Mistwrought Vault

Mistwrought Vault

Map of Mistwrought Vault

Type

Jumping puzzle

Zone

Borderlands
(The Mists)

The Mistwrought Vault is a collective term for the Emerald Sanctum, Garnet Sanctum, or Sapphire Sanctum jumping puzzles. There are three identical versions of the jumping puzzle, corresponding to each of three borderlands.

Puzzle	Zone
Emerald Sanctum	Green Borderlands
Garnet Sanctum	Red Borderlands
Sapphire Sanctum	Blue Borderlands

Getting there

Directly west of the defenders citadel, south of the skill challenge, and next to the lake, are two tunnels. Head into the south one and take a left at the first opportunity. Don't jump into the water but take the path up by making a right.

Walkthrough

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Spoiler alert: The hidden text contains spoilers relating to the story of Guild Wars 2.

Enter the puzzle by leaping from the rock into the waterfall. Be aware that you will take a significant amount of falling damage, making you easy prey if an opponent should be waiting below. Going deeper into the cave, hop across the first few rocks and across a vine. Here, you have a decision point. You'll need the two halves of the key in order to open the vault door. Going further up the center leads to the bottom half of the key, while continuing west towards the wall leads to the top half and the vault door. Top Half Continue hop across a rock westward, onto a log, then onto solid ground. Turn left and jump back on the log. You'll see a floating platform around the cliff. Jump across to the solid ledge and follow along the wall. You'll pass by the vault door, but you'll need the key to open it, so continue along the wall. Oozes reside a bit further but can easily be avoided. Eventually, the path leads back to floating rocks. Hop across the path and you'll eventually arrive on the larger floating rock. There's a jump shortly after which may not be possible to make but instead results in you falling through onto a floating platform below. Continue jumping across the floating rocks, jumping to the cliffside once there are no more rocks in range. Running up the cliff, you'll come to a vine bridge with a couple right-angled turns in it. Carefully make your way across the vines to the floating rock. Up on this rock is the chest containing the top half of the key. Bottom Half Continue jumping up the floating rocks around the center. Once you've reached the top, look to the north for a couple rocks leading to a vine-covered rock. Jump across these two rocks and onto the vine. Continuing up the vine, you'll push through a hole hidden by vines. On the other side, you'll find three floating rocks. Carefully jump across these onto the cliffside where a couple oozes live. Look down the cliff and you'll see a couple small platforms jutting out. You can use these to jump across to the adjacent cliff. Jump up a series of small rock platforms here to the chest containing the bottom half of the key. From Top Half to Bottom Half Instead of starting at the entrance, it is possible to take a shortcut from the Top Half chest. After getting to the Top Half chest, turn around and look for a V-shaped pattern at the edge of the cliff. Fall down there and you land at the end of the vine described above in the Bottom Half section. Vault As with the top half of the key, jump across to the log and circle around to solid ground. If you have both halves of the key, you can open the door. It will only remain opened for a few seconds, but once inside, you can use the chains near the door on the inside of the vault to open it again. Tips Traits which mitigate falling damage may be useful when entering the puzzle if you suspect an enemy may be lurking just inside. Obtaining the Top Half first and then taking the shortcut to the Bottom Half constitutes the shortest way through the puzzle. You can reduce the time taken to complete the puzzle by opening the vault (and the chest) on your way to collect the top half of the key. To do this you will need to save one pair of keys from a previous day. Swiftness is not required but allows a larger margin of error on many of the longer jumps. Skills which cause knockback may be useful if you encounter hostile enemy players, allowing you to push them off the puzzle into the water. Skills which grant Stability may be useful to prevent being knocked off yourself. If you are attacked by an enemy player, it is better to jump into the water than to risk dying and having to walk all the way back to the entrance. Gallery

Reward

• Enormous Mistwrought Chest

NPCs

Enemies

• Ooze
  • Red Ooze (80)

Notes

• The parts of the key are shared for all three borderlands, making it possible to retrieve key parts on one borderland and open the chest in one of the others.
• You need the key parts to unlock the door and chest. While a person with both key parts can open the door for players without, each player requires both key parts to open the chest for themselves.

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