Great Divide

Velious Era (added December 2000-2001)

The Great Divide is a heavily mountainous area, cutting the continent of Velious into two halves, east and west. The harsh environment is home to all nature of powerful creatures.

Level of Monsters: 30-45 Types of Monsters: Tizmak Warrior, Tizmak Champion, Furious Tizmak Warrior, Tizmak Shaman, Tizmak Auger, Feral Cave Kodiak, Savage Cave Kodiak, Ferocious Cave Kodiak, Frost Giant Scout, Frost Giant Berserker, Frost Giant Elite, Drakkel Dire Wolf, Expedition Guard, Velium Miner, Coldain Miner, Coldain Wolfmaster, Coldain Tracking Wolf, Tower Guard, Gnomish Deserter, Young Shardwurm, Elder Shardwurm, Ancient Shardwurm, Guardian Shardwurms, Crystalline Shardwurm Notable NPCs: Bekerak Coldbones, Blizzent, Bloodmaw, Captain Stonefist, Drakkel Blood Wolf, Fergul Frostsky, Gralk Dwarfkiller, Icetooth, Korf Brokenhammer, Relik, Shardtooth, Shardwurm Broodmother, Shardwurm Matriarch, a Tizmak Spiritcaller, Vluudeen, Vores the Hunter, Yaka Razorhoof Unique Items: Black Steel Wrap Black Steel Wrap LORE ITEM Slot: WAIST AC: 6 HP: +10 WT: 2.5 Size: MEDIUM Class: ALL except DRU NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Blood Wolf Harness Blood Wolf Harness MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: WAIST AC: 5 MANA: +20 WT: 3.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: CLR DRU SHM Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Braided Beard of the Coldain Braided Beard of the Coldain MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: FACE Charges: 5 AC: 5 AGI: +3 SV MAGIC: +3 Effect: Berserker Strength (Any Slot/Can Equip, Casting Time: Instant) at Level 40 WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: ALL Race: ALL , Cured Tizmak Armor, Crystalline Eye Crystalline Eye MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: SECONDARY HP: +30 MANA: +30 SV FIRE: +10 SV COLD: +10 SV MAGIC: +10 WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: CLR DRU SHM Race: ALL , Drakkel Forged Sledgehammer Drakkel Forged Sledgehammer MAGIC ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 2H Blunt Atk Delay: 50 DMG: 22 WT: 10.0 Size: LARGE Class: WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD MNK SHM Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Drakkel Icegrinder Drakkel Icegrinder MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 2H Blunt Atk Delay: 45 DMG: 27 Effect: Ice Rend (Combat, Casting Time: Instant) WT: 15.0 Size: LARGE Class: WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD MNK SHM Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Drakkel Icereaver Drakkel Icereaver MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 2H Slashing Atk Delay: 40 DMG: 24 Effect: Ice Rend (Combat, Casting Time: Instant) at Level 30 WT: 15.0 Size: LARGE Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Kromrif Head Kromrif Head MAGIC ITEM WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: ALL Race: ALL , Gauntlets of Power Gauntlets of Power MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: HANDS AC: 11 STR: +5 HP: +20 WT: 3.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR CLR PAL SHD BRD Race: ALL , Hardened Kodiak Leather Bracer Hardened Kodiak Leather Bracer MAGIC ITEM Slot: WRIST AC: 6 STR: +3 WT: 1.0 Size: SMALL Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG Race: ALL , Icetooth's Claws Icetooth's Claws MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 29 DMG: 11 WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR RNG BRD ROG Race: ALL , Icetooth's Pelt Icetooth's Pelt MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: BACK AC: 5 STR: +4 HP: +15 WT: 3.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Kodiak Claws Kodiak Claws MAGIC ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 30 DMG: 7 WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG Race: ALL , Runebranded Stone Buckler Runebranded Stone Buckler MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: SECONDARY AC: 15 STR: +5 SV DISEASE: +10 SV MAGIC: +10 SV POISON: +10 WT: 5.0 Size: LARGE Class: WAR SHD ROG SHM Race: BAR TRL OGR , Shardwurm Eye Shardwurm Eye MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: RANGE SECONDARY DEX: +3 INT: +5 WT: 0.1 Size: TINY Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL , Shardwurm Skin Shardwurm Skin MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: CHEST AC: 13 INT: +4 MANA: +1 WT: 4.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL , Shardwurm Stinger Shardwurm Stinger MAGIC ITEM Slot: SECONDARY Skill: Piercing Atk Delay: 40 DMG: 10 WT: 5.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR RNG BRD ROG Race: ALL , Shardtooth's Flayed Skin Shardtooth's Flayed Skin MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: CHEST AC: 14 HP: +35 MANA: +35 WT: 5.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL , Spiked Steel Wrap Spiked Steel Wrap MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: WAIST AC: 8 HP: +20 WT: 2.5 Size: MEDIUM Class: ALL except DRU NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL except DWF HFL GNM , Tizmak Armor, Velium Etched Stone Mace Velium Etched Stone Mace MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: PRIMARY Skill: 1H Blunt Atk Delay: 22 DMG: 7 STR: +3 WIS: +3 WT: 6.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: CLR PAL RNG DRU SHM Race: ALL , War Wolf Choker War Wolf Choker MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM Slot: NECK AC: 5 STR: +4 WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: ALL except DRU NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ELF HIE DEF DWF HFL GNM , White Scaled Leggings White Scaled Leggings MAGIC ITEM Slot: LEGS AC: 5 INT: +2 WT: 3.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL , White Scaled Tunic White Scaled Tunic MAGIC ITEM Slot: CHEST AC: 8 INT: +3 SV COLD: +5 WT: 4.0 Size: MEDIUM Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC Race: ALL Related Quests: Mining Picks Adjacent Zones: Eastern Wastes, Thurgadin, Velketor's Labyrinth Name in /who: greatdivide Zone Spawn Timer: 10:40 Succor/Evacuate: -7720, -965 (South central part of zone) ZEM Value: 75 82.5 (110%)

Map

Great Divide 1. Tizmak Caverns 2. Inactive Wizard Spires (NOT Wizard port-in; see Dragon Portal #4) 3. Frost Giant Fort with Gralk Dwarfkiller and Fergul Frostsky 4. Dragon Portal / Druid & Wizard port-in (-3822, 3655) 5. Shardwurm Caverns, Guardian Shardwurms and Shardwurm Broodmother in one room, Crystalline Wurms and Shardwurm Matriarch in the largest cavern 6. Caverns with Coldain Smuggler 7. Kodiak Bear Caves with Bloodmaw 8. Kodiak Bear Caves with Icetooth 9. Captain's Camp 10. Coldain Velium Mines with Relik and Korf Brokenhammer 11. Camp of Vores the Hunter

Dangers

The Great Divide is dangerous mostly because of the powerful creatures that roam the area, but also because the broken mountainous terrain hides them until the last minute. The only thing that makes this slightly less dangerous is that there are relatively few wandering monsters in the open areas of the Divide. The exceptions to this are near the shardwurm caverns and just south of them, in the northeast where there are lots of wandering wolves, frost giants, and Coldain, and in front of the Tizmak caverns, which are heavily patrolled by the Tizmak.

The other thing for good races to worry about is that the Coldain, despite being very familiar with wolves, apparently do not recognize wolf forms as something that is not dangerous and will attack you on sight if you approach the city of Thurgadin in wolf form.

The other thing an adventurer must be careful of is faction. The two separate groups of Coldain and frost giants are heavily represented here, and hunting wolves will adversely affect your faction with one side or the other, drakkel wolves with the frost giants and all others with the Coldain. Also, the Tizmak have their own faction. Although you start out indifferent to them, you rapidly become their enemy and since they control the northwestern portion of the zone, it's a dangerous thing to do.

Benefits

There are several discrete areas in the Great Divide to hunt. Depending on which factions you care about, you can pick out a spot and hunt there in relative safety from other wandering creatures. The downside is the middling zone experience modifier(ZEM). Grinding out levels 47-49 on giants took a long time, only reaping 1% xp per kill on average. On the other hand, this is a great way to improve faction with the Coldain and CoV, and the frost giants often drop velium and/or Drakkal forged weapons, so it's reasonably lucrative hunting.

There are also easy to get to and evenly spaced exits to other zones for escaping, if you need to. The Coldain will also function as guards if you need for them to against the giants and their wolves. Also, the giants and dire wolfs don't seem to run at above normal speed so you can usually strafe run away from them.

The Tizmak caves, followed by the Kodiak caves, are hands down the best EXP in the game from lvl 33 - 40. You can charm a quad damage level 35 a coldain wolfmaster and go to town.

Traveling To and From Great Divide

The Great Divide can be reached through several fashions. The most common entrance is from the Eastern Wastes through a small pass, at loc -1850, 6660. This opens into the Great Divide at -1785, -5080.

The entrance to Thurgadin is located in a secret door behind the waterfall located at -100, -100.

The Druid Portal/Dragon Circle is located at -3860, +3200.

The Wizard spires located at -1910, -2710 are not used by the wizard teleportation spells. Wizards port to the Dragon Circle just like druids.

Velketor's Labyrinth is located at -6770, +3130, in a tunnel above the Kodiak bear cave entrance.

Safe Spot/Succor/Evac/Egress spot is located at -7720, -965, -555 in the south part of the zone.