Stone Tear

The Stone Tear is an evolving item that you first receive by completing The First Pilgrimage quest in the Pillars of Alra. This is the same quest that gives Druids and Wizards their port spells to the zone.

The Tear is an item that fits in your Face, Ammo, or Charm slot and grants you a bonus to you Defense skill. It has 20 levels to evolve and when it reaches level 20, you can convert it into a Type 3 augmentation, with additional bonuses. It must be equipped to gain experience to evolve, and to grant you the bonus(es).

The Tear evolves by killing Alaran and Undead Alaran NPCs in Veil of Alaris and Rain of Fear zones.

In addition, five Pillars of Alra shared tasks can reward each party member with a Fragment of Legendary Alaran History, clicking it will add experience to your Tear. With the July 2013 patch, the same NPCs mentioned above also have a small chance of dropping a Fragment.

Information on the Tear, as well as changes being made in the July 2013 patch was mentioned by Dzarn, EQ Developer, in this post.

Tears
Here are the Tears, from level 1 to level 20:


 * Very Small Stone Tear
 * Small Stone Tear
 * Small Resonating Stone Tear
 * Small Glowing Stone Tear
 * Very Small Clear Stone Tear
 * Small Clear Stone Tear
 * Small Clear Resonating Stone Tear
 * Small Clear Glowing Stone Tear
 * Stone Tear
 * Echoing Stone Tear
 * Resonating Stone Tear
 * Glowing Stone Tear
 * Heavy Stone Tear
 * Heavy Echoing Stone Tear
 * Heavy Resonating Stone Tear
 * Heavy Glowing Stone Tear
 * Darkened Stone Tear
 * Darkened Resonating Stone Tear
 * Darkened Glowing Stone Tear
 * A Pretty Flower

Experience to evolve
In the July 2013 patch, the amount of experience is due to be reduced. This chart reflects the new amounts:


 * 1) Starts at 1.
 * 2) 4500
 * 3) 6393
 * 4) 9083
 * 5) 12904
 * 6) 18332
 * 7) 26043
 * 8) 36998
 * 9) 52561
 * 10) 74670
 * 11) 106079
 * 12) 150700
 * 13) 214089
 * 14) 304142
 * 15) 432074
 * 16) 613818
 * 17) 872009
 * 18) 1238803
 * 19) 1759881
 * 20) 2500140

Fragment of Legendary Alaran History
Four Pillars of Alra shared tasks can reward each party member with a Fragment of Legendary Alaran History, clicking it will add experience to your Tear. There is also a solo task that has that as a reward as well.

With the July 2013 patch, the same NPCs mentioned above also have a small chance of dropping a Fragment (1% in VoA and 1.5% in RoF).

The tasks require you to complete an optional step to get the Fragment.

Tasks

 * Crisis of Faith - Solo task. (optional step is to finish within 72 minutes).
 * Word of Anriella (optional step is getting hit by the AE three times before killing the enemy in the arcane pillar)
 * Word of Erion (optional step is killing a Fal'Kaa's Shadowward at the top of the shade pillar)
 * Word of Fal'kaa (optional step is to avoid aggro returning the book to the light pillar)
 * Word of Melretia (optional step is finishing within 30 minutes)

Experience
The experience given scales depending on the level of your tear and is as follows [exp value - approximate % of the tear level you'll get per click].

After July 2013 patch:


 * 1) 450 - 10%
 * 2) 474 - 25%
 * 3) 673 - 25%
 * 4) 765 - 20%
 * 5) 1086 - 20%
 * 6) 1157 - 15%
 * 7) 1644 - 15%
 * 8) 1557 - 10%
 * 9) 2211 - 10%
 * 10) 1571 - 5%
 * 11) 2232 - 5%
 * 12) 3170 - 5%
 * 13) 4503 - 5%
 * 14) 6397 - 5%
 * 15) 9088 - 5%
 * 16) 12910 - 5%
 * 17) 18340 - 5%
 * 18) 26054 - 5%
 * 19) 37013 - 5%