Daltieri goes batty in ‘The Den’, Kruelah, Morriana, Ddrow, Majissa and Dwendalyn
You will probably notice that during the weekend this blog doesn’t seem to get updated. Well there is a very good reason for this! I’m usually too busy playing EQ2 and doing normal family type things on Sat and Sun. Updating the webby doesn’t usually get a look in at the weekends.
So if I have put in all these game hours..where were they spent? What did I get up to? Done some pretty fun stuff really. So let’s start at the beggining. I spent a fair amount of time on both Killzum and Morriana and started the weekend off with Morrianas first trip to the Sanctum of Scaleborn. It was a pretty good PUG that I managed to join and we did the normal run of the mill stuff. I started my Infiltrating the Sanctum questline and got the first one done and quite solidly working on the second. I really need Morriana to get started on her Claymore line. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems that if you leave starting this quest until it’s quite late on, the SoS part seems quite hard to get completed with it being tought o get specific Claymore groups. So I plan on getting Morri sorted before she hits 60, then she can hopefully get her updates and progress the questline whilst she is exp’ing in there. Maybe Daltieri would like to join me in that venture? It will be a lot easier to get the whole thing done if you wanna join in Dal *nudge*. Hope you like the screenie of your Horde of Bats going off by the way Dal. I thought it looked pretty impressive. Just a shame you and Kruelah’s warlock pet seem a little too cozy for the piccy.
Anyhow, after the SoS party broke up, I decided to go and do a bit of two boxing with Killzum and Morri at the Drednever Crashsite in Bonemire to complete a few quests and get some collection pages for The Big Bang Theory and Generations. Morri managed to get quite a few quests completed and picked up a LnL in the process. I also managed to get the first part of Grizzfazzle’s quest done, which although a bit premature certainly paid off when I did a quick run through The Den of the Devourer on Sunday night with Daltieri, Kruelah, Dwendalyn, Majissa and Ddrow. Whilst I remember thanks to you guys from Dal and I for helping out and making the evening a fun one. The upshot of that was that Morri got her Grizzfazzle’s Mace…but she can’t use it for 7 levels. The guys also helped me with a run through ‘The Nest of the Great Egg’. I don’t know about you folks, but I always get excited about doing a zone I have done many times before..on a completely new toon to the zone. I guess it is in anticipation of the AA exp, loot etc. On my mains they have so long ago updated 99% of their kit from Legendary to Fabled and have 99% of their masters, so re-doing zones like the Nest on those toons I feel is a bit boring. To me it is just killing time and not actually being around to achieve anything. And I need that. When I log on I need a goal.
So, what else did I get up to this weekend? I did so much I am having to delve deeply to dig the relevant info out of my alcohol fried brain (yes it was a heavy session of a weekend too). With Buckleton I decided to give the third Bristlebane Deity questline a go. It was quite a fun quest really. ‘Coin Job’ is given by that master of mirth Tobel Patadash on the EL docks. The crux of the quest is that Tobel gives you a bag of chocolate coins and you are supposed to go and replace the Gigglegibber’s booty with the coins of choccy goodness. So he sends you off to the Gigglegibber Hideout. The entrance is like a round manhole cover underneath the water under the docks in EL. It is easily reachable without any sort of water breathing so no problems there. Once inside it looks like a section from Runnyeye, and the idea is that you have to locate the vault. Some mobs can see through invis, some cannot. You know the ones that can as they obviously have the red line around their name. If they see you though, they don’t actually attack you..they just kick you out of the hideout and you end up on EL docks again. Anyhow, here is the trick to getting it done. When you first zone in wait for the wanderer to back off down the corridor again the head left to the door. Open it but be ready to move back. If there is a mob by the door (that one will definitely see thru invis) chances are it won’t move in time for you to get in before the wanderer in the corridor comes back..be ready to move right back up to the zone entrance to wat for another chance. Once the mob just inside the door is gone move in and right straight away. The mobs on the right against the wall cannot see thru invis. You will probably see the vaults by now at the far end. Just take your time and make sure the see invis mobs wander away before you skirt the right hand wall all the way to the vaults. The quest should now update. You then need to move back to the corridor you came in. I got spotted and kicked out at this point so I obviously got to start from the entrance again. This time you will need to find a piece of paper that is harvestable which has the combination for one of the vaults on it. You find this by heading straight up the corridor this time. Again, dodge the wanderer in your way by waiting until he heads to the door on the left by the entrance the run up the corridor. At the top you will see another door, open it and step just inside (you will not get aggroed here). Again you are going to need to head to the right. The piece of paper has a few spawn spots, and can be tough to find. the golden rule here is that in general the mobs on the right again cannot see thru invis, so head right as soon as the way is clear. You will see a mound of rubbish to the right which you can get behind, behind that is a scribes desk with a quill on it. This is where I found the paper. Obviously be careful and watch the paths of the see invis mobs and normal mobs, as when you harvest the item you appear. After this you have to read the paper you harvested and thenhead back to the vault room. On my way out I got spotted again and was thrown out. That made it fairly easy actually as I still had the update but was back at the start again to get to the vault. I followed the same path on the right hand side all the way to the vault and replaced the Gigglegibbers real coins with the chocolate ones. Clicking on the vault and updating this part does not get rid of your invis. After that it was a case of heading back to Tobel, then to Garby then back to Tobel to end the quest. I must admit I was kinda dissapointed. On the other deity quests that I have done, on the third quest you get the deity pet as a reward. Not so with Brisltebane. It must be one of his big jokes because you don’t get the pet until the last quest has been completed and you get the cloak and pet at the same time. I have no idea why the Devs changed it for this deity..but they did. All in all though, a pretty good fun quest. When Buckleton gets to his mid 60’s he will be able to pick up the next quest in the line..until then I guess he’ll just have to wait.
Killzum did a bit of mentoring in Klak Anon to help out my wife with her warden. I have to admit I am pretty much what i would class as an ‘average’ tank. I am by no means good at playing a tank..just OK. I seem to manage enough to do the basic job, but when add after add keep joining I tend to lose aggro a afair amount. The reason I mention this? Well, I HATE Klak for that very reason. With all those flying thingys it is a nightmare for someone of my average ability to tank. The adds just seem to get too much. Anyhow, we waited for ages to get things going then headed off to CoI for a bit of instance fun…that was soon quashed when one of our group memebers neglected to tell us they were still locked out. I managed about an hour and a half of tanking there before getting too frustrated with the add situation and had to take my leave before my stress levels burst. The only reason I lasted that long was the fun I always have when grouping with my wife.
Morriana and her first visit to the Sanctum of Scaleborn
