EverQuest II · Scars of Destruction

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A chronological field guide across the scarred remnants of Odus - from the drowned isles of Port Woe to a frozen Dragon Necropolis and the horror that wakes beneath it.

Solo / Heroic Level 130 Starts: Sodden Archipelago 13 quests

Before You Begin

A faction to earn, two zones of locked flight, and a schemer turning grief into a weapon.

The Signature Chain

Port Woe → the Blackhook Spiral → a turtle's passage north → the Charnel Scar → the Dragon Necropolis → the deep
01
Sodden Archipelago · Port Woe

Welcome to Woe

Start: Adris Spiritshine  -69, 6, 391

  • Salvage and gather supplies:
    • Salvage old fishing net glass floaters from the water around the dock.
    • Obtain water piercer oil by killing a water piercer fish in the deeper water near  -210, 3, 442 and  -294, 2, 860.
  • Speak to Adris Spiritshine.
  • Place the hope orb light in the Dock Keeper's Hut  -90, 9, 348 - click the three yellow orbs on the wall (hard to see from some angles).
  • Speak with the dock keeper, Kober Botley.
  • Place hope orb lights at the Port Pavilion  -13, 6, 380 (hanging from a rafter in front of a post).
  • Place hope orb lights at the Port Trades Building  16, 6, 355 (inside wall, right of the crafting station).
  • Speak to Tristyl Ashwood.
  • Place hope orb lights outside the port elder's hut  -12, 6, 405.
  • Return to Adris Spiritshine.

Reward: coin · 3× Hope Orb Lights (house item).

02
Sodden Archipelago · Port Woe

Friend or Woe

Start: Adris Spiritshine  -69, 6, 391

  • Heal 6 wounded locals with Spiritshine's Healing Dram (given on accepting) - target them on the dock and around Port Woe, then use the dram from your inventory.
  • Work with the Port Woe locals to earn their trust:
    • Complete Fighting the Biters Back from Kober Botley  -91, 9, 340, then speak with him again.
  • Return to Adris Spiritshine.
  • Keep working with the locals:
    • Complete Leave the Thievin' to Professionals from Gragir Sharpe at the pavilion.
    • Complete Shelled Sustenance and Case of the Pinched Pickling from Tristyl Ashwood in the trades building.
    • The above quests start the Takin' From the Forsaken line from Kober Botley.
  • Return to Adris Spiritshine.
  • Gather 6 of Tristyl's disguised pickle jars around the elder hut, pavilion, trades building, and dock.
  • Deposit the disguised pickle jars among the kappa huts and Hodan Basho  189, 5, 456 (similar spots to the first jars).
  • Return to Adris Spiritshine.

Reward: coin · choice of Port Woe Hoop of Force or a Blackhook Bastion chest piece (cloth / leather / chain / plate).

03
Sodden Archipelago · Sodden Uplands

Getting to the Gate

Start: Adris Spiritshine  -69, 6, 391, then Jenlif Creagach  -21, 7, 406  ·  needs 50,000 Port Woe faction

Adris will only point you onward to Jenlif Creagach once you stand at 50,000 Port Woe faction - the locals have to trust you before they'll send you toward the Blackhook gate.

  • Reach the Sodden Uplands - head southwest through the swamp until you reach a path leading upward; it updates around  471, 19, 532, where you first see voracious darkpaws.
    • Even if you already earned flight via the tradeskill line, you still must pass through this point for the update.
  • Hunt the area:
    • Hunt 8 voracious darkpaws for their pelts  460, 27, 492.
    • Hunt 14 botanic devourers for devourer seeds - click the seeds they drop (2 per kill).
  • With the seeds and pelts, meet Toman Keltor at the Blackhook Gate  112, 136, 95.

Reward: coin · choice of Rattling Blackhook Cape or a Blackhook Bastion shoulder piece (cloth / leather / chain / plate).

04
Sodden Archipelago · Blackhook Badlands

Into Blackhook Badlands

Start: Toman Keltor  112, 136, 95

  • Enter Blackhook Badlands [Solo] via the portal  116, 136, 85 (can be run alongside Answers for Baasik Questions).
  • Get closer to Toman Keltor  192, 171, -66. A cart in the road triggers the ambush - defeat the 11 Mandoko attackers.
  • Speak with Toman Keltor  187, 170, -70 and receive the Port Woe Laborer Disguise.
  • To pass the bone barrier, beat Antalflik (the ant boss)  300, 148, -260.
  • Use the Port Woe Laborer Disguise and progress past the bone barrier - updates at  78, 192, -327.
  • Kill Ultarana  111, 192, -404 (equip an anti-stun rune on your belt).
  • You're spotted and ambushed around  24, 187, -450; keep traversing Blackhook territory, watching for Adris.
  • Defeat Kahblamo  -81, 193, -597 (strong knockback - hide under the nearby scaffolding), then find Adris  41, 187, -566.
  • Get a Blackhook Shackle Key by killing Grelzmok the Destroyer  320, 202, -446 to free Adris.
  • Speak to Adris again  41, 187, -566; he runs off toward the gates to Blackhook Bastion.
  • Kill Bleakblood the Corpse Blaster  180, 282, -767, then reach Adris by the exit portal  223, 285, -788 and leave the zone to update.
  • Speak to Adris  290, 284, -733 - this opens the side quests from Skortch and Shaahida beside him.

Reward: Mandoko Boneshaman Plushie · coin · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma · Sodden Archipelago Dungeons Unlock flag.

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Sodden Archipelago · Blackhook Spiral

Starting to Spiral

Start: Adris Spiritshine  290, 283, -735

  • Enter Blackhook Spiral: Stonebrunt Defile [Solo]  215, 286, -794 and progress through the zone.
  • Kill Shraks the Axe  320, 238, 151, then reach the Northern Gates of Wrath  444, 239, 149 and pull the lever to the right  443, 240, 144.
  • Kill Grawl Bakka (Kolbok Chieftain, knockback)  469, 246, 347.
  • Kill Frenek the Far Lancer - cross the bridge into his swirling targeting circle  545, 246, 215; he teleports you up his guard tower and throws you off repeatedly. Clear the mobs at the tower base first, then climb the clickable rungs.
  • Kill Akamizu, Demon of the Lake  535, 209, 37 - harvest the local veggies bushes for cucumbers to pop her; each time she flees to the water, click her (cursor turns to a hand) to draw her back onto dry land. Don't follow her into the water.
  • Kill Orok the Overbearing  324, 189, -226 - kill the orc bouncers guarding the three goblin groups so they aid you: energized goblins ward stun, boisterous goblins ward stifle, brave goblins ward fear. Do not use the portal that spawns here.
  • Venture deeper to the Gates of Fort Sunder  352, 177, -387 and inspect the gate; zone out and return to Adris  290, 283, -735.
  • Acquire the Kaborite Key - complete the Skortch and Sniff line from Skortch, then speak to Adris and Skortch.
  • Enter Blackhook Spiral: Fort Sunder [Solo] and clear trash until the gate switches activate  310, 178, -448; clear more, then the next switch  312, 177, -390.
  • Kill Argh the Anvil  303, 179, -345, then ride the Great Lift (throw the lever  272, 179, -437).
  • Kill patrolling Igarn the Insurmountable & Winx the Unmountable  133, 225, -365, then Zeraxyl  53, 211, -489.
  • Ride the mount  52, 211, -489 to the Isle of the Forgotten; kill Tajara the Vengeful.
  • Ride the mount  -369, 320, -652 to Harmok HQ; kill Harmok the Hammer  -21, 182, -421 (heavy knockback and adds - shelter in the forge nook).
  • Return to Adris Spiritshine.

Reward: Blackhook Treadwheel (house item) · coin · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma.

06
Sodden Archipelago · Corrupted CalderaFlight: Sodden

Void the Spiral's Anchor

Start: Adris Spiritshine  290, 283, -735  ·  completing this unlocks flight in the Sodden Archipelago

  • Enter Blackhook Spiral: Corrupted Caldera [Solo]  218, 287, -796.
  • Explore the Caldera: kill Ghaliga the Ingrate  -154, 140, 242 (cure or you die).
  • Cross the chasm to enter Vuldor: kill Atreys  -559, 166, 222, hop on the spirithound  -568, 168, 187, then kill Blackgut the Promised atop the next gate (stay out of his ground ring to dodge the knockback).
  • Delve deeper: kill Blackgut the Rewarded at the next gate  155, 129, -13 - click the glowing add pile behind you and Banish it before more spawn.
  • Reach the Void anchor; it updates down the path at the Spires of Vuldor  -29, 93, 28.
  • Kill Lord Tarinax  23, 93, -17 - Lady Najena holds him briefly while you beat each group of 3 magi into "drained magi" stage; once all are drained, finish Tarinax.
  • Exit and return to Adris, then go to Port Woe and speak to Liwia Dewdance on the dock  -76, 6, 349.

Reward: Mound of Archipelago Crates (house item) · coin · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma · Blackhook Spiral Dungeons Unlock flag · flight in the Sodden Archipelago.

07
Sinking Sands → Great Divide · Fina's Retreat

Turtle Power

Start: Liwia Dewdance, Port Woe dock  -77, 7, 350

  • Speak with Armae Mistgazer (appears next to Liwia), then Wakuni, high spirittalker  88, 7, 400.
  • Speak with Stissa, Emissary of the Speaker, in the Sinking Sands  -1503, -214, -387; speak to her again to embark for Fina's Retreat (zones you into Great Divide: Fina's Retreat).
  • Speak with Osh  -1631, -535, -2427.
  • Defend the village:
    • Destroy 12 risen gnolls.
    • Kill 10 undead ulthorks attacking the village.
    • Slay the freeblood attacker Raelinn Darkmoore  -1387, -507, -2251.
  • Speak with Osh, then Stissa  -1633, -530, -2399 to be sent to the Western Wastes.
  • Speak with Elna Tsernin  77, 7, 648.

Reward: coin · choice of a Shiny Kappa / Northern Coast bangle or a Blackhook Bastion / Northern Coast leg piece.

08
Western Wastes · Remnant Shores

Running Up That Hill

Start: Elna Tsernin, the Remnant Shores  77, 8, 648

  • Survey the ships from the rocky outcrop above the Remnant Shores camp  91, 60, 606.
  • Survey the area from the ridgetop north of the camp  -38, 61, 433.
  • Go to  -421, -31, 470 in the Charnel Scar (the path down starts at  243, 43, 334).
  • Destroy a coalesced gladiator, then kill 2 more coalesced gladiators.
  • Return to Elna Tsernin at the Remnant Shores  77, 8, 648.

Unlock flight now. Finishing Thekror's line up to Appeasing the Inside Voice grants flight in the Western Wastes - it makes everything from here much faster.

Reward: 2× Weathered Dragon Tooth (house items) · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma · coin.

09
Western Wastes · Charnel Scar

Charnel Scarring

Start: Elna Tsernin  77, 8, 648

  • Enter Charnel Scar [Solo]  217, 65, 402.
    • Use a stun rune, progress through, and click the portal behind the final named (The Bonepicker).
  • Search the length of the Charnel Scar for the entrance to the Dragon Necropolis  -543, -4, 447.
  • Follow the tinkered relay posts into the cave  -655, 57, 371.
  • Examine the barrier blocking the Necropolis entrance  -714, 67, 290.
  • Return to Elna Tsernin.

Reward: Splattered Chetari Banner (house item) · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma · coin.

10
Western Wastes

Complications

Start: Elna Tsernin  77, 8, 648  ·  needs Return of the Cobalt Curse & Monumental Task in progress

  • Confront Mesmer Gearloose  64, 8, 640.
  • Gather and hunt:
    • Gather 12 dragonsteel slag - on the ice against the rocks, near sea level (won't show on Track Harvestable); e.g.  287, 48, 403.
    • Hunt 8 tidalfrost stalkers or skeletal icebanes and loot Draconic Focus Stones  527, 9, 142.
  • Acquire a Shamanic Rune Cage - speak with Prisa after completing the Return of the Cobalt Curse line.
  • Examine the stacked Draconic Focus Stones and merge them in the Cabalic Rune Cage (in your inventory; if they won't merge, return to Prisa for the update).
  • Return to Mesmer Gearloose  64, 8, 640.
  • Acquire an antifreeze compound - speak with Gwinres Boulderkind after the Compound Problems and Monumental Task quests; she gives the Freezing Rebuff Buffing Rub.
  • Return to Mesmer Gearloose, who hands you a Cabalic Energy Feedback Apparatus.
  • Use the apparatus to destroy the tinkered barricade generator  -544, -4, 447.
  • Return to Mesmer Gearloose.

Reward: 2× Dragonsteel Slag (house items) · coin · 50 Scarred Dinar · 10 Velium Drachma.

11
Dragon Necropolis · Chetari Warrens

Treasures of the Dragon Necropolis

Start: Mesmer Gearloose  64, 7, 638

  • Find the Chetari Passages above the Narthex - use "A geomanced transport"  -503, -4, 438; it updates after you land  -600, 131, 411.
  • Enter Dragon Necropolis: Chetari Warrens [Solo]  -838, 129, 345 and explore:
    • Progress the tunnel  33, 160, -366 to reach the Heart of the Necropolis  45, 99, -75.
    • Deactivate the tinkered barricade generator  -7, 99, -137 (first cubbyhole left of the tunnel exit).
    • After killing Jaled Dar, examine the Tomb of Jaled Dar tombstone  15, 107, 116.
  • Return to Mesmer Gearloose  64, 7, 638.
  • Enter Dragon Necropolis: Tombs of Enlightenment [Solo]  -748, 67, 282 (the ground-level Chetari cave, not the upper entrance used earlier).
  • Speak with Jazirah Leganyn at the entrance, then follow the homing drone  -370, 133, -347, killing Vaynon the Underdrake as you pass. Do not progress past the drone.
  • Defeat Urasi the Unvarnished, speak with Jazirah, then follow the drone further to Jazirah  -507, 133, -340 (in front of Beresk the Bejeweled).
  • Follow the drone through the Chetari:
    • Kill Beresk the Bejeweled (blocks the tunnel) - run the chamber while DPSing, fire and complete HOs, and restore any blackened crystals.
    • Take the tunnel  -393, 132, -302 and follow the drone  -386, 121, -333 to update.
  • Catch up with Jazirah and the drone  -329, 113, -1.
  • Defeat Seket the Sightless <Chetari runemage>, linked to Seket's Sight <Chetari Rune Golem> - dismiss your healer merc, don't cure arcane; take an arcane detriment off Seket, fire a Heroic Opportunity on the golem, and burn Seket while he summons a new golem.
  • Collect the claw rune the Chetari dropped (you don't need to fight Rakirith the Reanimated), then return to Mesmer Gearloose  64, 7, 638.

Reward: coin · choice of Vrakorr Forged Belt of Force or a Sacred Scar head piece (cloth / leather / chain / plate).

12
Dragon Necropolis · Vaults of Veneration

Enemies and Allies

Start: Mesmer Gearloose  64, 7, 638  ·  you receive the Transient Phantasmagnetic Disturbance Mechanisms on starting

  • Enter Dragon Necropolis: Vaults of Veneration [Solo]  -747, 67, 283 and search for Gearloose's homing drone.
  • Defeat the Lucanic Wraithknight Fontus Vess <Wraithguard Commander>  316, 57, 161.
  • Keep searching for the drone  376, 56, 376:
    • Defeat Culdakar  367, 56, 393 (fear rune).
    • Find Jazirah Punox's corpse and gather the rune claw  383, 55, 373.
  • Enter the tunnel  401, 55, 376 and click through  418, 40, 400; kill Peraxum the Preposterous  283, 117, -182 (stifle rune).
  • Locate the drone  374, 123, -154; attack the Mechanical Dragon - it becomes Lady Karkona  382, 125, -105. When she emotes that she inhales, use the Transient Phantasmagnetic Disturbance Mechanisms on her, then kill her.
  • Go to  665, 125, -96; kill the Lucanic Knights that attack, then watch the exchange with "Overlord Lucan D'Lere."
  • Defeat the resurrected Lord Ulvaxazoviak - fight alongside Lucan until he asks for the claw rune; give him the claw, then dispose of the 2 Void Devourers while he finishes Ulvax.
  • Lucan opens a portal and leaves with the claw - exit through the portal  647, 125, -108.
  • Speak with Adris Spiritshine waiting in the Narthex  -733, 67, 297.

Reward: Vrakorr Rune Claw Replica (house item) · coin · Dragon Necropolis Dungeons Unlock flag · choice of a Cloak of the Necropolis (Vicar / Autarch / Regent).

13
Western Wastes · Flooded ScarFinale

Battle the Behemoth!

Start: Adris Spiritshine, the Narthex  -733, 67, 293

A behemoth of indescribable terror has risen from the depths below the Western Wastes, unleashing horror within the Flooded Scar.

  • Enter Flooded Scar: Abyssal Attack [Signature]  320, 8, 99 and survive the parasites and arcane effects of the Abyssal Attack.
  • Kill the three Feelers  90, 7, 28  28, 6, 84  -63, 6, 30.
  • Send the behemoth back under the waves - kill the Crabominable Arms  -154, 8, 28 (focus the 3 arms; let your merc and AOE handle the adds).
  • Exit at  -132, 10, 71 and return to Adris Spiritshine at the Remnant Shores  66, 8, 640.

Behemoth finale. Focus the three Crabominable Arms and let your merc and AoE clean up the adds and parasites.

Reward: Constance the Balanced · coin · Western Wastes Dungeons & zone Unlock flags · the Scars of Destruction achievement → Scars of Destruction: Supremacy.

Up next: this timeline leads directly into the final expansion, Rage of Cthurath.