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ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple is the 1st quest in the Temple of Elemental Evil: Part One story arc![]() Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.. |
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ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple • ToEE: Lower Temple Complex |
There is no doubt; you have come to a place of ineffable Evil. Still, it is a place for high adventure and untold treasures.
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ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple | |
Heroic level: | 8 |
Epic level: | 34 (considered Legendary) |
Duration: | long |
Heroic XP: | ♣2,287Solo/Casual ♦4,044Normal ♥4,276Hard ♠4,508Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣16,833Solo/Casual ♦28,716Normal ♥29,377Hard ♠30,038Elite |
Takes place in: | Temple of Elemental Evil's Upper Level |
Bestowed by: | Ostler Gundigoot |
NPC contact: | Ostler Gundigoot |
Quest acquired in: | Temple Grounds |
Patron: | The Gatekeepers |
Base favor: | 5 |
Purchase: | The Temple of Elemental Evil or VIP |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
The Upper Level of the Temple's doors are open, but the Lower Levels remain warded. Go to the Temple of Elemental Evil's Upper Level to dispel the Earth Ward.
You may gain access to the Temple of Elemental Evil's Upper Level from the Temple Grounds reached from the Gatekeepers' Grove (in the far northeast corner of the Grove).
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Gain Entrance to the Earth Temple
- Activate the Eastern Rune
- Activate the Northern Rune
- Enter the Earth Temple
- Explore the Earth Temple
- Find the Earth Temple Key
- Confront Romag
- Gain Entrance to the Lower Temple Complex
- (Optional) Find all of the Part One Audio Commentaries (8) — Bonus (50%): Heroic( ♣1,144 ♦2,022 ♥2,138 ♠2,254 ) Epic( ♣8,417 ♦14,358 ♥14,689 ♠15,019 )
- (Optional) Defeat 10 enemies in the Temple — Bonus (2%): Heroic( ♣46 ♦81 ♥86 ♠90 ) Epic( ♣337 ♦574 ♥588 ♠601 )
- (Optional) Defeat 25 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (6%): Heroic( ♣137 ♦243 ♥257 ♠270 ) Epic( ♣1,010 ♦1,723 ♥1,763 ♠1,802 )
- (Optional) Defeat 50 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (13%): Heroic( ♣297 ♦526 ♥556 ♠586 ) Epic( ♣2,188 ♦3,733 ♥3,819 ♠3,905 )
- (Optional) Defeat 100 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (30%): Heroic( ♣686 ♦1,213 ♥1,283 ♠1,352 ) Epic( ♣5,050 ♦8,615 ♥8,813 ♠9,011 )
- (Optional) Defeat 200 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (50%): Heroic( ♣1,144 ♦2,022 ♥2,138 ♠2,254 ) Epic( ♣8,417 ♦14,358 ♥14,689 ♠15,019 )
- (Optional) Defeat 400 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (100%): Heroic( ♣2,287 ♦4,044 ♥4,276 ♠4,508 ) Epic( ♣16,833 ♦28,716 ♥29,377 ♠30,038 )
- (Optional) Defeat 750 total enemies in the Temple — Bonus (200%): Heroic( ♣4,574 ♦8,088 ♥8,552 ♠9,016 ) Epic( ♣33,666 ♦57,432 ♥58,754 ♠60,076 )
- (Optional) Slay Nar'Azmath the Ogre Mage — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 ) Epic( ♣3,367 ♦5,743 ♥5,875 ♠6,008 )
- (Optional) Slay Kirmudy the Bleak — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 ) Epic( ♣3,367 ♦5,743 ♥5,875 ♠6,008 )
- (Optional) Slay Spiritrunner the Minotaur — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 ) Epic( ♣3,367 ♦5,743 ♥5,875 ♠6,008 )
- (Optional) Slay Rasskar the Bandit Scourge — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 ) Epic( ♣3,367 ♦5,743 ♥5,875 ♠6,008 )
- (Optional) Slay Garkoth the Wiley — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 ) Epic( ♣3,367 ♦5,743 ♥5,875 ♠6,008 )
- (Optional) Find Spider Eggs for the Frogkeeper — Bonus (5%): Heroic( ♣114 ♦202 ♥214 ♠225 ) Epic( ♣842 ♦1,436 ♥1,469 ♠1,502 )
- (Optional) Return to the Frogkeeper — Bonus (30%): Heroic( ♣686 ♦1,213 ♥1,283 ♠1,352 ) Epic( ♣5,050 ♦8,615 ♥8,813 ♠9,011 )
What to Expect
- Random traps (bear traps, spell wards)
- Ballista firing poison bolts that damage (you can use them too)
- Random spawns of enemy groups also in visited areas
- Randomly spawning optional bosses
- Lockboxes and chests randomly spawn and respawn also in visited areas too
- Same goes for breakables
- Randomly localized mystic altars and magical fountains may spawn, usually with a lockbox nearby
Known Traps
- Bear traps
- Pressure plates
- Spell Wards
Tips and Misc
Death Ward is strongly advised as enemies will cast Enervation and level drain on higher difficulties.
You need to disable the eastern and north/central runes in order to unlock the gate to the Earth Temple. It's probably more efficient to do them in that order, and then proceed to the Earth Temple from the center of the map.
- The eastern rune is guarded by Harpies that can disable you with Soothing Song; you will receive a pop up message when you enter the room.
- The northern rune is guarded by a rapid fire Ballista that does extremely high damage, and hitting the guard using it is difficult as the ballista blocks projectiles.
- There is a secret door near the shrine due west of the ballista, allowing you to bypass the ballista's arc of fire.
- Approaching from the south will also allow you to avoid the ballista and you may be able to kill the guard from range, but there is a spiked pit and you will need a way to leap across it to enter the room.
After disabling both runes, head north from the ballista room to enter the temple. There is an outer path around the earth temple itself; enter the earth temple from the north.
Go to the central temple area and kill the four red named Earth Elementals to drop the barrier to Romag, and kill him. Loot the named chest and earth temple key, then exit the earth temple room to the north, head south, and disable the earth barrier to complete the quest.
Vorka the Frogkeeper can spawn at different locations.† Unfortunately that doesn't grant that a Spider Nest spawns too.
- († including the smaller of the pair of rooms north of the southern shrine, not shown on map, above)
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: variable or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣229 ♦404 ♥428 ♠451 )
- Tamper bonus: variable or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣229 ♦404 ♥428 ♠451 )
- Neutralization bonus: variable or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣457 ♦809 ♥855 ♠902 )
- Observance bonus: 3 or more secret doors discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣183 ♦324 ♥342 ♠361 )
- Vigilant Sight bonus: 4 or more secret doors discovered +15% Bonus.( ♣343 ♦607 ♥641 ♠676 )
- Mischief bonus: variable or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣183 ♦324 ♥342 ♠361 )
- Vandal bonus: variable or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣229 ♦404 ♥428 ♠451 )
- Ransack bonus: variable or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣343 ♦607 ♥641 ♠676 )
- Notes: The numbers of enemies, breakables and traps are highly volatile, so the bonus limit are volatile too.
- Ransack is usually reachable, Onslaught is questionable (299 weren't enough)
Loot
- Chests: 5 plus lots of random
- One for killing Harpy Matriarch
- One for killing Gargoyle Colossus
- One for killing Hartsch
- One for killing Turnkey
- One for killing Romag (named loot)
- Collectables:
- Reagents Cabinet — in the Library
- Reagents Cabinet — in the Library
- Rubble — in the Cell Block
- Rubble — in the Cell Block
- Reagents Cabinet — in the Library
- NPC rewards: standard
Named Chest Drop
Last Edited | Item | Type | Enhancements | ML | Bind | Quests |
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Sapphire Sting (edit) | Long Bow |
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7 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Hurricane Insignia (edit) | Trinket |
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8 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Eternal Flameguard's Lenses (edit) | Goggles |
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8 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Black Earth Guardian's Lenses (edit) | Goggles |
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8 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Crystal-Lined Magegloves (edit) | Gloves |
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8 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Intricate Magegloves (edit) | Gloves |
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8 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Epic Sapphire Sting (edit) | Long Bow |
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26 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Legendary Hurricane Insignia (edit) | Trinket |
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31 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Legendary Eternal Flameguard's Lenses (edit) | Goggles |
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31 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Legendary Black Earth Guardian's Lenses (edit) | Goggles |
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31 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Legendary Crystal-Lined Magegloves (edit) | Gloves |
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31 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
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Legendary Intricate Magegloves (edit) | Gloves |
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31 | Bound to Account on Acquire![]() |
ToEE: First Level and Earth Temple, end chest |
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Anscolm the Fervid ( view • edit ) | ♥41Hard | Humanoid | Human |
Bandit Arcane Trickster ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥39Epic Hard | Humanoid | Human |
Bandit Trapper ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Bladebreaker ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard | Aberration | Rust Monster |
Bonegnawer Ghoul ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite ●♦30Epic Normal | Undead | Ghoul |
Creeping Spiderlings ( view • edit ) | ♦5Normal ♥8Hard ♠9Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Vermin | Spider |
Earth Temple Elemental ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠16Elite ●♦33Epic Normal ●♥37Epic Hard ●♠59Epic Elite | Elemental | Earth Elemental |
Gargoyle Colossus ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite ●♥36Epic Hard | Monstrous Humanoid | Gargoyle |
Garkoth the Wiley ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite ●♥37Epic Hard ●♠57Epic Elite | Reptilian | Troglodyte |
Harpy Matriarch ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥39Epic Hard | Monstrous Humanoid | Harpy |
Hartsch ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard | Humanoid | Human |
Kirmudy the Bleak ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦38Epic Normal | Undead | Lich |
Nar'Azmath ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ●♥39Epic Hard | Giant | Ogre |
Nodeborn Sand Mephit ( view • edit ) | ♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠10Elite ●♦28Epic Normal | Earth Outsider | Mephit |
Ogre Commander ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ♥11Hard ♠14Elite ●♦35Epic Normal | Giant | Ogre |
Ogre Lackey ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♦30Epic Normal | Giant | Ogre |
Ogre Leader ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite | Giant | Ogre |
Ogre Leader ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥13Hard | Giant | Ogre |
Orc Sentry ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ●♦30Epic Normal ●♠43Epic Elite | Orc | Orc |
Orc Shaman ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite ●♦30Epic Normal ●♠43Epic Elite | Orc | Orc |
Orc Tracker ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠13Elite ●♦30Epic Normal ●♠43Epic Elite | Orc | Orc |
Ranging Bandit ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Rasskar ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ♥11Hard | Reptilian | Lizardfolk |
Romag ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♥39Epic Hard ●♠62Epic Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Roving Bandit ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite | Humanoid | Human |
S'Kara ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦34Epic Normal ●♥37Epic Hard | Monstrous Humanoid | Medusa |
Spider Nest ( view • edit ) | ♦9Normal ♥11Hard ●♥36Epic Hard | Construct | Inanimate Object |
Spiritrunner ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦23Epic Normal | Monstrous Humanoid | Minotaur |
Temple Cleric ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Temple Cultist ( view • edit ) | ♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠10Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Temple Gargoyle ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥9Hard ♠13Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Monstrous Humanoid | Gargoyle |
Temple Guard ( view • edit ) | ♦8Normal ♥9Hard ♠13Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Temple Harpy ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♥34Epic Hard | Monstrous Humanoid | Harpy |
Temple Warrior ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Turnkey (human) ( view • edit ) | ♠12Elite | Humanoid | Human |
Wergil ( view • edit ) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ●♥37Epic Hard | Goblinoid | Bugbear |
Wight Chanter ( view • edit ) | ♦7Normal ♥10Hard ♠12Elite | Undead | Wight |
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