Immediately upon logging, I see a tell from a guy asking if i need a group. Really the fastest I've EVER gotten a group in the game. I get the invite from Schniza, whom I've grouped with before. He has a 50 Minstrel friend, Deliocia or something. From the start, we have a 50 minstrel, 50 cleric, and quickly pick up a 50 theurgist. So I'm thinking , damn this is a good group.
We head to m1 to kill some hibs that have been spotted. My group runs through the mile gate, and engages the single group of hibs. Of course, just as I exit the gate (I'm still moving mind you) a lurikeen perfs me. My pet bashes him and i sprint. Of course, i'm dotted, and he's swinging away. I think i make it about 10 steps or so, even manage to get off a quick-cast lifetap..which he resists completely. My group is at full health, and wins the battle, but little ol me is the only casualty.
We eventually pick up another cleric, a paladin, a necro, and maybe one more. We kill a few mids, including echoic and her crew. Well, we tried to kill them. I don't know how many rezzers echoic has, but I know for every few thousdan points of dmg my dots ticked, she was always back, even after I saw her death spam.
Then 3 FG of mids decided to break up our small party, so we ran for the PK. Everyone died but me, I still don't know how I made it. We regrouped and encountered the mids again near the graveyard. This fight was so funny. I start the fight off, pick out their healer, sick Ruby (casting) pet on him. Pet gets dmg and goes into melee with their healer. I double dot the healer and a few of his friends, but he lives. A norse wielding a 2h weapon comes for me. I run like hell, sprint speed. This time the clerics heal me like crazy. I am running for a good 2 minutes straight in circles around the fight, occasionally getting enough time to drop an aoe dot. The norse is still trudging along behind me (rooted him once, he's got immunity now) As I'M running like crazy, i see my ruby chasing that SAME healer around. Healer tries to stop and heal, pet bashes him, he runs like crazy in circles. I finally ran to the PK and the norse backed off. I turned and saw him beating on a caster friend, so i lifetapped him ( i was down to about 1/10 life) until i was full and he was dead. We start cleaning up the mids, and that healer is STILL being chased by my pet from the very first seconds of the fight. Healer eventually just runs towards m1. We don't follow for some reason. I see a kobold run by me, and so i turn to cast. He sees me, and turns to bolt my sorry ass. Too bad my dot goes off, i nearsight, dot again, and then he dances with me. I try to dance back, but he's dead by the time i finish typing /dance.
Now this is when it gets weird. We get a spots because our paladin decides to leave. I say "I can get us a scout" (Lifesbane) and one guy says "No, we need someone good." and i say "he's a friend." And they go on about how we need more damage dealers. I was ready to split at that point. Then one of our cleric says "I am going to go play my paladin instead."
Then we get a lot of Albs out there, and start roaming. Our remaining cleric says "I don't want to follow the zerg." The merc and minstrel drop because the cleric kept bitching. Then the cleric drops. So I'm left with a party full of minstrels and casters. We move to K1 and take it...I'm primary healer!
about 4k or so RP gained, and some very strange impressions. Our group performed very well that night, and yet, no one seemed happy at all.
EDIT: Just had to add, when we were facing this huge zerg of hibs, and this Lurikeen pops out of nowhere in the grand battle, perfs me, i die in 2 rounds (perf, hit, hit hit), with baseline HP buffs. My group clerics kinda ignore the fact that im dead (again.) But Riannan who isn't even in my group drops a 100% rez on me. Its clerics like her who make me happy to play still.
(Edited by Malison at 4:23 pm on Mar. 21, 2003)