Defeat Full Power Metamorphs in Tane's Lab

Tane's Laboratory is an area. The Area level is 68. NPCs in Tane's Laboratory: Tane Octavius. Itemized samples can be used in the Metamorph Vial in Tane's Laboratory. A full set of itemized organs can be used to construct a Metamorph there. The mods on the itemized organs indicate additional items the Metamorph will drop. Note that no itemized samples drop in the lab. However, this Metamorph can drop exclusive rewards, including a set of 4 exclusive Unique items.

Click to travel to Tane's Laboratory

1. Travel to Tane's Laboratory. This area has a waypoint. As shown in the image, Click to travel to Tane's Laboratory.
(You first unlock Tane's Laboratory after completing a Metamorph encounter in a map for a first time in Pound of Flesh quest.)

Construct Metamorph

2. Construct Metamorph. Interact to begin Metamorph encounter.

Create Metamorph

3. Create Metamorph by placing the following items into the device:
  4. Defeat the Metamorph in Tane's Laboratory.

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Kirac League Mods Available During 3.21.0

  • Metamorph (costs 5 Chaos Orbs): Area contains Metamorph Monsters.

Metamorph scarab

Scarabs are a type of map fragment. They do not open portals to new areas, but are instead used to augment existing areas with various effects.

Item Open Breaches Stats
Rusted Metamorph Scarab Rusted Metamorph Scarab Area contains Metamorph Monsters
Winged Metamorph Scarab Winged Metamorph Scarab Area contains Metamorph Monsters
All Metamorph Monsters have Rewards
Metamorph Bosses which drop an Itemised Sample drop 2 additional Itemised Samples
Gilded Metamorph Scarab Gilded Metamorph Scarab Area contains Metamorph Monsters
All Metamorph Monsters have Rewards
Metamorph Bosses which drop an Itemised Sample drop an additional Itemised Sample
Polished Metamorph Scarab Polished Metamorph Scarab Area contains Metamorph Monsters
Metamorph Bosses which drop an Itemised Sample drop an additional Itemised Sample

Metamorph Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Unethical Experiments Notable
  • Metamorphs in your Maps grant 1000% increased Experience per 10% of Vat Filled
  • Metamorphs in your Maps have 0.5% chance to drop an additional Metamorph Scarab for each 10% of Vat Filled
1 Wealth of Knowledge Notable
  • Metamorphs in your Maps have a random Modifier to Dropped Items
  • 250% increased Quantity of Items Dropped by Metamorphs in your Maps for each Monster Modifier on them
  • 1000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped by Metamorphs in your Maps for each Monster Modifier on them
2 Metamorph Target Rarity Normal
  • Monsters in your Maps that drop Metamorph Organs have 10% chance to upgrade their Rarity
4 Metamorph Vat Size Normal
  • Metamorph Vat Meters in your Maps require 10% reduced Power to fill
10 Metamorph Chance Normal
  • Your Maps have +4% chance to contain a Metamorph Encounter

Metamorph Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Intrinsic Darkness Notable
  • Your Maps have +10% chance to contain a Metamorph Encounter

Metamorph Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Catalysing Fluids Notable
  • Metamorphs have 10% chance to drop an additional Catalyst for each Magic Monster Sample used to create them
  • Metamorphs have 20% chance to drop an additional Catalyst for each Rare Monster Sample used to create them
  • Metamorphs have 50% chance to drop an additional Catalyst for each Unique Monster Sample used to create them
1 Escaped Experiment Notable
  • Your Maps have 40% chance to contain a rogue Metamorph
1 Metamorph Catalyst Reward Chance Normal
  • Monster Samples found in your Maps have 10% increased chance to have Catalyst Rewards

Metamorph Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Fine Specimens Notable
  • Metamorphs in your Maps deal 15% more Damage
  • Metamorphs in your Maps have 150% more Life
  • 30% chance for Rewards from Metamorphs in your Maps to be Doubled
2 Metamorph Sedation Normal
  • Metamorphs in your Maps have 5% reduced Action Speed
3 Metamorph Double Reward Chance Normal
  • 3% chance for Rewards from Metamorphs in your Maps to be Doubled
1 Imperfect Anatomy Notable
  • 30% reduced magnitude of Damage granted to Metamorphs from Vat Fill in your Maps
  • 30% reduced magnitude of Life granted to Metamorphs from Vat Fill in your Maps

Metamorph Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
3 Additional Metamorph Sample Reward Normal
  • +1 Metamorph Monster Samples in your Maps have Rewards
1 Replicated Results Notable
  • You can assemble an additional Metamorph in your Maps after the first is Dead
1 Organ Donor Notable
  • Metamorph Bosses which drop an Itemised Sample drop an additional Itemised Sample
  • Itemised Samples found in your Maps have an additional Reward

Defeat a Metamorph which is comprised of five Unique body parts

Metamorph Samples refer to the 5 types of items from the in-game Metamorph mechanics: Brain, Eye, Heart, Lung and Liver. The itemized unique Metamorph organ (referred as "Greater Samples") only drop from defeating the Metamorph boss that constructed by the player in map.

Metamorph samples - Metamorph organ

Item basetypes Help Text
Metamorph Brain the abilities associated with Brain samples are "Lingering" Combine this with four other different samples in Tane's Laboratory.
Metamorph Eye the abilities associated with Eye samples are "Simple" Combine this with four other different samples in Tane's Laboratory.
Metamorph Heart  the abilities associated with Heart samples have "Long Delay" Combine this with four other different samples in Tane's Laboratory.
Metamorph Liver the abilities associated with Liver samples have "Short Delay" Combine this with four other different samples in Tane's Laboratory.
Metamorph Lung the abilities associated with Lung samples have "Medium Delay" Combine this with four other different samples in Tane's Laboratory.

Metamorph organ Mechanics

Each map has a 10% chance to include a Metamorph encounter.The chance is not shared with Master nor Abyss, Blight, Breach and Legion, etc. In the encounter, certain monsters (and map boss) are marked with a green "arrow" on their bodies as well as marked on the mini-map, and the monster health and name bar have a green circle. Upon defeating these monsters, they drop organ samples which are automatically collected. With a full set of samples - Brain, Eye, Heart, Lung, and Liver - players can construct a Metamorph based on the combination they have used by spawning Tane Octavius and his Metamorph Vial using a button on the bottom right (PC default keybind: V). Tane spawns automatically once you've collected every organ in the zone.

Players can use any combination of a set of organs to create the Metamorph monster. Each organ determines the attacks the Metamorph uses, as well as the monster modifiers it has. Sometimes an organ will contain an additional item drop bonus. Moreover, a meter to the right fills based on sample rarity, which increases the monster's overall stats and item drops. Organs from higher rarity monsters will give larger increases to this meter. If the meter is filled as well as using at least one map boss sample, the Metamorph will drop an itemized organ sample, named after the name of the map boss, which can be placed in player's inventory. Note that in some case, even fully cleared the map, there are not enough rare and unique organ samples to fully filled the meter, due to external factor such as map rarity , map mod, map tier and pack size. Only one Metamorph boss can be constructed per instance, and only itemized organs can be transferred out of the zone instance.

Itemized samples can be used in the Metamorph Vial in Tane's Laboratory. A full set of itemized organ can be used to construct a Metamorph there. The mods on the itemized organs indicate additional items the Metamorph will drop. Note that no more organ drop in the lab.

Metamorph organ Vendor Recipes

Three of any itemized organs can be sold to a NPC to receive a random organ differing from those offered, with random rewards.

Thus, if the players lack Eye and Liver, they should use 1 Brain, 1 Heart and 1 Lung in the recipe to maximize the chance.


Tane's Laboratory Dialogue

Tane's Laboratory

Welcome, Exile. This manor, and the contents within it, once belonged to Master Lucan. It was here, in this laboratory, that he met his fate, and I met mine.

It seems that in the wake of Kitava's rise, the rest of his family fared no better. Forgive me if I do not grieve for the family's fate. Our relationship was... complicated.

If there is a silver lining to be found from Kitava's destruction of Oriath, it is that with access to this lab, we may be somewhat more ambitious with our tests.

Greater Samples

Though there is much left to discover from the dwellers of Wraeclast and Oriath, I wish to test my hypothesis that the darkness is not simply a property of where we live.

I've heard rumour that there may be a way to experience... other places. I am no expert in such matters, but if you plan on such a journey, I would ask that you continue to seek out suitable samples. And if you find some which possess the darkness in great quantities, well all the better.

Without this lab, I'd be wary about releasing such entities into the wild. Here, they can be contained, if not controlled.

Random Dialogue Upon Entering

...and that's just the beginning. I'll never tire of watching them slaughter you. I hope you can feel every cut. Every burn. I hope it haunts every moment of your pathetic existence.

...you hear me old man? I'm never going to let you rest. Never.

...it kills you to see me free, doesn't it? It kills you to know you have no power over me any more. I'm in control of both of our destinies.

...and what's left of your legacy? Nothing but a few stains on the floor. All your work was for nothing, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Tane Octavius Dialogue

Tane Octavius is an NPC that was introduced in Metamorph league. He can be found in maps. Once you complete your first Metamorph encounter, he will show up in the Epilogue town and can be invited to your hideout and he will allow the player to access Tane's Laboratory.

Introduction

Come no closer, unless you wish to experience what my vials contain firsthand. I am Tane, a freedman, and I plan to stay that way.

Trust is not given freely, Exile. It must be earned, and you have not earned mine yet. But I do have something to give you. An opportunity.

Crafting a Metamorph

Slow progress is still progress. Do not lose sight of what we work towards.

Alchemy

My master called Alchemy the science of turning learned men to fools. Every half-wit with an alembic would try to turn lead to gold, or formulate an elixir of eternal youth, and Master Lucan was no different. But men like him rarely saw the magic in alchemy up close -- the sudden bubbling of a liquid, the heat growing in your hands, the vibrant colours and foul odours. Much knowledge is lost at a safe distance.

In truth, the power of Alchemy is not in turning one thing into another, or creating miracles. It is in isolating and extracting. It is about finding purity within the confusion.

Tane's Master

In Oriath I served a man named Lucan Octavius; a wealthy alchemist of high-status. I call him my master, for I was both his apprentice and his slave. Lucan's work required handling extremely dangerous, often very hot, materials. Not the sort of thing becoming of a man of stature. So it came to be that a slave like myself learned the nuances of the alchemical arts firsthand.

As for Lucan, he was... not the man he portrayed himself to be. He was more dangerous, more explosive, and more unstable than any material I had to handle. In public, he was fatherly and genial. In his home, he was violent and lustful.

I do not regret what happened to him; only the part I played.

Exile

How many innocent men and women can you think of who were exiled? We are here because we are violent, because we broke the laws of the land.

I killed my master. I do not regret that he is dead, only that it was by my hand. My master was a sick man, with dark proclivities. A sickness of the mind that no alchemy could hope to cure. And he passed that sickness onto me.

I was never violent until that day. Until that day, I could not fathom how one man could take the life of another. But Lucan drew out of me an anger I did not know I was capable of experiencing. It overcame me. Forced me out of my own body. And by the time I was in control again, my master was dead.

That anger, that darkness is still in me, Exile. And that is why we are here.

Goals

The task I have given you is dangerous. To face the cruelty that dwells in the living, distilled and manifested, is not a task I wish upon anyone. Yet it is what I have asked of you. So you may be asking yourself, for what purpose do I seek to isolate this darkness?

I once thought it was a symptom of the corruption that pervades Wraeclast, but now, now I believe it to be something more primeval and universal. An element of our very beings hitherto unknown. To better understand it is to better understand life as a whole. Is that not enough?

Very well. There is more to this story, but it may take some time.

Vision

To conjure a creature of darkness we use the flesh of the dead. We destroy that flesh, and draw out the ill-will that inhabits it, giving it form. My hope is that, one day, we may do the reverse -- destroy the darkness while leaving the flesh unharmed.

To that end, I've acquired a rare ichor -- there's no other like it in this world. The very essence of a human; for all intents and purposes, its soul. This individual was cruel beyond measure, or so I've heard, though not incapable of kindness. This ichor is robust enough that it might be injected into an entity of equally cruel temperament, and may be given new life.

Now, imagine if we could then destroy the darkness. Could this cruel soul be purified? Could it be brought back, not only from the dead, but from the precipice of damnation?

That is my true goal.

Piety

My master was no stranger to the machinations of the Templar elite like her. I feel a sort of kinship with her. We both gave up our names, though she did so voluntarily. We both sought to make something of ourselves. Where our kinship ends is how she made her name known. I can appreciate the desire for knowledge but, I can never condone the methods used to acquire it.

If it is true that, in her dying moment, she sought to redeem herself, it casts an interesting light on our exploration of the darkness. Perhaps it is our very mortality that drives us to do good, to suppress the primal urges... Our actions outlive us, after all.

Navali

Keep your distance from her, exile. One horrible night, my master flew into a great wrath and beat me to the precipice of death itself. For a moment, I envisioned myself walking through strange grey halls.

She was there, watching me, unblinking, a herald for something far greater...

She was there. She spoke. She said that joining the Halls of the Dead was not my fate that night, but that we would meet again. These are the faded memories of a terrified and traumatized child, perhaps no more than a foolish nightmare, but I cannot stop myself from shivering when she turns her purple eyes my way... because I can tell that she recognises me.

Tukohama

Though I know little of my natural heritage, I know enough to understand the implications of your victory against the Karui God of War. Did his long slumber weaken him, or have the gods been greatly exaggerated through the evolution of myths? In either case, this undoubtedly means we will find no divine help against the intrinsic darkness. They are not the keepers of mankind many believed them to be.

Pound of Flesh

Do you see now what we face, Oriathan? That was what slept within the creatures just near here. What darkness sleeps within me? Or within you? And if we can draw out that darkness, might we then be able to draw out that which makes us... us?

Think on this, when we next meet, we shall begin to seek the answer.


Metamorph Eye

Metamorph Eye is a metamorph sample.

This item is restricted to areas with the league flag for Metamorph active. There are additional ways to acquire league-restricted items, see League-specific items for more details.

Metamorph Eye

Acquisition

Level: 1
League: Metamorph
Sell to Vendor Price:
  • 1x Scroll Fragment Scroll Fragment
Item class: Metamorph Sample
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Metamorphosis/MetamorphosisEye

Tane Octavius: Greater Samples

Though there is much left to discover from the dwellers of Wraeclast and Oriath, I wish to test my hypothesis that the darkness is not simply a property of where we live.

I’ve heard rumour that there may be a way to experience… other places. I am no expert in such matters, but if you plan on such a journey, I would ask that you continue to seek out suitable samples. And if you find some which possess the darkness in great quantities, well all the better.

Without this lab, I’d be wary about releasing such entities into the wild. Here, they can be contained, if not controlled.

Pound of Flesh

Pound of Flesh is a quest in Act 1.

Pound of Flesh
Required  No
Start  The Coast
Objective  Tāne wants you to slay creatures and collect samples from them. You will need five different samples.
Completion  Talk to Tāne

Walkthrough

Tāne wants you to slay creatures and collect samples from them. You will need five different samples.

Show Tāne that you have collected the samples he requested.

Place the samples you have collected in Tāne’s vial.

Your samples have summoned a Metamorph! Defeat it.

Speak to Tāne about the monster you defeated.

Quest Complete – You have created and defeated a Metamorph.

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