Vanguard: The Blighted Lands
The Riftseeker at Lotus Hold gives out many quests. They are designed to make you travel around using the Riftway system so that you can get experience with using it. I decided to try it out by starting the A Need For Heroes: Blighted Lands quest. Once I arrive in the Blighted Lands, I am to speak to Guard Eba.
Guard Eba has many quests to give the newly arrived adventurer. Next to him is Guard Na Cho who also has many quests available. The first quests had to deal with eliminating Ulvari Devourers which are nothing more than gremlins, and thin out an infestation of what turned out to be flying eyeballs. These creatures were just steps away from where you get the quests, so they were easy to complete.
The Ulvari Corruption: Ulvari Devourers quest resulted in me receiving 1 silver, 60 copper, and 3983 experience points. The Eye of the Ulvari gave 1 silver, 50 copper, and 3618 experience. The Eyes of Ulvari surround a colorful rock formation and are very easy to pull solo. The same goes for the gremlins. I also completed the Ulvari Pearls quest that had me find a pearl that the gremlins drop. It gave me 75 copper and 1921 experience and this quest is repeatable.
The next set of quests had to do with the Loamsworm Brotherhood. There is a stronghold of these brigands located just past the Ulvari area. They built their fortress inside some mountain walls.
There are several different kinds of these brigands and I had to go kill several of each as well as bring back some gems that they drop. It’s actually a neat area with fast spawns that can keep the solo player busy. A group could burn through it in minutes. I completed the quests Loamsworn Necklaces, Prophetic Action, The Rest of the Bunch, and Alluvian Gems. They all gave around a silver each along with 3618 experience points each.
I dinged level 17 and logged out for the night.
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