I'm fed up with Hound raids.

[Zectarash]

Whew, had the most exhilarating experience in HoX yesterday. I started by seeing a run for HoX up, we went in on hard, and wiped with Xyzzy at 50% hp (charms broke and I don't think anyone had any stones + no bard = catastrophe). A few hours later, there's another Hound raid for hard that I joined. It went smoothly until the charms broke, then we only had one dog. Xyzzy went down to 20% hp and we went in for the kill, but suddenly, a swarmof renders comes charging in. By the time Xyzzy died, her army wiped 7 or 8 of us; and the rest had to fight tooth and nail (including me, one of the healers) and got down to about 20% health each. Great experience, very exciting.

(This all took place on Khyber)

[Scortius]

using my laptop here to post. I assume by now you finished your 2nd run. I switched to my favored soul to run the 2nd run of hound with you and the game crashed...when I went to restart my computer windows was hosed. I'm still trying to get it to boot. I'm glad it didn't crash inside hound, but still, I'm ready to bash some equipment. I'll have to catch you later for some more runs. Feel free to let me know when you plan on doing more runs and I'll run them with you on any of my toons. Quite a smooth first run we had. I was looking forward to the 2nd run

Second run ran into some. . .um . . . difficulty, but we nailed it down on a second try. And happy to see you with the Lorriks.


Thanks Disavowed and the other vets for letting me try with the stones. I'd been in a few Hound runs before, but that was my first no bulls**t, no as**oles runs. It's more fun your way.

[Disavowed]

I'll try and start doing those more often and maybe we can get this back on track.

For those that couldn't make it or had pc issues. Sorry we missed you. For the vets Ty for helping and being patient.

[Flugzeug]

Yeah, getting the Lorriks necklace was amazing. It definitely makes me happy regardless of the computer issues I just had. Especially because I already have the rune, so shield is all I need. Maybe I'll be lucky and get the shield on my 20th. Either way, now that hound runs can be fun again doing it the way we did it last night, even if I get my shield soon I'll be running Hound long after I get the shield.

Thanks to everyone that was in our group last night, quite a great group. Lots of experience and knowledge, and humor of course. If anyone that was in the group last night ever needs a healer or a wizard for any quest, just let me know. Send me a tell if you see me on. I know for sure that I would be with good people if I were to team with any of you. I play 330pm to midnight eastern US time on most days.

-Schwarzhemd (lvl 20 cleric) Tezontle (lvl 20 favored soul) Blaueshemd (lvl 18 cleric) Nottim (lvl 20 wizard)

[Kourier]

Hmmm, thx for the explanation...

As for the buffs, what should I be doing (and in any order)?

By what I have picked up, buffs should be somewhat these in this order:
- Haste, Mass Bulls, Mass Bears
In the meanwhile bards should be Inspiring the pups.

Should the bard also throw Good Hope? And what of Greater Heroism? I heard and apparently perpetuated a misconception that any buffs that increase the pups' saves is bad. By what I read here the saves have nothing to do with charm breaking, only time.

Also I read a few things from other players that weren't answered and made me think:
- Break Enchantment on pups improves healing on them? (I had never heard about that)
- Augment Summoning... does that affect the pups in any manner? (check a few posts above)

I have also always advised the tank to try and get the pups to flank Xyz, does that actuall help?

I think that's all I remember for now...


P.S.: I as well had done at least 30-ish easy completions before I started to fail... I laughed on my first HoX fail cause it was new to me... Then fails just became so common that I've been wondering what has been happening. Just like a recent Reaver fail (my first), where everyone jumped on the boss before the only guy with fly reached the lever... and he died on the spikes. And my first ever fail in pt3 of Shroud. I had never seen the wall until recently. Quality in Thelanis has dropped a lot lately (I took a 5-6 month afk, and then when I'm back fails seem to have become much more common).

Just gonna tell you now... Don't cast break enchantment. Our bard did once by accident and it was a beautiful thing - All 3 dogs broke at once.

[Slink]

Eric the Orthon.

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