heRO Leveling Parties!

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I kinda have mixed feelings about this event. I am fairly new to heRO, but I figure this is more like an EXP event rather trying to get people to party with other people.

Here is my experience, I was in the 65-75 bracket, we went to rachel and everything was pretty good at the beginning. Exp wasn't too bad, wasn't too fast either just good old mob kill in a big group. As we went through rachel got to the MVP, and boy did we get owned... A LOT! haha this is prolly first and most likely the last time I was gonna see Gloom ever again. I am sure everyone at least lost 10% + exp from dying there, eventually MVPed it and gained back most of it, if not leveled from killing it. Later, we decided to goto Magma dungeon, which I feel was a big mistake... When we got recalled there our number shrunk and our killer count dropped significantly. Nightmare terrors are by no means easy kills, nor do they give good exp for the effort to kill them. Sure it is mobby but we seriously lacked killers, no offense but Super novis and regular chemists are there just to leech exp. We eventually found Skoll and well that was just a waste of time and exp, I believe the party was down to 1 sniper, 1 sage, 1 gunslinger, 1 wiz, 1 SN, 1 or 2 sins, and 1 chemist. Hmm not sure if there were any one else but those are the few that really stand out in my mind. Anyways, time ran out and we didn't finish Skoll, again died several times. From this event I gained about 2 levels in the end. (was 74)

My take on this event is this, it was a fun exp event with GM guide through various places. I seriously doubt people would actually be willing to party with some of these jobs though. If I were to make a 3-4 man team I would NEVER have a group like sin, sniper, wiz, sin... Oh yes forgot to mention in my group there were no priests lol... I mean come on any serious team should have a priest. Anyways, back to the point the chemists ugh those kinda turned me way off, they would either get in the way and die a lot drawing the GM's attention away to go res them, or go off alone and die somewhere then ask GM to go res them. Do they throw pots? No. Do they cast bolts? No. Do they use any sort of skill? No. So what good are they for? Ummm yea they were there to leech exp and items... I mean at least the SN would try to cast bolts, sure they did like 200 something but at LEAST do something. Which is why I don't think of it as a party event, but a exp event. Was it fun? VERY! I never seen GM skills before and boy were they fun haha I enjoyed most of the event until we went to Magma.

My role? If you are wondering who I was in the event I was playing my Wizard, yes the only wizard in the group. He is my alt not my main, I was there to have fun with a friend don't care if you mock my skills lol I did a ok job I thought instant cast, 0 cool down was very fun, ran out of sp sooo fast though. I am pretty sure I was close to MVPing Gloom, not sure who got it though.

Past exp event experience. Like I said I am fairly new to heRO but there have been past exp like events. Like I remember when Mystra hosted a zombie killing event we all formed parties to kill waves upon waves of undead, which is free exp right? lol that was fun because I was on my ME priest, but the problem with that kind of event is, there is no share range. Everyone doesn't get equal exp just the killers. Those who cannot kill ended up dying or support and get nothing out of it. Maybe its fun to them I dunno. I remember Ayu also hosting a monster killing event. Again on my priest, and again same rules applied. This time I didn't get much exp because I cannot kill non-undead/demon types. So I would support with blesses/agi ups. In these events GMs would only res the dead, 0 support. I thought these events were fun, again only problem was that it wasn't party friendly, just killer. I dunno if people prefer to have these kind of past exp events? or just to throw them away? But I personally, enjoy them whether it is this one or a past one.