The Hunt

The Hunt is the PvE side of Ancients: killing shades and wraiths and every other monster and boss for Hunter XP, boss essence and gear. Its home is the Forgotten Polis, which you now hunt in private runs that only you can enter.

The Polis opens at Fund I. Open it with /polis or /warp polis, pick an area level up to your mining level, and enter. See Forgotten Polis Runs for how runs work.

What you're hunting for

• Boss essence, the currency for summoning the four bosses. The area level you pick decides which boss's essence drops. See Area Levels & Boss Essence.
• Hunter XP, which raises your Hunter Level and gives you points for the Hunter Tree.
• Chase drops: the Wraithheart offhand, the Spectral and Skipstone trims, Trim Removers and the Shade pet.

Shades and wraiths also pour out of Erebus Tears in the overworld.

Talos, the bronze construct that hunts bosses for you, unlocks for $1,000,000 through /talos.

Hunter XP and the Hunter Tree

Every monster and boss kill pays Hunter XP: shades, wraiths, Erebus Pit guards, Sacred Way creatures and Avatars, the Warden of the Ash and bosses. Every Hunter Level gives one point to spend in the Hunter Tree, which you open with /hunter. The tree replaced the old Hunter Points perk shop. See The Hunter Tree.

Dailies and leaderboards

• /daily tracks your first kills of the day, which pay boosted Hunter XP and a bonus drop. See Daily Bonuses.
• /huntertop ranks hunters by the total Hunter XP they've earned this season.
• /shadetop ranks the server's top shade killers.

Version history

v4.0.0 (Map 4)

• The Polis is now hunted in private runs with area levels instead of the shared T1 to T8 world. Open them with /polis.
• Hunter Points are now Hunter XP. It raises your Hunter Level and gives points for the new Hunter Tree, which replaced the /hunter perk shop.
• Every monster and boss kill now gives Hunter XP, not only shades, wraiths and bosses.
• /huntertop now ranks the total Hunter XP earned this season.
• Talos is no longer bought with Hunter Points.
• For Halloween the Polis is a smaller ghost town at midnight.

v3.0.0

• The Ancient Roads are gone. The Forgotten Polis is the only alignment zone, and the Hunt quest line no longer mentions the Roads.
• The Hunt quest line's wraith step no longer names a Fund tier, and picks up a new Wake the Bronze step for unlocking the Talos Construct.
• Shades, Wraiths and the Tartarus Rift were removed from /events, which now lists timed server events only.

v2.0.0

• The Hunt is the new umbrella for the wild-zone PvE loop, now opening at Fund I.
• Tier access now scales with your mining level instead of a Hunter rank you had to grind.