Verarium Delves (jumping puzzle)

Verarium Delves

Type

Jumping puzzle

Area

Verarium Delves
(Sparkfly Fen)

Image(s)

Click to enlarge. The route from Ocean's Gullet Waypoint to the jumping puzzle.

Verarium Delves is a jumping puzzle within Sparkfly Fen. This short puzzle features some climbing and a few jumps.

Getting there

From  Ocean's Gullet Waypoint — , head northwest into the cave just north of  Nicantl Grounds — . Follow the cave west, past some Cave Spiders, to the Veteran Hylek Chief. At the hero challenge, turn south and follow the cave past some Vampire Bats, where it emerges into an open plateau with a stream running northeast along its south edge.

Staying close to the western cliffs, head south towards the stream, looking for some grassy stone pillars just below the waterfall. Jump across them, entering another cave on the far side. Follow it south and then west, past more Vampire Bats, until you emerge just north of  Orvanic Cliffs Vista — . Jump across a gap to the next flat rock south of you, with a Tropical Bird on it. Drop down to the ledge where the vista is, then head west again, dropping off the vista ledge. Keep heading west into the green foliage there, which conceals the cave entrance.

Walkthrough

Enter the cave and walk up the stairs straight ahead of you. Continue until the ledge before the next raised platform. Jump across: it's easiest from the south corner, in front of the pillar. If you fall, climb back up the rubble to your left, optionally climbing all the way up to the top floor to make the jump easier. Speed boosts like  Swiftness and  Superspeed also make this jump easier. Once on the middle platform, jump up the boulder to the south (below a pillar), and then onto the short pillar against the south edge of the cave. Jump west from the pillar onto the sloping rock beside the stone-walled building at the end of the cave. Climb the slope and jump north onto the top of that building. Jump onto the low stone wall to the east, overlooking the rest of the ruins. From there, jump down onto the northernmost pillar in the cluster of 3 (not the isolated pillar on the north side of the cave). From the pillar, jump west onto the crumbling wall that blocks the archway into the building. Standing on that wall, look south for a hole in the interior wall: jump across into that hole. If you fall, sloping pillars inside the room allow you to climb back onto the edge of the wall. The chest is in the small room through that hole, alongside two humanoid skeletons. Gallery From the entrance to the first jump. Alternate route is shown in yellow if you're struggling with the jump. From the middle platform, jump up the south side (left in image) to the top of the room. From there, jump down onto the pillar and onto the edge of the broken wall. One final jump, from the broken wall to the south corner of the room. Inside is the chest. The final room, containing the chest and two skeletons.

Reward

• Chest

Gallery

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  The tiles as seen on an altar in Verarium Delves.

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  The same tiles on a different altar in Saltflood Mire.

Trivia

• Between the launch of the Path of Fire expansion (on September 22, 2017 ^{[verification requested]}), and the January 23, 2018 game update, access to this jumping puzzle was blocked by an invisible wall. The reason for this is not known.
• The ruins here resemble many other ruins found in the northern half of Sparkfly Fen. Most notably, the Mesoamerican-inspired tiles found in Verarium Delves are identical to ones decorating the Saltflood Mire ruins.
  • They also match the tiles found atop the entrance to Forsaken Fortune, as well as throughout that mini-dungeon. Given that Forsaken Fortune is known to be a dwarven ruin, that may imply a similar origin for these ruins.

References

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Jumping puzzles

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Sparkfly Fen