Quest Overview
This quest can be completed with lockpick but for those without the skill they will need to retrieve a number of keys from the dungeon to gain access to the shield.
Walk Through
- First make your way to the Bandit Castle (66.5N 50.0E) in the mountains north east of Holtburg.
- Route: In Arwic, take the Mountain Shortcut portal at 35.0N 56.0E. Run east and take the Bandit Castle portal at 42.4N 60.5E.
- From the drop point go straight ahead and right at the split. You will come to a large open room with locked cells and a pit in the middle.
- Take the passage to the south west and ignore all the siderooms, when you come to the split keep right down to the portal room.
- In front of the portal are three Giant White Rats kill one of them and take the Bridge Access Key.
- Go back to the split and head right in to the room with a locked gate, take the north room and use the key on the chest.
- Take the Cell Key. Now on the way back go to the sideroom with a Revenant and a locked door. Use the Bridge Access Key to open it.
- Use the Cell Key on the locked chest inside this room and take the Prison Access Key.
- Go left into the main room and take the stairs in the south east corner. Use the Bridge Access Key on the next door to access the bridge leading to a room with 3 Revenants and a chest.
- Use the Prison Access Key on the chest.
- Take the Chest Key and make your way back to the area with the 3 Giant White Rats.
- Use the Key on the chest in the alcove next to the surface portal. Take the Bandit Shield.
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Bandit Castle
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Notes
- One of the very first lockpickers quests.
- Back in the day the chest that contained the shield was considerably hard to unlock requiring the very best lockpicks, debuffs and lockpick skill.
- AL raised to 150 during the The Hall of the Tusker King event.