Hello Everyone,
On my first play through I got the strange key first try in the Occultist basement area. Well, I actually RIPed in the area where you use the key (wasn’t paying full attention was going to be my last area before logging and at the end I didn’t realize the gate closed and locked so I sat there taking damage derping around wondering why I was stuck lol). Well now I can’t seem to find it. I’ve run the Occultist basement and the area in front of the locked door 3-4 times and no key. I’m guessing I just have to keep running those areas so is there a way to reset those areas other than closing down the game and restarting? For instance, on POE on the map screen you and control click an area and open up the same area reset. Is there a way to do that in grim dawn or do I just have to keep closing and opening the game to reset that zone? I already killed the guy in the town that I read will also give you the key.
Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to read this post and if you then go on to answer.
Are you talking about Sot? You mean the door with a boss before it, where you can’t open riftgates once inside? If so, that is SoT.
The first key, you get as quest reward after killing that boss. After that, you have to craft the keys at the blacksmith
If on the other hand you are talking about the cultists hideout in act1, once unlocked, you can enter as many times as you want in that playthrough. So you shouldnt need another key if you were inside already. And that key is random drop, can drop after 1 or 20 times. Usually takes 1-8
That’s not the key. It’s this key that starts a side quest the 2nd part you mentioned is the right key. I was a hardcore character so I lost it when I died. I know I’m not limited to keep going into the lair and also fighting the cultists outside the locked door, but is there a way to reset the Cultist lair and the enemies outside the door trying to get the key to drop if it doesn’t drop and I need to reset the area without closing the game and restarting so everything comes back? So as of now I run the Cultists lair, then run the handful of enemies outside the locked door you use the strange key on, then since it hasn’t dropped I have to exit my current game and restart the game. On Path of Exile if the key didn’t drop I would just go to the map screen and control click the cultists lair and it would make a new map with enemies so I wouldn’t have to restart the game. Does what I’m trying to ask make sense? The only way I see to make enemies respawn is to close the game and restart it.
“This is a small Act 1 side quest that begins after finding the A Strange Key quest item. Key can be obtained in two ways. Direni will give it to you if you let him live in the A Cultist in the Midst quest, otherwise it has a chance to drop from the Cultists in the Cultist’s Lair or Burrwitch Outskirts.”
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond I appreciate it :).
Nope, you can’t reset anything without closing and opening the game. But I think it’s a good way to do it. It takes 15 seconds.
You can also get the key from a quest, like the wiki explains:
First you take the notes from a building in burrwitch village (to the right of the riftgate). Then you speak with Direni in devils crossing. Careful with your responses, you need to make a deal with him.
He will give you the key and you will have an extra boss in cronleys hideout.
Yeah I put that traitor to the sword. Well I guess technically it was a 2H gun from my demo but yeah no traitors in my town so I’ll be farming. For some reason, my game takes awhile to load compared to the loading speeds of al my other games. I have an I7-4790k, 24gb RAM and 980ti so not quite sure what’s up with that but it’s not like it’s game breaking or anything. Hopefully the key drops sooner than later. That sucks you get an extra boss I didn’t know that but probably still would have killed him.
Thank you again very much for taking the time to read and reply I really appreciate it. Hopefully I don’t let these dopes kill me again although I was level 20 and I think they were 23-25, somewhere in there so I was def taken by surprise. That’s the excellent part of hardcore though, I was caught napping and paid for it.
That lair is harder than the average zone. It will also scale with your level until 50 I think, always beeing about 3 level higher than you.
The boss is pretty hard for new characters. If you haven’t gone too far into the game, it will be the hardest enemy you fought until now. Be careful if you are hardcore. Get some chaos resistance
About killing DIreni, I wouldn’t farm veteran when you can go into elite, so not having that extra boss on veteran isn’t important. I would let him live on elite and ultimate tho. Not that the boss is important, but the zone where he appears is a popular place to farm, and having one extra boss is always good.
Are you looking for the key again on the same difficulty, or a new difficulty? If you opened the door with the Strange key, you can walk inside again at any time, just open a new session.