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Detour

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Detour is the 1st quest in The Netherese Legacy story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line.
Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.
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The first four quests can be completed in any order to unlock The End of the Road.
Detour • Rest Stop • Lost in the Swamp • A Stay at the Inn • The End of the Road


A Harper wizard has asked for help taking a Nether Scroll piece to a safer location at the end of Greenweald Lane.

Requires access to adventure pack: The High Road of Shadows
Detour
Heroic level: 18
Epic level: 24
Duration: Long
Heroic XP:  ♣3,352Solo/Casual ♦5,798Normal ♥6,009Hard ♠6,220Elite
Epic XP:  ♣11,719Solo/Casual ♦20,134Normal ♥20,735Hard ♠21,337Elite
Takes place in: Greenweald Lane
Bestowed by: Tibalt Dormen
NPC contact: Tibalt Dormen
Quest acquired in: Eveningstar
Patron: The Harpers
Base favor: 7
Purchase: The High Road of Shadows or VIP
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

A Harper has found one of Oriphaun's Nether Scroll pieces, but he needs your help with transporting the intensely magical fragment to a safe location.

Take the High Road to the Greenweald Trail. Once there, meet with the wizard Bensen Virandson and assist him with the scroll piece.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Speak with Bensen Virandson
  • Escort Bensen to the Harper Lodge
  • Contain the Nether Scroll Fragment
  • Defeat Dom, the mercenary leader
  • (Optional) Defeat Thoven — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Nil — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Pelloth — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Song — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Dolthin — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Rand — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )
  • (Optional) Defeat Udere — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣168 ♦290 ♥300 ♠311 ) Epic( ♣586 ♦1,007 ♥1,037 ♠1,067 )

Known Traps

Trap DC: Heroic and Epic

Fire Spell Wards around Song's group

Tips and Misc

Quick walkthrough: Enter the quest. Break breakables in the house. Leave the house. Break breakables around the house. Talk to guy and get going. He is mostly invulnerable, but sometimes a dretch spawns when he takes hits. Follow the winding path, slaying humanoid skirmishers and archers, etc., including several orange named monsters. Areas off the path may contain wolves, spiders or bears. Pass a shrine around halfway through. When you approach an orange bard named Song, beware the spell wards.

Ultimately, you arrive at a big house. Your companion promptly enters the cellar, but you can safely break breakables and shrine up (upstairs). Then enter the cellar and break breakables. Buff up, speak to end boss and kill him, along with his Earth Elemental pet and some other friends he gets. Opening the magically warded container concludes the quest.

  • There is a point near Thoven which can be used as shortcut with a high enough Jump skill.
  • The spawned dretches don't count towards your kills bonus; it may be worth leaving Bensen at the start of the quest and going back for him, especially if you have Dimension Door, to avoid having to fight them.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣335 ♦580 ♥601 ♠622 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣503 ♦870 ♥901 ♠933 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣838 ♦1,450 ♥1,502 ♠1,555 )
  • Tamper bonus: 3 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣335 ♦580 ♥601 ♠622 )
  • Neutralization bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣670 ♦1,160 ♥1,202 ♠1,244 )
  • Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 5 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣1,006 ♦1,739 ♥1,803 ♠1,866 )
  • Mischief bonus: 33 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣268 ♦464 ♥481 ♠498 )
  • Vandal bonus: 43 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣335 ♦580 ♥601 ♠622 )
  • Ransack bonus: 53 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣503 ♦870 ♥901 ♠933 )
Notes: The Spell Wards may respawn; if that happens, you will need to disable significantly more. In this case, 13 will only get you a Tamper bonus. Also Spell Wards may just disappear, maybe dispelled by Benson without lowering the limit.
  • Insta-killing Song seems to prevent more wards from spawning.
  • Keeping the second wave of traps from appearing (by either searching or running into them) will keep the requirement from resetting, so don't search these out if you think you can avoid them.
  • Similarly, avoiding searching out the first wave before the fight (i.e., luring Song and cohorts away from the traps before engaging, so the traps are neither searched nor run into) may also change the requirements (untested theory).

Loot

  • Chests: 4
    • One after defeating Nil
    • One after defeating Song
    • One after defeating Rand
    • One after defeating Dom (end chest)
  • Collectables: 6
    • Adventurer's Pack — on the ridge after Nil's ambushBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering EmberOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Adventurer's Pack — on the point of the ridge further down (a little before Thoven's ambush)Blessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering EmberOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Adventurer's Pack — on a ridge just before Song's ambushBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering EmberOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Adventurer's Pack — on a ridge just after Dolthin's ambush, amongst the spider treesBlessed CandleRuddy FungusChipped Bone TalismanSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseTear of VulkoorIvory Scorpion IconSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageSwaying Mushroom ClusterSwaying Mushroom Spore PodPolished OreVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleZygomycota FungusStone FetishWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueMystical FormulaSlime MoldGlowmoss SporesBlister BeetleScarlet CryptmossGlowmoss ClumpOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustSmoldering EmberOrnate CharmShimmering Spore PodAdventuring OratorioToken of the SpiderVial of Dragon's Blood InkHairy Trumpet MushroomArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsCrypt MothAncient TextFlint KnifeBrass Censer
    • Bones — behind an outbuilding at the endGlowmoss SporesScarlet CryptmossCrypt MothHairy Trumpet MushroomShimmering Spore PodSlime MoldBlister BeetleSwaying Mushroom ClusterZygomycota FungusRuddy FungusSanguine MothBloodfeast FungusSwaying Mushroom Spore PodGlowmoss Clump
    • Cabinet — on the catwalk in the basement, to the north (can be reached by ladder at the far right, in the dark)Blessed CandleTome: Alchemist's ChapbookAcademic TreatiseSilver BowlRitual AthameCryptic MessageVial of Heavy WaterRitual CandleWarehouse LedgerEncoded CommuniqueOceanic SphereMortar and PestleFractured FemurPrismatic DustAdventuring OratorioVial of Dragon's Blood InkArchaic LogbookPouch of Bone FragmentsAncient TextBrass Censer

NPC end rewards

Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.

Named Chest Drop

Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Wizard's Ward (level 16)
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Orb 16 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Normal)
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 16)
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Boots 16 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Heroic Normal)
Wizard's Ward (level 17)
(edit)
Orb 17 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Hard)
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 17)
(edit)
Boots 17 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Heroic Hard)
Wizard's Ward (level 18)
(edit)
Orb 18 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Elite)
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 18)
(edit)
Boots 18 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Heroic Elite)
Wizard's Ward (level 23)
(edit)
Orb 23 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Epic Normal), Netherese Legacy chain end reward
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 23)
(edit)
Boots 23 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Epic Normal), Netherese Legacy chain end reward
Wizard's Ward (level 24)
(edit)
Orb 24 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Epic Hard)
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 24)
(edit)
Boots 24 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Epic Hard)
Wizard's Ward (level 25)
(edit)
Orb 25 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, Song's chest (Epic Elite)
Treads of Falling Shadow (level 25)
(edit)
Boots 25 Bound to Character on EquipBound to Character on Equip: This item is Bound to Character on Equip Detour, end chest (Epic Elite)

Based on Detour loot ( t • e • h )

Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Brush Creeper( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Vermin Spider
Dire Bear( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥21Hard ♠26Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Animal Bear
Dolthin( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Dom( view
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 ♦21Normal ♥25Hard ♠31Elite ♦26Epic Normal ♥30Epic Hard ♠37Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Dretch( view
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 ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ♦18Epic Normal ♥22Epic Hard ♠16Epic Elite Evil Outsider Demon
Netherese Wizard( view
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 ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Nil( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Pelloth( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Elf Drow Elf
Rand( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Halfling Halfling
Roving Wolf( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Animal Wolf
Sellsword Archer( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Sellsword Brute( view
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 ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Sellsword Footpad( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Sellsword Skirmisher( view
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 ♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ♦24Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Humanoid Human
Slam( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Elemental Earth Elemental
Song( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Elf Elf
Summoned Shadow( view
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 ♦16Normal ♥20Hard ♠26Elite ♦22Epic Normal ♥26Epic Hard ♠34Epic Elite Undead Shadow
Thoven( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Elf Elf
Udere( view
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 ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Elf Drow Elf
Umbral Worg( view
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 ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ♦25Epic Normal ♥29Epic Hard ♠36Epic Elite Undead Shadow