Curse

Asrial · Dec 07, 2005, 10:19 AM // 10:19

The Villainy of Galrath.

I've done this quest 2x before, once with henchmen and once with some people, and I HATED every minute of it BOTH times.

So, when it came to do it this 3rd time, I resigned myself to a possible 4 hour quest. I resigned myself to having a character, who I do not like to let die, die. I resigned myself to alot of frustration.

However! I may be pessimistic, but I'm not an idiot.

I really should have gone to bed is what I should have done, but I was in the mood to keep playing Guild Wars.

So, the first step was.. see if I could scrounge up a group.

Preferring an 8 person party to a 6 person party (see, smart), I start asking around the Temple of Ages. I manage to add 2.

I pop over to the Hot Springs, add another. I pop over to Lion's Arch, and add 2 more.

First snag was that not everyone could get to the Temple of Ages, so we all decide to meet up at the Hot Springs and I resign myself to a 6 person party. Oh well.

Second snag was that not everyone could get to the Hot Springs, bah. Easy enough to run that, so I popped in the warrior I have access to and (after making sure everyone was aware of what was going on -- I did NOT want to lose people to mis-communication) ran a couple members of the group over to the Hot Springs.

Get to the Hot Springs and the third snag is that one of the members is AFK and not answering, while we're all getting ready to move out. I figure we can bring Alesia to help with the healing (I came stacked as a serious divine healing monk). Another sign, another resignation. ..but wait!

A group of 2 were looking to do the quest (which in this area would make us 7 of 6, blast).

Alright, that's it! I make the decision to get people run to the temple.

We all run to the temple while one member of the other group waits for us there. Now we have a party of 7!

Finally the guy who was AFK comes back and I feel bad cause he waited all this time for me because I asked him to and we left him. Bad bad timing. So apparently, on his end he's tracking down a runner to take him to the temple while we're fiddling with getting an 8th in our area. We finally get an 8th, but she has to go to a guild meeting so that doesn't last and FINALLY this guy shows up (as we were almost about ready to take Alesia). I'm really glad he made it because then it's a win win win situation (I feel better, he doesn't feel left out, and we don't have to take Alesia).

On the run to the temple, I discovered that we had a minion master in our group and I'm starting to get a good feeling. I feel that it's not going to be THAT bad, this time around.

Finally we're ready, and finally we move out. A war party of 8 looking to trash Galrath.

1 Monk
1 Elementalist
2 Rangers
2 Warriors
2 Necros

Again, my past two experiences were horrible so I turned on some music (a 2 hour track) and was going to make the comment of "okay, we have 2 hours to do this in cause that's when my music ends", but decided against it. I didn't want anyone to leave for fear of it being a REALLY long quest.

To make an already long story short...

WE BLASTED THE **** OUT OF EVERYTHING IN OUR WAY!!

Galrath was defeated in 50 minutes. 1 person died. There were 2 pets and they only died a combined 3x. There was only 1 level 20.

As we started to tear into the heart of the end area, my jaw was dropping from the amazing success we were having. I'm very... picky.. about the people I quest with and I'd quest with these guys again in a heartbeat.

Calibus Quzo
Consort Lillian
Tristan Loreik
Mordrec Dekarn
Arsol Hurtz
Rene Saliere
Orlock The Plagued

You all ROCK!

Slade xTekno · Dec 07, 2005, 10:36 AM // 10:36

Lucky, I did this quest with Henches. It took me a little over three hours. ^_^;
Congradulations.

ShawnSum · Dec 07, 2005, 01:04 PM // 13:04

WTF??? I did this quest in 20 minutes with my guildies. 3 Hours???? OMG

Mordakai · Dec 07, 2005, 01:38 PM // 13:38

I guess I got lucky... piggy-backed my 16th lev. mesmer with a bunch of 20th level chars, and we just chew through this mish (from ToA) on my first try.

Asrial · Dec 07, 2005, 03:53 PM // 15:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShawnSum

WTF??? I did this quest in 20 minutes with my guildies. 3 Hours???? OMG

Go try it with henchies and call us back

judge1121 · Dec 07, 2005, 04:15 PM // 16:15

i did it with hench it took me 30 min
i do all missions and quests with henchies u just need to know the trick of leading them.

Eugaet · Dec 07, 2005, 04:16 PM // 16:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asrial

Go try it with henchies and call us back

Yeah, 4 freakin' hours with 60%DP through most of the quest. The number of times I died, it would've been upwards of 2000%DP if it wasn't capped at 60. I'll never do that again, with henchies at least.

The first time I tried it was with an army of candy corn henchies. Not very successful (at all), but kinda fun.

Murder In China · Dec 07, 2005, 04:38 PM // 16:38

That's weird...whenever I do this mission I always use henchies and beat it little under a hour with mininal deaths.....o.O

Raptox · Dec 07, 2005, 06:06 PM // 18:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asrial

Go try it with henchies and call us back

You think his phone will get reception in that poison marsh?

Seriously, though, that was the hardest part when I did it with hench. They love standing in their poison.

Eugaet · Dec 07, 2005, 06:34 PM // 18:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murder In China

That's weird...whenever I do this mission I always use henchies and beat it little under a hour with mininal deaths.....o.O

Well...there's not a lot that rules out that I suck at that quest. What level were you when you did it? I do know that I would have taken along a better skill set, but I was already so far in, I didn't want to start over.

Murder In China · Dec 07, 2005, 06:38 PM // 18:38

My character was around level 18 or so when I did the quest.

Volarian · Dec 07, 2005, 06:39 PM // 18:39

Unlike others I won't praise myself + henchies in how fast we got it done (#1 Don't do henchie groups much #2 This thread isn't about me nor was it about those who posted about themselves).

I would like to know how it was taking so long to complete for those who timed in at several hours up to 3-4 hrs?? Where did you leave from if not ToA? What was the average level of character in your group(s)? Didn't you have a tank run to the first zone area?

Just curious because, yes the quest can be time consuming for lower level parties, 1 monk parties or the inexperienced players but for any quest/mission to take 3-4hrs??? wow.

Eugaet · Dec 07, 2005, 06:49 PM // 18:49

I was level 16 soul-sucking tank. Most of my problems came from henchies getting killed (Alesia tanking, henchies taking a poison bath). Once the henchies started dropping off (and gaining DP), they'd drop off quicker the next round, then the next, until I was usually the only one standing after 5-10 seconds into any battle. As the only target, well...I can solo fine in other areas, but soloing while dragging dead-henchie-weight through Villiany sucks.

I started from Bergen Hot Springs. I'll never start that mission again from anywhere other than the Temple.

pbspectre · Dec 07, 2005, 06:54 PM // 18:54

i got bored one day and tried to solo this thing with a modification of my farming build (pre-AoE nerf)...got all the way to the castle but couldn't quite get to Galrath himself...too many ppl slowing me down as i tried to run to him...i prolly could have done it with a prot monk with spell breaker...

KazeMitsui · Dec 07, 2005, 06:57 PM // 18:57

dude this quest does not take 4hrs.... its pretty simple... ive done it many times cause of guildies but my first time was with henches and maybe did it in like 40 min....... are you going all over tyria for this quest?

Eugaet · Dec 07, 2005, 07:20 PM // 19:20

I did feel like I was going all over Tyria. But like I said, I started from Bergen Hot Springs. Didn't know about Temple at the time, hadn't located it.

Holy crap, just looked at a map. Starting from Bergen doubled the travel distance. Looks like the henchmen go from lvl12 at Hot Springs to lvl15 at ToA, too. And with an 8-man party from ToA? Yeah, that would have been much easier.

Volarian · Dec 07, 2005, 07:24 PM // 19:24

One thing I learned early on with henchies and being a Warrior........have a longbow equipped in a weapon slot.......for all the poison puddles along the way while doing VoG.....you can at least pluck an arrow in a mob and back off a lil w/o henchies bathing in the guck!!.

Hiryu · Dec 07, 2005, 07:30 PM // 19:30

I found it was pretty easy with 7 henchies (at the Temple of Ages). Took me less than an hour on my 2nd and 3rd times through.

Calling targets seems to be the trick, since henchmen will actually follow your targets and drop it.

It was a lot harder with just 5 henchies though.

lyra_song · Dec 07, 2005, 07:48 PM // 19:48

i helped two of my friends do this quest with my warrior. so 3 people and 5 henchies make it to galrath with a couple of DPs on the hench. We decide to rush past all of the verata goons and kill Galrath directly (always been my favored style for this quest).

Funny funny thing. My friends both die and all the henchmen die except Alesia! So heres my warrior pummeling on Galrath while being surrounded by him and 4 bandits and Alesia is off in the proper distance and healing me! She wasnt tanking! ^^ I couldnt have asked for a better turnout. I killed them off and my friends quest updated while they were dead and i got more flowers for my effort ^^; I lurve those irises...

widds2v · Dec 07, 2005, 09:27 PM // 21:27

I solod it with my 17 war/mo. Took like 15min to run there from TOA. First time I tried was at 15 and i was sword, it was a stalemate. Second time @ 17 I was axe and had distrubting chop so it was easy.. 5min fight at most.

Really no hard parts to it, just sprint through the mobs.. biggest two bottlenecks is when you are about to make the bend from swamp to "normal" area and then the minotaur area. After that don't sprint until you pass the 4 bandits about to hit the plateu. Run to the opposite corner, kill off the couple bandits that guard galreth, and then own him.