Reclamation

Mineshaft IV is the heart of the duergar's mining operation on Ataraxia's Haven.

Reclamation
Heroic level:	10
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Long
Heroic XP:	♣1,788Solo/Casual ♦3,140Normal ♥3,300Hard ♠3,459Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Mineshaft IV
Bestowed by:	Leros Levithas
NPC contact:	Leros Levithas
Quest acquired in:	Ataraxia's Haven
Patron:	House Kundarak
Base favor:	5
Purchase:	Free to Play
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Leros Levithas told you about the Duergar's incessant strip mining of Ataraxia's Haven. Of particular interest was Mineshaft IV, a location where the Duergar have reportedly found adamantine. Leros asked you to go there, disrupt their mining operation and destroy the Duergar foreman leading the dig.

Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!

Objectives

Explore the duergar mine
Disable the steam furnaces that keep the Foreman's Chamber sealed (3 total)
Slay Overseer Drukh
Slay Overseer Heggir
Slay Overseer Nifnin
Slay Foreman Tanrel
(Optional) Destroy the duergar mining supplies (35 total) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣358 ♦628 ♥660 ♠692 )
(Optional) Destroy the duergar explosives (10 total) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣358 ♦628 ♥660 ♠692 )
(Optional) Destroy the duergar water supplies (40 total) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣358 ♦628 ♥660 ♠692 )
(Optional) Slay Detritus — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣358 ♦628 ♥660 ♠692 )
(Optional) Slay Scour — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣358 ♦628 ♥660 ♠692 )

What to Expect

Overlapping floors
Ability checks (mandatory: 3, require Strength 10 checks

Known Traps

None – but that dark area straight ahead from the entrance is a hole, not a shadow. (Note: the fall won't kill you, as there's water on the bottom)

Tips and Misc

Useful buffs:
- Acid resist against the duergar scouts' arrows
- Fire resist against the Adamantine Defenders' fire breath
Heavy Fortification is highly recommended for this quest. The duergar use Heavy Picks, which do quadruple damage on a critical hit.
Some people prefer dropping down the shaft and clearing their way up.
You can usually pull melee mobs out of the open areas to avoid much of archer fire.
Turning the huge valves: 10 STR, required to complete quest.
Water breathing may help for swimming to the shrine, and the Foreman's room.

Overseer Drukh and the water supplies (vases) are in the topmost furnace room.
Overseer Heggir and the explosives (explosive barrels) are in the central furnace room.
Overseer Nifnin and the mining supplies are in the deepest furnace room.
Scour may appear in the niche near the deepest furnace room.
Detritus usually appears in the Foreman's room.

The end fight is extremely tough, with the Foreman and about a dozen duergar – try to lure them close to the shrine to make sure you can run back (this also will help keep Detritus inactive until the duergar are taken care of.)
When you finish out of the quest, the Duergars outside are likely to have respawned.

Walkthrough

Way #1 - Bottom up

Get some feather fall on, it's time to go for a flight. Or, if you feel like a high dive, just jump off. The dark patch ahead is a pit that drops all the way down the shaft to a pool of water. On reaper difficulty, this may attract reapers as you fly past them. Start down there and we can work our way back up.
From the bottom of the drop, there are two ways you can swim. West will take you up the mine shaft. Under the water to the south takes you to a shrine and to the, currently locked, main base of the duergar.
Starting to the west, begin working your way up the mine shaft, clearing as you go. There are three side passages on the way up with a large duergar mining force, an overseer and a huge valve (Strength check based). You have to defeat the overseer and turn the valves in all three rooms. This will open the door underwater do the south.
When you are ready, shrine up and head on through. Defeat the Foreman to complete the quest.

Way #2 - Top down

Buff up and pull the lever next to where you come in. The rolling door will open and you get jumped by a bunch of duergar. Take them out and head on down.
When you get to the first three-way intersection:
- South takes you towards the start of the quest (except it doesn't, because there's a big hole in between you and it)
- North takes you to a room with a large duergar mining force, an overseer and a huge valve (Strength check based). You have to defeat the overseer and turn the valve. Smash the vases for the optional (Destroy the duergar water supplies – these count towards breakables too). Head on back to the intersection and go west.
- Continue down the winding passage. You may encounter Scour, a named rust monster. He doesn't have a chest.
Mind that you don't run off into space; the tunnel criss-crosses a few times, and that central shaft goes right through the passage in a couple of spots.
Keep heading down, taking out the overseers in the other two side rooms. When you get to the bottom of the ramp and hit the water, put on some sort of underwater item and swim to the south for the shrine.
Shrine up and head through the door. Take on all the guys, kill the Foreman and loot the chests.

Bonus XP

Aggression bonus: 23 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣179 ♦314 ♥330 ♠346 )
Onslaught bonus: 46 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣268 ♦471 ♥495 ♠519 )
Conquest bonus: 69 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣447 ♦785 ♥825 ♠865 )
Mischief bonus: 45 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣143 ♦251 ♥264 ♠277 )
Vandal bonus: 58 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣179 ♦314 ♥330 ♠346 )
Ransack bonus: 72 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣268 ♦471 ♥495 ♠519 )

External Links

First source of walkthrough

Loot

Chests: 3
- 1 chest in the western (central mining) room
- 2 end chests for killing Foreman Tanrel (Duergar)
Random (small) chance for Duergar to drop Adamantine Ore.
Collectables: 4
- Mushroom — in the south-east corner of the topmost room
- Mushroom — in the south-east corner of the central furnace room
- Mushroom — on the western wall (upper level) in the deepest furnace room
- Rubble — in the south-west corner of the final room

NPC end rewards

Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.

Monsters

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race
Adamantine Defender ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Construct	Iron Defender
Detritus (elemental) ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elemental	Earth Elemental
Duergar Miner ^{( view • edit )}	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Duergar Scout ^{( view • edit )}	♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Duergar Surveyor ^{( view • edit )}	♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Foreman Tanrel ^{( view • edit )}	♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Large Rust Monster ^{( view • edit )}	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite	Aberration	Rust Monster
Overseer Drukh ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Overseer Heggir ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Overseer Nifnin ^{( view • edit )}	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Dwarf	Dwarf
Scour ^{( view • edit )}	♦8Normal ♥8Hard ♠8Elite	Aberration	Rust Monster