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Call of Duty: Black Ops III

THE IRON DRAGON
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Nanikos Jun 3, 2023 @ 7:21am
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The Iron Dragon - [Map Guide] (Main EE, Bows + Upgrades, Buildables)
Note: This guide is a WIP. Writing this guide and formatting it and getting pictures and everything is a lengthy process with lots to add so you will see it gradually being updated over the next day or so.

Pack-A-Punch
Pack a Punch is unlocked by collecting four orbs around the map. Each orb correlates to one of the elemental bows.


After gathering all the orbs, go to the top of the castle, there is a room where you can place each orb on it's corresponding basin. Placing all 4 will make the center one start smoking.[imgur.com] Fill the middle basin with souls and it will turn into the summoning key which you can pick up[imgur.com]

You can then place the summoning key in the basin on the left side of the room next to the symbol wall which will give you access to the top of the castle where pack-a-punch will now be avaliable.

Buildables

Crafting Table Locations

Zombie Shield
Shield Dolly Locations

Shield Clamp Locations

Shield Door Locations

Ragnarok DG-4's
There is a door in the orb room that leads to 3 switches[imgur.com] and a magically locked door. Each switch will change the orientation of the blocks above the door. Use the switches to change the blocks so it reads dg4[imgur.com], doing so will open the door where you can pickup all 3 parts for the ragnaroks.

Wonder Weapons - [Elemental Bows]

Pre-req: You first need the wrath of the ancients bow before you can start doing any of the upgrades. To obtain the bow, go to each of the dragon heads around the map and get kills in front of them till they break.


Once all dragons have been fully fed you can pick up the Wrath of the Ancients bow from the alter Here[imgur.com] go straight into the castle, and turn right from the first room.

This is needed to start doing the upgrades. Upgrades for the bows are very very similar to DE, with a step or so slightly changed. If you're familiar with how the bows are upgraded on DE, this process should be somewhat familiar.

Void Bow
Step 1: Shoot the Void Bow symbol above the left hand door at the end of the bridge where the gate trap is. Doing so will reveal the upgrade quest for the void bow.[imgur.com]

Step 2: Go to the room on the left as you enter the castle. An urn will be floating in the middle of the room[imgur.com], shoot it with your bow to start the next step. You must now find 6 keeper skulls around the map and pick them up.

Locations:

Step 3: Return to the room with the urn, the skulls will now appear in the circles surrounding the urn and you must now spell it's name. The urn will say 3 words, each word correlates to a symbol in the circle underneath each skull. Here's a cheat sheet for you[imgur.com]

Shoot the urn with your bow if you need it to repeat the words. Using the cheat sheet, figure out which symbol correlates to each word, then interact with the skull above each symbol in the same order the urn said it. In my example[imgur.com] I get stag, door, horn. So I would interact with the symbols that correlate to those words in the same order.

If you've done it wrong, the urn will tell you. If you've done it wrong, leave the room immediately or the skulls that are spawned will kill you. Once done correctly, the urn will explode, revealing the reforged arrow.[imgur.com]

Take the arrow to the underground primis statue area, place it in the alter and fill it with souls and you will be granted the Void Bow.

Fire Bow
Step 1: After turning on power, you can go outside via a door opposite from electric cherry on the left hand side of the castle. Looking over the battlements on the right side, you will see a glowing red orb.[imgur.com] Shoot it with your bow and it will disappear and reveal the upgrade quest for the fire bow.[imgur.com]

Step 2: Three fire circles will now spawn in the map

You need to shoot each of these circles with your bow whilst being launched from the wunderspheres around the map. When done successfully, flames can be seen shooting up from the circles.[imgur.com] Once a circle has been shot, you need to fill it up with souls until it disappears (these can be done in any order)

Step 3: After all the circles have been filled, head to the church area and shoot your bow at the logs in the fireplace to ignite them and spawning a max ammo.[imgur.com] Interact with the fire and it will extinguish. Head back to the death ray area and a giant red ball[imgur.com] will have spawned in. Interact with it to claim the reforged arrow.[imgur.com]

Take the arrow to the underground primis statue area, place it in the alter and fill it with souls and you will be granted the Fire Bow.

Lightning Bow
Step 1: Shoot the weather vane on top of the bridge gate and pick up the arrow that drops to start the upgrade. [[url=https://imgur.com/a/kevAvRW]Location[/url]]
Step 2: Shoot 3 bonfires around the map to ignite them (You can shoot all of these from the top of pack a punch, they are very easy to find) [Locations: [url=https://imgur.com/a/1bxKhFH]#1[/url], #2[imgur.com], #3[imgur.com]

Step 3: Inside the room to the left of where you pick up the wrath of the ancients bow is a locker with a lightning bow symbol on it. Shoot it with your bow and it will open, revealing a fuse you can pickup. [[url=https://imgur.com/a/a0IwlBh]Image[/url]]

Step 4: Proceed to the power room and on the right hand side is a Fuse Box[imgur.com] you can place the fuse at. Placing the fuse will open the metal gate to the left which reveals a coil on the ground you can pickup.

Take this coil to pack-a-punch, the right and side will have a bare stick, which you can interact with to place the coil[imgur.com]. Placing the coil makes lightning strike at pack-a-punch, giving you the upgraded arrow[imgur.com].

Take the arrow to the underground primis statue area, place it in the alter and fill it with souls and you will be granted the lightning bow.

Wolf Bow
Step 1: Shoot the painting on the wall[imgur.com] outside of the left barrier in the hallway that leads to power. It will light up with a wolf bow symbol. You then need to interact with 3 other paintings in a particular order.

The first one[imgur.com] is located to the right of the church area [Take the stairs to the right of speed cola] it is the painting on the left in the hallway.

The second one[imgur.com] is also in the church area, by the opposite set of stairs. Up the stairs, to the right of the wallbuy.

The last one[imgur.com] can be found by going down the big staircase where you pick up the wrath of the ancients bow from. It is on the right hand wall inbetween two big banners.

After you've interacted with the last painting, head down to the primis statue room where the alters are. The wall to the right will explode when you walk in, revealing the upgrade quest for the wolf bow.[imgur.com]

Step 2: Now head back towards spawn, near the entrance to the origins church by the wunderfizz will be a flag in the distance[imgur.com], shoot it with your bow and a skull will roll down the hill, which you will then be able to pickup[imgur.com]

Step 3: Take the skull back to the primis statue room and go to the wolf bow alter. Interct with it to place the skull on the body by the alter. Which will spawn in a shovel that you can pickup[imgur.com]

Go all the way back to spawn, outside the church near where you spawned, there will be a grave with the wolf bow symbol on it. Interact with it and a skeleton hand will rise out of the ground holding the reforged arrow[imgur.com]

Take the arrow to the underground primis statue area, place it in the alter and fill it with souls and you will be granted the wolf bow.

Main Easter Egg

Step 1
The first step of the main EE is to do a small quest associated with each of the bows. To begin each quest, shoot the orbs with a charged bow shot.

Void Orb
[Note: After step 1, you can choose to do step 3 first if you like]

Step 1: After creating the void bow, go to the orb room and shoot the void orb. It will make a noise and start glowing.

Step 2: There will be three purple glowing statues near spawn. You must shoot each of these with the void bow

Locations:

Step 3: You must now shoot three glowing orbs around the map in this exact order. The other ones will not spawn until you shoot the previous one.

Step 4: After shooting all three orbs, you will hear a completion noise. Head back to where you originally picked up the void orb from and there iwll be an orb essence[imgur.com] in it's place. Go back to the orb room and infuse the void orb with the essence.[imgur.com]

Fire Orb
[Note: After step 1, you can choose to do step 3 first if you like]

Step 1: After creating the fire bow, go to the orb room and shoot the fire orb. It will make a noise and start glowing.

Step 2: A glowing plane will spawn in the sky circling around the top of the tower.[imgur.com] Shoot it down using your guns and it will turn into an orb that will light the cauldron to the left of the bridge.[imgur.com]

Step 3: The torches in the bottom of the origins church will now be extinguished, use the flame bow to spell out 9, 3, 5 by lighting the torches in the correct order. You will hear a completion noise if done correctly.[imgur.com]

Step 4: Head back to where you originally picked up the fire orb from and there will be an orb essence[imgur.com] in it's place. Go back to the orb room and infuse the fire orb with the essence.[imgur.com]

Lightning Orb
[Note: After step 1, you can choose to do step 3 first if you like]

Step 1: After creating the lightning bow, go to the orb room and shoot the lightning orb. It will make a noise and start glowing.

Step 2: Using the lightning bow, shoot the 3 bonfires again that you initially shot when crafting the bow. Doing so will apply a lightning spiral around each bonfire.[imgur.com]

Step 3: There will be three switchboards nearby spawn, interacting with them turns the knob to a specific orientation. You need to set each of these to the orientation needed.

If done correctly, you'll hear a completion noise and the knobs will be sparking

Step 4: Head back to where you originally picked up the lightning orb from and there will be an orb essence[imgur.com] in it's place. Go back to the orb room and infuse the lightning orb with the essence.[imgur.com]

Wolf Orb
[Note: After step 1, you can choose to do step 3 first if you like]

Step 1: After creating the wolf bow, go to the orb room and shoot the wolf orb. It will make a noise and start glowing.

Step 2: Go back to the spawn area, there will be three graves with wolf bow symbols on them, shoot them to make the gravestones become ghostly. Then shoot them with a normal weapon to make them disappear.


Step 3: Go up to the orb room and into the room that was opened by the summoning key. There will be a skeleton with a glowing aura on the right.[imgur.com] Interact with it to spawn a wolf. Follow the wolf down to where the wrath of the ancients bow is.[imgur.com] The wolf will stop, interact with the dig spot and the wolf will dig up a bone that you can pickup, after you've picked the bone up you'll hear a completion noise.

Step 4: Head back to where you originally picked up the wolf orb from and there will be an orb essence[imgur.com] in it's place. Go back to the orb room and infuse the void orb with the essence.[imgur.com]

Step 2
After infusing all of the orbs, they will rise and merge into one singular orb in the middle of the room. Interacting with the orb will start the next step. The orb will start moving, you need to shoot the orb to make it move to the next location. Continue following the orb and shooting at it to make it move, it will lead you around the map to the flak cannon, after shooting the orb one last time it will fly into tower of the origins church.

The ammo box next to the flak cannon will now open revealing a bullet that you can pickup.[imgur.com] Pick up the bullet and use it to fire the flak gun to the right. It will blow up the tower, revealing the orb again.[imgur.com] Shoot the orb one last time and it will fly back to the orb room where you can interact with it again to destroy it.[imgur.com]

Step 3
Destroying the orb will reveal the vril device in it's place.[imgur.com] Pick up the vril device and take it to the Primis room where the bows are. Opposite to the bows is an alter where the vril device can be inserted.[imgur.com]

Placing the vril device will spawn a ghost keeper, the ghost keeper will go to stone tablets around the map that you need to get kills at. Each stone tablet requires 30 souls to fill. After each one, the keeper will start moving again, going to the next one.

After you've done all 4 stone tablets, the keeper will manifest into it's actual form and head back to the bow room where you placed the vril device.[imgur.com]

The prompt "Energy Surgey needed to Start Lockdown" will appear at the cloud formed behind the keeper.

Step 4
Pull out the ragnaroks and use the slam to place them on the ground where the energy surge is needed. This will start a lockdown. The keeper will raise in the air and a shield will be formed around him. four other keepers will also spawn in, each one has a distinct color that matches the color of the elemental bows.

Pick up your ragnaroks and recharge them by killing zombies, once charged, place your ragnaroks down at the same spot as before, you will hear an activation noise. The shields on the four keepers around the room will go down. Using the elemental bows, shoot the corresponding keeper for each bow once to make them rise in the air. After all 4 have been shot with the corresponding bows they will be killed.

Pick up your ragnaroks again and recharge them by killing zombies, once charged, place your ragnaroks down at the same spot as before, you will hear an activation noise. This time the shield on the main keeper will drop, quickly shoot the keeper to make him move around the room (This is identical to how you kill the shadow man on shadows of evil and revelations)

Once the keeper no longer moves, interact with the panel with the red button at the top of the room to shoot a laser which will kill the keeper. You will be granted a perkaholic which gives 8 normal perks and 2 custom perks (elemental pop and Snail's Pace Slurpee)[imgur.com]

After killing the keeper, you can go back down and pick up the charged vril device.[imgur.com] the alter will then lower revealing a hidden door behind it. Finally, get the gramaphone from the church room[imgur.com] by speedcola (Note: You can grab this at any point during the game) and place it in the secret room which will open up a portal, unlocking the buyable ending which you can purchase for 75,000 points.[imgur.com]

Side EE's

Music EE #1: Dead Again
Last edited by Nanikos; Jun 7, 2023 @ 11:08pm
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These are the shield parts you're missing, so you don't have to go hunting for them aimlessly
Visor
1: To the RIGHT of the Wundersphere next to the first dragon head
2: On the bridge between the First Dragon and the Main Castle
3: Underneath the stairs leading downwards from the Origins Church
Valves
1: In a chair next to the Electric Cherry Machine
2: In the Circular Armory Room directly across from the Power Switch room laying against a bookshelf
3: In a wooden crate just after the Dragon Crossroads
Noizyrainmen Jun 3, 2023 @ 10:53am 
don't know if this is a step but i went to shoot the bonfires again after i shot the lightning orb and they relight but with lightning surrounding them
Mr Soosa Jun 3, 2023 @ 11:43am 
Shoot the lightning orb with the bow then reshoot the bonfires with the lightning bow, the panels are on the bridge down, under the origins church to the right, and in the origins church up. Pick up the essence in the original orbspot
GirphquakeTTV Jun 3, 2023 @ 11:44am 
Bro how do i do the fire orb i could not find the start for it and i was on round 41
Mr Soosa Jun 3, 2023 @ 11:50am 
Shoot the fire orb with the fire bow, outside there will be a plane flying above shoot it down then a flaming cauldron will land outside the origins church, go in and shoot 9, 3, 5 with the fire bow then go pick up the essence in the original orb spot
easton_mccrate Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:10pm 
Anybody know what to do after digging up the bone for the wolf orb essence? I've shot the graves already but don't know what to do after getting the bone.
Last edited by easton_mccrate; Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:10pm
tsijosh73 Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:19pm 
Just finish the easter egg great map :steamthumbsup:
Mr Soosa Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:25pm 
Originally posted by easton_mccrate:
Anybody know what to do after digging up the bone for the wolf orb essence? I've shot the graves already but don't know what to do after getting the bone.
Shoot the graves with a normal gun
Mr Soosa Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:26pm 
Also then meld the orbs together then follow them
yeekshaw Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:30pm 
I did that I have the vril device what now?
Mr Soosa Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:48pm 
Originally posted by Mr Soosa:
Also then meld the orbs together then follow them
After you shoot the flak gun then shoot the orb again go back to destroy it and take it to the bow upgrade room to place the vril device, que funy escort step then you do a lock down after placing the dg4s
yeekshaw Jun 3, 2023 @ 12:52pm 
Originally posted by Mr Soosa:
Originally posted by Mr Soosa:
Also then meld the orbs together then follow them
After you shoot the flak gun then shoot the orb again go back to destroy it and take it to the bow upgrade room to place the vril device, que funy escort step then you do a lock down after placing the dg4s
A lock down? where?
yeekshaw Jun 3, 2023 @ 1:21pm 
So I did the lock down and I've been sitting here for 28 minutes trying to figure it out help
Chandler Jun 3, 2023 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by Mr Soosa:
Also then meld the orbs together then follow them
Follow what where?
Maverick Jun 3, 2023 @ 1:35pm 
Originally posted by Mr Soosa:
Shoot the lightning orb with the bow then reshoot the bonfires with the lightning bow, the panels are on the bridge down, under the origins church to the right, and in the origins church up. Pick up the essence in the original orbspot
what do u do after the three panels have lightning?
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