Ancients' Way

Ancients' Way is reached from Frozen Tundra in Act V and leads to the inevitable Arreat Summit. It also leads to an Icy Cellar sublevel with extra treasure and monsters.

Background

Diablo II Level Info [e]
Ancients' Way
(v1.10+)	Norm	Night	Hell
Area lvl	#	#	#
Possible monsters	Frozen Scourge (normal), Frozen Terror (guest), Abominable (guest), Death Slasher (normal), Moon Lord (normal), Hell Lord (guest), Reanimated Horde (guest), Carver (guest), Carver Shaman (guest), Dark Lancer (guest), Spike Fiend (guest), Bone Mage (guest), Afflicted (guest)
Monster Variants	#	#	#
Random Bosses	Fill out	Fill out	Fill out
Super- uniques	Fill out	Fill out	Fill out
Gold-chest	Fill out
Waypoint	Yes
Nearby levels	Frozen Tundra, Icy Cellar, Arreat Summit
Quests	Rite of Passage (triggered)

Ancient's Way is one of the levels you need to get through to reach the fifth quest, Rite of Passage, and later on, entry to the Worldstone Keep. In fact, once you advance to the Ancient's Way, the last ice caves level in the game, and then return to town, Qual-Kehk will be eager to talk to you about it.

He warns of the Ancients who are guarding the entry to the Worldstone Keep. You don't need to talk to Qual-Kehk or anyone about this, however. You can just advance through the Ancient's Way to the Arreat Summit, and do it. This quest seems straightforward, but has a very tricky element in Rite of Passage you see in no other quest in all of Diablo II...

Level Information

• Monster levels are usually always equal to the area level with exception to uniques (mlvl +3) and champions (mlvl +2).

Notable Characters

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Related Articles

If you are at all interested in the story and lore of the games, you should also check out:

• Children of Bul-Kathos
• Harrogath
• Arreat Crater
• Baal, Lord of Destruction

Reference

• Facts & Formulae Archive