The Sunken Shrine
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The Sunken Shrine is the first dungeon of AscendMMO: 5 rooms in a row in the Mistfen Marshes, from level 20. Your HP carry over from room to room, and 
Drowned Abbot guards the chest at the end.
How do you enter?
Section titled “How do you enter?”Go to the Mistfen Marshes and open the shrine. You need at least level 20.
- Each day (UTC) you have 3 free entries.
- With no free entries left, entering uses up one
Sunken Key. Keys drop from the 
Fen Hag and the 
Mire Wyrm, can be in the chest, and are sold at the market in Dawnmere Village, see Shops.
What happens during a run?
Section titled “What happens during a run?”While a run is going on you can’t start actions, travel, shop, start other fights or collect scene finds. You can use items from your bag between rooms.
- HP carry over from room to room. There is no passive regeneration and a level up inside the dungeon does not heal you.
- Mana and stamina carry over too, and after each cleared room you regain 30% of your max mana and 30% of your max stamina.
- Time limit: after 1 h the run ends.
- Leaving with Leave dungeon ends the run. The entry is used up and there is no chest.
- Losing a fight ends the run in that room, with the usual consequences of a defeat.
- Party: a dungeon run is always solo. Party mates can’t join your dungeon fights, and dungeon rooms give no party EXP in either direction.
Which rooms and monsters are there?
Section titled “Which rooms and monsters are there?”The rooms come in a fixed order. The normal rooms each roll a monster from a pool, weakened for the dungeon because you fight them back to back. Monster levels follow your level, kept within the dungeon’s range; the elite and the boss are a little higher.
| Room | Kind | Monster | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Room |
| Your level, kept within 20–30 |
| 2 | Room |
| Your level, kept within 20–30 |
| 3 | Room |
| Your level, kept within 20–30 |
| 4 | Elite |  Shrine Sentinel | Your level (kept within 20–30) +1 |
| 5 | Boss | Drowned Abbot | Your level (kept within 20–30) +2 |
| Stats (lowest level) | Drops (chance) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bog Toad BeastsAbilities: Toxic Spit | 12–17 |  Water |
| 225+20 per level | 9–17 |
|
 Mire LeechBeastsAbilities: Life Drain | 14–20 |  Wood |
| 260+22 per level | 10–19 |
|
 Drowned Acolyte UndeadAbilities: Life Drain | 18–32 | Water |
| 375+23 per level | 10–20 |
|
Shrine SentinelElite SpiritsAbilities: Stone Slam | 18–32 |  Earth |
| 790+42 per level | 30–60 |
|
| Drowned AbbotBossUndeadAbilities: Sunken Ward, Enrage | 18–32 | Water |
| 2,450+113 per level | 0 | — |
How do you beat the Drowned Abbot?
Section titled “How do you beat the Drowned Abbot?”Drowned Abbot is protected by a ward that swallows most of your damage. An elemental skill breaks it for a few rounds, and then every hit lands in full. Elemental skills are 
Qi Strike (with your element affinity) and class skills with an element, for example the Sorcerer’s spells. Break the ward, then hit hard before it comes back. When it is badly hurt, it becomes enraged and hits harder.
The Shrine Sentinel before it announces a heavy slam every few actions and can’t be stunned while charging. Defend or heal when you see it charge. See Monster abilities for the exact numbers.
What is in the chest?
Section titled “What is in the chest?”After the boss you open the chest: Gold, materials, a chance for a Sunken Key and exactly one piece of gear. The gear rolls its rarity and affixes like loot.
| Reward | Amount | Success chance |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | 60–120 | 100% |
 Spirit Stone | 2–4 | 100% |
 Ember Shard | 2–4 | 100% |
| Sunken Key | 1 | 10% |
 Tidecaller Ring exactly one gear piece | 1 | 30% |
 Drowned Pendant exactly one gear piece | 1 | 30% |
 Sunken Blade exactly one gear piece | 1 | 20% |
 Scale Vest exactly one gear piece | 1 | 20% |
Tips and common mistakes
Section titled “Tips and common mistakes”- Enter at full HP. Sleep in a stilt hut first; nothing heals you inside except your own items.
- Bring potions and food. Heal between rooms, before the next fight starts.
- Have an elemental skill ready. Without one, the boss’s ward makes the last fight very long.
- Don’t leave for nothing. Leaving uses up the entry just like a defeat.