Lord of Blade/MA - Hard (testing stuff) - 7PM EST - Tonight (Tuesday)

[Shade]

Thanks guys, nice runs.

Here's a shot of some of the weapons we got wielded:



Learned some new stuff:

LoB Hard:
DR17/Adamantine + Good
None on any other enemy there i could tell. Maybe good on the quori as usual.

Power of the Forge works on everyone, not just WF...
It talks about increases to strength, health etc.. But I saw no change in stats at all. Only thing it seems to do atm is let you float over and attack the pillars.. Attacking them so that they far towards the center in an effort to hit the boss alwasy failed, they only seem to fall one direction.

It also debuffs you with an "Life Forge: Over Charged" so you can't take it back to back and keep kiling pillars Couldn't tell the exact duration on the power of the forge buff as it gave me like 3 icons and i dunno which was which, one last 3 min, others less.. I think its like 30 econds, as I fell into the plasma water not long after i killed a couple pillar bottoms.

Scales down a lot on hard.. Wasn't too difficult and we did it in a harder way - killed no pillars (well 1 to test at start and thats it). Then killed the lord of blades himself like 15 times to really **** him off and make sure we got grudge maker and domination optionals. We got both, and ended up with a bonus chest.

Minor bug:
When we smashed up the pillars and it was over, we still had a ton of Dots stacked on him, so he was constantly dying at the time while he tried to do his speech.. So raid was complete, but barrier stayed up, and we kept killing him more and more lol. Once we stopped pounding on him and let the dots drop, he managed to teleport away and the barriers dropped.

Note on Essence:
Seems to just be random which person in the room gets it.. I talked to start up the Fire one, but Neuoni ended up getting the essence. Doesn't seem to be based on kill eitther as I did the main dps and got kill.

Master Artificer Hard:
This raid really doesn't scale that much like LoB.. Sure trash is easier.. But Ronny and Sally still manage to get tons of kills where there force shots, which still do in the 400-500 range for Ronnys , and bit less for Sally's. They are easily dodgable, but people still learning the tell took several deaths.

Traps scaled down lot, only ~130-160 damage vs about double that on elite. Course this was still more then enough to slaughter our entire party except myself and Jeets who both have major HP and ligntning absorb. We tried ot learn the patern and dodge it, but it seems that sometimes Tovens just a jerk and activates all 3 traps at once lol.. I guess a ring of the Djinni will become a much more valuable item (or crafted lightnign absorb shard)

So same as befoer we 2man'd, rezed who we could near the last crystal and prepared for the titans.

They went down pretty smooth. We had nice DPS, so it wasnt too long. Don't remember exact time, but looking at my bar I had 3 rages left.. so likely well under 15min. I'd say you could do norm here in prolly sub 5min with lots of barbarians.

Just wish Melee could help on toven... We didnt kill him fast enougn and had to redo the titans once.

Pics:
Dominating!
Alchemical Dwarven Axe (looks nice)
Greensteel Goggles show up on halforcs now. Larvenk has on tharnes which look a lil different.

Sallys damage output on hard.. This is her blender attack, not much different then elite.

[Spectral_blade]

I can bring a fighter (Zaroll) or fvs (Pheara)

[Truenuetral]

Jeetzs FVS

[Grieve]

I should be around. Need to flag though so just let me know what you want. I have Cardan, Rifte, Feylicia, & Reimi available. Check my sig and let me know who you want so I can flag that toon.

[Shade]

I should be around. Need to flag though so just let me know what you want. I have Cardan, Rifte, Feylicia, & Reimi available. Check my sig and let me know who you want so I can flag that toon.

clr

[EatSmart]

Will see if i can join you for MA + chronoscope if i'm still awake. I think gallina is still on timer for LoB. I might be able to stay up late tonight, still waiting to hear from an interviewee. (I'd still like to avoid being up past 2-3am GMT)

[Grieve]

I'll be logging on to Lama to flag in a few minutes if anyone wants to join me.

[Shade]

lfm up, forum sign ups close in 5min.

[Shade]

Two great runs.. Thanks to everyone who joined.

Learned a few new things. See OP.

[Aerendil]

I swear that one titan had it in for me. Grrrr...


PS - the alchemical longbow looked pretty cool, for those interested.
Really curious how the longsword and bastard sword look. If anyone has one, please post a pic

[SillyWallaby]

It seems bad that there seems to be no way to control who gets the essence. Even if you don't get the essence you still get the debuff which stops you from getting one. Are the essences unbound/BtA/BtC? It seems that the best way is to solo one, but not all characters will be capable of that.

[Jaid314]

e:
Seems to just be random which person in the room gets it.. I talked to start up the Fire one, but Neuoni ended up getting the essence. Doesn't seem to be based on kill eitther as I did the main dps and got kill.

wait, only one (random) person gets this? isn't that kinda needed for crafting your alchemical stuff?

*sigh* let me guess... can't be traded?