Vanguard: Anybody seen my corpse?
Riftseeker’s Torrent is turning out to be a hoot. It’s unclear how large the place is as we’ve been wandering for two days. Well, some wandering, some corpse recovery. It’s getting complicated in there. I should make a map. You must find your way back to your corpse to get your stuff and experience back. WoW has spoiled us rotten with its trivial death consequence. The Vanguard way certainly adds a little spice to a dungeon run.
We killed a couple named mobs Monday. One killed us back. The experience sucks. It’s taking forever to get to level 11. I guess that’s what they mean by hard core MMO. The drops have been good though. We are loading up on better equipment. Unfortunately, we have no quests in the dungeon.
Last night we popped in for about an hour. The first ½ hour was just exploration. The second was corpse recovery. We camped inside so we could continue from there. We could easily lose our corpse too far inside to recover the same night. I don’t know how long the headstones remain. Days, I assume, but we only play twice a week. Recovery could be a pain. Do we press on hard, as we did in WoW, or wimp out and fight what we can kill.
I tried to solo in there with my Warrior. The first room wasn’t too difficult. I killed everything in the place. The second, a curved hallway, stopped me cold. There are two guys at the door, no problem, but I couldn’t take them down before the walker came back and he killed me. I tried to back through the closed door so I’d die in the other room. I couldn’t get the door open with the “U” key. I left a tombstone in the middle of the door. That’s embarrassing.
I’m making some headway in understanding crafting. I’m looking forward to working on it more though the click fest that is Vanguard crafting seems to be exactly what my carpel tunnel hates.
Oh! Mark made bags for everybody. We needed them baddly. I guess we’ll be loot whores now. I find myself wanting to loot stuff in Vanguard. Something that hasn’t happend in a long time. I’m so poor. I did sell some copper ore. It took almost five days. I had two stacks of 10 up at the lowest price. I didn’t think they were going to sell at all.