Fields of Misery

The Fields of Misery is located within Act I. It has a good deal of content with plenty of dungeons, wide variety of mobs and three events.

Fields of Misery map

Areas and Dungeons within Fields of Misery

• Decaying Crypt - (The Family of Rathe event)
• Farmer's Cellar
• Forsaken Grounds - (Carrion Farm event and bounty)
• Forlorn Farm
• Khazra Den
• Lost Mine - (The Precious Ores event)
• The Old Mill
• Secluded Grove
• Scavenger's Den
• Sheltered Cottage (AKA Tinker's Hovel or Pillaged Home)
• House of Curios

Access to Levels

• Cemetery of the Forsaken
• Drowned Temple

Quests in Fields of Misery

• Sword of the Stranger
• The Broken Blade

Events in Fields of Misery

• The Family of Rathe - In the Decaying Crypt dungeon
• Carrion Farm - In The Forsaken Grounds
• The Precious Ores - In the Lost Mine dungeon

Bounties in Fields of Misery

The following Bounties can appear in Fields of Misery when playing in Adventure Mode:

• The Family of Rathe
• A Farm Besieged - In the Decaying Crypt dungeon
• Carrion Farm - In the Forsaken Grounds
• The Cursed Grove
• Kill Melmak, Khazra

Common Monsters found in Fields of Misery

• Burrowing Leaper
• Moon Clan Impaler
• Moon Clan Warrior
• Plague Nest
• Plague Carrier
• Savage Beast
• Scavenger
• Wood Wraith

Special Monsters found in Fields of Misery

The following Superunique monsters can but might not always appear in Fields of Misery:

• Melmak the Swift - Target of the bounty Kill Melmak
• Odeg the Keywarden - Drops the Key of Destruction for the Infernal Machine
• Sicklefang - A Bat in the Forsaken Grounds. Target in the Carrion Farm event and bounty

Notable NPCs

• Adenah the Curio Vendor
• The Scoundrel - Second Follower
• Tashun the Miner - Event The Precious Ores
• Wandering Tinker - Merchant
• Willa Rathe - Event The Family of Rathe

Checkpoints

Checkpoints are respawn points. Players who die appear back at the last checkpoint they reached. Players can also leave the game and resume at the last checkpoint at a later date. In effect they are a 'save game' feature. The following Checkpoints appear in Fields of Misery

• End of the bridge from Cemetery of Forsaken into Fields of Misery at the start of Sword of the Stranger quest.
• Outside entrance to Khazra Den on Sword of the Stranger quest.
• As you approach the slope up to The Old Mill on The Broken Blade quest.

Waypoint Location

Waypoints are special plates on the ground that form a network of jump points allowing players to instantly teleport between them. The nearest waypoint for Fields of Misery appears at various locations in the area, there is no set location.

Lore Entries Found in Fields of Misery

Required for A Quick Study achievement

• Adenah's Jottings
• Farmer's Journal
• Scoundrel's Journal
• Wandering Tinker's Diary

Required for Historian of Tristram achievement

• Tristram Fields

Requried for ?

• The Crusaders

Quotes

Quotes said by classes or followers in the Fields of Misery.

• Enchantress: "An aura of magic lingers over these fields."
• Scoundrel: "Finding a sword in a goat-field sounds an awful lot like finding a needle in a haystack."
• Templar: "If there's a sword here, we will find it!"

Associated Achievements

Fields of Misery is in some way involved in the following achievement(s).

Name	Points	Description	Banner

<achievement type="single">Field Work</achievement>

Gallery

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  Moon Clan camp

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  Cemetery Entrance to Fields of Misery

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  Hobbled Farmer adventure

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  The Forlorn Farm

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  The Forlorn Farm

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  The Old Mill

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  The Old Mill

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  A goatman trap

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  A goatman trap...still!

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  Random burning building

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  Entryway to the Tinker's Hovel, littered with clicky things

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  The Tinker vendor inside the Tinker's Hovel

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  The Decaying Crypt entrance

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  Cellar dungeon in the Forlorn Farm

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  Plague Nests in the Forsaken Grounds event

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  The Leaper event

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  A pond. Sometimes events are just ponds

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  The Secluded Grove event

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  Entrance to Khazra Den