BO6 Zombies The Tomb Main Quest Easter Egg guide

Black Ops 6 Season 2 introduces a new Main Quest for Zombies mode with the deadly Tomb map. Compared to the other maps, it’s not as time-consuming, but it does involve a few intense challenges.

To help you with this feat, here’s a walkthrough of the BO6 Zombies The Tomb Main Quest.

How to complete The Tomb Main Quest in Black Ops 6 Zombies

To complete the 🧸Tombဣ Main Quest, you must conquer the following objectives in this order:

1. Obtain the Ice Staff
2. Upgrade the Ice Staff
3. Complete the Vermin, Parasite, Doppelghast, and Amalgam statue challenges
4. Defeat the Sentinel Artifact boss

Each task brings its own sets of challenges, where you must come prepared with Pack a Punch, high rarity weapons, and Perk Colas. The Tomb map also demands a ton of Essence, so use any GobbleGums to save some money. With the proper preparations, it’s time to tackle these steps in BO6 Zombies.

How to unlock Ice Staff in BO6 Zombies

Unlike Zombies Origins, you won’t have to look for staff pieces inside dirt piles. This time, you’ll obtain them by defeating the Shock Mimic at Round 8 and completing the bull and hunter mural puzzles. You’ll unlock these items for the Ice Staff build:

• Monocle
• Head Piece
• Staff

While the Monocle is easy to acquire, the Head Piece and Staff present the more challenging objective. You’ll find these paintings near the Deadshot Daquiri and Death Perception machines. The goal here is to face the purple lanterns toward the bull and hunter puzzles to produce glowing Roman numerals. Sometimes, the lanterns won’t be in the right place, but you can shoot them and wait a minute or two to get them closer to the painting (continue to shoot them if it doesn’t happen the first time).

Shoot the Roman numerals in order to begin an enclosed zombie battle. The showdown includes standard undead enemies and Special Zombies, where it’ll be crucial to use weapons like the Mustang and Sally. You can also follow the orb to see where the next batch of foes will spawn next. Make sure not t𝓰o step out of the purple circle, too, just in case it stops your progress. Then, once it flashes white, you can pick up the Head Piece or Staff for the Ice Staff.

Repeat the process to claim the last piece for the Ice Staff. Now, go to the Dark Aether Nexus (the Crazy Place) to place all staff pieces inside the stone structure at the center.

You must defend the Ice Staff for a few minutes until it’s finally time to grab it. It’ll be quite difficult to survive here due to the tremendous amount of undead hordes. I like using the Idle Eyes GobbleGum here whenever things get too tough. In return, you can acquire the Ice Staff to freeze zombies for quicker eliminations.

BO6 Zombies The Tomb Roman numeral guide

Th🧸ose who need a refresher on Roman numerals can use this table as🐼 a guide:

How to upgrade Ice Staff in BO6 Zombies

To upgrade the Ice Staff in Black Ops 6 Zombies, you must freeze three purple lanterns in 10 seconds and complete the soul-farming challenge. I’ll provide a quick overview of what must be done here, but if you want something more in-depth, check our Ice Staff upgrade guide.

First, you must set yourself up with the purple lanterns by getting the Stamin-Up perk. You only have 10 seconds to shoot the three lights (there’s a lot on this map), so you want to establish a nice and easy route. I find it best to use the route starting from D4 to F4 coordinates. The lights on꧑ this path seem to be the closest together, which works perfectly for the ﷽10-second requirement.

If a light is too far away, shoot it to move it to a more noticeable area. I suggest practicing a test run first to plan it out better. When you’re ready, hit the three lanterns with the Ice Staff, and the NPC Archibald will commend you on your success.

Travel to the Dark Aether Nexus and hit rocks with symbols on them using the Ice Staff. The Ice Staff lowers the rock to make the symbols easier to see. However, be warned: the shape of the icons is a bit hard to see. So, if you aren’t sure what to make of them, take a picture or write down the symbols to help you out later on.

Return to the Dig Site and shoot these symbols on one of the doors. Go through the now-opened portal and interact with the orb directly in front of yoꦬu. Now, you can begin the soul-farming challenge by killing zombies and following the orb. By the end of it, you can claim the Ice Staff upgrade.

All Vermin, Parasite, Amalgam, and Doppelghast statue Tomb locations

The Ice Staff upgrade provides a Healing Orb, which you can trigger with this weapon’s Sekhmet’s Vigor. Press the left-directional button to change the Ice Staff to Sekhmet’s Vigor. You must use it to heal energy on Vermin, Parasite, Doppelghast, and Amalgam statues. Each location features similar challenges to one another, where you must complete the following steps:

1. Use the Healing Orb on the Vermin, Parasite, Doppelghast, or Amalgam statue
2. Pick up the glowing energy from the statue
3. Go to an identical statue in another area
4. Place the energy in the corresponding statue
5. Begin a one-minute-long lockdown challenge by defeating zombies with the illuminated circle
6. Grab the energy from the statue after completing the challenge
7. Return to the original statue and place the energy down

Every time you begin the lockdown, you will encounter enemies based on the statue you interacted with. So, if you used the Vermin one, you’d end up fighting hordes of Vermin. The exact location for the statues is scattered around the Tomb, so I’ll divide them to give you a better picture.

Vermin statue location #1

• Dark Aether Nexus (across from the red doorway)
• F5 coordinates

Vermin statue location #2

• Dig Site
• Go through the blue doorway to go to B4 coordinates

Parasite statue location #1

• Dark Aether Nexus (across from the green doorway)
• E5 coordinates

Parasite statue location #2

• Stamin-Up room (Shrine of Hierophants)
• Go through the yellow doorway to go to E3 coordinates

Doppelghast statue location #1

• Dark Aether Nexus (across from the blue doorway)
• E4 coordinates

Doppelghast statue location #2

• Speed Cola room (Ossuary)
• Go through the green doorway to go to F6 coordinates

Amalgam statue location #1

• Dark Aether Nexus (across from the blue doorway)
• F4 coordinates

Amalgam statue location #2

• Quick Revive room (Deep Evacuation)
• Go through the red doorway to go to the I4 coordinates

Achieving the four lockdown challenges will give you access to the Sentinel Artifact boss fight. Like Citadelle des Morts, this enemy will be difficult to deal with, just as you would expect in the final stage of a Zombies Main Quest.

How to defeat the Sentinel Artifact boss in The Tomb

Once you place the last energy down on the statue, the broken bridge to the Sentinel Artifact will now be fixed. You may have encountered this area earlier, where Archibald talks about the ancient artifact. Enter the new destination and interact with the Sentinel Artifact to start The Tomb Final Encounter.

The final boss fight for the Tomb is considered to be the most difficult yet. Therefore, you must deck yourself out with anything you can. This includes Pack a Punch Level 3, Legendary rarity, and most Perk Colas. For better defense, upgrade your armor to three plates. If you’re feeling adventurous, get the Golden Armor Plates for even more protection.

Weapons like the Mustang and Sally or ASG-89 Shotgun work well with the final boss fight. However, you can go in with something else if it suits your playstyle more. I also suggest having anything that gets the zombies’ attention away from you, such as Aether Shroud, Idle Eyes, and Decoy Grenades. You may want to bring the Free Fire and Perkaholic GobbleGums, too, for a more accessible experience. The Perkaholic, in particular, will help you if you’re downed during the fight, giving you back your perks with a revive.

Once ready, jump into the battle, where you’ll experience the following phases:

• Phase 1: The Sentinel Artifact will go above you while hordes of zombies spawn. Wait until it appears blue to inflict damage on it.
• Phase 2: Artifact splits apart and deals considerable damage with a circulating attack. Travel up and down this location to avoid this strike and continue to shoot at the boss.
• Phase 3: Artifact will now attach itself to Special Zombies (glowing orange/red). Defeat them to get the artifact out of it. Then, start shooting it again once it’s out.
• Phase 4: The boss will go inside the wall, but it should be easy enough to hit.

Survive through these phases to trigger the exclusive BO6 Zombies The Tomb cutscene. You’ll receive the X91 Ice-Pike Weapon, 5,000 XP, and a unique Calling Card.