Mines and Trial probably your best bet .... rest can be avoided by miles tbh

I got the fashion madness chain and never played it past the first week it came out.  easy to avoid.. until Reaper and Blood TRs.
we still avoid the Delirium quest, but the other two we run at 18.

Thanks for the input.  My big thing here is trying to avoid another Slavers pack.  Don't get me wrong, it was a good recommendation and worth the price for the gear, but fuck me those are some long, boring quests.

They remind me of the quests you made when you were 12.  Long corridor full of traps leading to a room with a mob, repeat over and over again. 

I didn't even give up on the restless isles as quickly as I did slavers.  Even jumping in to help a guildie pull something from the end chest takes like 10 damn minutes just to run through to the end.  I appreciate they were trying to make something big and epic, but I personally think they failed miserably.  Long, boring and worthless for TRing.  Fuck that pack.

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2017 at 6:40pm:


I said the gear is well worth the initial price and grind to get.  So if you want to get into semantics, I should have said "after that" the pack is worthless for TRing  

Happy? 

Skoodge wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2017 at 5:45pm:

The sad thing is, Slavers was actually much LONGER than these quests we got.

If you recall, there's a section where you talk to a golem (or whatever it's called) by the Slave Pens and a door that LOOKS like it should go somewhere, but is locked and has no switch to open?

In the PnP, there is an entire other dungeon behind that door. There are similar places in the other 2 quests. (Think "Drow Optional" in Search and Rescue, where the optional is longer than the actual quest proper).

The town of Suderham should have been it's own public area, as well as the town where Dame Gold is stationed.

So if they we shooting for Epic, they missed by a wide mark.

(I will spare you my rant about ToEE here) 

To the OP:

Dragonblood Prophecy- Some nice stuff. Not as terrible as it could have been.
The Mines of Tethyamar- A clear winner for updates in the last year or more.
The Temple of Elemental Evil - for the OP heroic craftable weapons.
Trials of the Archons- More decent stuff. Scales well into Epics, from what I've heard.

Devil's Gambit and Heart of Madness... I run them if I need the XP or favour. Which is almost never. The gear is "meh" as well.

The recent Mines of Tethyamar has given me some small flicker of hope that better things may be coming down the pike post-Turbine... But I remain wary of false hope.

Revaulting wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:22pm:


I don't mind the mirrors,  I just wish the solutions were more challenging or had several variations.  Otherwise, it quickly becomes just a rote time sink.

Asheras wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:25pm:


Becomes?  When they are set up so that 90% of the mirrors need to be rotated just 1 step from a complete 360, it was a rote time sink the first run.

Revaulting wrote on Jul 24^th, 2017 at 1:22pm:


The mirrors are about as much fun and about as challenging as "you must push this button 10 times to progress," repeated 10 times.

Or when the laser just won't bounce so you get to spin the light around the board trying to grief your buds