Killzum is quite often the centre of attention. Bashing some Ashen Disciples.
Well, the weekend saw some on and off gaming for me. At times it seemed that nothing was going my way and all there was for it was to log and go collapse in front of the TV. Others I seemed to drop in a good group and off we went. Had some productive sessions, with visits to Pillars of Flame and The Hidden Cache.
In fact Killzum and Morriana spent a fair amount of time in the Pillars of Flame this weekend. You see, I am trying to get them both the ‘Jade Tiger’ title. For those who do not know about this title (where have you been hiding?) it is issued to good aligned characters by the Ashen Order Monks in T’ranev in PoF. For those who are of evil origin, the Ashen Disciples will give you a similar line of quests, but the end result is the title ‘Ebon Dragon’ instead. Basically you go speak to the order of monks which you can follow (depending which faction you are) and they give you various tasks to complete to get your faction up. You need to get your faction to a full 50,000 and then you can speak to one of the head honcho monks to be given the title. The only problem with some of the quests (think it is called ‘Serving the Order’), is that if you are attempting it grouped the quest gives out different requirements each time they give out the quest. This means a lot of accepting and deleting the quest until you all have the same, or just running round and doing a huge amount of killing. Killzum and Morriana opted for the deleting of the quest until we got mobs to kill in the same area, not necessarily the same mobs though. There does come a point though on the jaunt to 50,000 faction with the Ashen Monks where the quests simply don’t seem to be given out any more. There is then only one way to build your faction, which is by gaining faction from a kill. For the Ashen Order this isn’t so difficult because there seems to be quite a few groups of training Ashen Disciples about which when slaughtered en masse give quite a lot of faction boost. If you are doing the Ashen Disciple quest line however, this part is a lot lot harder as there only seems to be two distinct groups of the Ashen Order monks training ripe for the slaughter. Oh, yeah. The Ashen Order Monks seem to be a level or 2 higher than the Disciples,which again makes it a little harder to do the evil side of the quest-line. One thing about this whole venture did make me laugh though. We were sent off by one of the Monks to slaughter some poor defenceless beings under the guise of learning their fighting style, only to be told on our return we should meditate and find tranquility. I wanted to ask if we should wash the blood off first! Killzum and Morriana both are currently sitting round 15,000 faction with the Ashen Order, then I got bored. There was some good news to that grind though, in that Morriana dinged 57th level whilst doing the quests there.
I then headed off to The Hidden Cache off Sinking Sands. For those who have never been there it is a very small instance where you get to kill a few names and a lot of Dervishes and Crocodiles. It’s not really that enthralling but is good for AA and there is a very easy quest in there for a bit of additional exp. Also with it being so short (took us only 40 mins or so) it’s a nice time filler for something to do if you can’t commit to a lengthy instance. Whist we were there I experienced something many of my friends have mentioned, but personally (up until now) I had never been a victim to this phenomenon. I am talking about ‘hero’ mentorers (is that even a word?-Ed). Yes, we had a 70 Zerker come mentor us for this particular zone. As his arrival was imminent the friend who had asked him to join us, was spouting fun statements like “With him here, we’ll be able to pull the whole zone!”. Now I know level 70’s are tough, even when mentoring. However, I think most of us who mentor still have the intelligence to realise that we simply cannot take on the mobs as if they were grey. A slight amount of restraint is required. It would seem though that this message has not got through to everyone.
Within 2 minutes of the Zerkers arrival the party had wiped. Totally. Nothing left. We were mushed. To be fair to the guy (or girl) who was playing the toon, then very very quickly reassessed their approach and the rest of the zone went swimmingly and was of course easier and quicker due to the 70 mentoring. So despite my comments , thanks are in order for the assisstance. My point? I guess just a cautionary message…if you are mentoring down with your top tier toon, remember you are not invincible and do not try to show off. Your bravado may come back and bite you in the ass. At the least it is most likely going to humble you at some point.
In answer to some mails I have got and comments made in game….
Yes, I know that Killzum and Morriana are both wearing the same shiny ceremonial armour from the city merchant.
Yes, we both wear white cloaks.
Yes, we DO look very cheesy.
Yes, that was the intention.
No, I am not gay (why would it matter???!!???).
And to Fansy…(remember him? old EQ addicts let me know if you recognise the name)…
my favourite Skittle is Orange too.
Shiny..Mmmmmm! Cheese Gromit?
