<-Xmas<- Jezebelle's handy pocket guide to [StoS]
=========== Slush to Slush ===========
aka the Frozen Excavation Site (new for Christmas 2018 / Holiday 29492) Talk to Santa Leet in ICC, at /waypoint 3186 927 655 Santa Leet: Sup? Canz u halp meh wif something? You: What do you need help with? Santa Leet: Aliumz has attacked mah workshop. Mah Elfleets needz halp before Christmas is teh ruined! Also kids r bein bad! Open gift b4 ready! Stop bad kidz! You: Where are these naughty children? Santa Leet: Bad kidz! Big drill! Open secret box b4 ready! Broken shorez go g0!Here r teh coordz. Gewd luck n tnx! Mission: Slush to Slush Description: Slush to Slush Santaleet has directed you towards a batch of children who are being very naughty, trying to open a present that does not belong to them. Find them in Broken Shores and put an end to their misbehavior. Realtime left: 0 days, 24 hours. Reward: None Grid to Broken Shores and head Northeast to the excavation site at /waypoint 904 1693 665. If you can't grid there (251 Comp.Lit. Required), there are both Clan and Omni whompahs to Broken Shores, but it's gonna take some running, and there's some unfriendly critters along the way. Blubbags, Mechdogs, Shades, and Hyenas, around levels 55-72. Not lowbie friendly, but the terrain is open enough and the monsters are spread out enough that if you watch your playfield map you should be able to steer clear. If you're a neutral lowbie, the Omni whompah is slightly closer to your destination. Inside the Excavation Site, you can see your breath. There's ice everywhere. Hope you brought Cold AC and Nano Resist. The dungeon is instanced to your level, approximately, like the recent Halloween and Anniversary dungeons. It might be rounded off to a 5 or so, but it's close. Like the Anniversary dungeon, you can get XP in here, so if you choose to log out here instead of doing all that running again, you might end up leveling up the dungeon too and have to leave to upgrade your gear to keep up. There are scattered enemies far enough apart that you can usually take them one at a time and rest whenever you need it, and a single path through moderately sized rooms. There appear to be a lot of doors, but there's only one path that isn't iced over. Not even side rooms. The basic enemies generally have one random item of Christmas loot, which may be from any Christmas in the past 16 years, including this year's new stuff. Sometimes they'll also have a piece of Frozen Excavation armor, but check the stats before you get excited about their gear protecting you from the cold. Apparently it isn't gear designed for frozen excavations, it's regular excavation gear that's been frozen. It looks cool, literally, but it's not great armor. It has good Health and Nano, but terrible AC, just a little NCU, and that's it. And it's level-locked so you can't even twink it. I suppose it could be useful somewhere like the Halloween Abandoned Facility where all the monsters attack with nanos so AC isn't a factor, but it's mostly just for social. In the first winding tunnel, you'll find: 1 Dust Brigade Excavator (Nanotechnician) 1 Dust Brigade Trooper (Soldier) An East-West passage, looking more like carved walls now: 1 Dust Brigade Excavator A wider North-South passage with pillars: 1 Malah-Efewel 1 Dust Brigade Trooper 1 Dust Brigade Excavator Continuing North either way around a larger pillar: 1 Gelid Spinetooth on the right 1 Gelid Spinetooth on the left Triangular Antechamber with giant blocks, first miniboss in the center of the room: Lethargic Spinetooth - Watch out for his Frost Burn cross-shaped AoE of cold explosions. - Mostly attacks with Nanotechnician nanos - Has 3 Christmas items + Frozen Excavation gear (usually) - Defeat him and an Energy Vortex appears. Strategy: - Kill it fast or have a lot of Nano Resist. Click the vortex to teleport North to diagonal room: Empty, but not a great place to log out if you want to reset and stay in here; there are only 5 regular mobs before the next vortex. If you want to do that, the door where you arrived had 8 regulars and the weakest boss. Octothorpe (#): 1 Bleeding Shadow 1 Bleeding Shadow 1 Malah-Efewel East then North Ramp: 1 Malah-Efewel 1 Bleeding Shadow (standing where he'll see if you shoot the Malah) Diamond shaped apex room, the second miniboss on the far side: Ice Golem - Watch out for Unnatural Ice pillars of ice that damage and slow. - Also, Divest Nano, Dazed and Confused, pull and stun. - Drops 3-4 Christmas items + Frozen Excavation gear. - Defeat him and an Energy Vortex appears Strategy: - Running right up to his snow pile and letting him hug you, even with a ranged attack, seems to keep most of his excessive damage away, but casters will still have a problem with his Divest. Energy Vortex to the base of the Western Phallic Hallway 1 Dust Brigade Trooper (in agro range when you arrive) 1 Gelid Spinetooth (just out of range at the archway) 1 Malah-Efewel (right side, just past the arch) 1 Dust Brigade Excavator (left side) Finale Temple, the big boss 1 Dust Brigade Trooper (on the right) 1 Dust Brigade Excavator (in the back on the left) and straight ahead, facing away from you, staring furiously at a portal to Penumbra blocked by some debris: Afreet Deavello - Basic Cold attacks, of course - Casts both Unnatural Ice and Frost Burn, which reach out into the hallway and around the sides of the room. - 4-5 Christmas items + 1-2 Frozen Excavation items. - Can drop three rare items: Elf Mask, Frozen Helmet, and Satchel - Defeat him and a final Energy Vortex appears. Strategy: - Try to pull the Dusties out first, obviously. Daevello is distracted, so it's not too hard. - He can't leave the room, but he can just summon you back to him, so once he's mad at you, running won't help. - Again, getting up close seems to work better than shooting from afar. - Even better, if you can jump high enough, get on top of the vertical steam pipe on his west side. - If you can't jump that high, try hopping up on the platform with his portal. Click that last vortex and you're teleported out to the top of Crypt of Home. Mission "Slush to Slush - Cooldown" lasts 20 minutes. If you'd rather stay in this third area to keep farming Deavello for his exclusive items, there is one safe spot to log out, near where you arrived. There was a Trooper on the other side of a pillar. To avoid being pounced on while you're loading, you want to be right on the opposite side of that pillar, at /waypoint 132 111 8070 . Almost all the items (72/82) available in Christmas Gifts are dropped here. Exceptions include: Giant Snow Shovel, Present Placard, Bouquet of Winter, Santa Leet Doll, Fruit Cake, Old Fashioned Apple Cider, Candy Cane, Nano Crystal (Throw Snowball v2.2), Play Costume - Holiday Series #2, Igloo. If you're still missing those, your best bet is Santa Leet's Workshop or Antleets. The new Christmas items you can get here include: Clothes that may now also be found in Christmas Gifts Festive Sweater Festive Tights of the North Buckled Boots Woolen Pajamas The Frozen Excavation "armor" should drop near your level, like Rusted Carbonum did, but just like that set, don't expect much of it. Frozen Excavation Legwear Frozen Excavation Shirt Frozen Excavation Sleeves Frozen Excavation Gloves Frozen Excavation Boots There's also a grenade launcher that goes with the set, but it's QL1 only, a "social weapon". Frostburned Mother Nitrogena Efreet Deavello may also drop these three: Elf Mask Frozen Excavation Helmet Frozen Excavation Satchel <-back to Christmas<- ->macro bookmark [StoS]<-