Wow. It seems like Thieves get hosed pretty hard on their Artifact Armor. Neyla called me and asked if I wanted to log on to help Crookedmidget get his AF, and it took a long time.
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| Crookmidget, Neyla and I fight a goblin NM in Sauromugue Champaign. |
don't remember any mind-numbingly evil quests on my jobs, but maybe I'm just filtering it out because I didn't enjoy Thief and have no desire to take it beyond where I abandoned it. I can't really complain too much about the time investment, since I'd just received a copy of
Walking Dead #8: Made to Suffer from Amazon, and the downtime meant I could read it while I waited for Crook to do the necessary legwork.
The first stop was Castle Oztroja. Crook had the tools to pick the coffer's locks, but we had to clear the area around the coffer and the first yagudo dropped a key. That was a fun bit of luck.
Our next stop was Sauromugue Champaign, where we had to pop and kill the goblin Climbpix Highrise. There are six towers scattered around the zone, and he pops at a random one. The first five are easy to check, but the sixth requires passing through Banishing Gates or the Cavernous Maw. Naturally, that was the one we needed. We did a long loop around to reach it -- receiving a cutscene allowing us to use our NPC Fellows in past regions in the process -- and even saw Roc flapping around when we returned to the present. We killed the goblin and moved on.
Our next destination was the Drachenfall in North Gustaberg. I headed straight for the pop point and relaxed with my book while Crook did the quest. I think it took an hour, mostly because he had to gamble with goblins in Dangruf Wadi and lost a few times. When you lose, you have to start over. I kinda wish he'd lost one more time, since he and Neyla were ready to do the fight when I was within five pages of finishing the story. The goblin died fast.
The last stop, and by far the most evil, was Garlaige Citadel.
Crook had to hit Windurst for some cutscenes, then wander the Citadel and click some ??? scattered around the place. He also controlled Daemonforge to help us get through the Banishing Gates. Once all that running around was finished, we had to fight a bomb NM called Chandelier.
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| Crookmidget, Neyla and I fight a goblin NM in North Gustaberg. |
what a prick. I'm telling you, theives are getting
hosed.
The problem with Chandelier is that he'll self-destruct if he sees someone before you claim him. He'll self-destruct if you're casting a spell when he pops. Any aggro at all, and KABOOM! He blew up
three times before we could claim him, the second time resulting in the only death of the day when he did 1,537 damage to me and dropped me like a brick. I was going to pull him with Chi Blast, but he'd explode before I could target him.
The fourth time we changed tactics and moved everyone down the hall out of sight range. Crook hauled ass back to us as soon as his cutscene ended, and the bomb floated lazily for a few seconds before we waded in and killed him. He actually died faster than the goblins, and he never landed a single hit on me because I managed to keep shadows up.
It was a productive day, to be sure.
