[Age of Conan] Tomes of the Dead

I had a bit of problems trying to figure out how to do the Tomes of the Dead quest. The start is simple, you need to find a body and upon a quick corpse search you find... nothing. This means the local evil people you must kill have the items you seek. The items are:

• Field Notes (x5)
• Books (x2)

Zaroth the Black

To retrieve the field notes you just move onto the area marked on the map and kill any spellcaster. I had 100% drop chance to get a Field Note when looting a spellcaster in the area. There's a couple of caster types around, some have an entourage of minions others have a normal demon with them. These should give you no problem. If you are melee just make sure you got enough room to charge them without getting the attention of more enemies or just get their attention and go out of line of sight so you can get them in a safe combat zone.

Location of Zaroth the Black

What really made me waste a bit too much time was the Books. I found none on the floor and all the enemies around weren't dropping any. After many, many kills I was about to give up until I came across Zaroth the Black [Boss] which dropped one. Apparently this is the only mob in that area that drops the book, so you have to kill him, wait for a respawn and kill him again. This is one of those little details in a game that just make me angry but oh well... looking around at the amazing graphics helps pass the time. Check out the screenshots to see the location on the map of where the boss is and what he looks like.

Hope I helped anyone else struggling with this quest.