Lorraine's Nightmare Event (2015)

For similar events, see Hillwen's Nightmare Event and Lorraine's Nightmare Event (2012).

June 24^th, 2015 ~ July 15^th, 2015 (Extended to July 21^st, 2015)

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Description

Summer is just starting, and so are Lorraine's Nightmares! An Arc Lich has invaded Lorraine's dreams turning them in to frightening nightmares and only you can stop them. Enter the shadowy depths of her mind to defeat the Arch Lich and his undead minions so she can finally sleep peacefully!

Details

• Log in everyday to receive the quest The Eight Nightmares Of Lorraine.
  • The quest resets every day at EDT: 10:00am
    UTC: 2:00pm
    AEST: 12:00am
    7:00am PDT100.
  • You may only partake in the event while you have this quest.
• Lorraine will be located northwest of Dunbarton's square (right next to Lorna) for the duration of the event.
• To begin the mission, have the party leader of a group of four to six players talk to Lorraine. You will enter a desolate version of the outside area of Abb Neagh Castle, where you will RP as yourself, similar to the Advancement Test Hall.
  • In this instance, you only retain your equipment, excluding weapons, and your stats will be significantly lowered. You will not have your title nor guild name, nor what ever was in your inventory prior to entering available to you. In exchange for your items, you will be given five Lorna's Goldboxes or Pan's Goldboxes, 20 Phoenix Feathers, 20 Bandages, 5 Firewood, and 3 Ice Mines.
    • All equipment will be replaced with a stock version for the duration of the role-play quest.
• Two NPCs, Marcellus and Lorraine, will be at the area where the party enters the nightmare.
  • At the beginning, talk to Marcellus to choose what style of fighting you want to use throughout the battle. After choosing your destiny, he can be used to buy stats (in increments of 10 for stats and 50 for max HP, MP, and Stamina) and skill ranks with the Gold you receive from defeating the monsters.
    • Any skill that is capped can be ranked beyond its cap limit (i.e. Meditation can be ranked beyond 8).
    • The destinies are Warrior/Fighter, Alchemist/Archer, and Mage/Bard. There is a limit of two players per class.
      • Choosing a destiny automatically places two weapons of the respective item in their weapon slots as well as ammunition based on their race.
        • Human Warriors/Fighters receive a Celtic Royal Knight Sword, Round Shield, and Hobnail Knuckle; Alchemist/Archers receive a Cylinder, Celtic Royal Crossbow, and 1,000 Bolts; and Mages/Bards receive a Celtic Guardian Staff and a Mandolin.
        • Elf Warriors/Fighters receive a Celtic Royal War Hammer, Round Shield, and Hobnail Knuckle; Alchemist/Archers receive a Cylinder, Elven Short Bow, and 1000 Arrows; and Mages/Bards receive a Celtic Guardian Staff and Lute.
        • Giant Warriors/Fighters receive Celtic Royal War Hammer, Vales Shield, and Hobnail Knuckle; Alchemist/Archers receive a Cylinder, Wood Atlatl, and 1,000 Long Javelins; and Mages/Bards receive Celtic Guardian Staff and Ukulele.
  • Lorraine will have a store where you can buy potions, alchemy crystals, and various consumables (arrows, javelins, ice mines, firewood, etc.) with Gold.
    • The NPCs can be damaged, moved, and killed (via Ice Mine by planting it and shooting it, or other). However, they will spawn soon after in the place where they have last stood. Their shops will not be affected, and will remain in combat mode for the duration of the Nightmare round.
• After approximately one minute after all classes have been chosen, undead monsters will begin to spawn. The objective is to protect the castle, which has 50 HP, from being damaged. There will be eight waves and three different bosses with one minute breaks in between each round.
  • Monsters will run directly for the castle entrance and only stop to hit a player once after being provoked.
  • Unlike normal zombies, all types of ghastly zombies have human running speed.
  • For each monster that reaches the castle, one point of HP will be taken off the building. In the case of a boss monster (Ghastly Lich) reaching the castle, 5 points of damage are dealt.
• Each round apparently has a time limit before automatically failing.
• For each successive round, the EXP and Gold reward is increased. However, players will not receive a notice about how much Gold was received.
  • 581,000 EXP, 51,200 Gold, and a Lorraine's Sweet Dream Box are rewarded upon completing all 8 rounds.
• Upon completing all 8 rounds, there is an extra round where Sheep Wolves will spawn. Defeat them to receive a cutscene. After the cutscene, you will be teleported out of the mission.
  • Reno the warrior, Vey the mage, and Tion the archer will appear to assist you.
  • Even if you fail the extra round you will still be rewarded.
  • You can leave at the start of the extra round and still be rewarded.

Rounds

2015 Event Rounds

• Round 1
  • Ghastly Zombies x 51
• Round 2
  • Ghastly Zombies + Ghastly Zombie Soldiers
• Round 3
  • Ghastly Zombies + Ghastly Zombie Soldiers
• Round 4
  • Ghastly Zombies + Ghastly Zombie Soldiers
    • Boss: Ghastly Demi Lich
      • Summons: Ghastly Ghosts
• Round 5
  • Ghastly Stone Zombies + Ghastly Snow Zombies
• Round 6
  • Ghastly Stone Zombies + Ghastly Snow Zombies
    • Boss: Ghastly Master Lich
      • Summons: Ghastly Ghasts, Ghastly Red Ghasts, Ghastly Blue Ghasts
• Round 7
  • Ghastly Bandersnatches + Ghastly Gray Prison Zombies + Ghastly Black Prison Zombies + Ghastly White Prison Zombies + Ghastly Volatile Zombies
• Round 8
  • Ghastly Bandersnatches + Ghastly Gray Prison Zombies + Ghastly Black Prison Zombies + Ghastly White Prison Zombies + Ghastly Volatile Zombies
    • Boss: Ghastly Arc Lich
      • Summons: Ghastly Bomb Steeds
• Extra
  • Sheep Wolf
  • Reno, Vay, and Tion will assist you.

Tips

2015 Event Tips

• Giants should take advantage of Stomp to huddle zombies together and dispose of/stall other members.
• Giants using Wind Guard + Mana Shield near the Ghastly Master Lich can successfully serve as distractions for fellow party members to charge powerful skills.
• Those who decide to go with the Warrior/Fighter Destiny will find Windmill quite useful.
• Warriors should try to get their Health Points up, as it will assist your team during rounds 7-8, when the Volatile zombies appear
• Warrior builds should make sure to rank Combat Mastery listed in the "Basic Skills" section. Unlike other skills, it starts at rank F.
• If the Mage/Bard Destiny is chosen, Thunder, Fireball, and Ice Spear are highly recommended. However, Ice Spear's usefulness declines in the later rounds due to the Ghastly Snow Zombies, whom are immune to ice-based magic.
  • It is advised that one Mage use Thunder to stun the running front mobs while the second Mage uses Fireball as Fireball has a wide range of damage. Thunder will give the second Mage enough time for the Fireball to be cast. This is very useful for later rounds when there are Ghastly Volatile Zombies, and Fireball gives those in the way enough time to clear the area.
    • Merely buying MP potions is more cost efficient and effective than ranking Meditation.
• Alchemist build types can take advantage of Flame Burst in order to bunch up the zombies into groups. This not only slows them down a great deal but gives other players a chance to land powerful AoE attacks on large numbers.
• Alchemist must first and foremost rank Shock to 1. Both Alchemist must agree to alternate to increase efficiency.
  • It is suggested that Alchemists also raise their HP at the same time so that they may stand the explosions of Ghastly Volatile Zombies while they are using Shock without dying. Raising any stats costs 4,000 gold each time, so sharing gold is strongly advised.
• Another strategy would be to have Alchemist take turns using shock on a Giant(Warrior), who uses Stomp to catch any zombie that runs away, use this method as far away from castle as possible. (around the fork where the 2 zombie spawn lanes meet)
  • Make sure that the shocked person stays near the intersection for efficently
  • Alchemist and Giants(Warriors) are highly recommended to have high HP as mentioned before
  • At the same time have 2 Mages alternate using Fireball on the gathered up groups, preferably when the Alchemist and Giant has gathered up a large mob, or shock has ran out
  • Alchemist are also advised to rank Critical Hit.
  • This method can be completed with 5 people, an extra warrior can kill the monsters that make it past your Alchemists and Giant.
  • Note: Using Thunder will not allow you to kill all the mobs. Using Ice Spear is not useful as the zombies eventually become immune and it only makes them split up.
  • Note: Potions are necessary, use them rather than ranking up skills, eg. Respite, Enduring Melody, Healing, Meditation. Mages MUST have them, while Alchemist and Giants get HP and SP.
    • It may be a wiser option to get Potions rather than ranking up skills.
• Caution: While you are given Firewood to make a campfire and Barrier Spikes Crystals can be bought, beware. The mobs usually split in different directions and go around the campfire or barriers, making it that much harder to maintain control and defeat the monsters, as they will then be spread apart in small groups.
  • This also can apply to the Windmill skill if it is not up to par. The mobs are focused on the Castle, and will continue to move without stopping to aggro you.
• It seems, for now, that there may be times when Barrier Spikes serve as a sort of unexpected spawning point for zombies. Place them at your own discretion.
• Take note that Ice Mines and Ice Spear do not freeze the zombies in place. Despite their graphically frozen status, they are still moving towards the castle.
• If you have excess gold, sharing with another player may be a wise investment.
• Some (if not, all) zombies are immune to the slowing down effect of Life Drain.
• When dealing with the Ghastly Master Lich, if possible, let it pass. It is not worth facing something that can easily wipe the party for a 5 HP reduction on the Castle.
• It is possible to glitch the Ghastly Arc Lich and cause it to be unattackable, this is due to the glitch involving monsters with Teleportation. However, Rank 1 Rain Casting will not fix the glitch.
  • Killing his one or entire wave of Bomb Steeds will cause him to warp to a new place (presumably in the direction he would have teleported before glitching) and spawn another wave of them.
  • The Ghastly Arc Lich is also vulnerable to a Mage's Ice Spear and Ice Mines. You may place down Ice Mines around your area to make a protection barrier against the Arc Lich. Although it does 1 damage, it will serve you well in giving you time to use potions, revive party members, to use Skills, or to cast magic for Mages.
  • It is highly recommended to lure the Bomb Steeds away from the Ghastly Arc Lich.
  • The use of Mirage Missile against the Ghastly Arc Lich can be quite helpful.
• If you have a coordinated team this strategy should work fine
  • Have both Alchemist focus on getting Flame Burst & Critical Hit to R1 and Chain Cylinder to R6 and extra gold in between rounds should be put into Alchemy Mastery or Fire Alchemy Mastery
    • Round 1 Alchemist should get 1 Move Speed Potion and put 3 levels into Flame Burst and 1 level into Chain Cylinder
      • Around Round 6-7 you should buy some some Fire Crystal and one set of 5x Stamina Pots just in case, (if you were leveling Alchemy Mastery you should probably only need to use 1 Stamina Pot during the last boss)
  • Have both Mages focus on Fireball & Magic Mastery or Fire Mastery and get MP potions instead of leveling Meditation
  • Have both Warriors/Fighters focus on getting HP up, leveling Final Hit and dont forget to level Combat Mastery & Critical Hit under the Basic Skills Tab. Also stock up on HP & Stamina pots, HP can also be regened by Respite, but you wont always have the chance to use it.
    • It is recommended to have Giants play the warriors since they have an advantage as the class
  • Have the whole party at the crossroads before the end circle, Have 1 alchemist facing each path and using Flame Burst to stall and damage the enemies in a straight line. There should be 1 Mage supporting each Alchemist charging Fireball and launching it when the Alchemist has a large group bunched up or it looks like the mobs are spreading out randomly. Lastly both Warriors/Fighters will be behind everyone else and kill any straglers and lucky zombies that survived the Alchemist and Mages, if your team does this right the Melee players will probably only fight 10-16 mobs total.
    • Starting from round 7 one or both Melee players should go aggro the Ghastly Volatile Zombie that go along the right path and have them follow the player until the other four players are done dealing with the rest of the mobs, and then the mages should Fireball or Lightning Rod all of them at once, since any other players do not have the range to deal with all of them at once without being harmed, especially the Melee players.
      • Icebolt and Rage Impact can be easy ways to gather the aggro from the Ghastly Volatile Zombie
    • For the bosses it is recommended to kill the first Lich on round 4 for the extra gold, skip the second boss as it will wipe most teams, and kill the last boss to win
      • On boss rounds have the mage charge a Fireball on the path nearby the Moon Stone, and have one of the other players stay near the lich's render range so that it starts walking until it is in range of the mage with the charged Fireball, After the mage attacks have whoever has aggro hide behind the moon stone, Alchemists who dont have aggro attack the boss with Flame Burst and use Shock on themselves whenver they have it up, Mages who dont have aggro swap attacking it with Fireball, and Warriors/Fighters can sit back and try to be on revive duty in case anyone gets accidentally killed or you can Final Hit the boss. If the Melee player is gonna Final Hit the boss, try to have the Alchemist buff them with Shock.
      • No matter what dont use any attacks that will reset the boss AI or trigger Teleport, like Windmill, Thunder, Water Cannon, etc...
      • Don't aggro the second Lich, it will WIPE your team 90% of the time
    • Melee players should save their Final Hit on the last round for the Wolves bonus round, if both Melee players use their Final Hit correctly you should be able to end the sheep wolves bonus round before they can spawn any more.

Quest

The Eight Nightmares Of Lorraine

How to Get Quest	Log in during the event period.
Briefing	Every night, I have 8 nightmares... Please, help me!
Objectives	Save Lorraine's dream. Save Lorraine's dream again. Save Lorraine's dream once more.
Rewards	1 Lorraine's Sweet Dream Box
Additional Information	You only need to survive at least one round and then talk to Lorraine to complete one section of the quest. The quest log will reset every EDT: 3:00am UTC: 7:00am AEST: 5:00pm 12:00am PDT100.

Rewards

Equipment

• Bracer Knuckle
• Broken Umbrella
• Champion Knuckle
• Combat Wand
• Crown Ice Wand (Purple)
• Crystal Lightning Wand (Sky Blue)
• Devil Slayer
• Engraved Control Bar
• Falcata (Purple)
• Francisca (Pink)
• Chef Life Exploration Cooking Knife
• Life Exploration Cooking Knife
• Scent of the Sea Life Exploration Fishing Rod
• Life Exploration Fishing Rod
• Tempting Life Exploration Taming Cane
• Life Exploration Taming Cane
• Lion Claw Lance (Pink)
• Lyre (Yellow)
• Panda Umbrella
• Phoenix Fire Wand (Orange)
• Rebis Guard Cylinder
• Ring Bow (Neon Green)
• Starblade Shuriken
• Striped Candy Pillow
• Spotted Candy Pillow
• Trinity Staff (Sky Blue, Yellow)
• Twinkle Star Umbrella
• War Sword (Sky Blue, Purple)
• Warhammer
• Zeder II

Enchants

• Speedy
• Challenger

Materials

• Antidote Herb x10
• Finest Silk (x5 or x10)
• Finest Fabric (x5 or x10)
• Finest Leather x5
• Finest Leather Strap (x5 or x10)
• Finest Leather Pouch x10
• Finest Firewood x10
• Fine Silk x5
• Fine Fabric x5
• Fine Leather x5
• Fine Leather Strap x5
• Forgotten Mage's Gem
• Golden Herb x10
• Hard Monster Horn
• Lightless Metal Fragment
• Mandrake x10
• Radiant String
• White Herb x10

Homestead

• 2015 New Year's Homestead Logo
• Homestead Cabbage Seed x5
• Homestead Eggplant Seed x5
• Homestead Pumpkin Seed x5
• Homestead Strawberry Seed x5

Gems

• Aquamarine (10cm)
• Diamond (5cm or 10cm)
• Emerald (10cm)
• Garnet (10cm)
• Jasper (10cm)
• Ruby (10cm)
• Spinel (10cm)
• Star Sapphire (10cm)
• Topaz (10cm)

Food

• Chiffon Cake of Will x5
• Chocolate Chip Cookie of Dexterity x5
• Jelly Beans of Strength x5
• Lollipop of Intelligence x5
• Muffin of Luck x5

Potions

• Complete Skill EXP Potion (Event)
• HP 100 Potion SE x5
• HP 300 Potion SE x5
• HP 500 Potion SE x5
• HP 1000 Potion SE x5
• MP 100 Potion SE x5
• MP 300 Potion SE x5
• MP 500 Potion SE x5
• Speed Walk Potion 40% (10 min)
• Stamina 100 Potion SE x5
• Stamina 300 Potion SE x5
• Stamina 500 Potion SE x5
• Stamina 1000 Potion SE x5
• Tin Potion
• Wound Remedy 100 Potion SE x5
• Wound Remedy 300 Potion SE x5
• Wound Remedy 500 Potion SE x5
• Wound Remedy 1000 Potion SE x5

Miscellaneous

• Blue Upgrade Stone (Event)
• Broken Heart Bag Coupon (96 Slots)
• Falias Fragment
• Fixed Color Dye Ampoule Set
• Fixed Color Metal Dye Ampoule Set
• Golden Hammer of Durability (Not Tradable)
• Living Room Chair
• Reading Chair
• Red Upgrade Stone (Event)
• School Chair
• Unbroken Heart Bag Coupon (106 Slots)

Trivia

• Giants who were in the quest had Rock Throwing. Since the nature of the quest was a role play the action does not carry over to the actual character.