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Creeping Death

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Arraetrikos sent one of his lieutenants to infiltrate Stormreach's sewers. But members of the Twelve have a plan to trap him.

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Creeping Death
Heroic level: 15
Epic level: 31
(considered Legendary)
Duration: long
Heroic XP:  ♣3,254Solo/Casual ♦5,655Normal ♥5,886Hard ♠6,118Elite
Epic XP:  ♣15,607Solo/Casual ♦26,672Normal ♥27,331Hard ♠27,991Elite
Takes place in: Sewer Ambuscade
Bestowed by: Trull Knopper
NPC contact: Trull Knopper
Quest acquired in: Meridia
Patron: The Twelve
Base favor: 6
Purchase: The Vale of Twilight or VIP
Extreme Challenge: No
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Overview

Arraetrikos has sent Garko, one of his lieutenants, to infiltrate the sewers of Stormreach. However, members of the Twelve have learned of the lieutenant's plan and have laid a trap for him.

Travel to the Sewer Ambuscade beneath Stromreach and help the Twelve stop Garko.


Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!


Objectives

  • Speak to Leth, Emissary of the Twelve
  • Defeat Garko the Great, Lieutenant of Arraetrikos
  • Enter the Upper Sewer Complex
  • Locate the entrance to the lower sewer complex
  • Discover the location of the first sigil
  • Empower the Sigil by activating three runes
  • Wait until Garko strikes the first sigil to proceed
  • Locate 2nd Sigil
  • Defeat Horned Devil and activate rune
  • Empower the sigil by activating the rune and lowering the drawbridge
  • Enter the underwater passage
  • Discover the end of the underwater passage.
  • Wait until Garko strikes the second sigil to proceed
  • Locate the third sigil
  • Wait until Garko strikes the second sigil to proceed
  • Locate Garko the Great

What to Expect

  • Instant-death mechanics
  • Overlapping map areas
  • Lot of oozes
  • Doors that require all mobs dead before opening (Ooze fragments don't have to die to open door)
  • Pipe jumping and pillar jumping
  • Puzzle
  • Point of no return

Known Traps

Trap and Lock DCs

  • 8 Traps: blades, ice, fire and poison (Kobolds can be damaged by the poison trap)
  • Bug: The 3 Secret doors, leading to trap Control Panels are already in a revealed state.

Tips and Misc

  • There are a couple ways to 100% die in this quest. Stay alert.
  • Don't let the red gelatinous cube touch you, or you die. No saving throw allowed.
    • There are some alcoves (some secret) that seem safe – they are, however you must squeeze as far away as possible from any hallway where the ooze is traveling, including through side-walls!

Walk-through:

Open first door, talk to Leth, then buff up. Open door, wait for Garko to lower spike barrier. Don't jump down or you die (highly poisonous environment at the moment). Proceed north. Kill kobolds and oozes, mind the traps. Reach shrine, then drop down and run south.

  • When a rune is lit a "sigil" is activated, and when Garko oozes over that, two things happen: 1) Garko, along with the cube Death Touch, is teleported ahead past the next barrier (so your current area is "safe", and only the next will be dangerous), and 2) the lever for the barrier to that next area is unlocked. There are 3 runes to light, 3 barriers to get through...

The way east is blocked by a barrier, so go west.

  • First rune: northwest room – Pipe jumping section, activate 3 runes until objective changes.
    • There is a lever (not shown on map) high in the center of the room, that starts an air jet from the pipes below. It's not necessary for completion, but it can help.
  • Second rune: Continue west and south from the pipe room. Go to the west first, just under the quest entrance (now less poisonous). Kill the horned devil. Loot chest, pull lever (rune), shrine if needed. Return to water, dive (east) to enter a pillar jumping section. Jump across and pull lever (rune).
    • Latecomers can jump down at this point and be safe from the earlier poison, but may still have some fighting to do, and possibly a red gelatinous cube to avoid, depending whether the main party has completed the second rune or not. Landing in the water and swimming to the western landing is a safe way to wait.
    • If you kite him out of the hallway (into the main room), the Horned Devil will white-dot and return to his starting point at full health.
    • Bug: Be careful with the timing of lowering the drawbridge. Make sure garko is not at the beginning of the drawbridge when you lower it, or he may become stuck.
    • This is the only barrier with a lever to lower it on both sides.
Puzzle for third sigil
  • Third rune: Go south across the drawbridge. Solve puzzle (in large eastern room).
  • While solving puzzle, you can squeeze back against the barrier and be safe from Death Touch. There is also a ladder south of the puzzle.
  • Note that unlike the previous 2 barriers, this one has no lever on the far side, creating a soft Point of No Return. The only way to get back (without releasing) is either Dimension Door, or to leave a character, hireling or pet on the far side to pull the lever from there. There are no shrines forward of this point.

Continue north (not over the drawbridge, although there is a collectable there), killing more ooze and kobolds. Then kill Garko along with some oozes and kobolds.

  • Garko starts alone, but he will summon help.
  • Garko cannot be kited out of the room, he will whitedot to his spawn location. Summoned trash can be kited and killed outside.
  • Killing Garko completes the quest; all trash disappears at that point.
  • The air jets on the raised platforms in the boss room cannot be disarmed.

Bonus XP

  • Aggression bonus: 33 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Onslaught bonus: 67 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )
  • Conquest bonus: 100 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦1,414 ♥1,472 ♠1,530 )
  • Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Neutralization bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦1,131 ♥1,177 ♠1,224 )
  • Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 7 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦1,697 ♥1,766 ♠1,835 )
  • Observance bonus: 1 or more secret door discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦452 ♥471 ♠489 )
  • Perception bonus: 2 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Mischief bonus: 32 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦452 ♥471 ♠489 )
  • Vandal bonus: 41 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦566 ♥589 ♠612 )
  • Ransack bonus: 51 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣-0 ♦848 ♥883 ♠918 )

Loot

  • Chests: 2
    • One for defeating the Horned Devil
    • One end chest, can drop named items (and LGS mats on Legendary difficulty)
  • Collectables: 6
    • Rubble just north of the first trap
    • Fungus in the north west tunnel before 1st shrine
    • Fungus underwater in the pipe jumping section
    • Fungus in the pillar room
    • Adventurer's Pack over the drawbridge near the puzzle
    • Adventurer's Pack in an alcove just before the last trap
  • NPC rewards:

Named Chest Drop

  • Ingredients (end chest)
    • Codex Runes, 3-7 on LH difficulty
    • LGS materials, small and medium
Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Construct's Mantle
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Cloak  15 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
  • Update 49
  • 2 years, 8 months, and 26 days
  • Corgrind
Boots of the Devil Commander
Boots of the Devil Commander.png
(edit)
Boots  15 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
  • Update 58.1
  • 1 year and 14 days
  • Corgrind
Arraetrikos' Bane (level 15)
Arraetrikos' Bane.png
(edit)
Ring  15 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
Pendant of the Warrior's Focus
Pendant of the Warrior's Focus.png
(edit)
Necklace  15 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
  • Update 60.0.1
  • 8 months and 7 days
  • Corgrind
Subtle Sound
Subtle Sound.jpg
(edit)
Trinket  15 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
  • Update 44.1
  • 4 years, 3 months, and 21 days
  • Pfhoenix
Arraetrikos' Bane (level 29)
Arraetrikos' Bane (level 29).png
(edit)
Ring  29 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
  • Update 50.0.1
  • 2 years, 8 months, and 12 days
  • JJMC89
Legendary Boots of the Devil Commander
Legendary Boots of the Devil Commander.png
(edit)
Boots  29 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End Chest
  • Update 50.0.1
  • 2 years, 8 months, and 11 days
  • JJMC89
Legendary Construct's Mantle
Legendary Construct's Mantle.png
(edit)
Cloak  29 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
  • Update 51.0.1
  • 2 years, 5 months, and 11 days
  • Cru121
Legendary Subtle Sound
Legendary Subtle Sound.png
(edit)
Trinket  29 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
Legendary Pendant of the Warrior's Focus
Legendary Pendant of the Warrior's Focus.png
(edit)
Necklace  29 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Creeping Death, End chest
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Monsters

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Fiendish Kobold Shaman( view
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 ♦15Normal ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal Reptilian Kobold
Fiendish Kobold Slinger( view
Fiendish Kobold Slinger.png
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 ♦15Normal ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal Reptilian Kobold
Fiendish Kobold( view
Fiendish Kobold.png
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 ♦15Normal ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal Reptilian Kobold
Garko( view
Garko.png
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 ♦18Normal ♠23Elite ♠61Epic Elite Reptilian Kobold
Horned Devil Invader( view
Horned Devil Invader.png
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 ♦18Normal ♠23Elite ♦34Epic Normal Evil Outsider Devil
Large Black Pudding Fragment( view
Large Black Pudding Fragment.jpg
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 ♦13Normal ♥13Hard ♠13Elite ♦29Epic Normal Ooze Black Pudding
Large Black Pudding( view
Large Black Pudding.jpg
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 ♦31Epic Normal Ooze Black Pudding
Large Unstable Arcane Ooze( view
Large Unstable Arcane Ooze.png
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 ♠20Elite ♦31Epic Normal Ooze Arcane Ooze
Unstable Arcane Ooze Fragment( view
Unstable Arcane Ooze Fragment.png
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 ♦13Normal ♥13Hard ♠13Elite ♦29Epic Normal Ooze Arcane Ooze