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Originally Posted by chackle  Inter-continental teleporting in New T like there is in Khal is beyond way overdue. It's goddamn crazy travelling over that continent :\ |
This is especially true if you want to complete the Dargun's Tomb questline. Basically once I travelled there, I didn't want to leave until it was over due to the trek. Just to give you an idea about this quest, it involves a rare spawn called Toxil. People have reported killing his PH over 50 times before giving up. Others are lucky and get it much sooner. We had to kill it about 35 times (on a ~15 minute timer, only about 4 chances an hour) over the course of several days of playtime before he finally spawned. The shards also take a rather long time to drop, probably a 1:25 ratio of shard to kills, and you need 7. That took us a few days of multi-hour blocks of farming the ghosts for our entire group to get all of them, not as bad as Toxil though since the named down there can actually drop nice items.
Now, we did this with guildies. Can you imagine trying to field a pick-up group in a remote region of Thestra to do what could be a potential multi-day camp? Maybe it happened in EQ, but as the gunslinger says,
the world has moved on. The entire time we were there we only saw 1 other guild group and perhaps 2 people actually in the zone looking for a group. 95% of the time we were there, we were the only ones in the chunk.
We started the quest, having to kill 100 gnolls, at level 35. We are now halfway through level 39 and are finally on the last step of the quest. We have discovered, after a frustrating wipe or two, that if multiple people are on the quest it can easily bug out and spawn multiple events which easily wipe your group. I have to say, Dargun's is the first experience in Vanguard where I feel like I just want it to be over. I won't feel that sense of accomplishment when I get the orange weapon, I will simply feel relief that I can get out of that place and do something else.
