Portal Activation: Dangerous Ground  

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Level:70
Maximum Level:125
Monster Mission:No
Repeatable:No
Can Be Shrouded?:No
Quest Type:Task
Quest Goal:
  • Experience
  • Faction
  • Money
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    Era:The Buried Sea
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    Group Size:Solo
    Min. # of Players:1
    Max. # of Players:1
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    Entered: Tue Feb 27 19:31:54 2007
    Modified: Tue Dec 5 05:21:04 2023
    This task follows 'Portal Activation: Sanctuary' and is given by Archarcanist Kirstmycl at the pad near the market (-866, -603) in Katta Castrum.

    Archarcanist Kirstmycl says 'Very Good. Those keys should allow you to use those portals. The keys are now a part of you and you will not need to carry anything around with you. If you are ready I can give you instructions on the [next] set of portals. They will be a bit more difficult to reach, and the challenges will be greater.'

    You say, 'The next set?'

    Archarcanist Kirstmycl says 'Very good. Here is what you need to do for your next attunement.'

    You have been assigned the task 'Portal Activation: Dangerous Ground'.

    With the attacks by the Shissar and other hazards of the city many of the portals further away from the safe area have become too dangerous to teleport to due to establishes and waiting ambushes. You will need to eliminate these ambushes while you gather the needed portal keys. Be sure to keep them as he will need them to attune them to you.

    Visit the listed portals and retrieve the portal keys. You will find that it is likely that you will be ambushed while trying to retrieve the keys. Kill at least twelve of the ambushers to help reduce their numbers in the future.



    Collect the Sanctum Portal Key Beza 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Inner Portal Key Caza 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Inner Portal Key Beza 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Gezu Azau 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Geza 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Geza Zeku 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Fana Azau 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Fana 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Fana Zeku 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Ena Azau 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Ena 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Collect the Outer Portal Key Ena Zeku 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    Locations:
    Sanctum Portal Key Beza: 955, 1555
    Inner Portal Key Caza: 1815, -1900
    Inner Portal Key Beza: 2040, 2045
    Outer Portal Key Gezu Azau: -2580, -4210
    Outer Portal Key Geza: -1900, -4570
    Outer Portal Key Geza Zeku: -1150, -4800 (thalassius)
    Outer Portal Key Fana Azau: 1150, -4800
    Outer Portal Key Fana: 1900, -4580
    Outer Portal Key Fana Zeku: 2590, -4230
    Outer Portal Key Ena Azau: 4225, -2590
    Outer Portal Key Ena: 4560, -1890
    Outer Portal Key Ena Zeku: 4810, -1155

    Kill 12 shissar or shissar servants that ambush you 0/12 (Katta Castrum)

    Speak with Archarcanist Kirstmycl and he will evaluate the items 0/1 (Katta Castrum)

    You say, 'Hail, Archarcanist Kirstmycl'

    With the portal keys and ambushes cleared out you will be able to utilize those teleporters. Be wary when doing so though, the Shissar are likely to attempt to reestablish their hold on those locations.

    Archarcanist Kirstmycl says `Very Good. Those keys should allow you to use those portals. The keys are now a part of you and you will not need to carry anything around with you. If you are ready I can give you instructions on the [next] set of portals. They will be more difficult to reach, and the challenges will continue to be greater than the previous.'

    Your faction standing with the Combine Empire Merchants got better.

    Rewards:
    Faction with Combine Empire Merchants
    75 platinum
    Experience

    Completion of this task leads into the next task in the series: 'Portal Activation: War Torn Portals'
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    Portal Activation: Dangerous Ground
    # Aug 24 2010 at 10:22 AM Rating: Decent
    Map with Zone 2 portal lines on it

    I took my previous map for the first portal quest that showed what portal went where and added the portals for the second quest.
    It got ugly. Lots of lines.

    But it's readable, just not the prettiest thing.

    The original map was posted on the Samanna web site.



    Edited, Aug 24th 2010 9:28am by morromid
    Wrong lvl
    # Jul 04 2009 at 1:25 PM Rating: Good
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    I could take this task with my level 70 character. So level 75 is wrong.
    Reward is faction with Combine Empire Merchants + 75 platinum + experience.

    Edited, Jul 4th 2009 11:29pm by loosingsleep
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    Designed to Fail
    # Mar 17 2008 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
    Make sure you have all the keys on you at the time of hailing to complete task....I have to repeat this task because here is SoE's CS response coppied and pasted here unedited....

    Please note that the task 'Portal Activation' is a very tricky task and it has an 'intended' failure possibility. The only way to fail is to loose one or more of the keys. If you don't have all the keys on your character and if you do the hail, it WIPES the task from your character. It is the intended game feature. You have to hail the NPC with all the required keys. For getting the more information about this task, please visit our forum at the following link:- http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=106798
    Huge agro range
    # Oct 21 2007 at 1:51 PM Rating: Decent
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    The ambush mobs have a -huge- agro range.
    I parked my shaman at the door to the Sanctum Beza area, and ran my monk up to trigger the ambush, and FD'd when they spawned. The mobs were too far away to even see on my shaman, yet they still agro'd and ran to him.
    Huge agro range
    # Apr 04 2008 at 11:58 PM Rating: Decent
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    Not huge aggro range, they simply instantly put everyone in the group on their aggro list and they never forget anyone as they re-add you ever 30 seconds or something like that. Even if you are FD for 2+ min they will remember you.
    Ambushes
    # Aug 11 2007 at 3:02 AM Rating: Decent
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    The ambushes seem to work like this:

    If you get "somewhere close" to the portal, 3 mobs spawn on the portal.

    If you defeat them, a timer is started that prevents others doing that quest from triggering the same ambush.

    If everyone just runs up to the portal OR still lingers around the portal when the timer runs out (!) then a big wave of ambush mobs will spawn.

    So if multiple toons are doing the task:
    KEEP your distance
    Spawn ambush with one toon
    Kill it off
    have everyone go to the portal to get the flag before ambush timer refreshes.

    If you have an evacer or COH you can still try to charge the portal and get the flag before you die.
    You might end up with a LOT of mobs, though, and they cast snare before you reach the portal.

    Edited, Aug 11th 2007 2:23pm by Pan
    locations of portals
    # Aug 10 2007 at 1:24 PM Rating: Good
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    Sanctum Portal Key Beza 955, 1555
    Inner Portal Key Caza 1815, -1900
    Inner Portal Key Beza 2040, 2045
    Outer Portal Key Gezu Azau -2580, -4210
    Outer Portal Key Geza -1900, -4570
    Outer Portal Key Geza Zeku -1150, -4800 (thalassius)
    Outer Portal Key Fana Azau 1150, -4800
    Outer Portal Key Fana 1900, -4580
    Outer Portal Key Fana Zeku 2590, -4230
    Outer Portal Key Ena Azau 4225, -2590
    Outer Portal Key Ena 4560, -1890
    Outer Portal Key Ena Zeku 4810, -1155

    take note that the firetongues that spawn from this quest are immune to movement changes, unlike the normal ones. both the shissar and the servants that spawn cast golem slow. the range is 75 on this spell so if you are kiting them, keep your distance. on that note- the golem-types move at SoW speed. and of course the golem-sorts and the firetongues summon.

    and yes, it can be soloed.

    but not by everyone ;)






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    # Jun 01 2007 at 4:30 AM Rating: Decent
    well..I did this as only a monk could do it. I dreamwalked over the portals, letting the mobs spawn and getting my key, then heading for the next portal.

    I now have all 12 keys

    The question is: the mission says kill 12 shissarar or servents..so do they have to be spawned from the key portals or can I just kill shissar.

    though even if it is portals..I'll only have to hit a couple of them to make 12 :)
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    # Aug 09 2007 at 9:55 PM Rating: Decent
    Any Shissar gives credit. I got credit helping someone do task 2 so I tried some random Shissar and also got credit. Bad part is while charging the portals to click and evacing I used too many charges to complete so had to do over.
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    # Aug 10 2007 at 1:09 PM Rating: Good
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    the above writer posted under the wrong quest. for this quest mob killing credit is only given for those that are spawned upon stepping near the portals.

    the next quest, any shissar will do. not this one.
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    # Aug 03 2007 at 4:09 PM Rating: Decent
    Yes, the regular dont give credit. However, any of the spawn mobs count so 4 portals worth of mobs and your done!
    Uhmm....
    # Apr 07 2007 at 4:42 PM Rating: Decent
    Recommended:
    Group Size: Solo

    Even though you're not forced to group to get the assignment, this is NOT a solo task. When looking for missions that can be solo'd this designation is misleading.
    Some more info for casuals
    # Apr 04 2007 at 8:37 AM Rating: Decent
    We started this with a raid force of 11 casual players. The mobs will spawn before you reach the portal pyramid, so keep your force back a bit.

    What we did was have someone quick (either 100k horse, Monk, or Bard) spawn the mobs and drag them to group. I casted Vinelash to CC them then had Chanter mez them (all possible). If all can be mezzed, everyone ran over to get their keys. Chanter and I took turns so as to keep the mobs locked down. As an added bonus it gave me time to hit them all multiple times with Nature's Balance.

    For the unmezzable mob, have the tank keep that one busy while everyone gets their keys. Two tanks would be better so everyone can get their keys.
    Map locations
    # Mar 08 2007 at 9:54 PM Rating: Decent
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    You can add the following to your katta map file and it'll label all the portals for all 3 tasks:

    P 698.2254, 987.3492, -3.3738,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Sanctum 
    P -2536.7041, 4154.0493, -524.9292,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Azia_Zeku 
    P 2345.3801, 1080.5031, -194.9469,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Inner_Azia 
    P -2034.2810, 2039.2764, -355.2482,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Inner_Dena 
    P -1520.6554, 4683.5112, -511.7836,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Azia_Azau 
    P -1882.4854, 4542.7510, -506.1584,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Azia 
    P 1890.6266, 4564.3584, -510.1806,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Heda_Azua 
    P 2582.0032, 4208.9629, -504.1414,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Heda 
    P 3206.9978, 3756.5784, -510.1938,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Heda_Zeku 
    P -1313.5776, -931.4557, -71.8249,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Sanctum_Beza 
    P 1873.1239, -2195.6653, -316.9396,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Inner_Caza 
    P -2031.4768, -2031.2072, -316.9407,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Inner_Beza 
    P 4210.9551, 2581.1057, -510.1805,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Geza_Azau 
    P 4562.9131, 1890.0646, -504.6735,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Geza 
    P 4714.6611, 1106.2191, -524.0446,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Geaz_Zeku 
    P 4800.5967, -1151.3317, -510.1722,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Fana_Azau 
    P 4562.0747, -1891.1858, -504.6735,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Fana 
    P 4198.6694, -2566.9937, -510.1690,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Fana_Zeku 
    P 2569.7813, -4191.0913, -510.9193,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Ena_Azau 
    P 1880.7877, -4537.1284, -510.0742,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Ena 
    P 1150.6599, -4780.0405, -509.6538,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Ena_Zeku 
    P -4923.2534, 386.7182, -510.1802,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Beza_Azau 
    P -4802.5713, 1152.2305, -504.6470,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Beza 
    P -4561.6890, 1889.0314, -510.1938,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Beza_Zeku 
    P -4561.0029, -1889.3473, -510.1939,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Caza_Azau 
    P -4801.4580, -1153.0944, -504.6511,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Caza 
    P -4922.9688, -387.5025, -510.4212,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Caza_Zeku 
    P -1152.5275, -4802.9351, -510.1802,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Dena_Azau 
    P -1889.2061, -4562.0801, -504.6735,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Dena 
    P -2577.1335, -4205.1406, -510.4212,  127, 0, 0,  2,  Outer_Dena_Zeku
    Map locations
    # Nov 01 2010 at 11:12 PM Rating: Decent
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    Thanks philphans! That helps tons.
    Necro Warning: This post occurred more than thirty days after the prior, and may be a necropost.
    Map locations
    # Nov 27 2007 at 4:37 AM Rating: Decent
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    Thank you also, this is great information.
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    # Aug 21 2007 at 8:23 AM Rating: Decent
    Excellent post, thank you very much for this. Makes life much easier.
    Failure possibility built in
    # Mar 07 2007 at 3:42 PM Rating: Decent
    This task has a built in failure possibility. I highly recommend reading the thread here http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=106798 before you attempt this task. It will likely save you a ton of time and frustration.

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    # Mar 06 2007 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
    OK .. while you fight these mobs have the rest of your group run up and get thier updates .Only 1 set will spawn .
    On each group we found 2 where mezzable sometimes 3 .. but not always .
    If you die or zone all you have to do is run back over the top of the portal .. either you will spawn the 3 mobs agai or you will just get your portal piece .
    Horribly bugged
    # Mar 06 2007 at 7:52 AM Rating: Decent
    A couple things to be careful of when doing this quest.

    1) Make sure you have all 12 bottles with you when you hail the NPC at the end (none in the bank). Otherwise, the task will fail and you have to start over.

    2) Be careful not to zone into Thalassius when getting the outer Geza Zeku key. I've managed to do this twice now and you will get the task step DONE, but you won't get the bottle.

    So I am trying to gather up the will to run through this task a 4th time ....
    Dangerous Grounds Tactics
    # Mar 01 2007 at 9:40 AM Rating: Decent
    Approaching each of the portals themselves in this task, spawns three mobs of varying types. The mobs will attack you immediately upon reaching the steps to the portal. These mobs can either be golems or shissar. Occasionally a red to 75 mob will spawn in the three that cannot be mezzed. The key will appear on your cursor once the mobs spawn. The mobs do cast a nasty AE snare that hits your whole group when they spawn. You can approach the portal and attempt to FD to keep all three mobs from coming at once, but if they are Shissar, most likely they will cast on you, and FD will fail. Another method is to use Invulnerability (harmshield, DA, Quivering Veil, etc.) to spawn the mobs, but you will still get hit by the AE snare and when DA wears off attempt to FD again.

    I finally did complete this task, with the help of a great group, with only a few deaths. It took a while though. Now on to the war torn portals which from experience can evolve into 2 deaths per portal, because you have to click the activiation wand at each portal and get the keys and kill 12 mobs.

    Good news is that after completing Dangerous Grounds, you have access to the outer ring through portals, not all but most, and getting around Katta gets a lot easier and faster!

    Next task
    # Feb 27 2007 at 12:04 PM Rating: Decent
    Portal activation : War torn portals

    collect the outer portal key Beza Zeku
    collect the outer portal key Beza
    collect the outer portal key Azazu
    collect the outer portal key Caza Zeku
    collect the outer portal key Dena Azazu
    collect the outer portal key Caza
    collect the outer portal key Dena
    collect the outer portal key Caza Azazu
    collect the outer portal key Dena Zeku
    kill 15 shissars
    ????
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