High Wizards Realm - HWR Castle

NOTE: This is an older area report and the information may no longer be 100% accurate.

AREA: High Wizards Realm - HWR Castle

DIRECTIONS: Town Portals to Tower of Doors, Take the Sorc Portal to HWR, at Erialleb Valley head East to the Castle

TESTED WITH: Logan Lvl 40+ Fighter/COT/WM and Sterling Lvl 40+ Wizard/PM/DD

WHAT WORKS WELL: Melle, Sneaks, Crits, and most magic.

LOCKS: Lots of them, I stoped short when exploring with my Wiz, I got tired of switchin to lockpicking gear and changing spell slots just to open the locks. DC 50.

NOTES:

Castle Lvl 1: High Wizard Spiders (CR 55), are Imm to death, do decent slashing damage, hit 67 AC about 40% of the time and can be hit even with 45 AB. They have poor Reflex saves and low Spell Resistances so most spells will work.


 * Mother Spider (CR 56) guards the way down to lvl 2. She does slashing/sonic melle damage and casts a few fireballs and firebrands at you. She will drop the SPIDER KEY and SPIDER EYE: which casts find traps, fireball, and knock 1xday each.

Castle Lvl 2: More spiders and High Wizard Apprentice (CR 62) which cast fireballs and firebrands.
 * High Wizard Swashbucker (CR 58) come in groups of 4, do slashing damage as well, and could pose a challenge. They do decent damage and can hit 77AC about 10% of the time. They don't have true seeing however, therefore Blindness/Darkness/WOF all can come in handy.

You will come to a long narrow room on the West edge of the map and find the Horrible Half-Elf (CR 84), he holds the key to the 3rd level and drops a SHIELD of SWASHBUCKLER (Large): +5 AC, TS, HELM of BLACK BLADE: +3AC, +4 soak 10, +1 regen, and the RAPIER of SWASHBUCKLER: 1d4 acid, 1d4 cold, 1d4 fire, HA, keen, and 1d6 crits.

Castle Lvl 3: You will find the High Wizard Talus (CR 166) and his Assistant (CR 72) guarded by a few Guardians (41). The guards will rush you first while Talus and friend cast at you. The guards do slashing/sonic damage and hit 67 AC fairly well but don't do a tremendous amount of damage. Talus and his Assistant will cast a number of different spells at you to include: Mords, Cold, Fire, and Death magic.

LOOT: Talus drops the HELM of HIGH WIZARD: Wiz spell slots 6,7,8,9 and 14 SR, RING of HIGH WIZARD: +3 CON, +5 INT, and most importantly a TOWER BIND GEM. This gem is needed to shop at the HWR Tower merchants which can be accessed from the HWR Erialleb Valley Portal (option 3)

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