The Vallainy of Galrath

I enjoyed this quest with 2 friends of mine (+5 henchies from Temple of Ages). The army at the end of the quest whooped our butts a few times before we finally strung them out. (I guess I play for the fun, not the XP; though I did level up to 19 with all the experience I got during the run.)

After getting smashed up, we had to re-think our attack plan. It made for great teamwork and adventuring. We finally finished the quest with all of us having 40+ death penalties stacked up. (Boy, it's a long hike from the rez point!)

I actually have a lot of fun when our whole group gets slaughtered. The challenge of overcoming difficulties is very rewarding. (There is also entertainment value in watching the last character alive try to escape!! )

I will say the 500xp reward and the goodies are undervalued for the quest, but I still had plenty of fun!

Dwig

I did it with a PUG with level 16-20's. It's difficult but rewarding in the terms of self enjoyment. Here's my take.


Killing all the monsters along the way : 2500 xp

Grabbing the loot along the way : 1500 gold.

Being able to take the screen shot of the floating island. Priceless.

NICE!!! That sums up my feelings entirely.

I feel the sudden urge to spend something on my credit card!

Dwig

well im a level 19 elementalist/monk and have taken 8 level 15 henchmen with me and still cant finish this thing

when i get there i get rapped by 7 to 9 of them level 20 Guys then i have to deal with all the level 15 bones that they cast

I really need help with this mission? anyone interested?

Argh...it looks like I missed a town. I got to Temple simply because I wanted to visit every town.

I need to make a stop at the temple, hopefully i can get there with a group from hot springs.

There is always perpetual "lfg for ToA" spam in Hot Springs. You shouldn't have any trouble getting there.

if you want to group tonight i will be more than happy to lead the way for you to the temple... then you can help me out with this mission

C-Tzar do you check your PM's

I got to the Temple of Ages quite easily. The villany of Gallrath is a different story. We had a group of mostly lvl 20s and we had a large amount of trouble with this one. We ended up beating it by sneaking our fighters/rangers past all the lvl 20's (by sneaking i mean dying and then getting rezed out of aggro area) Then pulling all foes to the edge of the clif (our healer was on the bottom of the clif healing us, the three that were left) and killing them until we got gallrath. Over all it was pretty tough, im really not sure if its worth it at all, you only get 500xp but its nice to get it out of your listing.

Huh what? I got your message and replied a long time ago. ...? Did I hit backspace before it got sent? Lemme check...

UPDATE: Ahhh, it would appear that I did in fact get a little jumpy with the backspace button. OK, check again.

I found a much easier way to do this it's called Aboned Quest... I"m not doing that shit agian.. after getting -60 in DP I said screw it, 500xp is not worth that crap... Balanced My Ass

I say go to the temple of ages and get a group and do it unless your in a big hurry that is. It is a very hard, and the reward isn't great, but the drops are pretty good and you are sure to learn a thing or two.

Easier? Yes. More satisfying? No.

I actually had alot of fun with this mission. We had 3 lvl 20's in the group, and a couple lvl 15-16's (from Bergen Springs). One of the lvl 20's left the mission right before the Minotaurs. The rest of the group ran through the open field, past the Pod thingies. We were all at 60% Dp at that point, and people wanted to quit. I found a safe place for them to hide while I went and rezzed 2 people back near the mino's. Once I got those people to a safe place, I went back and aggroed some mino's and had them follow me to the lvl 20's on the hill.

After trying that a couple of times, and not succeeding, we all ran by the lvl 20's. We all died except healer, who got away without getting any attention from the lvl 20's. She then used Rebirth to get us near her. Then we dispensed of the bandits, and took out Galrath quite easily. We finished the mission with 3 people alive, all having died at least 15 times a piece.

Now THAT's dedication.

It's all a matter of dividing and conquering. If you're patient, you can separate all the mobs. We had 7 in our group, a buddy lost connection, with a lvl 19, lvl 18, lvl 16 and 4 henchies. There was a bunch of trial and error, though, especially with the undead, phantoms and wraiths. Always kill the cleric first as he'll spawn and heal the phantoms and wraiths. Always kill the horsemen first as they'll spawn a whole lot of hellhounds. We kept the minotaurs to 6 max at a time and killed them pretty painlessly. It was the lvl20 mesmers that gave us the most trouble, and that was the only time the entire team died. The lvl19 and lvl18 only died a few times combined.

well all you people that say it's easy.. do a group with me then.. and SHOW me....

Sure, I am still set up as a Smiting Monk, will breeze right through long as we have one decent healer if group of six, or two more if eight.

When I did it, was myself as a L19Monk( All Smiting/ Protection ) a level 14, two level 17s another 18 and I think a 16, I forget exactly. We left from the hot Springs. Ended up making it all the way to the portal to the Black Curtain when we decided to clear our DP of like 20 on average and hit the temple, while grabbing two more people.

Oh, did I forget to mention we had one guy drop just as he hit the swamp...heh.

Was a very interesting, challenging time for everyone....and I had a blast! I was killing things left and right...Monks can really strut their stuff in those areas if Smiting.

Inac

Exactly. Getting there is most of the fun, in this case. But shouldn't that be true for most of PvE? =)

Obviously in PvP the thrill of design, competition and cooperation is what drives things, but in PvE it's good to be challenged by the game itself. Being rewarded with an arbitrary trinket is nice and all, but if you aren't actually enjoying the challenge, PvE may not really be for you.

(Yes, I'm ignoring the PvPers who feel the need to play PvE, because that's a large can of worms for other threads. =)

*update*

Galrath is now worth 4,000 exp.
sucks for everyone who did it already.

yea i will be doing it later today on various chars, lucky i didnt do it yet ;d