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Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic)

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Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic) is the 2nd quest in the Litany of The Dead Part 4 (epic) story arcIcon tooltip.pngStory arcs  are chains of quests that make up a story line.
Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.
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The first four quests can be completed in any order to unlock The Mark of Death.
Desecrated Temple of Vol (epic) • Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic) • Ghosts of Perdition (epic) • Inferno of the Damned (epic) • The Mark of Death

Mentau has operated this laboratory for years, making an army of flesh golems prepared to serve the Black Abbot's needs.

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Flesh Maker's Laboratory
Heroic level: None
Epic level: 29
Duration: Long
Heroic XP: See Flesh Maker's Laboratory
Epic XP:  ♣14,596Solo/Casual ♦24,977Normal ♥25,627Hard ♠26,277Elite
Takes place in: Flesh Maker's Laboratory
Bestowed by: Paramis Tyl
NPC contact: Paramis Tyl
Quest acquired in: The Necropolis
Patron: The Silver Flame
Base favor: 6
Purchase: The Necropolis, Part 4 or VIP
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

Once again flesh golems roam the Orchard of the Macabre - even though their creator is reported to be dead. Travel to the Fleshmaker's Laboratory inside the Orchard of the Macabre and find out who is making these horrific constructs.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Find and Speak to the Bride of Mentau
  • (Secret Passage) Gain entrance to the Garbage Pits
  • (Garbage Pits) Sneak into the treatment room
  • (Treatment Room) Access the Chopping Room
  • (Chopping Room) Locate the Assembly Area
  • (Assembly Area) Locate the Room of Life
  • (Assembly Area) Defeat the Flash Maker's Apprentices
  • (Conduit Passages) Open the Lightning Machine
  • (Lightning Machine) Capture the Air Elementals
  • (Lightning Chamber) Defeat Mentau the Incarnate
  • (Optional) (Warehouse) Destroy the Vol's flesh golem army — Bonus (15%): Epic( ♣2,189 ♦3,747 ♥3,844 ♠3,942 )

What to Expect

  • Traps (fixed, some undisarmable)
  • Overlapping floors
  • Points of no return
  • Spawning/respawning monsters
  • Requires extra player(s)/hireling(s) (mandatory: 5 runes have to be used almost simultaneously)

Known Traps

Trap DCs

  • Acid/Poison spray; control panel, but easy to time
  • Two sets of blade traps; 3 trap control panels for the traps. There's also a lever above that will turn them off briefly, and they can be timed.
  • Lightning trap in the Warehouse; four control panels, one on each corner pillar.

Tips and Misc

  • Bug: The quest journal incorrectly has Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic) listed as level 26.
  • A fairly straight-forward quest, although you have to drop down into the bowels of the laboratory a couple of times to proceed.
  • The gate to the Assembly Area can be picked (its [DC:60] on Epic Normal is quite high) so you can avoid fighting your way to the Iron Key if you have someone who can pick the lock in your party.
  • The five runes to summon Mentau must all be unlit within a very short amount of time (it's over the ~20 seconds, which is amount you get on Heroic) a longer time is given for pressing all the runes in Epic than in the Heroic version. The Air Elementals in the room respawn, so it can be useful to have somebody get all their aggravation and stand in a corner (to avoid being thrown off the ledge) while the rest do the runes. It's easily possible for one person to do 2–3 runes; more than that can be difficult, however. See below for a guide to soloing the runes.
  • Once Mentau is destroyed, return to Tarin (Mentau's Bride), who will open the trap door in the control room; at the bottom will be a large central pillar with a rune, and four corner pillars. Disable the traps on the corner pillars, hit the rune, and destroy several waves of flesh golems! The Magical Portal beyond the chest will bring you outside.
  • Trivia: Mentau the Flesh Maker is a reference to the mint Mentos, and its slogan – "Mentos... the Freshmaker"

Soloing the runes

Runes

With a hireling it is possible to hit all 5 runes. The plan is for you to hit 1, 3, 5 while your hireling gets 2 4. You will need to be fast on all these steps, don't bother trying this if you are lagging at all. An alternative is you hit 3, 4, 5 and your hireling does 1 and 2. See here at 6:40 min.

  1. Lock your hireling in place near Rune 2. (Attack mode should be okay)
  2. Drag all Air Elementals near Rune 2
  3. Kill all the Air Elementals
    • It is possible to leave 1 or 2 since you can avoid them, but it is better if they are dead.
    • They respawn quickly so go fast.
  4. Select Rune 2, and head over to Rune 1 (If you have auto target on you might have to turn it off)
  5. Just before (1–2 seconds) before you get to Rune 1 Order your hireling to activate Rune 2.
  6. Activate Rune 1.
  7. While your animation is playing rotate around so you can target Rune 4, and order your Hireling to hit it.
  8. Run for Rune 3 and activate it. (While you are heading there, look and see that your hireling is actually moving!)
  9. Jump across to Rune 5 and hit it. (Not sure what the minimum Jump skill you need for this is)

This is very hard to get right, the respawn is fast and hirelings really don't like to do what you say. It normally takes me 4–5 tries at least, but it is possible.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦-0 ♥-0 ♠-0 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦-0 ♥-0 ♠-0 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦-0 ♥-0 ♠-0 )
Notes:
  • Trap bonus not possible

Loot

  • Chests: 3
  • 1 for killing Edgar
  • 1 at Lightning Chamber
  • 1 at Warehouse

Named Chest Drop

All items are ML 27 and Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire.

Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Epic Ring of Unknown Origins
Epic Ring of Unknown Origins.png
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Ring  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End Chest
  • Update 48.2
  • 3 years, 3 months, and 26 days
  • BugTime
Mythic Minos Legens
Mythic Minos Legens.png
(edit)
Helm  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End chest
  • Update 48.4.3
  • 3 years and 23 days
  • BugTime
Epic Belt of Thoughtful Rememberance
Epic Belt of Thoughtful Rememberance.png
(edit)
Belt  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End Chest
  • Update 49
  • 2 years, 11 months, and 20 days
  • BugTime
Epic Mentau's Goggles
Epic Mentau's Goggles.png
(edit)
Goggles  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End chest
  • Update 59
  • 11 months and 23 days
  • Cru121
Epic Minos Legens
Epic Minos Legens.png
(edit)
Helm  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End chest
  • Update 59
  • 11 months and 22 days
  • Cru121
Epic Chain of Conviction
Epic Chain of Conviction.png
(edit)
Medium Armor  27 Bound to Account on Acquire, ExclusiveIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire
This is an Exclusive item. You may only carry one at a time.
Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End chest
The Falling Darkness
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(edit)
Buckler shield  27 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Flesh Maker's Laboratory (epic), End chest
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Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Apprentice Assembler( view
Apprentice Assembler.png
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 ♦35Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Apprentice Enchanter( view
Apprentice Enchanter.png
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 ♦35Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Apprentice Fleshwright( view
Apprentice Fleshwright.png
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 ♦14Normal ♦29Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Corrupted Flesh Golem( view
Corrupted Flesh Golem.png
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 ♦14Normal ♦29Epic Normal Construct Golem
Edgar (epic)( view
Edgar (epic).png
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 ♦37Epic Normal Construct Golem
Flesh Golem( view
Flesh Golem.jpg
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 ♦18Normal Construct Golem
Fleshwright( view
Fleshwright.png
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 ♦38Normal Humanoid Human
Graverobber( view
Graverobber.png
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 ♦28Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Incarnate Flesh Golem( view
Incarnate Flesh Golem.png
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 ♦14Normal ♦29Epic Normal Construct Golem
Laboratory Guard( view
Laboratory Guard.png
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 ♦29Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Laboratory Necromancer( view
Laboratory Necromancer.png
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 ♦33Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Mentau (golem)( view
Mentau (golem).png
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 ♠80Epic Elite Construct Golem
Reanimated Corpse( view
Reanimated Corpse.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦29Epic Normal Undead Zombie
Riftborn Air Elemental( view
Riftborn Air Elemental.png
 • edit )
 ♦14Normal ♦29Epic Normal Elemental Air Elemental