We are approaching the end of 468 LV. Shaper Ice Globes have mysteriously appeared in Northern Bastion. It is Icetide, and Ice Flowers are growing inside these globes due to their inside temperature being extremely cold. Arcanists and Engineers have found a way to harvest coolant from the flowers' sap. This is the coolant harvest event of the year. Let's help them!
Hints and Suggestions
- Avoid damaging or destroying the full canisters when they come out of the device. If destroyed, and the Freelancer is nearby, it will explode and spill all the coolant on the javelin, damaging it tn the process and inducing a
Frozen Status. - However, doing that from afar and around enemies will damage the enemies instead.
- Just before a coolant pod is ready, the Ice Flower glows as seen in the image. This is an cue to be prepared, as there is exactly 30 seconds to collect it and transfer it to the cargo mule, once it is out.
- The Freelancer can deliberately drop the pods. The pods will also drop if the Freelancer takes longer than 30 seconds, but in this case, there is no status effect.
- Storm Wyverns and Wyverns can be easily defeated by hitting them with any Elemental Damage or Acid damage dealing equipment.
- The armor on Brutes, Outlaw Shotgunner, and Outlaw Lancers can be tackled with Fire, Acid, or Armor Buster damages.
- The shields on Outlaw Gunner, Outlaw Elementalist, and Outlaw Lancer can be easily dealt with Shield Breaker damage type. Ice and Lightning types of damage are effective as long as the shields do not resist those elemental types.
Objectives
Ice Flower Frenzy
Help Arcanists Harvest Coolant
Stabilize the Coolant
Stabilize 5 Coolants
Wait for the All Clear
Defend the Arcanists
Defeat All Outlaws
Defeat Outlaw Bosses
These are the locations where the Freelancer begins the expedition, has to perform tasks to advance, and conclude the expedition.
Cortex Entry
Ice Flower Frenzy is categorized under the Legendary World Event type of expedition. These expeditions do not have any cortex entries associated with them.
Trivia (May Contain Spoilers)
- The harvest event's lore is explained by Cortex Entry: Icetide, Festival of and Cortex Entry: Lost Scrapbook (4).
- The "Defend the Arcanists" part of the objectives takes place passively. It is a small cooldown period where the coolant pods are inserted inside the Cargo Mule. Its animation can be seen happening, but no Arcanists are present in the vicinity.
- The rarely seen Storm Wyverns are seen during this event.
- The entire event must be completed within 12 minutes of it's start.
- If the event is not completed by the end of the timer's reaching 00:00, then the world event will fail, even if Faye says that it has been completed.
- This event adds to completing World Events Feat and Daily Challenges related to World Events type in the Path to Glory (Challenges).
- When the Freelancer is carrying the coolant, their armor has freezing visual effects on it.
Below is the Script and Walkthrough for Ice Flower Frenzy:
Briefing
When the Freelancer flies near one of the 4 start areas during the time of Icetide, Faye gives a heads up.
- Faye: "A coolant harvest areas close by. A dangerous operation like that could use our expertise."
When the Freelancer enters one of the Shaper Ice Globes, it is colder than the outsides. So cold that it could be felt inside the javelin.
- The Freelancer: "Woah! Chilly in here."
- Faye: "Your teeth are chattering already."
In Expedition
The Freelancer must wait until the coolant pods have harvested the Ice Flower sap.
Stabilize the Coolant
When the coolant pods are full, they come out of the collecting mechanism. Now, Faye alerts the Freelancer.
- Faye: "The coolant will be in canisters. Look for them"
Meanwhile, fauna start showing up.
- The Freelancer: "Whats going on with these wyvern?"
- Faye: "Theory is that hypothermia turns them a bit mad and draws them to the coolant."
- The Freelancer: "Same with the brutes?"
- Faye: "It seems so, yes."
The Freelancer must stabilize 5 coolants within 30 seconds each.
- Faye: "Once its full, take the canister to the platform to be stabilized. In its raw state, the coolant is dangerous stuff."
A coolant is picked by the Freelancer.
- Faye: "Careful with that--coolant is volatile."
A coolant is inserted.
- Faye: "That ones stable--good job. Lets get another."
The 4th coolant pod is inserted.
- Faye: "That's it. One more to go."
The final pod is inserted into the Cargo Mule.
- Faye: "That's it. The harvest is complete. We just need to hang on till everything is secured."
Wait for the All Clear
The Freelancer wait for 5 seconds.
Defend the Arcanists
The Freelancer waits until the Cargo Mule is ready. Occasionally, there may be sparks coming out of the cargo mule.
Defeat All Outlaws
- Faye: "Outlaws. Here to steal our canisters."
- The Freelancer: "Figures, now we've done the hard part."
Defeat Outlaw Bosses
- Faye: "Okay, they mean business. Sent a couple of the big guns."
Two 
enemies show up. The Freelancer defeats these two bosses.
- Faye: "The outlaws are down a boss. Nicely handled!"
The Freelancer continues defeating outlaws. As time passes, Faye has bad news. Three enemies show up. The outlaws really mean business, even though it is unknown why they need these coolant canisters.
- Faye: "Don’t look now.Reinforcements. Three more big guys. Three."
- The Freelancer: "Harvest your own coolant, you bastards."
The Freelancer goes into another combat with the new bosses and defeats them.
- Faye: "Fantastic work."
Then the Freelancer continues to fight other outlaws when they stat to realize they cannot stop the Freelancer from stopping them.
- Faye: "They’re making a retreat. The Fort will be happy with this news. That’s the outlaws taken care of. Well done. Coolant secured for Fort Tarsis."
The Freelancer stands victorious!
Post Expedition
The Freelancer collects all the rewards and heads out of the Shaper Ice Globe
Notes and Remarks
- This event only shows up during Icetide, when the Shaper Ice Globes are active and the map has changed to winter mode.
- The dialogs mentioned in the script can vary across different play-throughs and different repetition of the game modes. The dialog will be taken from a pool that get rotated in-game. The script mentioned here is from one such instance.
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