Ice Forest... pain in the...

Ok so a friend of mine and I decided to set out from Iron Mines of Muladune for the grand ol village of Marhon's Grotto(sp) neither of us are infused yet with those characters. Ok so some would say go get infused, head out there from Thunderhead keep. Well we didn't feel like doing that mission. Anyway so we set out, killing ice imps and such, no prob, tactfully avoiding any Jade we came across until Ice Forest. We decided to turn right from the entrance as there is two ways of going. We made it to the large clearing... and only 2 jade mursaat in sight. Wow I'm thinking this is gonna be easy as I had gotten to Grotto with my E/Mo and it had been tough. And I was infused with that character.

Well we cross the bridge and all goes wrong... Ice Imps hex us to pieces, jades show up while we're fighting and next thing you know, we're all dead. But hey, less jades and ice imps as we had taken a few out. So we walk back, clear on and get around the next bend... 5 jades and mursaat necro... needless to say by the time we had killed them all and res'd, ran back and so forth we were -50% moral and maybe half way there. So we press on, next thing you know, he gets an error-77 or something and drops from the game, leaving me surrounded by ice imps and I can see the portal on my map... SO CLOSE. but I die. So I run all the way back again and try and sprint for it... only to fall dead horribly not far from the grotto gate res portal. You think I would res there right? Wrong...

So we restart from iron mines and press on again. We never made it last night as after a few more deaths, it was late and I had to go (wife was calling)

So today I decided to try something different... I logged in as my E/Mo infused and who I had gotten there before as well. We go and what do you know? 25 Mursaat in the first clearing... So we battle, kill a few and sneak on over across the bridge... 30+ Ice imps and Jades... so we died... and rezoned. All I wanted to do was get over half way to the other res point by grotto so that when we would die, we'd res there. But with all those ice imps in the way... NO WAY were we getting past. So we rezoned and went back... -30% now for moral. Died a couple more times, each time further ahead till finally with -50% moral, I died close enough to the portal to res us all there at Grotto entrance. I was never so happy to see grotto in all my life as I was there.

Anyone else think Grotto area is tough as all hell or is it just me?

Now he just needs to get my other character that far... so when he dies, we res to the grotto res point.

Ive found a way to stop the Ice Imps from my chest runs outside of Grotto .But Ill keep it on the down low

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Fun ruiner

Played this one last night with my Elem/monk and it was a P.I.T.A. The glorified henchies (Mheleno, Aidian, Devona, Cynn, etc...) died so fast it wan't even funny. But I finally got far enough to rez by the grotto and ran in with an army of Ice Imps chasing me.

Sometimes the different spawns make it real easy. But you really have to be infused to make things easier.

I can stand the odd Jade with my hench, but up against 20-30 ice imps... WOW. Anyway I got run there for my ranger by a guild leader after I had helped my friend get there with my E/Mo. We zoned in with little to combat against until we got closer to the Grotto itself. I died along the way but he made it in one try. However if we had been coming from Thunderhead Keep instead of Iron Mines, we would have run into 30 Imps. The whole SE portion of the map was nothing but a sea of red dots. Infused does make the trip somewhat easier... but Ice Imps can still kill you.

Well atleast you can remind yourself that once you get to the grotto, it will be long nights and lots and lots of ale