Location
Formorgar Mines, Near Svargrond
With this quest, you can have access to the Hoist at the Formorgar mines entrance. Using it, you will be able to go to another floors more easily.
Floor Plan of the Formorgar Mines (Book), Instructions to the Formorgar Mines Hoist (Book), and being able to use the Hoist at Formorgar Mines.
In order to gain access to the hoist, you must find the Paper and the Map within the Formorgar Mines. You do not need to carry the items with you to use it, only to open the box containing them.
Follow The Ice Islands Quest - Formorgar Mines 1: The Mission until you reach the Formorgar Mines.
On the first floor you will find Ice Golems, Novices of the Cult, Mammoths, Stone Golems, Gargoyles, a few Bandits and a single Hunter. From the entrance, head south and stop on the third turn west. Go west until the second turn south. Go south until you hit the wall. Go east until the second turn south. Go south and turn east when you can. Continue east all the way to a Ramp down. An alternate way to save time is through the Ice Portal in the Halls of Hope if you have met the requirements. In the first map, the blue flag is the starting point coming from the Formorgar Glacier, after entering you will find Adepts, Acolytes and Novices of the Cult, as well as Ice Golems. The star mark on the second map shows the starting point from the Halls of Hope and the path continues from the star mark in the first map. The Lion Trophy Quest is also north-east from the blue flag, and the Hoist is east from it.
On the second floor you will find Acolytes and Novices of the Cult, as well as Ice Golems. Go west from the ramp just a little until you find a Pile of Bones (Quest) on the northern side of the mine. Open this to obtain the Floor Plan of the Formorgar Mines.
Now that you have received the Map you can use the hoist to go from floor -2 to floor -3.
Continuing from the Pile of Bones (Quest), go back east and up the ramp you came from.
Now, go the star mark on the first map and go down there.
This floor is the one from the second map, return to the star mark but continue to the east a little more until you reach the cross mark and go down here. On this floor you will face Enlightened, Adepts, Acolytes, Nightmares, Destroyers, a Lost Soul, Ice Golems, and Crystal Spiders, and possibly other lured creatures. From the ramp you will immediately be ambushed by 2-3 Enlightened and 1-2 Crystal Spiders. Go west until the second turn south; you will find 1-2 Nightmares and a Destroyer with a Nightmare at the southern turn. Go south until you hit a dead end; you will encounter 1-2 Nightmares, a few Crystal Spiders, a Lost Soul at the hoist, and many Enlightened. A bit north of the dead end, head west and turn south when you can; you will find Crystal Spiders and a Nightmare. Go south all the way; there are lots of Enlightened here, 1-2 Crystal Spiders and 1-2 Nightmares. Go east all the way and then south until a dead end; just Enlightened here and possibly a Nightmare at the end. A bit north of the dead end, turn west and proceed until the ramp up; there are Enlightened, Adepts, Crystal Spiders, and 1-2 Nightmares. Go up here. This Third map show the way starting from the cross mark. The exclamation mark is the location of the hoist, but for the moment you can only use it to go up.
This floor is more relaxed. You will face Enlightened, Adepts, Acolytes, Novices, Ice Golems, Crystal Spiders, and if followed exactly, a single Destroyer. From the ramp, go west until the second turn north. Go north and turn west when possible. Continue west until you can turn north. Go north until you find a ramp; at the end of the cave you will encounter a bunch of Crystal Spiders and Ice Golems with the single Destroyer. Go down the ramp here. Fourth map:
This is the final floor; you will encounter some Enlightened, a Nightmare and 1-2 Plaguesmiths. Go north from the ramp until you hit a dead end here. The dead end contains the Box, open it to obtain the Instructions to the Formorgar Mines Hoist. Fifth and final map:
Now that you have received the Paper, you can use the hoist to:
Note that you cannot go from floor 1 to 2 if you haven't obtained the map.
To leave the mines, backtrack to the blue flag on the fourth and fifth map and to the exclamation mark on the third, to get to the hoist (here) if you want to return through the Formorgar Glacier or to the cross mark and then to the star on the second map to quickly return to the Halls of Hope.
