Nightmare Biolab

Nightmare Biolab

The laboratory door is in Prontera: /navi prontera 59/89.

How to Get There

Dr. Varnhagen is a former Rekenber researcher sheltered by Scientist Edward. He is the one who gives the vaccine, and he is the only way into the Nightmare Biolab.

• 🔹 The laboratory exit is just above the arrival point and sends you back to Prontera, next to the portal.
• 🔹 In the laboratory you cannot teleport or use a Dead Branch, memorize the spot or save a return point.

Test Specimen

Who Can Take the Vaccine

• 🔹 Have completed the three Crossings of the Rebirth Crossing.
• 🔹 Be at level 99, with Job Level 50, in a second class.
• 🔹 Have no Crossing in progress and no Valkyrie reward waiting to be collected.
• 🔹 Not be a War Character.

The vaccine is once per character. Dr. Varnhagen explains everything beforehand and asks for confirmation twice.

What the Vaccine Does

Only the level number changes. Nothing is locked for a Test Specimen: it counts as level 99 for every requirement, all the time, and can party with any Specimen, of any level, sharing experience. The only rule of the vaccine is about experience, which only comes from the Nightmare Biolab while it is active.

• 🔹 A Test Specimen, vaccinated or already finished, enters any temporal dungeon with no level requirement. Fragments, Pass and portal stay the same.

From 70 to 99

You already earned the stat points of each level once, so they do not come again. Instead, each regained level gives 3 points: that is 87 extra points by the time you reach 99.

• 🔹 The experience each nightmare gives follows your level on a curve of its own: it starts gentle and gets hard at the end. Counting EXP items, it takes about 40 kills per level at 70, 80 at 80, 650 at 90, 3,000 at 95 and 9,300 at 98. Going from 98 to 99 takes the same effort as a transcendent class going from 98 to 99.
• 🔹 Level up with NPC windows closed. If the points from a level are distributed before the body adapts, your stats go back to what they were at vaccination and the free points are returned to you to distribute again.

Undoing the Vaccine

Have second thoughts? Dr. Varnhagen returns the character exactly as it was before: level, experience, Job Level, stats and skills.

• 🔹 Only while you are at level 70. Once you reach 71, there is no going back.
• 🔹 Costs 10 Abyssalite.
• 🔹 Experience earned at level 70 is lost.

Upon Reaching 99

• 🔹 The adaptation ends, with an announcement to the whole server, and experience counts everywhere again.
• 🔹 The 87 points stay with you forever: any stat reset returns these points as well.
• 🔹 The character gets the fixed Dragon aura.
• 🔹 The Nightmare Biolab stays open to them.

The Map

Only vaccinated characters can enter, whether the vaccine is still working or already finished. Talk to Dr. Varnhagen and choose Enter the Biolab: each entry costs 2 Abyssalite Fragments per player and drops you at a spot on the map with no monsters nearby.

• 🔹 No teleporting of any kind: no Fly Wing, Teleport, Warp Portal, Dead Branch, memorizing the map or saving a return point. Whoever enters walks. The only exception is the Guinea Pig Teleport, used by the party leader.
• 🔹 Leaving: the map has no exit. Use Butterfly Wing or log out, and you return to your save point.
• 🔹 Each death costs 5% of your experience, as in the Temporal Dungeons.

The Thirteen Nightmares

The Biolab holds 170 nightmares at the same time, of thirteen species: each is a copy of a hero of a 2nd class, and fights with that class's skills. The Wizard casts spells, the Hunter sets traps, the Monk uses Asura Strike.

• 🔹 The regular ones are level 120, with attack of 6,500 to 10,000, DEF 55 and MDEF 45.
• 🔹 They resist critical hits: against them a critical does not go through DEF and lands much less often (LUK 120).
• 🔹 All attack on sight and can see anyone who is hidden or cloaked.
• 🔹 Anything that dies comes back 5 seconds later, at another spot on the map.
• 🔹 Fire, Water, Wind, Poison, Holy and Ghost share the same ground: no single weapon works against all of them.
• 🔹 Gertie's equipment-stripping attacks land at most 15% of the time.
• 🔹 In the drops column: the Soul of the nightmare's line, the Soul Card (from the regular one) and the Awakened Card (from the Awakened). Hover over the icon to see the item.

The Awakened

Every 30 kills of a species, counting everyone on the map, spawns its Awakened: the strongest version of the same nightmare, bigger than the others, at a random spot in the Biolab. The whole map receives a warning. Only one Awakened of each species exists at a time, and the count starts over when it falls.

• 🔹 All are level 125, with attack of 8,500 to 12,500, DEF 65 and MDEF 55, and count as bosses. Each one's HP is in the table above.
• 🔹 The property goes up one level: Awakened Seyren is Fire 3, Awakened Kathryne is Ghost 3, and so on.
• 🔹 They drop the rarest cards in the Biolab: the weapon Awakened Cards.

Tamed Skills

The nightmares' heaviest skills hit you less inside the Biolab than they do in the original. Their normal attack stays as it is, and so do Kathryne's and Celia's spells.

Strength in Numbers

The Biolab was built for parties. The more party members nearby, the stronger each one gets, and the more experience the party earns.

Damage

Every 3 seconds the server counts how many members of your party are alive and within 14 cells of you, including yourself, and adjusts your damage:

• 🔹 The damage dealt bonus applies to physical and magic attacks. The effect only exists inside the Biolab.
• 🔹 A fallen member, or one standing still far away, does not count.

Experience

With the party's experience split equally, each member alive and within 14 cells of the monster, beyond the first, adds 25% to everyone's share. The split is still among everyone in the party who is alive on the map.

• 🔹 The table counts everyone in the party near the kill. Anyone on the map but far away shares the experience without adding the 25%.
• 🔹 It applies to both base and job experience.
• 🔹 Dying in the Biolab costs 5% of your experience.

Guinea Pig Teleport

Inside the Biolab, the party leader (or whoever is alone) gets the Guinea Pig Teleport skill. It takes the leader and the whole party that is in the Biolab to a safe spot, with no monsters nearby. It is useful for escaping a lost fight and for starting over in another part of the map.

• 🔹 Each use spends 1 party charge. The party enters with 5, which is also the maximum.
• 🔹 +1 charge for every 10 monsters the party defeats, for every Awakened that falls and for every 10 minutes in the Biolab.
• 🔹 Charges belong to the party, not the leader: changing leaders does not affect them. If nobody in the party stays in the Biolab for more than 1 minute, they go back to 5.
• 🔹 It costs no SP, can be used in combat and has a 2 second cooldown. Outside the Biolab, the skill disappears.

What Drops

The Souls follow the nightmare's class line. They are tradable: you can trade them with other players, sell them in a player shop and list them on the Marketplace Cash.

• 🔹 The chances are the base rate. Drop increases apply on top of them, including the Biolab costumes.
• 🔹 The drops apply to any party size, including solo players.

Soul Cards (Headgear)

They drop from regular nightmares. Each one only takes effect on the nightmare's class and its evolutions, and at most two copies of the same card count at the same time, adding up Upper, Middle and Lower.

Awakened Cards (Weapon)

They drop from the Awakened and compound into a weapon. Each one only takes effect on the nightmare's class and its evolutions, and brings its own scaling, which grows with something from your build up to a cap. With two identical cards, the scaling does not stack (the higher cap applies); the rest of the bonus stacks normally.

Where the Drops Go

The Biolab Costumes

The 17 Biolab costumes do not drop from monsters: Nana, in Prontera, assembles them. Each one gives extra DROP rate, only inside the Biolab, and the level is the costume's own refine.

• 🔹 Assembling: 5 Souls of the class of the hero who wears that costume, 20 Fallen Energy Particles, 10 Sentimental Fragments and 1 Abyssalite. It comes out at +1.
• 🔹 Upgrading: one level at a time, with no chance of failure, only on the costume you are wearing. From +4 on it also takes Souls of the costume's class (any class on the Experimental Mind).
• 🔹 With more than one Biolab costume equipped, only the highest level counts.
• 🔹 Soul of each costume: Swordman (Runic Circlet, Crown of Protection, Metallic Alchemist Helm), Merchant (both Pilot Headbands, Midas Whisper), Thief (Shadow Craft, Bone Circlet, Silent Executor), Mage (Magic Stone Hat, Wind Whisper), Archer (Minstrel Song Hat, Swan Feather Ornament, Camouflaged Rabbit Hood, Sniper Goggles) and Acolyte (Miter, Flaming Soul).
• 🔹 Featured at Nana's: the Experimental Mind, a lower headgear costume that Nana upgrades like the costumes, at the same cost: DROP Rate of 1% per level inside the Nightmare Biolab, up to 10% at +10, added to the highest level costume.

The 17: Costume Rune Circlet · Mitra · Pilot Headband (Red) · Pilot Headband (Yellow) · Shadow Craft · Minstrel's Song Hat · Midas Whisper · Magic Stone Hat · Flaming Soul · Whisper of Wind · Costume Dying Swan · Crown of Protection · Costume Bone Circlet · Camouflaged Bunny Hood · Silent Executioner · Sniper Goggles · Metal Alchemist's Helm.

Colors at the Stylist

At the Stylist, all 17 can change color: 16 colors besides the original, on the same grid as the other recolorable hats. The color is saved on the character. The Mitra, as an example:

Ominous Enchantment

The Cursed Fragment pays for the Ominous Enchantment from Enchanter Rebeca: a new option for the +9 perpetual hat, in 6 families and levels 1 to 10. All families, effects and costs are on its page.

Divinity of the Stars

The Divinity of the Stars trades the 13 class pieces of Episode 3, one per class, for 10 Stars, 15 Souls of the piece's line, 50 Fallen Energy Particles and 5 Abyssalite.

See Also

• Rebirth Crossing, the three Crossings that unlock the vaccine
• Temporal Dungeons, Scientist Edward's dungeons
• Divinity of the Stars, the class pieces paid for with Souls and Fallen Energy Particles
• Nana, Costume Reseller, who assembles and upgrades the Biolab costumes
• Ominous Enchantment, the perpetual hat enchant paid for with Cursed Fragments
• Nightmare Legacies, each hero's weapon as a garment costume
• Endless Tower, the other novelty of Episode 3