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Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:36:31 +0000

[…] even mentioned the aspects of grouping with other people, which is usually a mixed bag at best. Luckily I have a friend to run around with to quest and loot […]

By: romp

romp — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:53:06 +0000

kinda funny becuse our guild is dissolving because only three of us ever actually play anymore and I created a monk specifically to help the new guild with exploring/missions. standing around mission area for twenny minutes going “monk LFG” is gonzo boring…

By: tratch

tratch — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:34:22 +0000

Freeman: Yeah, I worked a ranger up to 20 and from level 14 on, absolutely no one would group with me. They all want monks or warriors or whatever the hell else; so I had to do everything with henchmen. It was lonely. I decided to start up a new char and be a monk. Now I have no trouble finding a group, but get yelled at by aggro retards who rush into a horde and are mad that I can’t be their own personal bodyguard.

But I digress…

Foton’s right about grouping. In fact, I’m going to have to get out of my guild here soon, too. No one’s on and when they are, they just want to do /airguitar or /dance like retards.

By: Foton

Foton — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:44:00 +0000

Some of those last PvE missions are almost impossible to do without at least one player monk, 2 preferred … player warrior is desirable too, for the pulling (and obviously tanking).

That crystal mission, optimal group is 3 players + 3 henchmen, imo. Almost better to have hench fill out the group cuz they follow the players instead of lolligagging around possibly aggro’ing NPC stragglers.

Bitch to do with one player until you memorize the NPC AI and time the attunements perfectly to thwart the NPCs. 2 or 3 players is ideal.

By: Jeff Freeman

Jeff Freeman — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:13:05 +0000

Oh, regarding the first part of the post – we’ve been grouping more and more toward the end of the game there, which consists of standing around yelling that we’re looking for a group, sending tells to the few people who say they need group members WITHOUT specifying that what they need are monks.

The last straw was a zone full of “Need a monk for mission”, “Need 2 monks for mission”, “Need a monk”, etc. and the real humdinger: “I need a fucking monk for the mission.”

So we re-rolled, as monks.

By: Jeff Freeman

Jeff Freeman — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:08:17 +0000

> Epilogue: I hired 5 NPC henchmen and finished the
> mission by myself in under 15 minutes. After all, I’m
> not getting any younger.

Impressive.

We just couldn’t do it with henchmen. We got a group and all but two people ganked NPCs (specifically, the ones carrying the crystals) while the other two delivered crystals to the right spots, which wasn’t difficult.

Prior to that, we just couldn’t manage that mission doing it with henchmen.