Some Befallen
First trip into Befallen on a D0 solo instance at level 5, learning that an Enchanter pet is not a tank, and fighting a Linux client that crashes on loot four times in one session.
Into Befallen at level 5 on a difficulty zero solo instance, aiming for 10 so the loadout can become Warrior / Druid / Bard. The first room takes several attempts, the Enchanter pet turns out to be a healer rather than a tank, and the session ends early because the client crashed four times on Linux, every time on a loot.
Getting In
Instances are not /pick.
- Befallen zones in from West Commonlands right by the zone wall.
- Instances come from the zone number panel, not a slash command. Create difficulty zero, respawning, solo.
- "The zone is not ready to receive visitors yet" means it is still loading. Wait, and zone out and back if it persists.
- Ten seconds before you respawn after dying, or the mob that killed you is still standing there.
The First Room
Yellow cons and no heals.
- Everything in the entry room is yellow at 5, and the first pull is roughly four mobs.
- Lull to split, mez what you cannot kill. That is the whole Enchanter contribution at this level.
- Fight in defensive. There is no heal beyond the pet, so offensive is a death sentence until the room is broken.
- Roughly 7% a kill, so under 20 kills a level at this point.
- Kick, bash, and Cleave are all up at once, which is more damage than the numbers suggest.
Expect to die a few times. Respawning in the instance puts you back at the entrance rather than a corpse run across the world, which is the real convenience.
The Pet, Reassessed
A healbot with a dagger.
- The pet heals at 50%, not 40%, which keeps you out of Berserker stance and out of crippling blow range.
- It off-tanks by accident and dies regularly.
- You lose the pet on every log out, so resummon before you do anything.
- 29 tiny daggers left after this session, so the Sneak run for more is coming.
- Next pet upgrade is level 7, which is the real jump.
AAs and the Auto-Grant Trick
Ahead of schedule already.
- Combat Fury, then Mnemonic Retention twice. Already roughly where level 10 was supposed to land, thanks to the doubled AA potion.
- Level 6 auto-granted Root. See Invisibility was supposed to come with it and did not, which is another wiki correction.
- Swap through every loadout combination around level 20 to collect all the auto-granted spells you are eligible for.
- Improved Bash is the sleeper AA: without a shield it uses the best AC item among your weapons or shields, in any slot. The Warrior sky one-hander reaches 40 AC, which makes that a real attack.
The Crashes
Four in one session, all on loot.
- Every crash happened on looting, which points at the coin or auto-loot sound rather than anything in the zone.
- The crash folder had nothing but a checkpoint file, so there was nothing local to read.
- Bug report filed, though a Linux report on an unsupported platform is a long shot.
- The fix comes two episodes later: switching Crossover from the OpenGL backend to DXVK.
Also nerfed: the slave boots everyone recommends now weigh 150, which makes them effectively unusable.
Befallen at 5, Condensed
- Create the instance from the zone panel: D0, respawning, solo.
- Fight the first room in defensive until it is broken.
- Lull to split, mez the extra, and accept a few deaths.
- Wait ten seconds before respawning so your killer has moved.
- Resummon the pet after every log in.
- Spend AAs on Combat Fury and Mnemonic Retention, and put Improved Bash on the list.
- On Linux, go straight to DXVK rather than losing a night to it.
YouTube Generated Transcript
Hello and welcome to my legendary adventures in Norath. [music] And today we are going to go to Befallen. Last episode we hit level five with our ogre friend here. And uh we did it here in this zone. Go check that out if you want to see what I did. But uh we’re going to zone into Befallen. Uh it’s in the West Common Lands right by the zone wall when you zone in to it. Now, our goal for today is to get to level 10 or as close to level 10 as we can um so that we can uh we can switch to a warrior druid bard. Now, we’re using an enchanter, which has been uh fantastic. The pet heals me for 20 uh when I get under 40% health. And uh so far, it’s been good. Uh we do have the ability to mess things. Uh we do have a low mana pool because we are an ogre. So there is a little bit of a you know you know a casting situation there. But I think we should be able to clear this first room of befallen a [music] few times and level up to 10. We will uh once we get 10, we will uh go to [music] the XR city uh buy some spells uh whatnot. [music] get everything uh set up for warrior druid bard. And then uh I did see some level 15 mobs inside [music] of the uh cibilis zone that we will uh theoretically try to do. [music] All right. So we can do a slashpick here. No, that’s not that’s not how you do it anymore. [music] I forgot. Uh you go over here to the number create an instance. We’re going to create a difficulty zero. [music] respawning solo and uh we’re good to go. Yes. [music] Go ahead and create that. All right. So, our goal if we can is to pick up a scythe today from Asuka if we can get one. Uh on our way. Woo. All right. What happened there? Problem. Uh all right. Can we enter instance? Hopefully it works. If not, I’ll redo the video in a a few hours. Oh my god. [music] All right. So, when it says the zone is not ready to re visitors yet, I think that means it is still trying to load [music] it. So, we’re going to wait a few seconds here. We’re going to try maybe have to zone out and zone back in. Uh but let me fix this and then we should be in [music] the instance by the time I come back. All right, finally finally got in. All right, we got our pet. All right, I think [music] I’m going to get like four mobs on this first pull. Uh, so what we’re going to do is we’re going to do like this and I’m going to uh I don’t want to do I want to do this one. I am going to mess what I can. All right. So that’s like the ability to actually be an enchanter, right? I think I got it. I don’t I don’t even know if I messed it. Um, but we want [music] to then try to kill this guy as soon as possible. Now, I guess I should just cleave, honestly, uh, now that I’m thinking about it. But I don’t have any way to heal, so it’s, you know, it is what it is here. And they’re all yellow. But, uh, we’re in, uh, we’re going to do this. It’s going to it’s going to probably be rough, right? This is going to be rough in the first few pulls here until we get this kind of broken down a little bit. Looks like my pet is healing me and stuff. So, this is [music] good. And we’re getting all our skills up as we’re doing this. There we go. We got one of those. Let’s kill this rat. What is this? Rust broadsword. Let’s go and sell that junk. Yeah, I have no way to heal. So, I’m just going to probably eat this death and uh do it again. All right. Unless I can kill this guy before he kills me. I tried. All right. So, let’s count to 10. 1 [music] 2 3 4 5 6 7. You can see the mob is still there. Uh that’s why we don’t want to respawn right away. All right, that should be 10 seconds. All right, [music] so I mean it’s just going to take a few uh a few attempts like that till we can get through here. Uh we did pick up two AAS [music] uh just then, so it’s worth doing something with, I think. Um, let me check my list here. So, we were going for combat fury and [music] then retention and then I guess we’re going to pick up another retention. [music] Yes. And then we have one more AA. What can we get [music] with that fury of magic? Astros. I think we’re good [music] there. All right. I think I’ll save these uh I’ll save this one for whatever uh whatever comes next. All right. Let’s get that. And [music] is that the right one? Yeah. So, let’s pull him with a dot and then we get the plague. And then I’m going to switch to the plague. Going to mess the plague. There we go. We should be able to fight this guy down [laughter] before it kills us. There we go. Now, as we get closer to [music] a tent, I could probably go back to the uh the other city and pick [music] up uh an illusion to shrink down, but I think we’re fine right now. I think this is going to work. All right. And then we can sell this rusty mining pick. We’re going to dot this guy. And there we go. We kind of broke this this little area now. I believe there’s two more yellow ones over there. And then might be two more over here. Uh but we’ll have to heal up a little bit first. Ah, but there we go. So, we’re getting what? 7.3 for that guy. What was the other one? Seven. So, uh, you know, you know, like [music] less than 20 kills and we’ll be at level six, so not bad. That was only five. All right, so [music] that’s those two there. There should be two guys over here. Let’s get some mana [music] first. And actually, we can just turn [music] on that. So there’s a plague rat and a dude there. So and ideally we just want to [music] kind of slow roll our way through it. I don’t want to rush. I don’t want to try cuz we’re not going to be able to pull that guy without getting really close over there. But I want to get my [music] health back up a little bit first. But, uh, we’re already [music] we’re already pretty much where I thought I’d be AA wise, uh, at like level 10. So, [music] this is this is this is worth it. Uh, definitely worth it there. Um, oh, crack skeleton spawned on us. Perfect. So, dot him up. There we go. [music] Now I’ll have to go through and like turn off the combat text. I turned all that off on my other other one, but I guess I didn’t have it. This is This is different install, [music] right? So, I didn’t copy the files over except for the UI. That’s it. So, I kind of wanted to [music] do it as fresh as possible really. Uh, but I like this layout. So, I don’t have all my save [music] spells and stuff. There should be another mob that spawns. It’s just hard to see. Maybe it’s going to take a few seconds for him. Now, uh when we do get 15, we are going to pop over to uh Butcher Blackboro and get the shoulders real quick. [music] Uh that is going to be something we’re going to do. Uh just because I want to be able to shrink and [music] I’m getting mixed reports of the uh the wolf form can actually uh be used indoors. Uh, let’s see. You’re a wolf from people on YouTube. So, I don’t know if that can be indoors or outdoors only. Uh, so definitely uh got to figure that out real quick. Now, [music] where are these? I thought there was two mobs right here. I don’t know 100% sure, but these [music] ones should spawn real quick. and we’ll kind of move down there after that. I guess [music] they’re taking taking their sweet ass times. [laughter] I didn’t think [music] it took me that long to kill them. Jeez. Uh, see here. Do we get any new spells? Gate invisibility. I guess when I pull I can mez one of these to pull. Uh, that might work. I guess I got a lulled, right? I just realized I had that on my first me [music] spot. All right, this is taking longer than I thought for a [music] respawn. Let’s do this. All right, let’s uh LOL you. Let’s tag you. Oh, he brought a friend anyway. All right. Let’s go to melee. We should be cleaving, right? So, I’m okay with fighting both of these. We’re going to dot this one though. All right, [music] that looks good. And we’ll just use lols and [music] mezes to kind of make sure we we’re good and stuns, right? We got all the we got all the control we need right now. Now, I do plan on leveling up an enchanter. Uh, I have a few build ideas [music] that I want to do with the enchanter, just it’s not in my uh it’s not in my current list. We got a rat on us now. All right, he’s dead. What is this? Splintering club 1436 [music] on himself. There we go. Oh, and the pet. Looks like the pet’s off tanking. So, thanks, pet. Uh, let’s do a six for a dot. There we go. Now, we’ll just work our way down [music] to the Lrod down there, right? Like, he is uh he is definitely [music] going to be kind of where we uh we’re trying to get to. He drops um stuff. I just lo Did I crash? I crashed the desktop [music] on looting that. All right. Uh, give me a minute. All right, we’re back in. I don’t know what caused me to [music] crash, but uh, it could be a Linux thing, right? I heard six moes, though. That’s the only thing I saw on my screen [music] when when that went off. But if we stun, let’s see what happens now. We should be fine, right? Like I don’t know if it crashes again. I’ll have to like look into it, but uh I I shouldn’t have any problems. There we go. Looks like that guy already respawned. Took me forever to get my character out of the the game. All right, we got a small box. [music] I saw some some dude in the Discord bought all the bags and all the inventory slots. Hilarious. It looks It’s like a full screen of [music] bags. It’s like my uh almost like live definitely. [music] Uh might do that. I think there’s going to be one more guy that spawns like right where we’re at, [music] but we should be we’re just [music] doing fine right now. I mean, I’m doing it in defensive because I have no way to heal, right? Like that’s [music] that’s the biggest biggest issue. And if I do it outside of defensive, I’m assuming I will not be able to survive long enough. But you know what? Let’s let’s try and see. God, that thing melted. I guess we do have kick, we have bash, we have cleave all at the same time, right? And then we just got a green text. What the hell that was? He’s I wish these uh these this uh floating text was in the world. Not [music] I mean like on the screen and not in the world, right? So you could actually uh see it when it’s the camera’s jacked up like the way it is right now. All right. Defensive. Here you go. Welcome back to the guild. I don’t know what happened there. There we go. And we killed them all. Look at that. Would you look at that? All right, we need some health. So, let’s let it regenerate a few seconds here. But, uh you see we’re almost uh level six. So, this is going to it’s going to be a little bit of a schllo, I would say. Uh the [music] pet is not really a uh not really a a [music] tank, I would say, but uh it’ll be fine and whatnot. All right. I feel like I feel like we might be able to kill this guy. Especially in defensive as long as nothing adds, right? Combat fury is [music] two. So we have three unspent AA. No, one unspent. All right, there we go. I think the the pet [music] will heal me and keep me out of berserker stance since he’s healing me at 50 versus 40%. [music] So, it’s kind of hilarious really, but uh it’s going pretty good. There we go. And boom. All right. Now, we got two more up there, but these two are going to spawn. And these are going to be like a white and a yellow, [music] I think. And we’re going to kind of focus uh, you know, doing this over and over again. I might do a cut for a few of uh the few of the cycles uh once we get it kind of locked down, but [music] uh definitely uh good. I wish wish I could get [music] that guy without the rat. Right. Let me see. Can I I can see his feet. Can I? I got them both. [music] There we go. We’ll just fight it right here. I guess I need to get the uh pet [music] thing. Oh, we got a third. All right. We’re going to have to Let’s do this. Let’s tell the pet to attack this one. Pet’s about to die anyway. Stun. [laughter] Perfect. Oh, perfect. All right. And this one should already be healing me. So, if he ran out of mana, he’s he’s good. We got 29 pets to go, right before we have to go uh do that rogue dance again. There we go. Looking good. Excellent. What is this? This [music] is a 139. Nope. We’re at 29 gold. Oh, we lost a pet. That casts that cast really fast. Like I’m in I’m not even one of the fast cast [music] fast cast stances either. That is nice. Oh, we got another mob on us somewhere. Maybe. I don’t know why he’s not healing me, but maybe he’s out of mana. All right, that’s fine. You still see our body over there. All right, let’s get some mana. I mean, this is just, you know, beating my head against the wall, but it’s [music] fun. I am having blast doing it. So, let’s fix that bag. I don’t know why all my bags are like single slotted like that. It’s kind of weird. We’ll get real bags at some point. I just don’t care enough right now. All right, let’s get a pet. And this is going to be a twofer, I believe. Right, cuz that rat’s right there. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, I’m I am a smart ogre. All right, here we go. So, I lulled that one uh so that I could uh get this one alone, which uh seems to be the play there. This will give us closer to level six. Let me look at my little thing here. Six. Frame rate drops like [\h__\h] when I click off the window. Hold on. Uh interface system background FPS. You can you can stay at like 69 FPS, buddy. I’m okay with that. I got the I got the power. I got the power. You can uh You don’t need [music] to dampen yourself for us. There we go. Let’s do a stun. The stun’s lowkey strong. All right. When we hit level six, we’re going to get root and sea invis auto granted, which not that great. Not that great at all. I thought we started with minor shielding, but I guess not. Oh, mage starts with [music] minor shielding. Now, there is a uh there’s a trick you can do by switching loadouts between all the different uh classes [music] to get your uh all your auto grants and stuff. So, make sure you do that at like level 20. Switch. Oh, shoot. Uh, make sure you switch between them all and uh, get everything. All right, stun. Guild and fight. No boat, too. Welcome to the guild. Welcome. Oh, we got a shield. All right, we’ll take that. That might be more AC than what we got going on in our boots. Four. Four. No. No, it’s not. There we go. Let’s see [music] here. Vision guild invite. Vision X. We got [music] something behind us, I think. welcome. [music] There we go. No, I’m like literally like if you guys are watching when when this goes live, I’m literally just playing. So, I’m not really uh I’m not really talking much when I when I play uh in the uh like guild and stuff like that. I talk a lot more when I’m not recording. I’m paying attention. So, don’t be mad I don’t respond. Okay, good. This should get us room like I said. >> [clears throat] >> There we go. Come on. Oh my. This one This one must be a little bit higher level. I think it’s a since it’s level nine. That’s just a little higher. There we go. And we only got root. What? We didn’t get C in viz autog granted. All right, I’m going screenshot that one. That’s another one. That’s incorrect. All right, I don’t have enough health to do that guy down there, do I? I don’t have enough health for that guy either. Those two. So, let’s wait a second here. This was That’s secondary. And where are where like are we bashing for real? See, it’s hard to tell if we’re bashing for real, right? Dodges, dodges. I see what the problem there is. Interface, combat, color, uh, combat, and then my my hits. Where are my hits? All right. my flurry. Change change color. Do those orange. And you hit other. Let’s do those like this weird yellow. And we’ll leave Mrs. that color. There we go. I should use the interface to enter versus the button. There we go. Perfect. Oh, my pet is not alive. I think I noticed that. And all right, what’s our next pet? Our next pet is seven. All right, next level, which should give us a theoretically level nine or level 10 pet. So be that um see manage menu. All right, swap [music] this way. All right, what do we get here? A crack staff. Let’s merge that one. Uh we got a belt pouch. Let’s take that. So that’ll give us another plus one crack staff, [music] I believe. Right, they should have done that, but they’re both same stats, so it doesn’t really matter [music] till we get something better. I really want to get to a two-hander, [music] but it is what it is there. [music] And looks like the uh tokens don’t work in the shop. There we go. All right, [music] let’s get you two. That’s going to be three, I think. Let’s l you. Nope. That all gets uh resisted a lot. Uh now at six, we did get soothe, but uh we have to go buy that [music] one. So, I didn’t I don’t have it. There we go. Yeah, they I knew they were going to nerf those boots [music] and uh they nerfed them from uh to weigh 150, [music] which is just makes them unusable, honestly, without m I guess you’d have to max out their uh [music] their uh what you call it. [music] Really? All right. I guess we’re we’re going deeper. Well, no. If I pull this guy, I’m going [music] to pull like three mobs over there. Uh, so what we’re going to do, let’s go into this door. Let’s crouchy crouch and start working our way here. I’m trying to remember exactly what we did in the tuto, not the tutorial, but the other two videos I did, but we should be fine right here. All right. So, do we have a bash? We’re bashing for one. I’m bashing for one. All right. I don’t like that. We’re bashing for one. Let’s try this. Uh let’s take these boots off cuz they’re 4 AC. Right. Let’s bind this buckler to us. I guess it’s five hit points. We might merge that into uh something else there. All right. I don’t know what we’re going to get here. Most that mofo. Let’s five this guy and turn on attack. All right. So, we got another onepoint bash. I might have to buy the uh the bash a though. Uh ratars [music] auto store. Sell that. Yeah, I think we’re still one. Uh we we’re not bashing with it in the any slot. V archetype [music] improve bash without a shield will always use the best AC [music] item among weapons or shields. Oh my god, I just realized how OP that is, right? Uh so, uh the Dugas, the in-game warrior onehander, right, is a 40 AC onehander. Uh, I don’t think the shields get much better than that. So, that’s going to be crazy. There we go. It’s a little bit slower here cuz these are not yellow, but uh we’re going to make our way through the these rooms here and uh whatnot. Now, I got about 30 minutes before I got to go cook dinner and then [music] uh uh so what we’ll do is I’ll probably cut the video and we’ll just do a second part of this stone cuz I I’m I feel like longer [music] videos while some of them do well, some of them just don’t. And might as well uh do it that way. All right, we’re going to go into offensive. This is probably going to kill me now that I realize what I just did. Uh hopefully we can kill one of these things really quick. Oh, we lost our pet. Yeah, I don’t know where all these mobs came from, but maybe we can kill one of them. I don’t know. There’s one. No, we we didn’t make it. All right. [music] Respawn. There we go. All right. Is like this is the convenience, [music] right? You die, you don’t have to start all the way back from spawn and go get your body. You’re having a good time, right? I’m having a good time. Are you having a good time? All right, we’re going to take I wish I could preview what the stats [music] work, but we’re going to probably just put this one in there. Merge that. Yeah, just so we’re not hauling around. I’m not going to waste the mode on it, right? I don’t really care that much. And we should be good. Should be like three mobs, right? But none of them are going to uh too too crazy. All right, so Cleave is hitting for 14. Crush is hitting for 18. Uh and I think I crashed again. All right. [laughter] I don’t know what it is. I think there’s a sound. Uh there’s a bug in the sound. I think that’s what it is. Uh, I I restarted the game before checking the uh the log, but it seems when whenever [music] that sound plays at the end of a kill, it’s causing [music] uh Do I not have a pet? I thought I summoned one. There we go. seems to lo I seem to lose my pet every time I log on and off. So, not 100% sure there. All right. Not sure where this other mob is at. We got two. But [laughter] I’m having fun even with I even with a crash, right? I don’t just don’t know. All right. 133. Nope. Auto. So, but uh if I crash again, uh I’m going to try to debug it a little bit before I uh continue recording, but uh definitely hilarious there. There we go. All righty. So, I’ I’ve crashed three times. Uh and I think I think it’s just cuz I’m running Linux. I I didn’t run into these problems before. I think it’s I think it’s when I kill the [music] rat. So, I’m going to try it one more time, but if it doesn’t work, that’s this is going to be the end of the video. So, we’ll see how this goes here. Uh I submitted a bug report, but I don’t I don’t know if it’s uh [music] you know, if it’ll help since it is a Linux. I don’t see the the crash log [music] on my computer. So, I don’t know if it’s just uh I don’t know if it’s just uh the uh what you call it. Let’s see if we crash when we kill this rat here. It It seems to be something. I don’t know what it is. Um but uh no, we’ll try. All right. There’s the rat. The rat didn’t do it. All right. Now, another guy I saw a bug report for some guy with sound [music] issues when it when it crashes, but we’ll see. But we’ll try to get a few more kills if we can here. There we go. Didn’t crash. Hopefully he can uh hopefully I’ll be able to play. Get that one. Lol. and F5 that guy and it’ll bring his friend. [music] Excellent. But uh you know, we’re almost level seven and uh whatnot. So that’s pretty good. So hopefully uh hopefully we can uh hopefully we can uh continue playing here. All right, there’s another moat. auto store that. There’s [music] got to be some kind of like auto auto loot thing that’s causing the uh the issue for me. I don’t know what it is. Yeah. See, I’m still at six. Maybe last time I got that that last one, it crashed or something before I got it. [music] I don’t know if the uh the crash logs go automatically uploaded, right? Not sure if that’s how [music] that works, but uh hopefully uh can figure it out. This is working pretty well now. I guess we should have kept that rust broadsword we got the first time. All right. Oh, there’s another dude swacking us from behind here. But as you can see, the build is the build is is fairly good. We’re about to get two more AAS and uh hopefully this kill. Come on. There we go. Stun him. All right. Two bone ships and we crashed. There we go. Reload. Scroll all the way down. Yeah. [music] Same. the same exact uh fatal error. Yeah, exact same [music] one. And the crash folder, nothing but a checkpoint, which uh I don’t know even know what what they got going on there. So, that’s that. I mean, I’m going to I’m going to go eat dinner and uh come back and uh go from there. Thank you guys very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.
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