There are a total of 6 Mastery Insights and 5 Strongboxes, granting you a total of 11 Mastery points and 16 AP. One of the strongboxes has not yet being discovered and one of the Mastery Insights could be bugged currently since it is granted at a different location.
Mastery Insights
Tangled Depths Insight: Order of Whispers Outpost
Head southeast from Order of Whispers Camp Waypoint. You want to drop down on the hole on the ground and then glide down to the Order of Whispers outpost below.
Tangled Depths Insight: Tangled Hive
From Ley Line Confluence waypoint, head northeast towards Terraced Hive Points of Interest. When you reach the area with a bunch of bouncing mushrooms, jump on the one at the back. This mushroom will put you high up in the air and you can glide to the mastery insight location.
Tangled Depths Insight: Northern Confluence
From Teku Nuhoch waypoint, climb up all the way to the top where the Nohoch village is and glide east towards the ledge where Beetle Feast adventure is located. You want to follow that ledge south until you come to a gate and then jump off the ledge to glide along the wall.
Keep hugging the left wall when gliding and find a ledge to recharge your glider endurance. You want to glide to a rock that is blocking the entrance to a valley filled with bouncing mushrooms.Your goal is to reach the set of bouncing mushrooms at the front as they will chain bounce you directly to the mastery insight location.
Tangled Depths Insight: Twisting Viaduct
From Ogre Camp Waypoint, head west towards stream that leads to a vista. Glide off near the vista on the updrafts and you want to keep traveling the updrafts west until you get to the final updraft in the SW corner that will take you up to a ledge.
From the ledge, drop down to a hole. You don’t want to drop all the way to the bottom as the Mastery Insight is in the middle of the hole guarded by a single veteran mob which isn’t hard to kill.
Tangled Depths Insight: Nuhoch Lane
You will need Ley Line Gliding for this or find a mesmer with Ley Line gliding so they can port you. Go NW from Ley-Line Confluence waypoint and hop on the big shroom pad to jump into the ley line and glide with it until you reach the mastery point. You can park a mesmer alt next to the mastery point and just port people as needed.
Tangled Depths Insight: Decrepit Nest
Not sure if this is bugged or not but currently the champion that spawns in Chak Stronghold grant this Mastery Insight, which is very odd. You will need Itzel Poison Lore to access the area. Start from Dragon’s Passage Waypoint and head north via updraft so you can drop down onto the water and swim all the way to Chak Stronghold area. Don’t forget to use the Exalted Beacons (needs Exalted Markings) as otherwise the piranhas will eat you alive.
Once you are in the Chak Stronghold area, you need to kill keeping Chal until you get the event Help the Orders of Whispers clear out the Chak Hive. Completing this event will trigger another event with a champion
Strongboxes
Strongbox from the Cryptonym
This strongbox and Sword of Smodur are located in roughly the same area. You want to grab this strongbox first and then the Sword of Smodur as there is an updraft that will carry you to it from Cryptonym strongbox.
Keep going up the fungus pads and the tree root until you reach a ledge. Run past some vampire mobs on the ledge and head to an opening on your right. This will take you to another area with an updraft.
Glide towards the marked branch and try jump up it. It is a tricky jump and if you fall down you have to start over. Once you make the jump, proceed to the fungus pad and glide to the strongbox on your right side. This is the Cryptonym strongbox.
Strongbox from the Sword of Smodur
From Cryptonym strongbox, take the updraft to the ledge above and keep following the ledge until you can drop down to grab this strongbox.
Shard of Brilliance Strongbox
From Order of Whispers waypoint, head SW on a ledge to hop on the nearest updraft then use the series of updraft to reach the strongbox at the very top guarded by some Mordrem sharpshooters.
Whitebear’s Pride II Strongbox
You may want to bring another player for this as you will need to kill 3 Veteran Earth Elementals at once. It definitely can be soloed but if you are not confident in yourself it is best to have another player. Head NW from Ley line Confluence waypoint and follow the ledge on the right. Once you see an opening on the wall, take the path right and follow the bend.
The goal here is follow the path to reach an updraft and then take two more updrafts to end up on a platform occupied by 3 Veteran Earth elementals (they may not be there until you stand on the platform). Defeat the 3 Veteran elementals will cause the wall next to the platform to open up and spawn the secret Earth elemental. Kill it by attacking the hands (3 Veteran Earth elemental will spawn once the first hand is killed) and once he is dead the wall behind him will open up.
Plains of Golghein Strongbox
This strongbox is only available after successful completion of Tangled Depths meta event completion (King of the Jungle). After completion the door opens up and the strongbox is right there.
Mastery Insights
Tangled Depths Insight: Order of Whispers Outpost
Head southeast from Order of Whispers Camp Waypoint. You want to drop down on the hole on the ground and then glide down to the Order of Whispers outpost below.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Tangled Depths Insight: Tangled Hive
From Ley Line Confluence waypoint, head northeast towards Terraced Hive Points of Interest. When you reach the area with a bunch of bouncing mushrooms, jump on the one at the back. This mushroom will put you high up in the air and you can glide to the mastery insight location.
- Mastery req: Bouncing Mushrooms, Basic Gliding.
Tangled Depths Insight: Northern Confluence
From Teku Nuhoch waypoint, climb up all the way to the top where the Nohoch village is and glide east towards the ledge where Beetle Feast adventure is located. You want to follow that ledge south until you come to a gate and then jump off the ledge to glide along the wall.
- Mastery req: Bouncing Mushrooms, Basic Gliding.
Keep hugging the left wall when gliding and find a ledge to recharge your glider endurance. You want to glide to a rock that is blocking the entrance to a valley filled with bouncing mushrooms.Your goal is to reach the set of bouncing mushrooms at the front as they will chain bounce you directly to the mastery insight location.
Tangled Depths Insight: Twisting Viaduct
From Ogre Camp Waypoint, head west towards stream that leads to a vista. Glide off near the vista on the updrafts and you want to keep traveling the updrafts west until you get to the final updraft in the SW corner that will take you up to a ledge.
- Mastery req: Updraft
From the ledge, drop down to a hole. You don’t want to drop all the way to the bottom as the Mastery Insight is in the middle of the hole guarded by a single veteran mob which isn’t hard to kill.
Tangled Depths Insight: Nuhoch Lane
You will need Ley Line Gliding for this or find a mesmer with Ley Line gliding so they can port you. Go NW from Ley-Line Confluence waypoint and hop on the big shroom pad to jump into the ley line and glide with it until you reach the mastery point. You can park a mesmer alt next to the mastery point and just port people as needed.
- Mastery req: Ley Line Gliding
Tangled Depths Insight: Decrepit Nest
Not sure if this is bugged or not but currently the champion that spawns in Chak Stronghold grant this Mastery Insight, which is very odd. You will need Itzel Poison Lore to access the area. Start from Dragon’s Passage Waypoint and head north via updraft so you can drop down onto the water and swim all the way to Chak Stronghold area. Don’t forget to use the Exalted Beacons (needs Exalted Markings) as otherwise the piranhas will eat you alive.
- Mastery req: Itzel Poison Lore, Exalted Markings, Updraft. 2-3 players minimum.
Once you are in the Chak Stronghold area, you need to kill keeping Chal until you get the event Help the Orders of Whispers clear out the Chak Hive. Completing this event will trigger another event with a champion
Strongboxes
Strongbox from the Cryptonym
This strongbox and Sword of Smodur are located in roughly the same area. You want to grab this strongbox first and then the Sword of Smodur as there is an updraft that will carry you to it from Cryptonym strongbox.
- Mastery Req: Updraft
Keep going up the fungus pads and the tree root until you reach a ledge. Run past some vampire mobs on the ledge and head to an opening on your right. This will take you to another area with an updraft.
Glide towards the marked branch and try jump up it. It is a tricky jump and if you fall down you have to start over. Once you make the jump, proceed to the fungus pad and glide to the strongbox on your right side. This is the Cryptonym strongbox.
Strongbox from the Sword of Smodur
From Cryptonym strongbox, take the updraft to the ledge above and keep following the ledge until you can drop down to grab this strongbox.
- Mastery Req: Updraft
Shard of Brilliance Strongbox
From Order of Whispers waypoint, head SW on a ledge to hop on the nearest updraft then use the series of updraft to reach the strongbox at the very top guarded by some Mordrem sharpshooters.
- Mastery Req: Updraft
Whitebear’s Pride II Strongbox
You may want to bring another player for this as you will need to kill 3 Veteran Earth Elementals at once. It definitely can be soloed but if you are not confident in yourself it is best to have another player. Head NW from Ley line Confluence waypoint and follow the ledge on the right. Once you see an opening on the wall, take the path right and follow the bend.
The goal here is follow the path to reach an updraft and then take two more updrafts to end up on a platform occupied by 3 Veteran Earth elementals (they may not be there until you stand on the platform). Defeat the 3 Veteran elementals will cause the wall next to the platform to open up and spawn the secret Earth elemental. Kill it by attacking the hands (3 Veteran Earth elemental will spawn once the first hand is killed) and once he is dead the wall behind him will open up.
Plains of Golghein Strongbox
This strongbox is only available after successful completion of Tangled Depths meta event completion (King of the Jungle). After completion the door opens up and the strongbox is right there.
