A Relic in Lumul Nar (solo) Guide/Walkthough

A good number of searches that hit this blog are in relation to the Lumul Nar (solo) instance. It seems a lot of folks are looking for hints & tips with regard to this, so I thought I’d oblige and provide some!

The ‘original’ Lumul Nar is a 3-man instance in Zirakzigil in Moria. Volume 2, book 8, chapter 3, of the epic quest line (2.8.3), also requires you to complete a quest inside this instance. Up until Update 2, in late 2010, this meant getting a 3-man team together in order to complete 2.8.3. However, Update 2 saw a solo version of 2.8.3 introduced. This solo version can now be done once only (there used to be a bug that allowed you to complete it multiple times) on each toon, and is started by visiting Broin who is in the Peaceful Path.

The following write up describes how to complete the one-shot-only ‘solo’ version of the instance – which is a little different from the repeatable 3-man version (which can be accessed via the ‘Instance Join Panel’).

Note: You can pick up quests that can be worked on during the solo version of this instance, from Frar in the Chamber of the Crossroads.

Broin in the Peaceful Path

Once the instance is started, just jump down the cliff trying your best to land on the various outcrops on the way down. If you jump all the way, you’ll die and end up back at the top :P. Once at the bottom, you’re on level one. Kill  the two wargs, and pull the lever to the right of the first mirror, just  once. Pulling this lever will open the way to the second room.  [The idea is to direct the stream of light against the webbing blocking the tunnels – the light then ‘burns’ though the blockage to open the way].

The first mirror

In the second room, kill the two warg adds and then kill Frost Tail, the first boss. Frost Tail will only activate once his (her?) two warg-matron adds have been killed.

Second room - first boss.

Now pull the lever on the mirror that’s nearest to the door that you’ve just come through, three times. There is another mirror to the left of this one – pull the lever on this once – and you’ll have the way onwards clear. So, moving on, you’ll get to the top of a shaft – run down the ramp inside this shaft, all the way to the bottom. At the bottom, run along the short tunnel, and out into a very large cavern.  Here you’ll first meet a Task Mistress – kill her within 45 secs or get your ass handed to you [after 45 secs of combat, Task Mistresses self-buff to do +1000% damage!).

Task Mistress plus add, start of level three

Once this first task mistress (and her add) are dead, take the tunnel to the left (i.e. head north) – it also climbs up and turns east. Just up this tunnel, kill the ‘Swarming – Bat’ that you meet concentrate on killing the main bat first, not  its summoned add(s). Next the tunnel turns due south and you’ll arrive at a ramp – on your right. At the top of this ramp, you’ll see a Morvul Warrior and a Lesser Dark Claw, together. Kill ’em.

Pull the lever on the far mirror three times, once the mobs are dead.

There are two mirrors here with levers. Pull the lever on both of these mirrors once each. Head back down the ramp. Continue along the tunnel, heading south. At the top, you’ll find another ramp. There’s a mirror at the top of this ramp – pull this lever (hanging from the ceiling) three times, then head back down the ramp and stand on the outcrop – you should be looking at the following view:

Pull lever (middle top of the image) three times.

Now head back down the tunnel to here you killed the first Task Mistress. Head across the cavern, heading east. follow the ledge around to the south and then turn onto the ramp heading down (and west). Here you’ll see another Task Mistress (the second). Kill her fast!

Second Task Mistress

Follow the path down to the next level where  you’ll find three more mirrors with levers and your third Task Mistress. Again, dispatch her fast!

Third Task Mistress plus three more mirrors with levers

Now the three mirrors. The mirror nearest the ramp you’ve just come down – pull its lever three times. Pull the lever on each of the other two mirrors here, once only each. There will now be a beam of light going straight down though the middle of the cavern.

Beam straight down - that's what you're after!

You can jump down if you like – but you’ll die 😉 Instead, head to the north-west corner of the level where you are, and follow the tunnel that you find there, down. Keep following the tunnel all the way down to the big cavern at the bottom – you’ll pass through two small caverns on the way (note the second of these small caverns – if you die later on, you’ll have to jump from here to get access to the final area in order to finish the instance).

Once at the bottom of the tunnel, as I’ve said, you’ll be in a fairly large cavern. Here you’ll see a single mirror with a lever, and your fourth Task Mistress. Kill her first, then pull the lever on the mirror twice.

Fourth Task Mistress

A tunnel to the east now open up. Follow it and jump down where you need. You’ll then hit the start of a ramp – follow it down. It circles down in a clockwise direction. At the bottom, you’ll see this:

Gorothul's relic

Note Gorothul’s Gift in the middle of the screen. Go over to it and click on it to destroy it. Watch out for Task Mistresses – if you run into one, kill it! Once the Gift of Gorothul is destroyed, all you have to do is kill Ergoth, the second (and last) boss. However, you can’t get access to Ergoth (by dropping though the hole in the centre of the cavern), without solving the final mirror puzzle. This is the solution (copied from this French guide here, as I’m too lazy to do my own):

Lumul Nar - final solution

The only fly in the ointment, as far as aligning the mirrors as above goes, is that Task Mistresses and other Morvul Defilers keep spawning, and the Defilers have the nasty habit of dirtying the mirrors. So while a mirror might be correctly aligned, if you can’t see a  beam of light where it should be, you might have to go kill a Morvul Defiler, and then clean the mirror that it’s mucked up! There is no easy way of doing this puzzle – just be as quick as you can and kill the Morvuls when you see them. When the mirrors are all clean, and aligned as above, the web floor in the centre of the cavern will dissolve, and you can jump down to kill Ergoth.

The way down to Ergoth is open - now jump!

Job done.

Note: If you die trying to solve the final mirror puzzle OR die fighting Ergoth, you’ll have to jump from the small cavern, as noted above, in order to re-gain access to the bottom level…