Stromvauld's Mine

Drow of Xen'drik worship Vulkoor, a god that exalts the forces of trickery, destruction and war.

Stromvauld's Mine
Heroic level:	8
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Long
Heroic XP:	♣1,557Solo/Casual ♦2,752Normal ♥2,908Hard ♠3,064Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Stromvauld's Mine
Bestowed by:	Laird Stromvauld
NPC contact:	Laird Stromvauld
Quest acquired in:	Anvilfire Inn
Patron:	House Kundarak
Base favor:	5
Purchase:	Free to Play
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Laird Stromvauld's engineers have gone missing. After two parties failed to return from their expeditions, no one has been willing to enter the mine to discern their whereabouts. Unwilling to write his men off, Stromvauld has hired you to search for any traces of the engineers missing within the mine.

Note: This quest is located in House Deneith within the Anvilfire Inn, even though the patron is House Kundarak.

Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!

Objectives

Locate the missing engineers (11 total)
Defeat the drow leader, Xandria Lok'kalerin
Free the chief engineer
(Optional) Collect the remaining rare gems (5 total) — Bonus (40%): Heroic( ♣623 ♦1,101 ♥1,163 ♠1,226 )
(Optional) Destroy the elementals (4 Greater Earth Elementals) — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣389 ♦688 ♥727 ♠766 )
(Optional) Kill Milos Baran — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣311 ♦550 ♥582 ♠613 )
(Optional) Kill Boro Charldon — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣311 ♦550 ♥582 ♠613 )
(Optional) Kill Deqren Marzat — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣311 ♦550 ♥582 ♠613 )

What to Expect

Traps (fixed)
Ability check (optional: 1 lever that requires a Strength check)
Quest item collection (mandatory: 11 corpses and optional: 5 gems)

Known Traps

Trap DCs

Five total. Several fire traps (furnaces); one wind gust, panel is in the rocks on the climb up; one lightning, panel is on the near side. Many can be disabled, avoid walking in front of things that look like they can shoot fire (furnace).

Tips and Misc

The Drow Hunters do extra cold damage; the Drow Wizards use Lightning Bolt, and there are flame traps and (possibly, see below) fire elementals.
The optionals can more than double your final XP and are well worth doing; in particular, the three optional boss fights are fairly easy (you can range them from higher up).
The gate to the earth elementals is opened with a lever that requires a 19 Strength check.
The earth elementals can be an extremely tough battle; all four wake up as soon as you open the chest, and at least one will be close enough to attack immediately. The loot in the chest is decent, however, as is the XP bonus.
The "missing engineers" that you need to find are corpses, and the first are not until the upper level of the first large room. They can be hard to spot from a distance since they are almost the same color as the floor in many cases. Keep a careful eye out for them; Q (the default key for selecting interactables) is your friend.

Hirelings can also be used to successfully retrieve corpses; if you focus on the corpses, command the Hireling to interact. The Hireling will usually try to reach the corpses, which can be useful if you cannot clearly see the path to its location, but have it in focus.

The optional missing gems spawn in random locations; keep your eyes open as they are worth a full 40% of your base XP.
Once you descend down the ladder to the room where the first drow peasants are laboring away, two Greater Fire Elementals will spawn if you climb back up the ladder.
The southern chest in the last room is three levels above the ground floor.
The final objective, "free the chief engineer", doesn't appear in your objectives list until you open the gate at the end of the quest

Bonus XP

Aggression bonus: 37 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣156 ♦275 ♥291 ♠306 )
Onslaught bonus: 49 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣234 ♦413 ♥436 ♠460 )
Tamper bonus: 3 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣156 ♦275 ♥291 ♠306 )
Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣467 ♦826 ♥872 ♠919 )
Mischief bonus: 33 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣125 ♦220 ♥233 ♠245 )
Vandal bonus: 43 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣156 ♦275 ♥291 ♠306 )
Ransack bonus: 53 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣234 ♦413 ♥436 ♠460 )

Loot

Chests: 4
- 1 guarded by earth elementals (they awaken upon opening the chest)
- 1 for killing Boro Charldon and Milos Baran (Elite only)
- 1 locked close to the end, on a ledge on the same level as the broken elevator
- 1 at the end for killing Xandria Lok'kalerin (Drow)
NPC rewards: In the +2 / +3 range

Monsters

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race
Boro Charldon ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Death Stalker ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Vermin	Scorpion
Deqren Marzat ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Barbarian Shaman ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Barbarian ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Bard ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Captain ^{( view • edit )}	♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♥35Epic Hard	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Guardian ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Hunter ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Man-at-Arms ^{( view • edit )}	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Peasant ^{( view • edit )}	♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠9Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Priest ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Slayer ^{( view • edit )}	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Warrior (Eberron) ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Wizard (Eberron) ^{( view • edit )}	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Greater Earth Elemental ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elemental	Earth Elemental
Greater Fire Elemental ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elemental	Fire Elemental
Large Rust Monster ^{( view • edit )}	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite ●♥28Epic Hard	Aberration	Rust Monster
Milos Baran ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Monarch Scorpion ^{( view • edit )}	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Vermin	Scorpion
Night Scorpion ^{( view • edit )}	♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠10Elite	Vermin	Scorpion
Xandria Lok'kalerin ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf

External Links

U30 Video Solo Walkthrough