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A Slow Poison
Dragon Age: The Veilguard

A Slow Poison

Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for 'A Slow Poison' in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Find Dareth, locate the Qamekmaster's contract, and defeat the boss.

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Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for 'A Slow Poison' in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Find Dareth, locate the Qamekmaster's contract, and defeat the boss.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Start the quest by reading a note in the Lighthouse Library after completing the "Sea of Blood" main quest. Return to Treviso and speak with Teia and Viago.
  2. 2
    Travel to the Drowned District and defeat the Antaam in a warehouse. Free Jacobus from a cage and search his body for a Bloodstained Note.
  3. 3
    Follow the quest marker and look for Crow symbols on walls as you travel back north through Treviso. These markers lead you to Dareth's contract. The markers are located near the northernmost Drowned District beacon, north of the northernmost Drowned District beacon, over the Grande Market beacon, and near the Heart and Central beacon (requires climbing a lattice and turning north).
  4. 4
    After finding the fourth marker, climb a ladder, jump through a window to the east, and search a desk in the southwestern corner of the room to find a Contract for a Crow letter.
  5. 5
    Travel to the northernmost Crow’s Road Rooftops beacon or take the northern zipline from the Cantori Diamond. Jump a gap east, then go through double doors north into a quest-exclusive area.
  6. 6
    Defeat two Antaam, then pull a lever to activate a zipline. Ride it to a roof northwest and defeat another pair of Antaam. Cross a beam to the upper floor of a building.
  7. 7
    Progress north, cross a narrow floor section, turn west, go through a broken window, and work along a ledge through another window to bypass an obstruction.
  8. 8
    Continue north, kill three Antaam, and turn west. Look south for a broken window, go through it to find a chest with loot, and return inside.
  9. 9
    Keep going west until you reach a closed door. Some side loot can be found nearby. Go through the door and down stairs. Search the southwestern corner of the fancy room at the bottom to find a chest containing the Ravage rune. Note the beacon; it becomes inaccessible after the quest.
  10. 10
    Vault over the railing to the west to confront the Qamekmaster.

Boss: Qamekmaster

  • The Qamekmaster is a blighted Qun, functionally an ogre.
  • Attacks: Claw swipes (blockable), leaping swats and charges (unblockable), spawning poisonous puddles, running claw attacks, and a charge attack.
  • Strategy: This fight emphasizes parrying. If using a staff, switch to an orb and dagger. Perfect parrying the Qamekmaster's standard claw swipes can be very effective.
  • Experience points
  • Gold
  • The Ravage rune (found before the boss fight)

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