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The Bugbear Bandits
The Bugbear Bandits is the 2nd quest in The Keep on the Borderlands story arcStory arcs are chains of quests that make up a story line. Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.. |
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These quests can be completed in any order. |
Watch Your Step • The Bugbear Bandits • Violent Delights • Treasure Hunt • Obstructing the Orcs • Caged Beast • The Hobgoblin Horde • Total Chaos |
Bugbears have been attacking trade caravans in the valley and enslaving the captured merchants.
Requires access to adventure pack
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The Bugbear Bandits | |
Heroic level: | 1 |
Epic level: | 21 |
Duration: | Short |
Heroic XP: | ♣240Solo/Casual ♦400Normal ♥430Hard ♠460Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣4,138Solo/Casual ♦7,125Normal ♥7,352Hard ♠7,580Elite |
Takes place in: | Bugbear Caves |
Bestowed by: | Varka Goldring |
NPC contact: | Varka Goldring |
Quest acquired in: | The Keep on the Borderlands |
Patron: | The Gatekeepers |
Base favor: | 2 |
Purchase: | Keep on the Borderlands or VIP |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
Bugbears have been ambushing merchant caravans in the valley. Enter the Bugbear Caves in the Caves of Chaos and put a stop to their raids.
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler material below this point!
Objectives
- Defeat the Bugbear Chieftain
- Open the Sealed Door
- Find the Iron Key
- Pull the First Lever
- Open the Iron-barred Door
- Find the Silver Key
- Open the Silver Key-embossed Door
- Pull the Second Lever
- Find the Chieftain's Gold Key
- Find the Chieftain's Treasury
- (Optional) Free all of the Slaves (8) — Bonus (10%): Heroic( ♣24 ♦40 ♥43 ♠46 ) Epic( ♣414 ♦713 ♥735 ♠758 )
What to Expect
Demons (Dretches and Hezrou) may spawn when a bugbear is killed.
Tips and Misc
This is a very linear quest, you start in the middle:
- First go left/west, past the gem-locked door, and kill some Bugbears, which drop an Iron Key.
- Then go back, through the "iron-barred door" and northeast; kill some Bugbears, which drop a Silver Key. Pull the First lever.
- Go south and use the Silver Key to open that door.
- Go down the southern/west passage to the Shrines for the Second Lever
- Optional: Behind the gate are 4 slaves. 4 more are at the end of the southern/east passage.
- Optional: Secret door (Secret door DC) in the first bend of the southeast passage opens a hidden passage that leads to a room with some bears in a pit, a few breakables and 2 collectables.
- Go back to the center, to the gem-locked door, which is now open, and kill the chieftain.
- Grab the Gold key at end boss fight to unlock treasury room, where there will be two chests one of which is Locked (Lock DC).
- Quest ends when the Treasury door is opened.
Bonus XP
- Aggression bonus: 8 or more monsters killed +10% Bonus.( ♣24 ♦40 ♥43 ♠46 )
- Onslaught bonus: 16 or more monsters killed +15% Bonus.( ♣36 ♦60 ♥65 ♠69 )
- Conquest bonus: 24 or more monsters killed +25% Bonus.( ♣60 ♦100 ♥108 ♠115 )
- Observance bonus: > 1 or more secret doors discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣19 ♦32 ♥34 ♠37 )
- Mischief bonus: 14 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣19 ♦32 ♥34 ♠37 )
- Notes: Kill bonus limits may raise with the number of demons spawning
Loot
- Chests: 2 end chests
- Unlocked chest
- 2nd chest is Locked (Lock DCs).
- Collectables: 3
- Adventurer's Pack — in northeast room with the silver key
- Fungus — in the secret bear pit
- Fungus — in the secret bear pit
NPC end rewards
Randomly generated loot, ML correlates with effective quest level.
Named Chest Drop
Monsters
Name ( picture ) | CR | Type | Race |
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Borderlands Bear ( view • edit ) | ♦1.00Normal ●♦22Epic Normal ●♠39Epic Elite | Animal | Bear |
Bugbear Chanter ( view • edit ) | ♦1.00Normal ♠4Elite ●♦21Epic Normal ●♠37Epic Elite | Goblinoid | Bugbear |
Bugbear Stalker ( view • edit ) | ♦1.00Normal ♠3Elite ●♦21Epic Normal ●♥25Epic Hard ●♠37Epic Elite | Goblinoid | Bugbear |
Bugbear Thrower ( view • edit ) | ♣1.00Solo/Casual ♦1.00Normal ♠3Elite ●♣21Epic Casual ●♥25Epic Hard ●♠37Epic Elite | Goblinoid | Bugbear |
Dretch Spawn ( view • edit ) | ●♦21Epic Normal ●♥25Epic Hard ●♠37Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Hezrou Chaos Spawn ( view • edit ) | ●♦22Epic Normal ●♥27Epic Hard ●♠39Epic Elite | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Wurg Horsebane ( view • edit ) | ♣3Solo/Casual ♦3Normal ♠5Elite ●♦24Epic Normal ●♥28Epic Hard ●♠43Epic Elite | Goblinoid | Bugbear |
- The Keep on the Borderlands chain quests
- Epic quests
- Short quests
- Bugbear Caves quests
- The Keep on the Borderlands quests
- The Gatekeepers patron quests
- Pay to Play quests
- Quests by name
- Quests with maps
- Level 21 quests
- Compendium:Level 1 (21 epic) quests
- Level 1 quests
- Quests with 2 base favor reward
- Keep on the Borderlands quests
- Quests with no traps
- Quests with collectables/3