Jar of Souls
The Jar of Souls is an unmarked event that sometimes occurs in one of the false Defiled Crypts located in the Cemetery of the Forsaken in Act I of Diablo III. It may be offered as a bounty. Players must engage in a "King of the Hill" type encounter with swarms of Skeletons before defeating Tartus, a Wraith that emerges from the Jar.
Details[]
The Jar of Souls, a heavy glass orb filled with cold, swirling blue spirit energy, sits on a platform in the center of a large room. Clicking it causes it to rise into the air, starting the event with a one minute timer, during which Skeletons and some Skeletal Executioners emerge from dirt trenches on all four sides. When time expires, the Unique Wraith Tartus appears, and all remaining monsters must be killed. The Jar can then be clicked one more time, destroying it, dropping items, and completing the event.
The timer runs down regardless of how many or how fast the skeletons are killed. This is even true if the player leaves the event area entirely, or dies. The gates surrounding the room do not lock, so a player can clear the rest of the Crypt while time runs down, or even return to town. Upon return to the event room after time, the player will find a relatively small number of skeletons to kill in addition to Tartus to complete the event. On the other hand, if the player stays in the room and destroys skeletons, they will spawn in greater and greater numbers.
Objectives[]
- Bounty: Enter the Defiled Crypt
- Bounty: Kill 50 enemies in the Defiled Crypt
- Bounty: Destroy the Jar of Souls
- Survive the skeletons raised by the Jar of Souls (for 1 minute)
- Kill the remaining monsters (including Tartus)
- Destroy the Jar of Souls
The bounty version of the event requires killing 50 enemies, which is unusual - only "kill bounties" normally include this sort of secondary objective. The skeletons that spawn from the event itself can provide most or all of the required kills.
Contrary to the objective, the player does not need to survive the skeletons to complete the event.
Rewards[]
- Experience (an unusually low amount)
- Gold
- Items worth approximately the same as a Radiant Chest
The low experience reward for this event is compensated by the fact that the swarms of skeletons give experience when killed.
Availability[]
The Jar of Souls only appears in one of the false Defiled Crypts, not the "true" crypt with multiple levels leading to the Chancellor's Tomb. When this event appears as a bounty, the location of the correct (false) crypt is marked on the map in the Cemetery of the Forsaken.
This event is a guaranteed mutually exclusive "shared spawn" with The Matriarch's Bones - exactly one of the two events will appear in every game.