Creeping Death

Arraetrikos sent one of his lieutenants to infiltrate Stormreach's sewers. But members of the Twelve have a plan to trap him.

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Creeping Death
Heroic level:	15
Epic level:	31 (considered Legendary)
Duration:	long
Heroic XP:	♣3,254Solo/Casual ♦5,655Normal ♥5,886Hard ♠6,118Elite
Epic XP:	♣15,607Solo/Casual ♦26,672Normal ♥27,331Hard ♠27,991Elite
Takes place in:	Sewer Ambuscade
Bestowed by:	Trull Knopper
NPC contact:	Trull Knopper
Quest acquired in:	Meridia
Patron:	The Twelve
Base favor:	6
Free to Play:	No
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Arraetrikos has sent Garko, one of his lieutenants, to infiltrate the sewers of Stormreach. However, members of the Twelve have learned of the lieutenant's plan and have laid a trap for him.

Travel to the Sewer Ambuscade beneath Stromreach and help the Twelve stop Garko.

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Objectives

• Speak to Leth, Emassary of the Twelve
• Defeat Garko the Great, Lieutenant of Arraetrikos
• Enter the Upper Sewer Complex
• Locate the entrance to the lower sewer complex
• Discover the location of the first sigil
• Empower the Sigil by activating three runes
• Wait until Garko strikes the first sigil to proceed
• Locate 2nd Sigil
• Defeat Horned Devil and activate rune
• Empower the sigil by activating the rune and lowering the drawbridge
• Enter the underwater passage
• Discover the end of the underwater passage.
• Wait until Garko strikes the second sigil to proceed
• Locate the third sigil
• Wait until Garko strikes the second sigil to proceed
• Locate Garko the Great

What to Expect

• Instant-death mechanics
• Overlapping map areas
• Lot of oozes
• Doors that require all mobs dead before opening (Ooze fragments don't have to die to open door)
• Pipe jumping / pillar jumping
• Puzzle
• Point of no return

Known Traps

Trap and Lock DCs
8 Traps: blades, ice, fire and poison

Tips and Misc

Puzzle

Puzzle

• There are a couple ways to 100% die in this quest. Stay alert.

• Don't let the red gelatinous cube touch you, or you die. No saving throw allowed.
  • There are some alcoves (some secret) that seem safe - they are, however you must squeeze as far away as possible from any hallway where the ooze is traveling, including through side-walls!

Walk through:
Open first door, talk to Leth, then buff up. Open door, wait for Garko to lower spike barrier. Don't jump down or you die (highly poisonous environment at the moment). Proceed north. Kill kobolds and oozes, mind the traps. Reach shrine, then drop down and run south.

• When a rune is lit a "sigil" is activated, and when Garko oozes over that, two things happen: 1) Garko, along with the cube Death Touch, is teleported ahead past the next barrier (so your current area is "safe", and only the next will be dangerous), and 2) the lever for the barrier to that next area is unlocked. There are 3 runes to light, 3 barriers to get through...

The way east is blocked by a barrier, so go west.

• First rune: northwest room - Pipe jumping section, activate 3 runes until objective changes.
  • There is a lever (not shown on map) high in the center of the room, that starts an airjet from the pipes below. It's not necessary for completion, but it can help.
  • Latecomers can jump down at this point and be safe from the earlier poison, but may still have some fighting to do, and possibly a red gelatinous cube to avoid, depending whether the main party has completed the second rune or not. Landing in the water and swimming to the western landing is a safe way to wait.
• Second rune: Continue west and south from the pipe room. Go to the west first, just under the quest entrance (now less poisonous). Kill the horned devil. Loot chest, pull lever (rune), shrine if needed. Return to water, dive (east) to enter a pillar jumping section. Jump across and pull lever (rune).
  • If you kite him out of the hallway (into the main room), the Horned Devil will white-dot and return to his starting point at full health.
  • Bug: Be careful with the timing of lowering the drawbridge. Make sure garko is not at the beginning of the drawbridge when you lower it, or he may become stuck.
  • This is the only barrier with a lever to lower it on both sides.
• Third rune: Go south across the drawbridge.* Solve puzzle (in large eastern room).

* The trap box is not as shown on map, it is on the west wall at the north end of that tunnel, before the water slides down.

• While solving puzzle, you can squeeze back against the barrier and be safe from Death Touch.
• Note that unlike the previous 2 barriers, this one has no lever on the far side, creating a soft Point of No Return. The only way to get back (without releasing) is either Dimension Door, or to leave a character, hireling or pet on the far side to pull the lever from there. There are no shrines forward of this point.

Continue north (not over the drawbridge, although there is a collectable there), killing more ooze and kobolds. Then kill Garko along with some oozes and kobolds.

• Garko starts alone, but he will summon help.
• Garko cannot be kited out of the room, he will whitedot to his spawn location. Summoned trash can be kited and killed outside.
• Killing Garko completes the quest; all trash disappears at that point.
• The air jets on the raised platforms in the boss room cannot be disarmed.

Bonus XP

• Aggression bonus: 123 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
• Onslaught bonus: ~173 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )
• Conquest bonus: 228 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♦1,414 ♥1,472 ♠1,530 )
• Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
• Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 7 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♦1,697 ♥1,766 ♠1,835 )
• Observance bonus: 1 or more secret door discovered +8% Bonus.( ♦452 ♥471 ♠489 )
• Perception bonus: 2 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus.( ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
• Mischief bonus: 32 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♦452 ♥471 ♠489 )
• Vandal bonus: 41 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
• Ransack bonus: 51 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )

Loot

• Chests: 2
  • One for defeating the Horned Devil
  • One end chest, can drop named items (and LGS mats on Legendary difficulty)

• NPC rewards:

Named Chest Drop

End chest, all Bound to AccountBound to Account: This item is Bound to Account, Heroic ML15 and Legendary ML29, also Mythic Boost variant

Heroic

• Arraetrikos' Bane (level 15) - (Ring): Fire Resistance +29Fire Resistance +29: Passive: +29 Enhancement bonus to your Fire Resistance., Insightful Enchantment Save +2Insightful Enchantment Save +2: +2 Insight bonus to your saves versus enchantments, Proof Against Poison +2Proof Against Poison +2: This item grants its wearer immunity to natural poisons. This item also grants a +2 Insight bonus to saving throws against magical poisons, and the wearer does not fail saving throws against them on a roll of a natural 1 (this renders the wearer immune to magical poisons with a DC of less than 3 + their Fortitude save)., Quality Disease Ward +1, Empty Yellow Augment Slot Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Boots of the Devil Commander - (Boots): Quality Physical Sheltering +5Quality Physical Sheltering +5: +5 Quality bonus to Physical Resistance Rating, Insightful Physical Sheltering +10Insightful Physical Sheltering +10: +10 Insight bonus to Physical Resistance Rating, Insightful Incite +10Insightful Incite +10: +10 Insight bonus to increased threat generation from melee damage, Fortification +94%Fortification +94%: +94% Enhancement bonus to reduced chance of taking critical damage on a critical hit., Empty Blue Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Construct's Mantle - (Cloak): Repair Amplification +20Repair Amplification: This effect amplifies all incoming repair healing by +20 (Enhancement bonus). Includes spells, potions, and other effects., Quality Intelligence +1Quality Intelligence +1: This item focuses the power of the wearer's mind, granting a +1 quality bonus to Intelligence., Repair +16Repair +16: Passive: +16 Competence bonus to the Repair skill., Quality Magnetism +23Quality Magnetism +23: Passive: +23 Quality bonus to Electricity Spell Power., Empty Green Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Pendant of the Warrior's Focus - (Necklace): Exceptional Combat Mastery +3Exceptional Combat Mastery +3: Passive: +3 Insight Bonus to the DC of your Trips, Sunder, and Stunning Blow attacks., Insightful Doublestrike 3%Insightful Doublestrike 3%: Passive: 3% Insight bonus to Doublestrike. (Doublestrike is a chance to score an additional hit with a melee attack.), Armor-Piercing - 12% Armor-Piercing - 12%: Passive: +12% Enhancement bonus to Fortification Bypass. (Fortification Bypass makes your attacks ignore a percentage of enemy Fortification.), Insightful Fortitude Save +2Insightful Fortitude Save +2: This item gives a +2 Insight bonus to your Fortitude saves., Empty Blue Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Subtle Sound - (Trinket): Insightful Deception (+3/+4), Quality Seeker 1Quality Seeker 1: Provides a +1 Quality bonus to confirm critical hits, and a +1 Quality bonus to critical hit damage (before multipliers are applied)., Insightful Assassinate +1, Use Magic Device +2Use Magic Device +2: Passive: +2 Competence bonus to the Use Magic Device skill., Empty Green Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15

Legendary

• Arraetrikos' Bane (level 29) - (Ring): Fire Resistance +53Fire Resistance +53: Passive: +53 Enhancement bonus to your Fire Resistance., Insightful Enchantment Save +5Insightful Enchantment Save +5: +5 Insight bonus to your saves versus enchantments, Proof Against Poison +5Proof Against Poison +5: This item grants its wearer immunity to natural poisons. This item also grants a +5 Insight bonus to saving throws against magical poisons, and the wearer does not fail saving throws against them on a roll of a natural 1 (this renders the wearer immune to magical poisons with a DC of less than 6 + their Fortitude save)., Quality Disease Ward +2, Empty Yellow Augment Slot Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Legendary Boots of the Devil Commander - (Boots): Quality Physical Sheltering +9Quality Physical Sheltering +9: +9 Quality bonus to Physical Resistance Rating, Insightful Physical Sheltering +18Insightful Physical Sheltering +18: +18 Insight bonus to Physical Resistance Rating, Insightful Incite +18Insightful Incite +18: +18 Insight bonus to increased threat generation from melee damage, Fortification +149%Fortification +149%: +149% Enhancement bonus to reduced chance of taking critical damage on a critical hit., Empty Blue Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Legendary Construct's Mantle - (Cloak): Repair Amplification +56Repair Amplification: This effect amplifies all incoming repair healing by +56 (Enhancement bonus). Includes spells, potions, and other effects., Quality Intelligence +3Quality Intelligence +3: This item focuses the power of the wearer's mind, granting a +3 quality bonus to Intelligence., Repair +21Repair +21: Passive: +21 Competence bonus to the Repair skill., Quality Magnetism +36Quality Magnetism +36: Passive: +36 Quality bonus to Electricity Spell Power., Empty Green Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Legendary Pendant of the Warrior's Focus - (Necklace): Exceptional Combat Mastery +6Exceptional Combat Mastery +6: Passive: +6 Insight Bonus to the DC of your Trips, Sunder, and Stunning Blow attacks., Insightful Doublestrike 7%Insightful Doublestrike 7%: Passive: 7% Insight bonus to Doublestrike. (Doublestrike is a chance to score an additional hit with a melee attack.), Armor-Piercing - 21% Armor-Piercing - 21%: Passive: +21% Enhancement bonus to Fortification Bypass. (Fortification Bypass makes your attacks ignore a percentage of enemy Fortification.), Insightful Fortitude Save +5Insightful Fortitude Save +5: This item gives a +5 Insight bonus to your Fortitude saves., Empty Blue Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15
• Legendary Subtle Sound - (Trinket): Insightful Deception (+5/+8), Quality Seeker 3Quality Seeker 3: Provides a +3 Quality bonus to confirm critical hits, and a +3 Quality bonus to critical hit damage (before multipliers are applied)., Insightful Assassinate +2, Use Magic Device +5Use Magic Device +5: Passive: +5 Competence bonus to the Use Magic Device skill., Empty Green Augment Slot Blue Augments
  • AC: Natural Armor Bonus or Protection (Deflection bonus): +1 to +8
  • ASF reduction: -5% to -15%
  • Fortification: +25% to +100%
  • Golem's Heart
  • Good Luck: +1 or +2
  • Hit points: +5 to +40
  • Max Dex Bonus (Armor): +1 or +2
  • Defense (PRR and MRR): +2 to +16
  • Saves (Resistance bonus): +1 to +8
  Yellow Augments
  • Deathblock
  • Draconic Soul Gem
  • Elemental Resistance: +5 to +40
  • Immunity: Fear, Blindness
  • Movement: Feather Falling, Striding: +5% to +30%, Underwater Action
  • Proof Against Disease, Poison: +2 to +10
  • Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus (Enhancement bonus)
  • Spell points (Enhancement bonus): +10 to +250
  Colorless Augments
  • Ability (Enhancement bonus): +1 to +8
  • Ability (Exceptional bonus): +1
  • Ability (Insight bonus): +1 or +2
  • Diamond of Vitality +20
  • Globe of Imperial Blood
  • Globe of True Imperial Blood
  • Master's Gift
  • Skills, except UMD (Competence bonus): +3 to +15

• Ingredients
  • Codex Runes, 3-7 on LH difficulty
  • LGS materials, small and medium

Monsters

Name(picture)	CR	Type	Race
Garko (NoPic)	♦18Normal ♠23Elite ●♠61Epic Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Horned Devil Invader (view)	♦18Normal ♠23Elite	Evil Outsider	Devil
Fiendish Kobold Shaman (NoPic)	♦15Normal ♠20Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Fiendish Kobold Slinger (NoPic)	♦15Normal ♠20Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Fiendish Kobold (NoPic)	♦15Normal ♠20Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Large Black Pudding Fragment (view)	♦13Normal ♥13Hard ♠13Elite	Ooze	Black Pudding
Large Black Pudding (view)	♦15Normal ♥17Hard ♠20Elite ●♦29Epic Normal	Ooze	Black Pudding
Large Unstable Arcane Ooze (view)	♠20Elite	Ooze	Arcane Ooze

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