Bone quest

Players wandering below the graveyard

One of the graveyard quests is to collect 50 Bones. With a few friends I imaging raiding the graveyard for bones would be easy, and I think this is the approach a lot of people are taking. I still like a slower game and it seems a few other players seem to as well. While wandering below the graveyard I spotted a few people doing solo and small group raids on monsters.

Group attacks on the graveyard do seem to result in rapid advancement, well relatively rapidly. I've gone from 73 to 75 in a few days (not playing all day of course, just a couple of hours). It's nice to advance, but I really wasn't seeing a lot of bones since players who hit harder get the drops first. In some cases a drop was mine and if I'd already grabbed a few bones and there was a player who didn't hit as hard I'd let them squat on a bone until it became available. It isn't about rushing it but enjoying it.

Lately I've been wandering below just soloing skeletons and I've noticed that all but one skeleton didn't critically hit me - 61 Luck, not at the magic 66 yet, but close - a couple of levels. I picked up 2 or 3 bones this way. It seems you have to kill quite a few skeletons to get bones. I had gem drops, skull drops and lots of no drops, but only a few bones. Still, it's nice not being hit hard by skeletons anymore, it's an encouraging sign that I could probably get all the rest of the bones by myself.

Hanging out in the graveyard

Hanging out in the graveyard

Hello, my name is Tarq, and I'm a graveyard addict. It's a bad T.V. cliche, but hanging out in the mana world graveyard is a lot of fun. Each time I seem to meet new people stack fighting skeletons, zombies, and lady skeletons in the graveyard. This time we even spotted Jack'o outside the graveyard.

Helene, Milady, Cujo78, bops, Paris and I all swarmed the denizens of the graveyard for about 15 minutes (I had to get ready for work after - or rather write this quickly before getting ready for work). We saw KillerZ knocking away solo. I probably should do the same.

Stack fighting in the graveyard is great if your goal is experience. It's not so great if your goal is to get bones for the bone quest (or a heart), the problem is everyone wants a piece of the prize and if you're not high enough level, or optimized for graveyard fighting, you probably won't get the "drop." I managed to get 1 skull, but pretty much the who time stacking for me was about experience. In that 15 minutes or so I got about 14% experience. It's not bad considering the graveyard seemed a little more quiet this morning and I soloed for a little bit outside the graveyard before making it there (where I did get a couple more drops, but no bones).