Guides

Guide Contents:

1. Summary
2. Dungeon Difficulty Levels
3. How to enter a dungeon
4. Inside the dungeons
5. Loot Chests & Patron's Chest
6. The Bosses
   • Polaris
   • Hell Raised
   • The Darkness War
   • The Ankh
   • Hell Fallen (SM)
   • The Facility (SM)
   • The Slaughterhouse (SM)
   • The Penthouse (E11+)

Summary

This guide is a general overview for dungeons in The Secret World. For specific boss tactics, there are links in the sections below that will point you to the appropriate entry in our Bestiary.

Dungeon Difficulty Levels

Most dungeons have multiple levels of difficulty (those that don't have Story Mode only stated next to them in the boss overview below). The levels listed below are the minimum requirements. You can always enter a dungeon below the level / IP level you are. 

• Storymode:
  • The Polaris: Level 10-18
  • Hell Raised: Level 19-27
  • The Darkness War: Level 28-36
  • The Ankh: Level 36-44
  • Hell Fallen: Level 43-49
  • The Facility: Level 50
  • Hell Eternal: Level 50
  • The Slaughterhouse: Level 50

• Elite:
  • Elite 1-2: Level 50
  • Elite 3-4: IP 250
  • Elite 5-7: IP 450
  • Elite 8-10: IP 750
  • Elite 11-13: IP 1100
  • Elite 14-16: IP 1400
  • Elite 17: IP 1700

How to enter a dungeon

All available levels of the dungeons can be accessed via the Activity Finder, however if you wish to see the opening cut scene for a specific dungeon you need to go to the following locations:

• Polaris: Ann Radcliffe, coordinates 389 x 988, Kingsmouth (North of the playfield at the top of Kingsmouth road).
• Hell Raised: Daniel Bach at the Overlook Motel,  coordinates 720 x 840, Savage Coast.
• The Darkness War: Old Joseph at the Wabanaki Trailer Park, coordinates 200 x 630, Blue Mountain
• The Ankh: Lisa Hui at the Orochi Retreat, coordinates 400 x 945, Scorched Desert
• Hell Fallen: Amir in the Valley of the Afterlife by The Stairway Anima Well, coordinates 980 x 680, City of the Sun God
• The Facility: The Truck parked on the ramp going up to the Red Hand Bunker, coordinates 550 x 1122, Besieged Farmlands
• Hell Eternal: Mosul sitting on Old Man's Bridge, coordinates 570 x 610 Shadowy Forest 
• The Slaughterhouse: Guard House to Installation 10, coordinates 1180 x 1210 Carpathian Fangs
• The Penthouse: The Tower Lobby, Kaidan

Inside the dungeons

Throughout all dungeons are legends, definitely let your team know if you are searching for them! 

Blue Walls can be found in all dungeons and are what separate the boss encounters. 

Loot Chests & Patron's Chest

The loot chest can be opened after you successfully deafeated a boss. Loot chests can contain Distillates, Weapons and Talismans. Blue lit Loot Chests often include a higher amount of Distillates. The Loot chest on the final boss can also have a chance of dropping an Agent Dossier. 

The Patron's Chest award 1 guaranteed special distillate (Energized or Purified), Anima Shards, and varying useful items (like Distillate Shifters or Catalysts), exclusive cosmetics, or agent dossiers. 

The Bosses

There are 6 main bosses each dungeon, except for the Penthouse which has 3 bosses.  In all the dungeons, except the Penthouse, you may also be lucky enough to find a wandering extra boss (which has a chance to drop a gadget).  For the Elite Dungeon bosses, you can click on the links below to read an overview of tactics you can use on each one.

Polaris

• Boss 1: Haugbui Jarl
• Boss 2: Blarbane Sorceress
• Boss 3: The Varangian 
• Boss 4: Haugbui Mother
• Boss 5: Primordial Dweller
• Boss 6: Ur'Draug

Hell Raised

• Boss 1: Antimony Ministrix
• Boss 2: Corroder
• Boss 3: Hardwired Fleshtank
• Boss 4: Traumadriver
• Boss 5: Recursia Many in One
• Boss 6: Machine Tyrant

The Darkness War

• Boss 1: Batab Crusher
• Boss 2: Xibalban Bloodhound
• Boss 3: Dark House Sorcerer
• Boss 4: Unbound Ak'ab
• Boss 5: Mayan Battle Mage
• Boss 6: Wayeb-Xul, The Hound of the Nameless Days

The Ankh

• Boss 1: Squalid Hekaturgist
• Boss 2: Doctor Klein
• Boss 3: Orochi Dead Ops
• Boss 4: Dimensional Arachnid
• Boss 5: The Colossus, Melothat
• Boss 6: Melothat and Dr.Klein

Hell Fallen (Only available in Story Mode)

• Boss 1: Archaeomachinist -
• Boss 2: Arch-Myrmidon -
• Boss 3: Engine Tyrant Prime, Engine Tyrant Alpha, Endjinneers Cinnabar, Tantalite, Borax, and Pyroclore -
• Boss 4: The executrix -
• Boss 5: Iron Catastrophe, Molten Xenolith and The Primitive Melt -
• Boss 6: The Ascendant - 

The Facility (Only available in Story Mode)

• Boss 1: The Degenerate -
• Boss 2: Red Guard - 
• Boss 3: Anti-anima Containment Room - 
• Boss 4: Contact Core - 
• Boss 5: Elemental Potentialist, Reality Surgeon, Capsule Breaker, Sequence Analyst and Psychosecurity Officer -
• Boss 6: Halina Ilyushin -

Hell Eternal 

• Boss 1: Archaean Seismocratist
• Boss 2: Lustrehunter
• Boss 3: Prime Maker
• Boss 4: Flagellatrix Superior
• Boss 5: The Hadean Guards
• Boss 6: Eblis

The Slaughterhouse (Only available in Story Mode)

• Boss 1: Psychoassailant -
• Boss 2: NKL-107 -
• Boss 3: Obyeckt-279 -
• Boss 4: Cybulski -
• Boss 5: Vampiric Plunderer -
• Boss 6: Alexei Chetyre -

The Penthouse (Only available at E11+ )

• Boss 1: Uta
• Boss 2: Bird of the Zero Point Pathogen
• Boss 3: Filthy Amalgam