An Offering of Blood

Quest Giver: Calyx Shattermoon in Zawabi's Refuge
Level: 11 Party
Patron: The Free Agents (8/16/24)
Length: long
Entry Point: bottom of Vulkoor's Spire in the Menechtaurun Desert
Prereqs: none
Recommended Party: standard, rogue is helpful, haste is a must
Base Experience:
Quest Info:
--Creatures: drow, scorrow, scorpions
--Traps: fire, lightning

WALKTHROUGH:

Map to Entrance of Offering

This quest gives the Blessed Blood Offering, one of the three items required for the Demon Queen raid.

Stepping into the quest, you are at the top of a long drop. Head down once everyone is in. Beat up the little scorps.

When you are ready for a real fight, grab the bowl off of the altar. A very big and very mean scorpion will pop out of the ground to take you out. Fight him at the north door, as soon as he dies the door will open and the race will begin! RUN!

This quest has constant respawns behind you at different points. They will all run up the spiral trying to catch up to you. The best way to deal with this is to move quickly and leave crowd control as you go, but do NOT stop to fight until you're at a door. Assign a person to get the levers on the doors, another to put some crowd control down and charming is your friend in here, one to be a meat shield at the doors and leave your cleric for healing only. Conserve mana, don't extend buffs or spells as there are only two shrines and the drows are constantly debuffing you anyway.

The doors to the left contain optionals and sometimes chests and the spectral gloves drop here so you might want to take the time to loot now. Many groups will go for the speed route, and ignore these doors, so make the plan before ya take off.

The first bridge you reach is trapped with fire, so be careful. You can close bridges behind you, but if you do so you cannot get back through later, if you should need a re-entry. It does block the respawns behind you, though!

When you get to the "firewall" blocking the further door, kill the named to open the route up. There is a chest in the side passage there, if you are feeling up to it. Heading further up the spiral, you will eventually get to another bridge room. There is a pit under the bridges that leads to a safe, tunnel underwater follow it to another shrine.

Someone, or everyone, after shrining, is going to need to climb up the lightning trapped path, or across the ledges around the back of the room, and drop down and lower the second bridge from the other side. Once everyone is across, lift the bridge back up and clear the area. (I suggest the best method is to take everyone up the lightening traps, except on elite and just jump down without the bridge ever being lowered.)

The next room is the last fight. Take out the support scorrows before dropping the drow caster. She has super duper stoneskin, but it will drop eventually. When she falls, ignore all the scorps poppin up, head further in and into the next cave, talk to the drow and complete the quest. (I suggest putting some solid fog, cloudkill, symbols, blade barrier and taking the fight back to the door, shooting the drow caster as she runs slowly through your tunnel of death!)

Now head back to Calyx in the Refuge to get your blood bowl and an end reward.

End Reward: standard loot list.

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