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Epic version of the Three-Barrel Cove is a level 25 Wilderness Adventure Area, allowing characters level 20 through 29 for full XP rewards.

Optionally, complete the Pirates of the Thunder Sea mini pre-quest to guide you when getting to Three-Barrel Cove.

For the heroic version, see Three-Barrel Cove (heroic).

Quests[edit]

Quest Name Quest Level Total Favor Patron Casual Normal Hard Elite
Ghost of a Chance (Epic) 25 12 The Free Agents
♣11,457
♦19,665
♥20,235
♠20,805
A Legend Revisited 25 12 The Free Agents
♣14,617
♦25,091
♥25,821
♠26,550
Old Tomb, New Tenants 25 15 The Free Agents
♣11,575
♦20,181
♥20,767
♠21,352
Prove Your Worth (Epic) 25 12 The Free Agents
♣12,209
♦20,957
♥21,564
♠22,173
Precious Cargo 25 21 The Free Agents
♣11,231
♦19,277
♥19,836
♠20,394
Total 5 Quests 72  ♣61,089Solo/Casual  ♦105,171Normal  ♥108,223Hard  ♠111,274Elite

Transporter NPC[edit]

Cory Seagrass, a male NPC near the entrance offers the following fast travel within the zone, as you find each location and complete the quest. No Astral Shard usage required.

  • near The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias
  • near Garl's Tomb
  • near the Fire Caves
  • near Prove Your Worth
  • near Ghost of a Chance
  • near The Scoundrel's Run

A Note on the Monsters[edit]

The monsters in this area, and the quests within it, are similar to those in Finding Dorris in that many of them are renamed versions of a single base monster. The game engine and Monster Manual accordingly treat the renamed versions as the base monster they were created from (meaning, for example, that a Broken Crown Sailor (Human) counts as a Pirate Sailor (Human) in the Monster Manual). Generally, any monster with "Pirate" as the first word in its name is one of these base monsters.

Due to a bug, monsters may occasionally spawn in the wilderness area without an adjustment to their name; selecting them causes the name to change.

Slayer[edit]

  • Slay 10 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 3,354 XP = 335.4 xp/kill
  • Slay 25 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 4,425 XP = 295 xp/kill
  • Slay 50 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 5,937 XP = 237.48 xp/kill
  • Slay 100 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 8,599 XP = 171.98 xp/kill
  • Slay 200 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 12,765 XP = 127.65 xp/kill
  • Slay 400 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 21,675 XP = 108.38 xp/kill
  • Slay 750 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 45,140 XP = 128.97 xp/kill
  • Slay 1,500 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 72,900 XP = 97.2 xp/kill
  • Slay 3,000 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 146,325 XP = 97.55 xp/kill
  • Slay 5,000 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 203,175 XP = 101.59 xp/kill
  • Slay 7,500 creatures in Three Barrel Cove: 256,125 XP = 102.45 xp/kill

Rare Encounters[edit]

4,200 XP each, 25,200 XP bonus for finding and defeating all. Note: Rares can all spawn in multiple places, all nearby their location on the map. If you see a working ballista, it means an airship has spawned nearby.

Fighting the Airships[edit]

As is typical with airships, the Pirate Airships in this quest are impervious to direct attack. The most direct way to slay one is to use the ballistae dotted around each airship spawn area. However, this is painful to do on your own. The airship's cannons, grappling hooks, and the crewmates spawned from the hooks can all interrupt ballista shots by hitting you. If trying to farm rares from this area, consider bringing a hireling to present an alternative target.

Two airships (The Ill Fate and The Betrayer's Visage) can spawn in locations where it is possible to board them. The Ill Fate can be baited to sail under a climbable cliff and the Betrayer's Visage can be boarded with a good jump off the lighthouse. Once on board, if you head through the door to the engine room, storm the engine and slay the elemental, the ship will crash, killing the remaining crew and granting you the rare XP and chest. You will be spawned on the ground after leaving the stricken engine room, but do not linger once the elemental dies - you will be insta-killed if the airship crashes with you on board.

Explorer[edit]

Lore and dungeon entrances are shared with Heroic version. Epic version gets following logbook entries additionally.

Hatchet-face Ned's Logbooks[edit]

2,100 XP each, 6,300 XP bonus for finding all

  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 1:Icon tooltip.pngFound by the captain's wheel of the Sea Witch (the boat just southwest of the entrance). Ahraatz-Ri is dead - and so is Captain Tew. 'Tis a black day for the Blood Tide. Yet this black cloud may still have a golden lining for old Hatchet-face Ned. If I can make to the Cove before the others, Ahraatz-Ri's treasure will be mine!
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 2:Icon tooltip.pngFound on an island in the southwest part of the map. (climb up from the water to the larger island then cross over to the smaller island across the small bridge up top) I heard tell of the booty when last I shipped with the Blood Tide. Ahraatz-Ri and Captain Tew were talking about it one night up in the forecastle. Been drinking too much of the Old Sully's, they had. Said they'd laid treasure by in Three Barrel Cove, just in case things ever went wrong - enough treasure to last a man through three lifetimes of shore leave.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 3:Icon tooltip.pngFound on a cliff a bit west of the entrance to "The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias." Of course I weren't the only one who heard them talk about the treasure. By now every seadog from Stormreach to Sharn has heard the tale. nobody dared touch a coin of it while Azraatz-Ri was alive, for fear he'd turn them into something terrible. But now ... well, all's fair in love when the wench is dead. Or however that one goes.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 4:Icon tooltip.pngFound at the pirate camp in the middle of the island, by the campfire. I was resting me eyes in a shady glade when the serpent-folk came a-slithering out of the jungle. Yuan-ti in Three-Barrel Cove! Been an age or more since their kind have been seen in these islands. Could be they're after the treasure too. I'll not be the one to find out, for I left the spot as quick as me feet would take me. Hatchet-face Ned doesn't intend to end his life as an offering to the Devourer!
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 5:Icon tooltip.pngFound on one of the rocky ledges on the path to the Fire Caves, north of the zone entrance. Tis as I feared. Every buccaneer on the Thunder Sea has come to Three-Barrel to try for the treasure. Bluebeard Amanatu, Captain Silverlance, Old Hardtack from Droaam. Seems like every day there's another pirate airship over the island. I run for the trees the instant I see one. Not even the heartiest old salt can stand up to a magefire cannon.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 6:Icon tooltip.pngOn a cliff on the west part of the island. (south of the entrance to "Ghost of a Chance", north of the island with the old marketplace tent topper) The view, the water, the sea breeze ... The Cove is a fine spot indeed! A man could learn to like it here, if it weren't for the poxy harpies ... and the scorpions ... and o'course all the other pirates coming after your swag. Still, methinks when old Ned has pillaged another port or three he'll come back to the Cove and live out his days in the sun.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 7:Icon tooltip.pngFound in the spiderweb area at the northwest of the map near the Scoundrel's Run entrance. Now what did that old scoundrel Ratty do with his hoard? By now every pirate in the Thunder Sea has been over this island from stem to stem. We've found a dab of gold here, a few trinkets there - but nothing like what Ahraatz-Ri used to talk about. Methinks we're looking for the wrong thing.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 8:Icon tooltip.pngFound on a rock in coming out of the water southeast of the entrance to "Scoundrel's Run." (southeast of the fenced-in area in the middle of the water) Jack Jibbers just pulled into port, looking for a crew. That hell-blasted haunt is after the treasure too! Of course, he don't ship with none but the undead as his deckhands. And if there aren't any convenient - why then, he'll go out and make some.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 9:Icon tooltip.pngFound by a campfire on a rock northeast from the entrance to "Garl's Tomb." (go around clockwise, past the wrecked ship) They were telling tales about Jack Jibbers back in Barrel's Bottom. Said he can't be killed so long as the blade in his breast stays unbroken. Old Tomkins laughed and asked me if I'd kept the hatchet - maybe it'd keep me alive forever too. A fool thing to say! That hatchet was ruined, and of course they'd thrown it overboard by the time by the time [sic] I came to.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 10:Icon tooltip.pngFound on a rocky ledge by a lava 'waterfall' just southwest of the entrance to the Fire Caves. Captain Rackam was going on about his infamous Trial again. The old blowhard! Hatchet-face Ned is much too savvy to be caught in his net. 'Tis but a death trap he's made so he can pick the bones of any so foolish as to try it.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 11:Icon tooltip.pngNorth of Ghost of a Chance, at the base of a sandy ramp (follow the rock wall north) Last night every man jack in the Salty Wench was talking about the new arrival in town. An ambassador , they said - an ambassador from Argonnessen! Well now, I'd never seen a dragon, so of course I went on over to have a squint. What a hornswaggle! 'Twas only some wee elf woman with her hair askew.
  • Hatchet-face Ned's Log 12:Icon tooltip.pngFound on the front-deck of the air-ship in the north-east of the map. (Near the entrance to Precious Cargo) Captain Tew - he's back. The Karrnathi necromancers got to him, I reckon. Being dead hasn't done his face any favors, mind. But he's madder than a sea snake about the treasure. Says that the Blood Tide will have the heads of any who try to take it. So 'its time for Hatchet-face Ned to ship out the Three-Barrel Cove. I've heard of treasure in Smuggler's Rest. Maybe I'll set sail for there.

Named loot[edit]

Last Edited Item Type Enhancements ML Bind Quests
Iron Mitts
Iron Mitts.png
(edit)
Gloves  24 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Prove Your Worth (epic), End Chest; Three-Barrel Cove (epic), All Rare Encounters
Orcish Privateer's Boots
Orcish Privateer's Boots.png
(edit)
Boots  24 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Three-Barrel Cove (epic), All Rare Encounters
Drowned Priest's Torch
Drowned Priest's Torch.png
(edit)
Club  24 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire A Legend Revisited, Jack Jibbers' chest, Three-Barrel Cove (epic), rare encounters
Kobold Admiral's Tiller
Kobold Admiral's Tiller.png
(edit)
Buckler shield  24 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Ghost of a Chance (epic), Puzzle chest; Three-Barrel Cove (epic), All Rare Encounters
Mutineer's Blade
Mutineer's Blade.png
(edit)
Rapier  24 Bound to Account on AcquireIcon tooltip.pngBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire Old Tomb, New Tenants, End Chest; Three-Barrel Cove (epic), All Rare Encounters
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Monsters[edit]

Name ( picture ) CR Type Race
Ardent Sands Marauder( view
Ardent Sands Marauder.png
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 ♥32Epic Hard Humanoid Human
Barris Bluebeard Amanatu( view
Barris Bluebeard Amanatu.png
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 ♦31Epic Normal Dwarf Dwarf
Blood Tide Marine( view
Blood Tide Marine.png
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 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Orc Half-Orc
Blood Tide Windcaller( view
Blood Tide Windcaller.png
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 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Gnoll Gnoll
Brineshallow Scrag( view
Brineshallow Scrag.png
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 ♥12Hard ♦26Epic Normal Giant Troll
Broken Crown Cannoneer( view
Pirate Cannoneer (Dwarf).jpg
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 ♦25Epic Normal Dwarf Dwarf
Broken Crown Marine( view
Broken Crown Marine.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Broken Crown Sailor (Human)( view
Broken Crown Sailor (Human).png
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 ♦21Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Broken Crown Sailor (Warforged)( view
Broken Crown Sailor (Warforged).png
 • edit )
 ♦23Epic Normal Living Construct Warforged
Broken Crown Swashbuckler (Half-Elf)( view
Broken Crown Swashbuckler (Elf).png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal Elf Half-Elf
Broken Crown Swashbuckler (Human)( view
Broken Crown Swashbuckler (Human).png
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 ♦26Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Captain Rackam( view
Captain Rackam (monster).png
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 ♦28Epic Normal Orc Orc
Captain Silverlance( view
Captain Silverlance.jpg
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 ♦31Epic Normal Elf Elf
Captain Thoth( view
Captain Thoth.jpg
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 ♦29Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Cove Harpy( view
Cove Harpy.png
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 ♦26Epic Normal Monstrous Humanoid Harpy
Cove Scorpion( view
Cove Scorpion.jpg
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 ♦6Normal ♦6Epic Normal Vermin Scorpion
Cove Warbler( view
Cove Warbler.png
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 ♦26Epic Normal Monstrous Humanoid Harpy
Cursed Kobold( view
Cursed Kobold.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦22Epic Normal ♥28Epic Hard ♠50Epic Elite Undead Zombie
Cursed Pirate( view
Cursed Pirate.jpg
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 ♦23Epic Normal Undead Zombie
Daask Marine( view
Daask Marine.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Orc Half-Orc
Daask Sailor( view
Daask Sailor.png
 • edit )
 ♦23Epic Normal Goblinoid Hobgoblin
Daask Warmage( view
Daask Warmage.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Gnoll Gnoll
Elemental Engine( view
Elemental Engine.jpg
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 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Construct Inanimate Object
Gorgon Cannoneer (dwarf)( view
Gorgon Cannoneer (dwarf).png
 • edit )
 ♥32Epic Hard Dwarf Dwarf
Gorgon Cannoneer (human)( view
Gorgon Cannoneer (human).png
 • edit )
 ♥32Epic Hard Humanoid Human
Gorgon Sailor (human)( view
Gorgon Sailor (human).png
 • edit )
 ♥28Epic Hard Humanoid Human
Gorgon Sailor (warforged)( view
Gorgon Sailor (warforged).png
 • edit )
 ♥30Epic Hard Living Construct Warforged
Grappling Hook( view
Grappling Hook.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Construct Inanimate Object
Ill Fate Marauder( view
Ill Fate Marauder.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Elf Drow Elf
Ill Fate Marine( view
Ill Fate Marine.png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Orc Half-Orc
Ill Fate Sailor (Human)( view
Ill Fate Sailor (Human).png
 • edit )
 ♦21Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Ill Fate Sailor (Warforged)( view
Ill Fate Sailor.png
 • edit )
 ♦23Epic Normal ♥29-30Epic Hard Living Construct Warforged
Ithun Orenah( view
Rare Encounter Ithun Orenah.jpg
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 ♦7Normal Native Outsider Tiefling
Jack Jibbers( view
Jack Jibbers.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Undead Wraith
Large Water Elemental( view
Large Water Elemental (Monster).png
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 ♦26Epic Normal Elemental Water Elemental
Magefire Cannon( view
Magefire Cannon.jpg
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 ♦18Normal ♥23Hard ♠28Elite ♦32Epic Normal ♥38Epic Hard ♠73Epic Elite Construct Animated Object
Magma Brute( view
Magma Brute.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦37Epic Normal ♥45Epic Hard ♠59Epic Elite Elemental Earth Elemental
Old Hardtack( view
Old Hardtack.jpg
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 ♦29Epic Normal Giant Ogre
Pirate Cannoneer (Dwarf)( view
Pirate Cannoneer (Dwarf Actual).png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal Dwarf Dwarf
Pirate Gnoll( view
Pirate Gnoll.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Gnoll Gnoll
Pirate Marauder (Drow)( view
Pirate Marauder (Drow).png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal Elf Drow Elf
Pirate Marauder (Human)( view
Pirate Marauder (Human).png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Pirate Marine (Half-Orc)( view
Pirate Marine (Half-Orc).png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal Orc Half-Orc
Pirate Marine (Human)( view
Pirate Marine (Human).png
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 ♦25Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Pirate Sailor (Hobgoblin)( view
Pirate Sailor (Hobgoblin).png
 • edit )
 ♦23Epic Normal Goblinoid Hobgoblin
Pirate Sailor (Human)( view
Pirate Sailor (human).png
 • edit )
 ♦21Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Pirate Sailor (Warforged)( view
Pirate Sailor (Warforged).png
 • edit )
 ♦23Epic Normal Living Construct Warforged
Pirate Swashbuckler (Half-Elf)( view
Pirate Swashbuckler (Elf).png
 • edit )
 ♦25Epic Normal Elf Half-Elf
Reinforced Grappling Hook( view
Reinforced Grappling Hook.png
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 ♦26Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Betrayer's Visage( view
The Betrayer's Visage.png
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Blade's Curse( view
The Blade's Curse.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Claw of the Crag( view
The Claw of the Crag.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Cloudreaver( view
The Cloudreaver.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Gorgon( view
The Gorgon.png
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
The Ill Fate( view
The Ill Fate.jpg
 • edit )
 ♦28Epic Normal Construct Inanimate Object
Tree of Death( view
Tree of Death.png
 • edit )
 ♦28Normal Plant Wood Woad
Veiled Chain Marauder (Drow)( view
Veiled Chain Marauder (Drow).png
 • edit )
 ♥32Epic Hard Elf Drow Elf
Veiled Chain Marauder (Human)( view
Veiled Chain Marauder (Human).png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Humanoid Human
Veiled Chain Marine (Half-Orc)( view
Veiled Chain Marine (Half-Orc).png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Orc Half-Orc
Veiled Chain Marine (Human)( view
Veiled Chain Marine.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal ♥32Epic Hard Humanoid Human
Veiled Chain Sailor( view
Veiled Chain Sailor.png
 • edit )
 ♦21Epic Normal Humanoid Human
Volcanic Elemental( view
Volcanic Elemental.png
 • edit )
 ♦26Epic Normal Elemental Fire Elemental
Yuan-ti Headhunter( view
Yuan-ti Headhunter.png
 • edit )
 ♥32Epic Hard Monstrous Humanoid Yuan-ti
Yuan-ti Shaman( view
Yuan-ti Shaman.png
 • edit )
 ♥33Epic Hard Monstrous Humanoid Yuan-ti