Well this has been a very reward couple of days! First let me catch you all up on my latest adventures in Greater Faydark. I spent the better half of the entire day yesterday soloing near Crushbone and working on the Dwarven Ringmail tunic quest. Let me tell you it’s surprisingly easy and very straight forward if you cheat and use a guide from EQ2i.com *innocently looks around*. I was very sneaky-like and made my way around the Crushbone Clan area assassinating the expedition leaders (that are heroics!) all by myself and then running off the rest of the encounters. I was surprised how much damage I could actually do to greens and the rate at which my experience bar would move. In addition to my ability to stealth around and avoid any unwanted aggro I was able to track these named mobs with ease. Can it get much better? And to add even more delight to my day I was able to sneak around the last part of the quest inside the Crushbone Keep and click the chests without even being seen. How cool is that? I love Brigands!
Now in more recent adventures I have found myself in Fallen Gate! I received my first ever group invite for a full group inside a dungeon since returning to the game! I was really nervous because 1) I hadn’t been to Fallen Gate in years and 2) It was the first time I was grouping and I didn’t know what would be expected of me. I was also worried that my gear would be ridiculously underpar compared to these players who might have been gearing up with twinking cash. But once again surprise surprise I wasn’t all that under-geared and I did really well in the group. We started off quick right out the gate and were slaughtering Thexian’s. These mobs were blue and even con to me so I was cranking the DPS. Our tank, Adecai from Mistwalkers, was amazing. He really knows his class and his gear was great. What shocked me more than the group invite was the experience gain! Every kill the adventure exp bar would jump and after a big fight I had half a yellow bar. We found several named mobs throughout our hunt down there and I walked away with a Legendary Rapier upgrade and a Master 1 book to sell. In all it was the best time I’ve had in EQ2 so far.
This morning I returned to Fallen Gate with a pickup group and finished the rest of another level there. I’m disappointed in the pickup group I had though because for the first time in a very long time I had to listen to these people bicker and complain and argue. Eventually the group moved forward and I walked away with a nice boost into my next level. Hopefully my pickup groups in the future will be more civilized!
Well that’s it for now. I’m level 23 with a nice rapier and currently trying to decide where to put these blasted AA’s. I have 16 of them now, with one spent in pickpocket(fun little skill that’s earning me some money.), and I can’t figure out if I want to go Str/Agil or Str/Wis. Both are good for grouping and soloing with agility coming out just slightly ahead of Wisdom until I can get really nice gear. Any Brigands out there have some advice? Should I just go for Wisdom now or should I take Agility and respec later when I get the gear?
More to come as Delbert levels!
A tip on Pick Pocket – make a macro out of both of your backstab and include pick pocket, like:
/useability Pick Pocket
/useability XXX
That way your PP will go off automatically whenever you backstab!
Woah that idea is awesome! 😀 Thanks Anakh!