The vacations have saved individuals busy, however one way or the other Potshot and I appear to search out time to get on and play, so we’ve got been working alts forward of the group whereas additionally determining how issues work within the sport.
Guild Wars Reforged
I believed I used to be ranging out forward as a result of I made it to Piken Sq. out in The Breach, however then Potshot mentioned he was so far as Grendich Courthouse within the Diessa Lowlands, so I figured I had higher catch up!
Potshot and I had been there earlier than in our transient comedic take a look at to see if, at stage 6 and having simply created a guild, whether or not or not we may stroll to Lion’s Arch. We couldn’t.
Sure, we wiped… a few instances
The trail that joins The Breach and Diessa Lowlands is fairly closely camped… a minimum of for us… and we realized that maybe we ought to not simply blunder into no matter mobs are wandering lest we appeal to all people within the neighborhood.
So, having left from Piken Sq. on the journey with my henchmen… the entire group now stage 8… so mighty… I took care on method to the zone line, letting teams wander away on their very own earlier than tackling them.
The Charr hanging out on The Breach facet of the crossing
That went properly sufficient. Superb what a little bit of care and listening to the pink dots on the mini map will do for you.
Then there was the query of the place to go from there. Some glorious planning on my half. I did have a few quests from Piken Sq. to complete within the Diessa Lowlands, so I adopted the primary of these, The Duke’s Daughter, which led me on huge arc alongside the south facet of the zone earlier than I discovered her ghost.
I had one other quest to slay Garfazz Bloodfang, however the mini-map arrow was pulling me additional east for that and it *felt* possibly I ought to show north in some unspecified time in the future. I had glanced on the map on-line and had a way of the place it could be, so off I went. I figured that the zone, which like The Breach, tends to channel you in direction of particular locations, would push me in the fitting course.
After which I hit the bridge.
The Bridge of Bother
In the midst of the zone the trail wound underneath a bridge connecting a pair areas of excessive floor… excessive floor that was occupied by some wandering teams who, in the event that they roamed too shut, would begin utilizing ranged assaults on us.
As well as, there have been just a few of teams arrayed on both facet of the bridge alongside the trail. This appeared to be the following gauntlet to move via, and on the primary attempt I managed to get us mired with the utmost variety of mobs, inflicting a wipe.
Properly, I wished to return to Piken Sq. to show within the quest I had completed anyway.
That executed I rolled out with the group once more, made the crossing into the zone, wandered some time, and finally confirmed up close to the bridge once more.
This time I attempted to watch out. I took the teams on the close to facet of the bridge by themselves then, having cleared one facet, watched the mini-map till the group roaming throughout the bridge wandered off to the fitting, at which level I attempted to hurry the group previous the bridge and down the canyon to take the large group on the opposite facet as rapidly as attainable.
Not rapidly sufficient. We had been nonetheless engaged when one other group on the excessive floor wandered up and added their fireplace to the battle. One other wipe.
Ah, however we had made progress. Sufficient progress to try to end issues off with the demise debuff? I ran the group again to search out out… and no. With two rounds of debuff it was time to start out once more.
With larger care and endurance I acquired the group previous the bridge. This was solely my fourth time working down the trail, a minimum of I appeared to be studying. I had talked about this to Potshot on Discord and he had linked a map for me to comply with.
The map to comply with
He linked that at about 22:30 native time after I was off for an additional run and in Discord, sitting on my second monitor, at midnight, scaled down significantly, I actually solely registered the pink line, which appeared to indicate I used to be on the fitting path.
So I pressed on… and arrived at one thing like a portal or zone line.
So what is that this Flame Temple Hall?
Properly, the pink line appeared to go this fashion, so off we went.
We’re within the hall now!
That was an extended sequence of fights, however a minimum of there have been some NPCs who picked us up and traveled with us… till they died. However not earlier than we had handed by the urn with Althea’s Ashes for a quest. Helpful. So one thing completed. However as I pressed on, we got here to a different zone line.
And now a Dragon’s Gullet?
I went into Dragon’s Gullet, however by that time it was clear that I had gone down the mistaken path. I probed in a methods, then determined to name it an evening because it was closing in on midnight.
The following day, after I had a while, I am going on and set out as soon as extra from Piken Sq. to wander via Diessa Lowlands as soon as extra. This time I figured I might deal with my remaining quest and simply discover Garfazz Bloodfang.
I adopted the arrow on the mini-map and wandered west and north, finally discovering the camp of Garfazz and, after fairly a combat, completed him off. I and my pet had been stage 10 by that time. We did a minimum of accumulate xp and objects and money. I had upgraded my armor to the second set in Ascalon Metropolis by that time and had discovered a greater bow… and, in fact, had extra factors to assign to spice up expertise.
Having executed that, I began to wander, attempting line up with the map Potshot linked, the place I had lastly observed the inexperienced and blue paths that led to Grendich Courthouse. However aligning the terrain that I may see it was onerous to evaluate the place I actually was, so I wandered some extra.
Lastly, probing across the map I acquired shut sufficient that the map drew the swirl factor that confirmed the place the camp lay. By that time I had wandered fairly a methods. I took a display shot of my path.
My fifth journey via Diessa Lowlands
From there I used to be in a position to make it and… Grendich Courthouse is type of a dump. There isn’t numerous “there” there. But it surely did have a service provider and a collector and financial institution entry, so I used to be in a position to unload my bag.
In the meantime, Potshot had been wanting into missions. So after a little bit of progress on the map, we grouped up and turned to these for a bit.
