Shimmering Citadel : Poets Palace : The Third Mirror.

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Walkthrough

Starting the Quest

The room with the mirror will be inaccessible when you first zone-in to this floor. To access the room you must clear three scarab ring events. The rooms with the scarabs are as follows:
- An emerald scarab:
  - You can not open the doors, but periodically one opens on its own, go through it.
  - Click on the door at , the emerald scarabs are in this room. This is a four spawn ring event.
  - After you kill the scarabs, kill the cobras that spawn on either side of the door.
- A sapphire scarab:
  - Again, you can not open the doors, but periodically one opens on its own, go through it.
  - Click on the door at , the sapphire scarabs are in this room. This is a three spawn ring event.
  - After you kill the scarabs, kill the cobra that spawns in the middle of the room.
- A ruby scarab:
  - Again, you can not open the doors, but periodically one opens on its own, go through it.
  - Click on the door at , the ruby scarabs are in this room. This is a four spawn ring event.
  - After you kill the scarabs, kill the cobras that spawn on either side of the door.
Once all the scarab ring events have been cleared, the doors in the center of the middle section will become openable.
The third mirror is at .
Right-click on the mirror and chose the option to gaze through it. The quest will pop.

Steps

There are pedestals with orbs that at the base of the walls throughout this floor. One is red, and that is the one you will need. However, you must do the following to be able to click it:

Right-click the mirror and select 'Remember the vision'.
Find the red orb and click it. The quest will auto-complete.
- I found a red orb at
- NOTE: If you are on the Handcrafted Music Box quest - get the Azure Scarab before you go to the fourth floor.
You can now right click the mirror and go to the next floor.
NOTE: It says there are no quests following this one, however:
- Speak to the Djinn Master at
- Go to and you get an update: 'You've earned the achievement, [Poet's Palace Provoker].

Original sources

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Quest information

Journal Category: Miscellaneous (AA)
Introduced: Desert of Flames
Journal Level: 55
Journal Difficulty: Heroic
Starting Zone: The Poets Palace
How to Start: See below; Inspect the third mirror on the third floor.
Timeline: Shimmering Citadel Timeline

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Timeline

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Rewards

XP: 338

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