*** moment of the week in Tempest Spine

[Spillisgod]

I wanted to take a second and post this humorous story for all to enjoy. I spend most of my time pugging on my characters as my guild is small and the play times are all over the place. Even though pugging is sometimes a headache I generally enjoy it and like the interesting characters you meet along the way. Tonight though, I met somebody that blew my mind in three simple steps.

Step 1:

So, I login tonight and hop on my lvl 10 Monster build. Check my guild, nobody is home. I open up the grouping tab and notice right away "Tempest Spine HARD". I'm a fan of TS and love the fast (generally) xp that I can pull from it. I click the join button and head to House J. A few mintues later the group fills and we head in. Smooth sailing so far as FR is handed out and the group forms up for the haste/go. Wizard McGroupleader happens to be the only arcane in the party. I kindly ask Wiz McG for a haste so we can roll and about thirty seconds later get "no haste " in party chat.

Step 2:

No haste? My "sweet jesus leave this party" alarm was going off but I didn't listen. Random bard multiclass dumps a thirty second haste on us and we're off. Fire/Ice went off without a hitch, aside from a Legolas-fanboy kiting Fire around like a champ. Minutes later I'm killing some drow and taking a bit of damage so I check my buffs. Hmm I don't have blur so I'll ask Wizard McGroupleader for one. I whisper Wiz McG "could I please get a blur?", and again thirty second later I get "no blur ". The "sweet jesus leave this party" alarm was still buzzing away somewhere in the distance but I was too blinded by the potential 12k xp to listen.

Step 3:

The final masterpiece performed by our fearless leader was the greatest of all. We progress through the TS at a slow/moderate pace and hit our first locked door. Dun Dun Duh!!! Wiz McG has the star and set the group up him/herself. Wiz McG set the group up without a rogue. Now, in TS you can complete the quest ezpz without a rogue. All you need is one arcane caster with......DOH!! (Knock wasn't in the spellbook of our fearless leader. They weren't aware that you could scribe spells I suppose.)


I should have listened to my alarm.

Somewhere on Khyber there is a lvl 12 wizard that stole 40 minutes of my life tonight. I really hope they enjoy it.

*I wasn't upset, I just couldn't believe that a wizard could miss all three of those spells in the random clicking that must have been their spell selection screens. Granted, knock is only situational. But in this situation it was clutch.

Be careful Khyber, no haste no blur

[honkuimushi]

You can complete without a Rogue or Knock. You have to detour to get a key so most people generally grab at least someone who can pick locks, but it can be done.

[Chai]

Correct.

Funny story - continually highlighting situations where someone *else doesnt know the quest, and completion was likely right around the corner.

The quest to get the key, to open the door to kill the mobs and get another key, to open the other door that the wizard couldnt open and never invited a rogue to open...

[Rumbaar]

Yeah the only deal breaker is the RUNE, if you can't open that then it's a waste of time. But other than that seems fails all around.

Is haste that much of a deal breaker?

[lord_of_rage]

Wait you dont carry haste pots? Doh!

[MeliCat]

my lvl12 sorc friend (3rd TR) basically soloed Tempest spine the other day. they only jumped in at the last minute as i was in on my fighter and said they should come for the laugh. i'm guessing it may been elite. can't remember.

leader was also clueless. so sorc friend and another sorc player who obviously had a clue zerged ahead. they got me to open a lever at one point but that was about it.

rest of the party got really annoyed. were *****ing that they would fail at end boss. didn't happen so suddenly the rest of the party were 'oh you're so cool'. meh.

dear OP - **** that wasted time that could have been chunky XP! my baby wiz is only 4 (about to be 5) but i assure you i can not *wait* to cast that extended haste, blur, knock and fw.... see you at level 9 (i guess?) for a fast run...