[Age of Conan] Atali and Breath of Ymir

Breath of Ymir

While leveling in Ymir's Pass I came across an interesting quest: Breath of Ymir. The final "boss" is a large frozen statue called Frozen Shaman which you need to destroy. Seems simple enough with one exception, if you are too close to the statue you get a debuff called Breath of Ymir with a 35 seconds duration which damages you every second for 3% of your hit points in frost damage. Also, the statue has a lot of HP and taking it down is not so easy.

The trick is to use the large bonfire to get yourself a buff called Soothing Warmth which prevents the Breath of Ymir from afflicting you. Once you have this buff on you, you must sprint as fast as you can to the Frozen Shaman statue so you can nuke it down as fast as possible. Once Soothing Warmth runs out you have about 1 second before Breath of Ymir affects you. This means you have to instantly run back to the bonfire and click on it again.

One slight problem is that Soothing Warmth doesn't always get applied when you click the bonfire. But just keep clicking until you get the buff.

Defeating the Frozen Shaman

Atali
Atali is a quest giver. Your first encounter with her should be at the entrance to the Yeti lair. She will just be there. If you get close she will run away. If you then chase Atali she will take you to an ambush where 2 [Boss] difficulty Frost Giants will attack you. Until this point you will get no quest. I found this quite mysterious and entertaining encounter. As I got further into the Frost Giant's territory I got assigned to a new graveyard spawning point. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time so I just kept killing Frost Giants while doing the quests in the area.

Me and Atali

I then noticed that quite near the graveyard on that area was Atali and she had a Quest mark on her. After many attempts at trying to jump and climb, on foot and with the horse, so I could get to her I decided to try and just get killed. Apparently that is the only way to get to her (after reading some forum posts about it). I suggest getting the quest for her before doing Breath of Ymir's final boss (the Frozen Shaman) since the location of the final bosses are the same.

Don't forget you need to die once again to complete the quest. Chose your blue quality necklace and get ready for a treat... OK, not so much a treat since the screen just fades to black for a second. But imagine your character making love to the equivalent of a Valkyrie.

This was one of my favorite quests so far. Pity it was too short but quite different from the usual stuff.