It stinks looking for a sixth. There’s very little for an endgame character to do when you only have a group of five. You can run partial instances, though, which is one thing we did this weekend. We ran partway through the Grand Stair, and aside from one spectacularly awful pull and my rustiness in dealing with it, I think we would have been able to get at least to, and probably through Igash. Since none of us actually needed the challenge mode coin, however (we were there to help one of our number finish up a deed), we left after our wipe and went to Fil Gashan.

I think FG gets more of a bad name than it should. I actually really enjoy the instance, and doubly so if you’re not trying complete the challenge mode. I like that the instance can either be a nail-biting stealth run or a really fun wave-after-wave-of-badguys killfest. We ran it the latter way, since we were only there to do the Captain quest in the mess hall. Mobs everywhere, but not huge ones, and everyone knew their role and took the targets they needed to without surrendering to the chaos. Just a great time. We completed the captain quest with no difficulty, then ran around the ground floor collecting battle plans while ocassionally breaking cover and slaughtering guards, with nothing but an “Oops!” over voice chat to summon backup.

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