LotRO: The heartbreak of defeat
We tried to to force our way through an instance in the Great Barrows, what a pain. We died again and again to overwhelming number of mobs. I think we had eight at one point. When you die, you rez back at the entrance, inside. The experience was terrible. We were in there for an hour and I gained only one bubble. When we ran into a group where we couldn’t kill even one before dieing it became clear we weren’t going to make it through. The biggest problem was aggro management. With so many mobs on us, Mark was required to heal fairly quickly, which gained him the attention of all mobs except for the one I was fighting. I used everything I have for gaining aggro, Mark used everything he had to lose aggro, nothing worked. I don’t know how big the place is or how close to the end we were, but we did the best we could.
With our tails between our legs, and a very expensive repair bill, we headed back to Lone Lands. We wandered a while killing what we found. We went as far as The Last Bridge finishing two quests along the way. We’ve got the Harloeg area to explore next.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I know exactly how you feel there, luckily the last time I adventured there was with my minstrel, who was randomly invited into a kinship run which was lead by a level 45 captain…so there wasn’t any problems…but I do recall my early trips down the hole of despair…nice blog, I am going to add you to my links, take care
August 28th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Is it Ancient Story of Evil ? I have done that one now 4 times and only once succeeded getting near the first part with a good PUG but then everybody suddenly decided to go except 2 of us. Now I am careful. I now know you need at least 2 healers and pretty high levels around - at least 25. And they MUST all stick around. Pretty fun but expensive otherwise. One group got angry that I left but I was the highest level and quickly saw we will get nowhere.