The Bitter Cold (story)
This article is about the Living World Season 3 story step. For the area, see The Bitter Cold. The Bitter Cold
- Year
- 1329 AE
- Storyline
- Living World Season 3
- Chapter
- A Crack in the Ice
- Location
- The Bitter Cold
(Bitterfrost Frontier) - Level
- 80
- Preceded by
- Elixir Cookin'
- Followed by
- Frozen Out
- API
- 451
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The Bitter Cold is the sixth part of A Crack in the Ice.
Objectives[edit]
- Chilblains
- Penetrate to the very heart of the bitter cold.
- Find a way to melt the waterfall.
- Hunt Jormag's abomination.
- (Put down the abomination and take a sample for Taimi.)
- Champion Unstable Abomination
- Retrieve Taimi's sample.
Rewards[edit]
Dragonite Ore (5)
Bags of Loot (5)
Icy Strongbox (2)
Unbound Magic (consumed automatically for 50 Unbound Magic)
Pamphlet of Wisdom (2)
Walkthrough[edit]
Thaw Elixir is required to enter The Bitter Cold region of the map. Leaving the game will remove the Cold Resistance effect granted by the Elixir, as does the Daily Reset, so it is important to give yourself enough time to complete the instance before making the elixir. Note that logging out to Character Select, then logging back in on the same character, does not reset the elixir, so recognize this if you get stuck or otherwise flub it. When you log back in, your character will reappear at the BF spawn point, rather than where you were. This can be useful and save you some time.
To enter the story instance you need to break through the frozen waterfall at the Lockflow Ice Fall point of interest. This can only be done using an Unnamed Object on top of a pillar of ice directly in front of the waterfall. To reach it from the entrance to The Bitter Cold:
- Go under the frozen archway and follow the left-hand wall until it tapers down to a slope.
- Go up the slope (heading back south towards the entrance).
- At the top of the slope is a plateau with lots of Icebrood. Be careful not to aggro too many at once as they can do a lot of damage.
- Turn right and go under another arch made of ice.
- Follow the path up and right to another plateau.
- Go to the south east corner of the plateau and look for a small shelf of ice just beyond the edge. Jump onto it. There is a series of 2 jumps that are marked with orbs to collect.
- Jump onto a second platform just beyond the first, and then onto a third platform just beyond that. If you fall don't panic - it is possible to stand and even walk on the slope below so it is possible to simply walk up again. If you fall all the way down repeat from step 4.
- Straight ahead or slightly to your right is a large pillar of ice with a grey object on top (you can't click on it but the cursor changes to a cog wheel when you hover over it). Glide across to this pillar, stand next to the object and use the Interact option. A beam of light will fire at the waterfall and open a path into the cavern beyond.
Enter the large circular cave where the Champion Unstable Abomination sits in the middle. Lure the boss into the groups of Jungle Larva and quickly kill them, use AoE on the group if possible. Upon death, the larva explode and damage the Abomination. Otherwise, it is immune to all damage. Larva do not respawn, so once every larva has been killed, the Abomination will enrage, gaining 
Quickness, 
Fury and 
Might every 10 seconds and you lose the chance to defeat it. At this point, if you fail, you may want to log out to Character Select and log back in, which will place you outside the instance, at the story point, and you can try again. Note that you will not lose the Thaw Elixir effect by doing this, as it lasts until daily reset, even if you log out or change zones..
It's important to keep pets or other summoned allies from attacking the Abomination, or the larva until you're ready to kill them - put your pet on "Avoid Combat", so they follow you around. Avoid minions and uncontrollable summons, as they will draw aggro, preventing the boss from following you around to the packs of larva.
Achievements[edit]
| The Bitter Cold | A Crack in the Ice | 0
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| Enter the Bitter Cold, and then find and kill the abomination for Taimi's sample.Journal: The Bitter Cold Completed | Completed The Bitter Cold | 0
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- Complete the story.
 Larva Conservationist
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A Crack in the Ice | 5
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Defeat the Unstable Abomination while inflicting a minimum of mayhem on the surrounding larvae.Story Instance: The Bitter Cold
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Defeat the Unstable Abomination with Two or More Larvae Groups Alive | 5
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- Only kill larva when they are adjacent to the Champion Unstable Abomination, so as to not "waste" them.
- Since each larva kill in its vicinity removes 5% of the abomination's health, this means killing only 20 of them. Make sure to count how many larvae are in each group since there are either 3 or 4 of them per group.
- Turning on health percentages can be useful here since it makes it less necessary to count every larva killed.
- Achievement qualification may be tracked via the
Larva Conservationist effect.
| Return to The Bitter Cold
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Return to A Crack in the Ice | 0
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Complete the mission The Bitter Cold in Living World Season 3 Episode 3.
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Completed The Bitter Cold | 0
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NPCs[edit]
Foes[edit]
Dialogue[edit]
- Approaching the abomination
- <Character name>: That is definitely not a regular icebrood.
- After collecting the sample
- <Character name>: Taimi will be pleased.
My story[edit]
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