Black Cove Cave

[Treetop69]

I am in here and can not find a key for the Intimidating Black Door. I have spoken to the ghost, done the trap room, fought the abomination, but no key.

[Arteas Naur]

You somehow missed it. It's certainly there.

[Xasn]

There is a letter you need to read and something you need to activate. All of it in the pirate office.

[alirion]

There is something hidden in the office (rotating camera might help). And there you will find the key.

[Treetop69]

ok so im at the trap area now with the switchs, i have spoken to the rat and used exotic, i have also went back and hit each of the others. still no boss that i heard was here and had the key i need

what gives?

[Treetop69]

bampikins

[Xasn]

There is a particular switch you need to activate between all those trap switches. Then a big stone door will open in the middle. Its somewhere east.

[✦]

Originally posted by Treetop69:

ok so im at the trap area now with the switchs, i have spoken to the rat and used exotic, i have also went back and hit each of the others. still no boss that i heard was here and had the key i need

what gives?

You've got to activate ALL the switches. Some are hidden in a way that's extremely hard to spot, so you may be missing a few.

[Xasn]

No you dont need to activate all the switches, just the right one.

[mkmt7]

make sure player character has key and is attempting to open door

[mkmt7]

henchmen with the key apparently don't open the door even with the key, just something else might be going wrong?

[Volkira]

Originally posted by alirion:

There is something hidden in the office (rotating camera might help). And there you will find the key.

I Have pulled the lever,found the key and have the Pirate book but still can't open the door.Looked everywhere,lifted everything just can't work out how to open the door.Even my main character is holding all the keys and it just doesn't open.Will keep at it.

[Rakesh]

I had some trouble with the Cove yesterday and took me a while to figure out.
I'll post it here for the benefit of the few who get stuck here.

Once inside Black Cove, there are 3 doors where people seem to get stuck -

1. Inside Pirate cabin there is a trapdoor that leads you underground. The switch for this is behind a (only?) painting in the office and the trapdoor is in the corner of the room, underneath some packages/boxes.

2. Once you descend underground through the trapdoor, you'll eventually get to a section with a lot of switches and a skull gate. Once you hit ALL (or some combo, I hit all) of these switches the skull door will open and you'll fight a boss (Pontius?). Now the switches are hidden all around this section, scour all around the stone platform and by the stairs on all sides.
Once you defeat this boss you'll get a key to another door (Ominous Door, I think).

3. Finally there is a section back upstairs, close to the Pirate office, where some skeletons are fighting a band of orcs. Once you kill all the survivors, you can use the key from Pontius (Ominous door) to open a gate here.

So you can see these need to be done in order 1,2 and then 3.

However, depending on how you're exploring you're going to encounter these in a different order, hence all of this confusion.

Hope this helps someone.

[Volkira]

yeah I found the tiny switch eventually thks.

[Jarlsburg]

Dark Cove Switches
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Exotic Switch - transports you to the waypoint in the beginning of the zone, also places mines in the switch platform

Burrowed Switch - Attempts to blind the character

Golden Switch - drops a reward chest that deals shadow damage to the character when opened

Unlocked Switch - gives you the Push It achievement

Frosty switch - attempts to freeze the character

Raze's Switch - spawns General Rae's doll item at the base of the switch

Regular switch - does apparently nothing except cause the main character to say, "wonder what that did?"

Worn Switch - (I had to make a perception check to see this switch, but it is located on the platform on the western edge) attempts to crippled character and breaks his/her weapon

Ominous Switch - teleports you to an unreachable island in the zone with an ornate chest, lootable corpse and flavor text parchment

Mysterious Switch - found on the northernmost edge of the Ominous Switch island
which returns you to the southern hut near the Crab abomination encounter

Warm Switch - fires two fireballs, one at the character, one perpendicularly
across the switch platform

Rot Covered Switch - inflicts 10 shadow damage and attempts to disease the
character

Glassy Switch - (off to the east of the platform) Switches the position of the actively controlled character and the rest of the party if the party is unchained

Chalky Switch - (to the west of the platform in the reeds need the abandoned
pier) spawns a singular skeleton pirate to fight

Vibrating Switch - (in the reeds south of the platform) attempts to stun the character and brings him/her to nominal health

Blood Stained Switch - (hidden on the east sandbank most near the glassy switch just to the left of an elephant ear plant close to the base of the main switch platform) - opens the skull door

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Volkira:

Originally posted by alirion:

There is something hidden in the office (rotating camera might help). And there you will find the key.

I Have pulled the lever,found the key and have the Pirate book but still can't open the door.Looked everywhere,lifted everything just can't work out how to open the door.Even my main character is holding all the keys and it just doesn't open.Will keep at it.

Found 2 keys?

You pull the correct lever and it opens a passage on the north side of the room.
You then fight a boss with a group of undead.

When he dies, he drops 2 keys.

1 is for the chest on the shipwreck behind him
1 is for the black ominous door