Sufferingįirst level of the dungeon challenge and third level of the complete dungeon, you will have two points of interest to do. Once the boss is at your feet, use the skeleton key to switch to Suffering (be careful, no more the right to die!). It can be killed without difficulty, kite and do a tp if necessary. On your right you will have at the bottom a shrine as well as a wall to break, if that does not interest you go directly to the left in the direction of the boss Grand Priest Zarthuzellan. Here is the start of the interesting part of the dungeon. Pain is the second level of the dungeon, being just as empty as the previous level, you can go straight to Misery Misery Apart from a wall to be broken just before going to the next level, this part does not contain any point of interest. To access the dungeon, go through the Broken Hills rift and go south of it. The maps are as follows: Steps of Torment, Pain, Misery, 'skeleton key', Suffering, Anguish.This dungeon is particularly long, allow around 1 hour.You should pass this dungeon by being cap in resistances and with a good build.Populated by skeletons, with a level easy enough to start with peace of mind!.Thanks again for giving me some confidence that we will have more than just 2 chances. Bone dust and other things we have relatively plenty and there is much if you follow the skeletons. We are not yet in Act 3 so this would explain the lack of spawning blood. I am not complaining about difficulty of the level but the obtainable ressources for the key foremorst the blood. And plus one extra on Ultimate (Edge of Reality) SoT, Bastion of Chaos and The Hidden Path are the known ones. The game is no fun if they make everything easy, some things are placed in earlier Acts but are actually meant to be accessed only when you’ve become significantly strong. 3-4 Uniques no biggie but it was really fun. I was strutting around there feeling invincible when i walked into a locked room. Well yeah and plus The Cursed Smith can craft Ancient Heart, Tainted Brain Matter and Blood of Ch’thon. When you enter SoT after farming up a bit, you’ll realise it’s not as hard as you originally thought. Once you progress through to Act 3-4 you should get plenty of “Blood of Ch’thon” and the first 3 levels of SoT/Arkovian Undercity offer the corpse dust/ectoplasm to remake more keys. It happens specially if you’re unprepared. If you get slaughtered first encounter that’s really not a big deal.

Others have already stated what “SoT” is meant to be.

“ If something is too hard in my current circumstances, perhaps, it is not the content that requires changing but that it is I who is not ready.” I think you would benefit from considering changing your perspective to – I would suggest taking this latest, less than positive experience as a lesson, as I did. I am, however, leaving the Gates till I am LVL 50 to give myself the chance of Legendaries dropping as I navigate the halls and the dead held within. Now LVL 40 with much improved gear, I am confident that he and I would fair better.

I have since approached the building of characters in Grim Dawn from a different, I believe, more educated point of view and I feel like it has been to my benefit overall.Ĭonsequent to that, my current Fire Strike Pyro has cleared Zarthuzellan but left the Gates locked and has proceeded to continue progressing through my Single-Pass Veteran experience. I was disappointed and upset but took solace in the lesson that that particular character, at their current level and with his current gear, was not ready to face the horrors within. My most recent Fire Strike Pyro prior to my current made it to the Gates easily enough. Throughout my previous playthrough’s I had attempted the Steps of Torment and past the Gates. I have restarted from complete scratch 4 or 5 times now. There are many forum contributor’s that consider the difficulty of the game in it’s current state to already be too easy. I would consider it a travesty if this difficulty were to be reduced in any way. Past the Gates, one should expect a merciless experience. The initial levels prior to the Gates are of a particular difficulty. Steps of Torment is a test of your character, both in build and the gear you have collected when you summon the courage to descend into the darkness.

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