| I'm with Miko...I'm a geek. |
| Wow, do I love the new tusker dungeon. |
| Rinse repeat. |
| Wow, do I love the new tusker dungeon. |
| It's absolutely amazing. |
| For all of you life mages, I recommend finding yourself your own
personal level 50 broken item/UA tank. |
| For all you broken item/UA tanks, find a life mage t sling Imperil
V for you. |
| I don't think I killed more then ten tuskers all day, yet made 3
mil xp imperiling for Miko, what a rush. |
| A snippet of the action follows. |
| Get into the room just above the uberchest, 4 levels down. The death
hall is ahead. We have Miko, Simone, Gathro(some cool d00d we picked
up along the way), and yours truly. Also in attendance(this was the
corpse recovery mission) are Hellmaker(yeah, the guy with teh god
Nexus armor) and a couple of other level 40-50 people. 10 in all I
think. Not all fellowed, but hunting together all the same. |
| We stop at the end of the death hall, as tuskers start running at
us. For safety purposes, we duck into the first niche. Back to the
wall technique is so key here, I can't over stress that. I seem to
be the only life mage willing to sacrifice xp to get faster kills.
Imperils flying everywhere. I swear, we dropped 20 tusker guards in
under 2 minutes. And they are still coming. |
| Somehow, we get a very brief reprieve. Someone pulls the drudges
down. 30 seconds later, everyone is either dead or portaled out. No
lie. Hellmaker LEFT two bodies down there. If you don't have a cable
modem, I'm not sure you can make it...jsut too many damn creatures.
And it's not even due to spells like the greater fire stone is. Just
too many damn creatures. Well, we go back down to try to get some
bodies that were right in the front of the hall way. Buffbuffbuff,
skip the top level. One your 40+, it's mostly a waste of time...all
tusker slaves. Gotta go down to get to the good stuff. |
| Get back down, and start cleaning tuskers...finally get down to
the 3rd or 4th level(not sure which it is) and get the bodies we can
reach..everyone bails...cept Miko and I. |
| Spawn is light..we cleaned most of it, so we back into a corner
and rebuff.(again, I can NOT stress enough how important it is to
not be in the center of a room. The walls are your friends..corners
are even better. You want 8 tuskers or 3 beating on you) In the middle
of rebuffing, the spawn starts coming. Miko gets done first. Starts
killing. Spawns are coming faster. I cast bane on the robe, imperil
miko's tusker. Cast blud pro, imp, |
| Imperil the next tusker. Armor self, fealty self, rejuve self, imperil
the next tusker. Borrowing stam to stam to mana along the way. Tha'ts
what it's like down there. You have to buff as you go..it was amazing.
|
| Finally get caught up..we have 8 tuskers trying to do a WWF splash
on me 'n' miko in the corner. But we have awesome defensive position.
Imperil miko's tusker, then start the cycle. Go through, imperiling
everything in sight, only stopping when I need some health or some
stam for a transfer. More tuskers come. Holy mother of god, more tuskers?
Yes, more. We get through about 6, and we have 6 more join the last
two. Numbers are kinda hazy, but this is pretty close. Not talk, just
kill and cast. I musta missed about a dozen tells through this. |
| We were at it so long trying to get a breather, Miko lost buffs,
and had to get out the cestus. It was that bad. I'm still thankful
I can cast VI's. Only thing that kept me alive. Amazingly enough,
we managed to drain, pound, and imperil every tusker there into the
ground. Long enough to type wow to each other, miko to break out his
wand, and us to portal to the top again as still MORE tuskers started
to come in. |
| I don't know about the rest of you...but to kill that many tusker
GUARDS with just two people...it was amazing...no running, nothing.
Nowhere to run. Through most of it, the only escape route would have
been to portal. I veritable wall of tuskers. To clear a spawn in any
area of that dungeon with just two people is rough. Two minute respawn
means you have to kill, and kill fast. That dungeon, to me, is the
epitome of forcing teamwork. You may be able to solo there. But you
won't own unless you work together. And I think I can safely say this.
Other than the death hallway with 20+ drudge raveners and stalkers
at the end, Miko and I owned. I don't know how many corpses he and
I assisted for on recovery. And for me at least, not one single death.
Was laughing with miko about it at the top buffing at one point. Some
guy says to me "well, your lucky then" I asked him if he buffed his
gloves, lmao. He said no. I said try it out. If you prep, early and
often, the place just totally rocks. |
| Yeah, I know this was long...but I thought I would share just the
tiniest piece of action from the day. Even after we left, that one
time where we held the room, Miko and I were still marveling over
it. Amazing. I thought for sure we were going to be forced out. But
we survived. No, we did better than survive, we OWNed, spreading love
Source style. Hope you all had a good saturday too. |
| Mike a.k.a. Deao |