Myrmidral's Elite Shroud Run - sign up here :-)

[sirgog]

It's time to get the second last quest in the game done on elite. (The last one, of course, being the Abbot ~shudder~).

I'm looking to do a full completion run on elite this week. Australian time 1am Friday morning, which I believe is 9-12am Wednesday morning in the USA. If any exploits still exist in this quest at that time, in parts 2, 4 or 5, they will not be used - this is a 100% legit run of (IMO) the game's #1 challenge; save the Abbot, which does not count.


The team so far:
Myrmidral: Sor16




It's a tough quest, so here's a list of stuff to bring (as I don't feel like failing this...)

1) Donations to clerics - each non-cleric, non-UMD character must bring 100 Heal scrolls (or a similar amount of plat) to donate to the party clerics. Shroud elite can cost them a fortune, let's spread this cost out a little.
2) High-end weapons that bypass Pit Fiend DR - Unless you feel like watching your 50 strength barbarian hit for 3 damage, you'll need a transmuting weapon of greater evil (or lawful) outsider bane, a holy silver weapon of evil/lawful outsider bane, a Mineral 3 weapon, or better. Bring a backup weapon and a spare Heavy Fortification item as well (Arrietrikos can do a LOT of damage to gear on elite, especially in part 5 where death is not uncommon - a broken Minos Legens will mean you take a lot of painful crits).
3) Toons specced for archery will need to bring a high-end Pit Fiend bow - either a Transmuting of Bane (or better) with 700+ House D returning arrows, or a Silver Bow or Holy of Bane (or better) with 2000+ House D silver arrows. Rumors put Arrietrikos' HP as high as 1 million in part 5 - running out of ammo at 900 000 would suck.
4) Standard Shroud consumables (Neutralise Poison pots if needed, Prot: Fire pots, Fire Shield scrolls if you can cast or UMD them, enough cure potions to stock a small hospital, etc
5) And, of course, pack space for phat loot, bad jokes, caffeine, and all the other things that we all love in DDO...


If you are interested, sign up in this thread, or send me a PM.

[Boldrin]

I'm running one tonight 7ish EST with mostly guildies, you're always welcome in my groups. Just send a PM if you want to bring someone. I'd love to have Numot in the run Your run will be a little late for me, I usually crash around 10ish EST

[sirgog]

Would love to come along, sadly I've worked out what my connection issues were - due to excess downloading by me & my housemates, until the end of my ISP's month, my internet connection is shaped to 64kbps at all times except 1am-7am Sydney time .

So until about the 16th or 17th, I won't be running any raids (save the Reaver - who cares if someone lags there) outside of the hours of 1am to 7am my time. Otherwise, there'll be more of me sitting in the Shroud part 1 seeing in DM text 'It seems as though the stream of attackers is slowly waning' 5 minutes after everyone else has completed part 2.

And Myrmidral's my favor toon - Numot hasn't even got 1250 IIRC, maybe not even 1000. I figure it's easier to farm Running with the Devils for tomes (with the whole ~3% chance of getting one as an end reward) than to grind to 1750, much less the 2658 that Myrmidral is at.