FoW and UW Access Weekend

DZwart

DZwart

Legacy of Elijah Officer
FoW and UW Access Weekend 20 March 2007
Players who have been looking towards The Fissure of Woe or The Underworld with an eye to its challenging gameplay and special loot will be pleased to note that this weekend offers free and open access to both areas. All statues of Grenth and Balthazar located within outposts will be active for characters who are qualified to enter these areas. Access will be at no cost, and will not be tied to a territory holding the Favor of the Gods. This free access will begin at Noon PDT on Friday, and end at 11:59 p.m. PDT on Sunday night.
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-FoW and UW with NO FAVOR REQUIRED
-NO COST

Lets plan on a few group runs this weekend. I'll lead a couple runs in the UW followed by a FoW run depending on time on Sunday Night at 10pm EDT. We'll meet in the guild hall and travel to ToA/Zin Ku/Chantry once we have our team together. We'll limit our UW runs to clearing the smites since that's the fastest way to get ecto's and there's no additional cost to leave and start over for now.

If some others could step forward and lead other sessions at other times, let's try to make this an opportunity to group with guildies.
 
i'd love to go, but 10pm on Sunday is wayyy too late to start a run that will take several hours. If enough folks are interested in a different time slot I'd love to go.
 
yeah, i'm not sure i can do that late on a sunday evening, i've been tending to open on monday mornings(5am). i've got saturday off, and depending upon how my wife feels, or what we're doing, i may be online then.
 
The past 2 nights paul1, 1-2 alliance members, and I have been going into the FoW with 8 man groups. Most of the times we get done with 2-4 quests.

I would be interested in leading a group but I need to ask my parents if I can get on, so its a mabey.
 
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Lets plan on a few group runs this weekend. I'll lead a couple runs in the UW followed by a FoW run depending on time on Sunday Night at 10pm EDT.
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You have a whole weekend and we got on at 10 on SUNDAY??

I'm leading mah OWN grewp.
 
ChickenSoup said:
I'm leading mah OWN grewp.
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That's why I said:

DZwart said:
If some others could step forward and lead other sessions at other times, let's try to make this an opportunity to group with guildies.
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So thanks for stepping up and volunteering.

It's not that I won't be on at all this weekend, because I'm sure I will, but I just can't commit to leading at other times. A UW smite run may only take and hour or less, and with free access it's not bad if you have to leave early.
 
What is required to be qualified for those areas? Specificly conserning a NightFall char. Currently I am in the Sunspear Santuary with the primary quest The Great Escape. Can I make it there in time to play with you guys? Thank you.
 
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i think you just need to be ascended, and for NF at Chanctry of Secrets, you can make it but you will have to work hard
 
Bro_Hart said:
What is required to be qualified for those areas? Specificly conserning a NightFall char. Currently I am in the Sunspear Santuary with the primary quest The Great Escape. Can I make it there in time to play with you guys? Thank you.
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Guildwikki says

To access the Underworld, you need to have completed the ascension in at least one of the campaigns, you can then speak with the Voice of Grenth in the following locations, when your area has the Favor of the Gods, :

* The Prophecies Campaign has an entrance to the Underworld in the Temple of the Ages. There is also an alternate entrance into The Underworld located in Lornar's Pass.
* The Factions Campaign has an entrance to the Underworld in Zin Ku Corridor.
* The Nightfall Campaign has an entrance to the Underworld in Chantry of Secrets

Note that you must pay 1 platinum (per party) to gain entrance.
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A NF toon needs to have finished the Hunted Quest to be allowed to go into the Underworld http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Hunted!

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i never get what it means to be "ascended" is that meaning ascended armor? or what? cause i have kurz armor.... and ive been in FoW, and did i think three quests.... i was the only one who got an obsidian shard... only one dropped... it sucked, but i did get a tonne of normal loot :) i could do one at about.... 1030 my time.... 12 30 estersn i think... WAIT.... ... did eastern time have daylight savings too? well what ever... i might have a barrager to bring with me too... a buddy from church plays so yea
 
In the original campain (Prophesies), your character went through "ascension". This required you to beat all 3 missions in the crystal desert and beat the Doppleganger at Augury Rock. Armor doesn't matter, I don't think you even need to be "ascended" in the campain for the entrance to FoW/UW you are going to use, but I'm not certain as I've never tried going with my Assassin, Rit, or Paragon, or one of the others through the factions or nightfall outposts.

In Factions, the equivalent to "Ascended" is "Closer to the Stars" (or Weh no Su) which you become after completing the Nahpui Quarter mission.

In Nightfall, the quest "Hunted" is the equivalent to ascension. This is the quest that ends in clearing the sanctuary. If you are at the Sunspear Sanctuary, you should be able to go to FoW/UW.

The easiest way to go for chapter 2 or 3 characters after finishing Nahpui Quarter (Factions characters) or Hunted! (Nightfall characters) would be to travel to Tyria and fight or get a run to ToA. It's a reasonable run from LA or Bergen Hot Springs.
 
TheRaven said:
i'd love to go, but 10pm on Sunday is wayyy too late to start a run that will take several hours. If enough folks are interested in a different time slot I'd love to go.
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A UW run doesn't take several hours. Usually, you can kill the Aataxes, do the first quest to open the pathway, and then go kill the smites within an hour or less with a 3 or 4 man ranger trap team. Add a couple of other damage dealers to the mix designed to beat up on Coldfires, and it could go even faster.

Count me in for Sunday night at 10pm.
 
Well I'd lead in a SF group because that's all I have but my ele HAS functioned as a trapper in the UW before :p but I'm thinking like saturday afternoon
 
Any chance someone will take a noob with them? I have never done FOW or UW. I would lik to do it thoiugh. BUt at 10 on sunday night is not a good time for me.
 
DZwart said:
....I don't think you even need to be "ascended" in the campain for the entrance to FoW/UW you are going to use, but I'm not certain as I've never tried going with my Assassin, Rit, or Paragon, or one of the others through the factions or nightfall outposts.
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I can answer that one. You definitely do not have to be ascended in your "home" territory. I have a Tyrian warrior who never made thru the desert (she has now, but not at the time), but had completed the Closer to the Stars quest in Factions. She was able to enter the fissure both from the Temple of Ages and Zin Ku Corridor.

I also have a Canthan ranger who also has not made it to the desert. She also can enter the fissure from the Temple of Ages.
 
sdenotter said:
i never get what it means to be "ascended" is that meaning ascended armor? or what?
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being ascended means that you can now fight/see bigger and badder enemies. it also means you can change ur secondary (only in the characters birth country). like We no Su means that you can now see Shiro and can kill him. Being Ascended in Tyria means that you can... um... i think you "unlock hidden powers" not sure on that one. and in NF it has no storyline process what so ever, other then you get an awsome secret underground base!
 
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