Everfrost Peaks

Found a new NPC in the peaks area of EP, called "a bewildered artisan" tis a barbarian dressed in black, wanders from Blackburrow north to the Halas entrance, then past the book and out onto the tundra, goes to a goblin camp, then turns around and meanders thru ever crook and cranny back to BB. Followed him for over an hour. Does not respond to hails, but does give an emote about bandits. Tried to follow the bandits line and it did not advance the conversation.
Twas a red con to me, but since I am level 12 atm, most NPCs are red to me, called in a 105 rogue, it was a red con to him as well. It can not be attacked. Tried hailing him with a tradeskill trophy in hand and nothing. No idea of what it is for, but found iit today, right after the 6-22-16 patch
I did get a screenshot of it, but I don't know how to attach it to this post.

Hi i have noticed something odd, there is an underwatter cave near the ldon close to the wayfearers, i went in but it is empety other than maybe 6 skeles in a room and 3-4 walking around and maybe 5 gobolins but it seems that there should be something more in that cave is this an old zone or is it not finished or what all the mobs in ther suck they must not be more than level 5 or so, what is the deal with it is it for a quest, anyone know?

With a 35 druid with KEI (has not been nerfed on mac server), I can solo the IG's, which is crazy plat to the extreme. Like 50pp per kill. Not sure what it is on the PC servers, but whatever.

Root, snare, Drones of Doom, immolate, sit until root breaks, then run out of the castle, root, sit until root breaks, refresh dots, etc. It's a long time but faster money than HG's, and not bad exp.

I must ask.

If a foolish Halfling Druid used bad judgement to level about 10 levels and gain about 100 plat by (ahem) injuring (um) Ulrich and Einhorst McMannus in West Karana for (oh) about a month, would there be any way to make it up to the fine residents of Halas?

where should a level 15 human monk hunt in this zone and what should i persue and what gives good cash also i never did barbarian faction work should i be able to roam here

First of all, can i still do this quest? If i can, what item do i need? Who do i need to give them to and how much money do i need to give them?

What is your advice to gain good exp for a level 11 shawman in everfrost? Mammoth Calves?

Macnair's Guide to Western Everfrost: starting out in the canyons, level 1 through 7

In Brief. Everfrost Peaks has an excellent and fast newbie area up to level 3, good spots to advance to level 5, and a couple of places to move you up to level 7. Young barbarians have a good range of quests available to them. Surprisingly good money can be made. This guide looks at the western half of Everfrost Peaks; the other guide looks at the Tundra area to the east. Get the map.

The mobs. There are five basic types of critters here: wolves, bear cubs, skeletons, gnolls, and goblins. Almost all of them are wanderers, randomly bunching up from time to time. Almost all of them are level 1 and 2. There are several places with igloos, with ice goblins up to about level 5. There are three famous wandering skeletons, part of a minor Halas quest.

The Halas ramp area. The typical beginning player has an experience like this. You go down the ramp, past those two strong-looking guards, out onto the snow, and arrive at a T intersection. You look around, you see a single enemy, perhaps a gnoll pup, and you think, "I can handle that one." You go over and attack it. You're getting hit, but you're doing OK: you're winning the fight. Suddenly there are three gnoll pups and a couple of ice goblin whelps beating on you, and you are reading these famous words: LOADING PLEASE WAIT. There is a lesson in this. The Halas ramp is as good a place as any to learn that if you fight where the mobs can gang up on you, you are dead meat: so you must pull them to a place where you can fight them on your own terms. So: you learn to pull. You can pull from a short distance away, by casting a spell or shooting an arrow. Or by running up, tagging a mob, and running back to the edge or up the ramp a few steps. Don't fight in the middle of the main road: pull your target to a safer spot, dispatch it there, and then pull the next one.

The three igloos. In the southwestern part the zone, this is the most open area within the canyon half of Everfrost. There are three igloos here (hmm, I wonder if that's why they call this spot the three igloos? more research is needed on this point ... ). Unlike some of the other igloos here, nothing lives inside. Instead, you find lots and lots of the five wandering low level mobs. By level 3 you're tougher than any of them (ok, a few spiderlings may still con even), but they will still kill you, if you let enough of them get into the fight. In addition, this is where the vengeful skeletons spawn: Vengeful Composer (about level 8), Vengeful Lyricist (about level 10), and Vengeful Soloist (about level 12). They look just like a decaying skeleton. Pay attention when you see a skeleton heading your way. Run for the ramp. Oh, and as you autorun, /shout "vengeful to ramp from 3 igloos."

Underused pull spots. Most of the newbies hang out in the area from the Halas ramp to the three igloos. There are some other locations that are very good. My favorite is at the four-corner intersection east of the Halas ramp. There is a dead end going northeast, the road back to Halas goes west, the road to the tundra runs southeast, and a narrow canyon heads mostly south. Set up under the tree on the north side of the road (+2600, -500), just east of the intersection, facing that narrow southbound canyon. (This is as good a time as any to say, make a Sense Heading hotkey, and keep on tapping it, and make your Sense Heading skill improve. Also make a /loc hotkey, so you can touch one key and know where you are. You will be thankful that you did both of these things.) From this spot you can watch mobs coming by all day long, pick out the one you want, single pull it over to where you are, defeat it, and go on to the next one. Almost as good is the open triangular intersection a short distance west of Bandl (+700, -700). Press up against the wall on the east side of the clearing, face west, and pull from the many mobs that go marching by.

The Blackburrow ramp. By the time you're level 5 you won't be getting much experience from the wandering mobs. You can do ok with the ice goblins at (+1300, -1100) or (-1000, -1600). But most people head for Blackburrow (-1500, -300). There are two gnolls that guard at the top of the cave, another that guards at the second right angle bend, and a fourth that is hiding behind a rock waiting to ambush you. Bring a good light source; it's dark down that corridor. You might want a partner at level 5; by level 6 and 7 you can get pretty decent solo experience, killing these four gnolls in a continuous rotation. At level 7, certainly at level 8, you need to head into Blackburrow, or form a group of folks to start to pull the low level animals from the eastern half of the zone (see the post down below: Macnair's Guide to Eastern Everfrost: owning the tundra).

Loot. If you're in the early levels of your first character, you see people running around in awesome armor, and you think, "I want some of that." You go into a store and check prices, and things cost lots of plats, and you've got 6 silver and 9 copper to your name. How do you get some money?

First, kill decaying skeletons every chance you get. Especially look for ones with weapons. Some of the rusty weapons sell to the merchants for several gold: if you get a cracked staff, that will sell for almost a plat.

Second, collect all the bone chips you can. Never sell them to merchants. As soon as you have enough small coins to buy a box, get one, and keep saving up bone chips. Soon you will have a stack or two. Start auctioning them: /auc WTS bone chips. There will be a standard price on your server: 2 plat a stack seems to be the most common, but 5 plat is not unusual. You may not sell them today or tomorrow, but you will sell them, and for far more than the merchants will give you.

Third, collect spiderling silks and wolf / cat / bear pelts. Never sell them to merchants. In order of preference you want:

1.  High Quality Bear Pelts, which you will sell to  
    high level Tailors for 15 to 40 plat, 
    depending on your server's standard price; 
2.  Polar Bear Skins, which you will give to Cindl  
    at Mac's Kilts in Halas, for faction, money,  
    and rawhide armor which you can either wear  
    or sell right back to her for more money; 
3.  Low Quality / Medium Quality pelts, which you  
    may be able to sell directly to very high  
    level Smiths; but you will sell them for  
    sure if you decide to learn  tailoring  
    yourself and turn them into stacks of Leather  
    Padding, selling for 100 to 200 plat per stack,  
    again at your server's standard price;  
4.  Spiderling Silks, which you can sell to tailors  
    or smiths by the stack at your standard  
    server price, or use yourself to make those  
    Leather Paddings; 
5.  Ruined pelts, which you can use to make your  
    own patchwork armor to sell or wear, or sell  
    to other beginning tailors.  

Of course, you'll get more ruined pelts than HQ ones (you knew that, didn't you?). And again, you may not sell these items today or tomorrow, but you will sell them: and when you have sold a couple of HQ bear pelts or a stack of leather padding, you will be on your way.

There are twinks out there, level 4 characters wearing level 30 hand-me-down equipment from someone's level 50 main character. If you're on your first character, that won't be you: so you have to just accept that you'll look like a level 4 character wearing level 4 equipment. Nevertheless, by the time you reach level 7 or 8, that can be very different: you can easily have earned enough money off the loot that you have collected in the canyons of Everfrost to be in full banded armor by then.


Edited, Wed Mar 20 13:49:09 2002

I'm working on getting to Lvl 15 in the east side of Antonica atm but when I started my Human Warrior in Qeynos, I visited Everfrost at lvl 7-8 but the Soloists kicked me out. I'm planning a permanent return there and to Permafrost and was curious on potential feedback on this option.

Why? I like winter and snow*lol* My other char, a lvl 26 DE SK, well I'll be sending him to Velious in a few lvls >)

Edited, Thu Feb 7 11:03:27 2002

I am a Lvl 23 Ogar Warrior, I need to get to Permafrost for the Crafted Boots quest. I see on the map only 2 trails that will lead to Permafrost, coming from Qynos Hills and Both have Barbarian Guards. HOW DO I GET PAST THEM OR IS THERE ANOTHER TRAIL I CAN TAKE? ALSO IS THERE ANY WHERE I CAN BIND AT TO HUNT IN PERMAFROST?