yet another recycled post, this one from the PH boards about the lesser olthoi armor quest:
or... why you should only do quests with your family.
yesterday i got my first, rather painful lesson in coordinating quests with people outside of PH.
i was hanging around rithwic in my chinsy blue amuli armor when this newb swordie chick samed scrapy-doo asks me about getting the "red and white armor you have to be 20th level to get"
the prospect of getting new armor (anything above the al130 crap that hwa is wearing) was quite appealing, so i looked up the various armor quests on maggie's and i figured she was probably talking about the lesser olthoi armor. me being the sucker that i am with a soft spot in my head for swordie chicks, i say sure we can do that.
so hwa rang is 30th, and the quest is 20+ so i figured it might be tough, what with it being olthoi, but doable all the same.
just to be safe, i went to the market place and got some lvl7 buffs and we decided to go for it.
level 20+ my maybe 10 level 20's could do this quest. we did fine against the nymphs and the workers, but the matron straight kicked my ass. .. course i did something dumb, and dropped my shield to throw an imp or something on her, and i got drop kicked all the way back to the rithwic lifestone.
so we rearm, and this time i get my armor baned. so we go for it again, and again it's the same story, chew thru nymphs and get waffled by the matron
so i'm down one corpse, scrappy's down two. so i look in IRC and see stormy is on and ask him to give us a hand. here's where things take a turn for the worse.
stormy is good enough to meet us in arwic to begin the quest. i hook up with him a few minutes later and we wait for scrapy... and wait... and wait. all the while this dude is bugging me about needing my blue sollerets. over and over again, it's "i ned blu shos"
finally i tell him, "fine i'll give them to you when i get my olthoi armor."
scrapy can't get to arwic (which i lern after asking like 5 times), so i meet her at the market place and summon arwic for her. we are running *FROM THE DAMN MEETING HALL DROP* and she gets lost.
so finally, after keeping stormy waiting for like 30 mins (thanks again for your patience ) we all set off, me stormy, scrapy, and the blue shoes guy.
so we make for the first and oly portal in the journey, and me and stormy and blushoesguy are waiting for scrapy AGAIN. after a couple of minutes, i get a tell saying that she went into the wrong damn portal so i'm like "forget scrapy... let's roll."
somewhere on the run to the brood hive blueshoesguy disappears, and i get a tell from scrapy... i apologize for ditching her and tell her i'll give her her stuff back if she permits me. i have to buff at the entrance cuz the 7's i had ran out waiting fro scrapy, and we work our way down to the matron... this being my 3rd trip down.
when we get to the matron, stormy *destroys* her. i get my 3 pieces and we head down to the next one, just as my buffs are up. stormy lays waste to the matron and most of the brood, but she drops a piece i already had. while i'm buffing, the matron spawns and before i can pause nerfus and get my shield up, i'm dead again.
so i /permit stormy so he can recover my stuff and, having wasted enough of his time, we call it a day. i give scrapy her stuff and tell her we can give it another shot later on, perhaps when pandy can give us a hand.
*you'd think i'd have learned my lesson, but *no*
so a couple of hours later i sweet talk pandy into taking us. again, i have to personally escort scrapy to arwic. pandy is kind enough to buff us and escort us down. scrapy makes it this time without getting lost, and we are soon on out way down again. pandy is very particular about us not getting too deep into anything, and while we have loads of bugs to kill, she takes on most of the particularly nasty ones, and in the end we get scrapy her first 3 pieces, and head on to the two queens.
on the way to the queens, scrapy is asking how long it's gonna take and then has to go but pandy helped me thru to the end (who am i kidding, she killed everything and i healed/revitalized/infused her occasionally)
on the plus side, the armor is a big help for hwa, who's current hunting ground is the halls of methos (good draining for an OG, bad place to be with crappy armor)
the moral of the story? people who aren't PH just suck.
in the future (distant future now that i know what a pain it is) i'd like to do the run with my sword/axe guy. does anyone have some guys they'd like to get armor for? perhaps we can ge the big group necessary and do it the right way, rather than the wrong way like i did :-)