Tempest's Spine

The mountains of Tempest's Spine are home to a storm giant, Sor'jek the Summoner. He does not take kindly to unexpected guests.

Tempest's Spine
Heroic level:	10
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Very Long
Heroic XP:	♦6,484Normal ♥6,819Hard ♠7,155Elite
Epic XP:	Legendary Tempest's Spine
Takes place in:	Tempest's Spine
Bestowed by:	Chamberlain Cyrese Embree
NPC contact:	Chamberlain Cyrese Embree
Quest acquired in:	House Jorasco
Patron:	House Jorasco
Base favor:	6
Free to Play:	Yes
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Tempest's Spine is a Raid. Unlike other raids in DDO, there is no raid timer, so you may re-run the quest at any time. This is the second lowest-level raid by level. The Chronoscope is the lowest, at level 6. However, Tempest's Spine is also Free to Play.

Flagging

• No flagging is required for this raid.

Tempest's Spine Outdoor Area

Tempest's Spine Walkthrough

Tempest's Spine puzzle

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Spoiler Warning: Information below this point can be considered spoiler material!

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Objectives

• Defeat the storm giant summoner, Sor'jek Incanni
• (Optional) Gain access to the rune hidden in a flooded tunnel — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• (Optional) Kill Ranger A'tchkar — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• (Optional) Kill Sorcerer Vyikkus — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• (Optional) Kill Zerisenz — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• (Optional) Kill Wizard Llyndarus — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• (Optional) Purge the Mountaintop of foes — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )

What to Expect

• Traps (fixed)
• Puzzle (mandatory: tile puzzle)
• Spawning/respawning monsters
• Rune (mandatory: requires an INT check of  ♠20+Elite)
• Levers (mandatory: require a STR check of  ♠20Elite)
• Locked doors (can be knocked/picked or can be skipped by taking another route and going outside)
• Monsters that have to be killed almost simultaneously (mandatory: 2, a Fire Reaver and an Ice Flenser)

Known Traps

Trap DCs
Fire, Spinning Spike, Poison, Acid

Tips and Misc

• Tempest's Spine is often the first raid for new players. An experienced guide using voice chat is almost essential to a successful PUG raid party. If you are new to this raid, do be sure to speak up, and follow the leader's instruction.
• The raid is filled with fire-damaging enemies. Resist fire damage spells/items are a must.
• Several enemies will use poison.
• Several enemies (anticipate to meet two beholders throughout the caves) can cast Destruction or other death spells. Deathblock items may help. Death Ward may be insufficient due to numerous dispel magic enemies (Beholder, Drow Death Prophet)
  • Giant Soothsayers can cast Destruction. Even if resisted, it will do over 250+ damage on hard mode and higher.
  • Drow Death Prophets can cast Slay and Dispel.
• There is a very long dive in the quest. An underwater action item will be helpful. Most common strategy to solve this swim 'maze' is to keep the wall to your right.
• Lair of Fire and Ice:
  • Some regard this part even harder than the final encounter. The Ice Flenser and the Fire Reaver at the ends of the two tunnels need to be slain almost simultaneously (within 30 seconds of each other).
  • A common strategy is everyone staying inside the main chamber, while someone pulls or lures the Ice Flenser down first. Once the Flenser approaches, mages will drop Wall of Fire spells to kill the Flenser, then the party hurries down the other tunnel to kill the Fire Reaver.
  • Obtain Olipar Rune goes in left most vase to stop his regen
• Underwater passage:
  • Obtain Nular Rune
• Pass to Inevitable:
  • Obtain Talen Rune goes in right most vase to stop fire immunity
• On the final boss:
  • Clerics that cast Freedom of Movement, Resist Electricity, Resist Sonic, and Death Ward are very helpful.
  • Remove Featherfalling gear before the final encounter. This will have you fall down faster if you get blown away by Sor'jek, and improve your chance of landing back onto the summit or the high mountainside instead of drifting away from the mountain to strange corners of the map where retrieval is difficult.
  • When you enter the boss room, you must talk to Talf Halfspear to start the puzzle.
  • Much like the final boss in Stormcleave Outpost, Sor'jek is a purple-named monster who is virtually impossible to fight or kill without solving the puzzle (which powers off his weather control ability) and using the runes you should have collected along the way. Runes control various of his abilities such as fast regeneration (full heal at half health, leftmost vase), DRDamage Reduction 100/-: Reduces all physical damage by 100. 100/-, and fire immunity. He can always be damaged by sonic damage and some weapon procs such as Pure Good.
  • (At least in Elite) Sor'jek Incanni will eventually perform a full health refill. Cut him down as quickly as possible if you see he has regained his weather control ability.
• At the end of the raid, a dimension door appears next to the entrance of the raid taking players to the top of the mountain for the end chests.
• Refer to Videos for useful guides on navigating throughout this quest.

Bonus XP

• Discreet bonus: 66 or fewer monsters killed +5% Bonus.( ♦324 ♥341 ♠358 )
• Aggression bonus: circa 119 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• Conquest bonus: 268 on elite or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♦1,621 ♥1,705 ♠1,789 )
• Mischief bonus: 49 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♦519 ♥546 ♠572 )
• Vandal bonus: 60 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♦648 ♥682 ♠716 )
• Ransack bonus: 77 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♦973 ♥1,023 ♠1,073 )

Loot

• Chests: Ten minimum, thirteen possible
  • Two in "Fire and Ice."
  • One to the left through the door right after the fire elemental trap.
  • One just before underwater swim for killing Clay Golem.
  • One for killing a Clay Golem in a pocket to the right of the underwater swim.
  • One to the left side of the first Beholder encounter for killing the Clay Golem.
  • One near the shrine for killing the first Beholder.
  • One near resurrection shrine for killing the Inevitable.
  • Two after slaying Sor'jek Incanni for completion of the quest.
  • Three possible orange-named bosses that can spawn a chest each.

• NPC rewards: Random item

Named Chest Drop

Tempest's Spine loot

Monsters

Name(picture)	CR	Type	Race
Sor'jek Incanni (view)	♦16Normal ♥18Hard ♠20Elite ●♥45Epic Hard ●♠66Epic Elite	Giant	Giant
A'tchkar (view)	♦11Normal ♠16Elite ●♥38Epic Hard ●♠61Epic Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Llyndarus (view)	♠16Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Vyikkus (view)	♦11Normal ●♥38Epic Hard	Elf	Drow Elf
Zerisenz (view)	♦11Normal ♠16Elite ●♥38Epic Hard	Elf	Drow Elf
Beholder (view)	♦14Normal ♥16Hard ♠19Elite ●♦20Epic Normal ●♠66Epic Elite	Aberration	Beholder
Blackbone Marksman (view)	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Clay Golem (view)	♦10Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite	Construct	Golem
Drow Assassin (view)	♦10Normal	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Barbarian Shaman (view)	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Blackguard (view)	♦13Normal ♠18Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Captain (view)	♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Death Priest (view)	♦14Normal ♠19Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Fighter/Wizard (view)	♦10Normal ♠15Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Necromancer (Eberron) (view)	♦12Normal ♠17Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Paladin (view)	♦13Normal	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Prophet (view)	♦12Normal ♠17Elite	Elf	Drow Elf
Drow Scorpion Cleric (view)	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Aberration	Drow Scorpion
Drow Scorpion Wizard (view)	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite	Aberration	Drow Scorpion
Drow Scorpion (view)	♦10Normal	Aberration	Drow Scorpion
Enraged Rust Monster (view)	♦5Normal ♠9Elite	Aberration	Rust Monster
Fire Giant Champion (view)	♥14Hard ♠17Elite	Giant	Giant
Fire Giant Slayer (view)	♦16Normal ♠22Elite	Giant	Giant
Fire Giant (view)	♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●25Epic	Giant	Giant
Fire Reaver (view)	♦12/14Normal ♠19Elite ●♦15Epic Normal	Evil Outsider	Demon
Flesh Render (view)	♦12/14Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite	Evil Outsider	Demon
Greater Fire Elemental (view)	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Elemental	Fire Elemental
Greater Fire Mephit (view)	♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠11Elite OR Summoned by another mephit: ♠6Elite	Fire Outsider	Mephit
Greater Ice Mephit (view)	♦6Normal ♠11Elite OR Summoned by another mephit: ♠6Elite	Air Outsider	Mephit
Hill Giant Soothsayer (view)	♦16Normal	Giant	Giant
Huge Rust Monster (view)	♦8Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Aberration	Rust Monster
Ice Flenser (view)	♦14Normal ♠19Elite	Evil Outsider	Demon
Inevitable (view)	♦15Normal ♠22Elite ●♥38Epic Hard	Construct	Golem
Iron Golem (view)	♦13Normal ♥15Hard ♠18Elite	Construct	Golem
Large Rust Monster (view)	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite	Aberration	Rust Monster
Mephit of Fernia (view)	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Fire Outsider	Mephit
Mephit of Risia (view)	♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite	Air Outsider	Mephit
Thaarak Hound (view)	♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦21Epic Normal ●♠44Epic Elite	Evil Outsider	Hellhound

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External Links

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