First CR in GoDFollow

I almost didnt log on last night, remembering the problems with POP launch, but decided to go ahead to start what I expected to be a long patch even with prelaunch downloads. Surprise - less than 5 minutes of download and NP logging on! I logged on my 46 pally who was in POP recovering from hunting spiders in DL (full HP, but low mana and LOH down) and headed for BB not expecting to do anything but look around. Very quiet (203 in POP, 32 in BB) and used magus to go to Ned. Landing and went out onto the docks but didnt see any ships. Noticed that people were talking to Erudite Magus who offered to send me to Nambite Beach (sp?) and off I went. I looked around the beach camp for a minute and then wandered just past the camp to look at a creature that was moving - wham sandmite (white to me, so 46) agros me and proceeds to land 107 damage hits as well as poison/disease. I was under 50% before my first hit for 46 and with no LOH and low mana it was over pretty quick - Loading, please wait (think I got it down 15% or so LOL). I ended up back at BB camp and then used magus to NL and then to beach (posted elsewhere that on CR you dont need actual stone to port) for CR - someone had killed the sandmite and so I revived and waited out rez in center of camp. I counted up to 9 mobs around the camp and across the water from where I was sitting. Rude welcome but got to say GoD looks good so far. Hope that some of you who have had more successful trips will post tips here.

Yeah. The Noc Deathlurch (or whatever they're called), are pretty nasty. They've got this thing that's like a dot and a proc (I was too busy trying to fight to pay too much attention). It was called something like claw <something>. It did show up as a dot on you, but the damage seemed more like a proc. You got messages randomly through the fight saying you took "X non-melee damage". They were not even like a dot would do (I went through whole fights without getting hit once, and on other fights had multiple go off in rapid succession).

Damage I saw ranged from 490 to 530. It looks to be poison based, so buffing PR on tanks might be a good idea.

We got quite a bit farther then that. Wandered around the hills a bit. I'm not sure yet where all the zoneouts are in the zone. I suspect that the various structures may have them. We only found one, but didn't explore to far (ok, our scout got whacked on those big stairs and we spent most of the rest of our time killing mobs and clearing the area).

Um... Casters go down *really* fast in here. The mobs are slightly more resistant then equivalent leveled PoP mobs. I was able to chain stun reasonably effectively, but roots didn't seem to hold for very long at all.

Also, many of the mobs seemed to riposte *alot*. I would take a good chunk of damage, even while keeping a mob perma stunned. Bring a good tank, and have good healing (which was our problem. We had a couple lower level druids, but no clerics or 58+ druid/shamans, which made things *really* yukky).

If you're going to go exploring with a guild, I would really suggest getting past the beach area and immediate surroundings as quickly as possible. If you can find a zone that works, go there and hunt there. What I saw in Namibi was a bunch of people kitting mobs around. Due to the color selection of the zone (mobs blend in), and the pretty decent agro ranges of mobs in this zone, there were lots of trains. Bring good CC if you can.