Halas  

Dargon in Halas sells a potion called Ro's Breath for like 800 some odd plat that has a right click 25 dmg shield. What is nice about this ds is the fact that it stacks with regular DS pots, which at level one I think comes out to around 35, and goes up with the distillate strength. The shield doesn't last long... only a few minutes, but if you are looking to gain a couple levels really quick, get a temp and use both ds pots and hit up some trains.

I'm an Ogre Warrior and I've noticed that I'm NOT Kos to the guards here. My guess is if you worship Rallos Zek that affects it enough to make you dubious at the most. It also makes me dubious with a few giants. Kinda cool walking into the giant town while most people are kos to them. =) But being dubious that means I can actually get in to bring up my faction now!

I want to go to Halas and I was wondering how do you get from Freeport to Halas?

lvl 8 high elf mage

Halas is a great place for anyone! I ran here from Erudin with my level 2 wizzy and haven't left except to get spells. From 1-5 stay in front of the ramp that leads up to the merchants near the zone and just wax the mobs that wander through the canyon. During the first few levels, try to pull mobs back into the "alley" or you could have others aggro on you in no time.

Everfrost is a double-edged sword. It is great because mobs are not hard to find (no place to wander in canyons), but risky at low levels because there usually is at least one more out of the blue that attacks you while you are fighting. Pretty much every item you loot is part of some quest though... Keep the ice gobby beads, polar bear skins, and spider fungus. These items are all used in quests in Halas (check the quests page for details).

I suggest keeping the pelts and spider silks to improve your tailoring ability. Combine spiderling silks to get thread, then combine thread to get cord. You can sell cord or bank it for later when you can trivial hand-made backpacks (10-slot/50-100pp). You can buy sewing kits and patterns from the merchants at the top of the ramp and make patchwork or tattered armor. This will skyrocket your tailoring in no time, and give you more money by selling the items instead of the materials, or if you are a kind person, raise your reputation with the local newbies by giving away free armor. There are not a lot of people in Everfrost for the most part, so the more friends you make the better.

Look out for Vengeful anything!! They WILL kill you.

Once you hit 5-6 head to the west part of the zone. There are a series of gorges which sport mammoths, snow orc troopers, snow leopards, ice gobby scouts/warriors, polar bears, skeletons and wooly spiders. If you can group, then do it, as sometimes higher level mobs wonder toward the newbie zone. If you want to solo, stick near the guards near the northern two canyons. Kill spiders, gobbys and skeletons to start. Keep the necklaces and spider silks. Necklaces are quest items. (any exp you can get is worth it right?) Spider silks (not SPIDERLING silk) can be combined in a sewing kit to make silk swatches. Silk swatches can be used to make bandages, or raw silk armor (with patterns) which sells for a LOT more than tattered armor.

If you want to, camp the southern most goblin spawn. Every couple of spawn cycles, a goblin caster will appear. Kill him and he drops either shattered caster beads or caster beads, both are shaman guild quest items. Non-shattered caster beads will get you a weapon. (Not sure of stats... long time ago) Need good faction for these quests though. My wizzy couldn't complete them, so I ended up selling or giving away all the items to my buddy shaman. I still got xp because we were grouped though. ;)

I won't suggest any more levels because everyone is different. If you group, you can take out snow orc troopers and snow kitties at lower levels (8-9?), but if you solo these can get significantly harder. I have been part of an awesome group taking out mammoth calfs at 5-8.

Watch out for tundra jack and iceberg. I have been killed by both for casting spells too near them... They wander this area sometimes taking out polar bears and anything else that moves. If you can find him, Karg Icebear will make you armor from bearskins (cloak i think??) for some gold and skins. Look it up in the quests to be sure.

I might be too vague in some of this, but everyone has their own style of playing. Take it or leave it, this is how I play the zone. :)

~Quillon~
9th lvl Erudite Wizard

Halas is a pretty neat place to start out cause the first few levels you can go out killin gnoll pups and ice bear pups,once your done with those you can go to the gnoll camp which has a wide variety of gnolls to suit your skill level.If you've managed to kill every gnoll in that camp you can go out into the everfrost;itll keep you occupied for a long time.Only thing for newbies:watch out for vengeful soloists;they'll kick your ass in 5 seconds...they seem to come out mostly at night,but if u meet one,dont run just /loc and collect the stuff of your corpse

I'm tellin' ya, you're missing a golden opportunity to learn yourself a really, really useful skill here. Don't just take the easy way across that lake outside o' town--swim for it! You'll be surprised at how fast your skill goes up, and the skill comes in darned handy later (say, the Qeynos aqueducts and the Ivan's remains quest). Plus, as long as you keep your nose pointed up, you won't drown, even with no practice at all. Given that swimming skill translates into swimming speed, and speed means less time underwater when you have to dive, you owe it to yourself to work this one up.