On Sunday morning Philly managed to remember to set the clock forward and was in game on time. Arq, who lives in AZ and doesn't have to change to Daylight Savings, was already in game. The other two showed up an hour later, victims of the time change. We would still need a fifth player for our Scarlet Monastery Library run.
Philly was ready with the Test of Lore quest to go after the book I'd missed out on last time in order to get the new wand reward. Arq had time to get to the same point as Philly on the quest chain and would also be after the book. Kon was also on that quest chain but did not get far enough along. As far as a fifth player went, the player that had helped the GF out in RFK the last time was on, but there was also a level 32 mage looking for an SM Library group. We invited the mage to help with crowd control.
With five of us, the SM LIbrary was a lot easier this time. The mobs still hit hard, but with the mage to sleep and the lock to seduce we were able to control the mob packs and bring them down one by one. The first boss, the hunter Loksey and his triplet of hounds, gave us a good fight. The warrior tanked Loksey and the pally held the three hounds. It was a bit challenging to heal them both, as they took some serious damage, but we got them down. The training gloves dropped - leather, which no one could use. The mage was an enchanter so he DEed the blue gloves and also won the roll for the shard.
We worked our way through the trash to the small room off the Library and both Philly and Arq got our quest book. That was a lot easier than last week. Several mob groups later we were facing Arcanist Doan, the second and final boss in the SM Library wiing. He can be a bit tricky because he can Silence healers, and in fact stopped Philly's healing several times during the course of the fight. But I made sure that both the tank and the pally had renews ticking at all times, and between the two of them and the mage/warlock spell damage barrage he went down. Doan has four blues he can drop, and usually drops two of them. Philly was hoping for the robe and the Illusionary rod, but we got the dagger and shoulders instead. Philly could have used the dagger for soloing, but Kon needed it and I passed to him. We sharded the shoulders.
Even starting an hour late, we finished the Library so fast we decided to give the SM Armory a try. The mage was up for it and we all had the time, so we hearthed out to repair and then reassembled at the Summoning Stone.
The Armory is a locked instance requiring a key from the Library, which we all got from a box behind Arcanist Doan. Sometimes players forget to collect that key after killing Doan, and have to do the wing all over again. The Armory instance portal is just inside the locked door. Once inside, there are guards just out of aggro range. We buffed up and got ready, then took out the guards. From there is another courtyard like the one in the Library. The mobs are generally a level higher in here than in the Library, but there didn't seem to be as many of them, at least in the courtyard. We cleared it and moved deeper in. Next was a series of corridors and stairs. We did fine until we over-pulled an area out of view at the top of a set of stairs. Philly had another oops as we wiped and I was without a soulstone. Again. Sigh.
We didn't give the mobs a chance to respawn this time as we rezzed and got back inside quickly. Philly got a new soulstone. The second pull went well, bringing three mobs, two of which were cc'ed. We killed two and Philly had switched to wand to finish off the third when more mobs descended on us. "WTF? " came over chat from someone. We responded to the new attack by getting one of them sheeped and getting Arq and Huld on the other two, and then more mobs joined the fight. "What's with your succubus, kon?" The pally asked. The succubus seemingly decided on its own to head deeper into the corridor at the top of the stairs, and was bringing all kinds of new neighbors down to meet us.
It was a heck of a fight, I'll give us that. Not sure how many we killed, but you couldn't see the top of the stairs for all the bodies we had laid out up there. We lost the mage, and then the warrior, and the pally had too many on his hands to keep them all away from Philly. I topped off the pally and then concentrated on trying to stay alive while backing Philly down the stairs and to a quiet corner, where Philly eventually died. It was another wipe. But I had a soulstone this time. Philly rezzed safely, and I began rezzing the rest of the group. Everyone was up but the warrior, who needed a brief AFK. Then Kon died. WTF?
Arq and I went after him, wondering where he had wandered off to. I know I had rezzed him, but he was already on his way back into the instance and decided to just run back. He ran into respawns in the courtyard. We tried to get to him, but more mobs were starting to materialize between him and us. We backed off, while the mage, wondering where we all were, came running in from the other direction - and aggroed mobs on the other side of us. Cornered, we fought to the last. But every time we'd kill one a new one seemed to spawn. When Philly went down I was about out of mana anyway. Still, I couldn't help but add to chat, "Dam squishy priests." Kon actually got back into the fight, and prolonged the fight a bit, but when he went down Arq still had three on him, and they finally overwhelmed him. Huld came back from his afk, and seeing everyone "still" dead, was like, what have ya'll been doing?
We called it a morning.
It was still a successful venture, clearing the SM LIbrary and getting some practice in the Armory. Philly finished off the last three steps in the Test of Lore quest chain and collected his nice new fire wand from the npc in far Thousand Needles. Oh yes, and Huld ended up with the helm Philly had been carrying around for a week. And Philly made level 35.
Philly won't be on next tuesday as I'll be working off site for three days, tuesday through thursday.
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