Great Marsh
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| Requirement | none |
| Waypoint | yes |
| Act | 3 |
| Chests | sparkly chests in its boggy clearings |
| Shrines | yes |
| Wells | yes |
| Monster types | 3 picked per game |
Great Marsh is a surface area in Act 3. It is accessed through Spider Forest or through its waypoint.
Great Marsh belongs to the terror zone Great Marsh. When it is terrorized in Hell, its monsters are 2 levels above your character, up to level 96, and give 25% more experience.
Great Marsh has sparkly chests in its boggy clearings. A sparkly chest 
does a regular chest drop with a small chance to try to make every item unique, set or rare; otherwise it rerolls until it has one to three magic items.
Monsters
RalSocketsMonsters here drop at their own level (21–22): item level up to 22, champions 24, uniques 25. The most sockets a white or superior base drops with here.
| Base | Mon | Champ | Uniq | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Sword | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Flail | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Military Pick | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Targe | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Rondache | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Heraldic Shield | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Voulge | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Scythe | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Poleaxe | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
LevelingFull experience at character level 17–26. From level 27 it drops to 95%, down to 5% from level 32. From level 14, Canyon of the Magi gives 1.7× the experience per kill.
Lvl 14Lvl 35
Character level 17: 100% experienceThe share of its monsters' experience you get, by your level, for one player. Better areas are compared per kill with Normal areas whose monsters are at most 5 levels above you. See leveling and experience.
UmSocketsItem level 50, champions 52, uniques 53. The most sockets a white or superior base drops with here.
| Base | Mon | Champ | Uniq | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bec-de-Corbin | – | 6 | 6 | 6 |
LevelingFull experience at character level 50–55. From level 56 it drops to 81%, down to 5% from level 60. From level 50, Durance of Hate Level 3 gives 1.4× the experience per kill.
Lvl 42Lvl 63
Character level 50: 100% experience · Durance of Hate Level 3 gives 1.4× the experience per killThe share of its monsters' experience you get, by your level, for one player. Better areas are compared per kill with Nightmare areas whose monsters are at most 5 levels above you. See leveling and experience.
Zod
SocketsItem level 80, champions 82, uniques 83. The most sockets a white or superior base drops with here.The popular runeword bases drop here with all their sockets.
LevelingFull experience at character level 80–85. From level 86 it drops to 81%, down to 5% from level 90. From level 80, Throne of Destruction gives 1.3× the experience per kill.
Lvl 72Lvl 93
Character level 80: 100% experience · Throne of Destruction gives 1.3× the experience per killThe share of its monsters' experience you get, by your level, for one player. From level 70 the game also cuts all experience, wherever you are (95% at 70, 25% at 85, 0.6% at 98). Better areas are compared per kill with Hell areas whose monsters are at most 5 levels above you. See leveling and experience.