Just thought I'd mention the obvious: Burglars are great.
I have had so big issues to continue the epic-quests with my other toons, that I haven't even bothered past Book 1. Fitzer the Burglar at level 36 has mostly by soloing got much further. In fact, the halt came yesterday in Book 4 where you have to defeat that level 41 elite forest troll (who I thought I was supposed to talk to, not fight with); simply couldn't hit the damn thing often enough (but instead of dieing, the burglar valiantly HIPSed out of sight) because of the level difference.
Thinking I need a couple more levels to actually be able to continue the epic story, Fitzer transfered to Evendim which I had mostly skipped so far. Completed some of the green quests, did hit 37, then entered solo the instance for
Thief-takers bane. It did feel sort of difficult, and in the end, after countless waves the third ranger died (I was *just* too slow to sprint from the ranger group furthest up the stairs back to the first group) and the quest failed.
Porting out of the instance, there was a fellowship outside. They asked if I am interested in joining them for Thief takers bane. Well, sure, why not
They then continued that they had just wiped when they had tried with four (their lowest level was a 39 hunter, highest was a 42 champion), but they now had a minstrel arriving to join too... Anyway, was a breeze to do the instance now, and I am pretty sure I did almost complete it solo (at least it took a shorter time with the fellowship to complete the quest than I had in my failed, but I guess the new wave activates only after the previous one is beaten). Anyway, one of the best instances I've been in, especially when I tried to solo it (and I am pretty sure I could have soloed the place on the second attempt when I knew what was going to happen, although I would have had to wait for my cooldowns to reset after the first attempt), very cool quest which I hope to get to do again now at some point
After that did the riddle quest series (I cheated the part where I had to head up to the camp of the gaurak, didn't figure it out so I read the solution from the net
), but had to log off then. Hopefully today I'll complete a couple more of the quests in Evendim, then hit 38, and after that I'll have a re-match with the forest troll, so that I am at same stage as Kurtt in the epic quest