I agree with Wil. The headband is more useful, depending on your play style of course. I do like the lower mana cost, especially when it comes to spamming flamestrike from a distance. I have yet to see if the quest is repeatable. If so, I plan on getting(and keeping) the headband this time.

Perhaps I had just enough patience.. I finally got the key after killing roughly 150 of them. Had no idea that's where you could get the Headband of Power, or that if you traded it to the ghost you'd get the Earrings of Spirituality. I did notice that some of the warlords had minor tokuno artifacts ...

Also, I did talk to the ghost in the Crane Marsh, then headed to the Yomotsu Mines and spoke to Ikasmraw, and killed more samurai warlords within the cave than I can count. None have dropped a key. Is there an aspect of this quest that I am missing?

This was posted roughly 8 years ago: "Postby +Colibri on Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:59 am The samurai quest is in: You need to find a ghost that wishes to restore a family's honor, you will find him in a house on crane marsh in tokuno. Every time he comes, he get's killed, so to talk to him, you need t...