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* '''Reward(s):''' ?[[Gold]]/ [[Experience]]/ [[Achievement]]* [[Lore]] items: ?[[Skeleton King (lore)]]* Related [[Achievements]]: [[The Last of the Horadrim]]., [[Destroyer of Destiny]], [[The Mad King's End]], [[Short Reign]] and [[Instant Karma]]

Somewhere on level 4 you will find the entrance down to [[The Royal Crypts]]. Incidentally, you will see lots of jars of ashes down here (also in the [[Defiled Crypt]]) and there is an [[achievement]] for destroying theses. Destroy 1,000 for the [[Jars of Destruction]] achievement. You'll find this achievement in your [[Achievements:Challenges_(Act_1)|Challenges > Act 1]] category but the tally does not update live, it'll update once you've logged out of the game.

Behind four gates around that surround the immediate area are [[Skeletal Archer]]s so watch for them as they'll constantly pick at you while you're dealing with the skeletonsmasses. If you are finding it tough going with the mobs it's sometimes better to retreat through one of these gates as it'll narrow the attack route of the enemy and you can still place traps etc into the main area while picking the others off as they file through the gateway.

Another [[achievement]] here and it's quite a tough one. [[Destroyer of Destiny]] asks you to destroy the fall four pillars simultaneously. This will probably be an achievement you won't manage first time round but rather later when you have more skills at your disposal.  Further into the crypts you'll come across an ornate door. Be aware that once you step through it you will need to kill the [[Skeleton King]] before you can get out.   Head through it into the [[Crypt of the Skeleton King]]. After the very short cutscene some [[Returned]] will appear but they present no problem. Head through to the King's thrown and click him to place the crown on his head. He'll awake, adjust himself and then engage. He has a number of attacks:  :'''Melee Attack''' - As with all bosses, Leoric has a basic melee attack where he swipes almost blindly at the hero with his massive mace.:'''Teleport Smash''' - Leoric will, as with all of his abilities, broadcast this one outright. He'll cock his head up, grinning, while a ghostly apparition of himself moves through the air towards the player. Afterwards, Leoric will teleport into melee range, swinging his mace for high damage.:'''Summon Skeletons''' - Leoric will float away from the player, put his gauntlet on the ground, and then rise up. After, true to form, he will summon Returned and Shield Bearers in melee range of the player. This attack can be interrupted with stuns and freezing, but there's diminishing returns on both debuffs. The skeletons are the only source of non-potion health regeneration during this fight, as they drop health globes. In Inferno and Hell difficulty, skeletal archers will be summoned along with shield bearers.:'''Spinning Strike''' - Leoric will laugh and then spin in three consecutive circles, doing a moderate amount of damage to the player.  You'll get one or two rare items the first time you kill him with a new character on each difficulty, the second time onwards you'll get some blue magical items. Check out the table below for details of multiple [[Achievements]] you can earn for killing him in style.  After the Skeleton King is dead head down into the [[Desolate Chamber]] where you will come across [[The Stranger]] laying at the bottom of the crater. Following him to the [[Waypoint]] back to Tristram to hand in the quest to [[Deckard Cain]] and pick up the next one [[Sword of the Stranger]]. 

{{achievement header}}<achievement type="single">The Last of the Horadrim</achievement><achievement type="single">Destroyer of Destiny</achievement><achievement type="single">Short Reign</achievement><achievement type="single">The Mad King's End</achievement><achievement type="single">The Mad King's End (Nightmare)</achievement><achievement type="single">The Mad King's End (Hell)</achievement><achievement type="single">The Mad King's End (Inferno)</achievement><achievement type="single">Instant Karma</achievement> Check out the [[Skeleton King]] page for a full list of [[Achievements]] that in some way or other rely on the Skeleton King specifically to achieve.