Devil Assault Epic in 40 min. on Khyber

[sephiroth1084]

Epic Devil Assault! First try, 40 minutes, 3 deaths (2 in the first 15 seconds due to lag, 1 to end boss who hits HARD), about 4 majors used across the whole party.

I pulled a Large Scale, Large Stone and a Mysterious Artifact. Some others got boot ingredients, larges, a Shard of Power and an Astral Diamond.

Oh, and I have zero epic items and only a tier 2 greensteel on my barbarian (though both Numot and Sorg are positively dripping with goodies).

CC was key here (as I mentioned it would be earlier). Used disco ball, Symbol of Persuasion (latter waves gain immunity to this via Shavarath environmental effect), Mass Hold, Flesh to Stone and Stunning Fist from what I could see. Sorg's enchantment DC was something like 46, so take the effectiveness of the CC with a grain of salt, and maybe some humble pie.

Oh, and I gathered that the new songs from the Spellsinger played a large part in the low resource consumption, as both Sorg and Numot were joygasming over the songs fairly constantly.

[sephiroth1084]

Great job Ash, Kri, Sorg, Numot and Faf!

[sirgog]

That was a total blast, and very lucrative.

I had the absolutely enormous resource usage of 2 mana pots and 8 Heal scrolls. (I don't have a Bauble).

[sephiroth1084]

(I don't have a Bauble).

REALLY?! Why not, Mr. Redscale docent? I'd say that I'd give you a hand farming that, but A) you don't need any help with that joke of a quest, and B) I want a bauble on my paladin (and ranger).

Yeah, the return was pretty phenomenal! I'm kind of skeptical as to whether we didn't see an above-average loot pull in here or not. If what we got is pretty close to the norm, this may replace running Shroud and Amrath quests almost entirely for capable 20s seeking Large ingredients and/or boot ingredients, although, as I said after we completed, I don't know that every group running through here will be as capable as we were.

[der_kluge]

I wonder if Shroud farming will decline now that you can get Shroud ingredients from this quest? I certainly hope so.

[sephiroth1084]

I wonder if Shroud farming will decline now that you can get Shroud ingredients from this quest? I certainly hope so.

Doubtful.

Vets don't generally farm the Shroud (unless you meant farm to simply mean run frequently), and the players who bother farming are likely too weak to get through this on epic, and likely not elite.

As for completing the Shroud, there's still the matter of cleansers and +3 tomes.

[flynnjsw]

Nicely done folks, max gratz.

[Clay]

gratz!

[Sirea]

Gratz, and nice loot haul! Nice that you can loot Astral Diamonds now (as well as other stuff from the Store).