It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Morkain’s Temple. Once my Engineer hit 20 I pretty much gave up on it because I think about half his experience in Tier 2 was in that one scenario. I was burnt out. I really didn’t want to go back, but last night I faced hard times.
I’m attempting to level my Warrior Priest in somewhat of a hurry. I at least want to get him to 25 by the end of next week (currently at the time of this writing I am 17) I just want to get him on par with where my Engi was and then I can resume my normal pace. In my expidiated attempt to level, I went with the mindset; “I’ve already done these quests (alot of them anyways) just click and run, don’t read the details, just do them as fast as possible.” So I did, and at level 16.8 I ran out of Empire quests. I thought to myself what the next step should be and I had a couple options. I either go quest in the Elven and Drawven lands, or run scenarios. I went with the third option and ran off to quest in the Marshes of Madness and queued up.
After being queued for about 10 minutes I got my first pop into Mourkain. This would be one run out of four for the night, and one of three that we would lose horribly, one was so bad I only got 550 exp (yeah that was worth my time). What I found aggravating about the events last night was the human wall. I don’t remember the wall being so prevelent in my past experiences and I chalk this up to two factors:
1. I haven’t ran scenarios as a melee class in quite some time. Last time I did was as a Witch Hunter and I spent most of my time running behind the scened messing with casters.
2. More tanks…lots more tanks. Since im effectively leveling my WP along par with the new tank classes, theres a different sort of balance in the game. There used to ever only be about 4 +/- 1 tanks in any scenario I ever ran in the past. Now add about 3 more. When you run up against 2 groups, half of them are tanks.
I know the collision detection is in the game for a reason. Last night showed me that it works as intended when used properly, and I LOVE IT. There was one scenario in particular in which I was attempting to close in on the rock carrier and was stopped by the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers. There were 3 Black Guards, 2 Black Orcs and a Chosen who all thought I was the biggest threat in the zone. It was like a flock of kids in the summertime and I was the ice cream man. There was even one moment when a Black Guard died, but before I had a chance to hop over his corpse to freedom, another filled in the gap and kept me stuck untill I was laying next to his fallen brother.
You might be thinking, “Slurm, you said it was aggrivating, but,…you love it?” Yes, it was by far one of THE most aggrivating experiences I have had in the game thus far. I was held down like I was rooted via a spell but in fact it was merely line of players using the collision system. It sucks when It happens to you, but when you do it to others, it’s gotta be great.
See you in game!
…a.k.a “There goes my Theory”.
Doppler 