Dark Cloud Mansion instance

Entrance to Dark Cloud Mansion
Instance map: Dark Cloud Mansion

Only a party of two members of level 78 and above can enter the Dark Cloud Mansion (Dark Cloud Mansion). In the dungeon, players can learn useful and important information about how to get into Crystal Caverns in the same area. You have 30 minutes to clear the dungeon.

Dark Cloud Mansion instance description and walkthrough

  1. The party leader (the party must consist of two people) talks to NPC; you teleport and find yourselves in a room. Kill two mobs and move on. Kill all mobs around the perimeter of the square (4 corners with 2 mobs in each).
  2. The door to room #1 opens; kill all the mobs there, talk to the bowl that appears and go out. Kill all the mobs around the perimeter once more, and the door to room #2 opens.
  3. Talk to the statues; mobs appear — kill them and talk again. The idea is that in the end all the statues light up blue, as if closed, and then a bowl appears. Talk to the bowl and go out. Again kill all the mobs, and the door to room #3 opens.
  4. Go in and kill all the mobs; the door to room #4 opens. The room has horse statues, like chess pieces. The bowl stands behind them, and you need to reach it. It's all quite simple: kill the statues; if a statue's HP doesn't go down, hit the neighboring one. Sometimes 1-2 mobs may crawl out, but that's not scary — kill them too. In the end you need to make your way to the bowl. It's not recommended to shoot all the statues in a row: mobs and debuffs will appear. Picking targets there is sometimes a pain, but overall nothing difficult.
  5. Talk to the bowl; mobs respawn in room #4. Kill them, and the door to room #5 opens. Go in. Sometimes you can't talk to the bowl. To fix that, kill the statues next to the bowl, and everything is fine.
  6. There are 7 mobs here, and you need to guess 3 mobs in a row. If the mob is the right one, it says something like "well done" and disappears. If it's the wrong one, it aggroes; you need to kill it, and all 7 mobs appear again. A guessing game, basically. There's no particular algorithm: you can either hit the same mobs each time or just pick at random.

After you guess 3 mobs in a row, a bowl appears. Everyone must talk to it and will receive Etc jewel box i00 0Contaminated Crystal. This item is required to enter Crystal Caverns.

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