Cleansing Pongmei Valley

This quest has a Hard mode version — see Cleansing Pongmei Valley (Hard mode).

Cleansing Pongmei Valley
Section	Kaineng City Quests
Storyline	Beyond: Winds of Change
Required campaigns	Factions
Given by	Initiate Zei Ri in Kaineng Center (Kaineng City)
Preceded by	Cleansing the Sunjiang District
Followed by	Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate Cleansing Pongmei Valley (Hard mode)
Type	Secondary quest
Map(s)
From Maatu Keep

Crush the threat of the monstrous Afflicted in Pongmei Valley.

Quest information

Objectives

• Defeat the Afflicted in Pongmei Valley.
• See Initiate Zei Ri for your reward.

Reward

• 2,000 Experience
• 500 Gold
• Ministerial Commendation

Environmental changes

• Completing this quest changes the foes that appear in Pongmei Valley, specifically, Afflicted will no longer spawn.

Walkthrough

Leave from Boreas Seabed or Maatu Keep. Follow the quest marker to an Afflicted group with an abnormally large Afflicted warrior boss; use melee counters (such as Empathy and Soothing Images). Avoid applying conditions to the boss, as it will use its only heal. You must kill all the Afflicted there, so it pays to focus on the healers first and leave the boss until the end.

If you wait a short while after defeating the Afflicted, you will see a Ministry Captain approach and initiate a dialogue.

NPCs

Allies

Humans (Ministry of Purity)

• 24 Ministry Captain
• 28 Initiate Zei Ri

Foes

Afflicted

• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Warrior
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Ranger
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Monk
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Necromancer
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Mesmer
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Elementalist
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Assassin
• 24, 26 (26, 28) Afflicted Ritualist

Bosses

Afflicted

• 30 (32) Monstrous Afflicted Warrior → Earth Shaker

Dialogue

Initial dialogue

Initiate Zei Ri

"Our efforts have met with great success; we know of only one group of Afflicted remaining in the vicinity of Kaineng. It was last seen in Pongmei Valley, and apparently there's something different about this one. One of the Afflicted was described as impossibly massive. Whether it's because the person was huge was[sic] prior to being consumed or it's a result of the evil the creature has done since, I don't know. I do know that it's a threat, and it's our charge to deal with it. That's all the reason I need. Will you join me?"

 Accept: "The greater the foe, the greater the glory."

 Decline: "I'm not interested unless the compensation is impossibly massive."

 Ask: "There's an impossibly massive Afflicted waiting for us in Pongmei Valley. We shouldn't keep it waiting."

Intermediate dialogue

Upon approaching the Afflicted:

Initiate Zei Ri: "That is...a very large Afflicted."

<Party leader>: "If it makes you feel any better, I've fought countless things far, far larger than this."

After defeating the Afflicted:

Initiate Zei Ri: "This world was not meant for one such as you! May your kind never set food on these grounds again."

Ministry Captain: "Well done, Initiate! I wish I could grant you a reprieve, but we've just received urgent news from Shing Jea island."

Ministry Captain: "Several people were lost within the abandoned estate that belonged to Minister Cho. We assume they encountered the plague threat that has remained there."

Ministry Captain: "But those people may not be a lost cause. We need to know what has happened, but most of our forces are engaged in Kinya Province. The fighting has been fierce, and we just don't have the numbers to split our efforts yet."

Initiate Zei Ri: "I understand. I will make preparations to leave at once."

Reward dialogue

Initiate Zei Ri

"That handles that. Thanks to you, I've met my responsibility of helping to clear the city. It looks like the Ministry is going to need us on Shing Jea island next. It's beautiful there this time of year. Do you like to travel? Never mind that, that's probably a superfluous question for someone like you. Here, take this."