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The Prison of the Planes
 Requires access to adventure pack: Ruins of Gianthold
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An ancient prison held creatures from many planes of existence. But do any of the prisoners survive?
| The Prison of the Planes | |
| Heroic level: | 14 |
| Epic level: | None |
| Duration: | Very Long |
| Heroic XP: | ♣2,328 Solo/Casual Normal Hard Elite |
| Epic XP: | N/A |
| Takes place in: | The Prison of the Planes |
| NPC contact: | Nimbus Ar'Yong |
| Quest acquired in: | Gianthold |
| Patron: | Agents of Argonnessen |
| Base favor: | 6 |
| Free to Play: | No |
| Extreme Challenge: | No |
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Overview
Nimbus, commander of the Storm's Eye, offered you a deal. 'We've found a large structure that appears to be filled with closed portals and unique cells. Inscriptions on the wall refer to the place as the Prison of the Planes. I'm convinced there has to be a unique relic of extreme power left inside. If you recover it you'll be the first (character race) I let join the Storm's Eye Brigade.'
- Completing this quest will make you a member of the Storm's Eye Brigade and you will be able to teleport out of Gianthold using the first Port option. This is one of three Brigades you must join in order to qualify for the Reaver's Fate Raid.
Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!
Objectives
- Explore the area for anything of value
- Access the Dal Quor chamber
- Investigate the control panel
- Fill the Dal Quor chamber receptors
- Activate the portal to Dal Quor
- (Optional) Pass the Daanvi prisoner's challenge: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Dolurrh: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Fernia: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Lamannia: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Mabar: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Risia: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Shavarath: (10% of base XP)
- (Optional) Defeat the prisoners from Xoriat: (10% of base XP)
What to Expect
- Traps (fixed, undisarmable)
- Overlapping floors
- Spawning/respawning monsters
- Puzzle (mandatory: lever puzzle)
- Requires extra player(s)/hireling(s) (mandatory: 1 person to stay outside each room and pull a lever while the rest of the party stays inside the room)
Known Traps
- Gates inside this quest can hurt you with lightning damage.
Tips and Misc
First - Talk to Nimbus to start the quest. Buff up and start clearing the hallways that ramp up to the top of the prison. You are heading for the top room. Enemies you will meet on the way include dwarves (Gold Clerics, Gold Fighters), humans (Zakya archers) and Rakshasas. Enemy casters use Symbol of Flame, boiling blood, inflict wounds, cold shield, Magic Missile. You can ignore these at this time and kill them later, but it makes the quest much easier if you clear as you go up.
On the way up, in the second room to the left (Irian) filled with Zakya guards, find the Warden's Note at the back of the room on the floor with the code for the Warden’s levers. It contains instructions needed later regarding the position of four levers in a combination of down and up. Once you have read the scroll, the text from it will appear in general chat, or type it into party chat for easy reference. The sequence is random each time so you will need to look at the scroll each time you run the quest. You will also pass a room with a campfire with four guys who do not attack at this time.
Second - At the top of the hallways is a room with a dwarf outside. Pick the door (DC 50) or send a diplomacy, bluff or intimidate person back down to the room with the camp. With a decent skill in one of those, you can get the key from the leader. If you fail the check, you will have to kill him and his mates and get the key that way. (Please help by contributing info on the required DC.)
In the top room on the back wall, there are four dials and a valve. As soon as the first player crosses the room towards the dials, the doors will close and the Undead Warden (a giant skeleton) will appear, so try and enter together. Kill the Warden. Web works well if you want him to stay still, because giant skeletons have terrible reflex saves.
The dials start in position with all four facing Down. Place the levers in the correct spots (according to the Warden's scroll that you read earlier - refer to your chat log) and turn the valve. The force shields guarding the central chamber will drop. The lever on the right hand wall will be used later on.
Third - Head down to the bottom of the middle and grab the loose orb at the base of the ramp. Move up the ramp and choose which rooms the party will tackle to collect the orbs.
You must fight the prisoners in the prison cells to gather orbs for the final room. Six orbs are required for the last room; each room will need one orb to open and give two orbs when finished, so at least five rooms must be completed. Two chests drop randomly in the prison cells and each chest has a chance at a unique random loot drop. It doesn't matter which rooms are done; it is a matter of collecting enough orbs and/or finding the two loot chests.
Put one orb into the Ancient Receptor at the door to the room. Leave one person outside at the lever while everyone else goes into the room. Buff as necessary according to the type of attack. Have the person outside pull the lever; they will be shut out while everyone else battles the bad guys. When the prisoners have been killed, check whether a chest has popped in the room, and collect the two orbs from the back of each room. Move on to the next cell.
Each prison cell is marked with a symbol indicating the prisoners and plane of imprisonment. The order of the rooms never changes and is as follows from the bottom upwards:
- Symbol of the Order of Daanvi - This is no combat. A lawful player must answer the questions of Sir Raleigh correctly to successfully complete the chamber. Bypass if you do not have a lawful person, or if you want to get straight to the fight. If you do answer the questions, be sure to answer them with your alignment in mind. No possible chest here.
- Symbol of Dolurrh - Defeat the Marut and Undying Centurions. The undead could be wraiths, specters or myrmidon wights. Death ward, firewall and smiting and disruption weapons are optimal in here. Unique loot: Death's Locket.
- Symbol of the Plane of Fernia - Fire. Defeat the fire mephits and named Efreeti (the center of room turns to lava). Chourush the Efreeti and fire elementals and mephits are imprisoned here. Crowd control and instant death spells work well. Unique loot: Charoush's Inferno.
- Symbol of the Plane of Lammania - Lightning. Djinn, air elementals, earth elementals, air mephits and bezekira are all possible here. Lightning resist and crowd control, Symbol of Fear and Otto's Sphere of Dancing are great. True Seeing helps melees; ranged damage and instant-kill spells are best for air elementals. Unique loot: Ring of the Djinn.
- Symbol of the Plane of Mabar - Shadow. Defeat the vampire, shadows and greater umbral gargoyles. Deathward, firewall and disruptors are optimal. Vorpal works on vampires. Unique loot: Ring of Shadows.
- Symbol of the Plane of Risia - Ice. Defeat Parnamuul (Ice Flenser, evil outsider) and ice mephits. Fire is subdued here, but firewall still works okay. Cloudkill, wounders, vorpals all are great too. Use crowd control like Symbol of Fear. Unique loot: Spiked Boots.
- Symbol of the Plane of Shavarath - Defeat Princess Aurelia (marilith) and Jarilith. Stand against the wall to avoid tail whip. Vorpal and range using good+cold iron weapons are optimal here, especially a ranger with manyshot. Unique loot: Royal Scimitar.
- Symbol of the Plane of Xoriat - Beholder and Mind Flayers. For mind flayers, instant death spells, Flesh to Stone, vorpal, anarchic or aberration bane weapons. Symbol of Fear or cloudkill if you can cast them. Unique loot: Kardin's Eye.
Finally - Once you have six orbs, return to the center chamber, drop to the bottom and insert them into the slots. Gather your party in the center chamber and send one player back to the top room to flip the final switch, the one in the right hand wall. That player will have 10 seconds to return to the center chamber before the room seals again.
Buff with fire, cold, deathward, shield or nightshield. These will protect against the brunt of the attack. Spell resistance is nice for mindflayers. Also, if you discuss it beforehand, so everyone knows you are casting it, Globe of Invulnerability will suppress a mindflayer's mind thrust.
Once the center room seals, a warforged named Cochitlehua will appear, possessed by an ancient quori. Speak to the warforged and he will attack. Anarchic and pure good work well against him (suspected alignment is lawful evil). He will summon various creatures from the planes to attack you as you fight. Once Cochitlehua is defeated, the other creatures will disperse, the chest will appear and an ancient relic will appear on the ground.
The first person to touch the relic will advance the quest. If any other party member touches the relic, they will die with no save. Talk to each other to decide who will touch the relic.
The end chest will have 1d3 dragon relics. Unique loot: Dream Visor.
To complete the quest, one party member must run to the entrance and speak to Nimbus inside the Prison. To get your end reward, recall twice and speak to Nimbus in Gianthold.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 21 monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣244 ♦424 ♥442 ♠460 )
- Onslaught bonus: 28 monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣365 ♦636 ♥663 ♠690 )
- Conquest bonus: 34 monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣609 ♦1,060 ♥1,105 ♠1,150 )
(Thanks to Lost Leader for some of this walkthrough.)
Loot
- Chests: 3
- 2 optional in two of the cells (can spawn in multiple locations)
- 1 at the end for killing Cochitlehua (Warforged)
- NPC rewards: Random item.
Named Loot
- Dream Visor - Goggles: Spot +13Spot +13: Provides a +13 competence bonus to the wearer's Spot which is a Passive Wisdom based skill which allows you to notice hidden doors, traps, objects, and hidden enemies nearby -- without having to explicitly Search for them. No die roll is involved. If your score is high enough you will always succeed and if it's too low you'll never find something., Search -7Search -7: Gives a -7 competence penalty to the wearer's Search which is an Active Intelligence based skill which allows you to find hidden doors, traps, and objects when activated. Note that (like Spot) there is no die roll involved. If your score is high enough you will always succeed and if it's too low you'll never find something. (1 second cooldown) (Dal Quor final room)
- Death's Locket - Necklace: Deathblock, Cause Fear (Dolurrh room)
- Charoush's Inferno - +5 Bastard sword+5 Bastard sword: (1d10+5 19-20/×2): Also known as a hand-and-a-half sword, and the largest of the single-handed swords, this weapon requires special training to use.: Flaming BurstFlaming Burst: This weapon is sheathed in fire. A fire weapon deals an extra 1d6 fire damage on a successful hit. In addition critical hits deal an amount of extra fire damage depending on the weapon's critical multiplier: x2 - 1d10. x3 - 2d10. x4 - 3d10. (Fernia room) [ML:12]
- Ring of the Djinn - Ring: Lightning Resistance Lightning Resistance: This property absorbs the first 10 points of lightning damage per attack that the wearer would normally take., Lightning Absorption 33% (Lammania room)
- Spiked Boots - Boots: Balance +7Balance +7: Provides a +7 competence bonus to the wearer's Balance which is a Passive Dexterity based skill which increases the speed with which you get up after being knocked down., Slippery Surface ImmunitySlippery Surface Immunity: grants its wearer immunity to slippery surface effects. (Risia Room)
- Ring of Shadows - Ring: Move Silently +10Move Silently +10: Provides a +10 competence bonus to the wearer's Move Silently which is a Passive Dexterity based skill which allows you to sneak past monsters, avoiding their hearing. It ties directly into the feat Sneak., Hide +10Hide +10: Provides a +10 competence bonus to the wearer's Hide which is a Passive Dexterity based skill which allows you to sneak past monsters, avoiding their sight. Hide ties directly into the feat Sneak., Dusk (Mabar room)
- Royal Scimitar - +3 Scimitar+3 Scimitar: (1d6+3 18-20/x2): A curved sword favored by the elves of Valenar. The unique shape gives this weapon a keener edge.: Keen, Destruction (Shavarath room) [ML:12]
- Kardin's Eye - Trinket: Resistance Save +5Resistance Save +5: This item offers magical protection in the form of +5 resistance bonus on all saves. (Xoriat room) [ML:11]
Monsters
- Ancient Air Elementals
- Ancient Fire Elementals
- Bezekira
- Black Wolves
- Dread Wraith Lords
- Elder Earth Elementals
- Fire Mephit Warriors
- Gloaming Spirits
- Gold Concord Clerics
- Gold Concord Fighters
- Gold Concord Wizards
- Greater Shadows
- Greater Umbral Gargoyles
- Greater Umbral Worgs
- Human Paladins
- Ice Mephit Warriors
- Jariliths
- Mind Flayers
- Undying Centurions
- Zakya Cult Archers
- Zakya Cultists
- Zakya Rakshasas
- Zakya Rakshasa Lords
Named Monsters:
- Carum Imer - Orange-named rakshasa; spawns in the Shavarath room
- Charoush the Vizier - Orange-named efreet; spawns in the Fernia room
- Cochitlehua - Red-named warforged; end boss
- Death's Assurance - Orange-named inevitable; spawns in the Dolurrh room
- Drakhan - Orange-named vampire; spawns in the Mabar room
- Kardin - Orange-named beholder; spawns in the Shavarath room
- Parnamuul - Orange-named ice flenser; spawns in the Risia room
- Princess Aurelia - Orange-named marilith; spawns in the Shavarath room
- Tehram - Orange-named djinn; spawns in the Lammania room
- Undying Warden - Orange-named giant skeleton; required kill
DC for key
| Skill | Quest Difficulty | Skill Total | Suspected DC range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff | Normal | ||
| Hard | |||
| Elite | |||
| Diplomacy | Normal | ||
| Hard | |||
| Elite | |||
| Intimidate | Normal | ?-42 | |
| Hard | ?-42 | ||
| Elite | 38:Success | ?-38 |
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