Crucible Elite run done! Next we are off to fight Tor Dragons!!!
(3 characters and 1 doggie; we are a 1st life 16th lvl Fighter, Arty, and Cleric (me!)).
A picture of the Swim belt I made for my poorly-named Cleric(1).
It has been awhile (ignoring my HC runs) and we all forgot that it was more than the maze and the swim!
And that maze took us, 20+ minutes (but i learned that there is a chest in the maze! ). I know on HC it took the party maybe a 1-2 minute?
We had a thrall or two pop up above the maze but the Arty blasted them pretty quickly. We never had two thralls at a time though. Thralls were never a problem on this run. Our lack of game knowledge was!
All the other obstacles between the maze and swim we not a huge problem with only minor hiccups (e.g. on top of maze, say don't fall, and immediately the Arty falls. Normal stuff like that.) And it sure is nice to have the arty doggie around to open doors!!
Anyway, when we finally made it to the swim (almost 2 hours in, so yeah, u can see why do don't group with other folks, haha!), in I went.
But I died on the swim. Booooooo!!
I made it all the way to the spiked wall before the room with the fan that stops before I died.
Nasty spikes and current. I guessed low when the gap was high and splat! Reflexive heal burnt long ago, greater vigor stuff not good enough, and I forgot my force shield pots. Double Booooooo!!!
But all is not lost as we have our own death rules!
You can be raised by a party member (for a total number of times equal to your # of original Con points) only if the soul stone can be physically recovered by a living party member. So we are not super-extreme perm-death but no ghost raises, only if you can get the body (soul stone) back.
And I "knew" from errr....no actual source....that my soul stone would wash back up on the shore where the party members where and they could raise me! I could try again or, more likely, the fighter (a swimmer & has done it before) do it! Ha Ha, I am so smart!!!
So No Worries! And they are teasing me and I do a little ghost scouting before my soul gets washed back you see, and we chat a bit longer. And longer....
I think maybe the swim in House 12 might bring your stone back; maybe that is where i got the idea of soul stone getting washed back.
So yeah, my soul stone stays stubbornly stationary.
To cut down very long story into only long; rescue party happens (with much cursing and why did we not do Hard?), and we even find that gold key.
But we do not find any hint of a secret door etc. so that remains a mystery and an offhand PUG HC rumor about super awesome loot in that chest it's but "...not worth dying for on HC so wait for the swimmer". Makes me very curious.
The we DD'ed out, beat up the champs, and finished the quest!
We got one named falchion out of the run. Although we did get an elite jeweled cloak and some other stuff in other GH quests so not too bad I guess.
Next up is Tor! The on to level 19 House Cannith quests. Which we hope will be a faster route to 50 House Cannith favor than the challenge slog (we remain at 19 total stars). I did those quests on HC 5 but just once, at speed, in a HC party so I don't know them at all. Should be fun!
That is it! Hope everyone is having fun! Mind the Thralls and Mind Eaters!!!
(1) Coming soon! My clear & concise 5,462 word, all-cap, single paragraph, no punctuation explanation
why me and my 303 member guild (all twenty-year VIPs!), will all be quitting the game forever unless
SSG allows capitalization for all letters in Character's first names!!