Trial by Water

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Start NPC Edal-Tahdal - Norg (H-9) Requirements Tenshodo Reputation 4 Title Granted Heir of the Great Water Repeatable Yes, after Japanese midnight after receiving your reward. Reward Ability to summon Leviathan or 10,000g or Eye of Nept or Water Belt or Water Ring or Leviathan's Rod ← Previous Quest Next Quest → None The Moonlit Path Mama Mia Waking the Beast

Contents 1 Walkthrough 1.1 The Fight 2 Game Description

Walkthrough

• Speak to Edal-Tahdal in Norg. If you have sufficient fame, he will give you a Tuning fork of water.
• Travel to Den of Rancor and find the Cloister of Tides.
  • To get to the Cloister of Tides, head to the main entrance to the Temple of Uggalepih (J-11 of Yhoator Jungle) and head in. One person will need a Paintbrush of Souls to enter the Den of Rancor.
  • From the entrance take every right until you zone back out to Yhoator Jungle, then take every left you can until you zone back into the Temple.
  • Take a right and once you come to the corner, head south. There is a wooden gate here that someone will have to open. Head south as far as you can, around the small square, until you come to a granite door. To get through this door, you need to kill the Temple Guardian. Once the Temple Guardian is dead, the door will open automatically and stay open for a couple of minutes.
  • WARNING: If you go through this door and it closes behind you, you cannot get back out unless someone kills the Temple Guardian on the previous side.
  • Head through the door and head north through the Manipulator room and through another door you will have to open without.
  • Have the person with the Paintbrush of Souls click on the picture frame on the east wall.
  • A door will open to the side. Head through it to enter the Den of Rancor.

You will need both Sneak and Invisible from here on.

• Descending the path will bring you into a room with seven passageways. Head to the SE corner of that room and take the passage that heads east (there’s also one in that corner that heads south). Follow the right wall of that tunnel until you see a hole in the floor at J-7.
• Drop through the hole and you'll be in a large room. Head northeast and you will zone into the Cloister of Tides.

• Once you defeat Leviathan, you will acquire the Whisper of Tides (key item).
• Return the Whisper to Edal-Tahdal for your reward.

• Alternatively, hold onto it and when you have all six whispers, you may start the quest The Moonlit Path to fight Fenrir Prime.
• If you are collecting items for the Evoker's Ring, you will want the Eye of Nept from Edal-Tahdal.

The Fight

• Everyone who is involved in the fight must have a tuning fork of the correct protocrystal.
• There is no cap on this battle.
• There is a 30-minute time limit.
• You can buff up before entering the protocrystal, so feel free to do so and rest up while still outside.
• Try to fight Leviathan Prime on Lightningday and do not fight him on Watersday.
• Keep up Barwatera at all times.
• Leviathan will use his ability, Grand Fall. Beware, as this attack bypasses shadows.
• Do not use Water-based spells, weaponskills, or weapons that have Additional effect: Water damage, as they will heal Leviathan Prime.
• The battlefield is shaped like a long path up the side of a hill, with a switchback about halfway to the top. This allows the mages to stand above the fight (and out of easy reach of the avatar) while still being able to cast spells on party members.

See Trial by Water strategies for strategies and videos.

Game Description

Client

Edal-Tahdal (Near the Quay, Norg)

Summary

Ring the tuning fork of water upon the protocrystal in the Den of Rancor. A path will open to the trial that awaits.