Clarysta Under the Weather

I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain

I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end

I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend

But I always thought I’d see you again

Except that I can't see you. Through the graphics animation effects. Boo for snow, rain and fire.

There I am, running through torrential rain in Tal Bruinen searching for dwarf iron. Why the dwarves left so much iron littering the countryside, I’ll never understand. But why a shard dropper has to bring weather effects is equally baffling. (as a side note, the call came to join the kin in the Moors so I didn’t track down that dropper.)

A snowstorm? I’m freezing. Literally. My laptop CANNOT take the snow in Zirakzigal. I can’t even move, and sometimes I can’t even get my map to work to get the H out of there. That’s the worst of all the locations I think, and luckily I rarely run HoM. However, I do have 2 more toons to get through book 8. ::sadface

But back to shard droppers - that’s gotta be one of the best funs in the game. Yeah, I know, not a word, but too bad. It’s what C said 

I took out Gwollug last night, on my little 61 minnie. Got an orc in Lorien up by the Fanuidhol flet too, but had help from a kind hunter passing by. I’m sure I woulda been able to take him.  I’ll never forget how much fun I had soloing the drake in Angmar back in the SoA days. Or the time I saw the turtle and summoned in The Champ, only to have the turtle path right into him when he appeared.  The first one I ever killed was the warg in the Lonelands, and I got yelled at by a group that had been hunting him. I used to camp the toad at Starmere lake for hours - it’s one of the most beautiful spots in the game so not really a hardship. I got to know the Forochel droppers really well. I FINALLY took down that annoying wight the other day - even at 65 he has a heck of a hit. I say annoying because he was never there when I’d go looking. WTB hunter track skillz please.

Shard dropper killing should be like a rite of passage.  Solo even.  Should be a deed for getting all the mobs.

And the world is now a better place, because we all have James Taylor stuck in our head.