Median XL - Game Guide - Challenges

Challenges


Level Challenge
MINIMUM LEVEL 45

Find and kill Lister the Tormentor in Baal's throne room on Normal difficulty, and enter the portal to access Tran Athulua. In Tran Athulua, find and defeat the three Priestesses. Each will drop a shard of her respective element.

Reward: Cube all three shards below level 60 to create the Sunstone of the Twin Seas.

Sunstone of the Twin Seas
Required Level: 50
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
+2 to All Skills
10% Combat Speeds
-5% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-5% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
-5% to Enemy Cold Resistance
10% to All Attributes
Elemental Resists +10%
+5% to Experience Gained

Although the level can be accessed at level 45, you cannot cube the shards together until at least level 50. If you are past level 59, you can still do the challenge, but with the added penalty of 2 Arcane Crystals per 10 levels.


Ennead Challenge
MINIMUM LEVEL 80

Access this challenge through killing Mephisto in Nightmare Difficulty, and kill an Ennead Necromancer boss to obtain a Heroic Torch.

Place this torch in the Horadric Cube and transmute to receive your class charm.

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Your class charm adds the following bonuses depending on your class:

Sacred Sunstone
(Amazon Challenge Item)
(Amazon Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Amazon Skill Levels
+25 Life Regenerated per Second
Maximum Life +10%
Shadow Vortex
(Assassin Challenge Item)
(Assassin Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Assassin Skill Levels
Weapon Physical Damage +50%
5% Chance to Avoid Damage
Worldstone Orb
(Barbarian Challenge Item)
(Barbarian Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Barbarian Skill Levels
+25% to Summoned Minion Life
+1% to Runemaster Defense Bonus
Caoi Dulra Fruit
(Druid Challenge Item)
(Druid Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Druid Skill Levels
Elemental Resists +30%
25% Bonus to Defense
Soulstone Shard
(Necromancer Challenge Item)
(Necromancer Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Necromancer Skill Levels
+25% to Summoned Minion Damage
+1000 Defense
Eye of Divinity
(Paladin Challenge Item)
(Paladin Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Paladin Skill Levels
Physical Resist 5%
30% Bonus to Defense
Nexus Crystal
(Sorceress Challenge Item)
(Sorceress Only)
Required Level: 90
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
Unlocks your Ennead Skill
+2 to Sorceress Skill Levels
+15% Bonus to Spell Focus
+15% to Spell Damage

Your free bonus skill
This skill can be found at the top left of your first skill tab. When you complete the Ennead Challenge and receive your class charm and keep it in your inventory. This allows you to put skill points into the skill.

Name Icon Effect

SPELLBIND
[AMZ]
skill icon The basilisk snake of Skartara is a devious creature whose bite turns flesh to stone. A skilled amazon warrior may carry a few to the battlefield in a leather bag for an unexpected surprise.
Effect: throws snakes that turn enemies to stone
PRISMATIC CLOAK
[ASN]
skill icon Dancing on the edge of shadow and playing with the light allows the assassin to weave a protective magical cloak.
Passive effect: increases magical and physical damage reduction, and provides similar bonuses to Bloodbath
IMMORTAL
[BAR]
skill icon Running away is for the weak. A barbarian warrior who runs is easy prey. One who stands his ground in the face of death may survive, for he is the one the ancestral spirits will favour.
Passive effect: avoids damage when standing still and improves hit recovery
MYTHAL
[DRU]
skill icon Old druidic lore tells of the elves, Inarius' first creations that lived and were destroyed by the mad angel before humans saw the light of day. All that remains are ancient ruins and strange anti-magical enchantments.
Effect: creates a field that breaks enemy resistances
TALON'S HOLD
[NEC]
skill icon Fallen enemies of the Cult may see the error of their ways when they stand before the Dragon God on the plane of the dead. Trag’Oul sometimes grants the gift of unlife to his new converts...
Passive effect: slows targets and reanimates the dead as Rathma Priests
DIVINE APPARITION
[PAL]
skill icon Like a deus ex machina, the paladin of Zakarum descends upon the battlefield, his mere appearance chilling his heathen enemies to the bone.
Effect: teleport to target location and freeze enemies
SYMBOL OF ESU
[SOR]
skill icon The symbol of the ancient witch queen is a specially crafted conductive adamantine moon crescent that accumulates ambient energy from the magic in the environment, releasing it as a healing pulse when broken.
Passive effect: grants elemental absorption and Spell Focus