Zombie Gatekeepers in Rune

So.. There I was going to the clanhalls in rune, then I took a wrong turn somewhere and saw this interesting place.. So, I went snooping around until I saw a door with 2 of those Zombie Gatekeepers on each side.. I didn't pay much attention and entered the room, but they started shooting me for about 600 damage a shot, and one of them critted for 1300! So, basically I died inside rune castle town, and that's gotta be a first.. So, now to my question: What the hell are those Zombie Gatekeepers?

Its the entrance to one of the new dungeons.

The dungeon is located under Rune City and quite nasty, even for very high levels.
On the PTS they slaughtered our 75 party with ease there.

Yeah, they slaughtered my one man party.. They should have signs there saying: "New dungeon entrance, keep out" or something.. :confused:

Anyway.. Thanks guys.. I'll try to stay away from that place in the future.. It was pretty funny though.. :p

Anyone know how to access the altar? You have to go through one of the secret doors in the back, go down, go around an up, then get up to like an elevated altar. The problem are the two doors that rename themselves to whatever mob/person you last clicked.

There is a quest with the guard/priest upstairs you need that one to get inside. Don't believe the backstabbtin 932 though. Thems seriously not nice persons.

The castle lord should roust them out.

There are 2 parts this this quest. The first part gives you a heart in your quest inventory which allows you entrance into the dungeon. After you enter the dungeon the first time, your heart turns into a lesser heart (I can't remember the actual name). When you have either of these two hearts, the guards may or may not try to kill you. Sometimes you can run past them and they don't care, and other times they will try to stop you (they are 8x HP mobs, and very tough!). After you get the broken heart, talk to the upstairs priest again and he'll send you on a small quest at the FOTD to get the real quest that will allow you unprohibited entrance to the dungeon.

We had a small party (tank + 3 nukers with full buffs from the hunt we just finished) down there just to see what it was like. The first room is quite large and has just a few mobs which drop keys. The keys open up large doors that extend from from the main room. Looking inside these rooms, we decided not to enter...lots of high-level and tightly-packed mobs.

I've gotten past all the quests. Past the mirror and past the 2 gates. After you get past the 2nd gate you'll be looking at an altar with a huge statue. On either side are two secret doors. You open either one and you get to a back area. From there you can travel to the base of the huge statue. Problem is there are 2 more doors guarding the statue and I can't figure out how to open these.

Are these the doors leading to Benom before the siege or is Benom strictly under the castle? I didn't examine the map to check my position but it's possible this spot is sitting directly under Rune castle.

Nasty place, I didn't run past the guards fast enough and almost bit it, I was like OMG ouch. Good thing they didn't nerf my battle heal.

YThis is pagan temple....
is a great hunting spot for lvl 70+, need one 73+ to get in though
High xp mobs, good spoils/some drops, quest for s grades stuff, and better than all that, kinda easy to hunt there with no wartags, post a guard at the entrance, and run/prepare to fight when u see em come in.

Maybe they should have a ticket taker (disneyland style) and a little sign with a cartoonish zombie on it, saying 'You must be this high to enter the area'.....


;)

~m~

YThis is pagan temple....
is a great hunting spot for lvl 70+, need one 73+ to get in though
High xp mobs, good spoils/some drops, quest for s grades stuff, and better than all that, kinda easy to hunt there with no wartags, post a guard at the entrance, and run/prepare to fight when u see em come in.

Doesnt everyone in the party have to be 73+? Pretty sure you need to be 73 just to get the quest.

What kind of good spoils are we talking about here?

I think that's the place where the flaming dragon skull parts drop in. But not realy shure and am to low to go there anyways..

Yeah, they slaughtered my one man party.. They should have signs there saying: "New dungeon entrance, keep out" or something..

lol

Nah, only one person needs quest, not sure if u even need that, just keys to open anteroom and chapel and "door of darkness...." (feel like i should drop some octaves and get some fog before i say that....)

ou can even go in with an oop buffer and 5 dd if u like.

The mystery of the altar that has been bothering me is now solved. It seems the raid boss that was supposed to go there was on vacation. From today's PTS patch notes.

The Public Test Server will be down for maintenance at 5:30 PM CDT today for approximately one hour. During the downtime, the following changes will be made:

NPCs


A raid boss named High Priest van Halter has been added to the Pagan Temple.
The 2nd and the 3rd floors of the Altar where the Pagan Temple raid bosses appear have been designated as no re-start zone. If a player doesn't connect within 10 minutes after disconnecting, they will be moved to the closest town.