Static Group Tonight

[Zed]

Just a reminder:

kick off as close to 7:45 as possible. likelyhood ill need to take a 30 min Time out around 9:00 to look after Alex whilst claire sorts herself out.

Rules

1. Character is for this group only.
2. Can only use what you find, trade within group or buy from AH from funds gained during groupage.
3. Have fun.
4. Take it easy. No rushing. If someone hasnt done a quest we go at their pace. Arguably we should treat quests as new but thats unlikely to happen (do we have the patience)

See you all tonight. Bear in mind only 5 spaces so if you want to play get on early ;-)

 

[Septian]

I'll be there

 

[Sorontar]

I'll likely still be 14 short of 1750 favour but looking at builds I'm not sure I'd want to be anything other than a drow as the +2's are in all the right places for a sneaky rogue

So Sorontar 'Skar' looks like my character of choice, I'll plonk him at the back of the pub with his back to the wall watching the doors (as all good PnP rogues do )

Edit: One thing to note, please be sure that you DON'T skip the tutorial on the beach to fast forward to the sunny Korthos or we'll end up with a static group that is split.

 

[Septian]

Eck we will? How's that? I though you could still do the last 3 (4 inc the dragon) if you skip? darnit.. i'll have to remake again, hehe.

*Goes off to remake and get to korthos*

 

[Septian]

Sorted, hehe.

 

[Sorontar]

Sorted, hehe.

Yeah you can still do the quests but you play in the sunny Korthos and there is a mechanism that seperates sunny Korthos (repeat players who have skipped the tutorial-opened by completion of Misery's Peak I believe) from blockaded frozen Korthos (new players).

As we are playing as noobs with no outside influence I assumed we were imposing the blockade

 

[Readon]

One monk rolled and ready to go... see you shortly

 

[Sorontar]

Clanuk Adventuring Company formed ahead of next week .......... nicely balanced group I reckon

The first group picture

 

[Readon]

Tonight was a great success, lot of fun... looking forward to running with these characers again next week

 

[Zed]

Last night was great fun!! full balanced group and only 1 death through er falling off a cliff. Managed to get all the way through Korthos starter area with a large amount of the quests completed through elite.

Next week should be a blast !!

 

[UKJett]

Aye...was a laugh

 

[Septian]

Did i miss guild forming? Doh! I must have been afk. Cries. Was great fun last night though!

 

[Sorontar]

Did i miss guild forming? Doh! I must have been afk. Cries. Was great fun last night though!

I formed it just before I logged, only Jett was about at the time.

 

[UKJett]

You caught me just as I was snaffling a khopesh and wooden tower shield in the Hammer and Chain store.

 

[Sorontar]

You caught me just as I was snaffling a khopesh and wooden tower shield in the Hammer and Chain store.

I managed to get a set of +2 Studded Leather from the AH last night for 1000GP Not the best design but never mind.

 

[UKJett]

mmmm... nice and shiny..needs blackening though for your rogue.

Must remember to check to AH for bargins...

 

[Zed]

tonight meet at the first inn in the harbor (Leaky dinghy) where Durk believes he has asecret and some woman thinks were not good enough survive the gauntlet that is the butchers path.

 

[Zed]

9 more quests completed (well 3 quests from normal through elite) and now upto around 48K exp. Next week sees us all level to 4th.

Still only 2 deaths so far. Jett doing a great job as an intimitank and omm a good job on the healing. Me i just stand at the back looking pretty.

 

[UKJett]

Was fun but a couple of things I would like to mention.

Although the pace is good, as a newbie I feel slightly rushed. Just an observation mainly, not a major critique. I hope as we level into the more difficult scenarios, a slow more careful pace will result. I would imagine traps will become more dangerous later and would make the group more cautious.

I hadn't realised till last night that Intimidation is directional, as it states in the description. This is slightly disappointing in a lazy way; think it means you have to be careful and tactical in application of intimidation.

Some of the mobs, in particular oozes and spiders can not be influenced by Intimidate, which can be frustrating. Oh and although I am spamming the intimidate key all the time, I only seem to manage to annoy a couple of mobs rather than half a dozen. Maybe I am expecting too much from the skill.

...but then there is a cooldown on the skill, so again it maybe down to timing.

 

[Zed]

Keep intimidate maximised every level. get some Cha items as well to get a couple extra +'s

in terms of situation: doorways are your friend. be the one who leads the group, opens the door (when given all clear by rogue) and then hit intim. Move into room, intim, move back, keep blocking and let everyone else drop the mobs.

Speed: if its too fast say. we can easily slow down, and to be honest as quests get harder we will slow down anyways.