Thursday, July 21, 2005

First rule of suicide missions...

... if you're going to wipe the party so you can grab an item (like, I don't know, the documents for the Warchief quest), make sure you have room in your inventory. Time is of the essance when 4 folks are aggro'ing 20+ mobs away from you.

I've been working on the first step of the Onxyia's key quest chain for a couple days now (a week). The quest is called Warchief's Command and it begins an interesting plot line. I suppose you wouldn't expect less for quests that eventually lead you to Onyxia the Big Ass Dragon. Anyway, I've ran lower Black Rock Spire everyday since Sunday trying to collect some documents and kill the appropriate bosses. In many of those runs, Cynapse has been on the team. A brillant priest, I enjoy playing with him.

Tonight, Cynapse was in my party and I finally got all the bosses and the documents. Yeah! That was hour two... Phew. Just in time to help Maraco in Mauradon.

"Hey guys, all I need is the documents," Cynapse says interupting my whisper to Mar, "can you help me get 'em."

We learned earlier that the documents respawn at a random Boss's lair. By the way, you may read that they only spawn once per instance. Anyway...

"Sure. Let's see where they've respawned at..." And we began to run back from Boss Wyrm's den to Boss Omokk. It turns out that there's in one of the cracks in the wall there's a hole where you can drop down into Omokk's lair. This crack in the wall is very close to Wyrm's which is is the furthest boss from the zone in portal. Finding shortcuts in LBRS is a happy thing.

"Hey," chimes in our spunky, yet competent pick-up tank, Ulysses, "I'm getting tired. Can we do a suicide run?"

"Sure."

"Yeah, kamikaze.... Sounds like fun."

"Ok, I'll take the VW and aggro the first bunch... Uly, you take the second bunch."

"Cool."

"Ok. Go!"

We rush in like the bad ending of a bad Western. Guns ablaze. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and I guess their sidekick). The VW lasts about 5 seconds. I use sacrifice last 5 seconds more. Cynapse gets to the documents as Uly goes down. He should have plenty of time. I count... "one one hundred, two one hundred, three one hundred, four one..." He's down.

Silence.

More Silence.

"Cyn? Did you get it?"

Silence.

"Cyn?"

"Inventory Full!" he says. "I can't fucking believe this." And he logs.

"No, way." I think to myself. "This is stupid," Uly writes, "we have to get him those documents."

3 hours later (all the mobs respawned and the documents relocated(?!)) Cyn got his documents.
Postscript: the WC quest turn-in leveled Cyn up to 60. Yeah! He also got all the components for the UBRS key and he got a drop he wanted. For him, a good day...

2 comments:

Joe said...

heh, i guess times like these you reevaluate the need to buy 2 more slots for 25g.

SWong said...

HAHA

Incidentally, I just helped him finish his Onyxia key. The guy moves fast...