Ancient Dreamland (Zone)

Ancient Dreamland is a multi-round arena-style instance for two to six players. The monsters inside can be killed for, , and , which can be freely traded to other players, or traded with the dreamland pioneers in the Lobby for a variety of rewards. Many players also find dreamland to act as a good source of experience and talent points.

Originally, Dreamland was a level 62 instance which opened and closed over time. When it was re-released at level 85, it was also kept open permanently. Dreamland has since been updated with each rise in level cap.

Getting There
There are two ways to access the. The first way to access is the, a door located at the bottom of the in. This door is available to everyone. The second way to access is by talking to, who is next to the auction house in , in. He will take you to dreamland after you have completed a short quest chain for him.

The Lobby
The NPCs and portals related to Ancient Dreamland are found here in The. There is no limit to the number of times you can enter or leave this area (see Wall of Will).

There are also three portals here.
 * - portal to return to in
 * - portal to return to in
 * - Transporter to

NPCs
The following are available to trade and interact with you:
 * - Transporter to
 * - can remove the Dreamland energy fluctuations from your body (allowing you to re-enter more than once per day
 * - Armor Merchant - Exchanges for Armor
 * - Weapons Merchant - Exchanges for Weapons
 * - Amulets Merchant - Exchanges for Amulets
 * - Pioneer Sigils Merchant - Exchanges a number of or  for a number of

Overview
As Pioneer Genja explains, the forces at work in dreamland do not allow you to enter the arena by yourself. You must be in a party, and all party members must be present in the dreamland lobby to begin.

By default, dreamland can be run once per day. Pioneer Frank can reset this limit if you talk to him and "remove the dreamland energy fluctuations from your body." This service costs. It can also be bought for or, but this is not recommended. Buying this reset only applies to one person, not the entire party. If a player disconnects in the middle of dreamland, they may be sent to the Silverspring resurrection stone. To rejoin the current run, they will need to pay 20 dust.

Wall of Will
Dreamland has a unique set of death mechanics, known as the Wall of Will. By default, the Wall of Will consists of a 30 minute timer and three bonus party lives. When either of these resources is consumed, the party is immediately sent back to the dreamland lobby.

The default timer of 30 minutes can be extended to 60 minutes with the use of an increase stone. This stone can be bought from Pioneer Frank for 15 dreamland dust if you ask him, "Is there any way to explore the dreamland for longer?" It can also be bought for 2 flawed crystals, but this is not recommended. When you talk to Pioneer Dawn to begin the rounds, you must select the second chat option to use the stone, otherwise you will begin a normal 30 minute version.

The number of bonus party lives can not be increased, even with an increase stone. If any player loses all of their hit points inside the dreamland arena, they do not remain dead. Instead the player is immediately restored to full health with no death debt or durability loss, but one of the party's lives is consumed. Any combination of party members can die three times with no ill effects. A fourth death will immediately end the instance and send the party back to the dreamland lobby, regardless of the time remaining.

Party Recommendations
A dreamland party must consist of at least two players and no more than six. At least one player should be wearing chain or plate, to act as the tank. At least one player should be able to provide healing spells. Other than these two guidelines, the other four party slots can consist of basically any mix of other players. Stats higher than those listed of course make dreamland easier. Lower values are also acceptable, but require the party to be more careful on certain rounds, detailed below.

Loot Recommendations
Each round only ends once all monsters have been fully looted. To make this process faster, it is recommended to use free-for-all looting, or set the loot threshold to roll white items (this can be done by the party leader using the command "/run SetLootThreshold(0)" while on dice loot, or by using an addon to do the same). Both of these settings allow for any players to loot each monster, which speeds up rounds. Having as many drop rate buffs as reasonably possible will increase the amount of dreamland dust and crystals that drop. Guild castle buffs, lucky target potions, and so on, are all recommended.

Round Information
Dreamland consists of 30 rounds of monsters, after which it resets. That is to say, the monster types and boss order in rounds 31-60 is the same as rounds 1-30, but they hit slightly harder. The same is true for rounds 61-90, and so on.

The first four rounds of dreamland contain five monsters each, and the fifth round contains a single boss. Similarly, rounds six to nine contain five monsters each, and round ten has another boss.

Rewards
Once the Wall of Will has run out, the party will be transported back to the dreamland lobby with a number of dreamland crystal dust and flawed crystals.

The dust and crystals can be used to reset or extend the dreamland timer, as described above, or sold to other players. Primarially, however, these can be traded to Pioneer Mogen for deamland sigils. These sigils appear on the player's currency list, beneath phirius shells and energy of justice. (Exchange rate: 10 dust = 1 flawed crystal = 2 sigils.)

These sigils can be used to buy items from Pioneers Sara, Mirago, and Genja.

Sara offers 8 amulets, which do not change with level cap.

Mirago offers a variety of weapons with non-typical ghost stats, all equal to the level cap.

Genja offers armour of five types: plate, chain, leather, cloth (mage), and cloth (healer). Each type has four pieces at level cap, and four pieces from the previous level cap.

Similar to phirius shells, older rewards are no longer available.