Settling for less
I wasn’t satisfied with just walking away from Varsoon after dying ten over times to him in Palace of Ferzhul. No, I had to get even somehow. As the popular saying goes, pick on someone your one size. Thus, I paid the Chronomagic NPC a visit, lowered myself to level 35, and served another copy of him his just desserts.
My fun with Chronomagic didn’t just end there. Along with the auto-mentoring system, SOE also added daily missions for them, just like the current shard daily doubles. Basically, the quests are a way to encourage and reintroduce old instances to people and get them grouping in those places again. The quest would send you back to an instance that is at least one tier behind your currently level, requiring you to mentor down, either by having a lower level friend, or by using the Chronomagic NPC. The zone for today was the Crypt of Valdoon in Looping Plains. I had a full group of people ranging from 77-80s mentored down to 70 for it, and it was cake.
The reward was pretty spiffy. It gave +1000 faction with the Chronomancers, which could be used to buy fluff armor when you have accumulated enough. However, that’s not all. It also gives you a choice to buy a miniature replica of whichever boss in the zone you had to kill for the daily mission for a bit over a plat. In this case, it was Count Valdoon Kel’Novar.
I’ve hardly explored much of the GU53 content, but I’m pleased with what I’ve seen so far.