Palenqual's Living Weapons

Difficulty:  Minimum to survive, 50+ to solo
Level Restriction:  32+
Timer:  1 Month
Can be Solo'd?  Yes
Rewards:  Palenqual's Living Weapon for your chosen skill

The Aun Tumeroks use nature's power to craft mighty weapons and cast potent spells.  If you help them recover some of the totems that the Hea stole, they will lend you one of their weapons.  It's up to you to decide which of the stolen totems will best aide you.

Step 1:  Preparation.  Start your quest by hunting Heas for the stolen totems.  You will need at least 4 - 1 to enter the quest dungeon and 3 for your weapon.  There are three types - Tanae, Audetaunga, and Volkama - and each adds a different property.  Typically, I'd include this info in the reward section, but given that it's pretty crucial to the quest, I might as well list it here!  Your final weapon requires 3 totems to activate and you can choose to either make a triple totem using 3 of the same totem or you can use one of each.  If you want to make a mixed totem, be aware that the order in which you combine the totems matter.  The final totem you add will add stronger spells than the first two totems.  Audetaunga totems add to your melee D and strength and speed up the weapon and are dropped by Hea Warriors and Nualuans.  Tanae improve the weapon's damage, your coordination, and your regen rate and are dropped by Hea Windreaves and Iteleauns.  Volkama totems improve your endurance, quickness, and weapon skill and are dropped by Hea Shamans and Elder Shamans.  Totems are giveable too, if you want to hunt with a secondary character or just outright buy them.  Now that you know what totems you want, it's time to hunt the Hea.  My preferred hunting location is the Hea Raider's Cache on the Marescent Plateau, located at 43.3N, 82.5W.  There is a cave at those coordinates protected by a good number of various types of Hea.  Remember that attacking a monster inside a structure (like the cave!) will draw allied monsters from a great distance.  Also, before you start the quest, make sure you have at least 10,000 pyreals on you so you can buy the weapon.

Step 2:  Palenqual's Caverns.  Once you have the totems you want, head to 46.7N, 70.7W, where you will find Aun Shimauri in a cave.  Greet him and he will tell you that the Hea have stolen a great number of their totems.  Give him one of the totems you weren't planning on using on your weapon and you will be flagged to enter the Caverns where the Aun are stockpiling the remaining totems and the weapons the totems infuse.  Head to 48.9N 72.3W, where you will find the portal inside a great Tumerok head.  Head inside.  This dungeon is very large and is a nasty maze.  There's not a whole lot of sense in trying to tell you where to go - the map does that a lot more effectively than I could hope to do.  Consider printing the map out so you don't have to Tab out of the game repeatedly.  When you reach the end, you will find Aun Kerehanua in his room.  He will sell you the unimbued weapon of your choice.  You may leave once you have your weapon.

Step 3:  Rewards.  Now it's time to combine your totems and the weapon you just bought.  The completed weapons have a wield req of 250 base skill (or 165 mana conversion for the spellcaster), have good damage for their wield req, and have Crushing Blow and Biting Strike.  Regardless of which totems you use, the weapons will have the same attack and defense bonuses and damage.  The only thing that changes are the spells.  Audetaunga's Totem of the Mountains, Tanae's Totem of the Forests, and Volkama's Totem of the Rivers are each made of 3 of the same totems.  Palenqual's Totem of the Chase (T), Palenqual's Totem of the Heights (A), and Palenqual's Totem of the Vortex (V) are made from one of each totem with the last one having the strongest spells.  I don't have an image for all 6 of the weapons (let alone one of each weapon type!), but I do have an example of the triple Audetaunga and Volkama axes.