Warrior AF: Collecting the Goods

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Neyla fought the Shadow Dragon during my run through Xarcabard.

tried to flag my Warrior AF hands quest yesterday morning, but it turns out I still had an active hands quest for Monk. Lucky for me, the old gauntlets were in the Crawler's Nest and I already had a key. When I got home from work last night, I logged on and ran for the nest as Monk to find and pop the coffer. I needed another key, and it dropped from the third mob in the back room.

Neyla came out as Warrior, and I found the next coffer so he could pop it and obtain the Fighter's Mask.

Before logging out, we went to Behemoth's Dominion to fight three goblins. Neyla kited the White Mage and Ranger while I focused on the Thief. It was a fun little fight, and I saved Hundred Fists for the last mob.

We were supposed to see a movie before work today, but I figured I could at least pop on long enough to fight Dark Spark and possibly flag the Warrior version of the same quest. Neyla called to cancel, but said he'd log onto the game awhile.

Instead of spreading the quests out over consecutive nights, we managed to knock out the rest of our AF in about two hours. We took turns babysitting each other. The Crawler's Nest coffer was back in the dragonfly room, so he had to fight the mobs for me. We lucked out in the necropolis because both coffers popped on the upper level.

Castle

My taru mannequin is a sexy Warrior beast.

Zvahl was trickier, of course. I escorted Neyla around first, and we dropped down the goblin and quadav chutes before I thought to check the center area where you can see four pop points at once. That's where we found the coffer. Neyla didn't have a warp scroll, but he had a buffer and used to to bloodport out. I fought off an ahriman and then warped out behind him.

My escort through Castle Zvahl was almost cut short by a UPS deliveryman who buzzed my door as I was heading for the goblin area. Neyla had scouted ahead and found the coffer while I waited in the small tunnel between maps. I was on my way to join him when the buzzer went off. I was able to sign for my package and run back up the stairs two at a time get to to my PC before things took an unfortunate turn.

Naturally, we dumped the armor into NPC storage before we logged out. That makes six sets for me and seven for Neyla.

Warrior AF: The Key Farming

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We kill a Crawler Hunter in the Crawler's Nest.

obviously no stranger to coffer key farming, but there are a few areas that fill me with dread because the mobs tend to be stubborn about giving me what I need. One of those areas is the Necropolis. Neyla and I did the escort and then dropped down to the lower levels to do battle with ghosts, shadows and bones.

Shockingly, they gave us two keys almost immediately. We only had to do one lap.

That was the pattern for the rest of the day. We left the Necropolis and ran for the Crawler's Nest. We cleared the chamber with the Crawler Hunters and Knight Crawler, earning the first key almost immediately, and then got a second from the first round of re-pops.

The one I actively hated was Castle Zvahl, but that's just because the constant running and stair-climbing is as obnoxious as a galka's chili farts. The only saving grace was I was largely on auto pilot and following Neyla while I watched Seinfeld DVDs.

We claimed our escort scrolls and finished up by hitting Palborough Mines to fight Ni'Ghu Nestfender in his egg chamber (I always wondered what the ??? was for) and then traveled to Castle Oztroja to get Parasite Skins from the leeches in the upper pool.

We plan to finish the Warrior AF quests this week and then focus on Campaign awhile.