Level 28/29...SM?

Ok, ok, now I haven't read any of the other write ups, and I know I'm late. Sorry. Yes, the Purple Poxers went into Scarlet Monastery on Tuesday; the plan was to do the Graveyard and see how far we could get in the Library. The Graveyard has level 31-33 mobs; the Library has level 33-35 mobs.

We started the evening with a mix of level 28 and 29's and had all dinged 29 by the end of the first Graveyard run. So, off to the Library we went. The first couple of pulls were...interesting. We had some adds from runners and quite a lot of our spells were being resisted. But we survived and moved on. We cleared the courtyard and took on Loksey with his puppies - 4 level 33/34 elite mobs, one of which was a boss.

We did not die. I ran out of mana, and Madja had to help heal, but in the end, we were all standing and amazed that we had just done what we did at level 29. So, we pushed deeper into the Library and just after the end of the first hall, wiped. The mobs were level 33/34, but there were 5 of them. The skull kept getting heals also, so that didn't help. We figured out we could handle 3-4 of the mobs if it was just tank 'n spank, but fighting against group dynamics was a different matter. The resisted spells just added up to too many misses and wasted mana.

Since we already had respawns when we retrieved our corpses and since we still had an hour and a half left for our playtime, we decided to run the Graveyard a couple of times. We ended up running it 3 times (each of which ended with the killing of the guy at the bottom of the end crypt.), killing 2 rare spawns and the guy in the aforementioned parenthetical. Harisan got a REALLY nice chestpiece off one of the rares, we all dinged 30, and some of us got some upgrades.

So, now that we have our level 30 spells, we figure we should be able to run the Library next week. I think we finally found a challenge....