I started off tonight in Old Tarantia (massive Aquilonian city) and made my way to the sewers to take care of some bad people and rescue a princess. Lemme just say, in Aquilonia, there really are alligators in the sewers o_o

So after rescuing the "princess" from the hands of the surely evil, Xanarus Darkhand, I brought her to Fabio and he thanked me profusely for bringing him back his beloved dog. Jerk. Oh, then he decided to tell me the cursed scroll I gave him is too evil for him to hold on to, and he had no idea that a parchment made of flesh inked in blood could possibly bring him bad luck! What the hell am I supposed to do with this now? I sure don't want it... Zelata will know what to do.

"You must take it back from whence it came!" Oh... where was that? The Sanctum of DOOOOOOM? Right, I'll just go ahead and not do that right now; you wanna hang on to this scroll in the meantime? No? Damnit.

The Sanctum is some big, evil instance for lv 39-42 that seems to require a full group to get through and lemme just say that I now have 5 group quests in my log that require me to go into this place and the number of solo quests in the area is dwindling.


So dogs, sewers and evil scroll aside, I spent most of the night in the Wild Lands once again, completing quests for random townies. On two ocassions I had to group with random strangers and both times resulted in a great experience. I think the farther I get from low level areas the more civilized people are getting. I had this one quest to go into an enemy camp and place plague-ridden blankets in all the tents, and upon going there and finding a ton of level 38s, I ran away. Walking just a few meters away I heard the sounds of combat nearby; I approached the noise to find a lv 30 priest and a herald hacking away at lower level mobs and working their way up the mountain towards the big camp I had to take down, so I asked them if they wanted to help. They graciously agreed (probably happy I didn't just behead both of them) and off we went!

Afterwards they left but I was close to levelling so I hung around for a while picking off the 38s one at a time until I saw a lv40 ranger run in and start doing the same. We teamed up and kicked some ass, it was nice to be able to stand next to a ranger 5 levels above me and pwn just as much face as him after hearing all the complaints that rangers are OP (which I've always agreed with to a point, after 20 their overpoweredness takes a nosedive as everyone else starts getting more uber). Don't get me wrong, I still hate rangers in PvP because they can permastun and drop traps and generally be a nuisance, but they are by no means the 2-shot wonder you see in Tortage.

After hitting 36 and turning in all my quests, I checked out my Feat tree again, noticing that I now have a brand new stun as well as a new knockdown. And now that I can actually stand up for myself in PvP I have no problems with it ^_^

I spent the next 30-or-so minutes just exploring the Wild Lands, marking out resource points on my map and generally taking in the lay of the land. Along the way I met someone who I had a nice chat with about the absurdity of this one quest's respawn timer. We parted ways and nobody got ganked.


Once I got back to town, on the other hand, I encountered more griefers like I did last night and being the upstanding citizen I am, I saved some lowbies and then made use of the new dance ability. I'm like some sort of superhero.