A Guide to Vulkania

A guide for you Dofus tourists! Check out the main blog at Snarkposts.

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There is a typo in your directions about Tarada Bay's Secret. "Use the Smuggled Fairywork(it’s a quest item) at [-55,37] by double-clicking or clicking 'Use’." The correct map is [-53, 37]

Thanks, I think that’s right.. -55,37 isn’t even a beach map, haha.

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Vulkania 2015

Vulkania returns with a vengeance~ so I’m bumping the guide for this year! As always, if you see something that needs to be fixed or updated, send me a message(preferably through tumblr)

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[Dofus] Grozilla&Grasmera Tutorial

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The Joys of Nostalgia-Taking Blood

(This first quest is technically optional, but only available in summer!)

In the weeks following Enurado's opening, members of the Order Errant, the inter-dimensional voyagers have fallen ill to an unknown malady. They're prey to strong feelings of nostalgia, crying, staring into space..without reason or rhyme. Speak with Doctor B'Boing at the Voyagers' Tower at [-22,-24] about the illness, and listen to him talk about his efforts to find a cure. The Doctor believes the key lies is draconic blood, as dragons purportedly can travel through dimensions. If you choose to help him, you'll begin [The Joys of Nostalgia]. Head to the island of Vulkania(only during the summer, of course) and speak with Olivia Frange at [-48,44] to end the quest and start..

[Taking Blood] requires you to take blood. Not only from the sauroshells on the island, but from the two bosses, Grasmera and Grozilla. Which shells and bosses you'll need to fight depend on your level(approximately): ~101-150:Mature shells and Tired bosses ~151-200:Venerable shells and normal bosses

Handing in all 40 blood samples from shells, and both samples from the boses, earns you an amazing 100 orichor and completes the quest.

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Hunting Trophy-Soul Safari

In your quest for the Happy Camper Medal you'll have started a Sauroshell Search quest for Nevark the Hunter at [-47,42]. Once it's complete, Nevark will have a new quest for you.

Nevark requires the soul of Sauroshells and assigns you [Juvenile Soul Safari], the first in a quest-line-this is like a miniature Eternal Harvest.

Juvenile Soul Safari: one soul of each variety of Juvenile Sauroshell

Novice Soul Safari: one soul of each variety of Novice Sauroshell

Mature Soul Safari: one soul of each variety of Mature Sauroshell

Venerable Soul Safari: one soul of each variety Venerable Sauroshell

At this point, Nevark needs the souls of rare Sauroshells on the island(archmmonsters). You may notice that the archmonsters drop a quest item when fought, these are not required to complete the quest, but it does unlock a secret reward at the end.

Soul Fur Safari(Juveniles): Blubasaur the Weeper Ikthyosaur the Fishy Prontosaur the Punctual Segasaur the Megadriven Dynasaur the Scaly

Ton Soul Safari(Novices): Saurbic the Acididic Absaurbo the Spongy Bedsaur the Blotchy Sauroful the Regretting Saurlax the Sleepy

Soul Omonkane Safari(Matures): Saurdid the Scandalous Saurbet the Refreshing Saurgei the Rushing Scisaur the Pointed Sauriasis the Flaky

Soul Preshun Safari(Venerables): Sauruman the Destructive Saurcery the Magical Censaur the Forbidding Eyesaur the Repulsive Tyranno the Despotic Shplinters from all 25 Archmonsters(optional)

For all your hard work(or spending the money to buy the soulstones) you're rewarded with upwards of 12million exp for the final quest alone, and the completion of the achievement Hunting Trophy, which grants you the Grofus.

If you did manage to collect all the Shplinters on your character, you'll receive 5 gigantic soul stones and a Nevark Potion. This potion provides a huge stat, AP and MP boost for your next five fights, and gives you one extra Spell Point(permanently).

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Vulkania 2014!

Dofus' summer event, Vulkania, is out again this year! This guide was written in 2013, but don't worry, I'll be updating it for the new season. Be sure to enjoy all the island has to offer while it lasts!

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Embarking to Vulkania

First things first, getting there. Once you arrive at the Madrestam Harbour, you will immediately get this message: "Vulkania Island is open until September 3; talk to Captain Janeaway (8,-5) to begin your island vacation." Run one map north and east to get on the boat to the summer island, it will only cost you 10 kamas.

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Exploring the Island

Now that you've arrived, you're probably going to want to run all over, find the two big dragons, and make yourself a Slashen Axe right away. There's a lot to do before then though, and you may as well complete the quests and activities as you go along.

Start by obtaining Earth Adventure from Betty Boom, which will lead you to most of the important places on the island.

Most of the locations you can simply walk to(the Sauroshells which inhabit the island are not aggressive, by the way), but some places are smaller islands which you have to get to by boat.

You can just decide not to pay him, and sadly, hitting him doesn't get him to row faster..

In the forests, you may notice an archmonster from time to time. If you're interested in getting 100% completion on Vulkania achievements, you should soul these if you can-the quest involving them is geared toward high level players who can soul the strongest arches, so if you don't think you can handle it, tell a friend who may need it.

Once you've checked all the locations off the quest list, return to Betty to complete the quest(and at level 200, gain 3,2 million exp).

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Entering Pinki Crater-the Lair of Grozilla and Grasmera

The main attraction of the island is the duo set of bosses, Grozilla and Grasmera. To get to them is sort of a long process, but you'll have the whole server to help you!

Start by talking to Matt Hematik at [-50,44], a couple maps west of the boat you arrived on. He'll assign you Admission Crater, probably the only necessary quest on the island. You can get this quest right after Earth Adventure to save some time, though you'll be running all over the island regardless, so it's not a big problem if you don't.

For this quest you need to collect six pieces of a totem, in any order.

The left arm is at [-49,47], on Otomaisle*, which you can access by boat at [-49,45]:

The head can be found in any crater, by clicking on a large crystal near the entrance:

The right leg is at [-48,40]inside the small hut:

The totem's body at [-53,40] in front of the house:

The right arm is at [-54,34] on Vulkorog*, also accessible by boat at [-54,38]:

And finally, the left leg is at [-55,42] and is.. a tree?:

Once you've recovered all the totem pieces, return to Matt Hematik(who is nearby if you got the pieces in the order above) and hand them over to him. He'll assemble the totem for you, and send you to L.O. DuhBrane  at Pinki Crater. Give him the completed totem, and you'll have access to the Crater!

*Vulkorog and Otomaisle are two islands that are the headquarters of opposing tourist groups. There are certain benefits to joining either of them, including but not limited to new Emotes! This will be covered later.

It's Pinki, it's Pinki, and DuhBrane Brane Brane Brane Brane!

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A Raw Deal

Once you enter Pinki Crater, you'll find yourself in a room with 4 exits and an NPC, Bonny Tyling. Bonny explains the significance of the four other rooms, but I'll re-hash it.

In order to unlock each room, Raw Sauroshell hearts must be dropped from Raw Sauroshells(which are uncommon and only found in the Craters) and handed over to Bonny, 4000 for each level of maturity-juvenile, novice, mature, venerable. Your entire server gathers these though, so it's not as daunting as it sounds. Once the rooms are open, people can enter and solve a tile puzzle which will unlock the Grozilla/Grasmera dungeon for everyone until the island's tourist season ends in the fall. I may cover the puzzle itself at a later date, just to be thorough.

Bonny Tyling assigns you [Vulkanian Shplinter for Experts](or Novice, etc, depending on your character's level) which requires you to drop Shplinters, a quest drop from Sauroshells. This activity earns you a stamp(stamps earn you a medal and other rewards, more on this later).

Additionally, if you have joined either tourist group, you can get another quest [A Raw Deal for Experts], which requires you to kill 15 raw shells in your level range. All these quests give a decent amount of exp, for an activity you'll already need to do anyway.

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On Shells

It's about time that the inhabitants of the island themselves get an explanation, so without further ado, the Sauroshells!

The first thing you'll notice is that the small ones, frankly, are cute. The second is that all Sauroshells reflect damage. It's the same sort of reflect you'd get from Prespic gear or Sulik, so it cannot be unbewitched, but is usually negligable. The shells come in four ranks of maturity, Juvenile, Novice, Mature, Venerable, for four ranges of character levels. There are 5 subtypes, each associated with an element and colour, which makes them memorable and easier to fight.

To begin with, the black shells, Insipid Sauroshells. They are the cutest resistant to neutral damage. They generally deal damage with poisons, either by MP use, regular poisoning, AP use, etc. They also can drain MP or give shield points.

Next up, Incandescent and Dry shells, red and light green respectively. The red(firey) shells are resistant to fire and weak to water damage. In addition to some damage, they can also add the Unhealable state, heal allies, or heal themselves when taking fire damage. The light green(air) shells are resistant to air and weak to earth. They have various ranged attacks, sometimes pushing, or buffing damage. They also have some swapping spells(like Cooperation), and invisibility.

The Moist and Muddy shells are blue and dark green. The blue(water) shells are resistant to water and weak to fire. They specialize in draining AP. Some do this at range, in close combat, or even with glyphs. they can steal it, or use triggers to buff AP to others in addition to damage. The green(earth) shells are resistant to earth and weak to air damage. Their job seems to be boosting the damage of their attacks, locking their enemies and keeping them there. They can make themselves immovable, attract targets, that sort of thing.

Finally, there are Raw Sauroshells, which I mentioned in the last post. They have double, quadruple even, the HP of their fellow shells. In previous years they just sat on the map, gaining AP every turn until they exploded(like the shells on the dreggon peninsula, but now they have a couple more spells to watch for). In addition to being able to boost their AP(they need 10 or so to detonate), they can buff the AP of allies in an area, become immovable, and steal AP and +dodge from enemies around them. They are easily killed by a group of the same level, but for the Venerable Raw Shells, the prevailing strategy is just to run far back, at least 10-15 spaces away, and let it KO itself on a summon.

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The Happy Camper Medal

More than just an emblematic gold star, the Happy Camper medal is used for several things on the island, but probably the most interesting(and exclusive) rewards from it are the Krolimea pet and Madreggon petsmount! They both require having the medal and defeating Grozilla and Grasmera a number of times to earn tokens*.

              Both give 50% Power and feed off the souls of the monsters on the island, so the sooner you get yours, the sooner you can start raising it.

Now, the medal is earned once you are a happy camper, that is to say, you've engaged in certain activities around the island, these are:

~Sauroshell Search: Collect 30 tongues by defeating shells appropriate for your level. Talk to Nevark the Hunter at [-47,42] to obtain this straightforward quest.

~Shell Hunt: Collect seashells on the beach. Talk to Thomas Cork at [-49, 44] to obtain the quest.

~Tour Vulkania: Complete Earth Adventure, already mentioned in the second post.

~Totem Game: Access Pinki Crater, already explained in a previous post.

~Vulkanian Shplinters: Collect 'shplinters' from Raw Sauroshells of the appropriate level and return them to Bonny Tyling inside Pinki Crater.

Once these quests are finished, walk over to Tony Bleurgh at [-47,44] and ask him about the medal. Eventually, you'll learn that the medals have been stolen, and you'll have to do a series of quests to recover them. (These are covered later.)

*Dina can be found on the dock at [-46,44] while Tina is at [-47,43]. The number of tokens earned is in function of how difficult G/G were and how many people were in the group to fight it. The riskier the fight, the greater the reward is.

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Seashell Pun

One of the easier but also more competitive events on the island is the seashell hunting mini-game. It's quick, it's daily, and it gets you a stamp on your tourist passport. To start this, head over to the dock at [-49,33], to the left of the boat you arrived on. There you will find Thomas Cork, who runs the game.

Once you click 'Collect shells', run for it! You will have to 15 minutes to collect shells off the shoreline, but as long as you need to return to Thomas. Every time you click a shell to harvest it, you'll have a chance at picking up various kinds of shells, which, for this game, have different values. If you're really unlucky, you can even pick up someone's used sole!

Additionally, there is about a 10% chance of encountering a Sea Sauroshell. It's at a level appropriate to your character, a blue sauroshell with 75% resistance to all elements, and 75 critical and pushback resistance, but with low HP: about 50 to 500HP at the most. The point of this monster isn't to be an actual challenge, but a time waster!

If things are really busy, you may have more success running to a different shore on the island, and gathering shells there. Though there are about 4-5 different types of shells, it's all about luck when it comes to getting one kind or another, so pick up whatever is closest to you. When your time is up, head back to Thomas-for once, you don't need to rush.

Hand over your shells and he'll give you points for each one depending on its value(those soles are worthless), and if you managed 80 points, you'll earn yourself a stamp for this activity, and the quest will be completed. If you get less, the quest will remain in your log and you'll be able to try again the next day.

Happy hunting!

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Counter Tourism

In an effort to liven things up, and in the spirit of conflict that is essential to Vulkania, the tourism board created two groups for you to join, Vulkorog and Otomaisle!

Found at the north and south of the island, these two teams compete to earn the most points every week. The prize? The winning team gets access to a special island, where they can get a new Emote(one exclusive to each team) and some goodies.

There are three activities that can help your team win and earn you tokens. They are obtained from group leaders Seamus Tard(Otomaisle) and Huckle Ingon(Vulkorog), these are:

Survivor!/Kapla!: Same quest, different names. Survivor is for Otomaisle,  Kapla is for Vulkorog. A very simple quest, all you need to do is walk over to the other team's island, and soil their flag(just clicking on it). Then, return to your team's leader to officially join the group and unlock the other quests. At the end of the week, you'll leave your group and be able to join another.

~A Raw Deal: Defeat 15 Raw Sauroshells of your level range then return to your leader.

~Beware of the Sauroshells*: Defeat 5 of each type of Sauroshells in the forest(not in the crater) for your level range and return to your leader.

~Crystal Rasha: Go into the forests and collect 30 Rock Crystals and return them to your team's leader. For reference:

Each quest(except the joining quest) earns you a scarf and a token. The scarf is used for counting the number of quests you've completed, and the token, a Vulkomaiken, is used for buying things if your team has won. You can switch which tourist group you want to be in once a week, so that you'll be able to obtain both emotes and complete both of the related achievements. However, if you choose to switch sides, you'll lose the scarves you've accumulated, though you keep the tokens, so you should wait until you have 20 scarves and get the emote before switching groups.

If the group you were in the past week wins, rejoin the group and talk to the group leader. Ask him who is in the winning and he'll give you the option to go to the mini-island(picture is of Otomaisle's Lizard emote island). To return, click the surfboard:

Also, a merchant will appear(Jennifer Engie or Clare Bonnet)-you must belong to the group to make a purchase:

Clare [-50,47] sells Yellow Rock Candy(turns you into a golden dragoone) and Portation Corktail (teleports you to the harbour). Jennifer [-53,34] sells Red Rock Candy(pink dragoone this time) and Portation Corktail.

*Currently, this quest is bugged. It might be due to the quest not differentiating between forest mobs and crater mobs, but if you kill shells inside a crater, it will update the quest(it will tell you you killed 5 Insipid shells, for instance), but you won't drop the quest items required (vials of blood)unless you kill them outside, in the forest. Fortunately, you can still drop the vials of blood even if the quest indicates you've completed your murder spree.

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Island Investigations

So, you completed all the quests you needed for that medal, only to find they've been stolen! Fortunately, Tony Bleurgh already has a list of suspicious  people, and is working on a machine to analyze..samples. Sounds easy, and definitely won't lead to any side quests, right?

Let's head over to Suze McGraff first, since she's right nearby at [-45,45]. For some reason your character fails to mention the need for a..sample, and you get roped into finding her lost cat. Yeah. We're then directed to ask Nevark[-47,42] and Ivan[-48,44] if they know where Dekster the cat bow meow is. Nevark, who's seems big into cats, says he might be at Surf Beach. Ivan, who suffers from memory loss, has no idea where Dekster could be. You should buy a dozen souvenirs or so from him, who knows, they could come in handy.

Heading over to Surf Beach on the west coast of the island, you'll come across this broken cage at [-55,44] and find some tracks heading over to the boat.

A moment of looking around should find you Dekster, but you can't seem to coax the kitty out of his hiding place. It's best to go ask Suze how to deal with him. However, since you're here, you might want to get another quest or achievement, so if you bought souvenirs from Ivan back at the shop, talk to Atya Will in front of the large mossy statue. Offering any souvenir and then clicking on the bowl will complete the quest Divine Divinity..and earn you absolutely nothing. Complete it a total of ten times to earn a whopping one achievement point, but at least you get some funny text to accompany it. Back to Suze now..She'll tell you that the best way to dislodge Dekster is to tempt him with a moumouse.. so kill one! It's so weak it's hardly worth mentioning, with only 30hp or so. Bring the mouse over to Dekster and he'll jump into your inventory. Once you return him to Suze, mention that you need a sample, give her a moment of privacy, and there you go, your first sample! Only four more need to be obtained, but the quests are a bit longer, so why not take a break and collect some crystals, do some daily quests and continue later? There's more to come in the next post.

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Island Investigations-Don't Panic

The next closest suspect in the investigation is Ivan Hartvigg, who works inside the tourist shop at [-48, 44]. Ivan will let you know that his shop was robbed, and that the combination to his safe, which he himself cannot remember, was also stolen. All he can remember is that the code was in four parts, in letters and numbers. He does remember things that relate to each piece of the code however, so it's up to you to figure them out. This starts the quest Lost Memories.

Ivan remembers that the first part of the safe's combination relates to some vague theories, so head over to Matt Hematik at [-50,44]. Naturally Matt is familiar with it, and lets you know that the answer is "obviously" 42.

For the second part, Ivan recalls seeing the letters somewhere at a crater. Head off into the forest past Matt to Pinki Crater at [-51,40]. You'll find a sign with the letters GG:

The next part is a very specific number apparently: the year that Sauroshells first arrived on the island. To figure this out, speak to a local expert on dreggons and the like. Dina Tapio is at the dock at [-46,44], and she'll tell you that the date, the third part of the combination, is 639.

The fourth and final part of the combination relates to the Captain's age..and while many consider it rude to ask that sort of thing, we really need to know, so go a couple maps back to [-48,44] where Captain Jane Away waits by her boat. She tells you in no uncertain terms how insulted she is, and answers with a firm NO.

Enter the store and give Ivan the combination: 42-GG-639-NO. Ivan manages to open his safe with the combination you gave him, and in recompense, relieves himself into the vial you hand him. You obtain the sample, and finish Lost Memories.

The next suspect on our list is Stok the sacrier at [-50,45]. After running around for the first two people, you ask for a sample right away. The emotionless Stok refuses at first, but you manage to convince the Vulkanian to get him some salt for Plimok Soup in return for it. You head off to collect salt crystals, and start the Needs More Salt! quest.

Run to the north-east corner of the island through Ponifar forest to take the boat at [-49,36] and reach Anonimoy Island.

Collect salt by clicking these crystal formations. There are a number of them, but you need to make sure you collect three different kinds of salt, so you may need to go down a map and collect some more on the sand.

Now you need to take them to a salt grinder, so go to Bar Racuda by the boat at [-46,44](it might be faster to use a Recall Potion and just take the boat back).

Click on the salt grinder to find that it's stuck..Report back to Stock and explain what the problem is, and he'll direct you to his cousin Stak, by Surf Beach(where you looked for Suze's bow meow earlier).

Stak is also a suspect in the Medal theft, so now is a good time to pick up his quest-ask him about surfing and offer your help repairing surfing equipment. He'll give you a pair of Masticator Gloves to collect gum from trees and a pumice stone, as well as the How do you fill a hole? quest. You'll be unable to finish Stok's quest if you pick up Stak's until it is finished, but that's fine, as it's a short quest, relatively.

Head left into the forests, equip the gloves, and find a gum tree. There are two of them in each forest, but you only need to collect from one of them in each area.

The most efficient route would be:

~Run north to [-54,40], collect the gum. ~Run east to [-51,39], collect a second Wriggly Gum. ~Walk one map right then down, and collect a Pumice Stone at [-50,40]. ~Harvest the last piece of gum at [-51,42] then just head west again to bring everything to Stak.

With the repair materials, Stak will reward you with another sample, and you'll complete How Do You Fill A Hole?.

Back to the salt! Tell Stak that the salt grinder is broken, and he'll send you to Ju-ju to get an Abrasive Corktail and repair the grinder. Ju-ju works at the Bar Racuda, so catch a canoe at [-46, 44] and enter the building.

Talk to Ju-ju and explain to her why you need an Abrasive Corktail. After a minute, she'll hand you one, so head out and click on the grinder again, which will unblock it for you! Click on it again to grind the three types of salt crystals together into a powder then return to Stok. Hand it over to him, along with the vial.. and let him fill it up for you. You'll receive another sample, and complete Needs More Salt!

There's only one sample left to obtain, and it will be covered in the next post.

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Island Investigations-The One with the Tombs

Picking up where we left off, enter the forest and head north to [-53,40].

No surprise here, Tom has a problem and needs your help. It seems some vandals pulled out tombstones from the cemetary, and Tom can't figure out which stone goes with which grave. This starts Lord of the Rings.

Head left to the graveyard, Billabone Cemetary. There are six tombs to examine at this cluster of four maps, and based on their location in the cemetary, I'd say that Joel, Chandelier, Feeble, Dross, Wretchel and Noknicka were Friends. Once you've read and memorized each name and date(or just keep it in your chat), go back to Tom. He'll read you the inscriptions and you'll have to match them to a name:

First inscription: Feeble Buffet Second inscription: Joel Tribiana Third inscription: Noknicka Greller Fourth inscription: Chandelier Bong Fifth inscription: Dross Greller Sixth inscription: Wretchel Grin

You can figure it all out with some guesswork.. or by knowing the reference. With Lord of the Rings complete, he'll put all the slabs away, and you can give him the flask for the last sample. I don't know how to get any fluid off a skeletal Sram, but you'll manage it somehow! With all the samples in your possession, go back to Tony Bleurgh and tell him you procured all the samples, completing A Torturous Enquiry - Investigation in the process. A side-note: at level 200, this quest and its sub-quests net a total of 26 million exp-definitely not a waste of time.

Tony tells you that it's time to use his CID analysis machine on the samples, and asks you to meet him inside his cabin, the building right behind him. This starts the quest A Torturous Enquiry - Identification.

Speak to Tony again once you've entered, and he'll instruct you to use the distillery of the machine in the far wall: "You place the samples in the distillery... and a couple of seconds later, the device proffers a slip of paper." You finally rid yourself of the samples, and the machine gives you a quest item with the name of the culprit-which is random. Let Tony know the result, then at his request, go and get a confession from the culprit that was named. A Torturous Enquiry - Identification will end, and A Torturous Enquiry - Confrontation will begin.

The culprit may confess-but not to the crime. Ask them who they think the real culprit is in the medal theft, and they'll give you a hint. Return to Tony at once(or hey, take your time), who will be outside his cabin again. This will end A Torturous Enquiry - Confrontation, and this blog post.