Hey guys. I don’t know if you have noticed but there is a second cave behind Melandrus’s Refuge zone in the new map Lake Doric. However, I can’t find a clear way to there. Players can swim to there from the cave behind the Temple of the Six gods. When you look up you can see Ancient Chest on a platform and some updrafts but you can’t use them.
There is a door outside in Melandrus’s Refuge, which is not interactable. Next to it there is a Melandru’s statue, also not interactable.
Has anyone figured this out?? Is there a chain of events that needs to be completed to access this cave? Hidden paths from the first cave?? Or is a part of the content that is excluded from the patch?
We found half of the solution today. Nearby are 6 trees wich have torches at their roots. You have to ignite them with a torch you get by holding a stick into the blue flame in New Loamhurst. Then the six small torches near the door will burn. It still doesn’t open though
You have to wait for nightfall when the ghost appears at the furthest out tree next to the rock face and 'guide' her by lighting the lamps at the trees as she walks toward the gate. Otherwise she cowers and disappears and you will have to wait for her to respawn.
So it’s event-based? I found an opening near the ceiling that you could use an updraft near the vista and some clever jumping and gliding to get to. Once gliding to and hopping out of the opening, was able to run on top of the area and found the top of the hole above the ancient chest. Excitedly ran to the hole and…was stopped by invisible walls. I can see the tree and my personal waypoint marker right down below, but a whole lot of invisible nothing is blocking it.
I mean, great if it’s event-based, but I feel silly running into invisible walls when it looks like I should be able to just jump down this giant hole, and also a bit disappointed that I was able to find this neat way to get there.
I have had blue torch in hand four times now , as the ghostly “Princess of Melandru” walks up. She ignores me every time and bends over to cry. Then poof – she’s gone. At the cave entrance ( to the south ) I can see the tiny braziers to be lit, but even with the torch – there is no “signage” to interact with. I find no braziers at the bottom of the first tree, nor any tree inbound. The one time I saw that the gate was open , there was a ghostly Oakenheart and the torches were all lit. So … either I am missing a step, a precursor, membership in the right church ( ha ha ) . Anyone else been successful? My one time in, it was very worth hitting the Ancient Chest and the Magic’s.
I’ve done this a couple of times. When she spawns, I just run and light the torches at the base of the trees in order. You don’t have to stay close to her at all. In fact, I get to the gate and sit waiting for the few minutes she takes to stroll along. If the torches are lit, she’ll make it. Take time before the event to find all of the torches so you’re not searching when she gets there or she’ll poof. Wait until she spawns though before lighting any because they do go out.
I’ve done this a couple of times. When she spawns, I just run and light the torches at the base of the trees in order. You don’t have to stay close to her at all. In fact, I get to the gate and sit waiting for the few minutes she takes to stroll along. If the torches are lit, she’ll make it. Take time before the event to find all of the torches so you’re not searching when she gets there or she’ll poof. Wait until she spawns though before lighting any because they do go out.
I wonder whether this hasn’t changed? I did it within the last two days, and was the (solo) guy with the torch. I mostly stayed maybe a body-length or two in front of her, spamming attack with it and clicking on every tree I could find as I went along, desperately looking for something to light. It’s possible that I was both plain lucky and downright unobservant, but I never saw graphics of anything I could light, nor noticed anything that I lit by accident. And I certainly didn’t notice the torch graphics from that Youtube video (although I was probably looking ahead pretty much all of the time, not backwards). The gate still opened, though.
You light the little rock formation at the base of the trees. The pertinent trees are the ones to the far left (closest to lake?) when looking toward the cave from where she spawns.
The rock formations are easy to miss until you first see them. Then, they are much easier to notice.
I’ve done this a couple of times. When she spawns, I just run and light the torches at the base of the trees in order. You don’t have to stay close to her at all. In fact, I get to the gate and sit waiting for the few minutes she takes to stroll along. If the torches are lit, she’ll make it. Take time before the event to find all of the torches so you’re not searching when she gets there or she’ll poof. Wait until she spawns though before lighting any because they do go out.
I wonder whether this hasn’t changed? I did it within the last two days, and was the (solo) guy with the torch. I mostly stayed maybe a body-length or two in front of her, spamming attack with it and clicking on every tree I could find as I went along, desperately looking for something to light. It’s possible that I was both plain lucky and downright unobservant, but I never saw graphics of anything I could light, nor noticed anything that I lit by accident. And I certainly didn’t notice the torch graphics from that Youtube video (although I was probably looking ahead pretty much all of the time, not backwards). The gate still opened, though.
I’m going to guess you just got lucky. Congratulations!
