Strategy Guides/The Helm of the Deep

Getting the Helm of the Deep from Atlantis 2

by Wilbur07

This is the quick and dirty way of accomplishing this feat.

You can safely skip the first part of Atlantis 2 once you complete Atlantis 1. The first quests are for acquiring the Atlantis Map, Kraken Eyes, and Kraken Tentacles. These items are used to summon Kraken and Alpha Kraken from which you need to acquire Ancient Relics.

Since you can find Alpha Krakens on the monster boards you can simply go there, fight Alpha Kraken and get the relics, no real need to do the quests and summon yourself. Of course, if you want the skillpoints you need the map, eyes, tentacles, and horns but your aim is the divine item, best in slot helm, right?

Fighting Alpha Kraken, you need to do 4 million damage to get 1 epic drop, and 7.5 million damage to get 2 epic drops. Ancient Relics drop at about %40 percent chance per epic drop. So fight about 10-12 Alpha Krakens at 7.5 million damage each to get the 9 ancient relics you will need.

Ancient Relics are consumed (not merely used, but subtracted from your inventory) in the Path Quest in Atlantis 2. For 3 Ancient Relics, you can start the quest and you should complete it to level 2. Level one requires 1000 energy and drops 1 Horn. Level 2 requires 3000 energy total (1000 for level 1 and 2000 for level 2) and drops 2 Horns.

You need a total of 5 Horns to be able to start the last quest, the Underwater Quest.

Having 9 Ancient Relics allows you to start 3 Path Quests, where you should do at least 2 Path Quests to level 2 in order to get the 5 Horns you will need.

The Underwater quest is difficult. You will need to acquire a total of 6 Brilliant Scrolls, 18 Mystical Scrolls and 6 Elder Scrolls. With 1200 energy stat I was able to complete the quest to level 5 with 4 level ups and 2 energy refills and this is the MINIMUM you will need to get the Helm, since Elder Scrolls do not drop before level 5 of the quest. It helps very little to be able to get to level 6, though it assures you of 1 Elder Scroll, you can get lucky and get the same drop with level 5 collection as level 6 collection.

You will need a total of 8325 energy within 120 hours to get to collect at level 5.

If you are planning to avoid spending favor points, you will need a minimum of (8325-1440)/the number of level ups you can get in 5 days time. For me, if I started the quest with full energy and spending that energy gets me an immediate level up, I could level up just before day 3 and then level up again just before day 5 for a total of 4 level ups in 120 hours. If you have the same level up time as me, then you will need 1722 energy stat at level up (hyacinth general really helps here, I used Godric) in order to have enough energy to do the quest to level 5 without refilling.

But about 1200 energy stat is good enough if you plan on refilling twice in 5 days for each quest.

The expected drop from level 5 is 2 brilliant/1-2 mystical/0-1 elder scrolls, so expect to do the quest at least 10 times to collect enough mystical scrolls.

You will need to create krakenhide armor (2 brilliant/7 mystical/2 elder) in between, then ANOTHER krakenhide armor, then get the helm with 2 more brilliant/4 more mystical/2 more elder scrolls and 2 krakenhide armors.

Timeframe? 10 Underwater Quests is 50 days time. Expect 60-80 days time really. It is no small undertaking!