Vanguard: Ants = bad
These ants are starting to piss me off. We’ve gone through three levels trying to get into the Hive of Zihurr. We’ve not progressed much further than the first attempt. The ants are level 18 four-dot at the entrance. We can take two of them easy enough, three if we work at it, but the fights take forever, and we are hard pressed to stay ahead of the re-spawn. Eventually we get over run and must evac (twice) or run for our lives (once). Mark’s Cleric died on one evac, and my Warrior went down while running away, that’s embarrassing.
My Warrior was able to hold aggro better since the level 18 spell upgrades, thank goodness. We were killing a little faster, and able to get in a little further. We ran into a level 20 four-dot human walking around and took him, plus his little friend. He dropped nice shoulders for Mikes Psionicist. Mike got a belt upgrade somewhere along the way as well. We were at our deepest, in the hive, when we got overwhelmed by mobs, and evaced to safety for the second time. That’s enough of that. We headed off to do a few quests.
There is a farm across the road from Renton Keep. Behind the farm, a vineyard with level 20 ants. These are big ants by the way. We had a quest to pick grapes, or some such, requiring us to kill the aggressive ants as well. It quickly turned into work, I hate yard work, though the three-dot level 20 ants were punks compared to the ones in the hive. We spent twenty minutes picking weeds and killing ants. There’s a game consept for ya. I’d buy that game.