Darkflame Cleft
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| Location | Ringing Deeps | ||||||
| End boss | The Darkness | ||||||
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| Type | Dungeon | ||||||
| Level | 73-75 | ||||||
| Player limit | 5 | ||||||
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Darkflame Cleft is a dungeon in The War Within. It is located in the Ringing Deeps.
Adventure Guide
Darkflame Cleft was once a prosperous earthen mine, but eventually, that prosperity ended. Earthen Machine Speakers moved out, and not long thereafter, kobolds swarmed in. The workers were soon oppressed by a tyrannical Candle King, a tall, bulky brute who towered over his subjects. Obvious wealth was extracted long ago. The real opportunity here is to defeat the last of the king's horrendous henchmen and liberate the intimidated kobolds within.
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Narrative
At the entrance, the party meets up with Skitter.
- Sprawling Trackyard
They make their way through Sprawling Trackyard up to the juncture. There Ol' Waxbeard bursts through some rubble, trampling the kobolds in his way with his mole mount, Wick:
- Ol' Waxbeard yells: Move, weaklings! Here we come.
Upon defeat:
- Ol' Waxbeard says: Stupid weaklings... Stupid Wick...
- Skitter says: I know this place... Ol' Waxbeard's been here forever.
- Skitter says: Didn't trust nobody. So mean!
- Skitter says: Quick! Quick! Faster! Faster! I'll catch up.
- The Waxatory
Next the party makes their way to the Waxatory. At the Waxatory the party encounters a bunch of Blazing Fiends.
- Skitter says: Fire bad! Melts wax. Hurts kobold.
Each Blazing Fiend slain lights up one of the giant candles found around the room. When all the candles are lit, Blazikon gets summoned.
- Hall of the Candle King
The party then makes their way to the Hall of the Candle King.
- Skitter says: This is it! Court of Candle King! Teach him a lesson!
Torchsnarl alongside a group of Menial Laborers and Sootsnout alongside a group of Kobold Flametenders stand between the party and the Candle King.
Upon defeating Torchsnarl, Sootsnout, and their followers, the party engages the Candle King. Defeat him.
- Skitter says: No more Candle King! We can be free! But first... the Darkness...
- Skitter says: Darkness cannot be destroyed. Only defeated. Then he comes back. New shape. Same fear.
- Skitter says: Time to flee. Flee to freedom. We can use big candle cart to escape!
- Lightless Depths
The party uses a minecart with a big candle on it to traverse the Lightless Depths. When reaching the midpoint:
- Skitter says: Quick! Grab some dynamite and let's go!
Pick up Dynamite Bundle.
- The mine cart has been lit! Grab some dynamite before the cart takes off!
- Skitter yells: Wait for me....
The Darkness appears:
- The Darkness yells: No escape!
The party runs away from the darkness using the minecart till they are thrown off it at the Sprawling Trackyard.
- Skitter says: Ow. My head.
The Darkness can then be found on their way to the exit. Defeat it.
- Skitter says: Better to light candle than curse Darkness.
- Skitter says: It's scary in there. But we must go in!
- Skitter says: But the Darkness... always returns...
- Skitter says: New friends are best friends. Thanks, best friend.
Patch changes
Hotfix (2025-03-18): Mythic+ timer reduced to 31 minutes (was 33 minutes). - Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Added.
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