Festering Woods

The Festering Woods are located within Act I. You first come across it after you are sent there by Alaric who stands in the Drowned Temple outside area next to the woods. He will send you on a quest to retrieve two keys in The Broken Blade quest.

Festering Woods map

Areas and Dungeons within The Festering Woods

• Warrior's Rest
• Crypt of the Ancients

Access to Levels

• Drowned Temple

Quests in The Festering Woods

• The Broken Blade

Events in The Festering Woods

• Last Stand of the Ancients
• Eternal War

Common Monsters

• Enraged Phantom
• Ghost
• Ghoul
• Plague Carrier
• Plague Nest
• Returned
• Returned Archer
• Skeleton

Special Monsters

The following Superunique monsters can but might not always appear in Festering Woods:

• Grimsmack - Stover of Heads, Unique

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 Festering Woods

• Just across the bridge that Alaric raises for you from the Drowned Temple to The Festering Woods on The Broken Blade quest.
• Just inside the entrance of Warrior's Rest and Crypt of the Ancients on The Broken Blade quest.
• Just back across the bridge from The Festering Woods to the Drowned Temple once you have collected the Beacons on The Broken Blade quest.

Waypoint

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 Festering Woods appears in one of three locations running up the centre of the map.

Lore Entries Found in Festering Woods

• Ghoul

• Last Stand of the Ancients (lore) - (required for the Historian of Tristram achievement)

Associated Achievements

Festering Woods is in some way involved in the following achievement(s).

Name	Points	Description	Banner

<achievement type="single">Last Stand of the Ancients</achievement><achievement type="single">Last Stand of the Ancients (Cooperative)</achievement><achievement type="single">Eternal War</achievement><achievement type="single">Eternal War (Cooperative)</achievement><achievement type="single">The Last of the Horadrim</achievement><achievement type="single">No Time to Rest</achievement><achievement type="single">Field Work</achievement>

Gallery

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  The woods.

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  Entering the woods.

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  The Memorial Stone.

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  Last Stand of the Ancients activated (event)

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  Did you know these woods are festering?

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  First Nephalem dungeon entrance.

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  Second Nephalem dungeon entrance.

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  Overlooking the pit.

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  Randomly-spawned Plague Nests.

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  Waypoint.

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  Nephalem Monument.

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  Waypoint to Drowned Temple