I messed up big time, and I have run out of time to fix the problem.
I skipped too much content and quests, and now I cannot reach the 5000 Favor to get the skeleton mount in Hardcore Season 2.
It is a disappointment, but at least I got the sash and the hat.
Currently, I am running my alt account through much of the content I don’t normally have access to during the special VIP for all event.
Update: When I wrote this, my employer had said there was a lockdown. There is not currently.
I just received an official-looking document to carry stating that I am an essential person doing something important. Basically, I am allowed to go to work. I am allowed to leave my house.
I live in North Carolina currently, and the governor has issued a lockdown due to Corona-chan (Covid-19).
I was hoping to get paid to stay home so that I could grind a bit more on the Hardcore server. Yesterday I only managed to get 40 favor. I ran Tempest Spine and the two Dragonborn quests.
Ananzi is up to level 15, and I expect to farm Sharn on normal to get my Esoteric set items. That should give me an edge when I work on the 11’s and 12’s.
Brioche is still level 9, I am focusing on the Favor reward before trying to hit 10 reaper points, just in case I die again.
I am running two reaper toons right now. A Sorcerer and a Cleric/Rogue/Wiz. Just in case a death occurs, I won’t have to start over from the beginning.
My cleric is up to 7 banking 8 with 3 reaper points [11k], the sorcerer has 2 reaper points and is going a little slower. I was running with the top player on the server earlier. Ion is an Aasimar Sorcerer who has TR’d twice and has close to 200k Reaper exp. I had seen Ionie die back in February, so I was surprised to see ’em this far ahead.
My favor guy, Ananzi, is level 10, sitting at 1k favor, and I am debating whether or not to try the level 6s out in The Twelve. I have seen a large number of death notices for those quests, especially the prison break one.
As to my trip to England, I remain hopeful that COVID-19 will go away by June. I am waiting to see if Delta or Norwegian Air decides to cancel my flights.
I was doing a quick quest before the server went down for a restart this morning.
I got myself killed in Storming the Beaches over in house D.
A balista shot me for 652 damage after 40 was blocked by energy resistance. I failed my save and took a critical hit to the face.
Instant death.
That was on my reaper toon, Gozoh, who was level 22 and had 4 reaper points. I had 16 Tokens of the Twelve and just needed a few more to reincarnate.
This is the Hardcore server, so permadeath applies. I’ve got to start all over again on Korthos Island.
I have moved into Epics on the hardcore server. I am just bumping around Borderlands right now.
I stayed in the Heroics yesterday while I farmed Dreaming Dark for one of those Vibrant Purple Ioun stones. It took 18 runs to finally get it to show up. I almost completed my Quori monster manual deed in the process. I now have an Unsuppressed Vibrant and a Pale for the 50 charges of Absorb Magic.
Additionally, I reached my 1750 Favor reward and got the Bone Skull Helmet. It looks kinda silly on the Dragonborn, sort of reminds me of a cow skull on the hood of a car. After taking 20, I also received my Season 2 Sash, which is gray and features a skull with the numeral 2 at the bottom.
My favorite toon is all set to go at level 7. I have the full Red Fens gear set on him, and I have decided to level to 12 as a Sorcerer. That’ll get me my Chain Lightning, and then I can take 2 levels of Rogue for evasion and 4 levels of Paladin for the improved Saving throws, which will utilize my high Charisma score. With those splashed in at later levels, I can contend with the rising difficulty of the Elite dungeons, where I may not 1-shot all my targets.
For Gozoh, my Reaper toon, I intend to stay in epics until I have completed the Magister Epic Destiny. Although I do not intend to do an Epic reincarnation this time around. This will just give me time to farm tokens of The Twelve and grab some more gear for the Favor guy, for when he gets to Epics himself.
Dungeons and Dragons Online has added a Hardcore server with permadeath.
I’ve been wanting to play this style for a long time.
I managed to get up to level 7 before getting killed.
I was taken out by a Troglodyte Shaman who cast Melf’s acid arrow on me. The DoT took me down to incapacitated and then death before my hireling could heal me.
Unfortunately, I can’t get back my Greater learning tome or the permanent gold seal hireling Eleri. Those two things really made a difference in the early game for questing.
I’m licking my wounds for now, and I’ll try again tomorrow.
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