The Dread Thicket (Act 2)

The Dread Thicket is an optional area in Act 2. This area does not have a waypoint and is connected to The Northern Forest.

Where there aren't vines, the ground is covered with shrubs and tall grass. A narrow path winds through the area with frequent branching then opens up into a large area where two unique apes spawn.

The Dread Thicket is the only area in the game not to be linked in any way to any quests (neither primary nor optional, and it contains no Trials of Ascendancy), although there is an achievement for clearing it of all monsters. Masters and Corrupted areas can spawn within as normal, however, and its relatively small size compared to most other Act 2 areas can make it useful when searching for either of them.

Monsters

• Aidan the Frenzied
• Nadia the Soothing
• Dread Primate
• Glade Mamba
• Plummeting Ursa
• Thicket Hulk

Guests:

• Night Adder
• Spectral Bowman

Corrupted area

Secluded Copse has a chance to spawn.

Divination Cards

The following divination cards can drop in this area:

• The ExplorerThe Explorer6Map
  CorruptedA map is only useful if you know where you stand. (Merciless)
• The HermitThe Hermit9LifesprigThe hermit's only friend is the greenery he can find. (Cruel and Merciless)

Achievement

Name	Description
Full Clear: Dread Thicket	Fully clear the Dread Thicket.

Trivia

The 2.0.0 patch notes for The Dread Thicket mention that "The Dread Thicket is now always 50%". This is a reference to a satirical patch notes post Chris Wilson made. These patch notes used a "Markov Chain text generator" which is an algorithm that tries to create legible sentences from an input set. One of these was the above sentence which caught on and was used as a reference to this in the actual 2.0.0 patch notes.

Version History

Version	Changes
2.0.0	The Dread Thicket is now attached to The Northern Forest rather than The Wetlands. The Dread Thicket is now always 50%.