Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Reckless Keya

Reckless Keya

The Broken Shore has three flight paths, numerous daily quests, and a rotation of randomly added elites. If Keya is lucky, she'll park under the Legion Sentinax vessel and tease the ship into sending down demon portals she can attack. If she's REALLY lucky, there will be an active invasion, but with five zones in the Broken Isles, it takes awhile for the Broken Shore zone to come around. Other than Sargeras and High Lord Kruul, there is nothing on the island that can kill her. A bold statement, but so far Keya has survived every challenge.

The reality, though, is that Keya has now outpaced all of those activities. It takes less than an hour to clear the entire Broken Shore of quests, elites, and miscellaneous trash. Keya still needs nerthershards to improve her gear, but her main focus is now on earning legionfall supplies that move the bar on earning Legionfall Exalted reputation. She is at 10,428 rep and needs 10,572, just a little over halfway there.

On the Broken Isles Keya has done several scenarios as part of completing each zone. It's hard to get excited about them because they are always rushed with no thought but to get them finished and grab the goodies. There have been as many as five and as few as two players in these scenarios. She's learned that if it gets crazy, the scenario will simply check the box and advance to the next Stage whether it was completed or not. Pretty hard to screw up, but Keya found a way. It was in the Highmountain scenario. I think we were at Skyhorn. The last stage is always to find the mounts and fly away to get our goodies. Keya managed to get herself killed. Quite amazing, when she thinks about it. An armored demon hunter with the ability to glide managed to crash into a knot of elites, wasn't paying attention because she was trying to catch up to the others in the scenario, and drowned. Did I mention that Keya can breath underwater? Though she failed to complete the scenario, an hour later she got an apology in the mailbox that included all the goodies she would normally get. Ya gotta love scenarios.

Keya will go find other things to do later in the day, such as work on the reputation grinds for The Wardens and Valarajar, the two she still needs to get them to Revered. There may be a mission or two she can run, but mostly? She waits.

The wait was shorter than expected - Legion Invasion in Val sharah! Keya got enough nethershards from the invasion to upgrade her i860 wrist to i880. Keya's overall gear score is now i881. An even better deal came later. Keya was granted a gear upgrade that raised her i940 belt to i970! That pushed her overall gear score to i883. Nice.

Much later the same night: Keya was having a hard time getting settled down for the evening. She had wrapped up a last quest. All of the Broken Shore seemed asleep. Then a low groan came from the northern side of the island. She could barely hear the sound, but she felt it, the grinding of a great weight. And then came a shudder that shook rocks and had the little fel creatures scrambling into hiding.

Keya wanted to see what thing had come onto the Broken Shore. She took the path that led to the Tomb of Sargeras, but turned away when it was clear the great raid was empty on this night. Her path bent northwest. She was looking at her map hunting possible treasures when she felt a ponderous settling that rattled rocks and sent the flying bats scattering. Keya had her back to the sound. She turned.

Standing about twenty paces from her position was the Elite Boss Malificus. Malificus is of the same mold as Kruul. She glanced around. The large circular area must have seen many battles on this spot. The scored rock and broken stones could tell many tales.

Keya was alone. She pondered her options. Attacking Malificus solo was suicide. She waited a bit. Two horde players showing off their flying mounts fluttered about but didn't settle. One alliance player set down on his mount and then never moved again.

Then there was a period of about five minutes where there were four of us. Keya, a mage, a paladin, and a warrior. The paladin did not look like a healer. No one said anything.

Keya went in. Did I mention she can be reckless? She weathered the first fury of attacks. She was in less than a minute when she was hit with a Fear. That actually helped Keya as Malificus wasn't hitting her while Keya was fleeing. Keya broke the Fear, swung around and landed some more blows. Malificus is huge and it was hard for Keya to keep her bearings. Her Ally came to her aid, slamming a Fiery Brand and pushing her health back over 50%.

Keya could vaguely see a couple of others engaged. Malificus is huge, and it was hard to see, but Keya seemed to be the only fool at melee range. Way too soon, all of Keya's tricks had run their course and Keya found herself at Corpse Land. She had no idea if anyone else died or if they all ran away laughing at the crazy demon hunter fighting a raid Boss.

As for Keya, she was more amused than anything else. She'd turned a dead evening into a fun adventure. Keya also came up with this tidbit of information: Counting Malificus, Keya's Quest list now has fifteen (15) different dungeons listed.



Hovering Sentinax


Keya and Malificus

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