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I’m very proud of our guild, we managed to 2-group Protector’s Realm up to the last 2 nameds (the adventurer group & Imzok).  I know that myth updates are 2 a penny now and that many guilds have been doing this for a long time but… for our little assorted band of casual adventurers, it was a great achievement  I had actually been very worried about this whole thing and thought I was completely mental for even trying to organise this.  We’re a casual guild with a very relaxed playstyle which although is a wonderful, friendly, fun atmosphere that I wouldn’t change for the world, it does mean that can be very hard to get something like this done as often people cannot commit in advance, have RL commitments (myself included ),  don’t sign up on our calendar or just aren’t interested.  So I had logged in with some trepidation… how many people will turn up? will we have anything even vaguely resembling a decent setup? will we be able to kill *anything*? omg I’m in charge of a raid, is anyone going to listen to me?

As it turned out it looks like I over-worry and I was really pleased to find out that I’m not completely mental  So in the end we had: Ashenshugar (pally), Saraya (inq), Saskay (mystic), Glarim (coercer), Anselm (assassin) & Marche (dirge) for the main tank group and Eduthooha (guard), Munu (warden), Ysbwriel (fury), Arutus (illy), Ivaan (brig) &  Woodyelf (monk) for the off tank group.  The setup worked very well and we managed to take down the first 4 skelly nameds and doomcoil with few problems (though doomcoil definitely had it in for our briggy Ivaan as he died 5 times during the fight ).  We also got some plat which more than covered any repair bills , I got some boots which were an upgrade for Saraya, Kajen nipped in and snagged a nice off hand, Ysbwriel got a master and Ivaan also got a sword.  The healing was quite fun and I should definitely try my hand at whack-a-mole after all the curing I did.  The only thing I didn’t like was staying at range (thought it was safer than trying to heal & joust) as I couldn’t add to the dps but… I was there as a healer…  I did manage to cast a fair few debuffs, damage reactives and occasional damage spells though which I don’t normally do as things in instances seem to die too quickly to bother.  I think I did OK leading the raid too – I think I led it anyway  It was a little hard to lead as the previous times I have been in here were with our allied guild and it was so quick that tbh I had no idea what was going on It was nice to see everyone contributing to the strats though and I think there was a nice relaxed feel to the raid (including a marvellous rendition of tanking queen by saskay and ivaan ).

We got to the group of adventurers and were down to 10 ppl.  We had a few tries at them but we weren’t successful.  So as the zone is persistent, we will be coming back on Wednesday to hopefully finish the zone and get Edu, Munu & Modron their myth updates.  We have Pawbuster on Sunday & Tairiza on Thursday – so I hope it all works out  If it does… I will try for the 2nd stage of updates (levi, selrach, mmis etc) in early Jan and then we can see whether VP is an option

anyway well done all!  and sorry no screenies this time  - I was healing

woot! thex mallet!

We did a quick run of Maiden’s for Anselm’s epic update – was a good blast through there.  Then an even quicker run through OOA for a shard and Glarim’s thex update and then the group very kindly came out to Kizdean Gix’s tomb for the final kill  Was a very long fight, that guy had an awful lot of health….  Glarim did a great job of mezzing all the adds though (he had 8 pinned down by the end!) and the group did a fantastic job  The whole fight was very smooth –  thanks again all!

Saraya now has a new big thwacky hammer:

I took it for a spin round Scion and it has made a big difference to DPS so will be great for when I’m soloing or for trash fights / 2nd healer situations.  It does look a little silly though

tanking queens

I got so much done in-game yesterday!

We managed to log in for a couple of hours during the day so Dimzad and Saraya duo-ed Nizara as Glarim (Dimzad’s coercer) needed The Rift updates in there.  We had tried with Glarim and Saraya but it was a little slow and more prone to wiping, so Dim & Sar cleared the place and left Mistress Zh’vari for Glarim’s update.  I love the zerker and inqy duo, it kills things quickly and has a high survivability chance – what more could you ask for?!  We took down the epicx4 too, which did leave us feeling pretty smug I have to admit  Dimzad logged Glarim in for his named update and we had a go, but um failed pretty quickly.  However, Koni (Kajen’s guard) had impeccable timing and logged in just as we were rezzing.  He very kindly came and helped us (even after we admitted we hadn’t put a flag down and were currently running round like headless chickens trying to find the named again ) and that was that

In the evening a bunch of us went and killed Gorenaire.  It was a pretty funny and to be honest, embarrassing fight.   Although there were only 6 of us… (Dimzad, Suzita, Woodyelf, Saskay, Anselm, Izebella)   There were a few deaths and subsequent standing waiting for the lifts to get back into the fight and the dragon, obviously with the porting etc, was all over the place.  It took us 2 attempts as the first time we all ran out of power.  When the dragon died, all you could hear over voicechat was us all laughing at the absolute mess of the fight and slight unbelief that after all that we’d killed it  Suzita now has Deathtoll access, so there will be a Guild trip there soon for a new Trophy for our Hall (plus I need revenge as my bow never dropped from DT )

LoTW V Gorenaire (and I didn’t cause a wipe getting this screenie )

Evernight Abbey was the double shard so Dimzad, Suzita, Saskay, Anselm, Woodyelf & Arutus went off and did that.  We really cba to do the whole zone so we just went straight to Marcus (via the 2 central nameds), for our mission updates and shard chest.  It was a funny run especially when Saskay’s dog pulled Marcus Thex before we were ready (TWICE! lol) anyone someone sang the Benny Hill music as Marcus came running after all of us  Ysbwriel & Ivaan also wanted to do the the double sharder in EA so we switched around some alts and Koni tanked, I logged to Saraya, Dimzad to Glarim & Arutus to Senquis and we did it a 2nd time.  We did the same quick run again and updates / shards were got.  As we all stood on the central tomb, Ivaan commented that ‘we were like the f-ing SAS then’ which just cracked us all up.

After messing about in the Guild Hall, Eduthooha and Munu logged in, so they joined us (with Glarim & Senquis having logged) and we did a quick Deep Forge run for some more shards.  Koni & Ivaan have a new tanking song – sung to Dancing Queen by Abba, I can’t remember their version of the lyrics but its pretty silly and pretty funny (something like tanking queen! feel the taunt!)  I sometimes feel like I’m back in the sixth form… and that’s a good thing  (I haven’t even mentioned the Cartman / Mr T impressions either )

All in all an excellent day of updates, shards, achievements & giggles

some screenies

We went in and finished Anathema last night, then went on to Crucible for the double shard – was a very very fun night  Wow 2 rangers – who’d have thought we’d be so lucky

I was running round in the Crypt of Betrayal and I suddenly realised that I had never taken much notice of the decor down there…  This little area is stunning

why scouts never stay still

Went into Nizara last night to get updates for The Rift quest with Suzita, was the usual chaos of being thrown for miles and mobs adding from miles away  Was a lot of fun though and Eduthooha got his pages updates and we both got the kill update.  So hopefully now we can kill Chel’Drak at the weekend to finish the quest.  Saskay (Kajen’s mystic) then persuaded us to have a run into Anathema as it was double shard.  Being the shard whore that I am (spent them all and still need Saraya’s T2 armour ) I leapt at the chance even though it was starting to get a bit late (ooh yeah its a rock and roll lifestyle in LoTW )  It all went fairly smoothly and we found ourselves at the golem named.  He does hit pretty hard and Eduthooha died… so brave ranger that I am… I took over tanking him as his health was orange.  I have to admit I only hoped to stay alive long enough for the healers to rez Edu but I ended up bouncing up, down and over the stairs kiting him, trying to finish him off and trying to stay in range of heals…  It felt like aaaaaages – I’m not sure how long it was but I know we got him down to under 10% I think before his stupid adds spawned and healed him back to full health.  Was huge amounts of fun though  We got him on 2nd try and he went down nice and easy  We carried on for a bit and got to the icy lake room when we decided to call it as we were all so tired we were starting to make very silly mistakes – hopefully we should get back in there tonight to finish the zone and collect our final 2 shards.

Glad to say that after a couple of sessions playing suzita, I am back into the swing of it and no longer need the title of n00b ranger