The Cloven-jaw Scourge: Blockade

Wayfinder Dael made it far into the Steam Tunnels before she was forced to retreat. Watch for the signs she left behind.

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The Cloven-jaw Scourge:Blockade
Heroic level:	3
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Long
Heroic XP:	♣632Solo/Casual ♦1,140Normal ♥1,226Hard ♠1,313Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	The Kobold's Blockade
Bestowed by:	Wayfinder Dael
NPC contact:	[[]]
Quest acquired in:	The Steam Tunnels
Patron:	The Coin Lords
Base favor:	4
Free to Play:	No
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Wayfinder Dael has asked you to retrieve the Seal of Shan-To-Kor. She believes the leader of the Cloven-Jaw Hobgoblins knows of its whereabouts. To reach the Cloven-Jaw Tribe, you must first enter the Steam Tunnels from The Marketplace. Somewhere in the depths of these tunnels is a Kobolds' Blockade. You must fight through it to reach the Cloven-Jaw Hobgoblins on the other side.

• This is the first part of The Seal of Shan-To-Kor story arc.

Blockade puzzle

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Objectives

• Get past the kobolds' blockade
• Slay Amrog, the Gatewarden
• Find the entrance to the Hobgoblin stronghold
• (Optional) Slay the captive wight priest — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣95 ♦171 ♥184 ♠197 )
• (Optional) Defeat the kobold ambush - 12 total — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣63 ♦114 ♥123 ♠131 )
• (Optional) Slay 50 Kobolds — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣126 ♦228 ♥245 ♠263 )
• (Optional) Slay Human Necromancer — Bonus (35%): Heroic( ♣221 ♦399 ♥429 ♠460 )

What to Expect

• Traps (3 fixed, 1 undisarmable)
• Points of no return
• Overlapping floors
• Puzzle (mandatory: tile puzzle)
• Spawning/respawning monsters
• Stat checks (optional: 1 door, requires STR check to break down; 2 runes, require INT checks to activate)
• Contains the entrance to another quest (to The Cloven-jaw Scourge: The Caverns of Shaagh)

Known Traps

Search and Spot DCs for Traps and Secret Door
Open Lock and Disable Device DCs

• Skill DCs and pictures of all traps, control box locations, locked doors, and secret doors can be found in the above links by hovering over the description text.
• Spike and blade trap in the room to the north after the second drop, behind the locked gate
• Sonic trap behind a secret door in the water, protecting a collectable. Fires once and no way to disable.
• Spike traps behind the crystal-locked door. Two sets of them, and the control panels only disable half of the corresponding set.

Tips and Misc

• The INT runes found by taking the first left are DC ♦17Normal ♥17Hard ♠17Elite. If you can activate them, an optional wight priest will spawn in the newly opened door.
• The kobold ambush optional which spawns by opening the chest after taking the first right will also count towards the slay 50 kobolds optional.
• When you reach the group of three levers only the middle one needs to be pulled. The one of the left opens a redundant passage and the one of the right doesn't seem to do anything at all.
• There are several points where you have to drop from one level to a lower one. After that point, there is no way to return to the previous higher level.
  • The first of these is just past the first shrine, after you pass the blockade.
  • The second is actually in the same spot, after you drop down into the Puzzle Room.
• The Puzzle Room warns you not to power the four posts. Each post, once powered will spawn a spider, at least one of which will be a Black Widow. Spin the tiles away from posts to eliminate this threat.
• Behind the locked gate to the north, after the second drop, will be a group of kobolds and a chest with a closed gate on one side and a wooden door on the other.
• Killing the Kobolds will unlock the chest and open the gate to the left.
• The wooden door to the right containing the human necromancer optional can be opened in one of four ways:
  • The door can be smashed open with STR DC ♦16Normal ♥16Hard ♠16Elite.
  • The door can be burned down with any fire type AOE spell.
  • Open Lock can be used to pick the lock on the door which has DC ♦25Normal ♥25Hard ♠25Elite.
  • If you kill the kobold thrower right next to the door, his death explosive will burst the door open.

Bonus XP

• Devious bonus: 10 or fewer monsters killed +7% Bonus.( ♣44 ♦80 ♥86 ♠92 )
• Discreet bonus: 20 or fewer monsters killed +5% Bonus.( ♣32 ♦57 ♥61 ♠66 )
• Aggression bonus: 51 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣63 ♦114 ♥123 ♠131 )
• Onslaught bonus: 66 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣95 ♦171 ♥184 ♠197 )
• Conquest bonus: 81 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣158 ♦285 ♥307 ♠328 )
• Neutralization bonus: 2 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣126 ♦228 ♥245 ♠263 )
• Mischief bonus: 84 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣51 ♦91 ♥98 ♠105 )
• Vandal bonus: 109 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣63 ♦114 ♥123 ♠131 )
• Ransack bonus: 134 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣95 ♦171 ♥184 ♠197 )

Notes: The insidious cunning bonus is unobtainable due to the required kills of Amrog, the Gatewarden and the five kobolds needed to open a gate. The tamper bonus is unobtainable because disabling the second trap brings you right from tamper to neutralization. Even though there is a secret door, the perception bonus is unobtainable.

Loot

• Chests: 5
  • One down the western fork on the upper level, which spawns the kobold ambush
  • One behind the locked gate to the north, after the second drop
  • One behind the iron key locked sewer tunnel to the west after the second drop, just before the long ladder down
  • One in the room with the long bridge and the mushrooms, to the northwest
  • One at the very end, past the entrance to the stronghold
• Collectables: Nine
  • Moss down the western fork on the upper level, just before the kobold ambush chest
  • Crude Altar just before the first big drop, after the first shrine
  • Cabinet after the second drop, with the zombies
  • Cabinet with the human necromancer
  • Alchemy Table to the north after the long ladder down
  • Rubble in the water before the crystal-locked door, by the third shrine
  • Adventurer's Pack behind a secret door to the north of the watery tunnel, protected by a sonic trap
  • Moss to the south on the mid-point level in the mushroom area
  • Adventurer's Pack to the north on the mid-point level in the mushroom area
• NPC rewards: None, until you finish quest chain.

Monsters

Name(picture)	CR	Type	Race
Amrog, the Gatewarden (view)	♦6Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite	Goblinoid	Hobgoblin
Arcane Skeleton (view)	♦2Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Baby Glass Spider (view)	♦1Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite OR From Egg: ♦1Normal ♥1Hard ♠1Elite;	Vermin	Spider
Black Widow (view)	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite	Vermin	Spider
Brown Spider (view)	♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠6Elite	Vermin	Spider
Dwarf Zombie (view)	QL?: ♦0.25Normal ♥1Hard ♠3Elite QL3: ♦0.5Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Zombie
Elf Zombie (view)	QL:1 ♦0.25Normal ♥1Hard ♠3Elite; QL:2/3: ♦0.5Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Zombie
Ghoul (view)	♦0.5/6Normal ♥2Hard ♠4Elite QL3: ♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Ghoul
Glass Spider (view)	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠8Elite	Vermin	Spider
Gray Ooze (view)	♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠9Elite	Ooze	Gray Ooze
Halfling Zombie (view)	♦0.5Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Zombie
Hobgoblin Guard (view)	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite	Goblinoid	Hobgoblin
Hobgoblin Infiltrator (view)	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite	Goblinoid	Hobgoblin
Human Necromancer (view)	♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠9Elite	Humanoid	Human
Kobold Shaman (view)	♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold Sneak (view)	♦0.25Normal ♥1Hard ♠3Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold Thrower (view)	♦1Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold Warrior (view)	♦0.5Normal ♥2Hard ♠5Elite ●♦28Epic Normal ●♥33Epic Hard ●♠63Epic Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Kobold (view)	♦0.25Normal ♥1Hard ♠3Elite	Reptilian	Kobold
Skeleton Archer (view)	♦2Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Skeleton Swordsman (view)	♦2Normal ♥3Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Skeleton Veteran (view)	♦1Normal ♥2Hard ♠3Elite	Undead	Skeleton
Skeleton (view)	QL1: ♦0.25Normal ♥0.50Hard ♠2Elite; QL2: ♦0.5Normal ♠5Elite; QL3: ♦0.5Normal ♥1Hard ♠3Elite; QL?: ♦4Normal	Undead	Skeleton
Small Brown Spider (view)	QL3: ♦0.25Normal ♥0.5Hard ♠2Elite; QL?: ♦2Normal ♠1Elite	Vermin	Spider
Troglodyte (view)	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite	Reptilian	Troglodyte
Wight Priest (view)	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠9Elite	Undead	Wight

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External Links

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