Vanguard: Look. Isn’t that a druid over there?
We ended the evening in Tursh, after training our level 16 skills (crap for me), and discussing the near future. We are moving to Lakeview (Silver Lake) with the hope of doing Cairnsworth Hall soon. I think it’s a bit high for us yet, but there are other things in the neighborhood to keep us busy.
We worked around the edges of Stonesmasher Enclave, with one foray inside. We’ve worked that dump, with its large groups, before, but we were a little pooped from the mass rootling killings earlier. Plus, the quests we had were for the Gamekeepers and bears outside. We actually ran into another player, a 15 Druid, working the area - nice buffs from the druid. It was kind of embarrassing to be three 16s working the same content as one 15 Druid. Of course, we were burning through the mobs at a much higher rate than she.
Varlan’s Tower gave us a number of quests. Including, killing rootlings, the high point of the evening. Not because they were hard, but because we had to kill so darn many of them. We needed three kinds of sap. These rootling bugs, when killed, spawned three or more little bugs (level 3) that drop the sap. One of the sap was common, one rare and one extremely-rare. We looted an extremely-rare on our very first kill inside the crater. The last one was, what seemed to be, hundreds of kills later.
There is a crater surrounded with rootling bugs that are red. Inside the crater, non-aggro, easier rootling. We used every technique we could think of, once we moved inside the crater, to kill mass bugs. Mike used AE, Mark used damage shield, but it was just messy killing groups of them, with all their little pops, so we eventually just walked around killing. Mark noticed that the little spawns were different colors depending on what sap they dropped. After that, we didn’t have to kill the little ones with sap we didn’t need.
I brought my 14 Necro to kill rootling later, solo. It took all my mana to take one of the outside ring bugs. The ones inside the crater were easy with a dot, slow, fear. Eventually one ran to the outside ring and aggroed a harder one. I feared him as well, but he came back with a friend. I died trying to gate out. When I returned, I changed tactics to: dot, slow, reduce damage, siphon health. That worked well until I forgot and feared one. He returned with one of the outside bugs. I was able to gate out safely.