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Wazakesy
03-31-2016, 06:00 AM
NOTICE

While I understand you are at the moment viewing this thread, please do bear in mind this thread is still in the works. Once I'm done, This notice will be removed. This is to the early viewers who are disappointed when they viewed the thread. Applies to you, Yes you reader as well. :p

CONTRIBUTORS

I'd like to take a moment and thank the following who have aided me in this guide!

Bluesparky
Energizeric



Maps

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Bosses

Heston & Preston:
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Heston's Abilities:
Heston can summon boulders and a fire pool. His fireball will initially look like a small flare from the sky, when it touches down in about 5-6s it explodes into a lava pool that damages you if you stand on it. The boulders don't seem to stun you though they will damage you.

Firepool & the small fire on the ground:
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Preston's Abilities:
Preston uses an ice type move that freezes the player for at least 2-4s. He also spawns a "flag" that summons 4 silver colored beetles (beetle mob) that ram you, stun you and giving Preston the upper hand to attack you further, A crystal that de-buffs your speed when you get close to it (this can be ignored by using stun immunity abilities/skills).
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Hugal the berserker:
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Abilities:
He has at least 3-4 red zone attacks. One of his red zones will put an exclamation mark over you (and possibly your party), It may suggest that you will be attacked. Before he dies, He will use the Orc buff to boost his damage and critical abilities. Lastly, do not forget that he is a deadly boss as kiting is the best thing to do, His dual daggers and his capabilities will easily become heavy for you. He does have axe throw as well. He also buffs his speed (when he gets a dark aura around him).

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Jadis Gearloose:
Jadis (Gearless form):
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Abilities:
He has alot of troublesome moves that can literally wipe you out if you are some who is solo'ing jadis. He has a small (triangular) red zone that explodes crystals on the ground. He has a crystal move that when in a certain range will damage you per second. He has a special poison attack that will de-buff armor (-20-25%), debuff damage (-50%) and apply a 10-tick DoT effect. He also summons boulders that become muddy grounds which will slow your movements down and bleed you (like rogue traps). When he is near death, He hops onto his geared machine.

Abilities (SS):
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Jadis Lv2 (geared, Machine equipped form)
Abilities:
Jadis is now back at full health and his new machine gives him new skills. He now uses gust that fires an uncharged mage's gale force, it can become fire-type and can incinerate players who get caught up in its range. He can now shoot yellow flares from the sky that will become yellow pools that are the same as the ones of the Staff Gnome, The pools remain active for 10s, stuns the player and damages them if they stand on it.

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Mobs

Cryostar Worm
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Abilities:
This mob is a unique mob. It has a basic poison attack that has a DoT effect of about 6-7 ticks per second. Upon its death, it's body fissions into 3-4 more smaller cryostar worms (remember arachna's fission?) that have the same abilities as it's main body. Not to forget that when these 3 baby worms spawn, at least 2-3 pools of poison (green colored) are spawned and stepping on it will apply a speed de-buff as well as a poison effect. Using the hibiscus elixir or the hibiscus plant's healing capablities (that last for a few seconds) will neutralize its poison effects.

After death the baby ones spawn:
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Beetle mob
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When this mob notices you, the first reaction is that it will recklessly ram you that stuns you. These mobs' stuns can be avoided by using a stun immunity skill. These mobs are a real pain, so make sure to have nekro or a stun immunity skill!

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Armored Orc
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Abilities:
This mob is like our old rengol buddy. He has the axe throw skill, Buffs nearby mobs' damage and critical rate. This lasts for about ~10-12 seconds.

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Cryostar Shaman
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Abilities:

She summons to types of "flying-fireballs". The green color'd floating balls heal the shaman, the red color'd floating ball attack the player, each attack hits at a rate of about .5 per second so that's about 2 shots of fireballs per second and the fireballs slow your speed down. Nekro shield didn't help me, neither did razor shield help me negate the speed slowdown.

PLEASE NOTE: Killing the shaman doesn't mean the fireballs will disappear, you'll have to kill the fireballs too as they're not connected with the shaman. The fireballs are mobs themselves

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Dual Dagger'd Gnome
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This mob just has a rush attack, although he is not much of a threat his deadly precision like the rogue character. When you fight mulitple of these mobs...well mages, please run as fast as your tiny legs can take you!


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Staff gnome
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Pool + Stun + damage
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Abilities:
This gnome spawns yellow pools that will stun you, damage you ONLY if you were standing on it. The stun lasts for about 2-4 seconds, the pools will disappear after about 10 seconds, Any other mob that stands on the yellow pool will be granted a shield (nekro shield + razor shield) that will increase their defensive capabilities. Also note, you will damaged every second for standing on the pool.

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Heraldic Gnome
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Abilities:
This mob looks similar to the Herald or Arlor, Thus i named it "Heraldic Gnome". This mob throws poison knives at you that apply a Damage-over-time effect and drain your mana and if it throws multiple knives then yes their effects will stack too. Using the Hibiscus' anti-poison fluids will help you.

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Glintstone City
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Loots

With new maps come new loots. So here is a compiled list of loots.

Heretic chests - Gold/Bronze/Silver

*insert pics*

Map drops:

*insert evil meme*

Wazakesy
03-31-2016, 06:06 AM
Reserved

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bonjovi3223
03-31-2016, 06:33 AM
I will be compiling multiple sorts of "things" for The curse of cryostar. This will serve much like your dictionary does. [emoji14]


Maps


Bosses


Mobs


Glintstone City
This is exactly how my full in-depth knowledge looked before I started those maps [emoji14]

oekeone
03-31-2016, 06:39 AM
reserved cause you just got served

Fredystern
03-31-2016, 09:07 AM
How many times you run to collect the information >.<

Wazakesy
03-31-2016, 09:10 AM
How many times you run to collect the information >.<

Just once, I have all the data I need although some of my data may be incorrect.

Remiem
03-31-2016, 09:28 AM
Awesome work! I'm going to move this over to the Player Guides section.

DK
03-31-2016, 02:01 PM
Hey Wazakesy

Great guide!

I made a little video-guide on how to do the quest involving the Hibiscus plants, since a lot of people seemed to hav problems with it.

You are welcome to include it in your guide if it can be usefull, just mention my name.


https://youtu.be/V529TrW__Ek

- Dkninja

Zeus
03-31-2016, 02:09 PM
Wow, nicely done Waz! Thank you very much! :)

Lolifee
03-31-2016, 06:04 PM
The Gnomes ignore the root from timeshift/freeze skill from mages

Thx good work!

Wazakesy
03-31-2016, 07:58 PM
Hey Wazakesy

Great guide!

I made a little video-guide on how to do the quest involving the Hibiscus plants, since a lot of people seemed to hav problems with it.

You are welcome to include it in your guide if it can be usefull, just mention my name.


https://youtu.be/V529TrW__Ek

- Dkninja

I have already uncovered all the data from the expansion and how things work. but still, I will include your contributions!! :)

Sorry about the massive time delay, i was asleep and will now update the thread. ease be patient. :)

alxe
04-01-2016, 12:57 AM
Cool guide :D tho if i could add something,the breserker also has an axe that will pull u in fast then he attacks with red zone ussualy..dont insta kills but quite close.

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Mustafid Ahmad
04-01-2016, 04:51 PM
Yiiiihhhhaaaa gogogo :D

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ILoveGirls :*
04-02-2016, 08:42 AM
Nice guide very helpful to endgamers!

oekeone
04-14-2016, 07:31 AM
nice work! by the way can u loot the beetle sets in any of these maps?

oekeone
04-14-2016, 07:45 AM
Yiiiihhhhaaaa gogogo :D

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xD LMAAAOOO

Fyrce
04-14-2016, 10:32 AM
Berserker is easier if you stick close to him. If you are close, not much further out than his long red cone, he will not axe throw. Without axe throw, he only has two moves that are concerning: his exclamation w the long red cond, and his small bright red spot. Both of these are directional and will likely one-shot you or hit you very hard. To fight him, stick close to him. When he does his exclamation mark, get ready for his long cone. He stops just before his attack. Get behind or to the side of this. Same w his red dot, which can be quite difficult to see if too many affects are going on. The red zones are easier to see solo. When it is difficult to see anything, I just stick close to him and try to be behind him at all times.

Avaree
04-15-2016, 06:59 AM
Great introduction guide to the Underhul maps, I added some things I noticed when soloing. :)


NOTICE

Bosses

Heston & Preston:
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Heston's Abilities:
Heston can summon boulders and a fire pool. His fireball will initially look like a small flare from the sky, when it touches down in about 5-6s it explodes into a lava pool that damages you if you stand on it. The boulders don't seem to stun you though they will damage you.
Firepool & the small fire on the ground:
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I would also like to add, the fire patches will increase heston & preston's armor when they are standing in the patch. I don't see any icons that suggest my damage was reduced.


Preston's Abilities:
Preston uses an ice type move that freezes the player for at least 2-4s. He also spawns a "flag" that summons 4 silver colored beetles (beetle mob) that ram you, stun you and giving Preston the upper hand to attack you further, A crystal that de-buffs your speed when you get close to it (this can be ignored by using stun immunity abilities/skills).
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Preston's freeze attack happens when you run over the white orb he tosses. Also, I have not seen any way to cancel out the Heston's stones from falling, (other than stunning) these stones will stack their dmg.

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Mobs
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Cryostar Shaman
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Abilities:

She summons to types of "flying-fireballs". The green color'd floating balls heal the shaman, the red color'd floating ball attack the player, each attack hits at a rate of about .5 per second so that's about 2 shots of fireballs per second and the fireballs slow your speed down. Nekro shield didn't help me, neither did razor shield help me negate the speed slowdown.

PLEASE NOTE: Killing the shaman doesn't mean the fireballs will disappear, you'll have to kill the fireballs too as they're not connected with the shaman. The fireballs are mobs themselves

The red orb tower will do more dps the closer you get to it. When you are affected with the red orb, it will also create a bleeding effect.
Will up load photo later





Staff gnome
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Pool + Stun + damage
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Abilities:
This gnome spawns yellow pools that will stun you, damage you ONLY if you were standing on it. The stun lasts for about 2-4 seconds, the pools will disappear after about 10 seconds, Any other mob that stands on the yellow pool will be granted a shield (nekro shield + razor shield) that will increase their defensive capabilities. Also note, you will damaged every second for standing on the pool.

These little baldies that pack a green mushroom are quite clever. Not only do they do what you describe above, their gold circles stack, and I believe increase their armor if the baldies are standing in the gold circle, however outside of circle, their armor is quite low, best to take these guys out first especially when two are present.

Wazakesy
04-15-2016, 10:34 AM
Great introduction guide to the Underhul maps, I added some things I noticed when soloing. :)



I would also like to add, the fire patches will increase heston & preston's armor when they are standing in the patch. I don't see any icons that suggest my damage was reduced.

1) i did not state a damage reduction. Mis-read perhaps? No offense.

Preston's freeze attack happens when you run over the white orb he tosses. Also, I have not seen any way to cancel out the Heston's stones from falling, (other than stunning) these stones will stack their dmg.

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This is correct.


The red orb tower will do more dps the closer you get to it. When you are affected with the red orb, it will also create a bleeding effect.
Will up load photo later

This is also correct.




These little baldies that pack a green mushroom are quite clever. Not only do they do what you describe above, their gold circles stack, and I believe increase their armor if the baldies are standing in the gold circle, however outside of circle, their armor is quite low, best to take these guys out first especially when two are present.

Damage taken by character is increased from pool-stacking by the green shroom backed gnome. Furthermore, The stun chances increment as you stand on the pool.

Fyrce
04-15-2016, 02:35 PM
I try to keep all the gnomes away from their circles, as well as keep myself away. When I am a mage, I stun and clock them first. They die pretty quickly if you deal with them as a priority.

Wazakesy
04-16-2016, 12:55 AM
Hmmm, Ive noticed a few people who have capped. If you would like, Please share what items drop from maps as i havent been able to login to the game and do anyrhing. Any help would be appreciated.

Nobear
08-11-2016, 01:37 AM
Good info. Especially good to know that the hibiscus plant can counter not only worms but the HP/mana drain curse from the "heraldic gnome."

Nobear
08-11-2016, 01:41 AM
Now the most important question I have about this expansion is: What the heck are Heston and Preston saying? Here's what I can make out:

Preston (when first engaged): We're not your average tinkers!
Preston: I'm stuck!
Heston: I'm home!
Preston (he keeps repeating this in a high-pitched voice): My beetle button!

So... how far off am I? lol

raokatrit
07-25-2017, 04:37 PM
Wow amazing guide

Loloo
01-20-2018, 09:23 AM
Nice guide gz

Verbie
04-17-2018, 06:50 PM
How much better are drops with the elixir?

Daelerion
11-07-2018, 06:41 AM
Is Cryogem Precessing Mold dropped from Preston and Heston? I did 14 runs with a pt and nobody looted it ^^ Just asking if smbd experienced smth like that? :)
But nice Guide