Westerner
12-02-2007, 02:28 PM
I've been playing a month running a ranger/rogue based on Grenfell's Round Mound of Astound build. I'd hammered away and finally completed Von1-4 and was looking for a group to do Von5-6, but couldn't find one. Then out of the blue I get a ninja invite: "Ready for Von5? Can you do traps?" "Yes!!" I say.
Some highlights from this awesome experience:
An intricate series of 6-8 traps that are best disarmed in sequence. Good thing I just got evasion at ranger level 9, otherwise I'd have been chopped up.
A "Super Mario" part where I'm supposed to jump on top of a pipe, get blown in the air, land on a ledge to disarm traps. I take a wrong step and go for a swim in the lava. Party gives up and goes the long way to the ledge, but I manage to disarm all traps. I'm down to 3 thieves' tools as I disarm the last trap!
Von6... Wow!! The music, the setting, absolutely spectacular!! I took print screens to show my kids. A few people do something with pillars while the majority of us wait near Velah. As the screen goes down, we buff, clerics head to the side behind rocks, and the rest of us charge.
"Heh heh," think I, "I'll sneak around the dragon and stab it in the leg!" Velah, however, has other ideas. "Not her body Torg!" party yells. "Stay by her nose!" Ooops - Velah squashes me. I'm dead.
So I watch the rest of the fight. A few more deaths, but Velah is defeated in the end, and clerics raise everyone who died. Whoa!! Look at the size of that chest! Hope it's got some goodies inside. I pull a Stonemeld Plate, but as a Ranger I can't really use it. Oh well. Picked up 23k XP and had an awesome time!
Hats off to the Von6 devs for really making it stand out as the culmination of 6 quests.
Some highlights from this awesome experience:
An intricate series of 6-8 traps that are best disarmed in sequence. Good thing I just got evasion at ranger level 9, otherwise I'd have been chopped up.
A "Super Mario" part where I'm supposed to jump on top of a pipe, get blown in the air, land on a ledge to disarm traps. I take a wrong step and go for a swim in the lava. Party gives up and goes the long way to the ledge, but I manage to disarm all traps. I'm down to 3 thieves' tools as I disarm the last trap!
Von6... Wow!! The music, the setting, absolutely spectacular!! I took print screens to show my kids. A few people do something with pillars while the majority of us wait near Velah. As the screen goes down, we buff, clerics head to the side behind rocks, and the rest of us charge.
"Heh heh," think I, "I'll sneak around the dragon and stab it in the leg!" Velah, however, has other ideas. "Not her body Torg!" party yells. "Stay by her nose!" Ooops - Velah squashes me. I'm dead.
So I watch the rest of the fight. A few more deaths, but Velah is defeated in the end, and clerics raise everyone who died. Whoa!! Look at the size of that chest! Hope it's got some goodies inside. I pull a Stonemeld Plate, but as a Ranger I can't really use it. Oh well. Picked up 23k XP and had an awesome time!
Hats off to the Von6 devs for really making it stand out as the culmination of 6 quests.