Talk:Monouga Laboratory

Right, the quest for the Atlatl came first, in Evolution, followed by this quest the next month. We can easily split it up into two separate quests. --Widgeon 18:54, 19 July 2008 (CDT)

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I think this should be divided up, at least into two quests. One quest for the eyeslayers (Monouga Feeding Pits) and one for the logs (Monouga Laboratory). They are really two different things. The feeding pits/eyeslayer was added a patch or two before the logs, and its not necessary to spawn the monouga/get the ribs to complete the log quest. --An Adventurer 18:23, 19 July 2008 (CDT)

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Heh, it's pretty crazy. When I looked at this quest I decided to start with the lowest level one, since it should have been easiest. Oops. Thick spawns on a fast respawn timer. I ended up sending my mage (level 230) down there and using fire rings to clear the area. I even killed the big monouga down there once. I'm just glad the other two aren't as bad, although I bet they could still be challenging if you tried to kill everything. --Widgeon 13:50, 18 July 2008 (CDT)

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Whoever balanced the 80+ dungeon was on crack. That place is insane. --Tlosk 10:18, 18 July 2008 (CDT)

140+

Ok, the first left for 140. Got that. Why don't the level ranges on this entry match. 140 for first left, but 150+ for quest?

Tried to do the 140+ with 3 mages one UA'd. Mage 200,200,180 and UA 178. No maps once you hit the red dungeon part, so it's very easy to lose your orientation. Insane kill times on the mobs, if you pause 30 seconds after clearing a hallway hub, you WILL be covered in respawn you just cleared. On Solclaim it's nothing but bodies in the first 50 feet, people who obviously got the same misdirection from the wiki that I did. This is not possible to do without 3 years of augmentations, 275's or a full group, or some combination. It's ridiculous.

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Learning From Experience XP Update

• Earned 123,436,993 @ level 122 with 6% trinket when doing the 120+ quest:

You give Corporal Liao Chen Olthoi Experiment Log.

The guard skims the book, then looks at you with a blank expression.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "This doesn't bode well for the future. Not well at all."

You've earned 123,436,993 experience.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "I'd better get this to the royals post-haste. They'll want to see this."

You are now level 123!

--Ash (Arkalor) 21:00, 26 September 2011 (EST)

My Experience at lvl 134-135 melee (12th March 2012)

• RUN 1: Tried solo running the +80 part. Failed once and died after finding many mobs (Virindi and Shadows/Shades) in the tunnel blocking the way past.
• RUN 2: Tried a second run solo but this time to take out mobs as i go. I got almost to my corpse and had to port out due to many mobs respawning behind aswell as the mobs infront i yet had to face.
• RUN 3: Gained help from a level ~230 (mage) alliance friend. He had to stop and aoe nuke many times enroute and found his HP drop below 50% on a few occassions. Eventually got to my corpse and finished the quest. 63 million xp (on 50% bonus xp weekend). Wasnt worth it! :(

Side Note: There was at least a dozen player corpses down there. So i changed the wikii to warn people of the risk of trying to run this solo if under level 200.

--Fortunis 10:25, 13 March (GMT)

exp info (2017)

On a level 255 character, all repeat turn ins:

You give Corporal Liao Chen Tusker Experiment Orb.

You've earned 41,346,375 experience.

You give Corporal Liao Chen Olthoi Experiment Log.

You've earned 68,500,000 experience.

You give Corporal Liao Chen Monouga Experiment Log.

You've earned 255,835,970 experience. (10%)

--An Adventurer (talk) 17:56, January 30, 2017 (UTC)

Sorting Experience Rewards

The experience rewards for this quest are a bit of a mess, I am going to try to sort them out. --An Adventurer (talk) 13:59, September 20, 2017 (UTC)

Intelligent Designs Rewards

The oldest edit states the following:

• First time: 30%
• Repeat: 15%
• Cap: unknown
• 80+/Tusker:

  20,673,188 at unknown level

• 120+/Olthoi:

  48,724,715 at level 244

• 150+/Monouga:

  645,854,124 at level 244

From Maggie's patch page:

You give Corporal Liao Chen Olthoi Experiment Log.

The guard skims the book, then looks at you with a blank expression.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "This doesn't bode well for the future. Not well at all."

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "I'd better get this to the royals post-haste. They'll want to see this."

You've earned 97,449,430 experience.

From the ACvault patch page:

80+ Reward Unknown % of level

You give Corporal Liao Chen Tusker Experiment Orb.

The guard nods at the journal.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "While I've seen a similar notebook before, I'm sure the researchers will appreciate any new information they might glean from this. Thank you."

You've earned 20,673,188 experience.

120+ Reward Unknown % of level

You give Corporal Liao Chen Olthoi Experiment Log.

The guard nods at the journal.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "While I've seen a similar notebook before, I'm sure the researchers will appreciate any new information they might glean from this. Thank you."

You've earned 48,724,715 experience.

150+ Reward 33% of level

You give Corporal Liao Chen Monouga Experiment Log.

The guard skims the book, then looks at you with a blank expression.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "This doesn't bode well for the future. Not well at all."

You've earned 1,017,135,420 experience.

Corporal Liao Chen tells you, "I'd better get this to the royals post-haste. They'll want to see this."

The Update History section from the article states the following:

• XP reward for Olthoi Experiment Log increased from 48,724,715 (15% up to level 150) to ??.
• XP reward for Monouga Experiment Log increased from 1,017,135,420 (30% up to level 256) to to 1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256).
• Repeat XP reward for Monouga Experiment Log increased from 508,567,710 (15% up to level 275) to 1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256).

It makes no mention of the Tusker rewards, or the Olthoi repeat rewards changing. Also, it is incorrect - 30% up to level 256 is 779,361,051.

Base on all this information, it appears that the original rewards were:

• 80+/Tusker first time:

  41,346,375 (30% up to level 120) assumed based on 30%/15%

• 80+/Tusker repeat:

  20,673,187 (15% up to level 120) verified reward

• 120+/Olthoi first time:

  97,449,429 (30% up to level 150) verified reward

• 120+/Olthoi repeat:

  48,724,714 (15% up to level 150) verified reward

• 150+/Monouga first time:

  1,017,135,420 (30% up to level 274) verified reward

• 150+/Monouga repeat:

  508,567,710 (15% up to level 274) assumed based on 30%/15%

Learning From Experience Rewards

The first edit after this patch states:

Experience was boosted from 30 to 40% of level in Learning From Experience patch. No change to cap so maximum experience is reached at earlier level. Repeat runs also given boost from 15% to 40%.

And it lists the following rewards:

• 150+/Monuga first time:

  1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256)

• 150+/Monuga first time:

  1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256)

From Arkalor's contribution to this talk page on 09/26/2011:

• 120+/Olthoi:

  123,436,993 at level 122 with 6% trinket (first time reward based on dialog)

Revision as of 02:04, September 29, 2012:

• 120+/Olthoi repeat:

  116,450,000* - states this is 30% up to 150, and repeats are fixed (?)

  (*)This was found with chars 120+. There appears to be a cutoff somewhere. Liao Chan would not give give the gems directly to a lvl 67 char, but when the lvl 67 ran the quest the reward was ~85% next lvl xp.

Revision as of 09:57, April 12, 2014: (this was a cleanup done by a bot account)

• 120+/Olthoi repeat:

  116,450,000* - states this is 30% up to 150

Revision as of 14:17, January 21, 2015: (this was a cleanup done by a bot account)

• 80+/Tusker first time:

  41,346,376 (30% up to level 120)

• 80+/Tusker repeat:

  20,673,188 (15% up to level 120)

• 120+/Olthoi first time:

  97,449,430 (30% up to level 150)

• 120+/Olthoi repeat:

  116,450,000 (unknown)

• 150+/Monouga first time:

  1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256)

• 150+/Monouga repeat:

  1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256)

From Latest revision as of 01:09, 24 July 2014 on acpedia.org: Give Olthoi Experiment Log to Corporal Liao Chen:

First run:

97,449,430xp

30% up to level 150

Repeats:

116,450,000(*)xp

Fixed XP

(*) As of 7/2014 experience seems to be less. At level 176 the Olthoi Experiment Log turn-in rewarded only 68.5 million xp, less than 12% of level.

From An Adventurer's contribution to this talk page on 01/30/2017:

• 80+/Tusker:

  41,346,375 at level 255 (repeat)

• 120+/Olthoi:

  68,500,000 at level 255 (repeat)

• 150+/Monouga:

  255,835,970 at level 255 (repeat)

Base on all this information, it appears that the original rewards were:

• 80+/Tusker first time:

  Unknown

• 80+/Tusker repeat:

  41,346,375 (30% up to level 120)

• 120+/Olthoi first time:

  116,450,000 (percent/cap unknown)

• 120+/Olthoi repeat:

  68,500,000 (percent/cap unknown)

• 150+/Monouga first time:

  1,017,135,420 (40% up to level 256)

• 150+/Monouga repeat:

  259,787,017 (10% up to level 256) percentage confirmed, max xp and level cap assumed based on first time reward.