I’m heading north through Riverside Province, because I never went up their earlier in the game. I’m guessing that’s because there are too many monsters!

I mean, I’m level 20! I shouldn’t be pwned so much by a mob of level 14s. Granted, there are a lot of them, and those Tengu move sodding fast. And that hex that I keep getting infected with – the one where I lose energy every time I hit – is a bitch and really doesn’t help.

I’ll keep at it.

I was just doing the Villainy of Galrath quest and, oh, how I hate it. I’m sure it hates me too.

I set out from Lion’s Arch, so I only had a part of six, all level 12 henchmen (except me, who’s level twenty). How was I supposed to  know that you’re supposed to ascend and then you can do the mission much easily from a different outpost with eight in your party. I mean seriously, I’ve been doing that mission for the last three and a half hours.

This is what happened when I was trying to get through the Black Curtain.

Note my minus 60% moral. Also note my resurection signet, uncharged.

This scene consisted of me yelling at the stupid henchmen for running into the water. Then I saw the mob that was coming to the mountain, towards me and changed my mind. The water was the only way to go really. Made it across though, thankfully.

In fact, I made it all the way through the swam! I was incredibly chuffed after the 50th sodding Fog Nightmare, flanked by Spined Aloe. Then my henchmen were dispatched by the two Forest Minotaurs. Kujo and I survived though!

From then on, I spent the next two hours or so argoing a set of minotaurs and then running away like mad whilst they chased, and killed them off slowly by casting Conjure Phantasm when my 16 energy charged. If I was lucky, they’d get distracted by Kujo and I could fire at them a few times.

My aim was to charge my signet. I knew you could do that by getting a moral boost, but I didn’t realise you had to boost it to a positive figure till I checked the Wiki. Damnit. I had gotten my moral up to -25% as well. Then I tried to kill the tree things and they just pwned me.

With my -40% moral, I decided to just run like made to Galrath. No prizes for guessing how that turned out. So, three hours into the mission, I’ve given up. Maybe when I’ve ascended, eh?