The Jailer's Gauntlet Strategy Guide for Torghast (2024)

Last updated on Feb 11, 2022 at 20:11by Seksixeny3 comments

The Jailer's Gauntlet is a boss rush, with each Layer floor mostly containingrandom bosses or rare enemies which rush out of the multiple gateways present ineach floor. It contains 8 floors per layer and 8 layers with increasing levelsof difficulty.

Pick up the breadcrumb quest from Ve'nyo, a new broker NPC near the middlering in Oribos, and use the quest item provided at the marked place in theTorghast hub map to open this new layer.

You can learn more about accessing Torghast and how it normally works from ourmain guides below.

The Box of Many Things perks have no effect on this challenge. Thereis also no time limit or Score, but Unnatural Power will be stacking as usual in the harder layers,making bosses harder over time if your damage is too low.

Also, if your group wipes, all active enemies will regenerate their fullhealth, but you will also reset all of your cooldowns and debuffs, allowing youto go again at full power.

You can also only die a few times before The Tarragrue shows up andeveryone is kicked out of the run.

You can choose three Anima Powers when starting and get extra powers as youdefeat enemies and bosses, as well as an extra one near the exit of mostcompleted floors. You also gain 4 Soul Remnant's Blessing and 200 Phantasma for each floor you climb, which can be spent at the brokervendor before each boss.

To help you decide what to take, we have created a separate guide where youcan learn more about all available Anima Powers in Torghast for yourclass. In addition, all of our class guides have a section devoted to Torghast.

The amount of enemies and bosses you face per floor increases as you climbthem and challenge the harder layers. You will start by facing only a handfulof enemies and a single boss, then it will become two bosses which you fightindividually, then two bosses simultaneously and so on until you are facingmultiple bosses, rare mobs, and enemies all at once in the final layers!

Once you are at this level of challenge, it is very advisable to bring a fullparty with tank and healer, as the sheer amount of bosses and abilities going outcan easily overwhelm a solo player and a single fear going off usually resultsin death. The difficulty ramps up quickly after Layer 4, so come prepared!

The fourth floor will always contain multiple random rare mobs whichattack you in pairs instead of bosses, and takes place inside theAdamant Vaults layout. These rares will flood you withAnima Powers once killed, but you will also be forced to deal with many of themat once, which is extremely dangerous for your health pool. Also, you will notget the usual extra Anima Power orb before climbing to the fifth floor.

Floor eight is the final floor and also takes place in theAdamant Vaults, with one of the tougher bosses present onthese floors being your final obstacle to a successful run. As with previousfloors, extra enemies and more Adamant Vaults bosses will teleport in once youget close to defeating the first one, so make sure to finish weakened bossesquickly!

Note that on the harder layers Adamant Vaults bosses canspawn on the early floors, including on floor 1 in Layer 8. These bosses havemultiple phases and extremely deadly area-of-effect mechanics so always keep aneye out for them as they are the most likely to wipe you if you fail to dodgetheir mechanics properly!

When completing a run you can get Torghast-specific transmogrification itemssuch as Blackflame Skull Crescent and a scaling amount of Soul Ash, Soul Cinders and Cosmic Flux. Each run requires 8 boss floorswhile a regular Torghast run takes you through 4 regular floors and a boss floor,making it an arguably faster way to farm old Legendary currency and Renown,depending on your class and gear levels.

You can get any memories of the Runecarveryou are missing from doing the Jailer's Challenge, as long as their drop source is aTorghast Cell Block. Besides those, there are four special rewards from completingthe first four Jailer's Challenge layers:

• Layer 1: Lightless Tormentor pet;
• Layer 2: Dominated Hearthstone toy (cosmetic only, shares cooldown with the regular Hearthstone);
• Layer 3: Gauntlet Runner title;
• Layer 4: Sturdy Soulsteel Mawrat Harness mount.

Doing the run itself can be great fun, especially as it feels very differentfrom a regular Torghast run and is much more about combat, controllingenemies, and throughput rather than running around clicking things. On thehigher layers things get completely crazy and you will often be fightingmany bosses at once, including multiple Adamant Vaults bossesbefore floor 8, but also have over 100 Anima Powers collected, making for avery exciting experience!

Doing Layer 8 of the Jailer's Challenge is also part of the requirementfor the new Tower Ranger meta achievement, which rewards theTower Ranger title.