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The Path to Madness
| The Path to Madness | |
| Heroic level: | 8 |
| Epic level: | None |
| Duration: | Short |
| Heroic XP: | ♣327 Solo/Casual Normal Hard Elite |
| Epic XP: | N/A |
| Takes place in: | The Path to Madness |
| NPC contact: | Gatekeeper Chulkash |
| Quest acquired in: | House Jorasco |
| Patron: | House Jorasco |
| Base favor: | 3 |
| Free to Play: | Yes |
| Extreme Challenge: | No |
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Overview
This quest is the entrance to the Xorian Cipher quest. Despite being a very short entrance quest, it has a favor reward and an adventure compendium entry.
Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!
Objectives
- Use the altar to enter the temple
- Slay the 2 drow scorpions to drop the barrier
- (Optional) Slay the sirens of insanity (9% of base XP)
What to Expect
- Spawning/respawning monsters
- Contains the entrance to another quest (to The Xorian Cipher)
Known Traps
None
Tips and Misc
You will enter this quest and run through the jungle. Have everyone run all the way, just follow the path, to the altar and fight all the skeletons and casters in one spot. The enemy casters and skeletons will be a little slow so be patient and they will all eventually show up.
The cultists use the poison spell very frequently; so have restoration and poison potions or spells.
Attacking the drow scorpion bosses will spawn more cultists. The bosses can dispel and heal.
There is one shrine just next to the altar, and one chest to be looted.
To finish the quest, click the altar. It will show a warning that you're about to leave the quest and face a reentry penalty, but you can ignore it and click yes. This will finish the quest. You can then proceed to Xorian Cipher or cancel and click Finish to return to house J.
Unlike most quests, you do not need to "return" this quest to anyone to conclude it and there is no NPC reward.
- Bonus XP
- Onslaught bonus: 23 monsters killed
- Conquest bonus: 28 monsters killed
Loot
- Chests: 1
- 1 at the end
- Collectables: 1
- Adventurer's Pack by the sirens
- NPC rewards: None
Monsters
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