Curse

Sleazy_D · Jul 25, 2005, 08:19 PM // 20:19

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Originally Posted by kamatsu

500 points? you talking about xp? Because that quest is 4,000 xp for me... Or does the xp offered get scaled for the lvl of the character when they take the quest? Or are you talking about something completely different?

The quest was 500xp for about 3 weeks, until someone realized that a bunch of lvl 16 players will get owned, hard if they do anything sloppy.

Let me assure youthat 90% of the players at that time, myself included, were freaking sloppy.

The 1000000000 minotars along the way got our DP way high, and then the random giants stomped our weakend asses pretty bad. My Monk could solo all the minotars, and giants now... not because he's bad ass or anything, but because I'm a ton better at avoiding taking damage, and killing things.

jdwoody · Jul 25, 2005, 08:35 PM // 20:35

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If we all died, our previous hour or so of struggling with a low level team were wasted.

Why would it be wasted? You all would pop up at the rez shrine, most of the baddies would be cleared away and you just run to the hill...

Sir Skullcrasher · Jul 25, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05

wow.. that was lucky, i finish this quest on my first try with the first group that i got in hot springs. It was.. lvl 17 w/e (me), 16 monk, 20 w/m and 5 other people that i didn't remember. Anyway, we made into the hill and half of our group died and most of the people got.. like 35% DP but we keep on going and killed Galrath.

point is, killing Galrath easy, reaching him at that tower harder than you can imagine, unless you got a good group.

Forboding Angel · Jul 25, 2005, 10:38 PM // 22:38

I did it with henchies... Was pretty easy...

Parts of it sucked but henchies never leave the group so I would say I had the better end of the deal.

If you sneak by the groups, you can get to the tower without fighting much at all.

Rhuarc · Jul 26, 2005, 06:39 AM // 06:39

I for one would like to thank DrSLUGFly for sharing his story, it's posts like this (entertaining and educational) that make the forums a fun place to snoop around in.
So thanks and please keep the stories coming everyone.

Edge Martinez · Jul 26, 2005, 07:12 AM // 07:12

Five of us set up for griffon run's did Galrath. It was easy and way more funny than tricky. It left me knowing what squirrels and birds must feel like when drunk rednecks with AK's go hunting dinner in the woods. Like... "Oh yeah? Well lookit' this!" *BAM* "That's nice, but check this here out!" *BAMBAMBAM*

To the OP, that was a great story. Good job, espcially with no primary healer for half of it.

Myth Osis · Jul 26, 2005, 08:38 AM // 08:38

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Originally Posted by DrSLUGFly

To those who replied "yes yes, Galrath is easy" etc. I just want to draw attention to the following comments I had made.

It was not exactly beating Galrath that was so fantastic about this quest. It was beating our own differences and inabilities to work together. This quest proved to me beyond a doubt (though I already knew this) that teamwork and skill are the essence of this game.

And I'm super pleased that our warrior (Freeman ****) also posts here

I had picked up on that too, It annoys me when people mis-interperet a clear post. I found your post a very enjoyable read thank you.

People blowing thier own trumpets is common and boring.

Jion · Jul 26, 2005, 09:23 AM // 09:23

***Possible Spoilers***

What a coincidence! I was just about to post how me and my brother finished the Galrath quest in about half an hour. I was a W/Mo, and he was a R/E. We ran from temple of ages to kessex peak. We were fighting our way to galrath when we unsuccessfully pulled a lot of forest minos.

I decided to make a run for it just to see Galrath, and so did he. We had a lot of minos chasing us, but when we went up the hill towards the hill giant, they stopped aggroing us. We then walked past the verdatas, and started hitting Galrath. Luckily he had distracting shot, and after interrupting healing signet, we were able to take Galrath down

Anarkii · Jul 26, 2005, 09:39 AM // 09:39

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Originally Posted by jdwoody

Why would it be wasted? You all would pop up at the rez shrine, most of the baddies would be cleared away and you just run to the hill...

It would have been wasted because the afk guy wouldnt have died, and hence the team would not have rezed near the shrine.

elenna · Jul 26, 2005, 03:23 PM // 15:23

Nice story. Reminds me of when I did Galrath. Most of the group dropped at the minotaurs and trolls because they thought it was futile to go on at 60DP. Three of us persevered and beat Galrath. It was quite comical at times.

Nicro Mancer · Jul 26, 2005, 03:34 PM // 15:34

When I did Galrath - I set out from bergen hot springs (or however its spelled) with a group consisting of me, a warrior henchmen, and a group of other people (I can't remeber specifics, it was ages ago). We managed to get to the second portal thingy quite easily, but from there we couldn't get any further. All the players on my team quit - but i was determined to do the quest. After several failed attempts, I managed to evade all enemies between the second portal and TOA - with just me and my warrior henchman. From TOA I picked up a few more henchmen, went out - and completed it surprisingly quickly.

What i was surprised with was the fact that it was possible to evade all those enemies.

newfangle · Jul 26, 2005, 04:33 PM // 16:33

I've soloed this quest. Sprint to Galrath, use glad's defense and shield stance, gank his weak henchies, and then kill him.

TheTim · Jul 26, 2005, 05:22 PM // 17:22

Galraths was a fun one. Good story.

Me and my guild mate did this mission. Just the two of us no henchies. Him lvl 19 Mo/N me lvl 20 W/E. I just went all strength and tactics, he went protection and healing.

We did it. The toughest part was the Verdati(?.. Verata thanks Izzy) things all around the hill that Galrath was on. I drew them back in small groups at a time to where the hill giants were. My guildmate hid around the hill so they couldn't attack him. And I stood out and fought them using shield stance and Shields Up to soften the dmg from them. Once we got enough of those Verata guys off the hill Galrath himself was pretty easy. Took a while but he never did much dmg to us. I think getting to him was a lot harder than fighting him.

Izzy Izumi · Jul 26, 2005, 05:29 PM // 17:29

Galrath himself was a rather big disappointment in comparison to the actual mission. However, it was extremely fun fighting the Verata the "proper" (ie: pull one mob at a time) way. It was challenging, and it was fun.

I remember the one other time I went, I was spamming the Verata with bowskills and the W/Mo and Ele/N took care of Galrath. The rest of us killed the mobs, and all of a sudden, Galrath was already dead. I didn't even get to poke him!

Not fun having most of my PUG run haplessly through the poison bogs though, and right into a Necrid Group. =P