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Detour
| Detour is the 1st quest in The Netherese Legacy story arc 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.
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| Detour | |
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| 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 |

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
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 ambush













































- Adventurer's Pack — on the point of the ridge further down (a little before Thoven's ambush)













































- Adventurer's Pack — on a ridge just before Song's ambush













































- Adventurer's Pack — on a ridge just after Dolthin's ambush, amongst the spider trees













































- Bones — behind an outbuilding at the end















- Cabinet — on the catwalk in the basement, to the north (can be reached by ladder at the far right, in the dark)





















- Adventurer's Pack — on the ridge after Nil's ambush
NPC end rewards
Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.
Named Chest Drop
| Last Edited | Item | Type | Enhancements | ML | Bind | Quests |
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Wizard's Ward (level 16) |
Orb |
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16 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Normal) |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 16) |
Boots |
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16 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Heroic Normal) |
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Wizard's Ward (level 17) |
Orb |
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17 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Hard) |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 17) |
Boots |
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17 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Heroic Hard) |
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Wizard's Ward (level 18) |
Orb |
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18 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Heroic Elite) |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 18) |
Boots |
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18 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Heroic Elite) |
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Wizard's Ward (level 23) |
Orb |
|
23 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Epic Normal), Netherese Legacy chain end reward |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 23) |
Boots |
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23 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Epic Normal), Netherese Legacy chain end reward |
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Wizard's Ward (level 24) |
Orb |
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24 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Epic Hard) |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 24) |
Boots |
|
24 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Epic Hard) |
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Wizard's Ward (level 25) |
Orb |
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25 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, Song's chest (Epic Elite) |
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Treads of Falling Shadow (level 25) |
Boots |
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25 | Bound to Character on Equip |
Detour, end chest (Epic Elite) |
Based on Detour loot ( t • e • h )
Monsters
| Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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| Brush Creeper ( view |
♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Vermin | Spider |
Dire Bear ( view![]() |
♦18Normal ♥21Hard ♠26Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Animal | Bear |
Dolthin ( view![]() |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
| Dom ( view |
♦21Normal ♥25Hard ♠31Elite ●♦26Epic Normal ●♥30Epic Hard ●♠37Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
| Dretch ( view |
♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦18Epic Normal ●♥22Epic Hard ●♠16Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
| Netherese Wizard ( view |
♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Nil ( view![]() |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
| Pelloth ( view |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
| Rand ( view |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Halfling | Halfling |
| Roving Wolf ( view |
♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Animal | Wolf |
Sellsword Archer ( view![]() |
♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Sellsword Brute ( view![]() |
♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
| Sellsword Footpad ( view |
♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Sellsword Skirmisher ( view![]() |
♦18Normal ♥22Hard ♠28Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
| Slam ( view |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Elemental | Earth Elemental |
Song ( view![]() |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Elf | Elf |
Summoned Shadow ( view![]() |
♦16Normal ♥20Hard ♠26Elite ●♦22Epic Normal ●♥26Epic Hard ●♠34Epic Elite | Undead | Shadow |
| Thoven ( view |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Elf | Elf |
Udere ( view![]() |
♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
Umbral Worg ( view![]() |
♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠36Epic Elite | Undead | Shadow |
- The Netherese Legacy chain quests
- Epic quests
- Long quests
- Greenweald Lane quests
- Eveningstar quests
- The Harpers patron quests
- Pay to Play quests
- Quests by name
- Quests with maps
- Level 24 quests
- Compendium:Level 18 (24 epic) quests
- Level 18 quests
- Quests with 7 base favor reward
- The High Road of Shadows quests
- Quests with collectables/6

































