Forgotten Frostlands guide. :P

Brael - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Finished it a little earlier. 79 barb, 75 cleric, 75 veno, 83 archer, me (86 veno), and 76 bm. Took about 2 hours 45 min. For some reason I was the only person that could get the quests inside but we did it during double exp so still came out with a lot of exp from the clear (we would just charge a group of mobs and ae them down, they wouldn't take long at all). Did it without reading the guide, so the second boss was a nightmare... we had no clue what was going on and ended up having to fight the hardest version. Dreadindra was a bit of a pain too, and took a couple of tries (plus hp charms after the second loss) to beat.

Everything else was easy, the only problem we really ran into was since I was the only person that could get that sanctuary quest, I was the only one that got the item reward at the end. Plus the guy that spawned in the 6th bosses room, there weren't any quests or anything I could do with him. Ended up with 3 of those tome things from the bosses before Holeen, then a flawless sapphire/citrine from him, and I got an amazing... TWO, yes two coin chests. I ended up dropping them on the ground, I think they rotted. It was pretty fun though.

Only those 85+ will be able to receive quests inside FF. And I believe only those 85+ can open it up also.

Also, does anyone know what the difference is between chosing Body or Soul for the last boss? Does it have any ramifications for the Holleen Champion itself?

-weng

This could be a good guide. It might even get stickied with some work!

Note: Apparently a level 81 wizard can tank Holeen with a handful of dews and some HP pots.

(this is after our cleric DC'd and the barb and two venos got killed >_<)

Does anyone have a map of FC & where all the bosses are located?

Viprae - Sanctuary wrote: »

Humm, that's odd, they 1 hit our barb. O.o

Circles stack 5k damage each circle

Viprae - Sanctuary wrote: »

3rd boss - Cyclotra Styren

He appears after you talk to the npc to release her from the prison. This boss is really weak. He summons dragoons which are also easy to kill. This boss doesn't really have anything special about him that I can remember. ^^
Boss's attack is an AoE

4th boss - Dreadindra

This boss summons bishops while you fight him, which can be quite annoying. He'll summon more than one if you ignore it too. This boss purges you, as well as switches aggro often. Like the other bosses though he's not incredibly strong.

Arguably the hardest boss in this run. Bishops are the worst thing to deal with in frost. If no one deals with the bishops or bothers to get them off the cleric/veno healing herc, you might find that person dead before you know if they are arcane..

5th boss - Asoteric Runewolf

This boss is really easy to tank. It has a deadly aoe it'll use while fighting. The aoe does around 4kish damage per hit and hits about 10-20 times. You'll be able to tell when he is going to use the aoe when he says
SUPER..
POWERFUL..
MIGHTY..
WHIRLING..
SLASH..

So if he starts saying that just run out of range and wait for him to start running around again before resuming damage dealing.
AoE is 15 meters radius range

6th boss - Messenger of Fear

Simple boss, easy to tank. All it really does is attack and aoe once in a while. Aoe can be cancelled. Nothing else to the boss really.
He sleeps too

8th boss - Decaying Fragrance

Uses short range aoe stun sometimes. Also uses a the axe skill(Like Krimson does). Axe will debuff your def so the boss can do a good amount of damage. Purify often, he curses about every 10-20 seconds. This is one of the only bosses I suggest you don't herc tank.
his debuff is instant cast, its near if not impossible to interrupt it

9th boss - Asoteric Phoenix

It's a flying boss so you have to lure it down. The boss has an aoe. Other than that it's just another normal battle. Aoe does mid sized damage.
drains chi from tank to restore HP, however herc doesn't have chi to steal



You can get flawless shards and frost weapons/armor/ornaments (I have attained 2 frost wands and 1 HA wrist guard so far) from final boss

Left some comments

There was a quest at level 75 or 76 I think to unlock the solo mode for Frostcovered City, but when I go in, the NPC tells me I need to be in squad.

Did I miss part of a quest to unlock solo mode, or can it only be done with at least one other party?

Thanks

Dunno if this have come up yet, but phoenix does a lot more than just aoe. He has chi burn, seal and DoT, not something you wanna tank as charmed barb on my lvls as cleric get sealed = no heal for short time = charm tick. It`s prolly easy at higher lvls, I just did it at 78, which is kinda low, finished whole run that time.

Also about Messenger of fear, he does spell circle a lot, yet not all of em you need to cancel. Only the one that pops after he shouts his cocky shout(Dunno remember his shout, but it`s the same every time). I think it`s stun every other time and kinda nasty aoe every other, but when you get the hang of it, it`s kinda easy to cancel.

Ps. About drops, I got that fc HA chest(Galemark plate) as drop from ocean master, but haven`t heard anybody else getting any piece of eguipment on whole Archo server. Somebody must have gotten, but I think chances are like 1/20 get any piece of gear.

Pps. How you ppl waste so much time in that dungeon is there different difficulty lvls or something? I think my full run didn`t take any longer than 2h, 2,5h max and we got only cleric +85. Or are those first 2 pages from the old Fc? Imma keep reading, just wondering though.

Edit: Drealindhra is so easy atm, dunno why ppl have problems with it. Our cleric died, thanks to bishops(?), so I had to tank it w/o any heals till he ran back, did it with 10k charm burned. Had those op event hp pots, but I dun think I used many of those either. Oh yeah, dunno if this have come up yet, but Drealindha doesn`t seem to debuff the one tanking it, just the rest, lol.