Leveling: Behind the Gates of Halvung (73-74)

The LLS ended up spending Sunday and Monday evening fighting Trolls again, at the same camp we had the previous Sunday. The trolls are pretty annoying to fight, since it appears that Diamonhide cannot be removed with Finale. I've grown weary of the bonk-bonk noises our weapons make on the troll armor. It even sounds like we're hitting for 0 (even when we're not). The Overthrow move disturbs the two thieves, since it screws up our positioning, and I get tired of being petrified by Rock Crush.

However, it's an empty camp, and has amazing sunsets, so I find it hard to really dislike it. Over the two nights, we got in just over 4 hours and about 20K exp. Yobun and Itera have pulled pretty far ahead and are level 74 now, which made the exp drop noticeably. We'll make more of an effort to find a new place for next week (imps in Caedarva are the best candidate, though we may not have the best party set-up for those). Kiki finished up around 8K away from 74, and Grym and Elbo are a bit behind Kiki.

Elboron got killed by an aggro'ing troll while he was out in the field trying to hit the melees with their songs. He had trouble sleeping it (was interrupted?) and was too far away for me to voke or flash the troll, or to cure him. Yobun also had a death - most of us were AFK for a quick break, and he decided he wanted to try to solo one of the Magmatic Erucas just outside the gate. Seems that Incineration ignores shadows....

We all did Rock Bottom, the map quest for Mount Zhayolm, since we were going right past the quest spot anyway. Early on Sunday, Grym and Kiki had done the map quest themselves with their whm/blm and rdm/blm, and took that opportunity to run around looking for the Cast Metal Plate key item needed to open the Gates of Halvung. I'm not sure how much we'll make use of it, but it's nice to have.