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To access any of the new dungeons, step into the sparkles along the North wall of the Safe Haven building. You will be teleported into a nearby building that holds gates to each dungeon. Click on the gate to find out the name of the dungeon. All mobs in every dungeon give bonus weapon XP, currently 2x higher than their regular counterparts.
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To access any of the new dungeons, step into the sparkles along the North wall of the Safe Haven building. You will be teleported into a nearby building that holds gates to each dungeon. Click on the gate to find out the name of the dungeon. All mobs in every dungeon give bonus weapon XP, currently 2x higher than their regular counterparts. When you enter one of these dungeons, the area immediately surrounding the exit portal is a safe zone. No difficult mobs can be dragged into these areas. If they are dragged near the safe zone, they will be deleted and will respawn according to their usual spawn timer.
  
 
=== [[Aelwic]] ===
 
=== [[Aelwic]] ===

Revision as of 17:53, 19 August 2014

In light of the recent (and profuse) gripes that there isn't enough content for new players, +Nyx decided to modify her plans for Mistvale (the new-player city). The city will still open when she and +Colibri have time to finish it up, but since that could be months and months, she decided to open the dungeons she'd already made for young players, and add the quests she'd had on her list.

Where to Go

Various citizens of Mistvale have taken up residence in a large building outside of Excelsior Halls. Take the Excelsior Halls teleporter, then run west along the path until you are outside of the city walls. The building is along the path. Step into the sparkles to be moved inside. Please note that only players over 21 days' account age and under 120 days of account age are able to / allowed to access this area. This includes all of the quests and dungeons.

Location
Entrance

The Quests

There are currently 12 quests, available only to young players. Say "Hail" to any of the quest NPCs to activate their dialogue. You may need to say the keyword a few times in order to properly trigger the NPC.


Thaddeus.png NOTE: If you begin one of the armaments, sash, cloak or reaper quests and decide to start over - speak to Thaddeus. Don't just delete the quest book or you'll become stuck. Alternately, if you can't get any of the upstairs NPCs to talk to you, you probably already deleted a book and are now stuck, so speak to Thaddeus to fix that. If you are abandoning a quest, be sure to stand still until Thaddeus tells you he is finished, or the reset will fail.


Mistvale Armaments Armor Set

There is an entirely new armor set available via 6 quests, a pre-GoC set that should help young players with their progression. Speak to Thaddeus along the west wall of the building to get started.

You can only run one of the Armaments, sash, cloak or reaper quests at a time. You will need to select one, finish it, and then begin the next. There are 6 total quests in the Armaments line.


Mistvale Cuirass

This quest is not repeatable.

Cuirass
Speak to Kaiya upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 50 Essence of the Abyss and kill 50 Lich Lords.

Mistvale Leggings

This quest is not repeatable.

Leggings
Speak to Eliza upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 100 Crystallized Ectoplasm and kill 100 Liches.

Mistvale Pauldrons

This quest is not repeatable.

Pauldrons
Speak to Coty upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 50 Unearthly Stones and kill 50 Succubi.

Mistvale Gauntlets

This quest is not repeatable.

Gauntlets
Speak to Sarena upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 50 Scale of Vile Deeds and kill 50 Elder Gazers.

Mistvale Coif

This quest is not repeatable.

Coif
Speak to Raphael upstairs to begin the quest.

You will be asked to collect 50 Rough Undead Sinew and kill 50 Evil Mages.

Mistvale Boots

This quest is not repeatable.

Boots
Speak to Niobe upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 50 Scrap of Undead Hide and kill 50 Daemons.

The Reaper of Souls

This quest is not repeatable.

Reaper
Speak to Latonia upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 60 Crystallized Ectoplasm, 60 Unearthly stone

and to kill 100 Daemons and 100 Succubi.

The Sash of Fog

This quest is not repeatable.

Sash
Speak to Elke upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 40 Rough Undead Sinew, 40 Scale of Vile Deeds

and to kill 100 Elder Gazers and 100 Lich Lords.

The Cloak of Mist

This quest is not repeatable.

Cloak
Speak to Nanette upstairs to begin the quest.


You will be asked to collect 70 Scrap of Undead Hide, 70 Essence of the Abyss

and to kill 100 Evil Mages and 100 Liches.

Mistvale Apiculture

This is repeatable quest to assist young players with the upkeep of their bees. It may be completed once per week. This quest may be completed in tandem with the Armaments, Sash, Cloak, and Reaper quests.

You will be asked to collect 1800 plain wood and 250 ingots in the first step. Next, you will deliver various packages to Mages in Trammel.

Mistvale Monster Contracts

This is a repeatable quest that rewards the player with gold. It may be repeated every 7 days and may be completed in tandem with the Armaments, Sash, Cloak, and Reaper quests.

This quest is highly dynamic. You will receive a contract to kill a specific type of monster. If you complete that quest book before it decays, you will receive another contract that is slightly harder. You can complete up to 4 books per week. Each book decays after 2 days. Each book you turn in will result in a reward of gold, increasing with the difficulty of the contract. This quest is randomized, meaning that from week to week the monsters you need to kill will change. ALL monsters needed for every contract spawn inside the 5 young-player dungeons.

Mistvale Merchantile

Assist Mistvale's foremost merchant and receive an item bless deed. This quest can be repeated every 2 weeks and may be completed in tandem with the Armaments, Sash, Cloak, and Reaper quests.

You will first be asked to collect 4,000 each of Ash, Zircote, Yew, Ebony, and Oak boards. Then you will collect 4,000 each of Regular, Spined, Horned, Barbed and Daemonic leathers.

The Dungeons

To access any of the new dungeons, step into the sparkles along the North wall of the Safe Haven building. You will be teleported into a nearby building that holds gates to each dungeon. Click on the gate to find out the name of the dungeon. All mobs in every dungeon give bonus weapon XP, currently 2x higher than their regular counterparts. When you enter one of these dungeons, the area immediately surrounding the exit portal is a safe zone. No difficult mobs can be dragged into these areas. If they are dragged near the safe zone, they will be deleted and will respawn according to their usual spawn timer.

Aelwic

This dungeon utilizes the empty duplicate of the Citadel in Magda and spawns mostly undead and evil mages.

The Forgotten Crypts

Using the Fan Dancer's dupe, this dungeon is nearly all undead, including a few balrons.

Nimre

In the Labyrinth dupe, Nimre is primarily undead and elementals, it also holds several balron spawns.

The Nameless Ruins

In the Bedlam dupe, this one houses undead.

Thilon Mines

Mainly features elementals, hell hounds, and hell cats.

The Rares

There are approximately 45 new stealable rares spread across the 5 dungeons. After extensive searching the shard to see if any of these graphics were owned by players, +Nyx found that only 2 of these rares had ever been in player possession, and only on very old accounts. Nearly everything that the young players can steal from the dungeons is something that no player, veteran or otherwise, has. +Nyx hopes that this will improve newbie-veteran relations as well as give young players another route for sales. Below is a small sampling of the available rares.

Rares


Rules

- You may not share quest items in any way, shape, or form. Doing so is an exploit and punishable by confiscation if items, removal of Mistvale access, and jail.

- If the staff find that an older player has purposefully gained access to any of these areas - the safe haven, the dungeon building, or any of the individual dungeons themselves - there will be dire consequences to be determined at that time.

- All quests that are listed as non-repeatable are meant to be such. If you stumble upon a way to run these quests multiple times, you must report it or face heavy punishment for exploiting.

- If you are a returning player and purchase an account recovery, you will not be permitted to access Mistvale.