Sanctum of Scales - OPENED

[BriarFox]

The Sanctum swarms like a hornet's nest, but it's fun. I forgot how entertaining it is to have to get used to a new hunting area and develop techniques for each type of creature.

[nindon]

the shapers can also summon sidewinders - which you can skin for sidewinder scales.

I have yet to see a sidewinder. They must be very rare.

[nindon]

Just when I was beginning to think sidewinders were a myth, I encountered one. I didn't get a chance to try to attack or skin it. Right after it appeared, other critters put me in repeated RT, and I ended up dying. Below is a log of the sidewinder.

>A pale scaled shaper throws her acacia runestaff into the air, charging it with an eruption of virescent energy.  The carved serpent entwining it twitches to life with a hiss, uncoiling from the runestaff and dropping to the ground, quickening into a white sidewinder!  The shaper's runestaff floats back into her waiting hand.

>A sheen of venom glistening from its needle-sharp fangs, a white sidewinder strikes at you!
  AS: +459 vs DS: +700 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +61 = -148
   A clean miss.

>appr side
The white sidewinder is medium in size and about four feet high in its current state.
You think you'd have a slight advantage over the sidewinder.

>A white sidewinder suddenly springs towards you with lightning speed!
You manage to dodge out of the way of the sidewinder!

>A white sidewinder suddenly springs towards you with lightning speed!
You are unable to get out of the way as the sidewinder coils tightly around you, holding you in place!

>A white sidewinder's coils tighten around you, squeezing the life out of you!
   ... 5 points of damage!
   Cut over your right eye.

A white sidewinder's coils tighten around you, squeezing the life out of you!
   ... 10 points of damage!
   Bones in right arm crack.

I want a shaper runestaff!

[Geijon Khyree]

The coil maneuver is legit. That's how my first encounter went, but I struggled in berserk to break it for 3 rounds first.

[drauz]

Anyone able to explain the periapts to me? Where do you port from in SoS? Do the charges drain out or once its charged does it stay that way? Anything else I'm missing about them.

[Methais]

I need to stop being so lazy and go check this place out already. It just sounds like a pain in the ass to access.

[Ltlprprincess]

Anyone able to explain the periapts to me? Where do you port from in SoS? Do the charges drain out or once its charged does it stay that way? Anything else I'm missing about them.

They're similar to confluence soulstones in that they require you to kill the denizens to charge up. Charges do run out and I'd say a full one is good for a trip in and a trip out (unlike the soulstones), if not charged while you're hunting. ;go2 sanctum will take you to where you need to RUB your periapt to open the portal.

[Nephelem]

If you are hunting when clear until must rest you won't quite average enough charge to the periapt to allow a portal in and back out each hunt. If you are hunting past must rest to finish bounties then you should be good, or if you rest inside at the altar and do two or more hunts per trip. You can look at the periapt to see its rough charge level and you will find a periapt within a kill or two anytime you aren't wearing one. This means you can store multiple fully charged periapts, they are pinworn and weigh a couple pounds each. When they look like a viridian star they are at the highest charge level. I believe wearing the periapts is what flags you for SOS bounties in Solhaven.

[Jhynnifer]

Also, as a word of advice, set a ring outside the gates. Never deal with the desert maze again! It's the debil. Thankfully, SoS <3s Voln and we can fog right to the cleft, which goes out to the wagon if you're so weighed down with loot you're afraid of falling into the pit-o-poop to go home.