Temple of Dailuk : Vanguard Dungeon Review

Dungeon:
Temple of Dailuk

Location:
North by Northwest of Ahgram in Central Qalia

Level Range of Mobs:
16-20, 3 and 4 dots. Some quest spawning 5 dot mobs. 

Overview:

1. The town outside has many quest chains, some are done outside the dungeon.  Most of the main quests for inside the dungeon are at the base of the tower, and at the very top. Repairs available at small town a bit E of the quest town.
2. There are a few different types of mobs: hounds, human covenant people, gargoyles.  Most are stationary or have a slow patrol, but there are a few roamers, mostly around the entrance area where there are a lot of humans.
3. Many of the human covenant casters have an AOE rain of fire spell that can really hurt cloth wearers, so stand back on those pulls, and watch agro on double pulls if you can’t handle it.  Counter spell can really help.
4. With a balanced trio or more averaging level 18+, you can grind lots of the 3 dots, but there are so many 4 dots all over that the battles tend to run very long.  DPS is really needed to speed up the encounters, or you’ll need to bring a full group- or just be a little bit higher level. 
5. Re-spawn isn’t much of an issue if you are able to handle double pulls on occasion, but if you are taking major breaks after single pulls, might want to hang outside and grind for a while with the other quests.
6. Because of the large number of 4 dots inside the temples (buildings with basements that have roughly 15-20 gargoyles) this can be a great place to camp with a good group, and grind out some good exp.
7. Loot drops aren’t too great, money drops isn’t great either, but so many quests chains makes it worth it regardless.
8. Many of the quests are kill quests or collection quests that have you killing specific mobs, so be sure to turn in quests whenever possible, and look at the types of mobs you are pulling since they all look similar.
9. This temple can be very crowded since it’s a main leveling area, additional mobs can be pulled from high above- gargoyles are perched on top of the buildings and walls and can be arrowed or spelled down. 

Walk through:

Once inside the Temple of Dailuk, there are lots of Covenant people who are key kills for several of the quests.  There are pockets of hounds all over, with gargoyles in several areas as well.  The temples and houses (just names for the buildings with actual entrances to them) are scattered throughout, but there are only a few of them, each with 15-20 gargoyles inside the basement, all 4 dot.  

Many of the quests are chains, asking you to kill several different types of mobs, but once you finish purifying the temple chain, you will receive a ring that requires you to stand in several locations all around the temple.  Have your group fight around, and stand in the different locations, using your compass to guide you.  None of the locations are difficult to find and most of them are altars outside, or just the very inside doorway of a temple.  

After finishing this quest, you will be on the quest to kill Kraelix, but the quest is very vague about how to spawn him.  Just inside the temple head to the right, and you will see a group of “summoners of Kraelix” who are all humans that throw fire angled at one another.  They stand in an area called “the altar of Scorn.” That may not be the exact wording but look for the word SCORN, and I say that because the summoners can take 45 minutes to an hour to re-spawn (and I’ve waited, so trust me).  If you can kill all the summoners, you have about 10 seconds before the “Protectors of Kraelix” spawn, there are 4-5 of them, and they are level 20, 4 dots.  You need to take them out to spawn Kraelix. 

He is supposed to spawn where you are located, but has been known to spawn in other areas.  He is also ONLY supposed to be vulnerable to your group, since your group took out the protectors/summoners, but that may very well be bugged also.  Once you kill Kraelix you can take his trinket and go summon the Xarkrafi in his house.  Go to the temple of Xarkrafi (might be the house of Xarkrafi, not sure but only one of the two exists) and go to the basement, clearing all gargoyles, using the trinket to summon Xarkrafi.  

There are other Elite quests for this zone including summoning Dailuk ( a level 21 5 dot mob in the temple of Dailuk) with the dust you can obtain from killing a spirit named Veraguut spawning around the back of the temple of Dailuk.  Go to the basement of the actual temple of Dailuk and clear all the gargoyles, then put the dust on the orb to summon the level 21 5 dot.  He spawns other mobs during the encounter as well, multiple groups needed if you are around level 23 or so.   

Final View:

Visually, this dungeon is average, but gothic.  The gargoyles is a very nice touch, and the overall creativity with the quests chains and difficulty scaling to 5 dot level 21’s is very nice to see.  Leveling in here is monotonous because every pull is the same of 3 types of mobs, and can get very old with little reward.  On the other hand, its easy to get into a rhythm with a good 3 or 4 group, as long as you have the dps to really rock the 4 dot mobs.  If it’s not crowded, you can walk around looking for the names that occasionally spawn on the rocks and pick them off for good loot, but since its usually a hot spot, its rough to find decent mobs. 

With the recent addition of teleporters in Khal and Ahgram, this place is very popular for extremely low levels (15-16 even) so its really easy to get trained with higher mobs.  I suggest getting a good group and going deeper into a temple, and holding it all day for really good 4 dot experience and loot; better loot tables and exp.  There are so many quests, and most are kill/collection quests, you get a ton of exp just grouping up and farming.  I highly recommend this place for any group in the level range, and with so many mobs everywhere- it’s easy to take a small group and farm singles 3 or 4 dots.

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