The Far Lands - Pindos and Rhodos, two raids and skills to 200

The world grows past Hellas. In the frozen north-west lies Pindos, the land beyond the North Wind. Across the sea to the east lies Rhodos, the Sands of Ammon. Each is a whole land of its own: a capital, a zone ladder, land bosses, dungeons, a Slayer master, seven quests, skilling from 150 to 200 and a raid at the end of the road.

Pindos - the land beyond the North Wind#

Pindos is bitter cold: your warmth drains whenever you're outdoors, so you live from fire to fire. Its capital, Metsovo, is a walled town of steep roofs and braziers, with the palace of the Boreads and the frozen Swan Mere at its heart. Take the Metsovo Pass north from Khione's Watch, or Pindos - Metsovo on the teleport menu.

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1. 1
   MetsovoThe capital - bank, agora, Theano and Atalanta's lodge
2. 2
   1. The Rhipaean SnowfieldsSnow wolves and snowfield trolls
3. 3
   2. The Pinewood of ZetesPinewood bears and frostweb spiders
4. 4
   3. WhitestrandRime crabs and rimebound reavers
5. 5
   4. The Crevasse FieldsIce giants and crevasse hounds
6. 6
   5. The Tongue of BoreasGlacier wyrms and rime colossi
7. 7
   6. The Frozen Ruins of Elder PindosFrozen hoplites and rime wraiths
8. 8
   The Griffin's EyrieGryps, the Griffin Queen
9. 9
   The Breach of the KetosThe Ketos
10. 10
    The Glacier ThroneKryos, the Glacier King
11. 11
    The Gate of the North WindThe Hall of the Boreads raid
12. 12
    The Caves of the North WindAtalanta's Slayer dungeon
13. 13
    The Catacombs of Elder PindosDungeon under the ruins
14. 14
    RhipaeaMining camp
15. 15
    Zetes' LodgeHunting lodge
16. 16
    OreithyiaFishing village and herb beds
17. 17
    The Metsovo PassThe road in from Hellas

Six zones, each opening after 1,000 kills in the one before:

Below ground are the Caves of the North Wind (Atalanta's six Slayer monsters), the Catacombs of Elder Pindos and the vault of the Keeper of the Deep Vaults. Around Metsovo are Rhipaea, the mining camp on the road in; Zetes' Lodge in the pinewood; and Oreithyia, a fishing village on a western cove.

Rhodos - the Sands of Ammon#

Rhodos burns. You thirst in the sun, so carry Ammon's waterskin and drink at the wells. Lindos is its harbour capital: the Pharos lighthouse, a market colonnade, the river and the Bridge of Helios. A felucca sails there from the Kenchreai quay by Corinth, or take Rhodos - Lindos on the teleport menu.

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1. 1
   LindosThe capital - bank, agora, Kleobulos and the Hunters' Court
2. 2
   The PharosThe harbour, where the felucca from Kenchreai puts in
3. 3
   1. The Shifting DunesDune jackals and sand crabs
4. 4
   2. The Salt PansBrine serpents and salt-crusted crabs
5. 5
   3. The Red BadlandsMesa bandits and badlands hyenas
6. 6
   4. The Garamantian CanyonGaramantian raiders and outriders
7. 7
   5. The NecropolisMummies and Anubite tomb guardians
8. 8
   6. The Great Sand SeaSandworms and dune wraiths
9. 9
   7. The Scorpion WastesGiant scorpions and brood wardens
10. 10
    The Sphinx's courtThe Sphinx
11. 11
    The Maw's sinkholeThe Maw
12. 12
    The Scorpion ThroneThe Scorpion King
13. 13
    The Great PyramidThe Temple of the Hidden Sun raid
14. 14
    The pyramid's side doorThe galleries, deep halls and deep vaults
15. 15
    The Tomb of the KingsDungeon - Ozymandias, King of Kings
16. 16
    The Sandstone CavernsDungeon under the mesas
17. 17
    The oasis of AmmonThe Oracle and the river ferry
18. 18
    The caravanseraiEnchanting table
19. 19
    The quarry camp
20. 20
    The nomad campHunting and the summoning obelisk

Seven zones, out into the deep desert:

Underneath are the Sandstone Caverns under the mesas, the Tomb of the Kings in the Necropolis, where Ozymandias, King of Kings waits, and the Great Pyramid's galleries, deep halls and deep vaults. Out in the sands you'll find the oasis of Ammon and its Oracle, the caravanserai, the quarry camp and the nomad camp.

One road to each raid#

Each land is a single line from arrival to its raid. ::progress ticks off every step, and you can take the lands in either order:

1. The first quest - The Frost-Bound Folio in Pindos, The Sun-Scorched Leaves in Rhodos.
2. The zone ladder - 1,000 kills a zone. Every zone is open world, with no instances.
3. The land bosses - 5 kills of each of the land's three. Anyone who deals 5% of the boss's health gets the kill.
4. The seal quest - The Gate of the North Wind or The Hidden Sun hands you the land's raid seal.

Six land bosses#

Every kill drops 5 of the land's material (Rimeheart or Sunstone), often Adamas shards, and two gear pieces at 1 in 60 each. Kryos, the Maw and the Scorpion King also carry rarer pieces: helms, platebodies and three sets of wings.

Land boss gear - 18 pieces

Frostfang gauntlets

Gauntlets with a frost-wolf's bite.

Frostfang longbow

A longbow of frozen yew. Its arrows leave a trail of frost.

Hoarfrost amulet

An amulet rimed in hoarfrost. It never warms against the skin.

Hoarfrost staff

A staff that pulls the cold out of the air.

Avalanche legguards

Legguards that ride an avalanche down and walk away.

Avalanche greatsword

A greatsword with the weight of a snowfall behind it.

Avalanche helm

A helm of packed ice, crowned in the spikes of a glacier's face.

Avalanche platebody

Plate that wears the avalanche on its shoulders.

Wings of Boreas

Wings of the North Wind, shed as shards of ice.

Mirage aura

Is it there, or only shimmering?

Mirage ward

A ward that is never quite where the blow lands.

Dunereaver cuirass

A cuirass scoured by the dunes and polished by them.

Dunereaver sword

A sword for the man who reaves the dunes.

Dunereaver helm

A horned helm, scoured red by the dunes.

Dunereaver wings

Dark wings that ride the hot wind over the dunes.

Simoom ring

A ring that carries the desert wind.

Simoom crossbow

A crossbow for the sandstorm. Its bolts come from nowhere.

Phoenix wings

The firebird of the sun-city. It burns, and it rises.

Raid 1 - the Hall of the Boreads#

Under the Gate of the North Wind, north of Metsovo. Up to five players, on Normal or Hard, walk through four halls and fight five bosses. Every hall has its own rules.

The Gale Hall - Zetes and Calais. Everything here is wind, and the pillars are your answer to all of it. Six gale vents blast anyone in their lane into the far wall unless a pillar stands in the way. Calais strafes rows of the hall from the rafters, immune, until his brother Zetes falls. Every vent you shutter makes Calais take 10% more and deal 8% less. From 60%, Zetes looses a whirlwind that hunts the party.

The Frozen Lake - Chione. The ice you stand on is the fight. Her slams crack it, and cracked ice opens into real water: you can swim, but you can't fight, and you drown. She freezes players in blocks of ice for their friends to mine out. The drowned dead climb out of the holes. At 66% the undertow drags you towards open water, and at 33% the whole lake starts to break up.

The Crystal Grotto - the Crystal Warden. Six crystals charge, and when three sing at once she unleashes Prism Nova. Shatter one early, and take the shards. At 75%, 50% and 25%, the Rimewall seals the grotto into three pockets, each with its own Shard echo. Break through, and don't get left alone.

The Throne over the Abyss - Boreas. The North Wind fights on stone slabs floating over the void, and the floor is the fight. Stand still and the slab under you glows at the seams, then drops into the abyss. Lure Boreas onto a cracking slab and he falls with it: staggered, taking x1.5 damage.

Ice spikes race along the rime towards you. Icicle rain marks every tile it's about to hit. Storm rings shove you outward, and over the edge. From 75% the floor tilts and everyone slides downhill. Frostbite stacks build all fight long, and only the hearths and the four rim braziers burn them off, so somebody has to keep those fires lit.

At 50% he rises over the abyss, immune, and rains ice bolts. Haul the three wind-anchor chains on the rim to drag him back down, and he comes back with the Krystallos greatsword. Every slam of it cracks the slab it lands on. At 25% every quarter of the floor breaks away for good, and the party fights on what's left.

Raid 2 - the Temple of the Hidden Sun#

Under the Great Pyramid. It's a different kind of raid: six chambers, three of them puzzles and three of them guardians, for up to five players on Normal or Hard.

1. The Hypostyle of Ra. Four of thirty lotus columns hide Ra's cartouche, a new four every run. A false one looses a scarab swarm, and its glyphs point you to the nearest true one.
2. The Antechamber of Offerings. The robbers' curse holds the rubble together. Kill their shades next to the rubble to drag the curse out of it.
3. The Hall of the Sun Barque - Mehen. The serpent can't be hurt underwater. Turn both sluice wheels in time to drain the channel and beach him, then dodge the floods and the coil lash.
4. The Gallery of Judgement. Read the Negative Confession on the stele, then step the glyph plates in order. Every wrong plate is a lie: darts fire, and an Assessor of the Dead wakes.
5. The Chamber of Scales - Ammit. Balance the Great Scale, Hearts of the Judged against Feathers of Ma'at, and Ammit is Judged and takes 30% more. Too slow, and she devours the room. Between weighings she burrows and the quicksand spreads.
6. The Throne of the Hidden Sun - Helios-Ra. The sun-shaft makes him untouchable. Turn the four bronze mirrors to bounce the light into him and break his Aegis. Meanwhile the sun crosses the sky and strikes anyone outside the colossus's shadow, and golden scarabs crawl to the shaft to heal him.

The Krystallos and Pyros sets#

Each raid has its own top-tier set, 17 pieces each: helm, platebody, platelegs, gauntlets, boots, wings, aura, amulet, ring, shield, tome, aegis and five weapons. Krystallos (ice) leans to control and survival: chill, a damage shield and freezes. Pyros (fire) leans to spread: burns and splash. Both deal the same single-target damage.

Krystallos - 17 pieces

Krystallos helm

Frost-steel crowned in living crystal. Light burns behind the visor.

Krystallos platebody

A crystal heart beats in the breastplate; its light runs through the seams.

Krystallos platelegs

Frost-steel greaves, the knees split open by crystal.

Krystallos gauntlets

Crystal fins rake back from the vambraces like frozen flame.

Krystallos boots

Every step leaves a ring of cold light behind it.

Krystallos wings

Wings of living crystal. They catch every light there is and give it back.

Krystallos greatsword

A blade of glacier crystal on a frost-steel spine. It hums in the cold.

Krystallos bow

Frost-steel limbs crested with crystal; the string is a thread of light.

Krystallos staff

A crown of frost-steel holding a heart of crystal that never stops shining.

Krystallos aura

The frost answers you now. Crystal rises wherever you stand.

Krystallos amulet

A shard of the glacier's heart on a frost-steel torque.

Krystallos ring

A crystal held in frost-steel claws. Cold to the touch, always.

Krystallos shield

Frost-steel behind a burst of crystal blades.

Krystallos tome

Its pages are thin sheets of ice that never melt.

Krystallos aegis

A frost-steel buckler with a crystal star at its heart.

Krystallos sword

The greatsword's little sister. Just as cold.

Krystallos crossbow

Light enough for one hand; its bolts leave a trail of frost.

Pyros - 17 pieces

Pyros helm

Horned obsidian, lava running in its cracks. Something burns behind the visor.

Pyros platebody

Obsidian plate over a heart of magma.

Pyros platelegs

Obsidian greaves, hot to the touch.

Pyros gauntlets

Taloned obsidian. The fingers glow when they close.

Pyros boots

They leave scorched prints behind them.

Pyros wings

Wings of cooling rock and living fire.

Pyros greatsword

Forged in the deep fire and never let cool.

Pyros bow

Its string is a thread of flame.

Pyros staff

A crown of fire on a molten haft.

Pyros aura

The ground burns where you stand.

Pyros amulet

An ember that never goes out, on an obsidian torque.

Pyros ring

An ember held in obsidian claws.

Pyros shield

Obsidian behind a burst of molten blades.

Pyros tome

Its pages are ash that never falls apart.

Pyros aegis

An obsidian buckler with a molten star at its heart.

Pyros sword

The greatsword's little sister. Just as hot.

Pyros crossbow

Light enough for one hand; its bolts leave a trail of embers.

Every weapon has its own special attack:

You choose your piece. Every clear pays every player shards: 10 on Normal, 25 on Hard. 3,000 shards forge any piece you want at ::forge, and weapons also need an Aetherheart, the raid gem. On top of that, every clear rolls a purple (a set piece, at 1 in 40 on Normal or 1 in 25 on Hard), the uncut aetherheart, the raid's Ascendant codex, its pet and its Legendary enchant.

The raid chests' rarest rolls

Krystallos shard

A shard of the Boreads' living crystal. The forge makes Krystallos armour of enough of them.

Pyros shard

A shard of the Hidden Sun's molten glass, still warm. The forge makes Pyros armour of enough of them.

Boread fledgling

One of the winged sons of Boreas - a very small one.

Khepri's scarab

Khepri rolls the sun across the sky. This one rolls whatever you drop.

Enchantment: Frostfire of Calais

Blue fire from the Hall of the Boreads. A mythic enchantment - read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Wrath of Helios-Ra

The Hidden Sun's own wrath. A mythic enchantment - read it onto a weapon.

Codex of the North Wind

Boreas' own hand, rimed shut. Read it to learn Avalanche of Boreas for good.

Codex of the Hidden Sun

Gold leaf that burns to the touch. Read it to learn Eye of the Hidden Sun for good.

Every step of the gear ladder#

The lands fill every tier below the raid sets, and each land's gear uses only its own material:

Town gear

Rimewarden gloves

Fur-lined plate for the hands, given to the friends of Metsovo.

Rimewarden boots

Boots of the Rimewardens, who keep the Metsovo Pass open.

Rimewarden staff

The staff of a Rimewarden. Metsovo trusts few with one.

Ring of the Colossus

A ring cast from a fallen piece of the Colossus of Rhodos.

Amulet of the Colossus

An amulet of the Colossus. Lindos honours its friends in bronze and gold.

Colossus longbow

A bow strung for the Colossus' archers. Lindos gives it only to its own.

Perseus' Panoply and the Aura of the Far Lands

Helm of Darkness

The cap of Hades. Who wears it is not seen.

Winged sandals

Hermes' gift. The ground is a suggestion.

Kibisis

The satchel that carried the Gorgon's head. It is empty. Mostly.

Mirrored Aegis

Athena's bronze, polished to a mirror. Look at the Gorgon in it, never at her.

Hermes' harpe

A sickle-sword of adamant. It took the Gorgon's head.

Aura of the Far Lands

The road behind you, and the road ahead. Both lead home.

Town standing rises with everything you do in a land - kills, bosses, Slayer tasks, raid clears, quests, the goods you make - through Friendly, Honoured, Revered and Exalted.

13 new Slayer tasks#

Two new Slayer masters, Atalanta in her hunting lodge in Metsovo and Perseus in the Hunters' Court of Lindos, set tasks for Slayer 150 to 195. Every task pays a land box on top.

They drop the uniques that forge Perseus' Panoply, the top rung of the slayer helm ladder, and five tier-5 enchant scrolls you can't buy anywhere.

Slayer rewards

Eye of the Graiai

The one eye the three Graiai share. They want it back.

Stormwing pinion

A flight feather from a storm-wing. It never stops trembling.

Hesperides' thread

Golden thread from the Garden of the Hesperides, far in the west of Libya.

Gorgon's scale

A scale from one of the Gorgon's kin. It is cold, and hard as bronze.

Adamantine fang

A fang of adamant, from something that should not have had one.

Rimebound Slayer Helm

Atalanta's helm for the hunt beyond the North Wind. Slayer helm rung 7 of 7. On task: +35% damage, +6% drop rate, +60% slayer points.

Emberbound Slayer Helm

Perseus' helm for the hunt under the Rhodian sun. Slayer helm rung 7 of 7. On task: +35% damage, +6% drop rate, +60% slayer points.

Enchantment: Frostbite

An enchantment of biting frost.

Enchantment: Sunfire

An enchantment of burning sun.

Enchantment: Rimeguard

An enchantment against the cold of the far north.

Enchantment: Solar Ward

An enchantment against the desert's sun.

Enchantment: Wayfarer

An enchantment for those who walk far: neither frost nor heat finds you.

20 found enchants#

These enchants are found, never crafted: one scroll each, already at full strength. Every zone, dungeon and boss group in the two lands drops its own, so every grind has a prize of its own. The two Legendary weapon enchants come only from the raid chests.

Enchantment: Hunter's Eye

The Snowfields' hunters miss nothing. Read it onto a helm.

Enchantment: Glacier Ward

A wall of old ice for your shield. Read it onto a shield.

Enchantment: Rimehide

A hide of hoarfrost. Read it onto a body.

Enchantment: Glacial Chain

Ice that leaps from foe to foe. Read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Frostgrip

A grip that freezes to the hilt. Read it onto gloves.

Enchantment: Winter's Hunger

The cold of the Frozen Ruins, still hungry. Read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Windwalker

Boreas' own wind at your heels. Read it onto boots.

Enchantment: Aurora

Northern lights caught in ink. Read it onto an amulet.

Enchantment: Fletch of Boreas

Feathers from the North Wind's own sons. Read it onto your ammunition.

Enchantment: North Wind Mantle

The north wind, worn on the shoulders. Read it onto a cape.

Enchantment: Sandveil

Drifting sand that hides you from the desert's eyes. Read it onto a helm.

Enchantment: Sandstrider

Light feet for the salt pans. Read it onto legs.

Enchantment: Sunburst

Badlands sun, folded into vellum. Read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Sun Aegis

The Necropolis sun, turned back on whoever strikes you. Read it onto a shield.

Enchantment: Scorpion's Sting

Venom from the Great Sand Sea. Read it onto gloves.

Enchantment: Mirage Edge

A blade that is never quite where it seems. Read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Seal of Ammon

The ram-god's seal, pressed in gold. Read it onto a ring.

Enchantment: Phoenix Mantle

Ash that remembers how to rise. Read it onto a cape.

Enchantment: Frostfire of Calais

Blue fire from the Hall of the Boreads. A mythic enchantment - read it onto a weapon.

Enchantment: Wrath of Helios-Ra

The Hidden Sun's own wrath. A mythic enchantment - read it onto a weapon.

18 quests#

Seven quests a land, three that need both, and The Far Grimoire: 32 quest points in all. They're hands-on: quest-only drops, things you make on the land skills, and most of them end in a personal boss fight.

• Pindos: The Frost-Bound Folio, Frost on the Ledger, The Huntress of Pindos, The Wreck at Whitestrand, Into the Crevasse, The Furrier's Winter, The Gate of the North Wind.
• Rhodos: The Sun-Scorched Leaves, The Bridge of Helios, The Hunters' Court, The Spring of Kyrene, Look on My Works, Sand and Sunglass, The Hidden Sun.
• Both lands: The Concord of the Ascendant (the Tome of the Ascendant, your way to the Divinity spellbook for 150-200), Fur for Glass, and the Grandmaster finale The North Wind and the Sun, which names you Arbiter of Wind and Sun.
• The Far Grimoire - Medea's quest, which unlocks Enchanting past 150.

Each quest pays up to 4M Dracma, land boxes, material, Adamas shards, town standing and Ascendant lamps (5M experience in a skill between 150 and 199).

Every skill to 200#

Every skill, combat included, now goes to 200. Level 151 is 50M experience past 150, and it climbs to 150M a level near the top. Above 150, skills train at full rate inside Pindos and Rhodos and at x0.05 anywhere else. 150 is still the mastery level for capes and prestige. In combat, levels past 150 count at half, so 200 adds about 15% to your max hit.

Both lands have something for every skill:

Plus land bars and plates, fur linings and sunglass, herb beds that grow in 20 minutes, four land potions, two dig sites a land with relics that work in their own land, land bones, stalls and the land enchanting tables. The four new runes are crafted from Primordial essence, mined at 150 from rocks that never run out, and they're what the Book of the Ascendant spends.

Chione Rune

Snow that never melts, cut into a six-pointed star. The frost spells of the Book of the Ascendant burn it.

Ammon Rune

The sun of the Sands of Ammon between two ram's horns. Warm to the touch, always.

Aurora Rune

The northern lights, caught in midnight stone. They still move when you are not looking.

Phoenix Rune

A firebird spreading its wings in a charcoal stone. It is never quite cold.

Primordial essence

Raw essence from the roots of the Far Lands. Only their altars can shape it.

Lamp of the North Wind

Frost burns inside it instead of oil. Rub it to light a skill already past level 150.

Lamp of Helios

A little noon sun in a bronze lamp. Rub it to light a skill already past level 150.

The Codex, the stores and the March#

• The Codex of the Far Lands - six new codex books, three a land, each worth +1% damage and +0.5% drop rate. Book III of each land gives a title, Child of the North Wind or Sunborn.
• Point stores - the Vote, Skilling, Olympian and Bond stores all carry the lands' boxes, material, supplies and the Wayfarer's outfit, which makes you immune to frost and heat and adds experience at 150+. Most lines are capped per day, so they top up the grind rather than replace it.
• Ten land boxes - a Satchel, Cache, Reliquary, Coffer and Vault for each land.
• The Frozen March, a PvP land in the frozen north, opens alongside the expansion. It has its own update post.

Codex of Pindos I

The first codex of Pindos: the Folio, the first zones, the kings of the ice and Metsovo's trust.

Codex of Pindos II

The second codex of Pindos: every zone, the kings again and the Hall of the Boreads.

Codex of Pindos III

The last codex of Pindos: five hundred kings, a hundred Hard halls and a hundred hunts.

Codex of Rhodos I

The first codex of Rhodos: the Leaves, the first zones, the kings of the sand and Lindos' trust.

Codex of Rhodos II

The second codex of Rhodos: every zone, the kings again and the Temple of the Hidden Sun.

Codex of Rhodos III

The last codex of Rhodos: five hundred kings, a hundred Hard temples and a hundred hunts.

The full guide#

Every zone and monster, every quest and its requirements, every raid mechanic hall by hall, the drop rates, forge costs and store prices: it's all in the Far Lands guide.