The Grey Moon's Den: The Trollish Scourge

The Grey Moon's Den: The Trollish Scourge is the 3rd quest in the Grey Moon Waning story arcStory arcs  are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward..
The Iron Mines: Freeing Achka • The Iron Mines: Justice for Grust • The Grey Moon's Den: The Trollish Scourge • The Grey Moon's Den: Extermination

Once home to Hragg's ogre tribes, this place has been turned into a charnel house by the invading trolls.

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The Grey Moon's Den: The Trollish Scourge
Heroic level:	7
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Medium
Heroic XP:	♣780Solo/Casual ♦1,380Normal ♥1,460Hard ♠1,540Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Grey Moon's Den
Bestowed by:	Bruku
NPC contact:	Bruku
Quest acquired in:	Sorrowdusk Isle
Patron:	House Deneith
Base favor:	4
Purchase:	Sorrowdusk Isle or VIP
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

Exterminate the trolls infesting the Grey Moon tribe's ancestral caves.

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Objectives

• Slay the troll chief, Hammerfist
• Slay all of Hammerfist's trolls (10 total)
• (Optional) Kill the ogre collaborators (14 total) — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣78 ♦138 ♥146 ♠154 )
• (Optional) Slay Chef Nargryl — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣78 ♦138 ♥146 ♠154 )
• (Optional) Slay Shaman Hurpostaw — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣117 ♦207 ♥219 ♠231 )
• (Optional) Slay Quartermaster Drant — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣117 ♦207 ♥219 ♠231 )

Known Traps

Trap and Lock DCs

• Spikes around chest, in the locked room; control panel is at the base of the nearby crates
• Force trap on bridge; control panel is past the bridge, on the north-west pillar. These traps hit hard – at-level on Elite, they will instakill nearly any character who fails their Reflex save. Fortunately, you can reach the trap control panel without having to brave the bridge by jumping to a nearby cliff if you have Feather Fall and Haste.

Tips and Misc

• Trolls are vulnerable to acid, and regenerate (if slowly).
• Some of the doors in this quest open and close automatically, rather than with a lever. The scripting for this is a little unreliable, so you may need to bump into the door a few times.

• Optional: Chef Nargyl may appear in the second room to the west; if he doesn't, several black puddings will spawn instead.
• Optional: Quartermaster Drant may appear in the locked room; he counts towards the "kill the ogres" bonus.

• Hammersmith will be at the far end of the bridge, past the traps. If you attack him at range he will come to you (unharmed), but someone must cross the bridge to open the doors to complete the last objective (see below).
  • Optional: Blizzard may appear at the end, with Hammersmith; no bonus XP for slaying him, however he drops that chest.
• The rooms just south of the bridge don't open until after crossing the bridge; they contain the last trolls you need for the objective.
  • Optional: Hurpostaw may appear in the room south-east of the bridge; he counts towards killing trolls.
• The "Blocked Access" (see map, right), a locked gate beyond Hammersmith, is not passable; that area is saved for the next quest in the chain, Extermination.
• After this quest, the fastest way to return to Bruku and advance to the next quest is to recall back to the ship and then re-enter Sorrowdusk from there, rather than run the distance.

Bonus XP

• Discreet bonus: 11 or fewer monsters killed +5% Bonus.( ♣39 ♦69 ♥73 ♠77 )
• Aggression bonus: 13 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣78 ♦138 ♥146 ♠154 )
• Onslaught bonus: 26 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣117 ♦207 ♥219 ♠231 )
• Tamper bonus: 1 or more trap disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣78 ♦138 ♥146 ♠154 )
• Mischief bonus: 48 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣62 ♦110 ♥117 ♠123 )
• Vandal bonus: 63 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣78 ♦138 ♥146 ♠154 )

Notes: In order to get the Vandal bonus, you must cross the bridge to open the two doors up the ladders south of the bridge and break the items in those rooms before slaying Hammersmith or the last two trolls.

Loot

• Chests: 1–5
  • 1 trapped behind a locked door in the room north of the shrine
  • 1 rare optional for killing Chef Nargyl (Hill Giant, found in the second room to the west)
  • 1 rare optional for killing Quartermaster Drant (Black Sun Ogre, found in the locked room)
  • 1 rare optional for killing Shaman Hurpostaw (Troll Shaman, found in the room south-east of the bridge)
  • 1 rare optional for killing Blizzard (Winter Wolf, found at the end)
• Collectables: 5
  • Cabinet — in the first room to the east
  • Cabinet — in the second room to the west
  • Adventurer's Pack — in the locked room (on the crates)
  • Cabinet — in the room south-west of the bridge
  • Crude Altar — in the room south-east of the bridge

NPC end rewards

No reward when turning in the quest.

Monsters

Name ( picture )	CR	Type	Race
Black Pudding ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠11Elite (split CRs:  ♦7Normal ♥7Hard ♠7Elite)	Ooze	Black Pudding
Black Sun Ogre ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Ogre
Blizzard ( view  • edit )	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Magical Beast	Wolf
Chef Nargryl ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Giant
Deathblood Troll ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Troll
Hammerfist ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Troll
Monarch Scorpion ( view  • edit )	♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite	Vermin	Scorpion
Ogre Shaman ( view  • edit )	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠10Elite	Giant	Ogre
Quartermaster Drant ( view  • edit )	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Ogre
Shaman Hurpostaw ( view  • edit )	♦8Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Giant	Troll