Thursday 2/16/05

[Erudite]

So, tonight at 9pm EST.

I'm assuming we'll be helping GravenStone with some of the first few plot missions. GS, have you done any of them yet? If not, we should be able to run through the first two pretty quickly, and may even have time for the third if we're quick.

[GravenStone]

I haven't done any of them that I know of. Just got Great Northern Wall last night. Not sure what will be going on here tonight, might end up snowed in as we've gotten about 3" overnight with another 5-9" predicted today during the day (with gust to 45 mph). If that happens, might end up having the whole night ahead.

[Raveneye]

I'm cool with helping GS through as many Ascalon missions as we can get done. I'll be on at 9:00pm EST.

GS - If you're level 8-10 right now, you can probably do the Great Northern Wall mission solo or with a single henchie (healer or melee) as I think the max mob level on that one is only 4 or 5. Don't forget that each mission also has a Bonus quest received by an NPC located somewhere within the mission. If you miss or mess up the Bonus the first time through, Erudite and I discovered you can go back and replay the mission to get the Bonus and then drop out of it once that's completed.

[Erudite]

Good run last night, getting GravenStone the bonus on the first mission and completing mission+bonus on the next two. As I recall, mission four is a bit longer (the bonus is tougher), so we may want to bring a few henchmen along.

We seem to have a pretty good mix with the three of us. Five of the six classes (no Mesmer), and the lack of a monk main is somewhat mitigated by the necromancer leeching abilities.

I had the foresight to grab a few Ascalonion keys before we started (I had used all of mine previously, as we need steel keys in the Shiverpeaks), and it paid off. I picked up a Ranger Rune of Minor Marksmanship for GS and an Elementalist Rune of Minor Energy Storage for me - giving me over 70 base energy points now. Even chain-casting Flare and both heals, it's tough for me to run out of energy in a four-mob fight.

[GravenStone]

As I mentioned when we were ending for the evening, I stopped only 15 exp shy of 11th. Logged on a bit later and got that, and am now about 2300 exp from 12th. I'm going to try and clear all the quests I can find before embarking on the final storyline quest in Ascalon Ruins. With any luck, I should be 13 or so by next Thursday.

[Raveneye]

That did work really well last night. When we start doing the next set of missions we should be good adding only a Healer. When we get to where we can have a party of 6, then a Healer, Melee (Little Thom) and Enchanter might round us out pretty well.

GS - I think if you round out the misc. quests in Ascalon you should gain 13th easily. IIRC there are several that grant 2K xp rewards. Don't forget to visit the Scribe in Ascalon City to do both of his quests. Completing them opens a very easy 2Kxp quest from the guy in the Ambassador's camp just outside the city. You can score 3-4K xp total running all three quests.

The next Mission on the list is a long one (with bonus). It won't be too difficult for us as a group, but will probably take most of our session to complete. Even if it doesn't the mission after that is the one that takes us through Shiverpeaks, and that is not only long, but fairly difficult as well with lots of healers and necros sprinkled into the mix.

I would say by the time we get GS up to the mission we're on, he should be 14th at the minimum, and more likely even with us, which will work out perfectly for forging ahead through the remaining Shiverpeak mission and on into Kryta.