The Spice Sanctum Testing Station is a challenging Testing Station located in the PVP section of the Deep Desert. Although it only contains one 'lock-in', the waves are tough, with many enemies from the very first wave.
This Testing Station (like Spice Silo) also contains mounds of Spice Sand throughout, from the Combat Room onwards, so be sure to grab them! Each mound contains roughly 100 Spice Sand.
Warning: This Testing Station is designed for small groups, but can be done solo. However you will be locked in to multiple rooms where you will encounter many waves of enemies. We recommend at least a Mk6 Weapon, Power Pack & Shield.
- Length: ~35-40 mins
- Challenge: 1 Lock-ins, ~6 Large Waves
- Solo Difficulty: Hard
Spice Sanctum Testing Station - Map & Route
The Spice Sanctum Testing Station is a reasonably long Testing Station with a single 'lock-in' room at the midpoint.
Reaching the Lock-in
Head down the stairs until you enter the first room. Ahead and to your right will be two purple locked shield doors. We're heading left into the corridor that contains a couple of enemies.
Either dispatch of the two enemies or ignore them and continue on until you reach the green shield door. Once you pass through this green shield door you will be locked in this room until you clear all waves.
Combat Section - Lock-in
Although this combat section only consists of 5-6 full waves, it's actually very tough. Usually the first couple of waves are small, 4-5 enemies, but in this Testing Station, every wave contained a lot of enemies.
The other thing that made this lock-in more difficult than many others is that enemies seemed to continue spawning from the doors mid-wave - not sure if this was a bug or not but it resulted in some waves being almost 20 enemies.
Anyway, use the walkway that runs around the perimeter of the room to kite the melee enemies behind the pillars, so you line-of-sight the ranged enemies. Take out the melee enemies with parry + slow blade. Some waves contained 6 or more melee enemies so be patient!
After the melee enemies, deal with the ranged, unshielded enemies and then finally move on to the heavy machine gun and flamethrower enemies.
Reward Room & ID Band
Congrats if you solo'd this without being ganked while you were doing it! Proceed on through the now unlocked shield door at the end of the room and you'll find... more enemies! There's a small group of 4-5 enemies in the corridor that you probably want to deal with.
Clear them and enter the circular room ahead where you'll find the Purple ID Band. Continue onwards down to the end of this corridor and claim the Reward Chest.
You can head down the stairs on the left, just before the purple shield door, if you want to claim a small chest in one of the side rooms. Otherwise, head through the purple locked shield door and back out of the Testing Station.
Rewards
The loot table for this Testing Station rotates each week. Check out our Deep Desert Companion for the loot table this week!
