This open beta stuff is pissing me off so much I need to think about something else.

So! I am going to offer some training/flagging/loot runs in LFMs to new players that used the stone of xp. I figure they're undergeared and not flagged and will be out of their depths unless they run through some of the content they missed, and it will be tough to find groups when they're so overlevel. Sure, they could make their own or solo, but we're talking about new players here. And while I'm most definitely not the most knowledgeable player, I've run through enough of the content that I can probably act as a freebie tour guide. You get what you pay for.

Anyway, I was thinking about the following:

VoN (basically for flagging purposes)
Restless Isles (same reason)
Threnal (ugh Coyle, but they should have a mantle if they want to TR ever)
Sands (flagging and some gear)
Lordsmarch/Attack on Stormreach (gear, can probably skip some I think)
GH (flagging)

Anything else they can manage to hit at lvl 16 I think. My question is, are there any single quests you think are super important for gear or other reasons that I'm missing? Are there ones you would take off the above list for whatever reason?

stainer wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 4:35pm:

All that stuff is a bit little for 16's.

Lordsmarch if they need toys, then vale/IQ/challenges.

Bonus points for orchard and amrath.

Goaticorn wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 4:41pm:


Delusions of mediocrity make me one of the better
PUG leaders in derp-land. (aka Sarlona)

Tobril wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 4:42pm:


But the point is kinda that they can grab groups for those things on their own. Right now, some of them jumped from 8 to 16 with no gear and no knowledge at all. They aren't ready for the at-level stuff.

I'll take you up on this when I catch up with Gawna and she stones me.

Gawna made her character on Sarlona and promptly forgor we existed.




Oh anyone with crafting levels on Khyber wanna mail some +4/5 stat shards, a silver flame shard and maybe a wizardry 3 shard to Schadenfrued? I'll return the favor if anyone comes to Sarlona 

rest wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 5:33pm:


Let me look, I might be able to do it for you.

ETA: Meh, I can only get you a silver flame shard, but if you want it I'll toss it in the mail.

Grace wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 5:33pm:



If you tell some to be the dom, it doesn't really mean you're a sub.


I am guessing it is part of your evil plan to lure unsuspecting noobs with your sub routine until you get them all together and then spring your dominance on them. Then you will feast on their tears of anguish.

Quote:


I have a sub routine? News to me.

If they are truly new, please do them and everyone on the server a favor and make sure they all know the relative importance of Heavy Fort and extra HP's.   
If they have the Necro IV pack, then showing them how to do tapestry runs for a Minos might be a good call.

Grace wrote on Jun 8^th, 2012 at 7:20pm:

There's a really awesome post that Flint made on the Loreseekers forums about the gear that everyone should be expected to have regardless of class (i.e. cure pots, curse pots, lesser resto pots, heavy fort at x level, mod fort for WF at level y, etc.).  I think that would probably be more helpful than just running them through some quests.  If they don't understand what's going to be expected of them when they get into other groups where they're not getting their hand held, it's going to be a giant waste of time.