Carrying on from where I left off yesterday, I assembled a group this morning in a vain attempt to kill Varsoon and finish up yesterday’s instance. After which, I spent the next couple hours spamming the channels looking a Palace of Ferzhul group while grinding out some writs. I even had time to spare, drawing a flowchart of how terrible my weekends are should anyone ask on the following work day.
In the mist of spamming LFGs, I learnt how to use Visio too. No more PowerPoint flowcharts for me.
The day didn’t just end there. I was saved by Latharek late the in afternoon who put together a PoF group for me. That’s the guy who also helped me get my T4 armor too. I owe him lots. Since our group’s Troubadour also had a saved Varsoon only instance of PoF, there was some confusion in determining whose instance, whether mine or his, to use so that one of us wouldn’t get the ‘you may not enter an instance created prior to when your previous instances minimum lockout timer expired’ message. I’ve never had an issue understanding the message, but it can be confusing for some. For heroic zones with a typical 18 hours lockout, what it simply means is that, if you zone into and instance and have a lockout starting at 0100h, you won’t be able to enter another person’s instance unless it his lockout started after 1900h on that day. How did I get the latter number? Time my instance was created + lockout time (18h). It’s only fair because otherwise could constantly do another instance someone else created and never having a lockout yourself. Perhaps I worded it badly, and still do, thus I ended up drawing a small diagram to explain.
Hope I made sense.
Back to the group, we ended up killing Varsoon twice. First time using the saved instance which was cleared up to Varsoon and incurring no lockout penalty, and then resetting it and clearing the whole zone again. Finally, I have my Dagger of the Ethernaut Magus, and wrapped up the TSO signature line. I plan to finish up the signatures and weapon quests from other expansions too eventually, but that’s for another day.