Indeed. That's part of why he has relatively little major content left. Alliance questlines, main quest, DLC storylines, almost every single "Point of Interest" quest (as aforementioned).

I'm sure I'm being very subjective about my definition of "major" content and mostly talking about solo content. There are still miscellaneous quests scattered throughout the zones, some group dungeons that are soloable, lorebooks, dailies I have never done, the whole Summerset museum quest and most of the museum quests for Northern and Southern Elsweyr, etc. But I am not considering every single bit of that as "major" content and there is a ton of stuff I am not interested in (e.g. fishing, a lot of the obscure achievements).

And that's not even going into definitively group content (e.g. Trials, which I have never done before) or group content that can be soloed but is just out of reach of Cincy's capabilities. I don't mean to make it sound like there is close to nothing new left. There's still plenty of content. It's just that I can sort of see the "end of the tunnel" after so long wondering how I could possibly get near to that point.

HOLY COW!!! You are fast as lightning!!!!

"Living in a world, where danger lurks behind every corner and every day death takes its merciless toll, in a world where Men and Mer are oftentimes rushing past each other, hardly finding enough time for themselves, hastening from one battle to another, it is music that soothes, it is music that makes Men and Mer slow down and enjoy listening to gentle tunes, even if for just one minute."

Such is the philosophy of Garrick the Bard, the Breton wanderer, who roams Tamriel and plays his lute, or sometimes his flute, in any place, where he feels his tunes should be heard. He can be found playing in major towns of Tamriel, oftentimes in markets, sometimes inside inns and sometimes on the road, close to important crossings. He doesn't play for gold, but he doesn't reject gifts, if he receives any.

Right now Garrick is in Northern Elsweyr, the caravan he was traveling with, was attacked by a dragon, and after successful healing, he is now in Riverhold, playing his lute to courageous warriors that are struggling to make this world a safer place. Garrick himself is not as brave, he engages in combat only if attacked, so instead he contributes to Tamriel by playing his magical tunes to anyone that's willing to listen to him. However, Riverhold is a small settlement, so Garrick will soon depart for Rimmen.

As soon as Garrick saw the town ahead...

...he ventured there and did what he knows the best.

He played in the middle of Riverhold market...

...under the watchful eye of Masser.

Occasionally travelers would stop for a while and listen to his tunes...

...before rushing to another battle, against dragons or anything else that threatens Elsweyr.

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Garrick is my new character, created yesterday. Those familiar with Baldur's Gate 1 will recognize the reference to the bard from Nashkel, but "Garrick" was already taken, so I went with "Garrick the Bard". Garrick's purpose is described above, I foresee that he'll see very little combat, probably only when traveling between towns / regions. I don't see him doing any quests either. Some player was trying to give him a tip yesterday in Riverhold, but didn't know how to send some gold over.

Welcome to Garrick and thanks for the fun screenshots!

Hmm. . . tipping a bard. Asking to trade would interrupt their song. So, noting their name and PM'ing some gold might be the best way I figure?

I've often wished for an emote where your player would strike up a tune on a lute and sing as well. Something like: /singfemale and /singmale. Buffy would love to sing Malukah songs as she travels.

Thanks!

I noticed yesterday (or was it today? ) that you were online with Buffy but she was "only" level 8? Did you create another "version" of her?

I think that the way you describe is the easiest to send gold (or some other gift) to another player.

I wonder if there's an animation available for the instrument that some Khajiiti bards can be seen playing? I don't know its name unfortunately, but they sit with their legs crossed and have this instrument in their lap.

Oh, that is so Awesome that a Player wanted to give him a tip!

That instrument you play while sitting is a "Sitar," and the animation came in Crown Crates or could be bought for gems. Unlike the Lute or Flute; the Sitar is very hard on the ears if someone plays it for long periods of time; it has a tendency to drive people away rather than draw them to you, lol.

And as for a Player wanting to tip you = they can press the "F" key while their cursor is on you and select the "Trade With Player" option. Then they can give you whatever they want as a tip.

The main reason I think that Trading is a better option than having them Mail to you:

1. Because the Chat Box doesn't give access to mailing to anyone; only whispering. So they would have to actually write down your name exactly correctly to mail it = Account names are specific to the Nth degree and have to be exact as to capital letters; spacing; numbers; punctuation; etc = too easy to send the gift to the wrong person if they aren't on your friends list or Guild Roster.

2. Unless you are on a person's "Friends List," your name will not pop up automatically to let them know they have correctly addressed it; they have to just HOPE they got everything right on it; and will never know for sure.

3. Most Players are not going to take the time to write down your name specifically and exactly just to send someone a tip; but they will use the easy Trade function since it is an "instant" remedy to their inspired idea of tipping.

Imho = Best to just have them use the Trade function. Plus, it might end up striking up a friendship to stop playing long enough to thank them; talk for a minute. That is the great part of Multiplayer!

Buffy did start another templar. This one as a bow/bow stamina templar. Mostly to see if she likes it.

That instrument you described (sitting while playing) is a momento type thing that was available in the crown store for a time - via gems I think. I didn't get it.

Edit - Ninja'd by dear mALX.

Half-joking/half-serious question: Did Buffy get caught in a Dragon Break and that's why there are so many versions of her? Is there another explanation based on lore or do you do it just because you can? Something else?

They are all Buffy. She chooses which class, spec (mag/stam) and weapons (staves/bows) to use on any given session as casually as she chooses her outfit or hairstyle.

From a game perspective this provides two advantages that help us compensate for the drawback that ESO is a multiplayer game:
1. None of the class / specs can provide everything she wants to do. As an MMO, every class is too rigid/limited by itself.
2. As classes get nerfed and buffed and otherwise screwed with, rather than rage quitting the game, we simply focus on whichever classes she enjoys more at the moment until the silly nerf cycle comes full circle again.

This is a really on the mark explanation. I'm pretty sure having so many facets to Buffy is what has kept you in the game through some of those nerfs they did to her; especially the ones to the Templar and Sorc; because I am pretty sure those two Classes of Buffy were your favorites to play until Zenimax messed with them.

That nerfing is what has twice caused me to cancel my Plus membership. I wish they would stop that "balancing" crap.

Yes, what you describe, is easier in a way, but as Acadian said, it would interrupt the music. But it's okay, probably we won't get lots of gifts anyway. Yesterday in Rimmen some player sprinkled Garrick with flowers. He was playing his lute at the wayshrine so lots of players noticed him.

That's a very apt description of what this game is like, Lopov, all the rushing, all the constant battles, and so on. Garrick the Bard therefore has his place in Second Era Tamriel because he's sounding like the opposite of this.

I am surprised though, that you did not name him Andrew new.

This picutre made me laugh. Reminds me of Shala, your bard from Skyrim a few years ago.

I love those flower petals! You can throw them too = they are in the Guild Bank. Go to "Consumables" in the Guild Bank. Find the stack of gold colored "Containers." The one you want is the "Cherry Tree Branch."

It will be in your "Collections" list after you open it; you have to "Quick Slot" it to use it.

Good memory! Yes, Shala was a bard on Solstheim, I was using a mod with which NPCs would give him gold but the "problem" was that this gold was actually removed from their inventories so once they ran out of it, Shala didn't get any gold anymore. I'd need to wait for NPCs to reset their inventories or add gold to them with console commands but didn't feel like doing it.

I need a break from Shonta Quassan's fast-paced game, so Garrick serves a perfect character for a break.

Not everyone can be Andrew.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

People, people, PEOPLE.

Cincy and I completed the pledge for Banished Cells I on our own last night -- on VETERAN!

So there was a bit of stupidity on my part. I had read before that it was soloable, so when Maj al-Ragath had it as her pledge we jumped at the chance. As I started fighting the first few "trash" mobs in the dungeon, I noticed they had quite a lot of health, more than I remember from when we went there as a guild when Cincy was freshly inducted into the Undaunted. Don't remember when exactly I did it, but sure enough, I opened the map to check and I was on Veteran mode!

I don't know how this happened. I didn't check off Veteran difficulty, but now that I think about it, it must be because I already did the pledge on Normal difficulty that it automatically switched to Veteran. Well, I was in the thick of it and I hadn't died yet, so I pressed on. Shadowrend had 3 MILLION HP, and a new mechanic where he summoned a shadow version of himself every so often that had about 52K health. Came close to dying a few times, but still made it through. There was also a Bone Colossus boss I had to fight along the way to the end as well.

And then came Kinlord Rilis XII at the end. On Veteran difficulty before final bosses in group dungeons, you can invoke what's called a Scroll of Glorious Battle for extra difficulty and an achievement if you are victorious. Well, I wasn't. Rilis's health jumped from 4 MILLION to 4.6 MILLION HP. After I died, I decided to forgo the scroll and during the battle I found out an effective strategy for dealing with him. Periodically, healing orbs appear and very slowly travel around the battle area, seemingly aimlessly. Fortunately, Rilis doesn't deliberately go after these, so I played ring-around-the-rosie and kept backing up and drawing him away from the orbs as much as possible. Later in the battle, I used the Ice Comet Ultimate morph from the Mages Guild on the orbs whenever it charged so that I could wipe them out in case Rilis did catch them to heal. Fortunately, he didn't grab any except maybe once or twice. But I beat him! I won!

Now that I have figured out that strategy, I think I could have taken him on with the Scroll of Glorious Battle, because it seemed that it just added ~600K HP and he didn't actually do anything differently. I just didn't know how to keep him away from those heals. But whatever, I got what I came for. Maybe another time I'll do the extra difficulty.

In a way, it was more trouble than it was worth. On the other hand, it's one of my proudest accomplishments yet, if not the proudest.


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In other news, Evelona Mathieu passed Level 50 a few days ago! Cincy created sets of Twilight's Embrace and Julianos' (can't remember the full name) for her, and every armor piece is imbued with the Training trait to greatly speed up leveling. Since she is DPS and has a colossal amount of content to do, I think it'll be much quicker to ascend levels with her than with Cincy. So you'll probably see a lot more of her and less of Cincy online for the time being.

Also, she made a new friend in Sanguine's Demesne (no, not THAT kind of friend, if you catch my drift). It was a CP 324 player who hadn't played the game in a year, which I said I could relate to after a one-and-a-half year hiatus. She (assuming it was a she) was very nice.

Wow, any dungeon on vet is too hard to solo in Buffy's book!

Grats though - that is quite a feat!

There are different difficulties in this game??? Dang, I guess I missed that.

Not for the game itself but when you do a group dungeon, you can select either normal or veteran mode. In veteran mode, when you get to the final dungeon boss, you can activate a 'scroll of glorious battle' which activates 'hard mode' on that boss which is beyond vet. Scary stuff for little elves!

On the 30th December I launched a new character, this time on the EU server, mostly because I found out that a colleague of mine has been playing ESO for years, and he has a bunch of established characters on the EU server already, so he invited me to play together from time to time. The second reason is, that after reading through various forums I got an impression that the game feels less crowded on the EU server, and after playing for a few days I share their opinion, but maybe it's more or less a coincidence, I don't have a firm opinion about it yet.

The downside is that DLCs and purchased stuff is server-exclusive, so I need to start from a scratch, on the other hand it feels like a fresh beginning. I don't care about achievements or unlockable collectibles, but I expected that DLCs would be the same. Fortunately, crowns are shared between the servers and I got a hefty 1,500 crowns for launching a new character on another server.

The advantage is that loading times are shorter. I never had an impression before that they're long, but they're slightly shorter on the EU server.

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My new character is Nord nightblade / thief Tiger Cowrie, I'll pursue the Thieves Guild questline with him and do mostly lawless stuff, but no murdering unless he'll be forced to kill. I must say I'm impressed with Abah's Landing, it's the first town in ESO to fascinate me. Not only it seems bigger but it has more life to it than other towns I've seen. Narrow streets, large markets, hidden staircases, a beautiful port, and of course the desert surrounding it - I'm in love with Abah's landing. It reminds me of old Turkish towns and of those in northern parts of Africa.

I'll also impose some roleplaying rules on Tiger's game, so it'll feel more like a roleplay experience, e.g. I'll limit his usage of wayshrines, the amount of carried items and others that will come to my mind during gameplay.

Wow, Congrats on soloing in Vet mode! That is Awesome!

You have me confused. Evelona at L50 instantly becomes the some CP level as Cincy, as CP is account-wide. So why does she need Training gear?

And clearly they're on the same server, or Cincy couldn't have made the gear.

Yes, the EU server is def less crowded because the NA server carries all of the U.S.; Canada; Australia; and Japan. I know a few people that have used the EU; mostly just like you mentioned above = roleplay; because it is a bit "quieter" than the NA. Kazeara might be on there since she moved to Germany!

I also noticed that more players on the EU server are using controllers. I recognize, when someone is using it, ever since I saw Renee's characters walking around, they're not moving at constant speed and sometimes it looks like they're jogging, not running. Their way of walking is definitely more "calm" in general.

Thank you. It was quite a gauntlet Cincy went through.



Now that she doesn't have to worry about level-scaling anymore, Cincy made her sets that she can continually wear and level up CPs quickly. Cincy can get them at a decent pace, but he has a lot less content to do and can't get them as quickly since he isn't heavy on the DPS. So Evelona will get CPs much quicker than Cincy will.

The training trait doesn't matter what level you are (as long as you haven't completely maxed out, obviously). It affects the experience you get from kills regardless of whether you are pre-L50 or in CP territory. So yes, she jumped up to Cincy's level and they are on the same server, but with the Training trait stacking on all 7 pieces of armor, it has increased the XP she gets per kill to a good amount more than what Cincy gets. And she kills faster as a DPS. I'm trying to get to CP810 faster in whatever ways I can, hence why I made the training trait for her but Cincy is still my main and has different traits for his armor.

Someone else will probably chime in with an aspect I hadn't thought about, but my understanding of XP gains after CP level was that Enlightenment was the major effect, and training trait, XP scrolls, event boosts etc. just made you burn through that faster, so you'd only use those if you were in danger of losing enlightenment to the cap.

I suppose it depends a lot on how much you play, as the effect is account-wide. If you're not playing a lot, then training gear would help make the most of the enlightenment.

Anyone's characters can walk though; whether you use a controller or not! (so can your horses!)

To get your character and horse to walk:

Press "Escape" to access the game settings menu.

Choose "Controls" on the "drop down list."

Scroll down till you find the "Walk" option. Click on it to set a key; and choose an (unused by the game) key to assign to it.

** Most people use the number 7 on their keyboard to toggle walking; not sure why (but probably because the game doesn't use it and it is convenient to reach).

Click on the key you want to assign to walking; then accept it and go back to your game.


Now whenever you want to walk; click on the number 7 key and your character will walk when you press "W" and jog if you press the "Shift" key while pressing the "W" = and your horse will also walk if you are riding; which is what I like best.

When you want to run again: Just click the 7 key again; and your character will go back to running till you click on 7 again.

I know this, thanks, my characters walk most of the time, but they move differently if someone's using a controller, the speed of moving around isn't constant. Some NPCs in the game can be seen walking in the same way.

I know what you mean. There is a distinct jog/trot gait that you see between the walk and run speeds when you use a controller. I love the horse trot. Variable speed is the main reason I use a controller.

Congrats, Rader! Well done!!

Ooh, I didn't know about this or notice it! Thanks for telling me about it!







Now I'm intrigued! I will most def try to see what you are talking about next time I see Jerric!!!

Anita Greatsword had a rather good day today, exploring the wild areas around Windhelm. She sold some gear in the Windhelm Fighters Guild first, then tried to buy another 2-handed sword. Oddly, nobody in the Fighters Guild sells 2-handers, so she bought an ordinary iron longsword + shield. Ordinary iron armor too, plus a few other miscellaneous items.

Good to go Rawr!!!

So today's session was devoted to gaining some experience in new skills. She picked up a quest which wasn't so bad. Bring 8 wolf pelts to some starving people living outside in the cold. No problem, she had already been pwning wolves all afternoon.

Renee, look at the bright side: Her name is still completely relevant since she still needs that great sword.

There are a couple of mildly infuriating aspects to this particular accomplishment I had tonight, but overall it was a success. I'll try to keep it short(er), with the most important details.

I went with a few of my PvP guildmates to Cyrodiil. It's a much larger guild, but it was not a designated raid night so there were only 5 of us. At one point, I grabbed an Elder Scroll.

That's right. Cincinnatus of Lilmoth possessed AN ELDER SCROLL.

Our group went to run support for two convoys that took the Covenant's Elder Scrolls. During the second one, due to an egregious mistake by some Pact players, a few Dominion players came and bombed the group immediately around the scroll-carrier. The mistake was that some other players who would've been providing extra protection repaired the door (of the keep where we snatched the scroll from) right when others were going to come from inside the keep to help protect the scroll. Thus, a large part of the defense got cut off, and the scroll carrier and a few others got killed. Our group tried to help but we could not get there in time. The Dominion players at least got killed too.

So anyway, I picked it up. I was a bit anxious that some other Dominion players were coming to snatch it up...but also possessiveness came over Cincy and I and we wanted to know what it felt like to hold onto an Elder Scroll. We ran fairly deep back into Pact territory (when you are the one carrying an Elder Scroll, you are required to run on foot; no mounts until you get rid of it). We made it to Arrius Keep...

...and this is where mildly infuriating aspect #1 comes in. While I waited for others to come into the keep before I placed it on its pedestal (one type of daily quest is to capture a specific enemy scroll, and people have to be nearby the scroll to be able to turn in the quest), my Internet cut out! One of my teammates was trying to share the quest with me, and when I hit accept it didn't give me the quest. Then Teamspeak cut out. Then, I disappeared. I had to completely close out Steam and then come back in, since the game claimed I was logged in when I wasn't.

When I came back in, luckily, catastrophe had been averted because somebody else just picked the scroll up in my absence to place it on the pedestal. But I did not have the quest to turn in. As I figured out while I was trying to determine why my Internet connection cut out, I had accidentally HIT THE DAMN AIRPLANE MODE KEY ON MY KEYBOARD. I was trying to take a screenshot of me dancing with the scroll so I could show it off. Ugh, I hate that key. I'm never going to need it and it screwed me.

To be honest, I can laugh at it now. Still a little annoying, but at least I had photographic evidence, right?

NOPE. Mildly infuriating aspect #2: IT DIDN'T TAKE THE DAMN SCREENSHOT EVEN THOUGH I HIT THE KEY FOR IT. [Censored] [censored]!



*sigh* It kind of does bother me, but not too greatly. I let all sorts of things bother me too easily. I need to be more Zen. But it is kind of funny to laugh at now.

So yeah--I was looking forward to showing you all the fact that I had an Elder Scroll on Cincy's back. Alas, there is no photographic evidence to show. But I did capture it, and the PvPing in general went pretty well and was great fun.

Aw, now that is sweet of her!








Aw, I'm so sorry about your game crashing! How frustrating that must have been! Carrying an Elsder Scroll (or guarding the one carrying it) is absolutely thrilling! So is just about everything you do in the Alliance War; that is the most fun gameplay I've ever experienced; but it is one place that solo play just doesn't cut it.

Leveque Lazare reached level 50 on Saturday, but he got there with most of his skill lines below 50, and many individual skills un-morphed. We still have a lot of building work to do. Laurie made him a new set of CP160 gear, and we put the old level 32 stuff away in the storage chest reserved for that. The one at the back, next to the one for the Cyrodiil stuff.

His two level-up Undaunted keys were enough to take the 50/50 gamble on Velidreth/Chudan, so we got another Velidreth shoulder. Never mind, it will come by at the Golden some time, like the helms did.

Now he's leveled, the crew will get back to doing daily Undaunted delves, and possibly the JC dailies, so that Unna gets the deconstruction pieces. Laurie may buy a few style pages and do Master Writs, as the chest holding the sealed ones is getting rather full. And it will not be long before the Guild needs new attuned sets for Skyrim. I know mALX is already making space for them at the Psijic Villa.

I want to play as an Imperial. Not available without an upgrade. Fine, let's upgrade. I can't find this upgrade. .

There's supposed to be an upgrade in the in-game Crown Store which adds the Imperial Race. So far I've looked in the Crown Store itself, and also in the Collections section.

I also tried going Zenimax's website. No Imperial upgrade there either.

Go to the in game Crown Store > Upgrades > Account > Digital Imperial Edition (2100 Crowns). That upgrade adds the Imperial Race, a white horse and two other small items.

Since Rader had expressed a need for daily Undaunted delves in the "news" thread, we linked up to do a few during my regular round. And that led to a couple of pledges while we were grouped. FG1 was a breeze, but Selene was tough for two, and took three attempts before she succumbed. Clark was too busy for screenshots, but I think Rader may have got one or two.

There were a few problem with multiple characters getting the same delve, so we couldn't always share, but it roughly doubled the number we did.

Tonight's not an event night, so I'll be doing a round of my crew through the Undaunted delves, if anyone else wants to join in and share them - you do more that way, as you can each pick up a different delve on the same day. The more players, the more leverage.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I went into that section last night, but maybe I missed it. I

In the end, the character I rolled last night is another race other than Imperial, but it all worked out in the end. I'm pretty pleased with her.

Yep. Selene's Web was a bit brutal. And it was supposedly SOLOABLE, at least according to the list I read of soloable dungeons. You must have to be ridiculously good at the game to solo that place even on normal. Being the DPS, Clark couldn't take as many hits as Cincy so we had to revive him a few times and do a bit of healing, but there is no way Cincy could have done enough damage on his own before being overwhelmed by mobs. SO MANY STUNS in that final battle with Selene and her adds.

I think ghastley and I make a pretty good duo, but I imagine few other places are going to allow for just 2 players to take it on. Thanks again to ghastley and Clark. We were able to do multiple daily delves as well bouncing between characters, so he is the reason Cincy was able to quickly climb to Undaunted level 6 yesterday. I should have a couple of screenshots that I can pull out later.

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That list of (supposedly) soloable dungeons, btw, is here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...we-able-to-solo

I know the thread is from three years ago and there are dungeons added since then that aren't on the list, but I figured it was a good reference. Overall, it does seem to be pretty accurate, as I have done Fungal Grotto I, City of Ash I, Spindleclutch I, Crypt of Hearts I, Elden Hollow I and II, Wayrest Sewers I solo, and just added Tempest Island and Arx Corinium to my solo achievements in the past few days. But there are critical points of information that were left out for Spindleclutch II, City of Ash II, and Selene's Web. Hopefully we can do SpII and CAII together as a group during the Undaunted celebration, because I really need help with those.

I want to try Blessed Crucible and Darkshade Caverns I and II as well (accidentally went into DCI on Veteran and backed out of it), but I am hoping they come up as pledges in the next few days first. That way I'd kill the proverbial 2 birds with one stone, getting both the skill point and completed pledge for each of those.

Jerric finished up the Clockwork City main questline today. Even though he does not love the landscape and quickly grew bored with smashing metal things, he loved the quests because of the people. He’s moved on to Summerset. So far the Altmer are not thrilled to see him, but he met one old friend already, so there’s hope. If nothing else he’ll get some real sun!

Undaunted! Undaunted! We are Undaunted!

Tremendous success was had yesterday with Undaunted quests. Grits (Abiene), ghastley (Spreads-Her-Ankles), and I (Cincinnatus of Lilmoth) breezed through a few delves and then stormed through the pledge for City of Ash II, which ended with the destruction of a sigil stone to close one of Mehrunes Dagon's Oblivion gates. (TESIV vibes, anyone?)

Grits had to leave shortly thereafter, so ghastley and I moved onto the other (non-DLC) pledge of the day, Banished Cells II. While we died once, it wasn't terribly difficult. Still--and I'm sure people will get tired of me saying this, so forgive me--who is soloing City of Ash II and Banished Cells II and how? Supposedly those two can be done alone. We can take them as a group but just one person? I want to know how it is done.

Cincy is now about halfway through Undaunted level 6, so he'll soon have the first rank of the passive for extra health per type of armor he wears.

The event did bring a few of us out of the woodwork and into the group dungeons. I ran a few with Cincy - using a variety of my characters who also needed the Undaunted - and a quick FG1 with Grits' Valdi, who's still leveling top 50.

So now I had a few more Undaunted keys, and since Laurie and Cat Man Dhou both want the shoulders to go with their Mighty Chudan helms, we spent them five at a time on the Velidreth/Chudan gamble. Every one a Velidreth!

There must be a way to turn off the RNG setting for "never what you need".

Note: must post some screenshots. I just need to do a cropping session some time.

Buffy did fine during the Undaunted event. The Impresario literally had nothing of interest so she just let her 12/12 ticket counter overflow. She did one dungeon a day and enjoyed the extra keys and transmute gems.

One highlight is that she pugged vWR1 in hard mode in search of a medium weight Slimecraw helm - and got it!

Another highlight is that she finished the event by soloing VoM (on normal of course). She's done that before but VoM is near the upper threshold of what she can manage solo. Unhappily, she did not get another Rattlecage destro staff that she was hoping for to flush out her spare set.

Bold: You noticed, urgh. I was afraid those trees would be noticeable; even if we kind of never go up to those places.


Congrats to Lazare on his leveling!!!








Wut he said,









Nice! Do we get a peek at her?








Ditto on getting tired of mechanical menaces; but I did love Nocturnal's ghostly beasts found in a few places there - and absolutely LOVED those crows!!!








I am afraid I gave you the faulty RNG luck. I had it for years; then during the Event suddenly I was getting good luck! I couldn't figure out why; but now I know = you got it! Don't worry; I'm sure I'll get my bad luck back from you now that the Event is over, lol.

Soloing dungeons is NOT something I EVER want to do; but once each with Pia (Templar) and Dagoth-Malan (Sorc) I just tried soloing Fungal Grotto I = both times just to see how far they could get; and stunned myself by finishing the dungeon on both of them. I know none of my other characters could do it; and don't even want to try with any others - but I can see why Rader enjoys it; there really is a great feeling of accomplishment when you are able to actually do it. I just really don't enjoy the fight as well without the companionship of friends to help; so soloing is not my thing.

But that said: during this Event; and needing the Event Tickets = twice I found myself in dungeons and no one online to help me through. So before trying for a PUG; both times I tried to "see how far I could get" with Dagoth-Malan.

The first was yesterday: Direfrost Keep. Dagoth-Malan made it all the way to the two Pressure Plates; which can't be passed while solo. I waited a long time till finally I saw some friends get online and asked them to come help me. They did, thank goodness!

So I was actually feeling pretty good about Dagoth-Malan at that point; so at 3 a.m. this morning when I had just an hour or so left before losing my chance to get the last three Event Tickets (and no one I knew online to ask for help from) I decided to try to solo Banished Cells I.

Now, I know Buffy solos it all the time; and I know it is supposed to be "Baby's First Group Dungeon" for that Alliance = so seriously thought it would be as easy as Fungal Grotto = it wasn't. I have always been totally in Awe of Buffy's abilities anyway; but after this morning I want to find that "Bowing Down" emoticon and post it for her!

Banished Cells I was a big fail. By the time I reached the last two bosses I was begging for help in the chat box from anyone online that would listen. Two nice men came and helped me finish it = really grateful to them; because without them I wouldn't have gotten my last three Event Tickets! WHEW!!!

I HATE soloing dungeons !!!!!!!!!! Urgh! My hat is off in permanent tribute to all of you who can solo these things, I don't know how you do it!!!

That may have something to do with the lack of support. That's midnight on the left coast, too.

You probably have to build a hybrid Tank/Heal/DD character specifically for soloing dungeons (or WB's). I took my pure tank Laurie to FG1 to help Grits run Valdi, and I reckon that she'd have taken a week to grind through it alone. With no healer, her health bar didn't budge, but 3-4k damage takes a long time to kill a boss! She has issues with Troll bosses in delves that way. They don't need a lot of health regen to keep alive against her.

On the other hand, all my DPS characters are too squishy. I'm hoping Clark will be hybrid enough when I finish filling his skills, and collecting his gear, but only time will tell.

P.S. I didn't notice changes at Psijic Villa, you told me!

I did? Well, to be honest = the place looks stripped down to me without those trees; I miss them already.

I agree with you on the Hybrid = I am really floored by how well Rader built Cincy = that is the best example I've actually seen of a heavily Tanky DPS! (I haven't seen Acadian's Tank in action yet; but bet his is the same way since Acadian solos dungeons with him).

No no. Acadian is a classic DK main tank - nearly unkillable but no damage. No soloing dungeons for him. He can solo some WBs but only if he takes a lunch with him and devotes half an hour to it.

I must say I am really floored right now. My new dark elf, Sheeza Hawty, met some other gal and they totally bonded. It really is an incredible feeling when you meet some other gamer and both characters have similar ideals.

Because Sheeza was just walking around Davon's Watch, just kinda loitering around, when we noticed this other lady was following. Walking right behind Sheeza. And so Sheeza says "You walk in mysterious ways) and from then on it was like there was the instant bonding session going on! Hard to explain I guess.