Asherons Call: Fist de Tues, Um, Wednesday

A tad late on our part thanks to network issues (and Circeus probably jinxing us last week), but here's this week's update from Fist de Yuma:

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Cliff Bowman
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I was running along the beach as far out into the water as I could go. This required me to head back to the beach every so often to get by the water barriers. Here I had a small problem. As I was running towards the beach I hit a section where I became immobile. No matter which way I turned I would not move. The Tuskers just stared at me. I was very afraid I was really running across the island and going to die in some horribly inaccessible spot. I logged to clear the lock up.

Much to my surprise I did not log in at the LS. I logged back in the exact spot I had logged out at. Even though Tuskers surrounded me nothing had attacked me. So it was a bad lag spot on the server and not some block in the Internet.

The beach started running inward so I had to get very close to shore to keep going. This was a danger, as I would end up running into the invisible blockage. Several Tuskers finally trapped me. Two of the tuskers were the big ones I would be facing in the 100+. On my next try I'll to a total land run.

While it was really the Assaulters that did most of the damage the other two were hitting me enough that I knew I could not defeat them all. I'm sure that they resisted every spell I tossed, despite my 415 War skills, but in the excitement I'm not sure. The key problem with those Tuskers was even landing a spell, not the damage they inflict, which is considerable.

In any case I was not clearing the Tuskers and was spending 75% of my time healing. Without killing even one of the attacking Tuskers I ported out to safety.

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