Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Mahakeya Reaches Level 110 - Now What?

Mahakeya Reaches Level 110 - Now What?

On Monday afternoon Keya reached the pinnacle of Legion leveling - she is now Level 110, with a gear score of i781. At the moment she's in the training academy learning about Class Halls.





One of the first things Keya learned at the academy is the new PvP system, which uses Honor Talents. PvPers earn honor through rated and unrated battlegrounds, world PvP quests, arena matches and skirmishes, and unrated PvP. There are five PvP Talent builds and levels that grant honor. There are six talent tiers, each offering three choices similar to the non-pvp tiers.

There is only one choice at the first level. Keya picked up the Gladiator's Medallion, which when used removes movement impairing effects. Kaya isn't interested in battleground or arena matches since they became over organized and lost the wild nature of unbridled combat. However, world pvp quests sound interesting and she might try her hand at those.

Keya continued her training at the academy and earned her degree. She was then passed along to the man Farondis who seems to be much the coward. There is a rather long segment of running around with lots of explosions where it didn't really matter what Keya did. Eventually Keya took out Athissa, completing the forced march through the questline.

[Aside - I don't like quests where the character is literally dragged around through a preset series of events. As a player I want to interact and contribute to these "events," not just be dragged around. That is stupid and should be eliminated. Why even bother if  I'm in the scene but only a bystander? Note that I'm not talking about cut scenes, which provide information]

Finally, Keya found herself at a portal. No Farondis, so maybe she was back in control. This must be the next leg of the journey, so in she went. Two very large hate-coiled creatures stood in her way. Keya attacked. They gave a very spirited fight. Keya needed to use a couple of save me moves. The fight went on. Those two mobs were persistent, she gave them that. Keya had to move to draw health from her fragments. It slowed the damage, but that wasn't enough. The grey light of fading health pushed Keya into a more desperate mode. It didn't help. After a very long fight, Keya died.

What in hell was that?! Stubborn, she tried a second time. She couldn't separate the two mobs, and both came at her again. And again she died. Okay, just what is she facing? The two mobs were both level 110 elites. Okay, but Keya has taken that challenge before and survived. What's different? She took a very hard look at the portal. It has a name, "Eye of Azshara." Keya had walked into a dungeon, where the elites are even more fierce. Solo. Well, that explained it. Keya finally found a situation she couldn't handle. Took long enough.

Keya thought she'd got rid of the Farondis character, who keeps screwing up and putting Keya in harms way. She finally killed Athissis (or however that's spelled). That seems to be the end of him. I hope.

After extricating herself from the dungeon she quickly found herself in even worse trouble. She had returned to Dalaran for some rest, but a quest bubble was dangling a chance to enter Suramar. She took the portal and landed in all kinds of nastiness. She was collecting gems of some kind while constantly fighting off groups of mobs. Keya is good at this, and killed the creatures in droves. She was able to collect 5 of the 6 she needed, but then something glitched. She could not loot the sixth gem. She killed enough mobs to level to 111 if there were such a level. After forever, she finally let herself die and will try again after settling things she needed to do in Dalaran. PS - The quest cleaned itself up while Keya was away and when she came back to the area (which included finding the area again, the nitch in the rock of an opening, and the cave where the last part of the quest in done) Keya was able to reopen the battle with what's her name (one of the many gods I don't bother to learn the names of). That was a long fight as well, with flying demons and witches, ropes that have to be cut, and blood spilled against the offending god. But she got it done.

Still, she seems to have lost her invitation to Suramar. The original welcoming committee is not longer helping, and, more important, there's no portal like she had the first time around. She'll find her way into Suramar one way or the other. She is after the quest, Uniting the Isles. Keya has at least friendly reputation in every region in the Broken Isles - except for Suramar. That's her mission.

Suramar City! Yes, Keya found her way in and managed to secure two flight paths to help her along the way. She's learned a few things, too. Her first "visit" was a ride past the entrance, which she quickly learned was protected by hostiles. There was a quest available on the far side of the city so Keya took off to get to it by circling around. About two-thirds of the way she ran into a spot she couldn't go around. The city and all its wonders, including a very nice looking thoroughfare, was just outside the transparent, shimmering walls. What if . . .

She stepped through the wall and stood on the path. Keya was cautious. Surely, there were barriers she couldn't pass. She saw someone walking toward her bathed in yellow. A non-combatant. Nice. Maybe this city is like others, hostile on the outside, but friendly once you know the trick. A obviously hostile looking fellow on horseback also came down the path. This should be interesting. The hostile attacked. Keya killed the beast and his master. With her blood lust up, and more hostiles starting her way, Keya leaped onto her mount and took a small army very angry guards on a merry jaunt through the city trying to find a way out. The gods were watching (and laughing) when she veered off the cobblestones at a break in the city walls. When  she stopped for breath (and to search for a hiding place) she discovered she was standing outside the entrance to the very place that she had gone looking for.

After that, Keya went to a party. More on that later.

No comments:

Post a Comment