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With the above fact in mind, not all of your expertise with dying is the fault of your healers. They may have started out as decent healers, but eventually got tired of trying. Who knows? In any large group encounter, you're going to find yourself continually stunned, dazed, and disarmed. It sucks horribly, but it's just a fact you need to steel yourself for.

Here there be dragons.

Until you hit rank 5 and gain an Advanced Skill called Resilience, you're going to be a sitting duck most of the time. Resilience gives you the ability to remove all Dazes, Stuns, and Knockdowns and only costs 62 power points to do it. Learn it, live it, love it. Even though it has a one-minute cooldown timer on it, it's going to become your best friend.

On the rare occasions you find yourself in a one on one battle (and believe me, it *is* rare), the ground will part, demons will scream, and Sauron will wrap you in his warm embrace as you unleash untold amounts of death and destruction on your enemy. Sudden Strike, Sundering Blow, Ravage. Every one of these skills consists of multiple strikes dealing massive amounts of damage. When you actually have the opportunity to unleash them on a Freep, you'll be amazed at the results. All the times you've been stunned, rooted, or just screwed in general will come flowing out of you in one voracious river of pure hatred and your enemy will die swiftly. There's only one way to eventually get to this point though.

By the Power of Greyskull!

The best advice I can give to you is keep going. Don't give up. The best thing you can do for your own sanity is to gain as many Destiny Points as possible after achieving each rank. Only by maxing out your available skills will you have any chance of surviving in a group. Destiny points can be had by the bushels, but you've got to go to the right places to make it worth your while. The quickest and easiest kill quest to complete is Mash. I'm not talking about the show, but your job to go get slug meat. Head southeast and you'll hit the pool. While this is a quick 250 Destiny points (repeatable every 2 hours), there's a better place to go if you're willing to make the trip.

After gathering every quest you can find on the way, eventually you'll make your way to the far south end of the map. Hear lies the Hobbit village of Hoarhallow. Just by killing the hobbits in this one area, you can complete no less than seven quests, all totaling over 2,000 Destiny points. Not only does it save you a drastic amount of time running around everywhere, but it's also loads of fun. 

How many times did you desperately want to stab Frodo in the face with a sharp stick during the Lord of the Ring movies, but didn't have the opportunity? Now's your chance! If you really do love Hobbits (weirdo), then just imagine they're all Gungans... or Ewoks. In other words, imagine something you'd like to kill a lot of because you're going to be here for quite a while. The Destiny points will flow like water and before you know it, you'll be all trained up and ready to head back to Zergfest to gain your next rank.

Now quit lollygagging around here and get to killing some Freeps, maggots!