made primarily of leather
Classes that can use:  INF, SCOU, BARD, BM, NS, RANG, VAMP, BER, HUNT, SAV, SB, MAUL
Artifact XP: Anywhere
Type: Chestpiece, Unactivated screen shot
Comments on Solo, Grouped, or Battlegrouped: 

Artifact Level Abilities Gained
 Comments/Pictures
Stealther and Light Tank version
 Archer version Bard version
0
 Dexterity +15 Dexterity +15 Charisma +15
 Stealther
1
 Crush 6% Crush 6% Crush 6%
2
 Slash 6% Slash 6% Slash 6%
3
 Thrust 6% Thrust 6% Thrust 6%
4
 resistance enhancement
 resistance enhancement resistance enhancement
7
 Bonus to style damage  4%
 Bonus to archery range  4% Bonus to spell range 4%
9
 Bonus to melee damage  4%
 Bonus to archery damage  4% Bonus to magic damage 4%
10
 Illusion
 Illusion Illusion
 Bard stats
Level 10 Ability
Level 10 Ability - receiving end
Dueling Scarabs

resistance enhancement:  Enhances the target's resistance to the listed damage type.
    Resist crush/slash/thrust:  3
    Target:  Self
    Duration:  Permanent
    Casting time:  instant
    This spell is active when the item is worn

Illusion:  Target has been shapechanged.
    Target:  Targetted
    Range:  350
    Duration:  30 sec
    Casting time: instant
    Damage:  Body  
    Also casts:  speed decrease Value:  35%
    nearsight Value:  50%
    Spell has a chance of casting when this armor is hit by an enemy.

Golden Scarab Vest - All versions of the vest that have archery range and archery damage bonuses had each of those bonuses reduced by 1%. The crush and thrust resist bonuses were each increased by 1%. Each version of the vest that had the style damage and melee damage bonuses had each of those bonuses reduced by 1%. The crush and slash resistance bonuses were each increased by 1%.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)
These patch notes were inaccurate.  How it really turned out was that the version of the vest that has style dmg and melee dmg bonuses (the stealther version) had the bonuses reduced by 1%, and the slash and thrust resists were increased by 1%.   Feb 22
- Cpek

The crush resist on the Golden Scarab Vest has been increased to 6%.  (1.69 patch, Apr 14 2004)
More pictures (no stats):
Celt in the Vest
Savage in the Vest 
Norseman Shadowblade in the Vest
Infiltrator in the Vest 
Inconnu Infiltrator in the Vest
Elf Nightshade in the Vest
Troll Berserker in Vest

Credits: Dakes, Dyrk, Rasputiin, Schmaga, Khabalseed, east_villager, Aldwin, Yrodable, ryse, Horfest, Flamminred, Sneekypeeps, Thethird, Biftekis, Thallias

About the Level 10 Ability:
It wasn't MY vest that procced, I got procced ON lol.
Here's the message you see: "Your body is compressed and distorted into the form of a scarab. Your new scarab wings and legs are harder to work than they look, keeping you from moving rapidly. Your new scarab eyes are also a problem, making seeing difficult."
Nearsight didn't mean anything to me, I was in close melee at the time.   Jan 8
- Restless

 Actually, it is only a snare and nearsight. There is no attack speed reduction.  Jan 8
- Styl

This is probably the best thing ever for my Blademaster.
If enemy tanks are attacking me... I'm not going to turn and fight them, I want to keep attacking my targets. If the reactive goes off and snares them, then I can continue doing my job.
This proc is fantastic.   Jan 8
- HarmonicDiscord

Leveling the Artifact:


Strategy:

Players must now be level 46 to speak to Tey and create the Magical Scarab-wing Gloves.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Note:  The stealth trick no longer works.  You have to have neutral or better faction with the Mau now before you can turn the scarab wings into Tey.  Dec 16 2003
- Rasputiin

1) get good mau faction.  You can do this by either killing setians or by doing the Sekhmet quests and the Bastet quests.  Some have said it's faster to just kill setians, one guy said his faction went neutral to mau after getting 3 bubs of xp at lvl 45 off of setians. 

On my Shadowblade I had to do:  Bastet 2 times, Sekhmet 5 times
On my Hunter I had to do:  Bastet 5 times, Sekhmet 8 times    Feb 3 
- Streetwalker

2) go into the main mau town (west of the haven) at loc 10.6k, 50.5k Stygia Delta.   Find a purp mau named Tey, Tey will tell you to go get 50 Magic Scarab Wings    - Ops

3) Go nw untill you find a bunch of rocks / trees with ALOT of blue con blazing scarabs.   55k, 45k Land of Atum  (loc from Bloodreign)

4) now the extemely boring part, you must now camp that spot ... every time a scarab pops it has a seemingly 1/50-100 chance of being a prism scarab which will 100% drop A magic scarab wing.

5) once you have 50 magic scarab wings go back to Tey and hand them in .. 1 by 1 ... she will give you af1 no stat 0qual gloves ... equip them walk over to the cursed scarab vest and pick it up.  The vest is near the Large tent  directly across from Tey's tent  laying on the ground to the left.... can't miss it.   - Gelthanis

6) ur done ...

One guy could not find the vest right away.  He logged back in the next day and the vest was at Stygia Delta 9718, 51713.  Feb 3    - Streetwalker

Tips:

About farming the Scarab Wings - it seems to go faster the more people you have. With 4-5 people, I got all needed wings in 4 hours.  Apr 26 2004
- Orima

The spawn rates for the prism scarabs at 55k, 45k (Land of Atum) wasn't too bad. It is the same camp where you find the scarabs Sabah and Yafeu for one version of the Mau of Bastet quest. It took me about 7 hours to obtain the 50 Magical Scarab Wings.  4 hours solo (with cleric bot) the other 3 hrs
with a necro.  The spawn rate decreases significantly during the night.
The prism scarabs are casters and have a dd aoe, stun and root. The appropriate resists on armor or cleric buffs help reduce the impact of these signficantly.
The scarabs are vulnerable to crush arrows.
The nomadic band of Mau will occasionally walk through and/or around the scarab camp, so be sure everyone in your group has good Mau faction, including bots.
Mesedsubastet (Healing Embrace Cloak artifact) also wanders there. Killing it or any other sacred lion is very likely to damage your Mau faction, so don't be tempted...      Dec 22
- Alvargi

I'm not quite certain on the time, but respawn seems to be between 18-24 hours.  Apr 26 2004
- Orima

I managed to get the mau 'friendly' con to me by doing the Sekmet and Bastet quests once. I then killed about 100 Setians or more, including the occasional Sandscryer, Sandstrutter and Scouts.   Dec 9

I don't have a loc of where the chestpiece is located, but I can say where it is.
There are 4 larger tents in the settlement facing N/S/W/E. It is found NW of the east tent (the tent across from Tey's tent). When I say NW, I mean it's one or two steps NW from the NW corner of the east tent, just laying there on the ground. You can't miss it, honestly.
Sucks about the spawntime      Nov 12
- Magosian

I didn't see a secret to getting the 50 wings. Sometimes they repop right away and sometimes they don't pop for an hour.
The fastest way I found to get them was just kill every bug you can find if one isn't up, preferable in a group of 2 or more. Why a group? A lot of times you would get an add that happens to be the prism-scarab. That prism-scarab was behind a rock, on a rock or high above so it was always a nice surprise and who knows how long it would have taken me to see it.     Nov 11
- Styl

Scroll pieces:  Bence's Letters

Bence's Letter, 1 of 3 was dropping from rare and difficult to reach mobs. The scroll has been added to setian sandscryers, setian tremorlings, and setian sandstrutters that are more accessible and common.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Piece 1 of 3
setian sandscryers, setian sandstrutters, setian tremorlings
Piece 2 of 3
setian sandstrutters, setian tremorlings
Piece 3 of 3
setian sandscryers



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