Last night I recruited PhiLogical to help me blaze through some quests since I only had an hour to play. He’s got Phrixus up to level 67 now, and my being a 61 is still a bit low for Zangarmarsh, but that makes things fun.
So, after getting 30 Naga claws and turning it in, I got the quest to plant the seeds at the pump stations and the Elite quests to kill the mini-boss Naga. We rode along the South end of Umbrafen Lake and I ran through about 7 mobs and stopped right at the pump controls where there were another 7 or so Naga and slaves.
I start taking a beating and healing Phrixus’ minion, but it’s an all-out battle. The next thing I see in chat is, “run” and my heals to Phrixus came up “Out of Range.” That plea/command was followed by “L2run lol,” which is my normal joke to him for stopping to fight when we get dismounted by a daze. I keep healing myself and his minion next to me, and the mobs start dropping one by one.
Phrixus is still in bad shape and says, “u just aggroed like 10 mobs, i’m not that good yet,” to which I confidently (okay, arrogantly) quipped back, “i am.” That was at 11:01. At 11:04, he bowed to me in the midst of a hug pile of bodies and said, “ok, you kick butt / i was getting owned by them.”
Here is how to survive an all-out battle:
- Devotion Aura for durability
- Keep the caster back
- Don’t aggro casters
- Blessing of Sanctuary on tank(s)
- Heal with Flash of Light
- Use potions early for cooldown
- DO NOT LOSE YOUR COOL! (it’s only a game, lol)
That is why I play a tankadin. Why do you play your class?
I play a priest as well. It used to be shadow for leveling up, but now I’m level 70, 23/38 holy specced, and loving it. I’m a very casual player and so I don’t have the best gear (not bad, but not great — 1200 healing, 150 mp5 or so). There is nothing more exhilarating to me than watching as my tank (or some carless DPS) accidentally aggro’s too many mobs, and starts freaking out because “we’re going to die!”
That’s what really kicks me into high gear. Prayers and healings and shields flying all over the place. My mana may drop like a rock in these situations, but with Pot, Shadow Fiend, and another Pot, I can usually outlast most brutal fights. So long as the tank manages to keep aggro off me.
At the end of a fight like that when my mana is gone and everyone in the party has around 40-60% health, but is still standing, it’s a rush just to think “Wow, what would they have done without me here?”
Good times.