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The Deal and the Demon
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Yugoloth mercenaries are found throughout the fiendish planes and other dark corners of the multiverse. They are notorious for serving whichever side suits their purposes - often, the highest bidder.
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The Deal and the Demon | |
Heroic level: | None |
Epic level: | 23 |
Duration: | long |
Heroic XP: | N/A |
Epic XP: | ♣9,006Solo/Casual ♦15,484Normal ♥15,959Hard ♠16,434Elite |
Takes place in: | The Realm of Ruin |
Bestowed by: | Ymris |
NPC contact: | Ymris |
Quest acquired in: | Eveningstar |
Patron: | Purple Dragon Knights |
Base favor: | 8 |
Free to Play: | No |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
The Deal and the Demon is part of the story arc, The Queen of the Demonweb. You must have completed the City of Portals story arc in order to access the quest.
Ymris the Yugoloth has proposed a deal: help him and his mercenaries assassinate the demon Kishnaurac, and he will help you retrieve the Orb that Kishnaurac is guarding for Lolth. If you can retrieve the Orb, it will bring you one step closer to freeing the Thread of the Weave.
Go to the Realm of Ruin inside the Demonweb and meet Ymris there. You can reach the Demonweb via Eveningstar Cavern.
Objectives
- Talk to Ymris the yugoloth
- Remove the Sign of Binding
- Remove the Sign of Shielding
- Remove the Sign of Vigilance
- Disable the Orb
- (Optional) Let Ymris summon mercenaries +7.5% Bonus.( ♣675 ♦1,161 ♥1,197 ♠1,233 )
Known Traps
- Spell Wards that do substantial fire damage, all can be disabled.
Tips and Misc
- The chest which contains the Spider-spun Caparison has been moved to the end of the quest and linked to allowing Ymris to summon his mercenaries. Previous to U17 it was near the beginning of the quest; the developers deemed this too easy.
- Graal'zerub can teleport off of the edge and fall. If this happens he may end up back towards the beginning of the quest. You will have to backtrack to kill him and complete the quest. This can be done after defeating Kishnarac.
- The Signs can either be touched to disable, which triggers a spell ward, or can be inspected closer to allow a check to be made to disable it without any problems. Binding (Touch and disable it.) has a UMD check. Shielding (Knock and shatter.) has a Strength check. Vigilance (Sweep it away.) has a Concentration check; if failed it summons a Hezrou.
NOTE: If you want the tamper xp (trapping disable bonus), you will need to intentionally fail the first 2 Signs to generate the spell wards to disable.
- For the optional, the mercenaries help you kill Arith'narac, but turn on you for the boss fight at the end. Note, as of April 2020 the mercenaries do nothing to help you at all. They are inactive for the spider fight, but still betray you at the end.
- Can be run solo in under 5 minutes making it a very fast loot and XP run. You can do the quest for loot over and over without returning to Eveningstar as long as you leave the orb alone.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 24 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
- Tamper bonus: 2 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
- Mischief bonus: 16 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
- Vandal bonus: 21 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
- Ransack bonus: 25 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus. No experience numbers available.
Loot
- Chests: 2
- 1 end chest for defeating Kishnaurac
- 1 optional chest for allowing Ymris to summon his mercenaries and defeating them
- NPC rewards: Standard items, Potion of Major Mnemonic.
Named Chest Drop
Last Edited | Item | Type | Enhancements | ML | Bind | Quests |
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Terrorweb Chitin Breastplate | Breastplate |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, Hidden Chest |
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Planar Focus of Prowess | Trinket |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() ![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, End Chest ; Menace of the Underdark: The Queen of the Demonweb, Quest chain end reward |
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Spider-spun Caparison | Outfit |
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22 | Bound to Character on Equip![]() |
The Deal and the Demon, Mercenary Chest |
Monsters
Name(picture) | CR | Type | Race |
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Arith'narac (view) | ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite | Magical Beast | Spider |
Chosen of Lolth (view) | ●♠46Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
Demonweb Terror (view) | ♦17Normal ●24Epic ●♥25Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Magical Beast | Spider |
Graal'zerub (view) | ●♦26Epic Normal ●♥29Epic Hard ●♠46Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Kishnaurac (view) | ●♦27Epic Normal ●♥30Epic Hard ●♠47Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Planewalker Drow (view) | ●♦25Epic Normal ●♥30Epic Hard ●♠44Epic Elite | Elf | Drow Elf |
Yugoloth Mercenary (view) | ●♦24Epic Normal ●♠43Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Yugoloth |
DC for Signs
Skill | Quest Difficulty | Skill Total | Suspected DC range |
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Sign of Binding (Use Magical Device roll) | Normal | 10:Fail | 11-? |
Hard | 42:Fail; 47:Success | 42-47 | |
Elite | 55:Success | 42-? | |
Sign of Shielding (Strength check) | Normal | 24:Success | ?-24 |
Hard | 24:Success | ?-24 | |
Elite | 24:Success | ?-24 | |
Sign of Vigilance (Concentration roll) | Normal | 43:Fail | ?-43 |
Hard | 49:Fail; 52:Success | 50-52 | |
Elite | 56:Success | 50-56 | |
Convince Ymris to not call his mercenaries (Intimidate roll) | Normal | 43:Fail | 44-56 |
Hard | 49:Fail; 50:Success | 50 | |
Elite | 68:Success | 43-68 |
Menace of the Underdark quests
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