The Broken City is a Mission in Dark Alliance. The Broken City is the second act of The Mask of Kelvin. Missions in Dark Alliance need to be completed in order to progress the story forward. You can obtain more and better loot as you complete more Missions. Below you will find a complete The Broken City Walkthrough.
General Information
- Previous: Ghosts of the Past
- Next: The Face of Kelvin
Video Walkthrough
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Map
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Bosses
Items
Preferred Gear Set Drop
- Battlehammer King Set (Bruenor Battlehammer)
- Barbarian Diplomat Set (Catti-Brie)
- Remorhaz Brotherhood Set (Drizzt Do'Urden)
- Flag Bearer Set (Wulfgar)
Enemies
Chest
- 6 Big Chests
- 11 Small Chests
Full The Broken City Walkthrough
Difficulty Settings
Hero
Recommended Combat Score 1,250
Item Rank Range: 1 - 2
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 2,000
Material: 280
Experience: 120
Guardian
Recommended Combat Score 1,500
Item Rank Range: 2 - 3
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 2,700
Material: 60
Experience: 220
Champion
Recommended Combat Score 1,850
Item Rank Range: 3 - 4
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 3,300
Material: 20
Experience: 375
Legend
Recommended Combat Score 2,300
Item Rank Range: 3 - 4
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 4,000
Material: 40
Experience: 600
Ascended
Recommended Combat Score 2,800
Item Rank Range: 4 - 5
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 5,000
Material: 18
Experience: 920
Vanquisher
Recommended Combat Score 4,000
Item Rank Range: 4 - 5
Guaranteed Loot: 2
Gold: 7,000
Material: 9
Experience: 1,400
Information
Utaar sought the Mask of Kelvin, believing that the artifact of his forefather would help him recover the Crystal Shard.
To catch up with Utaar, we would have to pass through the shattered remnants of the Broken City.
But navigating to Kelvin's Tomb would be a challenge.
Main Objectives
♦ Reach the Portal
♦ Reach the entrance to the Broken City
♦ Defeat the monsters at the entrance to the Broken City
♦ Retrieve the Netherese Keystone at the entrance to the Broken City
♦ Reach the fallen arena
♦ Defeat the monsters protecting the Netherese Keystone at the fallen arena
♦ Retrieve the Netherese Keystone at the fallen area
♦ Reach Kelvin's Courtyard
♦ Pick up the Netherese Keystone on the Frost Giant at Kelvin's Courtyard
♦ Reach the floating tower
♦ Pick up the Netherese Keystone at the floating tower
♦ Reach the central Island Netherese Gate
Optional
♦ Defeat Wrigglin' Wolly
♦ Destroy the noxious troll sacs 0/20
Walkthrough
Reach the entrance to the Broken City
When you start, turn around and go down to the end and loot the chest. Now go back to the main way, destroy the stones in the middle of the bifurcation and gain the Warmth effect. Take the way on the right, climb up. Destroy the noxious troll sac on the right. And collect the Tablet. Go back and take the other way. Jump to the other side and defeat the Goblins. Gain the Warmth effect on the left, and destroy the noxious troll sac on the right. Loot the chest on the right and return to the main way. Climb to the next zone. Destroy the magic totem up on the right, you can use a ranged attack for that. Before taking the portal, turn to the left, follow the way, until you reach a protected big chest. Destroy the totem on the left behind the stalagmites with a ranged attack to remove the dark magic effect. Go back and take the portal to the next area.
Defeat the monsters at the entrance to the Broken City
Defeat the Verbeeg and the Goblins. A Short Rest will become available at this point.
Retrieve the Netherese Keystone at the entrance to the Broken City
The Verbeeg you just defeated drops the Netherese Keystone, take it. There's a Noxious Troll Sac behind a fallen concrete column near the left edge.
Reach the fallen arena
Jump to the next area. There's a chest on the right. Go forward through the main path, to the next arena.
Defeat the monsters protecting the Netherese Keystone at the fallen arena
Defeat the Trolls. Always keep an eye on the cold type Trolls, while you defeat the rest of them, because the Trolls may stack a lot of damage if you get Frozen between them. It's recommended to defeat them focusing on one at a time so you don't let them regen their health. At this point a Short Rest will become available.
Retrieve the Netherese Keystone at the fallen area
When the Trolls are defeated, the dark energy field will disappear, take the Netherese Keystone that was inside of it.
Reach Kelvin's Courtyard
To the right there are wooden walls that you can destroy to loot a chest, destroy a noxious troll sac. On the other side, there's another noxious troll sac, you can destroy the totem high up, with a ranged attack, reach the right edge and jump down to the floating platform, then to the next platform and loot the big chest, then come back to main. To the front there's another wooden wall to will leave to more loot. Destroy the noxious troll sac, collect the Relief. And you might have to destroy the magic totem back from outside to be able to reach the big chest at the end. Follow the waypoints to the portal at the front edge of the main area. Destroy the wooden walls on the left. Get in, destroy the noxious troll sac on the right, break the dry roots in the front and collect the tablet. Go back to the main path a take down the Goblins. There's a noxious troll sac behind a concrete column on the left of the next bridge. Take the way on the left before taking the bridge, Defeat Wrigglin' Wolly. Destroy the magic totem with a ranged attack on the left on the other side of the precipice. Take the way through the middle climb up and destroy the next magic totem. Climb to the left, and loot the big chest. Go back to the bridge, cross it. Take the tablet on the right. There's a chest on the left corner and noxious troll sac to the front. Defeat the Frost Giant. Loot the chest behind him. A Short Rest will become available at this point.
Pick up the Netherese Keystone on the Frost Giant at Kelvin's Courtyard
The Frost Giant you just defeated dropped a Netherese Keystone, take it. Follow the right border of the mountain to the right. Destroy the two noxious troll sacs and loot the big chest. Go back to the main. Before you climb up to the next area, on the right, there's a chest hidding on a stretch way.
Reach the floating tower
Climb to the next area. You can find a stretch path the left, with a chest at the end and a Noxious Troll Sac next to it. Defeat the Goblins. Go back to the main path, defeat the Verbeeg and the Goblins. Climb to the front the wall with a piece of red cloth, follow the way to the left, and jump over the structure. Loot the chest. On the other side, there's a lever handle, take it. Come back down, surround the structure, destroy the magic totem and break through the door. Enter and destroy the noxious troll sac on the left. Place the lever handle to deactivate the fire, press all the symbols on the ground to unlock the Shrine. Interact with it to gain an Attribute Point. Follow the waypoint to the portal at the end of the stair. Defeat the Verbeeg and the Goblins. A Short Rest will become available at this point.
Pick up the Netherese Keystone at the floating tower
Take the Netherese Keystone. Before leaving this area, there are many things to loot. On the side, near the edge, there's a chest and a noxious troll sac closeby. Following the edge to the left, there's a gap on the ground with a noxious troll sac on the edge side. Before coming down into the gap, jump to the other side, there's a lever handle where there's 2 explosive barrels and a bunch of wooden carts. Collect the lever handle and defeat the Wraith. If you keep walking through the right edge to the left, you will find another noxious troll sac. In the middle area you can gain Warmth effect to reach the big chest to the right of where you came from. There's another noxious troll sac next to it. Now jump down to the gap mentioned before. Get to the end of the way, place the lever handle and pull it to open the gate. Loot the area and come back to the surface.
Reach the central Island Netherese Gate
Follow the waypoints to the next portal. There's a chest to the left of the circular structure behind it. Place the Netherese Keystones on the 4 pilars. Defeat the Kvorn the Gatekeeper and the Wraith.
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