VOn5/6 Fiasco!~ Thanks to those who stuck in there!

[Impaqt]

Joined a Pug Dragon Raid yesterday.. Being the leader of a new, rather small guild, My Raiding has been mostly PuG lately... No Big deal. Meeting a lot of new poeple and having fun... Even when things go wrong.

Was a group of 8-10's and it because evident quickly that the man with the star had no desire to lead the raid..... After working our way to the North levelrs/Runes we find out this is his first Dragon Run.....

Now I dont mind having new people in the raid... Everyone had a first time at one point, but at this point in the game, you should not be leading a raid if its your first time. He couldt tell people what to do, where to go, or what needed to be picked up when.... There was almost an argument when no one wanted to pick up the Signet ring even....

Well, Long story kinda short, The person who took the voice died.... and resed out.... Not realizing that destroyes the voice.... as I sat onthe right side Nothing was getting done over onthe left (And at this point I didnt know the voice was destroyed)

After about 10 minutes I went back out and started walking around and found the Ring sitting on the ground again.. ???? Inquired as to "Who's got the ring" and someone responded..... "Um, no you dont, I just picked it up" "Who's got the Voice?" Same person responded..... at that point we found out that he had ressed out of the instance when he died. Doh!!!!

So, Rng in hand I go do the wheels and tell the leader to file a stuck report with the GM.... AFter a bit of gnashing, I'm given the star.... Great.... I know the raid well.... But have never been leader before... What the hell, I'll see if I can salvage it and File the report...

As we wait for a GM, several people decide to give up and start over.... Already 45 minutes or so in, I really didnt want to so said lets wait for the gm..... a few people dropped group leaving us with 7 or or so at this point....

I get a /Tell "Can you salvage this?" "Yes, I think I Can" I reply.

a few minutes later the GM gets back to me, I explain the situation and he/she drops me a new Voice. I then put up a new LFM staing that we need a few fillers and that we are almost done with Von5. The group slowly fils back up (Couple peope who dropped rejoined as well)

Now, in al my dragon raids (Probobly around 15-20 across 5 characters) I've never been the VOice man... So it took me a few to get my bearings and get the east and west fired up..... but we gt it and continued onto the boss fight....


WHich went Horrible! No, we didnt wipe.... But it was exciting to say the least.... We finally killed him chated a bit about Von6 and went in.

We lost our main tank at that point... Just DC'd THis could get interesting.....

So I explain my Strat... Start from Home base, 5 go around draw aggro, Pillar Breaker, Aggo, Piullar breaker etc etc etc.... First person goes the opposite direction I asked him togo.. Doh! So I went with it even though Not everyone had FOM.... AFter some Tense moments and a few firebals/Raises we managed to get the Pillars down... Woot.... and Move on to Velah.

We Hero'd her Since none of our clerics had Riase Dead or Mass Heals..... One tank couldnt stop at the nose and was killed immediately and we ended upwith 2 rangers goin at her.... One Hero Wipe, Res em with scrolls and go again. 1 halfling Ranger with a few levels of Barbarin ended up going Nose to Nose with Velah for the last 10% or so of her health.. we're al outof Mana and Heal scrolls at this point frantically Wand wipping him.....


She went Down............



Wow.... Not the Prettiest Dragon Run of my career, but definatly one of the most enjoyable in a long time.... Sometmes Pugs can be a incredibly good time.... Because they dont go smooth......

We had 3 Items drop.. Bracers, belt and Hammer.. all 3 went to the people they dropped for. I wish I would of taken a screenshot and recorded all the names to send some personal props out to these folks that stuck with it.

I didnt so heres a general Shout out to those who stuck with me and got a dragon kill in a below optimum setting!

Thanks for stickin in there and making a questionable sitiation a very fun run!

[TreknaQudane]

I saw your LFM's up yesterday when I was playing on Tonberry

Gotta hand it to you though, staying with the group was quicker than restarting and finding more people in the long run. I would have joined you actually if not for the stupid being on VoN 1.

[incubo]

Yay Alandale, I have had to salvage many parties myself. This experience will make you into that better leader and I fully support you brutha.

If you would just look me up I am sure I have a character or two always willing to run the dragon.

[mardersteinel]

This sounds like a raid I would have been involved with...but wasn't.

Congratulations on getting the job done.

Emphasizes the main principles that seem to result in successful quests: organized leadership, inexperienced people following instructions, or when all else fails exceptional people somehow finding a way to get it done.

[sigtrent]

Personaly my favorite victories are the ones that are hard fought!

Nice story of persiverance.

[MrWizard]

I would just like to say the person withthe star is the person who puts up and lfm, can drop/add people and that is it.
THe star does not mean you are or have to be the leader.
That is usually agreed/talked about as the quest goes.

in my opinion, when I join a party I do not tend towards the star person as the leader. In most cases I see, the expereinced player would rather not have the star and deal with the whole lfm thing.

Other than that, congrats on killing her. It is always a tough call on a long dungeon to go to the gm (which could take and hour and no fix) or just starting over. In most cases it is quicker to just start over though.

[AxeM]

Heh, I was there on my Bard Deathmist, that was by far the craziest Von5/6 I've ever seen that didn't end in failure, I think vs Arach's Knight at one point we only had 3 people people up and then in Von6 we almost got a bridge destroyed and both bards ran out of songs fascinating mobs, also I was down to only 1 raise dead scroll at the end of it.

[Albel]

It is always a tough call on a long dungeon to go to the gm (which could take and hour and no fix) or just starting over. In most cases it is quicker to just start over though.

I wish everyone thought this way, then I'd have the GM's all to myself

But that aside, congrats to those who stuck through it, I wish I had been there, but I was helping a friend move yesterday.

Laters.

[Sokar6000]

I disagree that the person with the star needs to have done the quest before. I once led a run of Crucible elite where nobody new the quest very well. (One of the great mysteries of the universe is how we managed to open it on elite.) It was my first Crucible run; I had the star the whole time. No major incidents and we finished the quest in good time.

I DO agree though, that if you have never done the quest before, SPEAK UP!