Tomb of the Crimson Heart

Tomb of the Crimson Heart is the 2nd quest in the Litany of the Dead Part 1 story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward..
The first four quests can be completed in any order to unlock The Bloody Crypt.
Tomb of the Burning Heart • Tomb of the Crimson Heart • Tomb of the Immortal Heart • Tomb of the Sanguine Heart • The Bloody Crypt

Outlaws and penitents languish for all time in this place of torture and vile darkness.

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: The Necropolis, Part 1

Tomb of the Crimson Heart
Heroic level:	5
Epic level:	None
Duration:	Long
Heroic XP:	♣871Solo/Casual ♦1,556Normal ♥1,660Hard ♠1,764Elite
Epic XP:	N/A
Takes place in:	Tomb of the Crimson Heart
Bestowed by:	Fram Redbones
NPC contact:	Fram Redbones
Quest acquired in:	The Necropolis
Patron:	The Silver Flame
Base favor:	4
Purchase:	The Necropolis, Part 1 or VIP
Extreme Challenge:	No

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Overview

After consulting the halfling Fram Redbones, you learn of a guardian in an ancient tomb within the Necropolis. Enter the Tomb of the Crimson Heart and destroy that guardian.

Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!

Objectives

Destroy the guardian, Khnumhotep
Open the way using the runed skulls
(Optional) Free the survivors of the Silver Flame expedition (Free 2) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
(Optional) Slay Priest of the Crimson Heart (Human) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
(Optional) Slay Shrouded Terror (Wraith) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
(Optional) Slay Gullet the Famished One (Rare Wight) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
(Optional) Slay Atraktos the Leper (Rare Wight) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
(Optional) Slay Kabran the Vile (Rare Ghast) — Bonus (20%): Heroic( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )

What to Expect

Multiple quest entrances (2)
Randomly placed collectables
Randomly placed NPCs (optional: 2)
Randomly placed runes (mandatory: 4, require an 8 Constitution check)
Contains the entrance to another instance (to Bloody Crypt Junction)
Randomly placed shrine (the northern shrine can be found either North-west or North-East)

Known Traps

Trap DCs

3 flaming dart traps
2 blade traps
1 cold trap

Tips and Misc

This quest can be very quick XP per minute if you can complete it quickly and get the optionals. Doing so efficiently can be difficult, however, as the quest features MANY random elements: named wights, the location of the runes and chests, and one of the shrines may or may not appear. Therefore, it will require a lot of practice learning where the possible locations are for each.
Slay Priest of the Crimson Heart is a very easy optional since you need only kill one, and there are many of these in the quest.
There are three shrines in this adventure. One is located directly west, while the other two are behind hidden Secret doors in the northwest and northeast – usually only one will be there in an instance, but rarely both will appear.
You need to find 4 runes that are on skulls to open the end of the quest. The runes are very small and can be high or low – keep your eyes open. They spawn randomly throughout the quest. To help keep a careful eye out for these runes; Q (the default key for selecting interactables) is your friend.
- Hirelings can also be used to successfully interact with the runes; if you focus on the rune, command the Hireling to interact. The Hireling will usually try to reach the rune, which can be useful if you cannot clearly see the path to its location, but have it in focus.
Also, there are three locked (require Crimson key) breakable doors that can be broken down, but you'll possibly need someone with Strength of 20 (19:Fail; 20:Success), although a fireball (or thrown weapon) is just as effective, without the need to reach the Strength requirement (U46.2). The doors can also be unlocked by a rogue using Open Lock.
The Silver Flame survivors are behind a secret door in the passage to the western shrine room.
After defeating the end Boss, clicking on the exit Sarcophagus will move you from the quest instance without any additional confirmation (as with many other quests), which will prevent you from looting the end chests if you did not do so. In this quest the end chests are placed very near to the exit Sarcophagus, so beware of misclicks.

Bonus XP

Aggression bonus: 69 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣87 ♦156 ♥166 ♠176 )
Onslaught bonus: 89 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣131 ♦233 ♥249 ♠265 )
Tamper bonus: 4 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣87 ♦156 ♥166 ♠176 )
Neutralization bonus: 5 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣174 ♦311 ♥332 ♠353 )
Ingenious Debilitation bonus: 6 or more traps disarmed +30% Bonus.( ♣261 ♦467 ♥498 ♠529 )
Observance bonus: 2 or more secret doors discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣70 ♦124 ♥133 ♠141 )
Perception bonus: 3 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus.( ♣87 ♦156 ♥166 ♠176 )
Vigilant Sight bonus: 4 or more secret doors discovered +15% Bonus.( ♣131 ♦233 ♥249 ♠265 )
Mischief bonus: 21 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣70 ♦124 ♥133 ♠141 )
Vandal bonus: 27 or more breakables smashed +10% Bonus.( ♣87 ♦156 ♥166 ♠176 )
Ransack bonus: 33 or more breakables smashed +15% Bonus.( ♣131 ♦233 ♥249 ♠265 )

Loot

Chests: Total 5 to 8
- 1 for slaying the Shrouded Terror (Random location)
- 1 in the west prison guarded by a Priest of the Crimson Heart
- 1 in the east prison, south wing guarded by a Priest of the Crimson Heart
- 2 after end fight; one of the chests always contains a Crimson Scarab in addition to random loot.
- 1 additional possible in west prison if one of the named wights appear
- 1 possible in west secret prison if one of the named wights appear
- 1 possible in east prison, north wing if one of the named wights appear
Collectables:
- Altar: 7
- Rubble: 2
- Adventurer's Pack: 3
- Moss: 2
- Possible Collectables: Blade of the Dark Six, Caravan Logbook, Cryptmoss Queen, Cryptmoss Worm, Cryptmoss Worm Larva, Glittering Dust, Luminescent Dust, Lush Cryptmoss, Phoenix Tavern Purchase Order, Powdered Blood, Research Diary, Signet of the Devourer, Skull Fragment, Sparkling Dust, 'Wavecrasher' Cargo Manifest, Withered Cryptmoss
- Mobs drop Necropolis turn-in collectables
NPC rewards: Standard, Select from 8, (up to ML2 items)

Monsters

Name ^{( picture )}	CR	Type	Race
Atraktos the Leper ^{( view • edit )}	♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Undead	Wight
Barrow Wight ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠9Elite	Undead	Wight
Carrion Feeder ^{( view • edit )}	♦1Normal ♥5Hard ♠5Elite	Undead	Ghoul
Charnel Wight ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥5Hard ♠9Elite	Undead	Wight
Corpse Glutton ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠7Elite	Undead	Ghast
Death's Advocate ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠10Elite	Humanoid	Human
Gallows Wight ^{( view • edit )}	♦3Normal ♥5Hard ♠7Elite	Undead	Wight
Grim Harvester ^{( view • edit )}	♦4Normal	Humanoid	Human
Gullet the Famished One ^{( view • edit )}	♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Undead	Wight
Human Necromancer ^{( view • edit )}	♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠9Elite	Humanoid	Human
Kabran the Vile ^{( view • edit )}	♠7Elite	Undead	Ghast
Khnumhotep ^{( view • edit )}	♦7Normal ♠12Elite	Undead	Mummy
Pestilent Huntsman ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠9Elite	Humanoid	Human
Priest of the Crimson Heart ^{( view • edit )}	♦6Normal ♥8Hard ♠11Elite	Humanoid	Human
Risen Servitor ^{( view • edit )}	♦2Normal ♥4Hard ♠7Elite	Undead	Zombie
Scion of Wrath ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠10Elite	Humanoid	Human
Sepulcher Wight ^{( view • edit )}	♦5Normal ♥7Hard ♠9Elite	Undead	Wight
Shrouded Terror ^{( view • edit )}	♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite	Undead	Wraith

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