Gates of Discord: Progression

Progression

Kod`Taz Access

Your first goal in progressing through the expansion is to gain access to Kod'Taz. Go to Barindu and speak with High Priest Diru Riwirn. He will tell you that the sewers beneath the cities have been overrun with stonemites and asks that you resolve things. He should give you the Purifying Plant instance. Ater defeating it return to Diru and will thank you for ending the threat. Hail again and he asks you to go to the Crematory to complete the ritual and allow the souls of those that died to be at ease. He should give you the Crematory instance. After completing it return to Diru who will be pleased to hear at how you aided the dead. Hail again and he will send you into the Lair of the Trapped Ones to assist Alej. Upon completion return to Diru and he will tell you that you've earned the right to meet their mapmaker, Utandi. He gives you Pools of Sludge instance. Once you've helped Utandi recover his map hail Diru to finish your first set of flags.

If Diru doesn't give an instance, or you do some out of order with another group, speak with Scribe Gurru. Tell him "What issues" over and over to resolve any out of order flags. If you were part of a raid that defeated The Weapon Master (Smith Rondo) event and hailed at the end, you can bypass all 4 sewer instances. Just tell Scribe Gurru and it should all resolve.

Now that you have access to the mountains, speak with Apprentice Udranda. Tell her you will "take heed" and you will be give the Vxed instance to speak with Stonespiritist Ekikoa. Once you have done that come back and tell Udranda "Tipt" to get the Tipt instance. In the mission after defeating Jhiru be sure to speak to Stonespiritist Okkanu! Go see Scribe Gurru again and say "What issues" to complete your flag and unlock access to Kod`Taz.

At some point over the last few years progression was streamlined. Currently it seems that all you need for Kod'Taz access is Tipt and that you can request it from Udranda without having completed any other parts.

Ikkinz Group Missions

Now that you have gained access you Kod`Taz your next point of contact is Kevren Nalavat. Speak with him (feel free to read the extended background information he gives some time), and he says you need to pass three trials to prove you can handle the muramites before they send you into more dangerous territory.

For the first trial he sends you to Gazak Klelkek, and he gives you the Ikkinz: Singular Might instance. Defeat the instance and give Gazak the Ruined Pendant of Might. This completes your first flag.

For the second trial Kevren sends you to Maroley Nazuey, and he gives you the Ikkinz: Twin Struggles instance. Defeat the instance and give Maroley the Stained Stone Chalice. This completes your second flag.

For the third trial Kevren sends you to Kenra Kalekkio, and she gives you the Ikkinz: Tri-Fates instance. Defeat the instance and give Kenra the Thrice-Notched Arrow Remains. This completes your third flag.

Return to Kevren and he'll congratulate you on completing the trials and will now offer you the more dangerous tasks. At any point you can say "progress update" and he will give you a rundown of all your flags so far for Kod`Taz. At this point your flags should read:

Finished! - You can now retry any of the trials at any time!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of Singular Might!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of Twin Struggles!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of the Tri-Fates!
Kod'Taz still has secrets left to uncover...

Martyr's Passage

After completing the Ikkinz trials and proving your strength, Kevren Nalavat offers 3 more difficult tasks: Martyr's Passage, Pit of the Lost, and Crumbled Sanctuary. Tell Kevren "Martyr's Passage" and follow the dialog. He'll tell you how in the southwest portion of the zone the Muramites have been disturbing the ancient relics the trusik had placed and ask you to go investigate.

Head down to the area near the Yxtta zone and find 4 different Relic of the Martyr. These can drop from ikaavs in the area, from Forgotten Martyrs, from "a trusik xyz", from pile of bones that you /open, and as ground spawns. While here also collect a Inscribed Flesh Dispatch from any of the same mobs. With all 5 items in hand return to Kevren and tun in the four relics. Kevren will look them over and ask if you have anything else, so give him the dispatch. He'll tell you that this should be enough for him to figure out what the Muramites are doing there.

Hail him again and follow the dialog ("problem", "discover their plans") and he'll tell you that it seems the Muramites are trying to use the Temple of the Damned to somehow summon something into our world and wants you to investigate for more information. At this point gather a few groups and complete the Temple of the Damned event, looting a Glyph of the Damned from each of the guardians. Turn these Glyphs into Kevran one at a time until he responds saying the glyphs are faded and that you'll need to go see Tublik Narwethar to help clean things up.

Head back down to the Martyr's Passage area and chat with Tublik Narwethar ("I need a stone tablet", "for a Glyph of the Damned"). At this point you will need to hand him one of the Glyphs to prove you are actually working on them with Kevren. He will give you a Stone Tablet and tell you that to clean up the Glyphs you need to combine them with 4 Pile of Dust. You'll find the dust as groundspawns around the buildings in the Passage. Combine 4 with the 4 Glyphs to get Translated Glyph of the Damned.

Head back to Kevren, hail, and give him the Translated Glyph. He makes a copy for himself, gives you back the Glyph, and tells you it seems the Muramites are definitely looking to summon something... and must be stopped. Follow Kevren's dialog ("rumors", "I think I can do it", "what final warning") and he will request that you stop this summoning once and for all. Gather a full raid force and complete the Summoner Ring event, looting Grand Summoner's Glyph. Hand in the Glyph to finish this task.

Pit of the Lost

After completing the Ikkinz trials and proving your strength, Kevren Nalavat offers 3 more difficult tasks: Martyr's Passage, Pit of the Lost, and Crumbled Sanctuary. Tell Kevren "Pit of the Lost" and he will send you to Tublik Narwethar. Tell Tublik "pit of the lost" and follow the dialog ("willing to look", "collect the artifacts") and he'll ask you to head up to the pit and collect four "Minor Relic of Energy" from the pit area to the far northwest. The relics drop from Forlorn Relic Devotees, uncommon spawns with normal ghosts as ph, and are harder than normal trash (hitting 1700, immune to mez). Tublik gives you a Tublik's Bag to put them in. Once you have all four types (Nep, Oxa, Suv, and Tek), combine them into Tublik's Sealed Bag and turn them in to Tublik. You can now request the Pit of the Lost raid event.

Gather a raid force, say 'I'll stop it!', and complete the Pit of the Lost event. Be sure to loot a Protector's Relic of Energy from the event and give this to Tublik. Tublik will thank you for putting a stop to the issues at the pit.

Crumbled Sanctuary

After completing the Ikkinz trials and proving your strength, Kevren Nalavat offers 3 more difficult tasks: Martyr's Passage, Pit of the Lost, and Crumbled Sanctuary. Tell Kevren "Crumbled Sanctuary" and he will send you to Tublik Narwethar. Tell Tublik "Crumbled Sanctuary" and he will tell you how a specific temple was singled out and destroyed by the Muramites when they first invaded, but they don't know why. Say you 'I'll look for clues' and he'll send you off to figure things out.

You will need to find 4 separate Frayed Flesh Scrap (lore). These can be found as ground spawns in the Crumbled Sanctuary region and also drops from the various Trusik models all around the temples. Give these scraps to Tublik, he will hand them back and lament that these were made of flesh and that you will need to do more work to fully translate what was written on them. You will need a high skill tailor to craft a Muramite Needle from 4 bone chips and a Muramite Residue (random drop from Muramites in Kod`Taz). This is a trivial 202 combine, but once made the Needle can be passed around to anybody doing the quest. Next you'll need to collect 4 Hynid Hair Strand (common drop from Hynids) and have the tailor combine the 4 strands with the needle to make Hynid-Hair Thread (trivial 268). Combine your 4 Frayed Flesh Scraps with the needle and thread in a sewing kit (no fail) to make Sewn Flesh Parchment.

When you turn this into Tublik he is surprised to learn this was the work of the Trusik themselves and not the Muramites. He thinks there should be more information in the temples. You'll need to go back to where the Ikkinz group missions were (not in the instances, but near the zone in areas) and pick up 3 Glyphed Flesh ground spawns. Give these 3 to Tublik to complete this stage and are ready to do the Ikkinz Raids.

At this point your flags should read:
Finished! - You can now retry any of the trials at any time!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of Singular Might!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of Twin Struggles!
Finished! - You have completed the trial at the Temple of the Tri-Fates!
Finished! - You've been commissioned to investigate the Martyrs Passage!
Finished! - You've returned four relics from the Martyrs Passage!
Finished! - You've returned valuable information as to why the Muramites are in the Martyrs Passage!
Finished! - You've been commissioned to investigate the Temple of the Damned!
Finished! - You've recovered important glyphs from the Temple of the Damned!
Finished! - You've successfully translated the glyphs you found in the Temple of the Damned!
Finished! - You've been charged with stopping the ceremony at the Summoning Circle!
Finished! - You were able to recover a rare artifact from the Grand Summoner's goons in the Summoning Circle!
Finished! - You've collected the Minor Relics of Power from the Pit of the Lost!
Finished! - You've rescued the artifact from the Ageless Relic Protector in the Pit of the Lost!
Finished! - You've been sent to gather any clues you can find from the Crumbled Sanctuary of Divine Destruction!
Finished! - You have collected the four Frayed Flesh Scraps from the Crumbled Sanctuary of Divine Destruction!
Finished! - You've sewn the flesh scraps together to make the Sewn Flesh Parchment!
Finished! - You've found the three clues from the three trial temples! Kod'Taz still has secrets left to uncover...

Ikkinz Raids

At this point you need to complete the three raid instances and can do them in any order. At the end of each raid there will be a pile of bones with 4 copies of an artifact.
From the Trial of Righteousness loot a Artifact of Righteousness.
From the Trial of Glorification loot a Artifact of Glorification.
From the Trial of Transcendence loot a Artifact of Transcendence.
Turn these in, one at a time, to Tublik. Each turn in results in a character flag and he gives the artifact back.

Once you've turned in all three tell Tublik "Altar of Destruction" and follow the dialog to learn that the artifacts can be combined into a key to enter the Altar of Destruction. To do this you will need a high end smith to craft 3 Inferno Scepter. Combine:

in a forge (triv 250). All the components are sold by Joran Mullven, total cost around 2650 plat per combine. Now collect 3 Inanimate Ore from golems in Kod`Taz and combine 1 Scepter and 1 Ore in a forge (no fail) to produce Vial of Smelted Molten Ore, repeat 3 times. These are No Trade, so while the Scepters are made by any smith, the Vials MUST be made by the one doing progression! Now take your 3 vials and 3 artifacts and combine all 6 in a forge (no fail) to produce Icon of the Altar. Give this to Tublik (he will give it back) to complete this stage.

Qvic Access

After completing the first three Ikkinz raid instances and forging your Icon of the Altar Tublik will tells you your next step is to face the Keeper of the Altar. Give your Icon to Sentinel of the Altar at the top of the main temple in Kod`Taz and complete the Chambers of Destruction raid. Loot a Sliver of the High Temple from the pile of bones and bring it to Tubik. When you give it to him he will give a different one back, Sliver of the High Temple. The final version has a Quest tag (the lore is different too if you cast Identify while holding). Tublik tells you that Brevik Kalaner may have more information for you, this will be useful later.

Next you need to defeat the Uqua raid. At the end of the raid hail the Specter of Barxt to receive Fragment of the High Temple. With both the Sliver from Tublik and the Fragment from Uqua in your inventory zone into Qvic from either Kod`Taz or Yxtta. Doing so will complete your flag and allow you to reach the zone more easily by speaking to Madrona in Natimbi, just say 'qvic' to be transported in.

Note: All of the progression work in Kod`Taz, from the group instances to the first three raid instances, is only needed for requesting the final raid. For access to Qvic alone all that is actually required is the Sliver from Ikkinz, handing it in to Tublik, the Fragment from Uqua, and zoning in.

If you missed out on either raid there is an alternate path. You will need to collect 4 pieces of Riftbreaker gear.

Riftbreaker's Belt
Go to the colliseum in Riwwi to find Tulima Erandi. With Warmly or better Yunjo Slave Resistence faction hail her and say "I am interested". She will give you Carved Stone Statuette. Deliver this to Dramudi in Barindu, follow the dialog, and he gives you Sharpened Stone Blade. Gather a group and find Overseer Oltix, a mastruq, out in the field west of the pyramid. Equip the blade and hit him with it, then kill him. It will drop Riftbreaker's Belt and Oltix`s Weekly Reports. If you read the reports it fills you in on the location of the two bracelets.
Riftbreaker's Left Bracelet
Head to Yxtta and find "malicious trusik" in the primal caves between the Insect and the Arachnid. Hail and follow the dialog to get Reinforced Poison Satchel. You will need to collect 3 Globule of Cragbeast Bile from the cragbeasts, 3 Crag Beetle Spittle from the crag beetles, and 3 Cavern Spider Venom Sac from the spiders. When you have 3 of each combine them inside the satchel to make Full Reinforced Poison Satchel. Give this to the malicious trusik, she will mix up a poison and give you Vial of Foul Toxins. Take this to the water source at the center of the zone (around 12, 31), and click the vial. Pixtt Quyes spawns and attacks. Kill her and loot Riftbreaker's Left Bracelet
Riftbreaker's Right Bracelet
Head to Kod`Taz and locate Pixtt Nemis, an ixt, by the zone in to the Tri-Fates group instance. When you hail her 2 guards will spawn and attack. Kill the guards, then Nemis, and then Pixtt Sem`Tach will spawn. Kill Sem`Tach and loot the Riftbreaker's Right Bracelet. Nemis will drop Nemis's Personal Diary, which explains the final bindings are on Iqthinxa or Cynosure.
Rightbreaker's Bindings
The Riftbreaker's Bindings drop from Iqthinxa and Cynosure in Qvic.

Once you have all 4 pieces, equip them and click the zone in to Kod`Taz from Natimbi and you will be flagged for Qvic. If you have already completed Inktu'ta this will give you the Sliver and Fragment as well. If you haven't then when you complete Inktu`ta you will get the pieces then.

Txevu Access

With the Sliver of the High Temple from Ikkinz and Fragment of the High Temple from Uqua you are 2/3 of the way to Txevu access. All that remains is to defeat the Inktu`Ta raid. At the end hail An Ancient Sentinel to receive a Splinter of the High Temple. Take the 3 pieces and find Brevik Kalaner in Abysmal Sea (Tublik told you to see him). Give him the 3 pieces and he will combine them into Cipher of Txevu.

If you missed out on the Inktu`Ta raid there is an alternate path. Find Averixx Quimeri in the caves of Qvic near Inktu`Ta. Follow his dialog and he will tell you a story about the indestructible golem. He asks that you collect all the pieces to remake the golems eyes and a controller's wand and with that they would have a defense against the Muramites. Each eye was broken into 6 pieces. The right eye pieces are all ground spawns:

-705, 595 in Yxtta
-852, 490 in Yxtta
2248, 2257 in Kodtaz
-926, 1185 in Kodtaz
-1270, -28 in Qvic
433, 238 in Qvic

The left eye pieces are all drops:

All 3 M'Sha and Pixtt Sho`Val Kqi in Qvic
All Kyv models in Qvic
All Mastruq models in Qvic
All Noc models in Qvic
All Ra'Tuk models in Qvic
All Ukun models in Qvic

The Wand of Golem Control drops off Hexxt Ilk Klokk in Qvic.

Combine the 6 left pieces in a jewelry kit (no fail) to create the left eye, repeat for right eye. Hand both eyes and the wand to Averixx and he will activate the golem and attack you! Averixx hits up to 1300 as does the golem. Ignore the golem and burn down Averixx, when he dies the golem goes back to sleep. Loot a Depleted Wand of Golem Control.

Lastly you need a Wand Harness from any raid mob in Txevu. With both in your inventory zone in to Txevu and the Cipher will be added to your keyring.