All Cleric Shroud Completion Run 5/10

[Kraak]

Lost,
Thanks for putting this together. Putting things together like this can be a real pain. Personally, even though I had to back out, I really appreciate your efforts. Thanks.

Kraak

[Murgatroyd]

This is maybe a day late, but thanks Lost.

I had a blast though there were some scary moments. At some points I was wondering if someone was going to take up the mantle of dedicated healer. It's unfortunate that we ddoor'ed out...I was willing to keep fighting. We did have him down to 70%

[lostinjapan]

I have been pretty sick the last week+, and much shorter of temper.

I'll probably host another event - just (hopefully) won't get sick right before it happens...or will bow out if it does. When I'm sick I obviously have little patience.

All of you who participated, thank you. I had a fun time even if I couldn't talk well and was slightly delirious.

Next time...think all the clerics should focus on Harm in part IV. I was getting 200+ damage on non-crits for each cast. Or...not sure if anyone tried one of the alignment spells, but maybe those worked as well/better? I did try light spells and they didn't do as much damage as Harm did.

All I know is the melee DPS wasn't enough IMO to justify the healing other clerics were doing...personal opinion here...just what it seemed like from the outside comparing it to when I bring my tempest ranger in there.

Maybe if one of the clerics who were melee could post the numbers they were getting?

[moorewr]

My tactical suggestions...

• have everyone melee: even a dreamspitter will do a few points of damage per swing, so hit him!
• chug prot. from fire and rage pots
• ripple-fire cure, mass. So long as some kind of order was set up (so there isn't wasted healing) there's more than enough mana to get through
• if it isn't your turn to cure, mass, cast harm

I sure hope I can make the next one.

[lostinjapan]

[*]have everyone melee: even a dreamspitter will do a few points of damage per swing, so hit him!

I have to say...I disagree with this point.

For a cleric to melee effectively, not only do they need strength (for damage), but they need HP. Even with Quicken metamagic feat you need the HP to last between casts. My cleric can hit a whopping 18 strength enraged, and has 260 (unbuffed) HP. Not going to melee and do maybe 5-10 points of damage each swing when she can hit in the two hundreds with each non-crit harm...and stay back out of blades/melee damage at the same time.

[Uamhas]

Thanks again, sugar. This was great fun, and just what I needed at the time. Also, thank you kindly to the Legion crew that did the run right after the cleric raid. Even though it came down so very close, it was still a good time.

[Dozen_Black_Roses]

Yes thanks a bunch I still had a blast regardless of how far we went. And I agree with you, unless you are a true battle cleric, with a high dps strength wise, why melee? I picked up harm because I heard you mention it, I think I only heard one other in the group say they would have it too. Perhaps everyone should have mem'd it and with several of us casting harm, some meleeing, and then a group of dedicated healers, we could fare far better.

Though I still think we need to do another ladies nite run....all gal shroud run? I know Jules had mentioned it a lil while back, and I declined as I hadnt done it at that time except once. Not that I am much further along with four times now, and only one completion lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWjt6LGhHsI

although I enjoy the death of him much better in this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAFQd...eature=related

[Uamhas]

Harm is lovely. Unless there's a particular need for one other spell, I keep that one on my hotbar.