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From DDO wiki
The Den of Obscurity is a dark, treacherous series of caverns largely untouched by man for thousands of years.
Overview
Reaching Den of Obscurity entrance automatically bestows quest.
Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!
Objectives
- Pick up the illuminated sceptre
- Explore the Den of Obscurity
- Place scorpion crest in socket
- Solve the secret of the Rainbow
- Search the chamber for treasure
- Defeat the ancient guardian
- (Optional) Slay Memnezerez
What to Expect
- Traps (random)
- Collapsible floors
- Puzzles (mandatory: rainbow puzzle and optional: clocklike puzzle)
Known Traps
- Pike Traps (Like ones in the Reaver's Fate)
- Button in intersections summon fire elementals
- Trapped portal randomly before the shrine, can be disabled, otherwise you need to kill the elementals to be teleported back.
- Three traps on the way to the optional chest.
Tips and Misc
- Radiant Arc - +5 Sceptre: Everbright, Archmagi, Superior Potency VII, Transmuting (Minimum level 14, Drops on Leaving Adventure)
- One player should wear the sceptre, which will illuminate a short distance around them. The illumination persists even while dead, but if they release the sceptre is dropped.
- Keep in mind that the item has minimum level requirement of 14 level.
- Map notes:
- 1 - Radiant Arc
- 2 - Journal
- 3 - Scorpion crest
- 4 - Silver key
- Useful buffs: acid resist, electricity resist (for casters and gnoll arrows), fire resist (for gnolls' Cometfall and the end boss).
Basic walkthrough:
- Have a caster grab the Radiant Arc and wield it. Go straight ahead slowly and kill stuff - the mobs you get depend on the instance but tend to be in small groups. Jump down the hole when you get to it, turn around and basically follow the path back the way you've come - except you're on the lower level now.
- When you get to the intersection, go left. Watch out for the button on the floor if there is one in your instance. A short way down the corridor, there is a three-way intersection. Turn right if you want to try for the "clock puzzle" chests, or fight your way down the rest of the corridor and get the Crest of the Scorpion. Fight your back to the first intersection or cast Dimension Door and kill off the stuff that has respawned.
- When you get to the intersection again, go right. Fight your way down the corridor, put the crest in the door and eventually you'll get to a shrine. Down past the shrine are a bunch of windlasher gnolls. Take them out and turn right. Keep going until you get to the silver key. There is a root wall here - smash it down if you want to go for the optional beholder chest.
- Go back to the gnoll intersection. Turn right and cross the pit.
- At the next intersection, either:
- Go right if you have a rogue who can disable the traps. If you can't disable the traps, you will not be able to access the chest.
- Go left towards the end of the quest. Complete the puzzle, park the Radiant Arc, buff yourselves senseless, defeat the end boss (CR29 on elite) and loot the chest.
Loot
- NPC rewards: Random item (up to 15th level accessories, up to 14th level weapons and armor)
Monsters
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