I'm having a really hard time with this adventure path, namely the "bosses" in the Warrens that Harmtouch and cast 350 point lifetaps.
Let me give a quick background on myself. I started vanilla EQ with a Warrior and leveled through to Omens when I decided enough was enough and quit. I've recently found a fondness for EQ again and discovered your amazing game.
I have limited playing time and weird work hours so I thought the alternative path to adventure was right up my alley. And I have not been disappointed! I've really been amazed at how much fun dungeon crawling is. But my amazement is quickly turning into dismay now because I am stuck in the Warrens.
I'm leveling a paladin and I have cleric and rogue bot. I've just hit 24 and almost everything cons green, except for the Muglop (yellow) and the named fellows (blue).
I've completed half of my enchanted cold steel armor and I haven't been able to get the third rune to get my enchant on my weapon. I've been unlucky on the rest of my armor, or I haven't been able to kill the mobs I need to kill. I've completed half of the quests including the nifty quickness ring from the tailor.
And I'm stuck, I've died more times than I can shake a stick at on all these named mobs, Harmtouchs and 350 point life tap procs and the fact that they have a ton of hit points are making these fights unwinnable and unfun.
I've decided to just skip this area now because I don't think I can finish these quests till I am much higher level however, I can't get past the named werebat without it killing me. The farthest I've made it was into some giant bears cave who proceeded to chomp chomp chomp me as the named werebat beat me from behind.
If you go into the Warrens be careful you're more than likely going to trip on my corpses.
Now, a couple of last points I'd like to make:
1) I'm a BRAND new player. I have none of the awesome gear from the other server side. I've seen some people whiz through the area's I'm struggling in who are levels below me.
2) I'm sure there are a few classes and bot combo's that probably have no problems farming these bosses. See above, I'm a Paladin.
3) I'd love to group with someone to try these encounters unfortunately no one ever seems to be on and I am loath to complain in /ooc for help.
It seems to me that if this was created for solo players in mind that wanted to grind out a dungeon crawl I think all in all it's been a fantastic job however, the bosses are killing the experience for me and I am so frustrated now with death 20something that I'm about to call it quits with my Paladin.
Before I do that I was hoping that there could be some input here.
Thanks!
Taggert the 24th Dorf Paladin
P.S. - Maybe I'm just brain dead but I still can't get into Paineel =/