Revision as of 12:30, 28 February 2021

Beware of, the Blighted. You have been warned!! This is a comprehensive guide. Sit back and enjoy the grind!

Overview

The mobs in this zone have regen that scales based on number of people in group or raid, even if not in Nobles Causeway. The antithesis clickies are a necessity without donor gear to overcome the regen on most blighted named. The antithesis clicks are best to spam on the respective mob type. After using the antithesis click enough times the blue emote will eventually turn green and the regenerative aspect of blighted mobs will be completely negated.

Main Quest (Instance Access): Ghillie's Research

• Upon completion of Citadel of the Worldslayer, hand the 4 foresights to Ghillie **then** hail Ghillie and follow the text to receive the quest Ghillie's Research.
  • Collect 4 groundspawns (pre-lootable) in Noble's Causeway and turn them into Ghillie (first step).

• • Talk to Lilly (Charm fairy in Hidden Forest) and follow her dialogue.
  • Return to Ghillie in Hidden Vale and say "Please return the foresight"
  • Take the foresight to Lilly and follow her dialogue to receive an activated foresight.
  • Take the activated foresight to Ghillie in Hidden Vale and receive the remaining three foresights from her.
  • Head to Noble's Causeway Haven and hail Alvanari Spiritseeker, follow the dialogue to unlock 3 quests, from the glowing talosians, to learn the meanings of the words.
  • Hail Seraph and get quest Speaking to Spirits: Echoes
    • Run around Lannal the Beast Tamer for the first update
    • Run around the Tunnel heading to Slavedriver Menlo for the second update
    • Run to the ledge by Bone Cracker pit update is almost directly above Bone Cracker spawn
    • Run around/through the archway by Nerask at the south end of the zone
  • Swim in the pond in Haven of NC
  • Hail Seraph to complete task
    • Hail Quorelle and get Speaking to Spirits: Ghost Hunt
    • Kill 4 named for updates, any named
    • Hail Quorelle to complete task
  • Hail Anixienne and get Speaking to Spirits: Have Faith
    • This quest is timed and has you running through floating white spirits in a set path across the zone, from Haven to the bridge heading to Tarlang.
      • This one is recommended to have some help with pre-clearing if you do not have the Stone of Absolute Antithesis.
      • If you have completed the Stone of Absolute Antithesis, Anixienne will make you non-kos to mobs until you complete or run out of time getting to a spirit
  • See map below for rough estimation of the path the spirits spawn in.

• • Run through glowing white spirits/ghosts that spawn one at a time, if you take too long to hit the next one the quest fails and have to restart.
    • The last spirit on the bridge is the one that updates the task, is possible to coth characters to final spirit
  • After hitting last spirit on bridge return and Hail Anixienne to complete task
  • Now that you can speak the language of the spirits, seek out Spirit of Kaex, Ykt, and Chant that roam the ravine (map with legend below).
    • Recommend having the Ultimate Antithesis before continuing (see below) or have a lot of donor dps
    • Upon approaching the Spirits they will stop moving, hit the purple text and shortly thereafter Kaex, Ykt, or Chant will spawn.

• • Fight breakdown Kaex (Rooted and does not agro until person that spawned approaches, AE Ramp) drops 6 crystals per kill
    • Emotes periodically throughout the fight
      • The emote will be targeted on a single character and a black whirlpool particle effect will start dragging the character into it
      • Run all characters out of the black ring or be DT’ed
      • Tank and Spank
  • Fight breakdown Ykt (Rooted and does not agro until person that spawned approaches, AE Ramp) drops 6 crystals per kill
    • Emote about preparing a linear AoE that shoots across the bridge in either direction.
    • Second emote comes a few second after, and fires in the direction mentioned. Spawns an AoE that deals damage every second until it fades
    • Tank and Spank
  • Fight breakdown Chant (Rooted and does not agro until person that spawned approaches, AE ramp) drops 6 crystals per kill
    • Easily the hardest of the 3 -Recommend bringing friends!!!
    • At 4 points during the fight (HP based) Chant becomes immune to damage and spawns 4 crystals in random locations around the pit of varying colors.
      • Black Crystal (DT, hits 2 players +1 more for every 6 players)
      • Green Crystal (AoE LoS DoT, ~14k a tic)
      • Blue Crystal (Heals Chant for 25% HP)
      • Red Crystal (Spawns 2 Purple Crystals of Pain)
      • Purple Crystal of Pain (Proximity AoE)
    • You have ~30seconds to kill each crystal or the effect of that crystal will happen
    • After Crystals are all dead for the phase, Chant glows white and can be hit
    • The first emote and wave of crystals occurs at ~80%
      • For the first wave only 1 of the four crystals is active, Chant starts to glow with an aura of the crystals color and a visible path to the crystal will appear
    • The second emote and wave of crystals occurs at ~50%
      • For this wave, 2 of the four crystals will become active 1 after the other, pay attention to the order and kill the crystals in the correct order
    • The third emote and wave of crystals occurs at ~20-15%
      • Same as the second wave, except there are going to be 3 activated crystals this time
    • The fourth and final emote and wave of crystals occurs at 5%
      • Same as the second and third wave except all 4 crystals will become active this time.
    • Kill Chant
  • With the three crystals from Kaex, Ykt, and Chant head to this location on map to open the portal to Deepscar (acts like a portal in HoH, run into it), teleport in and talk to Ghillie.
    • Wedge yourself into the rocks and /say apertum mihi (or /say open me)

• • • After zoning into the instance, hand Ghillie the 3 crystals from Kaex, Ykt, and Chant and complete the task Ghillie’s Research. Instance can now be accessed from Hidden Vale.

Antithesis Quests (Regen Nerf Clickies):

Antithesis of Corruption (Quest giver-Gorvoroth near WoS zone-in)

• Find Grinbar the Ancient and kill him. He is rooted and AoE's
• Find Nerask and go through dialogue.

Reward is the Dragorn Antithesis Click

Fear of Ferocity (Quest giver-Nerask):

• Kill 4 Anuek Overseers and 4 Ikaav Overseers
  • Mostly around Bone Cracker pit ridge
• Speak with Nerask again
• Kill Alpha Feran and loot heart. 3 hearts drop per kill (pre-lootable), and feran attendants are the ph.

Reward is the Feran Antithesis Click

The Last Stand (Quest giver-Guardian Naven-guys by Slavedriver Menlo)

• After receiving quest on all characters, hail the quest-giver to start the event.
• Waves spawn consisting of white to red con nocs and nameds interspersed, waves approach the tunnel from the bridge to the left and must be agro'd fast to keep the guards alive. The guards are relatively squishy and die fairly fast if being hit.
• The last wave consisting of General Kizax have the tank AoE agro and burn the General, adds will continue to come across the bridge, they are HP based but still have to run to the area.
  • If either guard dies, everything despawns and ~15 minute wait until you can retry
  • Guardian Naven can be healed by the player to assist in his survival
• Once General is dead hail Guardian Naven to receive reward.

Reward is the Noc Antithesis Click

Fire Elemental (Quest giver-Vorkiev)

• This quest does not go in the tracker and the drop is pre-lootable
• Kill Siflu
• Siflu will AoE the whole fight, if a flaming ring appears on the ground beneath your feet, move out of the ring to avoid the massive nuke
• Drops 3 Burning Embers per kill, loot one and hand in to Vorkiev

Reward is the Murkglider Antithesis Click

Bazu Hunter (Quest giver-Ridgerunner Drunt)

• Kill Bazu Scavenger
• Kill Bazu Stone Thrower
• Kill Bazu Bone Cracker
• Return to Ridgerunner Drunt and hail on all characters going through dialogue but do not say ready until all toons have the update (very important to not have to repeat multiple times)
• When ready, start the escort. Drunt dies very easily so this might take a few tries. Giving pet armor and spamming heals on Drunt seemed to help, and the tank needs to be ready to run ahead the second the bazu currently being fought dies, because Drunt runs off and will die.
  • Drunt can be healed by players
• Kill Bazu and protect Drunt until he makes it to Haven
• Hail Drunt to complete (he despawns within a few minutes of reaching Haven, hail fast)

Reward is the Bazu Antithesis Click

Discordant Infiltration (Quest giver-Alkron Wyrmsong)

• Run down to Tarlang but do not approach, if he cons Yellow you must kill him and wait for the right one to spawn (the right one is a white con)
  • If the yellow con is present, clear the dragorn in the pit area before approaching as he will shadow-step upon taking damage (see map)
  • Note: The shadow-step can be interrupted, possibly a stun right as he emotes
• The real Tarlang will send you to kill 6 Kyv Heartstrikers.
• After killing the 6 Kyv Heartstrikers return to Tarlang and repeat the above process depending on his con color.
• He will then send you to kill the Discordling Dark Animist
  • The Dark Animist itself is a rare spawn that has the Bazu Terror as a PH and is a 1 HR respawn, so be ready to spend some time here.
  • The fight itself is timed, you have 5 minutes from agro to kill him, and he has absurd regeneration. 4 Animists will spawn when you agro that will lower the Discordling Dark Animist’s regen when killed. If you have enough Donor DPS the Animists are not necessary to kill and just burn the Discordling Dark Animist.
• Once the Discordling Dark Animist has been killed, return and hail Alkron Wyrmsong.

Reward Discordling Antithesis Click

Friends Reunited (Quest giver-Kupiop Iku and supposedly can get from Jillaa Oogblat)

Find Jillaa Oogblat and hail when ready to start the escort. The person that Jillaa is following must stay a ways behind everyone else because she will run away if you get too close to ukun and you have to restart the quest. If you have the whole group clip into her you can get the quest updates for a whole group instead of doing this quest for every individual, does not work if in a raid. Once she is following a character start killing your way back to Kupiop Iku She does not climb rocks and stuff so be careful on the path you take and don't run too far ahead of her or you will have to restart Once back to Kupiop Iku and the task has updated, hail Jillaa Oogblat to complete the quest.

Reward Ukun Antithesis Click

Ultimate Antithesis (Quest giver-Nerask) **MUST HAVE ALL 7 ANTITHESIS CLICKS TO GET QUEST**

• Note: All drops and items are pre-lootable and buyable for this quest, the quest only updates from turn-ins (like the epic quest)
• Obtain the 7 Blight Antithesis Power Sources from named mobs around the zone (not sure what PHs are)
  • Bazu Blight Power Source from Bazu Stomper
  • Discordling Blight Power Source from Discordling Elite
  • Dragorn Blight Power Source from Recruiter Zalkar
  • Feran Blight Power Source from Raging Feran
  • Murkglider Blight Power Source from Murkglider Queen
  • Noc Blight Power Source from General Ixktar
  • Ukun Blight Power Source from Ukun Savage
• Obtain an Active Antithesis Residue
  • This seems to be a super rare drop from mobs that you have used an antithesis click on, it will emote letting you know that there is antithesis residue (please pm me a screenshot of the emote)
• Buy the Antithesis Fusion Device for ~25k from the roaming Umbo in NC (pretty much paths the whole map)
• The first stage of the task you need to hand Nerask the Dragorn, Feran, Ukun, and Discordling power sources
• The second stage you need to hand Nerask the Active Antithesis Residue and the Bazu, Murkglider and Noc power sources
• After the second hand in Nerask give you an Ultimate Antithesis Power Source which is needed for the final combine
• Nerask then asks you to combine the 7 Antithesis clicks you have quested and the Ultimate Antithesis Power Source in the Antithesis Fusion Device. The result of the combine, Dormant Stone of Antithesis, needs to be handed back to Nerask to complete the quest

Reward Stone of Absolute Antithesis Click

Spell/Disc Quest-Upgraded PoTactics Spell (Quest giver-Researcher Havareth)

• Note: This quest DOES NOT appear in the quest tracker.
• Acquire all 8 Fragmented Words from mobs in Nobles Causeway
  • They are Lore and tradeable
  • The 8 Fragmented Words are Des, Fir, Kor, Lum, Rah, Sci, Sen and Ven
• Once all 8 are acquired Hail Researcher Havareth and go through his dialogue
  • The Fragmented Words turned in must be in a specific order, always random from character to character.
• To determine the order of the words, and the 4 that are required for your spell/disc , you must approach 4 totems located around the zone. Each totem will play a series of emotes with a number 1-4 being in the emotes.
  • The number mentioned in the emote determines which number of the turn in the word for this totem is going to be, so write it down.
• When the emotes finish an Awakened Guardian will spawn that takes 7 of the 8 Fragmented Words from your character (even takes from the bank) and leaves you with the word required for your turn in.
• Kill the Awakened Guardian to get the 7 other words back.
• Repeat this process for the remaining 3 totems to figure out the Fragmented Words needed and the order to turn in.
  • I.E. If i go to the totem and receive an emote talking about three claw marks, the Fragmented Word that is left in my inventory after spawning the Awakened Guardian will be the third Fragmented Word I place in the trade window for turn-in.
• With the Fragmented Words and the order known, return to Researcher Havareth and hand them in to receive an upgraded PoTactics spell for your class.
• Immediately head to Haven to complete the Unlocking the Totems quest (next quest in walkthrough)

Unlocking the Totems Quest (Quest giver-Researcher Karath)

Note: This quest DOES NOT appear in the quest tracker. After receiving your class spell, head to Haven and talk to Researcher Karath Upon going through the dialogue you now have the ability to teleport around the map to the 4 totems and Haven by saying the number or haven next to a totem or to Researcher Karath This makes questing much easier especially if the first character it is done on is a Rogue.

Pet Quest (Quest giver-Lannal the Beast Tamer)

Note: Must have completed one of the WoS pets to do this quest. Every drop for this quest is pre-lootable.

• After getting the quest the first step has you turn in your WoS pet (so recommend farming all required items before getting the quest)
• The second step has you turning in 4 items to Lannal the Beast Tamer
  • Iron Clasp - Ground spawn in Slavedriver Menlo room (behind the wall in the back)
  • Very Long Whip - Slavedriver Menlo always drops one
    • Slavedriver Fight (Rooted, Harm Touches every 45s for 45% your hp)
      • 2 strats to this fight either kill the refugees as they agro buffing Slavedriver Menlo or tank through the adds/off-tank/CC them
        • If you choose to kill adds Menlo will get stronger and so will the Harm Touch by 5% for every add you kill
        • If you choose to not kill the adds, after the 10th refugee agros they will switch target and attack Menlo
          • This enrages Menlo and 25-30s later, if not dead, he will AoE Harm Touch for 50%-150% of your HP
  • Reinforced Chain Links - Random drop from a dragorn refugee
  • Feeble Bindings - merchant item in Hidden Forest (10k from Feeb the Animist)

• After that turn in, Lannal will give you a whip clicky which is not going to be used until you are ready to capture your pet. The next step has you capture a noc, ukun, or discordling which requires a noose.
  • Constructing the noose for the type of pet you want will require killing mobs of that type and looting the 8 body parts
  • The body parts are combined in a Zephyr Chamber which drops from Elemental Essence Zephyr.
    • To spawn the Elemental Essence Zephyr it requires a chain of kills of progressing difficulty along a path leading to the room the Elemental Essence Zephyr spawns in (After killing one of the Elemental Essences the next will spawn along the path)
    • This starts with Elemental Essence Breeze (see map), ph appears to be a murkglider that does not path.
    • The Essences will cast a g-flux so recommend killing everything around before engaging

• • • Combine the 8 body parts of the pet you want in the Zephyr Chamber to receive a Noc/Ukun/Discordling Noose which is used to capture one (5s cast time)
• With the captured Noc/Ukun/Discordling acquired, return to Lannal and hand it to him. He will then ask you to create a calming elixir that requires 5 drops from NC
  • 4 drops are combined in a Crystalised Flask
    • Crystalised Flask - drops from Murkglider School Leader (unsure how to spawn other than killing murkgliders)
    • Source of Terror - Bazu Terror (1hr respawn, 50% chance to be Bazu Terror or Discordling Animist, so might take a while)
    • Seed of Fertility - a fecund murkglider (named spawn have only seen in one spot, see map)
    • Essence of Aggression - an aggressive murkglider (named spawn have only seen in one spot, see map)
    • Blood of Insanity - Drarakon the Mad (named dragorn can spawn in multiple spots along the path to Tarlang, see map)

• • • Combine the Source of Terror, Seed of Fertility, Essence of Aggression, and Blood of Insanity in the Crystalised Flask to receive Elixir of Serenity.
• Hand the Elixir of Serenity and the items Lannal requests to him (forgot what other items he wants) and speak to Lannal again to learn the emotes required to capture your pet bazu.
• Go into the tunnels behind Lannal that are full of chained bazu and start killing one
  • KILL SLOWLY SO YOU DO NOT MISS EMOTES AND CLICKS
  • The first emote you are waiting for will tell you if you have the correct bazu
    • Noc - the bazu rears up and beats its chest, bearing its teeth
    • Ukun - the bazu crouches low as if preparing to leap to attack
    • Discordling - the bazu arches its back and buckles down defensively
  • If you have the correct bazu for your bait (they are always random) you are waiting for an emote about the bazu pulling at it’s chains.
    • When this emote happens, you have ~10sec to click the bait
    • Successfully using the bait will result in an emote saying that the bazu breaks its chains
  • The final emote you are waiting for is about the bazu being distracted by the bait, at which point click the Bazu leash and you should get an item on your cursor
    • If this fails wait on the cooldown and kill more chained bazu until successful

• Return to Lannal and turn in the captured bazu to receive your NC pet clicky buff
  • Noc flavored Bazu pet:
    • +10% chance to avoid melee, +58% chance to reflect spell, +20% chance to resist spell
  • Ukun flavored Bazu pet:
    • +10% chance to dual wield, +10% chance to double attack, +10% chance to perform an extra attack
  • Discordling flavored Bazu pet:
    • +10% chance to parry attack, +10% chance to dodge attack, +10% chance to dodge attack

School’s Out (Quest giver Vorkiev)

• Kill 2500 murkgliders
• Kill 100 of varying types of murkgliders
• Kill each named murkglider
  • Reward Icon of the Murkslayer

Deepscar’s Den (Group Instance) - Accessible in Vale from Ghillie

• Upon zoning in Levitate the Group, walk to and hail Ghillie to get the instance started
• Note: She will not let you start if the entire group has not finished Ghillie’s Research quest
• Go to the center of the room and talk to Ghillie again.
• She will explain how to utilize her during the 7? Trials that take place in the instance.
• When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 1

Trial 1: Trial of Recall

• • After a delay 6 colored crystals will spawn in the room and begin to glow and then extinguish 1 by 1
    • Take note of the order the colors light up
  • After the 6th crystal has quit glowing, they will be replaced by Recall Guardian that have an aura the same color as the crystals
  • Kill the Golems in the order that they lit up to pass the first trial
    • Golems are not rooted, have a minor KB and an AoE or Ramp (need to verify which)
    • Loot Noc bane weapons, each golem drops a stack of 100 bane shurikens and a bow
      • For use in Trial 3
  • Ghillie will return to the center of the room upon completion of the first trial
  • When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 2

Trial 2: Trial of Reflection

• • After a short delay reflection will spawn (1 for evey member of the group) and path towards Ghillie
  • When the reflection stops, it will start to cast a spell and transform into a group member
  • Kill the Reflection and the Prison Guard of Discord will spawn
    • Prison Guard of Discord is rooted and hits fairly hard
    • Simple tank and spank
  • Once Prison Guard of Discord is dead, Ghillie will return to the center of the room
  • When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 3

Trial 3: Wasnt paying attention to name

• • Prison Guard of Dominion spawns and paths to center of the room
    • Prison Guard of Dominion is rooted and hits fairly hard
    • At % based intervals will spawn nocs in the side rooms that run to the main room
      • They can only be damaged with bane weapons from trial 1
      • If ignored for a period of time they will combust and die, unsure if it does AoE damage
      • The amount of Noc’s spawned depends on the wave (what % the Prison guard is at)
  • Once Prison Guard of Dominion is dead, Ghillie will return to the center of the room
  • When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 4

Trial 4: Trial of the Void

• • Prison Guard of the Void will spawn in the black room and path to the center of the room
    • Rooted
    • When engaged he will immediately summon all but 1 character on top of him
      • The one character will run around killing Void people periodically throughout the fight when they spawn in the rooms
      • There are giant orbs of death that circle the perimeter of the room
        • If touched you die
      • When one of the Void people spawn in a side room the Prison Guard emotes about a prisoner escaping and he becomes invulnerable until the Void person is killed
        • The Void people that spawn have essentially 0 hp and instantly die, at which point one of the death orbs homes in on the person who killed it
        • Could not figure out how to avoid the death ball, and we just rezed whomever died
  • Once Prison Guard of the Void is dead, Ghillie will return to the center of the room
  • When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 5

Trial 5: Trial of “Explosions”

• Red con dude spawns
  • Not rooted, not blighted
  • Kill him
• Red con and grey con spawn
  • Grey con casts a stun, lot of hp ignore
  • Kill red con and grey will despawn
• 2 red con, a dark blue and a grey con spawn
  • Grey con casts stun, lot of hp ignore
  • Blue con casts short duration mez ignore
  • Kill both red cons and the two others despawn
• 3 red cons, a white, dark blue, and grey con spawn
  • Grey con casts stun, lot of hp ignore
  • Blue con casts short duration mez ignore
  • White con casts long duration mez (multiple minutes) kill if you want
  • Kill three red cons and the others despawn
• Prison Guard of “Explosions” will spawn and path into the room
  • Rooted
  • During the fight he will spawn Red con guys that come from the outer rooms
    • Believe it is HP based with the spawn number being 1, 1, and 2
    • We burned the guard and ignored the adds, will try killing them and going slower in a subsequent run
  • Once Prison Guard of “Explosions” is dead, Ghillie will return to the center of the room
  • When ready to start, talk to Ghillie and she will start trial 5

Trial 6: Trial of Contamination

• Mistress of Blight will path into the center of the room
  • Rooted
  • Hits like a truck or casts a DT, purpled the tank shortly after engaging
  • At certain points during the fight you will get an emote and she will retreat from the fight and you will have to run to a room
  • No idea how this works
    • The first time she retreats everyone will see a color somewhere, middle of the room maybe?
      • Run to the room you see glowing for or get killed
    • The second time a couple people will see the right color and everyone else will be a trap, so run to the room multiple people see
    • The third time everyone will see different? And only one is right?
  • Once Mistress of Blight is dead, Ghillie will go to the room with the entity
• Upon approaching Ghillie and the entity in the room…
  • The entity will start glowing and you will get an emote about your voice and something reverse
    • Spent 2 hours yelling at a crystal and /exited so good luck