Yarrr!

[MongoJerry]

THE ADVENTURES OF NERIAD: The Wharf, the Inn, and the Bank, Oh My!



We headed down to the wharf and quickly dispatched all the NPC's near the boat ramp, along with the corresponding bruisers that spawn when you attack them. We then asked ourselves "Should we?" and the answer came back with a resounding "Yes!" and we charged into the Old Port Authority.



We aoe'd the mother out of first one half of the Old Port Authority and then the other half. Bruisers appear for every NPC that you hit, so it's hard to get across just how many bruisers appeared when we did this (I was too busy healing to take screenshots during the biggest part of the fight). In addition, bruiser bodies decompose a couple seconds after death. However, take my word for it, there were a lot of bruisers in there!

After this fight, we heard the first and only verbal complaint of the night from another player regarding our little invasion:

Player1: Do these guys respawn, or are we f***ed due to your fun?
Neriad: They respawn. Yarrr!

The other guy there laughed hysterically at the sight and said:

Player2: I hope you guys aren't drunk! :-)
Dimiotrix: ... hic!

At this point, a sixth pirate joined the party -- Uinr, a level 60 rogue. We gave him some Savory Deviate Delight to turn him into a pirate and just before we started off again, Uinr realized that he wanted to buy a parrot before was no longer able to. "Oh yeah! Parrots!" came the reply. So, we had Uinr buy a Senegal parrot for each person in the party. (See? I told you that the NPC's respawn quickly). We lined up for some very silly screenshots and then kept going.



For those of you who have yet to grind for reputation, let me explain briefly how it works, because it works somewhat differently from grinding for experience. With reputation, simply being in the party that kills the mob isn't enough. You have to "tag" the mob in some way -- either by damaging the mob or by healing someone who has already damaged the mob. You don't have to be in the party to get reputation, so you could leech reputation by tagging mobs that other people are fighting. Also, everyone gets the same amount of reputation when the mob dies no matter how many people tag a mob. That is, if you solo grind Booty Bay bruisers, you'd get 25 reputation points with the Bloodsail Buccaneers for each bruiser you kill. Or, if you kill the same bruiser in a group of 20, you'd still get 25 reputation points. So when you're farming reputation, the bigger the party the better, as long as you're able to keep up and tag all the mobs that the group is killing.

As a rogue, Uinr had the toughest job, because he didn't have many viable aoe skills available to him (OK, blade fury, but that's about it). He didn't have any aoe trinkets, bombs, dynamite, or potions, either, so he had to try to tab through the crowd of bruisers the group was killing and make sure to hit each of them at least once. However, the one thing Uinr did have going for him was that he had skipped Booty Bay entirely while leveling up, so he didn't have as big of a reputation hill to climb as the rest of us did.



We went back up to the top of the town and worked our way to that platform under the gryphon master that had been such a good source of bruisers before.



On the way there, I noticed that my reputation with Booty Bay had sunk to as low as it could go. Literally, my reputation with them could not get any worse. However, the good news was that my reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers was climbing fast. I had started this invasion with my reputation at the "d" in Hated and my reputation with the Bloodsail had climbed halfway to Hostile already.



After we pulled and killed Baron Revilgaz and his cronies once again, someone yelled out, "The inn! The inn!" and jumped down to the inn's lower entrance. The rest of us jumped down quickly and followed him inside.



The result was a massacre of epic proportions.



After which we sat down to have a little picnic.