Suggestions for future Epic content - The Reaver's Fate

[spifflove]

Epic water works:

1. All non helmeted, non naptha throwers now carry flame throwers
2. Triple hit oger instakills up to 3 players per swing.
3. All clan leaders carry mini vulcan cannons.

[sirgog]

I like the dragon idea. Would the room not get a little too chaotic (not in the alignment sense) if we had to deal with three dragons, air eles, and the stormreaver all at once?

What about portals that open for the melees to transport into to fight each of the dragons in turn?

One of the things I like most about DDO is that fights get utterly chaotic here.

Take the VoD raid for an example. Some groups have it downpat and the raid goes like a raid in games like WoW - everyone does what they say they will, healers heal enough, tank(s) mitigate enough damage, DPSers deal enough damage and successfully dodge avoidable damage, and loot is won. These raids end up smooth, predictable and pretty dull.

Other times, it's a total cluster**** - people keep taking aggro, Suulo turns around and whacks the group, Orthons start gnawing on the caster, and the group needs to quickly agree on a new plan and recover. Whilst these raids are more expensive resources-wise than smooth ones, they are also more memorable, more fun, and more uniquely DDO rather than things you'll get in other games.

I've had a very memorable VoD run on my cleric where the tank died (the arcane that was brought into the group to repairbot them just stopped going along with the plan) then six other raid members died in a short lagspike. That forced me to go out of my way to take Suulo's aggro for a time, and we had me casting Quickened True Resurrections every cooldown, the other cleric rebuffing all the folks that died, and a ranger handling my curses so I never lost a selfheal to a poorly timed curse. That was an absolute blast of a VoD, one of the most fun raids I've ever been in - precisely because it was chaotic.

So I'm all for bringing on the chaos and having battles with a million and one different things happening at once (as long as the hamsters that run the servers are up to that). Fighting the dragons one at a time wouldn't be a unique encounter (after all, we'll be doing this in the Epic Tor). All at once? That's epic.