Your choice of weapon is certainly not something that you will want to leave to chance when encountering a slime. Unlike other online games, such as cheekybingo, you cannot rely on luck to help you reach more advanced stages of the game. However, sometimes, even if you know what weapon you need to use, it is not always easy to find.

Even though many players have their own opinions on what weapon material degrades the fastest or what type of side weapon to carry to deal with slimes, everyone can agree on what the single best weapon in the game is to deal with these oozing menaces: Muckbane.

Overpowered Muckbane is not, at only a +1 enchantment level. However, it does an additional +1 damage to slimes and, most importantly, it takes no permanent damage from them (or Rust Monsters). So you can use this weapon as long as you like and pass it to as many of your alternate characters as you wish – maces are a simple weapon so even a wizard can use them (assuming they don’t fry the slimes with magical fire first).

Muckbane occurs as a random drop from the monster Muck. Muck is a mini-boss slime that you can sometimes find lurking in the Kobold Brothers’ dungeon. Access to the Kobold Brothers is gained through Durk the Deranged in the Leaky Dinghy who gives you the quest Durk’s Got a Secret.

You will not see Muck every time you run through the Kobold Brothers. Whether he spawns is up to chance so you may see him on your first run, or you may have to come back a few more times to see him. He is not extremely rare, but to add to the difficulties of finding Muckbane, it does not always drop for every party member when you do defeat him. It is also worth mentioning that Muck appears to spawn more often at the hard and elite difficulty settings.

Because DDO has relatively lenient ownership rules for items, however, if you are helping someone find their first Muckbane and it drops for you but not them you can simply turn it over to them from the chest. Muckbane is also non-bindable so you can use it and then send it to a friend or one of your alternate characters.

Walkthrough

If you run this dungeon with a higher level character, or if you have one helping you, you can get to Muck’s spawn point in about 2 minutes with little effort. This precludes any sort of optional quest or barrel-smashing, let alone role-playing, but chances are if you are running this same dungeon several times in a row, RP is not foremost on your mind. And remember that if you are grouped with someone more than four levels higher than you, you will receive zero xp.

1) Make a bee-line for the third intersection on the map. There will be a group of kobolds before the the first bend. When you get to the bend follow it right then left at the intersection then right around the next bend and finally left. During this part you will encounter several slimes.

You will now be at a T intersection in roughly the middle of the map – there is a party of kobolds here for you to dispatch. Make sure to turn left at this intersection to head to the second Kobold Chieftan. Do not stray down the right passage as I have been told this affects the chance for Muck to spawn (though I’m not sure why).

2) About halfway down the passage you will have defeated a band of kobolds and see a door on your left. Go through that to defeat the first kobold chieftan (along with several cronies). Open the valve opposite the chest in this room; this will complete the Open Rear Sewer Entrance side quest and allow you access to Muck.

3)Run back to the T intersection and proceed down the other path. There will be single kobold throwers and shaman in the alcoves. They will not chase you, so you can avoid them by not being in their line of fire.

About halfway down this path there will be an open door to the Rear Sewers(opened by that valve you just turned). Just beyond the door and to the left is an alcove where Muck spawns. Kill it and cross your fingers!

If it is not there, then exit out of the dungeon, leave and re-invite your group and proceed from step one again. If you are not in a group you can abandon the quest and run back to the Leaky Dinghy to pick it back up – or wait five minutes for it to reset.

That is it – if you are lucky you will get a Muckbane on your first run, if not then you should score one after a few runs. I wouldn’t call it a rare weapon, per se. You will have to work for your loot, but I can’t see you spending more than an hour at this – and that is if you are profoundly unlucky. Have fun bludgeoning those slimes and oozes into oblivion!