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Dread Sea Scrolls
You've been asked to keep an eye on Foxpaw the Gatekeeper. He's at his laboratory just north of the Harbor, trying to discover a method of destroying Codex pages.
Dread Sea Scrolls | |
Heroic level: | 6 |
Epic level: | 32 (considered Legendary) |
Duration: | Medium |
Heroic XP: | ♣1,141Solo/Casual ♦2,032Normal ♥2,160Hard ♠2,289Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣8,980Solo/Casual ♦15,335Normal ♥15,702Hard ♠16,069Elite |
Takes place in: | Northshore Wharves |
Bestowed by: | Iris Joll |
NPC contact: | Iris Joll |
Quest acquired in: | The Hut from Beyond |
Patron: | The Gatekeepers |
Base favor: | 4 |
Purchase: | Free to Play |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
Foxpaw the Gatekeeper has a plan to destroy Codex pages once and for all - what could go wrong? The entrance to this quest is in The Hut in The Harbor. Talk to Iris.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Speak with Foxpaw
- Find the Devourer Shrine
- Speak with Sahuagin
- Find the Conch of Secrets
- Track down the Dread Pirates
- Rescue Foxpaw
- Defeat Dread Pirate Roberts
- Speak with Foxpaw again
- Retrieve the stolen Codex Page (note: if the page is collected before speaking with Foxpaw, this objective will never appear)
- (Optional) Help Foxpaw troubleshoot his machine — Bonus (18%): Heroic( ♣205 ♦366 ♥389 ♠412 ) Epic( ♣1,616 ♦2,760 ♥2,826 ♠2,892 )
- (Optional) Deliver Greigur's message to Yorrick and Graden — Bonus (12%): Heroic( ♣137 ♦244 ♥259 ♠275 ) Epic( ♣1,078 ♦1,840 ♥1,884 ♠1,928 )
Known Traps
- Various Elemental traps within the initial Puzzle room
- Bear traps
- Pressure plates
Tips and Misc
This free quest was introduced in Update 52.
Walkthrough
- Getting Started
- Walk up the ramps and talk to Foxpaw.
- Optional: If you're going to attempt the machine optional, do it now. Foxpaw's lab is destroyed later in the quest, making the puzzle uncompletable.
- The puzzle has two steps:
- First, pull "That Lever" on the second floor, and solve a tile puzzle on the ground to light all five runes simultaneously (careful of all the traps.)
- Second, solve a simple mirror and tile puzzle in the rafters, and watch the machine blow up.
- After this, a Steam Elemental spawns on the ground floor. Kill it for the optional XP and the chest.
- Pull the lever behind Foxpaw to open an exit to the basement.
- Leave the house and head straight across the open area and into a tavern.
- Speak to the "Thug" near the bar to initiate a bar fight. If you like, you can step outside for a minute and let most of the monsters finish each other off.
- After this, talk to the Sahuagin Guide (in a booth against the north wall), who agrees to lead you to the Conch.
- Follow him (generally south) to "The Maw of the Devourer".
- Into the Maw
- These caverns consist of three sections: an underwater spike course, a short tunnel with more spikes and then bear traps, and then a collection of shirt side-caves containing monsters. The spikes can be quite deadly, be careful.
- Randomly in this underground segment are three required crests; an axe, a scimitar, and a trident.
- Optional: A forth crest, the hammer, is behind a secret door. The hammer is optional, and will open the way to Greigur d'Deneith and a shrine later on.
- Known required crest locations:
- Underwater, at the very beginning or in a hole
- Underwater, in or just after the spikes
- On the wooden decking
- Scorpion cave
- Gator cave
- Rust monster cave
- Rat cave (behind a secret door), will be the optional hammer crest.
- Go west to slot with the crest sockets. Buff up before slotting the final crest – the first mini-boss, the Raptor of Unusual Size, is behind this door.
- Pirates!
- Beat down the red-named raptor and speak to the injured elder – pirates have broken in and swiped the conch!
- Head out, fighting off pirates and axe-wielding skeletons on that level.
- Optional: If you have the hammer crest, use it to open a door (just to the north) to a rest shrine and a balcony where you can speak to Greigur d'Deneith.
- Greigur will ask you to speak to Yorrick Amanatu and Graden Wylkes. Both of these are found later on your route.
- Now climb the stairs, keep going upwards and fight pirates across the rooftops. You'll eventually get to a large roof with several groups of pirates and raptors – kill the orange-named Very Important Pirate to drop the barrier blocking your way.
- Next is a small ddrop-down (or run along the side roofs and range the mobs below).
- Optional: Yorrick Amanatu is just at the end this section on a red roof, behind a group of pirates fighting guards.
- Drop further down at the north end of this area.
- The Finale
- One more big dropdown; Graden Wylkes is in the courtyard, with a couple of other Harbor NPCs.
- Foxpaw's house is full of raptors and on fire. Ignore it, and head west into the warehouse.
- The back door of the warehouse leads further west to a pier where the pirates' ship is docked. Clear pirates off the main deck, then head to the bow to confront the Dread Pirate Roberts.
- Talk to Foxpaw and the Sahuagin Elder. Afterwards, pick up the conch and scroll to finish the quest.
Trivia
- The names of the two bosses in this quest are references to the book and film The Princess Bride.
- On its launch, accessing this quest mistakenly required access to Masterminds of Sharn. This was patched out the following day.
Bonus XP
- Tamper bonus: 11 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣114 ♦203 ♥216 ♠229 )
- Neutralization bonus: 15 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣228 ♦406 ♥432 ♠458 )
- Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 18 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣342 ♦610 ♥648 ♠687 )
- Mischief bonus: 37 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣91 ♦163 ♥173 ♠183 )
- Vandal bonus: 49 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣114 ♦203 ♥216 ♠229 )
- Ransack bonus: 60 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣171 ♦305 ♥324 ♠343 )
Loot
- Chests: 3
- One at end completion (contains named loot)
- One behind a locked door in the harbor (chest is also locked)
- One for slaying Steam Elemental (spawns after troubleshooting Foxpaw's machine)
- Collectables: 4
- One Fungus in the rat cave
- One Fungus opposite the shrine near Greigur
- One Cabinet and one Adventurer's Pack in the warehouse
- NPC rewards:
Named Chest Drop
Last Edited | Item | Type | Enhancements | ML | Bind | Quests |
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Raptor Teeth Necklace (edit) | Necklace |
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6 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
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The Magic Conch (edit) | Trinket |
|
6 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
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Skeleton Hunter (edit) | Maul |
|
6 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
|
Ring of the Dread Seas (edit) | Ring |
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6 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, End chest |
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Legendary Raptor Teeth Necklace (edit) | Necklace |
|
29 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
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The Legendary Magic Conch (edit) | Trinket |
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29 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
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Legendary Skeleton Hunter (edit) | Maul |
|
29 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, end chest |
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Legendary Ring of the Dread Seas (edit) | Ring |
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29 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
Dread Sea Scrolls, End chest |
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