Category: quests

Duke Luther’s hunt comes to an end.

by Tharius

Well the good Duke’s hunt has come to an end.  I have to admit, I enjoyed this quest even though I would have like to have seen more people active in hunting for mobs.

As we suspected a few of the mobs were pretty inaccessible to small parties … at least one mob was past the Onyx Golem for example.  By and large though quite a few were soloable or doable in 2’s and 3’s.  A shout out to Bratac and Theldan who were relentless in their hunting and also to Riddick, Juan and Chyort who all joined me for kills here and there.

As I said in a prior post, this quest got me out into the Realms fighting mobs I haven’t fought in all my time here.  Even though I’ve used purple pouches, shields of oak and soulslayers, I have never killed Malvos (who wasn’t tagged) nor Nazir (who was) … or for that matter Jedhian (no, not tagged either) … but on my tour through Cursed Lands I hit them all.

Similarly with Sauron and his Staff of Barad-Dur … a staple item I’ve never popped before this quest.  Many of the others are mobs that I wouldn’t run because their equipment isn’t an upgrade for any of my characters … the Devil in ToE … Zaka Mede in La Chute … and so on.  All in all a great tour of the Realms … it gave me a chance to make and use an immob mage, to experiment with several different styles of running and dragged me into some of “new” areas.

Many thanks to Belkira and all who were involved in the administration and design of the quest.

Duke Luther should hire a standing army!

by Tharius

Belkira’s current quest has achieved one miracle already… it has got me off my butt to kill mobs I otherwise never would have.

There are a number of mobs on this quest that can be soloed or multi-soloed, which in today’s Realms is really necessary… trying to get the mass to go roaming in a number of different ways even for 2 or 3 avatar mobs is a little difficult but not impossible but for questing it’s nice to get out and stretch my legs without having to get everyone together.

So why are these mobs things I would never kill?  Well simple, their gear isn’t important enough to notice for most of my characters.  I know that sounds elitist, but most of the gear so far has been new avatar quality and I’m not a new avatar.  Even my new avatars aren’t new avatars.  In fact, when I was a new avatar most of this gear was plucked from donation and stuffed on my characters… So in fact over the years I’ve never got off my butt and killed these mobs on my own before and I’m having a blast doing it.

Each of the mobs is a little different and requires a different strategy, some of them hit quite hard and some of them are in scary areas … no recall, no supplicate, next door to DTs … you know, scary … areas that I’d normally avoid given my history as a DT magnet.

I chose to do this on a ranger (because I want to) and thus far I’ve burned up quite a large number of tank sets, a ton of heals, mana potions and a steadily increasing supply of repair gold … yet, I’m quite happy to do so!  It’s been a couple of forevers since I’ve enjoyed mkill this much and I rather imagine after this I’ll be re-energized to do something completely different like return to the item database, area building or … well the list of things to do grows faster than I can cross things off.

I hope you’re enjoying the quest too!  Kudos to Belkira, this is a lot more fun than tele-scanning but I wouldn’t want to do it every week 🙂

Who let the dogs out?

by Tharius

Duh, Kinux or Ceirana or Petrograd or Belkira or someone else!  Who care who let it out!  Let’s kill it!

So of course Gorog’s Watchdog made it’s reappearance last Friday as part of a player appreciation drive following the RoDpocalypse.  We saw two kills last week but it took until Saturday afternoon to get enough people together.  Tonight everyone was ready and rearing to go, the first dog kill went as clean as any I’ve seen.  The second dog kill went a little rough for me personally, don’t know if the tank died or something else happened, but I ended up tanking and it doesn’t take long for 2k hp to disappear.

CR’d and ran back, quaffing manas and heals enough to get sanc cast and jump back into the fight before I get locked out of it, in plenty of time to see Orvald pop a pair of Goroggles!  Way to go and congrats, you luck so-and-so!  Lucky?  No I guess that honour goes to Jealle who popped her second pair of Goroggles in a week.  In a twisted, bitter, totally fake rage I hope you enjoy them you rasafrasasuchandsuch.  Kidding of course, if I had that kind of luck I’d tapdance all the way to recall :>

Kudos also go out to Eisengrim and his dog biscuit quest earlier in the day, I added a few new areas to my automapped zones running out to find biscuits but I wonder if the eat zombie backpack; scan all strategy isn’t a bad way to do these sorts of quests.  Word is, 800 zombie candies did the trick.  Just remember to keep sanc and fly on at all times and be prepared to recall if you get attacked 🙂

 

A little sausage with your quest…

by Tharius

Destre thought we were all looking a bit peckish and she invited her friend Dibbler to come out and play with us.

Dibbler the sausage vendor says ‘Greetings hungry traveller’
Dibbler the sausage vendor says ‘I make sauage to die for, the finest sausage in all of Realms’
Dibbler the sausage vendor says ‘Just bring me the best quality body parts, from selected parts I can make you a Dibbler sausage on a bun’

 

Bring body parts back to Dibbler and get sausage on a bun, turn them in at the end, but only one of each part counts.

 

An eye sausage on a bun created for Tharius
A finger sausage on a bun created for Tharius
A hand sausage on a bun created for Tharius

 

Your glory has been increased by 3.

 

The lesson of today’s adventure was if you quest on a neutral character be prepared to zap and realign a lot … So I need to put some quest eq aside on a storage so I can fast realign and slice and dice next time 🙂

 

Thanks Destre!