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Jun. 22nd, 2005 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothGot in a good group in EQ2 last night... it was organized, mostly, with a main tank and main healer (me) and everything. I was probably a little *too* conservative -- I'm trying to learn EQ2's group tactics, so I was erring on the side of 'doing nothing' for most of the night. I'm sure I didn't want to start blasting with Chill, and running up to melee would have been a bit more trouble than it was probably worth, but eventually I started using weakness and stinging swarm, which didn't seem to draw aggro at least (if used on the tank's target). It was hard to tell if they were helping or not.
I also discovered an important rule -- never heal a scout. Healing a scout always instantly draws the attention of everything they're fighting, because they shed hate all the time with their skills. It's better to wait for the tank to rescue them, or for them to die. }:P Healing a mage is probably okay, because they spam AoEs.
(I usually would heal the scouts if they were about to die, though... I could last longer against what they were fighting with a full bar than they could with 20%, and the tank was more likely to actually notice that *I* was in trouble...)
We basically spent the night clearing out Blackburra... I think the only thing in the entire zone that we didn't kill was the spider queen, which looked a bit too scary. We probably could have taken her, though.
I saw a lot of interesting lewt pass through the lotto windows, but I didn't win much of it... some could-have-been-store-bought weapons and armor, a couple boring turqiose bracelets, and a tradeskill book. Made something like 30s from the whole night. Is there a way to game the lotto or something? The same people seemed to always get all the good stuff, while I was stuck with 18 vials of 'canine saliva'.
Death count: Mage 4, druid 3, scout 3, bard, brawler, warrior 2. Team leader: Mage 'Extatique'. Most competent: warrior ('Destrier'). Least competent: scout ('Eli-something'). The last half of the night was corpse recovery for him, because he ran off during a team wipe and lost a shard in a weird place, then ran off again during shard recovery and got killed right next to the spider queen. 9.9 He also decided to pull a couple times, leading to the discovery of the 'don't heal scouts' rule. I don't remember what his actual subclass was.
We had two team wipes; the first was from the invisible (probably bugged, since sonic-vision which *says* it can see invisible and hidden didn't help) gnolls in the hallway leading down to the second floor before we knew about them ("Um... all that's on me is a solo snake, so why is my health going d-- okay, what killed me?"), the second was when we were leaving the spider pits the first time and the ENTIRE ROOM repopulated right on top of us. X.X We were a little spread out (walking through an empty room) and managed to aggro like five groups all at once, not good.
Before the group, I did the 'intriguing eye' quest solo, and got to talk to Fippy. I'm glad he's an NPC in this one instead of a mob, I always felt sorry for him. }:P He gave me a quest and then gloated about how since he was blackmailing me he didn't have to pay me, but then I mysteriously got a very nice piece of chest armor. Huh.
Anyway, I went from the middle of 16 to the middle of 18, so it's time to go find the class advancement NPC. I've seen conflicting information that the person I'm looking for is somewhere in South Qeynos (from a messageboard) or North Qeynos (from the manual). Sigh.
I also discovered an important rule -- never heal a scout. Healing a scout always instantly draws the attention of everything they're fighting, because they shed hate all the time with their skills. It's better to wait for the tank to rescue them, or for them to die. }:P Healing a mage is probably okay, because they spam AoEs.
(I usually would heal the scouts if they were about to die, though... I could last longer against what they were fighting with a full bar than they could with 20%, and the tank was more likely to actually notice that *I* was in trouble...)
We basically spent the night clearing out Blackburra... I think the only thing in the entire zone that we didn't kill was the spider queen, which looked a bit too scary. We probably could have taken her, though.
I saw a lot of interesting lewt pass through the lotto windows, but I didn't win much of it... some could-have-been-store-bought weapons and armor, a couple boring turqiose bracelets, and a tradeskill book. Made something like 30s from the whole night. Is there a way to game the lotto or something? The same people seemed to always get all the good stuff, while I was stuck with 18 vials of 'canine saliva'.
Death count: Mage 4, druid 3, scout 3, bard, brawler, warrior 2. Team leader: Mage 'Extatique'. Most competent: warrior ('Destrier'). Least competent: scout ('Eli-something'). The last half of the night was corpse recovery for him, because he ran off during a team wipe and lost a shard in a weird place, then ran off again during shard recovery and got killed right next to the spider queen. 9.9 He also decided to pull a couple times, leading to the discovery of the 'don't heal scouts' rule. I don't remember what his actual subclass was.
We had two team wipes; the first was from the invisible (probably bugged, since sonic-vision which *says* it can see invisible and hidden didn't help) gnolls in the hallway leading down to the second floor before we knew about them ("Um... all that's on me is a solo snake, so why is my health going d-- okay, what killed me?"), the second was when we were leaving the spider pits the first time and the ENTIRE ROOM repopulated right on top of us. X.X We were a little spread out (walking through an empty room) and managed to aggro like five groups all at once, not good.
Before the group, I did the 'intriguing eye' quest solo, and got to talk to Fippy. I'm glad he's an NPC in this one instead of a mob, I always felt sorry for him. }:P He gave me a quest and then gloated about how since he was blackmailing me he didn't have to pay me, but then I mysteriously got a very nice piece of chest armor. Huh.
Anyway, I went from the middle of 16 to the middle of 18, so it's time to go find the class advancement NPC. I've seen conflicting information that the person I'm looking for is somewhere in South Qeynos (from a messageboard) or North Qeynos (from the manual). Sigh.
