Journey to all 4 lands...

[flynnkd]

I was bored the other day so I decided I would try to add an extra land to my Matis-Fyro list. I did the Fyro one back in October, a solo run ending with max DP. So natrually I thought, max DP for this also, but what the heck.

Running from Pyr to Dyson is easy, far easier than I recall it in beta...

The you enter Under Springs... and fun ends.

I spent 3 days, each of 4-6 hours sessions trying to get through Under Springs. They should rename it Hell on Ryzom. The zone in kinchers from Fyro are easy to slip past as they move to one side every now and then. I then ran down the right hand wall and my first 6 hrs were spent getting past the middle zone bottle neck. There is a patrol that goes past this area and this is what mostly killed me as I waited for openings in the mobs, the patrols have 50m agro.

I came back on the second day and decided to stick to the right wall all the way down. The previous day this had been blocked, but suddenly today it was clear and I raced past and managed to get to the Karavan tp... one obstacle down. (And note I had 600K dapper at this point). Bought 3 tps to be safe.

Continued down the right wall, there is where it gets really hard. You come to a valley with lotsa mobs, agro tribals at one end, and 2 patrols that you can see on the far side. Took me a while to find out there are 2 more patrols behidn those, the four patrols do loops with some random movements, the paths arent always the same.

Six hours later and 200K less in tps I gave up again.

Come back and things are slightly different, there are some holes if you run straight through the middle of the mobs, I managed to get through and this was when I found out about the other 2 patrols. 4 hrs later and another 200K in tps.

I got lucky at this point, or maybe I was finally getting into sync with the mobs, but I was finding it easier to pick holes and I was getting used to the patrols. Essentially it comes down to waiting for a patrol to go by and then try to follow them, at least that way you know where they are.

Finally I managed to get past this point, to run into more agro tribals. But I could see a way through. A few more tries and I had a lucky run, I managed to get just past the tribals only to agro one out on his lonesome, so the rest joined in. I hit speed up and ran like crazy (had benn keeping speedup and invul for the other end). I got to a clear spot on the wall, I could see the gate kinchers on the other side, the tribals actually gave up following me, logged out pronto to make sure all agro was gone.

Log in and died instantly. Some kinchers spawn ont he spot on the right wall that I had camped on, I had been lucky before but not now. SO I am dead and within sight of the other end, I logoff. I wasnt sure if this would work, but it does, when you log off your death timer stops. I created a new toon and contacted some people in my guild. Gillest and Kibs came to help.

The plan was for Gillest to draw the kinchers away, while Kibs ran in and I logged back on, Kibs heals me and we run for the zone. Unfortunately a small error and a kincher meant we failed and my timer ran out, so back to the tp.

I was actually getting quite good at threading the needle now, and made several runs that got close. The finally a dream run, all the way to the far end. I was sitting at outside the caves with the kinchers my only obstacle. Unfortunately I had used speed up and invul to get there and Kibs had logged. Gillest couldnt clear the kinchers and heal me as I tried to get in, so I got nervous and made a run anyway. I should have waited, but there was another patrol looming to the left, and a kincher had spawned to my right. Anyway the gate keepers killed me just inside the cave. I logged off and had a rest.

The next day I log on my alt, and after a time Damcity says he is going to try the run also. He then commeneted that Warloc was in the zone. I knew Warloc from earlier times so I asked if he would help, he agreed.

To cut a long story short, we did it. I logged on, he healed, I had invul ready and spammed it. It worked, I ran further into the cave and got the spawn. Warloc had 2mill DP however (he was inside when he agreed to help, so died to get back, then died on one failed heal). I had max DP and had spent 500K in tps.

I would REALLY like to thank Gillest, Kibs and Damcity, my fellow guild mates, for their help. I would especially like to thank Warloc for his help.

So I get to Zora, buy tps. Whoohoo!!!!!

On to Trynker.

The run from Zora city to the PR hole was EASY! Huge open plains and VAST areas of land... well after Under Springs it seemed that way. But really it was easy compared to the Matis run.

Zora PR to Tryncker PR... a doddle... the place is almost empty of mobs compared to Under Springs. Did the run without a single death.

Exit to Tryncher and it is a hard run to the city, half dozen extra deaths, but who cares. Finally arrive at Fairhaven and completion of my journey.

ALL four lands, the hard way.

If the devs ever read this I hope they will lighten up Under Springs a bit, it is absurdly hard. Not to mention the ecology of the place is a joke... more predators then prey!!!

[kibsword]

hehe, I didnt really do much tbh, got in attempted a heal, by the time u logged in 2 kinchers had wondered over to poke ya body, bad timing I guess :S

Glad u made it tho Serend

We did it the easier way, started in matis (some months ago I got the tryker spawns through one of endas giganto hunts) and recently did it again with a group of 7 in 1 go (took us 8 times tonight tho and we gave up ).

Matis to fyros was easy, died once I think it was from the named cuttler who we did survive 5 mins from and I think there was 8 of us. Those mobs all hated poison 1 . Then a few days ago we did a little trip from tryker to zorai. Trip one a group of 4 of us managed to take down 1 kincher guard at a time, but we eventually did the old "gillest be a chum and run out there and draw them off m8". So he did that and we healed him up and got the tp. Few days later and a return to that pr with a rather comical journey involving 2 tyranchas on our tails all the way through the PR, ran through and got the spawn all 4 of us that were there and straight through to zora with no more fights

Personally I wont go in the undersprings if I can help it, large groups will get maimed and solo takes a while too, best to go around the other way imo

-kibsy

[maroo]

Deep respect...