Baron's Keep
The Baron's Keep is the Glitch themed mission with a difficulty tier of 6. It takes the player into a siege of the keep owned by a Glitch baron. In the mission, cultists will attack the fortress in waves, escalating from infantry to ballistas and finally to cultists flying Da Vinci-style gyrocopters that drop firebombs onto the battlefield. During the battle, Nuru and Lana Blake will aid the player.
Unlike most missions, this one does not have checkpoints, so dying will reset the mission. When the mission is finished, the player will be rewarded with the Regal Medallion, the Glitch artifact, and gain the services of the Baron at the Ark.
Guaranteed Treasure
Strategy
After speaking to the Baron, cultists begin attacking the fortress in waves. Two types of cultists attack, some armed with melee weapons and some armed with bows. The melee cultists will get close to the player, so high damage area of effect weapons will be useful against them. A staff with a pull secondary effect could keep the archers from attacking. Alternately, the Tesla's Staff's main ability is very effective at killing entire groups of cultists.
The Glitch archers stationed atop tower shoot toward the ballista, but their aim is essentially random. If the ballista is fired, the bolt that it releases will explode and destroy blocks of the guard tower, dealing 10 base damage to anyone in the way. Killing the cultists operating the ballista will effectively prevent it from firing, as will destroying it.
Gyrocopter-riding cultists appear in the mid-to-late portion of the mission. The molotovs they throw deal 10 base damage on contact, and the flames released on explosion each deal 0.5 base damage.
Boss Encounter
After surviving several waves of cultists, the player is called to speak to the Baron again. Afterward, Asra Nox flies in piloting the Bone Dragon, beginning the mission's boss encounter. See Bone Dragon for strategy fighting it.
After-Boss Chest
| After-Boss Treasure | Quantity | Weight | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Always | Appears | |
| Random Rewards | 4 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Random Rewards | 5 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Total Weight | 1.0 |
| Random Rewards | Quantity | Weight | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.1 | 10% | |
| 20 | 0.1 | 10% | |
| 1 | 0.2 | 20% | |
| 1000 | 0.1 | 10% | |
| Uncommon Gun | 1 | 0.1 | 10% |
| 1 | 0.15 | 15% | |
| Uncommon Melee | 1 | 0.15 | 15% |
| Shield | 1 | 0.1 | 10% |
| Total Weight | 1.0 |
| Missions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erchius Mining Facility • Ceremonial Hunting Caverns • Grand Pagoda Library • Great Sovereign Temple • Miniknog Stronghold • Baron's Keep | ||||||||||
