I have recently had occasion to move up and start mashing on some of the creatures in the Pinefar slash Aenatumgana neck of the woods. (Nothing in the Rift, just out on the cold mountainous area.) And succeeded in getting bowled down the side of the mountain in an avalanche on the first hunt, too!

However, it seems like there are some natural (???) groupings of creatures up here:
- undead (hence my '???' comment...), all of whom I am currently just walking past because they're only a segment;
- living creatures like mammoths or sabre-tooth tigers, whom I enjoy running into and getting to kill; and
- a whole great heaping helping of 'cold' creatures, like ice golems or glacei [in 2 flavors] or ice elementals [in 2 flavors, one so rare that I haven't seen it yet].

And of course, being a monk, I am given the opportunity to have BOTH my hands AND my feet be in contact with freezing cold equipment, and get wounded thereby.

That whole message about "some gloves would have been handy" doesn't exactly warm my heart, given that my UAC hand equipage is, in fact, "gloves".

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So here's my question:
What the heck--if anything--helps with this?

And I don't really want to build a campfire and just stand in one room. That way lies boredom.

Getting drakar-lined Underoos? Using equipment with fire flares?

What's up?

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Thanks, all!

> What the heck--if anything--helps with this?

You need the opposite flare type on your gloves/boots to avoid getting injured on punch/kick i.e. fire flaring for Pinefar and cold flaring when you go to Teras. Don't go to the Confluence.

You need herbs (or full ipower, or a pocket empath) for looting the glacei. (I regard glacei as a way of transmuting ambrominas into gems)

Heh. Now that I've spent some more time up in the area, I can't help it when I see a polar bear walk in, thinking, "So where's this Pinefar woman I' supposed to wrassle?"
(Punchline of an old "put one over on the Texas guy coming up to Alaska" joke. :)