Elite devil run!

[Dogchair]

thats next on my plate, whose interested?

[smatt]

thats next on my plate, whose interested?


We did a hard run last night with a group that was about 1/2 of your brethren from SotN, went prefectly not even close to a single death, not a shread of a problem..... Elite should be another cake-walk.

[shoveljon]

I'm always willing to take a beating for a good cause. Plus I like fighting those jerk orthons.

[Vyctor]

Count me in, just tell me when so I can make sure i'm off timer

[efreet5]

I can bring dread in cleric spot for the run just to say i've done it! :D

[Adrahil]

Proof: http://morgul.adurant.org/vod-elite-nonames.jpg

Those present (by guild)

ToHitArmorClassZero:
Adrahil
Bronko
Saw
Lionessis

Souls of the Night:
Onet
Lotarr
Samadhi
Rinfidel
Rezyalater
Dogchair

Damaged Inc.
Blooddrip

Dirty Dozen
Smatt

A total of 12 (I believe) Mana pots were used. No birthday cakes or re-entries required. 3 deaths in the entire run, all during the suicide-bombing bats. Excellent work everybody!

[maddmatt70]

49 minutes with no re-entry.. hmm..

[Venar]

Well done.

[Deragoth]

Nice work! Can't wait to hear the rundown.

[Adrahil]

49 minutes with no re-entry.. hmm..

If anybody else wants to pop in with a screenshot from their Elite run showing both the XP and the lack of re-entry penalty, that would be swell. I neglected to grab that portion of the window; I didn't think anybody would contest the picture. If so, you'll find that our XP is exactly what it should be for that type of completion.

[Deragoth]

If anybody else wants to pop in with a screenshot from their Elite run showing both the XP and the lack of re-entry penalty, that would be swell. I neglected to grab that portion of the window; I didn't think anybody would contest the picture. If so, you'll find that our XP is exactly what it should be for that type of completion.

Yup, the XP is right in line with this completion on Khyber.

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=150208

[Pellegro]

Nice job!

[aurus33]

No loot... mmm, that's what happen when I am not there! :)

[Kris_P._Letus]

Proof: http://morgul.adurant.org/vod-elite-nonames.jpg

Those present (by guild)

ToHitArmorClassZero:
Adrahil
Bronko
Saw
Lionessis

Souls of the Night:
Onet
Lotarr
Samadhi
Rinfidel
Rezyalater
Dogchair

Damaged Inc.
Blooddrip

Dirty Dozen
Smatt

A total of 12 (I believe) Mana pots were used. No birthday cakes or re-entries required. 3 deaths in the entire run, all during the suicide-bombing bats. Excellent work everybody!

hey adra....why you facin the wrong way? yer not THAT ugly... :D congrats guys!! and doin it all without yer professional bench warming, ninja killing warforged barb!!!

[smatt]

Ya very nice job my compadres...... I think it can be done much faster though..... Mutliple tanks on Big Grey next time....... Better for us to be safe and get the first time elite completion.

[questarr]

We did get loot, both the casters where very happy as we pulled bracers x2 .
This was a very smooth run.
In the future I agree we can shave off some time by keeping 2 tanks in and having 1 cleric per each tank in and 3rd cleric taking care of party.
We where not in zerg mode on elite first time, just slow and steady :)
Now onto the abbott as he is the last nemsis facing souls.

[maddmatt70]

If anybody else wants to pop in with a screenshot from their Elite run showing both the XP and the lack of re-entry penalty, that would be swell. I neglected to grab that portion of the window; I didn't think anybody would contest the picture. If so, you'll find that our XP is exactly what it should be for that type of completion.

I was more referring to the unusually slow completion time. On normal and hard I have been in groups that had completion times under 20 minutes and on both elite successful completion runs I was in we completed the raid in 27 or so minutes yet your time took almost twice as long (one of our groups wasn't even a heavy dps group). Why is this the case? This is particular interesting considering you used significantly less resources then we did at almost twice the time. The answer to all this probably is there is some sort of safe spot considering Turbine's track record on raids and you employed either a hero or ranged method from that safe spot. There is a reason why safe spots are removed from raids because they are not meant to be there...

[Twerpp]

hehe, thumbs down to the hater. you guys are pretty rockin.

[Pellegro]

I was more referring to the unusually slow completion time. On normal and hard I have been in groups that had completion times under 20 minutes and on both elite successful completion runs I was in we completed the raid in 27 or so minutes yet your time took almost twice as long (one of our groups wasn't even a heavy dps group). Why is this the case? This is particular interesting considering you used significantly less resources then we did at almost twice the time. The answer to all this probably is there is some sort of safe spot considering Turbine's track record on raids and you employed either a hero or ranged method from that safe spot. There is a reason why safe spots are removed from raids because they are not meant to be there...

Boooo to the hater.

Read Questarr's post just above yours. It looks like they employed a variant on the "hero method" - which is how we always run that raid so would be no surprise.

There is no "safe spot". You just get a massively AC'd tank to keep aggro and have a cleric heal him. Questarr even says to make it go faster, we should be trying 2 tanks on the main boss at the same time (instead of 1).

I ran a cleric on the first time this quest was finished on hard, at least on Ghallanda. We did the same thing. Our "hero" hardly got hit at all. With all buffs his AC was in the 70s.

Not sure why you think thats some kind of exploit, and its a shame that you're looking to bring us down instead of joining us in celebrating a nice achievement.

[Twerpp]

Hero method is good and totally not an exploit...seriously...why build an 800 hp raging barbarian or 70 AC intimi-tank capable of going toe-to-toe with the toughest raid bosses in the game and then not take advantage of it? Anyways no matter how they did it, props.

[aurus33]

Your memory is failing Pell, AC on Azzumi was above 70 :)

For the time, I am just grateful that I didnt stay, otherwise I wouldnt be at work today, oh wait, otoh.... :P darn I missed it :)

PS: Twerp, answer my PM!! :)

[maddmatt70]

Boooo to the hater.

Read Questarr's post just above yours. It looks like they employed a variant on the "hero method" - which is how we always run that raid so would be no surprise.

There is no "safe spot". You just get a massively AC'd tank to keep aggro and have a cleric heal him. Questarr even says to make it go faster, we should be trying 2 tanks on the main boss at the same time (instead of 1).

I ran a cleric on the first time this quest was finished on hard, at least on Ghallanda. We did the same thing. Our "hero" hardly got hit at all. With all buffs his AC was in the 70s.

Not sure why you think thats some kind of exploit, and its a shame that you're looking to bring us down instead of joining us in celebrating a nice achievement.

Fair enough.. Congrats on your achievement then...

[wamjratl1]

I was more referring to the unusually slow completion time. On normal and hard I have been in groups that had completion times under 20 minutes and on both elite successful completion runs I was in we completed the raid in 27 or so minutes yet your time took almost twice as long (one of our groups wasn't even a heavy dps group). Why is this the case? This is particular interesting considering you used significantly less resources then we did at almost twice the time. The answer to all this probably is there is some sort of safe spot considering Turbine's track record on raids and you employed either a hero or ranged method from that safe spot. There is a reason why safe spots are removed from raids because they are not meant to be there...

The portion of your statement in red makes no sense. They previously said they went "slow and steady." Slower, more careful play usually = fewer resources used. And trust me, the folks involved here don't need safe spots and cheese to complete any quest.

Grats to the completers. Down with the haters. Go back to your hole.

[aurus33]

Grats to the completers. Down with the haters. Go back to your hole.

Amen bro :)

[Sweets]

very nicely done guys and gals.Congrats on the elite win.I second the boooooooooooooo to the haters

[Coldest]

Good job.

[Kris_P._Letus]

Hero method is good and totally not an exploit...seriously...why build an 800 hp raging barbarian or 70 AC intimi-tank capable of going toe-to-toe with the toughest raid bosses in the game and then not take advantage of it? Anyways no matter how they did it, props.

eh hem....

"word".

that is all.

[smatt]

Hero method is good and totally not an exploit...seriously...why build an 800 hp raging barbarian or 70 AC intimi-tank capable of going toe-to-toe with the toughest raid bosses in the game and then not take advantage of it? Anyways no matter how they did it, props.


Well saying the "Hero method" implies that only one person beat it. While everybody else sat and drank coffee, Mountain dew, took bong tokes, had their hands on places other than the keyboard... ect ect....

We did in fact have a high AC intimi-tank build Lottar do the main tanking. But each and every toon in the raid had a specific duty, and each and every one of them perfomred that duty pefectly. It was a well layed out strategy, which I think for the most part was conceived by Onet, where he culled the pieces from I'm not sure. The most impoirtant part of it though, was that we beat it, not in record time, but with little use of resources, AND we had fun! It wasn't a group of show offs, a group of people who need to brag about this or that... It was a group of experianced players having a good time beating a reasonably difficult quest.

Fun is the name of the game :)

[Rindalathar]

Congratulations to everyone involved. Funny though, people commeting on completion times. Ummm...it's not like the raid's been even open for what two weeks...not even? Come Fall, people will be pillaging this thing like the Reaver in about 30 min. max.

[Bronko]

Well saying the "Hero method" implies that only one person beat it. While everybody else sat and drank coffee, Mountain dew, took bong tokes, had their hands on places other than the keyboard... ect ect....

We did in fact have a high AC intimi-tank build Lottar do the main tanking. But each and every toon in the raid had a specific duty, and each and every one of them perfomred that duty pefectly. It was a well layed out strategy, which I think for the most part was conceived by Onet, where he culled the pieces from I'm not sure. The most impoirtant part of it though, was that we beat it, not in record time, but with little use of resources, AND we had fun! It wasn't a group of show offs, a group of people who need to brag about this or that... It was a group of experianced players having a good time beating a reasonably difficult quest.

Fun is the name of the game :)

I have lots to brag about Smatt: my Paladin is USEFUL again!!! :p

Come Mod 8 when the meta-game changes again I'm sure you and I will be relegated back to cape-holding duties for casters. :rolleyes:

But all joking aside I can't agree with you more. We had a great team, great leadership, great tactics, and it was the most fun I'd had in ages. This run was yet another example of cross-guild cooperation and bonding which is one of the things I love about our server.

[Twerpp]

Well saying the "Hero method" implies that only one person beat it. While everybody else sat and drank coffee, Mountain dew, took bong tokes, had their hands on places other than the keyboard... ect ect....

We did in fact have a high AC intimi-tank build Lottar do the main tanking. But each and every toon in the raid had a specific duty, and each and every one of them perfomred that duty pefectly. It was a well layed out strategy, which I think for the most part was conceived by Onet, where he culled the pieces from I'm not sure. The most impoirtant part of it though, was that we beat it, not in record time, but with little use of resources, AND we had fun! It wasn't a group of show offs, a group of people who need to brag about this or that... It was a group of experianced players having a good time beating a reasonably difficult quest.

Fun is the name of the game :)


Hehe, for me, every quest is hero method baby ;)

[smatt]

Hehe, for me, every quest is hero method baby ;)


LOL... TMI..... I'm sure next we'll get to here about that lovely hot pink little thingy you wear while you're playing as well :D