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The Cauldron is a quest in the 2nd Act of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We have a quick guide ready to help you out on your journey.
The Cauldron quest in Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have you exploring a mysterious tomb in Act 2. Finding the location and the way to enter it is a small task in itself. The main objective is to track down the Gloom Howler, which has attacked the secret Grey Warden redoubt in question. Davrin is required for you to complete this quest.
Keep heading toward the quest marker until you come across a spacious courtyard. There will be some enemies here who will ambush you. Defeat them. You will find that the entrance to the redoubt is too far up to reach, and the elevated object that could help is blocked by gray Blight. Now, the main objective is to get rid of two big Blight boils, one in the North and one in the South.
Clearing the Entrance to the Cauldron
If you are facing the blocked entrance, the North boil will be on your right and the South boil will be on your left. Let’s head right (North) first. Climb up the ladder on the big wall and turn right when you reach the top. After the archway, take the stairs on your right to reach the upper floor.
Enter the big hall and turn right again to find one of the boils. You will face an ambush here. Once you wipe the floor with your enemies, take the stairs to the left at the end of the hallway. There will be a boil in the distance waiting for you to pop it. Jump down afterward towards the marker (where the Ballista is), and a boil will be right behind the Ballista. When you burst it open, the bulbous Blight vein will retreat.
Now, head to the South (or left) end of the courtyard. There will be stairs on your left once you reach the end, which are going to an upper level. Take them and follow along the only pathway this floor has. You will face some retaliation while on your way here and when you reach the upper level. It may be tempting to get done with your objectives first, but try to clear out the area before proceeding. Once you do, find the first boil on the wall of the spiral staircase. This will unlock a second boil, which might be gray at first. This one is located on the same floor on which you fought, attached to the wall near the base of the stairs. After bursting it open, it will reveal the third one sitting past it. Destroy it, and you can now jump down and use the elevated platform to reach the entrance.
Investigating the Cauldron and Meeting the Gloom Howler
The rest of the mission is pretty straightforward. Just go where the path leads you. When you enter the redoubt, you will realize that it’s the tomb of an archdemon. The Gloom Howler is here but is hiding somewhere. You can’t access one half of the hall because it is locked by gray Blight. After a set of dialogues, you will be ambushed, and new boils will show up. There are two of these at first, one in each corner. However, the third one will show up in the center when you destroy both of them.
Destroying the third one will turn the gray Blight red. Burst either of the two that show up on your HUD. This is all happening while Darkspawn hordes are attacking you. Just focus on your objective for now. Eventually, when you access the other part of the hall, as we just discussed, you will need to defeat all the Darkspawn in the room.
Clearing out the Cauldron will play a cutscene. Now, your last objective is to defeat all the Darkspawn that came into the redoubt with the Howler. The health bar on top shows the cumulative strength of the Darkspawn horde. Killing anyone from the horde will make the big health bar go down.
Complete this last objective, and the mission will wrap up. Davrin will be a little disappointed because the Howler escaped, but there’s always another day to look up to.
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