Good Morning Friends! Yesterday I was off due to the Veterans Day holiday here in the United States and the only useful thing that I did was make a lasagna. The rest of the day was spent playing New World, and the vast majority of that was spent in Myrkgard at the Priests camp. I had a lot of fun running around with various groups from my server and getting to know a new batch of people. I felt pretty good about myself because I had a few different groups of people vying for my attention and one person referred to me as “that OP tank” so that was pretty great. I think the reality is that most of the people playing New World don’t come from a PVE Tanking mindset, so I probably approach play from a different perspective because I care about threat and soaking damage and not about making my dps numbers go up.
One of the cool things to come out of yesterday was that I learned a way to very easily mix a third priest into the rotation. I clipped this from Map Genie... which actually required me to composite together several searches to get the complete map of the Priest Farm. Notice that two of the icons are Marked with Skulls, which means that Map Genie has identified those as Elite Bosses. The thing is… the northwest icon is also an Elite Boss and drops the exact same loot table as the other two “Priests”. Technically these are moving Left to Right: Disciple of Disorder, Artifex Faetum, and Archmagister Vocus. Most groups just alternate between Faetum and Vocus, but you can mix in the Disciple with some careful running and still manage to complete the circuit before the last “priest” respawns. At some point I probably need to record a video of me running the route, preferably in the morning when it is relatively empty.
After a day of running the priest camp over and over, I needed to chill out last night… and in part hang out downstairs snuggling with cats and hanging out with my wife. This meant that I queued up for a few invasions… got in all of them and chilled out getting free money. People are just not queuing for Invasions right now it seems, for Monarch’s Bluff we did not even fill half way and notice that I am second in DPS for the entire raid. This only occurred because I was the ONLY person guarding the back gate of the fort and having to burn down entire waves by myself. The good thing about invasions though is the cash and the first one paid off my weekly rent for my Tier 4 house, and the second one will pay off the other two houses. I still wish there was a way to queue for these invasions without having to go to the territory.
In other news…. Syndicate lost yet another territory. This time we lost Restless Shores to East Mindia Co, the group that took First Light from Syndicate originally and was most recently holding Cutlass Keys before losing it to Covenant. Blades of DaTang managed to hold Brightwood which makes me extremely happy given that I have shifted to that as my main crafting hub. Everfall says in Marauder hands, but it was a fairly close fight as I believe Covenant manages to take three flags but ran out of time. It is so surreal that we used to control seven territories at one point… and covenant was not even on the map anymore and a few weeks later we have this mess.