The Opposition

Monsters: Ash Gromnies and Electrical Elementals (Statics, Scintillas, and Astyrrians). The lightning elementals use electrical melee/spell attacks. The ash gromnies use a lightning breath melee attack and a physical melee attack. Acid is the best damage type to use against the lightning elementals.

There are no easy routes to the Amperhelion Vault. There are several possible staging points, including the Tumerok Hall at (47.8S, 83.7W), Ayan Baqur, or Panopticon Dungeon.

Buff for a typical Dires run before having the portal summoned. Run to the Amperehelion Vault which is at (56.5S, 72.8W). It is best to approach the Vault directly from the east or a bit south. The portal is in a windmill. The area around the windmill usually has some nasty mobs and the entry room of the Vault is safe, so run right into the portal.

Once in the entry room, buff against lightning. Make sure to bane your shield if you have one. After buffing, open the door. You will see another door leading to another room and a passage to the right. Take the passage to the right and follow it down. You will encounter 3 gromnies. After the gromnies, you will come to a place where you have to jump down into a room with a thingie in the middle. Just jump down. It is not a deep drop.

Once in the room, you will see 2 passages. Take the left passage and follow it down. You will come to a large room with gromnies. After dispatching them, go to the opposite end of the room where you will see 2 passages. Take the left passage and follow it down. You will come to another large room with all 3 types of lightning elementals. The safest tactic to use is to fight from the passage instead of going into the room. The astyerrians are too big to leave the room so you can retreat further back into the passage if you have to heal. At the opposite end of the room, you will find 2 more passages. Take the right passage and follow it.

You will come to another large room with lightning elementals. At the opposite end of the room, there are 2 passages. Take the right passage. You will come to a "T" intersection where you can either go straight or go left. Take a left here and follow the passageway. You will come to another large room with lightning elementals. At the opposite end of the room, there will be another 2 passages. Take the left passage and follow it down. You will come to another "T" intersection where you can go either left or right. Take a right.

There will be some scintallas to fight. Follow the passage straight until you hit the wall. Go right and take the first passage to the left. There are usually some gromnies at this point. Follow that passage down to the Stone room. You will fight gromnies initially. There are also some scintillas and one astyrrian that spawn above the room. They will jump down and attack so be prepared. The Stone is on a very short spawn time, around 15-25 seconds so everyone should be able to get a Stone before the monsters respawn again. Some nice gems also spawn with the Stone so be sure to pick those up too.

Hints: If you get lost in there, remember the following tips: once past the first jump down, you should NOT make any other jumps. You should also not take any ramps or passages that go up. If you come across a jump or a ramp/passage up, you are going the wrong way. You will also encounter several single scintilla spawns in the passages. These should not be a problem. With a good group, you should be able to do the dungeon within one L6 buff cycle. If you have to rebuff, any passage should be a good spot. Just stop and rebuff. Make sure you post some guards in case a single scintilla happens to spawn.

*Quest Edited by Roewin March 1, 2003.

DUNGEON NAME	MAP	RESTRICTIONS
Amperhelion Vault		None