Caffeine's Silver Flame Club Shroud!

[spyderwolf]

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z180/spyderwolf6/ScreenShot00004-1.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JtmfihT24

Thats the Video Snapshot of the Raid :)
Was a Blast!

[skaltervox12]

We're uber. It's true, I looked it up on the internets. :)

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

I proudly present a re-enactment of Part 1. All you need to do is stare at this picture for a few minutes to get the full Holy Flame Club Experience!!

http://i41.tinypic.com/wbt81t.gif

It was great fun, thanks for organising it moops!

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Most of the Holy Flame Gang

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Protect the gateway! (from the Holy Flame Clubs)

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Action shot of Harry being clubbed

Garth

[Dexxaan]

Loads o' Fun.

Grats guys. (u too Moops :D)

[Kraldor]

All Clubs of the Holy Flame, 94 minutes.

Was lots of fun, we need to think of something crazier for next time though.

[gfunk]

We did well, despite some of our party not quite being in the right spot for round 4.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt297/cratonic/ScreenShot00276.jpg

I always wondered how groups could take so long in part 4... now I know. Still, I never thought that other people would use silver flame clubs at cap.

[Kraldor]

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc157/Kraldor/ScreenShot00065.jpg?t=1242544659

^ I'm the sexy one in purple.

[gfunk]

Here's a nice group shot, with us all looking uber with our weapons of choice:

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt297/cratonic/ScreenShot00268.jpg

[mediocresurgeon]

Let this be a decree to the forums:

Any complaints about wiping in the Shroud because of "bad DPS" are hereby invalidated.

If we can do it with Silver Flame Clubs (casters/clerics included!) then any group should be able to complete.

Next idea: Shield-Bash Shroud?

Very nice job, guys! That was a lot of fun!

[gfunk]

sweet photo gaarth, lol, protect the portal!

[Solmage]

That was fun! =)

[gfunk]

Let this be a decree to the forums:

Any complaints about wiping in the Shroud because of "bad DPS" are hereby invalidated.

If we can do it with Silver Flame Clubs (casters/clerics included!) then any group should be able to complete.

Next idea: Shield-Bash Shroud?

Very nice job, guys! That was a lot of fun!

Yeah.. even the devils and orthons were actually going down fairly quickly with just dps. Sure helps when everyone is more motivated to just attack 1 mob at a time.

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

Yeah.. even the devils and orthons were actually going down fairly quickly with just dps. Sure helps when everyone is more motivated to just attack 1 mob at a time.

...


We're experimenting with different ways to make damage worthwhile again for both mundane classes and spellcasters.

OMG - Eladrin plans to replace all GS items with Holy Flame Clubs in mod9??!?! Super Secret is revealed!

Garth

[moops]

"This is the BEST part 2 Ever. . usually i dont get to assassinate anything... this time i got to do like 10 mobs." --Backk

The End of part 4:
"He's in the Army, maybe he got called away for something important."-Hexxa
"Hey, I'm back, I passed out." Farbeyond.

This was fun from the very start with people really coming together as a team to get the clubs, and the materials for ritual 1. I have every confidence that if we moved over to game like WOW or FFXI ( where people have to work together to collect tons of things/craft/acquire crazy mounts) we'd be just fine lol.

Awesome Video and photos:) Thank you for posting.

We could do the All naked HIPS through Titan next ( strip your character and only use what you find in chests) However, Hexxa still doesn't have her stuff in the right place:)

[Theboz]

Nice work

I love my Holy flame clubs, they used to be the poor mans muckbane. I have to ask though how many of those things did each person had to use to finish the quest, as their duablility is not that great.

[Thelmallen]

Nice work

I love my Holy flame clubs, they used to be the poor mans muckbane. I have to ask though how many of those things did each person had to use to finish the quest, as their duablility is not that great.

A lot of us did adamantine ritual I on them to increase hardness and durability. Many of the melees broke in part 4 and 5, however, but we made sure to have a few spares on each character just in case.

[Dozen_Black_Roses]

Pretty kewl guys, way to make it interesting and fun, when it's all just a blind run these days. And hell, sad to say but there are alot of regular pugs that would have been happy with that time lol.

[moorewr]

Hey, now there is a singular achievement. Congratulations.

I've witnessed a couple seven-round part fours. It always happen when I decide to pug on my cleric. :)

How to top it? All-arcane group that DPS'es harry with spells (and pots.. lots of pots)...?

[Quikster]

Hey, now there is a singular achievement. Congratulations.

I've witnessed a couple seven-round part fours. It always happen when I decide to pug on my cleric. :)

How to top it? All-arcane group that DPS'es harry with spells (and pots.. lots of pots)...?

Didnt they already do that on elite?

[moorewr]

Didnt they already do that on elite?

I knew there had been all-arcane Shrouds.. I don't know if they abstained from waving pointy things around. There's plenty of arcane builds around that could melee Harry if they had to..

[Delacroix21]

Hey now! I saw some magic missles being cast in there by a naughty caster! :D

[gfunk]

Hey now! I saw some magic missles being cast in there by a naughty caster! :D

spells were allowed, however the casters had to wield silver flame clubs too, which meant that many were without superior potency.

[mediocresurgeon]

spells were allowed, however the casters had to wield silver flame clubs too, which meant that many were without superior potency.

Yup. Blue Dragon Armor, Belt of Seven Ideals, Glaciation set, and Efficacy Potions for the win!

[Solmage]

I knew there had been all-arcane Shrouds.. I don't know if they abstained from waving pointy things around. There's plenty of arcane builds around that could melee Harry if they had to..

None of us were melee casters, we all beat the **** out of him, on elite, with spells only. This was particularly compounded in part 4 by loosing a lot of casters right of the bat in the first few rounds.


Hey now! I saw some magic missles being cast in there by a naughty caster! :D

I was allowed to cast provided I only held silver flame clubs in my hands - and I just had to steal the last arretrikos kill =)

[ColsonJade]

Fun idea guys. Good job on getting it done. Wish I had the desire to play to even think of doing stuff like that.

You should do an unarmed next. No monks allowed. Just the old fashion punch and kicks.

[Thanimal]

Cool idea and nicely done!

I especially like the Cleric (Hexxa) leading in kills!

I guess Blade Barriers are pretty uber when all the melees are gimped?? Or was there a more interesting explanation?

EDIT: In fact, the best that ANY melee did on the kill chart was significantly less than half of Hexxa. Perhaps what you've just proven is that you don't actually need melee DPS at all to complete the Shroud?

[Zenako]

Nah, just a testament to the uberness of Clerics...the chosen ones:)

[gfunk]

Cool idea and nicely done!

I especially like the Cleric (Hexxa) leading in kills!

I guess Blade Barriers are pretty uber when all the melees are gimped?? Or was there a more interesting explanation?

EDIT: In fact, the best that ANY melee did on the kill chart was significantly less than half of Hexxa. Perhaps what you've just proven is that you don't actually need melee DPS at all to complete the Shroud?

Hex, and several of our guild clerics often lead in kill count, even in our normal shrouds. This is because they spend a fair bit of part 1 destructing trogs (its not as if they need to heal in part 1, and there is plenty of time to zap inbetween swings on portals). In part 1 alone, a cleric can easily rack up 20+ kills even while mostly beating on portals.

In the silver flame club shroud, I think that hex was also responsible for killing alot of the gnolls in part 4 (we went 7 rounds so there was quite a few to kill).

[Solmage]

Almost all our kills were from trash in part 1. Part 2 was particularly easy, because the clubs penetrated the DR that could be penetrated, and fire ellies have a strong dislike for my cold spells, silver flame clubs or not.

Also, in part 4, I was assigned arretrikos duty, using all my mana to dps him, instead of killing trogs, something that the clerics and other caster took over.

[Katrina]

Too funny!
Love the guild name Garth! When are you accepting applications to the 'Holy Flame Club Sandwich'? ;)

[Solmage]

Too funny!
Love the guild name Garth! When are you accepting applications to the 'Holy Flame Club Sandwich'? ;)

You'll probably need to bring pickles to apply =)

[Hobble_Gobble]

Great run guys and gals! That must have been fun...

Here's an idea...How about a Shroud run using only tasty hams for healing...I'm sure you could get at least one Barbarian to join you...

Happy Hunting

[Zenako]

I proudly present a re-enactment of Part 1. All you need to do is stare at this picture for a few minutes to get the full Holy Flame Club Experience!!

http://i40.tinypic.com/316t0xw_th.jpg (http://i40.tinypic.com/316t0xw.jpg)
Action shot of Harry being clubbed

Garth

Dang Garth, How many sets of clubs did you have? I spot at least 4 slots of Hot bars?

[gfunk]

Great run guys and gals! That must have been fun...

Here's an idea...How about a Shroud run using only tasty hams for healing...I'm sure you could get at least one Barbarian to join you...

Happy Hunting

I think that barbarian has died... or at least his avatar has:
http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=2052658&postcount=33

maybe a tasty ham would revive him.

[Quikster]

Hex, and several of our guild clerics often lead in kill count, even in our normal shrouds. This is because they spend a fair bit of part 1 destructing trogs (its not as if they need to heal in part 1, and there is plenty of time to zap inbetween swings on portals). In part 1 alone, a cleric can easily rack up 20+ kills even while mostly beating on portals.

In the silver flame club shroud, I think that hex was also responsible for killing alot of the gnolls in part 4 (we went 7 rounds so there was quite a few to kill).

No need to heal in part 1????? I coulda sworn that those portals do a TON of damage to party members! Otherwise I wouldnt need all the GD buffs I keep getting in pugs after I type, "I dont need any buffs other than bard songs" This ends up translating to, "Give me GH, Blur, Stoneskin, Jump, ALL the resists, Poison, Stalwart, SR, FoM, TS, Protections from evil, Aid, DW, Mass Pro, Ranger Bark (extended no less) Inspire Heroics, Inspire Competence, Longstrider, and a few others I cant see because my buffs extend all the way across my screen"

I mean if those portals attacks werent so brutal I wouldnt need all those buffs right? RIGHT????

Hex leading th kill count reminds me of a run where she was drinking pots in pt one to beat Omber in the kill count :) Good Times.

[Thelmallen]

No need to heal in part 1????? I coulda sworn that those portals do a TON of damage to party members! Otherwise I wouldnt need all the GD buffs I keep getting in pugs after I type, "I dont need any buffs other than bard songs" This ends up translating to, "Give me GH, Blur, Stoneskin, Jump, ALL the resists, Poison, Stalwart, SR, FoM, TS, Protections from evil, Aid, DW, Mass Pro, Ranger Bark (extended no less) Inspire Heroics, Inspire Competence, Longstrider, and a few others I cant see because my buffs extend all the way across my screen"

I mean if those portals attacks werent so brutal I wouldnt need all those buffs right? RIGHT????

Hex leading th kill count reminds me of a run where she was drinking pots in pt one to beat Omber in the kill count :) Good Times.

You forgot Merfolk's Blessing. Essential in part 1.

[moops]

Cool idea and nicely done!

I especially like the Cleric (Hexxa) leading in kills!

I guess Blade Barriers are pretty uber when all the melees are gimped?? Or was there a more interesting explanation?

EDIT: In fact, the best that ANY melee did on the kill chart was significantly less than half of Hexxa. Perhaps what you've just proven is that you don't actually need melee DPS at all to complete the Shroud?

I had an unfair advantage over the Sorcs I think--I have both spell focuses in Necro, as well as all spell pen feats/enhancements, and heighten SO even without my Wis Scepter I was able to zap alot through parts 1 & 2, as well as part 4 Gnolls but those are easy peasy. I made a strategical error in part 2, or I wouldve had more kills--muahahhaha.

We did do an all Cleric Shroud :) But you can't zap Harry!! Er at least not anymore:)

[Hadrian]

http://i40.tinypic.com/316t0xw_th.jpg (http://i40.tinypic.com/316t0xw.jpg)
Action shot of Harry being clubbed

Garth


Bah. Couldn't you have shown a part where I was slightly less dead?

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

Dang Garth, How many sets of clubs did you have? I spot at least 4 slots of Hot bars?

I had two clubs with the adamantine ritual on them (ingredients courtesy of Caffeine) and another four plain ones. At the end of part 5, four of them were completely broken, and the others were below 50%. Check out my guide of item damage (http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=144744) for such interesting facts like how portals don't damage weapons! (bump it!) :)


Too funny!
Love the guild name Garth! When are you accepting applications to the 'Holy Flame Club Sandwich'? ;)

Sure - glad someone noticed it! :) But you'd have to leave NSR.


Bah. Couldn't you have shown a part where I was slightly less dead?

I don't think there was a part when you weren't dead :) At least you weren't asleep on the keyboard...

Oh, and I was watching Family Guy today and I'm now sure that Spyder's laugh is just like Brian from Family Guy.

Garth

[mhorn]

Nice job, I wish I was in it :)

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Hello my good friend,

Hey lets do so ELITE EBERRON ARMWRESTLING!! Heres the game... I will shoot you something elite ive done or found, and you return the volley... We keep returing volley till we have a winner!

This might be a fun little way to catch up and see how well we have KICKED ASS in our different worlds!! :)

Ok braun before beauty.... I just completed a 26 minute shroud. best time ever for me.

Your turn!


Pretty kewl guys, way to make it interesting and fun, when it's all just a blind run these days. And hell, sad to say but there are alot of regular pugs that would have been happy with that time lol.

[Quikster]

Hello my good friend,

Hey lets do so ELITE EBERRON ARMWRESTLING!! Heres the game... I will shoot you something elite ive done or found, and you return the volley... We keep returing volley till we have a winner!

This might be a fun little way to catch up and see how well we have KICKED ASS in our different worlds!! :)

Ok braun before beauty.... I just completed a 26 minute shroud. best time ever for me.

Your turn!

OOooooHHhhHhhh fightin words :D

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Ok braun before beauty.... I just completed a 26 minute shroud. best time ever for me.

Your turn!

Haha, Memorial Day beer FTW! That was supposed to be a private messege, oh well, hit me back on private!

Back to the beer for me!

[Quikster]

Haha, Memorial Day beer FTW! That was supposed to be a private messege, oh well, hit me back on private!

Back to the beer for me!

lol i hate that :D

[spyderwolf]

Hello my good friend,

Hey lets do so ELITE EBERRON ARMWRESTLING!! Heres the game... I will shoot you something elite ive done or found, and you return the volley... We keep returing volley till we have a winner!

This might be a fun little way to catch up and see how well we have KICKED ASS in our different worlds!! :)

Ok braun before beauty.... I just completed a 26 minute shroud. best time ever for me.

Your turn!

we did an all cleric vod in 24 minutes? pretty good dps for a bunch of pansy clerics lol. your turn. :P

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

we did an all cleric vod in 24 minutes? pretty good dps for a bunch of pansy clerics lol. your turn. :P


Haha I wasnt busting on all you guys, just a friend from way back! But kudos to ya'll. Ya'll wooped that arse!!

[spyderwolf]

Haha I wasnt busting on all you guys, just a friend from way back! But kudos to ya'll. Ya'll wooped that arse!!

o i wasnt busting on your ither lol thought it was gonan turn into a nice running conversation :P and friendly competitions make the game intersting. lol thats one of the reason we tend to do tings radically different for at least one run. to change stuff up.

[doubledge]

now i'm starting to regret selling my clubs XD

[Mangloid]

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155983&stc=1&d=1282248052

[Thelmallen]

now i'm starting to regret selling my clubs XD

It's not hard getting new ones. The hard part was getting all of the ore and soul gems to put the adamantine ritual on 'em so they didn't break on the first portal!

[DelScorcho]

Wow, someone has taken their third tier of the Forum Necromancy PrC. 19 months is pretty impressive.

[mudfud]

Wow, someone has taken their third tier of the Forum Necromancy PrC. 19 months is pretty impressive.

19 months is quite impressive. But 3 years is bloody marvelous.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=133333&page=2

[DelScorcho]

19 months is quite impressive. But 3 years is bloody marvelous.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=133333&page=2

In evaluating the two threads, I gotta go with this thread. My review of the Kargon thread suggests you caused the necro by sending the link to a drunk guildy. Here, nothing at all motivated the necroer to post about his regret selling his silver flame clubs. I also give him bonus points for having a quote from a certain well known forum personality. So while I agree the other thread was marvelous, this necro is not mere trolling; it is Art.

[Raolin_Darksbane]

On a somewhat related note, since the thread is alive and well again - I'm really digging the idea mentioned earlier of naked runs using only what players find in chests in the quest itself - Without all the guards, stat items, spell enhancements etc, it would make some runs MUCH more interesting :)

Think im gonna have to mention that in guild tonight, thanks for the great idea!

[LazyTigerLily]

Great, just what we need.. NEKKED HARPERS! :D

[Kirris]

now i'm starting to regret selling my clubs XD

Dear Doubledge, please have 10 noob points for necroing a thread :D

[moops]

On a somewhat related note, since the thread is alive and well again - I'm really digging the idea mentioned earlier of naked runs using only what players find in chests in the quest itself - Without all the guards, stat items, spell enhancements etc, it would make some runs MUCH more interesting :)

Think im gonna have to mention that in guild tonight, thanks for the great idea!

This is actually really fun, we did it for VONs when level cap was 16--we ran all 4 pre quests and used items from them as well.

We want to do this again, BUT, you kinda got to dump everything from your backpack as you need to save everything you pull in case someone else needs it. It took forever to do at lvl 16 without all the epic gear and different sets for every situation, I dread doing it now.

But let me tell you, Ive never seen a person so happy over a potion of JUMP before:)

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Ah thanks for bringing this one back...I'll have to remember to link it to the next 17-20 shrould group that says "link beaters"

[Thelmallen]

This is actually really fun, we did it for VONs when level cap was 16--we ran all 4 pre quests and used items from them as well.

We want to do this again, BUT, you kinda got to dump everything from your backpack as you need to save everything you pull in case someone else needs it. It took forever to do at lvl 16 without all the epic gear and different sets for every situation, I dread doing it now.

But let me tell you, Ive never seen a person so happy over a potion of JUMP before:)

I will second that the naked runs were a blast. I used the AH as a way to store my gear that I couldn't fit into a backpack and wasn't bound, just put it up for ridiculous prices and collected it when it cleared the 8 hour window. :)

[doubledge]

having imaging errors over here. and no, i don't play a necro, at least not in ddo. only in diablo. corpse explosion ftw!

[doubledge]

don't own delaras, only 3 voms

that;s why i'm regretting the desision

[Solmage]

Ah thanks for bringing this one back...I'll have to remember to link it to the next 17-20 shrould group that says "link beaters"

I know! They should instead just exclude anyone not in a top guild straight out to guarantee a quick painless enjoyable run, instead of giving newbies a chance to join in and show they'll contribute.

[Mangloid]

I know! They should instead just exclude anyone not in a top guild straight out to guarantee a quick painless enjoyable run, instead of giving newbies a chance to join in and show they'll contribute.

I think you might have missed his point. He was saying that he should link the post to show that all the extra fluff that people demand is unnecessary. There are quite a few of the new generation that honestly don't think it can be completed without having every buff known to man and everything optimized. Pointing them to this thread is just a way to help educate them on the past history of the game :)

[Thelmallen]

I think you might have missed his point. He was saying that he should link the post to show that all the extra fluff that people demand is unnecessary. There are quite a few of the new generation that honestly don't think it can be completed without having every buff known to man and everything optimized. Pointing them to this thread is just a way to help educate them on the past history of the game :)

Ding! You, sir, win a prize! I have a shiny (well, sorta dull woody) silver flame club I will send you at your specified address for getting the point. :D

[doubledge]

thelanis has giveouts,
kyber has bad pugs,
and we, have, this.:p