Exposure Esplanade:TIP: The icicles in here cause a lot of damage. Make sure to up your cold elemental resistance, with Elemental Saucesphere, Cans of Black Paint and Orange Peel Hat (or other equipment which gives you good resistance to Cold). Increasing your muscle will increase your HP, and a healing familiar is a good plus in this area (Dandy Lion is great for hobopolis, as it will not lower your item drop rate but will still restore HP/MP as you adventure). If you find you are getting killed too quickly, proceed back to Town Square and make some more scarehobo parts, they will always come in handy.
There are a few choice adventures in Exposure. What you choose does make a difference:
Piping Cold: you have the choice to divert water to Burnbarrel Boulevard, divert water to Purple Light District, or go all Clue on the Third Pipe. For the most part, you want to consistently pick the third option, going all Clue. This will create icicles. At least a few times during EE, you could divert water to PLD (2nd option). This will shorten the line for the club in PLD (more on that in the PLD section). Never divert more than 13 pipes to the PLD, as this makes Burial Ground harder in the longrun. Its generally always better to create icicles though. The only time that you really should divert water to PLD is if you’re at image 8 or 9 with someone playing who hasn’t yodeled yet.
There Goes Fritz!: Figure out how many times you have created icicles. If its less than 15-20, you should always yodel a little. If its between 20-25 icicles, you can pick Yodel a Lot or your Heart Out. Anything over 25, Yodel your Heart out. This means you will no longer receive the Yodel adventure. Be careful picking Yodel a Lot, as doing this twice or doing it after several Little Yodels will mean you will no longer receive the adventure. If you are close to the end of your adventures for the day, then always pick Yodel your Heart Out. If you are playing in EE with another player, always announce “I’ve got Fritz,” or something similar and then wait until the other player/s have also got Fritz before yodeling. This will maximize the number of icicles available when you yodel, increasing the number of hobos killed.
The Frigid Air: You can take up to two Frozen Banquets per instance, even though you have the opportunity to take all five. If you take more than two, you will be demoted. It’s a great item, and its not fair to hog them all unless you’re the only one adventuring in EE and you know you’ll be the one to finish it off. If by some chance you do accidentally take them all, pass some along to your fellow hoboers. We will be checking on this. If someone takes them all and you didn’t get any, kmail or PM an admin to handle it.
Bowl of Fishysoisse: This is a semi-rare adventure. Feel free to buy away (for five nickels, it’s a good deal for a decent food item).
Once you advance to Image 10, its time to fight Frosty, who truth be told can be one of the hardest bosses. This guy does not respond to damage. At all. Here’s how to defeat Frosty relatively easily:
Equipment: You need equipment that does either elemental or bonus damage. Your actual attack won’t hit Frosty for more than 1 HP. If you equip an offhand weapon, you will get an additional 1 HP. If you use Rainbow equipment, an obsidian dagger, or any other item that gives elemental damage, you will get 1 HP for each element, as well as an additional 2 HP for hot and spooky damage. You also want to equip accessories which do damage to your opponent. Acid Squirting Flower, Bottle Opener Belt Buckle and Groovy Prism Necklace are good for that. The groovy prism necklace damage does stack with elemental damage from other weapons or the Rainbow Bright effect, but won’t work every round.
Buffs: Saucespheres are a must. Every time Frosty hits you, the jalapeno, jabanero, and scarysauce will cause 1 HP, 3HP and 1HP extra damage. For this reason, its important not to buff your moxie too high. If he doesn’t hit you, that damage won’t occur. Also good if you don’t have rainbow equipment is to use a Prismatic Wad to give you the Rainbow Bright effect. It will give the same damage as elemental equipment (no use stacking, because it won’t do anything).
Familiar: Using an attacking familiar is good. Using an attacking familiar with a piece of attacking equipment is better. NPZRs, MAS’s, elemental fairies using ant equipment (hoe, sickle, etc.) or an oversized fish scaler work well here. A disembodied hand holding an obsidian dagger will give very good damage as well.
The key to Frosty is to average about 13 damage each round of combat. If you don’t get that much one round, take heart that you may do 20 or so the next round. Its difficult to beat Frosty in less than 25 rounds.
After you've defeated Frosty, go on to
Burnbarrel Boulevard.