Crywolf

Crywolf is map 34, the walled fortress you reach through the Valley of Loren. As a hunting field, it covers level 200 to 350: the scouts at the entrance are level 97 and the Soram at the far end are level 134, with 164,000 health. As a base, it is a case of its own, because it has a blacksmith, a vault, a pet trainer and two quest NPCs in the same place.

How to get there

Crywolf has no entry in the Move window. The only way is on foot, through the Valley of Loren, and the Valley is reached from Lorencia.

The way back is at (239,40), which returns you to the Valley (155,37). The level requirement of both portals is very low, 10, so any character can get into Crywolf. What keeps a weak character from staying is the monsters, not the door.

Who lives here

Eight living species on the map, in three steps: three scouts at level 97, the Werewolf and the Hero from level 118 to 127, and the Balram and Soram pair at the top. The numbers are the design values from the server; in the closed test the monsters are temporarily weaker.

The three scouts have exactly the same numbers and differ only in the weapon in hand: hammer, lance and bow. As a group they are 89 monsters, almost half the map, and they form the region where you farm from level 200 to 260.

The event statues (Wolf Status and Wolf Altar 1 to 5) are registered on the map with the event start trigger. Since the event never fires, they do not show up. If they ever do, they will be level 2 targets with 50 health and 70 defense, made to be broken, not to fight.

What drops here

The global groups apply: every Crywolf monster is past level 76, so jewels at 0.1% and excellent at 0.01% apply across the whole map. Zen on half the kills and a random item on 30%. Beyond that, Crywolf is the only place in the game that drops the three Fenrir materials.

Medals barely show up: the Gold Medal requires monsters up to level 110, and only the three scouts (97) fit. The Symbol of Kundun +6 and +7 drop well here, and so do the Old Scroll +6 and the Illusion Sorcerer Covenant +6, because both ask for monsters from level 96 and 100 up.

Farming the Fenrir

The three mount materials split the map by step: the most common one comes from the crowd at the entrance and the rarest from the pair at the far end. Each has its own drop group, tied to the species, so they do not compete with jewels or potions in the roll.

The mount chain has three stages, and the first two can fail: 20 Bless of Guardian plus 20 Splinter of Armor become one Fragment of Horn at 70%, five fragments plus 10 Claw of Beast become one Broken Horn at 50%, and the Broken Horn becomes the Horn of Fenrir at 30%.

All three stages can fail, and the material is gone on a failure, so the real math is much bigger than the recipe suggests. A single Broken Horn consumes on average 286 Bless of Guardian, 286 Splinter of Armor and 20 Claw of Beast. Since the third stage only lands 30% of the time, you need more than three Broken Horns: one Horn of Fenrir costs, on average, 952 Bless of Guardian, 952 Splinter of Armor and 67 Claw of Beast.

At the current chances that is around 9,500 kills to gather each of the two bulk materials. It is several days of farming, and it is better to know that before you start than halfway through. Two things help: the 89 scouts at the entrance are almost half the map, so the Splinter of Armor tends to pile up, and the third stage consumes no Crywolf material, only 1 Jewel of Chaos, 3 Jewel of Life and zen.

NPCs

It is the most complete base outside a town in the game. Seven NPCs, including a blacksmith and a vault, which lets you stay on the map for hours without going back to Lorencia.

The road to Balgass

The two quest NPCs in Crywolf open the Balgass chain, which is the level 400 content of classic Season 6. Both quests are given by Priest Devin (228,48) and require level 400.

With the first quest accepted, the Werewolf Quarrel (62,239) starts taking you to the Barracks for 3,000,000 zen. That is the door that leads to the Refuge and the Dark Elf.

Is it worth it?

It is, but for two reasons that have nothing to do with each other: the third class quest chain and being a complete base. As a pure farming map, Swamp of Calmness and Kanturu Relics pay more per hour in the same range.

• Barracks and RefugeWhat lies on the other side of the Werewolf Quarrel.
• Valley of LorenThe corridor you come through to get here.
• Event calendarWhat actually runs today and at what time.
• Pets and mountsWhat the Fenrir gives you at the end of the chain.