EverQuest Legends Quest Guide · Recorded by The Unburied Scholar

Stein of Ulissa

One of Vira's four lesser Magician focus quests in the Temple of Solusek Ro. Gather a Sapphire, Mermaid Scale, Stein (of Water), and Ice Giant Toes; return all four components to Vira for Stein of Ulissa, the water elemental focus item.

Level 20s (EQL listing)Class MagicianQuest Giver ViraStart Temple of Solusek Ro

The Unburied Scholar's Appraisal

Four components for a tool that strengthens your water pets and can reclaim a summoned pet's energy instantly. Efficient, elemental, and almost suspiciously comprehensible. Stein of Ulissa is the water focus, with INT +2 and SV COLD +5. A respectable little artifact.

1. Find Vira

Vira offers four related elemental-focus quests. They share the same quest giver and structure, but none requires completion of another.

Travel to Temple of Solusek Ro and find Vira on the balcony to the left, around +410, +85.
If you want the dialogue path, ask Vira about elemental summoning and then about the Stein of Ulissa. The practical requirement is the four-item hand-in below.

Vira asks for four objects. Four. Not seventeen fragments, three contradictory testimonies, and a cousin who only spawns during rain. Cherish this moment.

2. Acquire the four components

Obtain a Sapphire. Current EQL references list jewelry merchants as the straightforward source.
Obtain a Mermaid Scale from a mermaid. Current EQL focus guidance points to Ocean of Tears as a convenient source.
Obtain Stein (of Water). Confirm its lore/Identify text reads "Stein of Water". Current EQL references list Magicians in Najena and alligators in Cazic Thule; the EQL focus-item family guide also lists Lake Rathetear as a source for the base tools.
Obtain Ice Giant Toes. You can hunt the appropriate giant normally, or use Gornit in Ocean of Tears as a shared toe source if you are collecting all four focus sets.

3. Return all four items to Vira

Return to Vira with Sapphire, Mermaid Scale, Stein (of Water), and Ice Giant Toes.
Hand the four required items to Vira.
Receive Stein of Ulissa. The turn-in improves Temple of Sol Ro faction and lowers Shadowed Men faction according to both current EQL and classic-era references.

At last, Stein of Ulissa. The Minion of Water focus strengthens the matching elemental pet, while Reclaim Energy remains available as an instant click from inventory. Keep it. A Magician with all four is considerably less dependent on chance choosing a convenient element.

4. How the lesser focus items work on EQL

Stein of Ulissa carries the Minion of Water focus. EQL's current Magician Focus Items documentation says the lesser focuses affect spell-level 4-49 pets, increasing their size and hit points. The same source describes the practical durability gain as roughly one step toward the next tougher elemental pet, or around 25% as a rule of thumb.

All four lesser focus items also carry an instant Reclaim Energy click. The focus itself requires the matching item to be equipped when summoning the pet; the Reclaim Energy click does not require the item to be equipped.

Requirements

A Magician completing the Temple of Solusek Ro focus-item quest line.
Four components: Sapphire, Mermaid Scale, Stein (of Water), and Ice Giant Toes.
Access to Vira in Temple of Solusek Ro. Current individual EQL quest pages list these focus quests in the 20s; older classic references report different minimum-level observations, so this guide does not claim a more precise hard cutoff.

Warnings

The required base item is literally named Stein, with Item Lore 'Stein of Water'. This guide calls it Stein (of Water) to distinguish it from ordinary steins.
The required toe item is Ice Giant Toes. Giant toes with similar names belong to other focus quests.
Give Vira all four required components for this specific focus item. Mixing components from the four elemental sets is an efficient way to create disappointment.
Use Ice Giant Toes, not Frost Giant Toes. Current EQL documentation explicitly distinguishes the old-world Ice Giant Toes from the similarly named Velious drop.

Quest Zones

Temple of Solusek RoNajena Cazic Thule Lake Rathetear Ocean of Tears Everfrost Peaks Permafrost Keep

Reward

Stein of Ulissa

Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: 1H Blunt Atk Delay: 25
DMG: 6
INT: +2
SV COLD: +5
Effect: Reclaim Energy (Any Slot, Casting Time: Instant) at Level 20

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Tips from the Crypt

Vira is on the left-side balcony in Temple of Solusek Ro, around +410, +85.
The Sapphire is the easy component: buy it from a jewelry vendor rather than manufacturing an unnecessary adventure around it.
If you intend to complete all four Magician focus quests, Gornit in Ocean of Tears is unusually efficient. Current EQL data lists Cyclops, Hill Giant, Ice Giant, and Fire Giant Toes on his loot table, and the focus-item guide notes that he can drop multiple toe items.
The four lesser focus items are siblings, not prerequisites. You may complete them in any order: Broom of Trilon Quest, Shovel of Ponz Quest, Stein of Ulissa Quest, and Torch of Alna Quest.
Mermaid Scale is available from mermaids, and the current EQL family guide points to Ocean of Tears as a convenient source.

Research Sources

This walkthrough was independently written for EQ Legends Tools from the references below. Quest facts are preserved; source prose is not reproduced.

EverQuest Legends Wiki - Stein of Ulissa QuestPrimary EQL-specific walkthrough and current reward reference.

EverQuest Legends Wiki - Magician Focus ItemsCurrent EQL family reference for all four lesser focus items, shared component sources, pet-focus behavior, and the Gornit toe-farming shortcut.

Project 1999 Wiki - Stein of Ulissa QuestClassic-era cross-check for Vira's component list and turn-in structure; EQL-specific details take precedence.