Terrifying Shadows - Operation Relics of Oceanus

August 21, 2013 - August 30, 2013

Terrifying Shadows returns! Gather Shadows to progress in this event. Enter the Event dungeons on your own or in a group. Difficulty of the dungeon will scale with the levels of the players and the number of individuals in the group.

• Collect Coffee Beans and Ordinary light essences from "worthy monsters" in dungeons and in the wilderness.

• Enter Mystra at Night from any urban area for 10x Coffee Beans.
  • Quest: The Key to Happiness : 200x  Ordinary Light Essence -->  Amphorae Key
  • Quest: Vigilance : 500x  Ordinary Light Essence -->  x10 Coffee Bean

• In Mystra at Night, defeat Shadow Portals to collect Portal Fragments. Each Shadow Portal will drop 1 random fragment (out of 4 possible).

• Once all 4 Shadow Fragments are found, trade them with Jon Sunlair for a Shadow Portal.

• Open the Shadow Portal by right-clicking on the item to enter Sargon's Shadowfort.
• Enter Sargon's Fort (Difficult) by using a Mighty Shadow Portal. 

• Amphorae Keys can be traded for 200 Ordinary light essences. Claim them by unlocking Festive Amphora in Sargon's Shadowfort.

• In Sargon's Shadowfort, attack Sargon using Light Essences (100%, +150%, or +300%).
• 5 Hidden easter eggs are hidden in each location and will give the character 10x shadows. (each can only be taken by 1 member of a group)

Progress Reward

• 50 shadows = 2x Gem bag, flawed or splintered
• 150 shadows = 30
• 310 shadows = 3x Amphorae Keys
• 490 shadows =  Mighty Shadow Portal
• 740 shadows = 50
• 1060 shadows = 2x Winter Solstice Gem bags, splintered or polished
• 1405 shadows = Shadow Steed
• 1830 shadows = 100
• 2335 shadows = Large Gem bag, normal or polished gem
• 2870 shadows = Shadow Stone (Gems)
• 3495 shadows = 100
• 4210 shadows = Shadow Minion Helmet (Costumes)
• 4960 shadows =  Living Skull (Pets)
• 5800 shadows = 100
• 6740 shadows = Sargon's Horns
• 7800 shadows =  100
• 9000 shadows = (weapon adornment) & 250

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Total = 730, x2, x3, , x2, , , , , ,   ,    

Sales

Leftover Items

The following items can be kept for future Terrifying Shadows events: Coffee beans, Shadow Portals, Shadow Portal pieces, Ordinary/Light/Mighty Essences, Amphorae Keys

Mystra at Night

In Mystra at Night, defeat Shadow Portals to collect 1 of 4 portal pieces. Collect Shadows from monsters and recieve a +0,50% faster attack speed buffs for 5 minutes (stackable up to 5x).

Quests

• The Path of Shadows: Portal Fragments 1, 2, 3 & 4 -->
• The Relics of Oceanus: Collect 75 Relics --> (5 days)
• Terrors of the Night: Kill 1000 Monsters -->

Monsters

• Shadow Portals - Portals release multiple homing shadows, which inflict low levels of damage and decreases your armor/resistance by 5% (stackable up to 20x or 0% armor/resist). Creatures are constantly summoned around the portals, which often impedes direct attacks against the Shadow Portal.
• Sinister Cyclops -  Releases a pool of acid upon death
• Tenebus the Shadow Priest - Skills: ander-missile, ander-meteor, singularity, summon skeletons
• Sinister Basalt Golem -  High hitpoints, slow movement. Skills: dragon's fury, fire rock slide, stomp
• Book of Shadows - once killed, will summon a row of Sinister skeleton snipers, Alexius the Shadow Guardian (champion), or army of Burning Brutes
• Others: Sinister lancers, Sinister skeleton warrior, Sinister lava hound, Sinister skeleton sniper, Burning Brute, Shadow Priest

Piggies

Piggies are on the move; locations will change depending on the particular instance. Here are a few possible locations:

(Images Courtesy of the DocHolliday64 ... the man, the myth, the legend... lol and ES Forums) 

• Piggie Map 1
• Piggie Map 2
• Piggie Map 3
• Piggie Map 4

Sargon's Shadowfort

Sargon's Shadowfort
Basic Info
Type	Event dungeon (Normal, Mighty)
Monster Levels	1-45 (scales to player level)
Chests	Festive Amphora
Unique Boss	Sargon

Sargon's Shadowfort is similar to those in the past Terrifying Shadows events. Enter by activating either the normal Shadow Portal or the Mighty Shadow Portal (difficult - bosses will drop 2x more shadows, increase opportunity for unique drops). 

Quests

• Where the Wild Shadows Roam : Kill 500 monsters --> x100, x100
• Heroic Times : Kill 5 Champions + Sargon -->  x50, 

Monsters

Champions:

• Devestating Swamp - slow, high hitpoints
• Bahadur the Immortal - 3x forms
• Threshold Guardian - explodes in a blaze of fire
• Nerfertari Guardian - lightning strike freezes when hit
• Tortured Soul - when in close range, Paralyzing misery slows travel speed by 40%

Bosses:

• Dragan - powerful attacks, Mighty wild swing will heal Dragan if the attack lands
• Sargon the Terrible - must use Light Essences to kill; 3 forms

Others:

• Skeletal Inhabitant
• Sinister Skeleton Archer

• Sinister Swamp - leaves behind a Poisoned pool when defeated (33% slower travel speed, deducts 3%/5% of your hitpoints as Poison damage
• Sinister Bone-biter - bite causes a Bleeding Wound (Deducts 40% of your hitpoints as Physical damage, 4 seconds; bleeding debuffs can stack
• Undead Slave - scratch causes a Bleeding Wound

Unique Terrifying Shadows Items

• Unique armor from the Sargon's Terrifying Armor set: Helmet (Sargon), Armor (Dragan)

• Unique costume pieces to imitate a Shadow Minion. 

• Cloak of Gloom (Sargon): +Health by: 3% / Travel speed by: 3% / +Attack speed by: 3% / +333 Andermagic resistance
• Emotes: Laughing Fit, Power of the Heavens, Shadowboxing

New Unique items

Unique Sargon offensive items can be attained with level 40 or level 45 stats. 

• Dragonknight
• Ranger
• Spellweaver

Icon	Class	Name	Location
		Sargon's Shadow Claw	Progress reward (lvl 40)
		Sargon's Shadow Mace
		Sargon's Shadow Shield

Icon	Class	Name	Location
		Sargon's Shadow Arrow	Progress reward (lvl 40)
		Sargon's Shadow Quiver
		Sargon's Shadowbow

Icon	Class	Name	Location
		Sargon's Shadow Crystal	Progress reward (lvl 40)
		Sargon's Shadow Staff
		Sargon's Book of Shadows

Piggies

Images from the DE Forums