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Black and Blue
The Cult of the Dragon Below has been searching for Giantish artifacts deep in the jungles of Xen'drik.
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Black and Blue | |
Heroic level: | 10 |
Epic level: | 31 (considered Legendary) |
Duration: | long |
Heroic XP: | ♣3,170Solo/Casual ♦5,572Normal ♥5,860Hard ♠6,147Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣19,377Solo/Casual ♦33,117Normal ♥33,937Hard ♠34,758Elite |
Takes place in: | Giantish Ruins |
Bestowed by: | Mikyra |
NPC contact: | Mikyra |
Quest acquired in: | The Marketplace |
Patron: | Agents of Argonnessen |
Base favor: | 5 |
Purchase: | Dragonblood Prophecy or VIP |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
A Cult of the Dragon Below has been searching for Giantish artifacts deep in the jungles of Xen'drik. A Dragon named Urgnonth was protecting a Giantish site, but has suddenly gone missing. Speak with Mikyra in the Marketplace, and she'll send you to find out what happened to Urgnonth.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Locate the Agent of Argonessen
- Speak to Urgnonth
- Free Urgnonth
- Speak to Urgnonth near the sealed portal
- Save the artifact
- Retrieve the second artifact
- Continue further into the complex
- Cross the first aqueduct
- Seek out the second aqueduct
- Traverse the second aqueduct
- Locate the third aqueduct
- Gain access to the Giantish ruin
- Disable the wards protecting the artifact chamber
- Defeat Goralin
- (Optional) Explore the revealed cavern — Bonus (1%): Heroic( ♣32 ♦56 ♥59 ♠61 ) Epic( ♣194 ♦331 ♥339 ♠348 )
- (Optional) Save the hidden artifact — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣476 ♦836 ♥879 ♠922 ) Epic( ♣2,907 ♦4,968 ♥5,091 ♠5,214 )
Known Traps
- Electrified water in the aqueducts and the endfight, not disarmable
- Blades by the Adventurer's Pack in the first aqueduct
- Blades along the north wall of the tunnel past the second aqueduct (heading towards the second shrines)
Tips and Misc
- Bug: When you first see Urgnonth, he's behind a barrier that has no physics.[1]
- Bug: Avoid bursting down the dragon too quickly (Ruin, Manyshot, etc.) or the quest may glitch and make it impossible to progress.
- In the first aqueduct, be sure to stay on the rocky outcroppings.
- In the second and third aqueducts, some of the rocky outcroppings will collapse under you; these are visually distinguishable. "Square" marked terrain will crumble.
- Kaxith Nar will appear near the end of the second aqueduct.
- In the third aqueduct, there are three switches together on the north wall (Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ). Pull switch one (leftmost) then find the corresponding lever further in the passage and pull it. Come back to the three switches (or, have a party member or hireling stand by the three) and pull switch two (middle). Go further down the passage, find lever 2 and pull it. Repeat this process for the last switch/lever combination. There will be some spread out archers down the passage that will snipe at you as you do the switch/lever actions.
- The hidden cavern (and artifact) can be found in the third aqueduct, along the southern wall (before the first Lever of three), near the breakable urns opposite side of the; Lever (Ⅰ) carved stone. It can only be accessed by diving into the electrified water. However, the water is only electrified on the surface by the entrance; the rest of it is safe.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 95 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣317 ♦557 ♥586 ♠615 )
- Onslaught bonus: 123 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣476 ♦836 ♥879 ♠922 )
- Conquest bonus: 152 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣793 ♦1,393 ♥1,465 ♠1,537 )
- Tamper bonus: 1 or more trap disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣317 ♦557 ♥586 ♠615 )
- Mischief bonus: 23 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣254 ♦446 ♥469 ♠492 )
- Vandal bonus: 30 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣317 ♦557 ♥586 ♠615 )
- Ransack bonus: 37 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣476 ♦836 ♥879 ♠922 )
Loot
- Chests: 3
- One chest for defeating Kaxith Nar
- One optional chest for saving the hidden artifact.
- One end chest
- Collectables:
- Adventurer's Pack — by the lever for the northern rune (Sigma/reverse "E")
- Adventurer's Pack — in the first aqueduct, along the southern wall
- Adventurer's Pack — in the second aqueduct, along the eastern wall
- Adventurer's Pack — near the end of the third aqueduct, along the southern wall
- Adventurer's Pack — above the southern lever (not on map)
- Adventurer's Pack — by the lever for the northern rune (Sigma/reverse "E")
- NPC rewards: Standard
Named Chest Drop
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Aqueduct Scorpion ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Vermin | Scorpion |
Cult Adherent ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Cult Canonist ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Cult Disciple ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Cult Invoker ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Cult Seeker ( view • edit ) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Cult Warden ( view • edit ) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Goralin ( view • edit ) | ♦13Normal ♥15Hard ♠18Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Dragon | Black Dragon |
Kaxith Nar ( view • edit ) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦33Epic Normal | Aberration | Drow Scorpion |
Verminous Scorpion ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Vermin | Scorpion |
External Links
- Dragonblood Prophecy quests
- Epic quests
- Long quests
- Giantish Ruins quests
- The Marketplace quests
- Agents of Argonnessen patron quests
- Pay to Play quests
- Game bugs
- Quests with collectables/5
- Quests by name
- Compendium:Level 10 (31 epic) quests
- Level 31 quests
- Level 10 quests
- Quests with 5 base favor reward
- Quests with maps
- Links to YouTube
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