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1.	Report to Anastasia
2.	Investigate the Alchemist Shop
3.	Gathering Materials

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Commento di halldorr

When you get this quest be sure to grab a chest of containment coffers and a Cantation of Manifestation from right next to the quest giver.

Go to the apothecary district and look for the expert alchemist and alchemy supplier and use the scroll to see the elementals. It can spawn 2-4 of these elementals so try to kite one away but be sure to bring it back to where they spawn in order to contain the stunned elemental.

Fight an elemental until it stops attacking, right click the box to capture it, open the box to collect the coffer.

Died the first time since four spawned on me and I got dazed twice/ if you're doing it slo I suggest kiting the one away.

Commento di 6064

Just use the scroll on the stairs. You will only get one at the time coming up...
Pretty easy

Commento di danyjr

How to solo:

Stay on the steps (top of the steps is fine) and right click on the scroll. One ghost will spawn closer to you than the others. Do your frost nova so you ONLY get one in the trap. Then run, the other 3 will follow you a very short way, then they will disappear.

As soon as they disappear, the 4th one (the one you trapped) will be after you. Kite it back to the store, and kill it there (easiest way is frost nova again inside the area, then blast it). Capture it in the containment coffer (by right clicking on the box in your stash), it will suck the spirit into the coffer, and you right click once more on the coffer on the floor.

Repeat twice more. Pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

Just make sure you only trap one.

Commento di 17460

frost novad them when they spawned then blizzard and arcane explosion to finish it off hadto drink 1 lesser healing potion np

Commento di 32233

I have a trial cd-key. So I can't buy healing potion. But through that I completed this quest. The best solution wrote danyjr 3 months ago :-)

But be careful, don't go after the door-step (see screenshot where is the "Filled containment" <- I'm talking about that) OR the Rift Shadow will disappear OR you won't be able to create a containment coffer).

Commento di 11253

Very easy when done correctly.
Stand at about 56,68 at the top of the stairs, and use the scroll. 4 elementals will immediately come running towards you, fire blast one and move back across the bridge, by then the others would have gone. Then bring the elemental back to your original location, and use the container when he stops attacking.
Repeat to complete quest :)

Commento di Thottbot

It's pretty easy

1. Go to the apothecary district and look for the export alchemist and alchemy supplier.
2. Use use the scroll to see the elementals.
3. Fight an elemental until it stops attacking.
4. Right click the box to capture it.
5. Open the box to collect the coffer.

Careful... they help each other.

Commento di Thottbot

If you are on this step here's how to do it.

1. Talk to "Anastasia Hartwell" 2nd floor magic quarter left side.
2. Look behind her and collect the two items. (Chest of containment coffers, and cantation of manifestation)
3. Head to apothecarium coordinate 51,74
4. Use the "contation of manifestation" by the alchemists
5. 3 ghosts will appear
6. Nuke and kill the ghosts to under 10% and then use "Chest of containtment coffers"
7. Wait for it to become CLICKABLE
8. capture the Coffers
9. hand in quest

Commento di Thottbot

After spending 10+ silver on just repairing my armor from dying so much here, I finally figured it out.

The key is EVASION of the critters, not over powering them. If you stand anywhere in close proximity, they murder you. It turns out you can "reveal" them from quite far away.

The key is using something (I used the stair ending forming a "T" coming from across the canals) as a "trap" to get only one on you. Stand on the steps and RC the scroll.. When they spawn and come after you in close proximity, run across the other side and into the room.. For me only one followed each time. You MAY have to experiment.

The exact way you do this will depend on where the critters are found.. they apparently can appear in several places in the apothecarium depending on how the spawn is for your particular instance. Non-the-less, find a convolution you can use as the trap for you if its not in the main room.

Then using whichever spells and freezes you like, finish it off. They were always lvl 17 for me but it apparently can vary a bit. They don't exactly die, they just sort of sit there (watch the life bar). When it is finished and stationary and with the critter still targeted, right-click the crate-looking "ehest" and a "time lapse" bar moves left-to-right and a little hexagon box appears where the critter "melts" into the container. Then an "open container" appears upper left with a red-tinted box in it. Click it to put it into your backpack.

Do this until you get three and return to the Magic Quarter. Even after you have all three, you can still make more appear as you wish with the "scroll"

Good luck. Hope you're not such a slow learner as I was.. :)

Commento di Thottbot

I read some of tips here and picked up a little of each --- all in the name of saving my life and armor!

I picked this quest up w/ my lvl 18 BE mage alt in Org (for some reason it wasnt available when I hit 16), went to the UC died and then came here.

I used arcane explosion to get them to appear and only 1 appeared at a time, when i used the scroll all 4 appeared and i was dead. I didnt have to run away to the stairs or anything. Just arcane explosion, frost nova (for a little distance) fireball, arcane explosion 1 or 2 more times and capture that bad boy!

Good luck!
Ganebi lvl 18 BE mage on Staghelm

Commento di Thottbot

Ok...so dont listen to all the of the other messages saying that they wont attack until you attack them...because they do no matter how far away you are...

1. Stand near the bridge right infront of the Alchemy shop and activate the encantion.

2. run on the bridge and only attack one of the things with your wand, fireball, blast but no AOE attacks...this is will cause the one to stay around and the others will dissapear.

3. Once the others are gone continue to attack the one that is left until you see that he is stunned...at that point activate the box and capture him. once you see a small silver container on the ground open it and grab the item

4. Then just do this two more times and you will be fine

Do Not hope to kill all of them at once because it cannot be done UNLESS you have someone helping you...which you really dont

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Commento di Allakhazam

The entire Ghostbuster scene made this a fun quest for me.

Not very difficult, just make sure you start it upstairs.

Commento di Allakhazam

I just did this with my level 15 Undead Mage alt with no problems... the elementals that spawn are level 17s and were no problem with Fireball (Rank 3) spam. This whole thing is an obvious rip off of the Ghost Busters movies, good show!

Commento di Allakhazam

I have been searching for these rift spawns and i can't find any with the scroll i'm near the alchemist trainer.

Commento di Allakhazam

I like teh stairs tactic really much. Just to piss horde off, the alliance version of this is so much easier... it's inside an inn, u use the scroll at the door and none of them aggroes and you can just pull them 1 by 1, that's why i got wtfpwned the first time I tryed it with my UD mage. Altough I almost (about 5% life) killed 3 of them at the same time at lvl 16... Frost nova and arcane explosion rank 1 lol had to use a lesser healing lol (I'm alchemist)

Commento di Allakhazam

i'll confirm it worked.

Commento di Allakhazam

I tried this quest last night (4/3) and it is still not working...even when using Frost Nova for the final hit. 8-( I have reported the bug so I guess we'll see what comes of it.

Commento di Allakhazam

Wow, this quest sure is frustrating, I'm even getting the message that the spawn rift was sucked into the contaiment thingy, but the quest is not counting and I can't loot it. I get the gear and wait until the last possible second before the box closes, but still get nada!

I wonder what the red and green jewels are for ...

Have done this at least 4 times now, what is the point?

~Zeerieshi

Commento di Allakhazam

This is how I (brandspanking new lvl 16 Mage) ended up doing it (yes, I died twice before I worked out this strategy :).

I stood on the middle of the bridge (the right edge, really) facing the Alchemy shop. With both coffer and scroll in the right sidebar I clicked on the scroll and 4 rifts spawned in the shop.
I selected the Rift that was a bit ahead of the others and fireballed it as soon as I could. At this time it was right in front of me while the other 3 Rifts had given up and disappeared by then.
So next I simply used Frost Nova, Fireball, all the usual things (I even spat on it, don't think it helped much lol). As soon as its health was gone I right-clicked on the coffer, the Rift got sucked into it, and next I right-clicked on the disc that appeared where the Rift had been umm... rifting. Another click in the little window that pops up and Bob's your uncle (unless he ain't got balls then he's your auntie).
Rinse & Repeat.
Take it from me, it is easy once you get the idea of how to do it; no kiting... no strafing... no problem :)!

Commento di Allakhazam

I don`t have the @#%^ing scroll! But the damn quest is on my list....

Edited, Jan 30th 2007 5:56pm by Sydnee

Commento di Allakhazam

This quest is the most messed up quest ever.

i had to "refill" my box 4 times and i got lucky 2 and got 2 of them but cant get the last one. I spent an 1hr on it and only ever got 2.

Adarrak lvl 16 UD Mage

Long live the horde!
and eat gnomes

Commento di Allakhazam

Guys I dont get it ,i should hunt down some ghost in the shop?
i tryed to,activated the scroll but still
can anyone tell what should i do?in details pls

Commento di Allakhazam

Like said, if you simply stand on the stair case just south of the shop area, your almost guaranteed to not even get hurt, I just soloed this with no problems by standing on the stairs and aiming for one of the ghost things, that was the only one that stayed and fought.

Commento di Allakhazam

Note that the Mana Rift is upstairs in the shop, not downstairs in the laboratory.

Commento di Allakhazam

Well, I died twice, but hadn't used all of my charges, so I didn't have to go back. This quest was Awesome, definitely more challenging than what I'm used to as well.
You spawn the 3 dudes, and fight them one at a time. The don't agro if you don't use an AOE, so you can pull one back with Fireball. I just spammed that until the mob had no HP left, then I was able to open the crate. It got sucked in, and then you open the disc. After that, you retrieve the full charge, and it aknowledges it in your inventory!
:)

Commento di Allakhazam

As others have mentioned below, stand to the right on the bridge just past its zenith and use the scroll to summon the beasts. Only one will come all the way up to you on the bridge. Kill, rinse, and repeat.

Thanks for passing this info along.

Experience gained is 1150.

Commento di Allakhazam

this quest was a huge pain to get. i looked on practically all the sites because i didn't know where to get the chest and the scroll.

the chest and the scroll are behind Anastasia

you go to the alchemist shop and you should go to the stairs and use the scroll. i tried it near there and got killed twice. got jumped by like 6 of those things. when they're almost dead you use the chest on them and then drink something. after like 2 seconds they turn into the coffee containments

Commento di Allakhazam

just hit them with firebolts till it has a little life left then make sure the las thit is a frost nova. then it will work. kind of a bug to fight the bug

Commento di Allakhazam

Here was how this quest went for me. Located the ghosts or the apparitions via the scroll u get in the area up the ramp where there are 2 shop keepers or personel. Its on the outer rim part of the canals, which can be considered upground and not in the apocathery itself. If I recall rightly there were even UC guards around. Used the scoll, they appeared as (yellow VW), so u can attack as when ready. I used any spell at my disposal til i got all their green health bar to nil (none), then i stopped attacking. With them still targeted, i used the box via clicking on it, then it goes thru a fast action bar and the apparition gets consumed into a crate, takes a little bit to go thru the process. All i do is wait, then it goes into a flat disk like material and indicates success. Then i go and click on it with a right click as in a gold like star to get said crate, once again goes thru an action bar "like opening a chest". Then it was added as one capture into my quest log. I had 3 consecutive success like this and thus was easiy done for me. Only catch for me was after second one i died as i didnt pay attention to my health due to the ease i was getting this done in as opposed to previous posts listed above. lmao, Hope it helps.

Edited, Fri Jun 10 19:09:09 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

First, you need to learn how to kite, if you don't know already: Use strafe. This way your target is 90° from the direction you're facing, so a little glance back that way will put it "in front of" you. (If you put an arrow through your head from ear to ear, anything on the eyes side of the line of the arrow is "in front of" you.) There are some good instants you can cast while you're running. But you only want one of them to stay in combat with you. Another thing about this quest is that when you "stun" the thing by depleting its health, you have to be in the alchemist's shop where the rift is.

So: Set a hotkey for the box and the scroll. Read the scroll in the shop, from 1 to 4 monsters will appear and attack. Pick your target and Fire Blast it. Start to strafe run around the outer ring by the green canal. Whenever Fire Blast cools down glance back enough to put it "in front of" you, and blast it again. This will keep it in combat with you. After 2-3 times, the others will give up the chase and leave combat and fade out. Reverse your running, head back to the shop. by the time you get back there, Fire Blasting all the way, the monster should be almost down to nothing. Finish it and then use the box. Don't forget to right click the box after the monster is trapped and collect your quest item. Rinse, repeat.

If you're interested, this video is worth the watch.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5767167495196384205&q=faxmonkey&hl=en
Faxmonkey's Even Stupider Mage Tricks. This is where I learned the skill of kiting. I've done some of these with my first mage. The Fire Blast trick is shown in the Round 2 (starts at about 6:45) vs. Chronalis to lead the dragon all the way to Steamwheedle Port. I recommend the entire video. <3 Maging!

Commento di Allakhazam

I tried a million things what worked in the end was standing on the bridge in the middle of the end if that makes sense .. even if four spawn melee hit the first one that gets to you and the other three will disappear, then frost nova, move away and blast it, capture and voila you're done!

- Khalli, 16 Troll Mage
- Super Khalli, fragile mystic, hexed with Halitosis.

Commento di Allakhazam

Yep, I had to do the final blow w/ a Frost Nova for it to work. Anything else and you are just wasting the "ectoplasmic containment system" and you have to try another "spirit". FYI, if you run out of charges, throw away the box and get another.

Have good get give,
AgentLars

Commento di Allakhazam

GHOST BUSTERS!

Commento di Allakhazam

lol this quest was awesome - slightly frustrated at the beginning because i couldn't find them - was downstairs in the lab - but once i found them, i got them easily.

These are the types of quests that should be WAY more abundant, rather then just "kill X amount of these", or "kill X amount of these and take their watevers, then bring them to me"...Bliz should definitely do more intuitive and "complex" quests like this.

Commento di Allakhazam

For any morons like me who just take quests without really reading them listen up.
You need to take the quest then, get the scroll and box right behind the quest giver. I myself spent 30 mins looking around the Alch shop for a damn scroll.

I use the scroll once and got 4 mobs and died, then i read further and saw the post about using flamestike. So all I stood where everyone else said to stand and casted Flamestike near the metal wagon and got 1 to spawn at a time. very easy to do this quest all you need to do is read.

Commento di Allakhazam

Quest broken after 3/22/05 patch.

Does anyone else have a problem with this quest? I have the chest and the scroll. I right click on the scroll and the Rifts appear. I attack and get them to 1% and they are no longer attackable. Then I right click on the chest of coffers and I see a timer bar time down very fast (less than a second). During this I see a coffer (it has red and green gems on it) appear below the Rift and then a message says "A Rift is sucked into the coffer". However I do not get a full coffer in my inventory (yes there is plenty of room). I have captured 6 of them now and I only have 4 charges left in the chest of coffers. I have tried restarting the game. I also do not get any XP for subduing the Rifts.

My 'filled coffer' count remains at 0/3.

I have petitioned a GM for assistance, but so far no luck (its been about a day now).

Edited, Thu Mar 24 09:16:55 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

I tried this quest last night (4/3) and it is still not working...even when using Frost Nova for the final hit. 8-( I have reported the bug so I guess we'll see what comes of it.

Commento di Allakhazam

I did the quest today, and the only way i could get the coffers was to use frost nova as last hit.

Commento di Allakhazam

I have been searching for these rift spawns and i can't find any with the scroll i'm near the alchemist trainer.

Commento di Allakhazam

Easier way to do this is to not use the scroll at all, then you can do it at lvl 16 like my girlfriend just has.

The trick is to use flamestrike near the left of the metal wagon.
That will aggro only one of the Manifestations.
Then you can deal with it in your usual fashion.

Eat and drink to full health then in about another 20 seconds it will respawn in the same place, rinse and repeat twice more.

Commento di Allakhazam

Just found another method, killed 3 of them with my 15 mage.
Here it is: I stood at the middle of the bridge (not the stairs), at the edge of the mana rift. When the elementals trespass that imaginary line, they disappear... unless they're after you.
So that's what you do: hit one of them, get almost off the bridge, so the others disappear, and just one will fight. Kill him. Repeat three times.

Commento di Allakhazam

Same for me dude... just isnt working at all

Commento di Allakhazam

loc 54, 73 .. near Andron Gant desk

Commento di Allakhazam

I think this is broken since the latest patch. The 3 rift spawn are all aggro and at a lvl 16 quest it seems wrong that 3 lvl 17 mobs appear and massacre you.
From earlier posts I think they are supposed to wait for you to start the fight, but it doesn't happen that way anymore.
Hopefully it's a bug and blizzard will fix it soon.
Suze

Commento di Allakhazam

It's still possible to do this, but not alone. My 16 mage did this with the help of my 17 priest - me on 2 computers which was not easy. Each encounter got one of the mobs to nothing, scooped them up and then ran. Priest died twice, but mage survived each encounter. Having another person play the preist could probably have done it with no deaths.

Commento di Allakhazam

Nice stratagies here. But for anyone who cannot get the strategy to work, simply use the cantation. If you get more than one run accross the bridge. It may take way more tries than the stratagies here but eventually you will get only 1 to spawn. It's random 1-4.

Commento di Allakhazam

OMG please guys how the heck did u summon those things?
Icant get to see them realy invisible for me though
please someone help

Commento di Allakhazam

I tried this quest last night (4/3) and it is still not working...even when using Frost Nova for the final hit. 8-( I have reported the bug so I guess we'll see what comes of it.

Commento di Allakhazam

appears totally fixed... no matter what spell i eneded on it worked fine... yay 8)

Commento di Allakhazam

Coords 52 74 in UC. Use the scroll and 4 of them will pop. Use Frost Nova and either Blizzard or Arcane blast to beat them down, then use the box to trap them. Kinda tough to solo even for a level 20 mage.

Commento di Allakhazam

Its Strange the quest is not bugged ... its just that it is worded all wrong ... Even when i didnt do it right it still said that the Rift was sucked in ... the way i got it to work is, as mentioned below , beat it down but make sure the last hit is Frost Nova and it works every time. Good Luck

Commento di Allakhazam

This quest is simple once you find where to use the scroll, it is on the OUTER ruing of the Apo, not the inner, upstairs, not down in the alchemy lab and there are 2 guards and 3 UC NPCs in the "room", three of them spawn, not much difficulty killing them.

Commento di Allakhazam

On 4/9, I was personally able to complete the quest.

The rift spawns attack fast, but given a little range, they can be easily dispatched. As soon as the stunned symbol appears above their head, activate the containment coffer. Then wait...do not click on them until a containment disk appears on the floor. I repeat, DO NOT click before the filled containment coffer appears (everytime I did, no filled coffer).

It took me 11 charges to complete (had to throw away the x10 charge box once).

Commento di Allakhazam

Tried this 6 times and died 6 times. Used the scroll to make visible and aggrowed 3-4 creatures attacking every time. So what am I doing wrong
?

Commento di Allakhazam

I have used the scroll all around the shop and no one has appeared. Is this quest messed up again or am I just doing something wrong?

Commento di maxchum

All previous advises about the bridge works on Classic. Pulled one with fireblast to the bridge, others run away and then I ran back, killed mob, clicked under him, to capture him into the trap, done.
Rinse and repeat.

Commento di PrefeX

This quest can be a pain to do solo, as it will usually spawn 4 mobs (level 16-17) that instantly aggro you, and that can kill you quickly unless you are in a group, use potions, or are a few levels over the intended quest level. They are also neutral, so you won't get any assistance from any of the NPC's. You don't have that many ways of keeping them at a distance, or a good way to handle them with crowd control, so if they all catch up with you, you will have a hard time casting spells and surviving. Luckily there is also a very easy, but likely unintended way to complete the quest, as long as you have an AOE spell available.

There are two ways to do this quest; the intended way, or the easy way.

Before you leave the quest giver:

Before you run off, remember to pick up the two items you need for the next part. These items are lootable objects located just next to the quest giver.

Tips:

When you use the cantation, all the mobs will instantly aggro on you.
The cantation can be used from a good distance away, so like other users have suggested, it can be used on the edge of the bridge (coordinates: 56,67) to reveal their positions from a safe distance. They will still aggro, but running over the bridge will usually cause them to reset.
They usually don't wander around, allowing you to know where they are after you have revealed and reset them.

How to do the quest the easy way:

Read the tips, and then head over to the Apothecarium district.
Before you start, consider following the tip about revealing and resetting them, so you know roughly where the mobs are located.
Unless it is to complete the previous step, DON'T use the cantation!
The Rift Spawn's are spread around at the main floor, and are located around 53,73, just next to the NPS's Andron Gant, Algernon and Doctor Marsh.
Unless you know where they are, start at the bottom of the stairs (the short, wide one located between the two stationed Undercity Guardian's and the three NPC's from the last step), and slowly move around while casting Arcane Explosion or another AOE spell, until you manage to hit one of them. After taking damage, it may take a second for them to fade in before you can see or target it.
Until you damage it with your AOE spell, the mob is completely invisible, and cant be seen or targeted. To conserve mana, I recommend using rank 1 versions of the spell, as the point is just to damage one, causing it to aggro you and turns visible. This allows you to both target and damage it, using your normal spells and rotation. Causing damage to the mob will not cause the other's to become visible, or aggro you.
When you have aggro on one of the Rift Spawn's, kill it, and then use your Chest of Containment Coffers near the stunned, untargetable mob. This will place a Containment Coffer on the ground that appears to be "lootable", but in order to actually get any loot from it, you have to wait a few seconds for the animation to complete, and for the object to be replaced with the Filled Containment Coffer that you actually can loot.
Repeat this process untill you have all three containers.

Commento di Vaikiss

just frost nova into arcane explosions

or frost nova and then kill 1 run the $%^& back and repeat

Commento di jfoobar

Just finished without too much trouble. I followed the method posted back in 2007 by pwningally. I am only posting to add one little wrinkle. Yes, running across the bridge will cause all but the one you tagged to retreat *but* you need to finish that one off on the alchemy lab's half of the bridge. If you are more than halfway across the bridge, it will be stunned but you will not be able to cast the containment coffer chest on it. If you pull one too far, just frost nova it and run it back before you "kill" it.

Commento di Rhynchelma

Report to Anastasia is a breadcrumb quest, not a prerequisite. It can not be obtained if this quest is in the log or turned-in.

Commento di Cryonaka

Make sure when using the Chest of Containment Coffers to use the item icon on them all when they are stunned and don't click the filled polygons until you have three of them down as when I was capturing I was also picking them up and it made it so one of the stunned Rift Spawn was not captured because it had despawned and I think it would not have happened if I had not been trying to pick them up after capture, so maybe wait until you have used the Chest of Containment Coffers 3 times before right-clicking on the polygon when it completes a capture.

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Investigate the Alchemist Shop

Obtain a Cantation of Manifestation and a Chest of Containment Coffers from behind Anastasia Hartwell. Bring 3 Filled Containment Coffers, the Chest of Containment Coffers and the Cantation of Manifestation to Anastasia in the Undercity.

	Filled Containment Coffer (3)
	Chest of Containment Coffers (1)
	Cantation of Manifestation (1)

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Algernon's alchemist shop in the Apothecarium is the locus of a strange disturbance. Invisible creatures, made solely of magic, wander the shop--there must be a reason, and we must find it!

Investigate the disturbance and capture those creatures. Take a chest of coffers and a scroll from behind me. Use the scroll at the shop to make the creatures visible, subdue them with your spells, then throw down a coffer to capture them. Return with the filled coffers, the empty coffers and the cantation.

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