Quests: Valkurm Dunes Garrison

Friday night, a bunch of ClanBEB people decided to try out the level 30-capped Garrison at the Valkurm Dunes. Splinte, Itera, and Daden had farmed for Galka Fang Sacks in the Ordelles, and we gathered together at the Outpost in the Dunes.

We had Splinte WAR/THF, Itera MNK/WAR, Ryken MNK/WAR, Lalandra BLM/WHM, Atrayu WHM/BLM, Diasuke PLD/WAR, Daden WAR/NIN, and Kiki WAR/MNK. Daden wasn't there for our first run.

The first run didn't go very well. A fang sack was traded to the Outpost Guard, a bunch of Traders appeared (I think there were as many as we had people in our alliance, but you know, I never thought to count them). Then the waves of Goblins started. We had little strategy beyond "voke the goblins off the Traders". We made it through the first three waves, and even got two pairs of Mannequin Feet, but the fourth wave demolished us. A passing WHM handed out Raises, and we discussed our failure as we waited for our weakness to wear off.

For the second run, Lalandra and Diasuke grabbed one of the Goblin Leechers for each wave, and dragged it as far as they could and kept it alive and asleep until we'd killed the rest of that wave, rested for HP and MP, and then we killed Lala and Dia's goblin. The next wave would spawn, and we repeated the process. Before the final wave, Atrayu also healed all the Traders to full. We were successful, and got more mannequin feet, I think some legs, a Dragon Chronicle page, a Military Pole and a Military Axe.

The third run wasn't quite as smooth, but we still won, getting more feet, legs, another Dragon Chronicle page, a Military Pick and a Military Gun. It was quite a lot of fun, and Kiki finally has a start on getting her very own Mannequin, as she won the lot on a pair of feet. We split stuff up based on lot, but when the Pick goes for 650K and the Pole for 10K, I'm not sure that is the best way to do it. I think people should get the mannequin parts if they're building a mannequin, and everything else should be sold and split evenly amongst the participants.

I'm sure we will start doing these a bit more regularly as well. Everyone seemed to have a good time.