Old Glast Heim

Old Glast Heim

How to enter

• 🔸 Talk to Scientist Edward in Prontera (26, 53).
• 🔸 Choose the Instances category, then Old Glast Heim.
• 🔸 The server's other instances are listed on the Scientist Edward page.

Requirements

• 🔸 At least one completed crossing, or being in the middle of one. Old Glast Heim is content for reborn characters: whoever has never crossed cannot open the rift.
• 🔸 Level 90 or higher.
• 🔸 Party of up to 5 adventurers. You can enter solo, but see the warning about the leader right below.
• 🔸 Costs 3 Abyssalite Fragments, charged only the moment entry happens.
• 🔸 One crossing every 12 hours per character, counted at entry, not at victory. Enter and die in the first corridor, and you lose your turn.
• 🔸 The instance lasts 2 hours and disappears if it stays empty for 15 minutes.

Before entering

Worth reading once before your first crossing. Three things change the outcome a lot:

• 🔸 Almost everything is Undead. Of the instance's thirteen creatures, eleven are Undead. The exceptions are the Larva (Insect, Earth) and the Corrupted Soul (Demon, Earth 3). Anyone bringing Holy damage sails through the whole crossing comfortably, and that includes the final boss.
• 🔸 Against Amdarais, only Holy or Neutral. He's Undead level 4: Holy attacks hit for 175%, Neutral and Ghost hit for 100%, and Fire, Water, Earth and Wind drop to 25%. Shadow and Undead do nothing to him, and Poison actually heals him. Bringing fire arrows to the final boss throws three quarters of your damage away.
• 🔸 Their normal attack comes out Neutral. Elemental armor doesn't help against common damage: only elemental skills respect element. Neutral resistance is what holds up against the beating here.
• 🔸 Only the party leader can talk. Altar Boy Domun and Holgren, who unlock the second and third wing, ignore anyone who isn't the leader. Set the leader before entering, and preferably someone who isn't going to die.

The path, step by step

The crossing is linear: each stage unlocks the next, and none of them can be skipped. The whole path takes the party from the entrance courtyard to the second floor and then back to the first, where the treasure is.

1. Knights' Courtyard

You arrive in the courtyard, and there's nothing to kill here. Varmundt and Sir Heinrich argue about the invasion until Himelmez appears and turns the entire castle guard into monsters. It's the only part of the crossing where you just watch.

2. West Wing

The first clear. There are 51 monsters: 17 Corrupted Butlers, 17 Corrupted Monks and 17 Agonizing Chamberlains, all between 18.000 and 22.000 HP. Once you reach 36 kills the map announces that the curse has weakened, the rest die on their own, and Altar Boy Domun appears hidden at the west end of the wing.

3. East Wing

The forge wing, and the largest of the three: 69 monsters, 35 Agonizing Chamberlains and 34 Corrupted Butlers. At 57 kills the rest disappear and Holgren the Destroyer appears at the east end.

4. Northwest Wing

Here the instance changes tone. There are 100 monsters, 50 Corrupted Guards and 50 Wandering Archers, and they're the first that actually hit back: they deal 1.300 to 2.600 and the Archer hits from range. At 86 kills Himelmez speaks and calls you to the north of the castle.

5. Corrupted Soul's Hall

First boss. 900.000 HP, hits of 15.000 to 22.000, Demon race, Earth element level 3, the only boss in the instance that isn't Undead. Once she's dead, go back and talk to Varmundt, who stayed in the hall: he's the one who collects the spoils and hands over the first Contaminated Magic, plus 20.000.000 base experience and 8.000.000 job, before the crossing penalty. The stairs to the second floor open right after.

6. Second Floor

The upper floor has no kill counter, and that's where most parties get lost trying to clear the map. There are seven triggers scattered across the wing: stepping on one summons five elites at once (Guard, Archer, Abyssal Knight, Suffering Khalitzburg and Bloody Knight) and the trigger rearms in 30 seconds. There's no clearing it: there's killing until a Commander of Ruin appears, which happens on average every 50 kills, at one of four fixed spots in the wing. The 1st Commander opens the east wing, where everything repeats until the 2nd Commander. Each one has 600.000 HP, hits for 10.000 to 15.000 and grants 1 Contaminated Magic to the party. Once the second one is down, the final corridor to the north opens.

7. Amdarais's Hall

The north corridor hides Himelmez's ambush, and the final boss comes right after. 5.000.000 HP, hits of 18.000 to 26.000, Undead level 4. The fight is split into 10% health bands: at each band the map announces his health, a wave of six elites spawns around him, and a Ghost of Varmundt appears in one of the hall's four corners with a different blessing. The table right below shows exactly what happens at each band.

8. Treasure Room

Once the boss falls, Hugin and the Mana Guardian appear next to the body. Talking to Hugin closes out the hunt and pays 30.000.000 base experience and 24.000.000 job, before the crossing penalty. It's this conversation that unlocks the rifts. The room isn't in the boss hall, but with Amdarais dead the stairs make a shortcut: go down through the second floor's portal and it leads straight to the corridor with the seven Strange Rifts, each on its own pedestal. If you prefer the long way, the rift in the northeast corner of the first floor leads to the same place. This is where the crossing's zeny comes from.

Amdarais, phase by phase

Every 10% of health lost, the map announces the boss's health, a Ghost of Varmundt appears in one of the hall's four corners and, in most bands, a wave of servants spawns. The ghost stays there for 10 seconds. Whoever gets close to it in those 10 seconds gets the blessing, which lasts 30 seconds. Whoever doesn't, doesn't get it. The cycle repeats every 30 seconds: as long as the boss stays in the same band, that band's wave spawns again. Three important takeaways from this table:

• 🔸 The 10% shield blessing zeroes Amdarais's damage for 30 seconds. It's the window to close out the fight, and it's worth saving your healing and strong skills for it.
• 🔸 Starting at 30%, the concealment blessing joins in, from a second ghost: it cuts 90% of the damage from the Flames of Destruction, the fires that spawn across the second floor when the 2nd Commander falls. It doesn't reduce anything Amdarais himself does.
• 🔸 The waves add up to at least 48 servants over the course of the fight, all elites with 114.000 to 136.000 HP. The goal isn't to kill them all: it's to avoid reaching 15 alive at once, which is when he starts healing.

Rewards

Everything handed out by script goes to every member present, it doesn't drop on the ground to be fought over. What drops on the ground is the monsters' normal drops and the contents of the rifts.

Experience and the penalty

The numbers in the table are raw. All the experience you earn during a crossing goes through the rebirth penalty before it enters your bar, and that's why the values here are so high: what's left depends on how many crossings you've already done. For comparison, the entire stretch from level 90 to 99 requires 319.688.298 base experience. The penalty only exists while you're below level 99, so at 99 the experience here makes no difference at all: for those who've already closed it out, the instance's value is in the cards and the Contaminated Magic.

Each rift's loot

On top of the fixed loot, every rift also rolls its own draw:

Contaminated Magic

The instance's currency, and it only exists inside it. No regular monster drops it, not even the elites that respawn on the second floor: you can't farm Magic by looping trash kills. The first four are guaranteed: the three boss ones go to every member present on the map, and Varmundt's goes to everyone who talks to him. The floor is 6 per crossing and the normal range is between 6 and 8. The Mana Guardian appears next to Hugin when Amdarais falls and trades 150 units for one of the two exchange cards, which comes out to about 21 crossings per card.

Other Amdarais finds

Besides the cards, his body drops:

The Guide of Death

The two-handed sword that Amdarais drops. 200 attack, 2 slots, weapon level 4, requires level 70 and only works for Transcendent classes of the Swordman line. The Crusader can equip it, but all of its bonus is for the Knight.

• 🔸 STR +5, AGI +2 and Perfect Dodge +20.
• 🔸 Attack +10%.
• 🔸 Tyr's Impact damage +20%.
• 🔸 Damage against Boss class monsters +10%.
• 🔸 Refined to +9 or higher, Tyr's Impact gains another 10%.

Cards

The four monster cards drop at 0.02%, as a normal drop: Chewing Gum, drop potions, VIP bonus and guild bonus all count toward it. The two trade cards don't drop from anyone, they can only be obtained from the Guardian.

The five mistakes that cost you the crossing

• 🔸 Entering without picking a leader. Domun and Holgren only talk to him, and without both the instance gets stuck on the second wing.
• 🔸 Running straight through the East Wing. There are 26 Larva nests on the ground, and three nests waking up at once means people dying.
• 🔸 Trying to clear the second floor. The triggers reset every 30 seconds, it's endless. Park the party on one trigger and wait for the Commander.
• 🔸 Ignoring Amdarais's minions. Once 15 are alive, he heals, and the fight never ends.
• 🔸 Leaving the treasure for the last of the 2 hours. Hugin warns you if you try to leave with the rift still closed, but the instance's timer doesn't warn you about anything: it just closes.

See Also

• Maya's Lair, an instance for 2 to 5 adventurers in the Anthill
• Temporal Dungeons, the same Scientist Edward opens the temporal dungeons
• Abyssalite, the currency charged at the entrance