Stuck at the academy ! HELP

I joined the academy and it was just me and a Henchman..I can't fight my way out and I can't run past them because once you get past the Bossman, you're at the edge of a cliff..no way to keep running, and you die real quick. How the heck am I supposed to get outa there ?

Dr Wu

are you fighting the grawls? After you kill the grawls there should be a cutscene.

You have to kill all the Grawls. Running won't get you through it. The same thing happened to me last BWE. It took me about 6-8 tries before I got through. It was a challenge, but it can be done solo. The warrior henchman I was partied with was useless and died within seconds, despite my attempts to keep him alive.

I was playing an el/mo, and basically had to pull as few grawl as possible to me then back up to fight them. As Aladdar stated, you know you have succeeded when you see the cutscene play. It took a bit of patience and skill, but I did get through it.

Good Luck to you.

Yep..it worked..took 'em out 1 at a time..seemed to take forever !

Dr Wu

Well i am stuck at the acadamy as well but I never even see anything. cept a small cout yard i cant get out of.
HELP?

I got past all that, I just don't know what to do in Old Asclon, does anyone?

talk to warmaster tydus?

take some henchmen or friends and explore old askalon explorable area check out anybody with a green exclamation mark for a quest if they have one

get out of the city as you dont have the money or resources for anything yet

get a salvage kit

but get out and explore as the city is useless to you right at first

if you have skill points see the skill trainer for some additional skills

be sure you distributed your ATTRIBUTE points to make you stronger where needed

Yeah, but how do I get out? All I'm doing is running round with Random guys, don't know bout henchmen, and can't see Tydus. Directions would be nice.

look for signs same as presear

GREAT WALL
OLD ASKALON
look for shimmering portals

edit

henchmen will have a title after name

healer (monk)
archer
fighter etc

no charge just click on them and then click *join*

Yes, I'm in Old Ascalon, and the Great Wall, but I just don't know what to do.

get the quest to defend the wall from the warmaster who will say meet a person at the scene

he will say he doesnt know what is going on but to et a group together (henchmen or live people) then click join mission and there you go

the old askalon explorable area is a nice place to pick up experience and loot for salvage to upgrade your armor etc

dinner time got to go

good luck

Ok,
Thanks, but I don't know where the warmaster is, I'll look.

If you need directions, hold alt key and look around, it'll display names of npcs/signposts even if your LOS is blocked by walls. Usually enough to give you a general bearing.

Ctrl does the same but with enemies, also calls out combat actions if you hold ctrl whilst selecting 'em, both handy in the missions you'll end up doing in ascalon

This is Sir Tydus:

In regards to the original post in the thread, I am fairly certain that joining with only one henchmen is a bug. At first I figured it was something that tied into a character's level.. if you get too high, you'd start losing your support in the Academy. But i've also ran high level characters through there and ended up with a full group of henches .. either way, it's something that i've reported before. For a lot of character setups, just one hench is no where near enough to make it through the Academy.. and getting stuck there could be very unfun.

Heh, I thought 1 henchman was the norm, I've always got 1 hench when havn't had a party of PCs to go through with me . Though im stuborn and insist on killing the 4 charr responsible for searing before doing academy every time, so lvl 7-8 before I go through most times