Dark Guardians of Ashengate
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[edit] General
This quest is given by Artificer Pulizzi at location (-1360, 775) and follows A Brim Task.
| “ | Artificer Pulizzi says 'Many people have many reasons to be grateful to you for [lending a hand] in such a dangerous task. I am one of them, and so I thank you on behalf of Crescent Reach and her citizens.'
You say, 'lending a hand?' Artificer Pulizzi says 'I've heard good things about you. If anyone can slip past Dyn`leth's defenses and tackle this task it's you. Keep your wits about you, friend. These monolithic monstrosities will be useless at best . . . and deadly hostile at worst.' ' | ” |
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At this point you are assigned the task Dark Guardians of Ashengate.
The description within the task window reads:
| “ | Pulizzi has requested that you delve into the western wing of Ashengate again, this time to search out and destroy darkshard guardians. The intense heat of the lower Reliquary has galvanized the darkshard statues. They thrive in the presence of flowing magma, which is precisely where you will find them. | ” |
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[edit] Suggested Concurrent Tasks
- Under Pressure - May be able to pick up the drops you need
- Evidence of Corruption - very long, you should collect many pieces during this mission
[edit] Task Objectives
[edit] Eliminate 8 Darkshard Guardians
Both this step and the next two steps are available immediately upon accepting the task.
Killing a a darkshard guardians isn't too difficult, but here's the kicker... there are only 4 spawn spots. What you need to do is make your way to the bridge that was the third "scrub" spot in the Squeaky Clean task. The hallway to the west end of the bridge is safe from roamers and a good place to set up camp.
Underneath this bridge, there are two darkshard guardians that spawn at each end. However, all four of these can rarely spawn as a galvanized guardian or as the Galvanized Guardian which is also needed for this task.
Pulling each one as they pop guarantees that you'll be here for at least two full spawn cycles (four from the initial pop, four from the first respawn, and at least one more respawn to pick up your last kill). The named Core Flame spawns in this area and can make the camp more desirable for some. In addition, many of the pieces needed for Evidence of Corruption also drop from this are.
[edit] Destroy the Galvanized Guardian
This step can be completed by killing either Galvanized Guardian or a galvanized guardian. These can spawn rarely in any of the spots where the darkshard guardians are. The non-named version was added to alleviate the bottleneck of camping the named.
The named version hits only slightly harder than normal zone trash and drops loot.
[edit] Loot 1 Pulsing Obsidian Shard
A Pulsing Obsidian Shard is a random drop off any of the darkshard guardians. The drop rate is about 25%.
[edit] Deliver 1 Pulsing Obsidian Shard to Pulizzi
Once the first three steps are completed, return to Artificer Pulizzi in Sunderock Springs.
Upon handing him the Pulsing Obsidian Shard your faction standing with Scholars of Solusek gets better.
You also gain about half an AA worth of experience.
You can now repeat his task series starting with Slicing Clay
