Snow Flower set, Glacier and Dim Glacier weapons (Episode 19, Issgard)
| Level | 210 (Snow Flower set, Glacier weapons), 232 and up (Dim Glacier) |
| Where | Ice Castle and the Episode 19 fields; Maram, Vellgunde, Forr and the Glacier Extractor in Ice Castle and in the hub |
| Cost of a full set | A Snow Flower piece: 100 Snow Flower Petals. A Glacier weapon: 150,000 z. A Dim Glacier weapon: a box from the Abandoned Pit (5 % a kill). |
| Enchant route | Vellgunde (Snow Flower pieces and Glacier weapons), Forr (Dim Glacier weapons, with extracts made from dismantled weapons). |
| Related lines | Thanatos Tower gear; Poenitentia weapons |
Hours (expected hours alone / calendar weeks, all lines):
| What | Daily player | Two evenings a week | Daily, on Hell |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Flower set (armor, manteau, boots, pendant, ring) | 12.5 h / 1.2 wk | 12.5 h / 2.1 wk | 10.6 h / 0.85 wk |
| Snow Flower armor enchants (one pass) | 175 h / 17.5 wk | 175 h / 29.2 wk | 149 h / 11.9 wk |
| Glacier weapon (zeny) and a chosen Dim Glacier weapon | 0.52 h / 0.05 wk | 0.52 h / 0.09 wk | 0.52 h / 0.04 wk |
| Dim Glacier weapon enchants, every slot to the top | 20.3 h / 2.0 wk | 20.3 h / 3.4 wk | 20.3 h / 1.6 wk |
What it is
- Snow Flower set: ten level-210 pieces. Armor or Robe, Manteau or Muffler, Boots or Shoes, and four accessories (Pendant, Necklace, Ring, Earring). It needs no grading and only modest refining, so it is a good first set at 210, also for slow (1x) characters.
- Glacier weapons: 26 level-210 weapons, one or more for every class.
- Dim Glacier weapons: 26 stronger versions of the Glacier weapons, found in the Abandoned Pit.
Sol added the Episode 19 fields of Issgard (Ice Castle, the Frozen Scale fields, the Snake God's Warmth and the Abandoned Pit) with their monsters, which the server software lacked, and two of its daily instances (Airship Destruction and Simulation Battle, from the Instance Manager). The Episode 19 story and its daily quests are not on Sol, and nothing here needs them.
Who uses it
Level 210+ characters of every class. The Snow Flower accessories and the Glacier weapons are a common start for 4th jobs; the Dim Glacier weapons last into the 240s.
How to get there
- The Field Guide in the hub (Services row) takes you to Ice Castle from base level 188. The warper has Ice Castle and every field and dungeon too.
- On foot from Ice Castle: the west gate leads to the Frozen Scale Hill (
jor_back1). From there: south to the Frozen Tail (jor_tail), north to the Frozen Scale Plains (jor_back2), west from the Plains to the Frozen Scale Glacier (jor_back3), north-west from the Glacier to the Snake God's Warmth 1F and 2F (jor_dun01,jor_dun02), and from the north-east corner of the Plains down into the Abandoned Pit 1F and 2F (jor_ab01,jor_ab02). - The shop and enchant NPCs stand in the castle's inner hall (
icas_in): through the castle's barracks door (north side), then the right-hand door. They are also in the hub (group Episode 19).
| Map | Monsters | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Frozen Tail, Frozen Scale Hill | Ice Straw, Shining Seaweed, Ice Gangu | 208-211 |
| Frozen Scale Plains | Limacina, Unfrost Flower, Ice Straw, Ice Gangu | 208-213 |
| Frozen Scale Glacier | Limacina, Calmaring, Ice Gangu, Primitive and Lowest Rgan; the MVP Ultra Limacina (level 245, about every 6 hours) | 208-213 |
| Snake God's Warmth 1F, 2F | Primitive, Lowest, Junior and Intermediate Rgan, Heart Hunter AT | 210-215 |
| Abandoned Pit 1F | Discarded Primitive Rgan, Cave Calmaring, Cave Flower, Hallucigenia Baby, Renovated Superior Rgan | 232-234 |
| Abandoned Pit 2F | Discarded Intermediate Rgan, Hallucigenia, One and Two Eyes Dollocaris, Entangled Intermediate Rgan | 251-253 |
How to get the gear
| Gear | Price | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Snow Flower set, any piece | 100 Snow Flower Petals | Maram in the castle's inner hall (icas_in 180,61) or in the hub |
| Glacier weapon, any of the 26 | 150,000 zeny | Maram, as above |
| Dim Glacier weapon | a Dim Glacier Weapon Box (one random weapon of the 26) | every monster in the Abandoned Pit, 5% a kill |
Snow Flower Petals
| Source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Every monster on the Frozen Tail, the Frozen Scale fields and the Snake God's Warmth | 4% a kill |
| Every monster in the Abandoned Pit | 5.6% a kill |
| Ultra Limacina | 3-5 a kill |
| The Hunting Board missions on these maps | 10 extra Petals a daily mission, 50 a weekly one |
| Airship Destruction clear (level 180+, daily per mode) | 10 / 15 / 25 / 35 (Normal / Hard / Nightmare / Hell), plus 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 Snow Flower Ore |
| Simulation Battle clear (level 180+, daily per mode) | 5 / 8 / 12 / 16, plus 1 / 1 / 2 / 3 Snow Flower Ore |
The map-wide drops are not raised by the server's 20x rate; Advanced Looting and Bubble Gum raise them. The instance Petals go to every party member inside when the boss dies (Clear rewards).
Enchanting
| Gear | NPC | What it costs |
|---|---|---|
| Snow Flower pieces (five Enchant tables: body, cloak, shoes, two accessory pairs) | Vellgunde (icas_in 185,63, or the hub) |
one Snow Flower stone per enchant; each enchant (Skill Delay, Ranged, Spell, the skill enchants...) needs its own stone |
| Glacier weapons | Vellgunde | 100-300 of an ordinary monster material per enchant (the window shows which) |
| Dim Glacier weapons | Forr (icas_in 188,60, or the hub) |
Snow Flower and Glacier extracts; the upgrades of the first slot also magical crystals and Poisonous Magic. All of them come from dismantling spare Dim Glacier weapons (below); Forr also makes the extracts from Snow Flower gems, Petals and Amethyst Fragments |
Snow Flower stones. Hoyoyo (icas_in 175,63, or the hub) sells the Snow Flower Manastone Extractor for 35
Petals. Opening it gives one random Snow Flower stone. Keep the ones you need; the stone for a given enchant can take
many extractors.
Snow Flower gems and extracts (Dim Glacier). Hoyoyo also sells Snow Flower Ore (5 Petals) and turns 5 Ore into a Snowflower Gem, 5 of those into a Shining Snowflower Gem, and 5 of those into a Brilliant Snow Flower Manastone. Ultra Limacina drops gems too. Forr makes:
| Extract | Cost |
|---|---|
| Snow Flower extract 1 | 20 Snowflower Gems + 5 Petals + 25 Amethyst Fragments |
| Snow Flower extract 2 | 15 Shining Snowflower Gems + 10 Petals + 50 Amethyst Fragments |
| Snow Flower extract 3 | 10 Brilliant Snow Flower Manastones + 15 Petals + 75 Amethyst Fragments |
| Glacier extract | 40 Petals + 200 Amethyst Fragments |
| Neutralized Magical Ore | 3 Encroached Magical Ore + 5 Petals + 25 Amethyst Fragments |
| Encroached Magical Crystal | 15 Encroached Magical Ore + 30 Petals + 150 Amethyst Fragments |
| Neutralized Magical Crystal | 5 Neutralized Magical Ore + 5 Petals + 25 Amethyst Fragments |
| Dim Glacier Reinforcement Device | 1 Poisonous Magic + 10 Encroached + 10 Neutralized Magical Crystals |
Dismantling Dim Glacier weapons (the Glacier Extractor)
The Abandoned Pit drops more Dim Glacier weapons than you can use. The Glacier Extractor (icas_in 191,57, next to
Forr, or the hub's Episode 19 row) breaks a spare weapon down into 3 random materials for Forr's enchants:
- Dismantle one weapon: pick it from a list of your Dim Glacier weapons. A refined, graded or enchanted weapon is listed too; the machine asks again, because its refine, grade, cards and enchants are lost.
- Dismantle all plain Dim Glacier weapons: every unrefined, ungraded weapon without cards or enchants in your inventory, after it tells you how many (at most 100 at a time). Refined, graded and enchanted weapons stay with you.
- Equipped, rented or bound weapons are never taken: unequip a weapon first.
- With a full inventory the materials come by mail (open the mail window).
Each of the 3 items is one of these (chance per item):
| Material | Chance | Per 100 weapons |
|---|---|---|
| Snow Flower Ore | 14% | 42 |
| Snow Flower Magic Stone Extract | 10% | 30 |
| Shining Snow Flower Magic Stone Extract | 10% | 30 |
| Brilliant Snow Flower Magic Stone Extract | 10% | 30 |
| Glacier Extract | 10% | 30 |
| Snowflower Gem | 10% | 30 |
| Encroached Magical Ore | 8% | 24 |
| Encroached Magical Crystal | 7% | 21 |
| Shining Snowflower Gem | 6% | 18 |
| Poisonous Magic | 5% | 15 |
| Neutralized Magical Crystal | 4% | 12 |
| Neutralized Magical Ore | 4% | 12 |
| Brilliant Snow Flower Manastone | 2% | 6 |
How long it takes (from dismantling alone, at 5% boxes a kill and about 1,000 kills an hour in the Pit; the Brilliant extract is the material that runs out first):
| Enchant (Forr's window) | Weapons | Kills | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third slot (the first enchant) | about 85 | about 1,700 | 1.7 |
| Second slot | about 120 | about 2,300 | 2.3 |
| First slot, level 1 (Physical or Magical Grade) | 200 | 4,000 | 4 |
| First slot, level 1 to 5 (the four upgrades) | about 620 | about 12,300 | 12.3 |
| First slot from nothing to level 5 | about 820 | about 16,300 | 16.3 |
| The whole weapon (every slot, first slot at level 5) | about 1,020 | about 20,300 | 20.3 |
Forr's conversions (gems into extracts, ores into crystals) and Advanced Looting shorten this.
Refine, grade, reform
Normal refining (or in the hub: Refine and Grade). The official Snow Flower and Glacier refine boxes (reputation shop) are not on Sol. A Dim Glacier Reinforcement Device (Forr, above) takes a Dim Glacier weapon from +9 to +10, +10 to +11 or +11 to +12 for 40 Petals and 10 of each magical crystal (the reform window, always succeeds).
Official vs Sol
The monsters, their drops, the prices of the set and the weapons, and the enchant tables are official. Different on Sol: - No story, reputation or daily quests. Officially Maram, Vellgunde and Hoyoyo serve you only after the first part of the Episode 19 story, and Petals come from 15 daily quests (1-3 each) and three daily instances. On Sol Petals drop on the fields, the Hunting Board missions on these maps replace the dailies, and Airship Destruction and Simulation Battle start from the Instance Manager with no story (Iwin Patrol is not on Sol). - Stones. Officially Vellgunde turns 35 Petals into one random stone; Sol sells the official extractor box (the same stones) for 35 Petals at Hoyoyo. Snow Flower Ore is officially an instance reward; on Sol the two instances pay it and Hoyoyo sells it too. - Dim Glacier Weapon Box. Not an official item; Sol's own box (official kRO drops the weapons in the Abandoned Pit), 5% a kill. - Glacier Extractor. Sol's version of the official incinerator: 3 materials per weapon, with more extracts than the usual table, so the upgrades come from the Pit alone. - Ultra Limacina pays Petals.
Comes after / leads to
Before it: the Gray Wolf set and the level-200 gear. After it: the Solid, Wicked and Precision weapons (220+, Clock Tower basement 240+). Ultra Limacina's Mysterious Luminant is the material of the Vesper Headgear.
Tips
Take the Episode 19 Hunting Board missions every day: 10 Petals a mission is several hours of Petal drops. Airship Destruction pays the most Petals of anything, and both instances reset daily per mode. Buy the accessories first (they need no refine to be good), then the armor pieces.
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