The Cloven-jaw Scourge: Blockade

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Wayfinder Dael made it far into the Steam Tunnels before she was forced to retreat. Watch for the signs she left behind.

The Cloven-jaw Scourge:Blockade
Heroic level:	3
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Long
Heroic XP:	♣632 Solo/Casual  ♦1,140 Normal  ♥1,226 Hard  ♠1,313 Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	The Kobold's Blockade
NPC contact:	Wayfinder Dael
Quest acquired in:	The Steam Tunnels
Patron:	The Coin Lords
Base favor:	4
Free to Play:	No
Extreme Challenge:	No
The Cloven-jaw Scourge:Blockade map (legend )
Second Map

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Overview

Wayfinder Dael has asked you to retrieve the Seal of Shan-To-Kor. She believes the leader of the Cloven-Jaw Hobgoblins knows of its whereabouts.

To reach the Cloven-Jaw Tribe, you must first enter the Steam Tunnels from the Marketplace.

Somewhere in the depths of these tunnels is a Kobolds' Blockade. You must fight through it to reach the Cloven-Jaw Hobgoblins on the other side.

• This is the first part of The Seal of Shan-To-Kor story arc.

Blockade puzzle

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Objectives

• Get past the kobolds' blockade
• Slay Amrog, the Gatewarden
• Find the entrance to the Hobgoblin stronghold
• (Optional) Slay the captive wight priest (15% of base XP)
• (Optional) Defeat the kobold ambush - 12 total (10% of base XP)
• (Optional) Slay 50 Kobolds (20% of base XP)
• (Optional) Slay Human Necromancer (35% of base XP)

What to Expect

• Traps (fixed, 1 undisarmable)
• Points of no return
• Overlapping floors
• Puzzle (mandatory: tile puzzle)
• Spawning/respawning monsters
• Runes (optional: require INT checks)
• Stat check (optional: 1 door, requires STR check to break down; 2 runes, require INT checks to activate)
• Contains the entrance to another quest (to The Cloven-jaw Scourge: The Caverns of Shaagh)

Known Traps

Trap DCs

• Spike and blade trap in the room to the north after the second drop, behind the locked gate
• Sonic trap behind a secret door in the water, protecting a collectable. Fires once; no way to disable.
• Spike traps behind the crystal-locked door. Two sets of them, and the control panels only disable half of the corresponding set.

Tips and Misc

• The INT runes near the entrance require INT 17 to activate.
  • If you can activate them, an optional wight priest will spawn.
• The kobold ambush optional will also count towards the slay 50 kobolds optional
• There are several points where you have to drop from one level to a lower one. After that point, there is no way to return to the previous higher level.
  • The first of these is just past the first shrine, after you pass the blockade.
  • The second is actually in the same spot, after you drop down into the Puzzle Room.
• The Puzzle Room warns you not to power the four posts. Each post, once powered will spawn a spider, one of which will be a Black Widow. Spin the tiles away from posts to eliminate this threat.
• Behind the locked gate to the north, after the second drop, will be a group of kobolds and a chest with a closed gate on one side and a wooden door on the other. The door will need to be smashed to open.
  • Killing the Kobolds will unlock the chest and open the gate.
  • Fighting too close to the wooden door may break it down before you are ready, making for a much larger fight.
• The human necromancer is past the door which you need to smash down, just before the long ladder down; a STR of 15-16 is required (fireball or burning hands can also be used)
• Bonus XP
  • Aggression bonus: 51 monsters killed
  • Onslaught bonus: 66 monsters killed
  • Conquest bonus: 81 monsters killed
  • Tamper bonus: 2 traps disarmed
  • Neutralization bonus: 3 traps disarmed
  • Mischief bonus: 84 breakables smashed
  • Vandal bonus: 109 breakables smashed
  • Ransack bonus: 134 breakables smashed

External Links:

• Lost Quest Guide
• Spyderwolf's Youtube Video Quest Walkthrough

Loot

• Chests: Five
  • One down the western fork on the upper level, which spawns a kobold ambush
  • One behind the locked gate to the north, after the second drop
  • One behind the iron key locked sewer tunnel to the west after the second drop, just before the long ladder down
  • One in the room with the long bridge and the mushrooms, to the northwest
  • One at the very end, past the entrance to the stronghold
• Collectables: Nine
  • Moss down the western fork on the upper level, just before the kobold ambush chest
  • Crude Altar just before the first big drop, after the first shrine
  • Cabinet after the second drop, with the zombies
  • Cabinet with the human necromancer
  • Alchemy Table to the north after the long ladder down
  • Rubble in the water before the crystal-locked door, by the third shrine
  • Adventurer's Pack behind a secret door to the north of the watery tunnel, protected by a sonic trap
  • Moss to the south on the mid-point level in the mushroom area
  • Adventurer's Pack to the north on the mid-point level in the mushroom area
• NPC rewards: None, until you finish quest chain.

Monsters

Monster Information

• • Arcane Skeleton
  • Black Widows
  • Brown Spiders
  • Dwarf Zombie
  • Elf Zombies
  • Ghouls
  • Glass Spider
  • Gray oozes
  • Halfling Zombie
  • Hobgoblin Guard
  • Hobgoblin Infiltrator
  • Human Necromancer
  • Kobolds
  • Kobold Shamans
  • Kobold Sneaks
  • Kobold Throwers
  • Kobold Warriors
  • Skeletons
  • Skeleton Archer
  • Skeleton Swordsmen
  • Skeleton Veterans
  • Small Brown Spider
  • Troglodytes
  • Wight Priest

Named Monsters:

• • Amrog the Gatewarden - orange-named Hobgoblin. Always spawns