Shaking Off Misfortune

Shaking Off Misfortune is a Dark and Darker quest assigned by the Goblin Merchant merchant, part of the Spooky Adventures quest line. Fleshling! Wait, don’t come any closer. Over there—take a step back! You know it too, right? My luck has been terrible lately. I asked the Fortune teller, and she said I’ve been cursed by bad energy from someone nearby! And you know what? I only have one friend—you. That means you’re the problem. That woman said it—you have to go back to the Ruins. If you want to shake off the misfortune clinging to your back, you have no choice. Again, again, again! The objective is to survive 8 raids. All progress requires a successful extraction — items retrieved or kills made during a failed run do not count toward quest completion. Once every objective is fulfilled, return to Goblin Merchant in the lobby to turn in the quest and receive the reward. This quest requires completing Grave Goods before it becomes available from Goblin Merchant. Completing Shaking Off Misfortune rewards 200 Gold, Random Epic Weapon, 2x Arcane Essence, 1,000 XP, GoblinMerchant Affinity +50. The quest is completed in Ruins. Merchant quests in Dark and Darker are one of the most consistent gold and experience sources in the game, independent of loot luck on the Trading Post. Completing the full Goblin Merchant quest chain unlocks higher reward tiers and increases merchant affinity, which can affect prices and open additional quest tiers in future seasons. The Spooky Adventures chain provides a structured progression path through the Goblin Merchant quest tree, and finishing each quest in order is the fastest route to the higher value objectives later in the line. Use the MetaBot Dark and Darker quest tracker to check all open objectives across every active merchant before extracting, so you can turn in multiple quests from a single run and get the most value out of each session.