Slave to the Grind

The title this week is so appropriate to how I have been playing recently and a little bit of good old fashion hard rock (crystalmoonchi thinking you will not enjoy this music video).

Yeah I got some strange stuff in the back pack.

So I haven't been blogging basically as I have been stuck on the grind route of Grouseman the heroic completionist. It just feels old smashing through quests and wildernesses that I have run probably several hundred times. I have been running him though and he is fun as a assassin rogue although he is primarily being played at the moment as a melee character almost fighter like with the different abilities. As I power level  he is currently two thirds of the way through level 18 and soon he will be working his way through 19 and getting ready for 3 warforged lives. I will be doing epic lives with him but at the moment I can't face epic rogue. The WF lives will be artis and 2 of them will definitely be skipped via xp stones. However with update 36 and the changes to Artificers I will be thinking I can do an epic version at some point. One of the great advantages of doing at least 40 more lives is I can pick and choose when to do epic with him and not need to do every one.

I do like the eyes even if it does mean switching with the mask to use it for the benefits.

So artificers are a changing and I have to thank @Strimtom for the video recently on the change. I know that I will have to revisit my artificers and will need 2 more whirling words which is my personal favourite rune arm. I hope that update 36 brings me back to my artificers as they have been quiet recently. My focus has been a rogue and a sorcerer, even my Barbarian (currently a fighter) has gone many days without getting much game time in.

So at level 17 this is how he looks.

With update 36 coming I was thinking about my own personal wish list, certainly 2 heroic wildernesses. I feel we need a level 8 and a level 12 wilderness but that is just me, I love wildernesses and feel a tiny bit aggrieved that I clear all those nasty monsters and yet not an once of favour. I mean slaughtering 7,500 monsters in the Orchard and not a single bit of favour??? Just wrong in my opinion! See okay didn't get on to the players council for whatever reason but I will still get my wish-list up lol.

My favourite Sorcerer finds killing a gargoyle above his head a little worrying. What goes up doesn't come down.

Going back to Grouseman, he has used a +5 supreme tome and is a completionist. So if I run him as a human he get each stat at 11  early and that will rise to a base of 15 for them all. So knowing that where to go with him? I have several bound and attuned Kukris with festival Icy burst and the level 8 ones are still the best choice when running the Vale. So Rogue was a natural choice but I am now thinking Tempest Ranger for his last life. Anyone who reads this blog and knows of a good build that I should look at please let me know as I have the next 40 or so lives planned but when I get there in 7 or 8 years time be nice to have a clue what to shoot at. Although if we get a race in the future that has Kukris for their god's favoured weapon then another choice will be opened.

Heading back to the Grind

Grouseman