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Black Ice Cave Survival Guide and Item Screens
By ArchieVision
A guide for those venturing into the Black Ice Cave.

   
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All you need to know so far...
The Cave is going to be a 4 man job. High level 3rd tier spells, Focus potions, Healing runes, warming runes, Brimstone armor, iron picks, ramps, pillars, foundations, re-spawn deck, reequip chests and so much more will be needed to raid this dungeon.

The Cold is a killer by itself. Without Brimstone and warming stones, it will be impossible to survive. Even with these, you will still be so cold you will lose health. That is where the food, elixirs, and Runes of Restoration 2 come in. These will keep you alive against the cold.

The mobs are another story all together. Any Melee weapons or tools are useless against them. Within 10 to 12 hits with them, they break. Even max level Legendary spawned in tools and weapons do the same. So, Magic spells tier 3 and battle staffs are essential to your survival and success. Fire, and Lightening are the best. Also, the Morphing spells are useless. lower health and faster death. All players should have several spells on them and the retool boxes should also have the same. The new healing spells will also be very useful for those that are tanks.

The boss has 250k health or more. I was hitting him for 500 to 1k damage, and it still took 15 minutes to bring him down. He will spawn in minions to help him. These have 500 to 3500 health and break melee weapons. The boss however does not break them, and they can be used against him. But, spells are more effective and deal way more damage. I have not tested it yet, but if it is place-able, a house health flag would be an awesome thing to have down there.

There are 2 drop down cliffs on the way in that you cannot get back out of 1st is after the 1st room. The second is dropping into the bosses chamber. Both of these will require a structure build to get back out after you have killed the boss. Unless you use the Ice return rune that you get upon killing the boss.

Here are screens of what can be made on Bytorg's Bench.

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If you find anything that is not right or needs adjusting, please post it below. Happy Caving!
5 Comments
Capn 2 Jan, 2018 @ 12:17am 
as of yesterday on official we were seeing 12-15 frost spiders which 1 hit destroy your armor so maybe some hailstorms for slowing as they are super fast and maybe wall of fire as well for them. for bytorg you can literally run in circles as a group shooting him with bursting arrows, when the minions come you can have 1 of your group cast spells on bytorg at this point while the rest of you focus on that. bytorg will eat the minions and heal himself a chunk of health so they need to die fast.
Capn 2 Jan, 2018 @ 12:16am 
can't build inside cave or place sleeping bags or house healing flags. The lightning spells have been nerfed, there are now ice golems inside cave at level 150 (look like earth elemental but ice). I recommend trying the goblins/spiders with bursting arrows and using the firestorm 1 and 2 against the golems if possible but bursting arrows will work as well, divine blessing heals for 200 now so you can cast them on each other, morphing spells are blocked in cave. If you use brimstone bp and craft at least 3 legendary and 2 epic you can survive without any health loss from cold but will still lose hunger and water quick.
ArchieVision  [author] 11 Sep, 2017 @ 1:09pm 
Look slike they removed them. I will change the guide to be more accurate.
ArchieVision  [author] 11 Sep, 2017 @ 1:07pm 
Runes.
LeGGaTo 11 Sep, 2017 @ 12:00pm 
2nd tier warming stones
2nd tier healing runes
what is that i can't understand