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Finding the Path
Finding the Path is the 1st quest in The Path of Inspiration 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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Finding the Path • I Dream of Jeets • The Mindsunder |
The Path of Inspiration has created a perfect utopia in the city of Dar Qat -- war, poverty, and hunger are non-existent. All that's necessary to join this utopia is to give up your destructive inner desires.
Requires access to adventure pack
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Finding the Path | |
Heroic level: | 18 |
Epic level: | None |
Duration: | medium |
Heroic XP: | ♣2,212Solo/Casual ♦3,826Normal ♥3,964Hard ♠4,102Elite |
Epic XP: | N/A |
Takes place in: | Inspiration Center |
Bestowed by: | Talbron Tewn |
NPC contact: | Talbron Tewn |
Quest acquired in: | Wylkes Manor |
Patron: | The Coin Lords |
Base favor: | 6 |
Purchase: | The Path of Inspiration or VIP |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
The warforged Talbron Tewn asked you to find out what the Path of Inspiration did to break Jeets's mind.
Go to the Inspiration Center in the Inspired Quarter to investigate.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Find out what the Path of Inspiration is doing to its victims
- Speak to the person in charge
- Speak to Tashkaar again
- (Failure) Protect your will from the Dreaming Dark
- Find and slay Tashkaar
What to Expect
- Protect a quest item (your will)
- Spawning/respawning monsters
- Quest failure (if your will is destroyed)
Tips and Misc
- Useful elemental buffs:
- Acid
- Cold
- Electricity (for end fight with Tashkaar only)
- Fire
- Once you are on the "Protect your will from the Dreaming Dark" stage of the quest, you kill 25 monsters, which causes 3 red named mobs (marut, giant skeleton, huge rust monster) to spawn.
- The orb of your Will sends out bursts of energy to recover a small amount of HP and SP.
- Opening the End chest has a chance of spawning Xachosian Landwalkers; be ready to kill it to get Xachosian Eardweller
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 23 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣221 ♦383 ♥396 ♠410 )
- Onslaught bonus: 28 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣332 ♦574 ♥595 ♠615 )
- Conquest bonus: 32 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣553 ♦957 ♥991 ♠1,026 )
External Links
Aldbar's Solo Walkthrough & Guide
Loot
- Chests: 1
- 1 at the end for killing Tashkaar
- Always drops a Crystal Shard of Nightmares which sometimes can be a Crystal Disc of Nightmares (Red)
- 1 at the end for killing Tashkaar
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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Xachosian Eardweller (edit) | Trinket |
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18 | Bound to Character on Acquire, ExclusiveBound to Character on Acquire: This item is Bound to Character on Acquire This is an Exclusive item. You may only carry one at a time. |
Eye of the Titan, I Dream of Jeets, Finding the Path, and The Dreaming Dark: Random spawn after opening any chest. Default spawn rate is 0% on Normal, 2.5% on Hard, and 5% on Elite. |
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Cultist Guard ( view • edit ) | ♦17Normal ♥21Hard ♠27Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Dream Crawler ( view • edit ) | ♣19Solo/Casual ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite | Evil Outsider | Quori |
Dream Reaver ( view • edit ) | ♣19Solo/Casual ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite | Aberration | Dream Reaver |
Dream Scourge ( view • edit ) | ♣18Solo/Casual ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite | Evil Outsider | Quori |
Gatekeeper ( view • edit ) | ♦19Normal ♥23Hard ♠29Elite | Undead | Skeleton |
Huge Rust Monster ( view • edit ) | ♦19Normal ♠29Elite | Aberration | Rust Monster |
Inspired Cultist Cleric ( view • edit ) | ♥21Hard ♠27Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Inspired Cultist Wizard ( view • edit ) | ♣17Solo/Casual ♦17Normal ♥21Hard ♠27Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Marut Inevitable ( view • edit ) | ♦20Normal ♥24Hard ♠30Elite | Construct | Golem |
Tashkaar ( view • edit ) | ♦21Normal ♥25Hard ♠31Elite | Humanoid | Human |
- The Path of Inspiration chain quests
- Medium quests
- Inspiration Center quests
- Wylkes Manor quests
- The Coin Lords patron quests
- Pay to Play quests
- Links to YouTube
- Quests by name
- Quests with maps
- Compendium:Level 18 quests
- Level 18 quests
- Quests with 6 base favor reward
- The Path of Inspiration quests
- Quests with no traps
- Quests with collectables/none