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Raiding the Giants' Vault
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Long ago the Giants who lived on this island commanded their Drow slaves to build this vault. The vault has lain hidden and unopened until quite recently.
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Raiding the Giants' Vault | |
Heroic level: | 19 |
Epic level: | None |
Duration: | medium |
Heroic XP: | ♣3,440![]() |
Epic XP: | N/A |
Takes place in: | The Giants' Vault |
Bestowed by: | Murkletter |
NPC contact: | Murkletter |
Quest acquired in: | Isle of Forgotten Dreams |
Patron: | The Coin Lords |
Base favor: | 6 (solo only) |
Free to Play: | No |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
In order to repair the Stormreaver's Interdiction Lens you will need to retrieve a piece of Aspect Crystal.
Murkeletter believes that the ancient giants had a vault where they may have stored these crystals long ago. The Giants' Vault is on the Isle of Forgotten Dreams.
To enter the final Dreaming Dark quest in this chain, you may choose to enter this adventure as a solo player, or run Mining for Ancient Secrets as a party to repair the Interdiction Lens to complete the third of three quest flags required.
Objectives
- Recover the Giants' Aspect Crystal
- (Optional) Find an exit from the vault: (+15% Bonus.( ♣516 ))
- Can have 3 Animated Armors at the exit and a optional chest
- (Optional) Kill the mephit Sulphorot: (+15% Bonus.( ♣516 ))
- (Optional) Kill the gargoyle Ironwing: (+15% Bonus.( ♣516 ))
What to Expect
Overlapping floors, climbing and jumping
Known Traps
Fixed on center pedestal, fatal until disarmed by levers throughout the quest (mandatory); Rogue skills not required
Tips and Misc
- This is the highest-level solo adventure in the game. There are not a great deal of enemies to fight, and they are not particularly strong opponents - as with other solo quests, it's not a huge challenge.
- To complete this quest, be sure to bring in your best Jumping gear, Feather Fall, and fire-resist buffs. Weapons/attacks to deal with Fire Mephits (smiting and/or cold-based), including some ranged attack, and adamantine weapons for animated armors and a stone-golem boss are also helpful.
- Walk through
You begin the quest falling down a long shaft, safely toward a pool of water. The quest lies the direction you are facing (south), and if you have FF on at the start, you can land at the water's edge. Ahead is a small amount of resistance as some Inspired try (unsuccessfully) to disarm the traps atop a central pedestal in the main room. Watch out for the Inspired mage's level-draining attacks and kill off your competition.
Do not attempt to run up the central pedestal before finding the levers to disable the traps! There are no trap boxes; there will be a lever in each of the east and west upper hallways, guarded by a boss. Once both levers are thrown, the traps along the central pedestal will be deactivated. All 3 chests are locked and can't be picked, and the key to them is only found after the end of the quest (through the lower western door) - so don't be impatient, first things first.
There are several fire mephits high in the main room shooting fireballs, and they tend to hover above you, making it difficult to target them. Take them out sooner than later. You will also meet animated armors as you climb, but those are each lone enemies.
There are multiple hallways from the main room, but most are elevated (and the ground-level one is key-locked), which means you'll need to climb a lot, occasionally jumping across or down to other paths. Along the walls are also six runes you can use to activate air jets below to make it easier to return to the upper ledges should you fall. Or ignore them and just don't fall.
It may be fastest to go to the western tunnel and lever first - take the ramp up to the southern hall, then climb past and double back over it, counter-clockwise one full lap, until you pass just under the western entry and can climb up and back and drop down to it safely.
(You can clear out that southern hall now if you want, or ignore it for now - there's nothing of value, only a few enemies, and you will come back to it on your way back to the main room.)
The western tunnel leads to one of the levers at a dead end.
- Optional: After the animated armor at this lever has been killed, a door behind the waterfall opens. If you want the optional, enter that passage and climb up the shaft now. There is a possibility of a chest at the top; if so, it will be (lightly) guarded. There's also an exit here - don't leave yet, of course.
Return the way you came, and you can then jump to your right (counterclockwise), across to a second easy jump to the eastern loop, which then eventually ends with a drop into the southern tunnel.
The eastern hallways loops around - at the shrine, go south and pull the second lever. In the pool west past that is the key to the door for the western floor-level hallway. (Note - If you are not interested in optionals or loot, just return the way you came now.)
- Optional: Climb up from the pool. Immediately after that may be rare mephit, Sulphorot; if he has a chest it will be on the left (see map) - keep an eye out.
- At the end of the loop there's a long drop back down; if you push west (the way you are facing) as you feather fall down, a side-tunnel leads further west to a rare gargoyle that may spawn (you'll get a narrator's announcement if it's there, about "...a moving shadow in the shaft below"). Finally, you will land at the far end of the southern hallway - if you did not clear it out before, you'll find some fire mephits immediately below you, and then a last few animated armors as you return to the main room.
The iron key from the pool opens the lower, floor-level western door. There is one last fight* with a stone golem, and the jeweled key which unlocks all 3 chests is yours, with no more opposition to worry about. Opening the larger central chest completes the quest.
- * The golem does not need to be fought for the jeweled key. There are two translucent blue "doors" which block the key - but these can be opened with the right positioning and using the keys q , then e, and the lever which opens the golem's door need never be pulled.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 19 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣344 )
- Onslaught bonus: 24 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣516 )
- Mischief bonus: 24 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣275 )
- Vandal bonus: 31 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣344 )
- Ransack bonus: 38 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣516 )
Loot
- Chests: 3 - 6
- 1 optional for killing Sulphorot (Mephit, doesn't always spawn, found in the south wing)
- 1 optional for killing Ironwing (Gargoyle, doesn't always spawn, found in the south wing)
- 1 optional for finding an exit from the vault (doesn't always spawn, found in the west wing)
- 3 at the end
- the chests offer worse loot than the other lvl 19 quests due to solo setting's chest modifier
- the main chest at the end drops:
- Essence of Horrors ~1%
- Essence of Torments ~97%
- Essence of Nightmares ~1%
- Essence of Phantasms ~1%.
- NPC rewards: Standard
Monsters
Name(picture) | CR | Type | Race |
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Hullstone (NoPic) | ♣21![]() |
Construct | Golem |
Inspired Mender (view) | ♣16![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Humanoid | Human |
Ironwing (view) | 19 | Monstrous Humanoid | Gargoyle |
Lone Warrior's Armor (view) | ♣18![]() |
Construct | Animated Object |
Sulphorot (NoPic) | ♣18![]() |
Fire Outsider | Mephit |
Animated Armor (view) | ♣17![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Construct | Animated Object |
Dar Qat Soldier (view) | ♣18![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Humanoid | Human |
Gargoyle Juggernaut (NoPic) | ♣16![]() ![]() |
Monstrous Humanoid | Gargoyle |
Inspired Sorcerer (view) | ♣20![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Humanoid | Human |
Lava Mephit (NoPic) | ♣16![]() |
Fire Outsider | Mephit |
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