PM only Shroud Friday

[madmaxhunter]

Judging by the death count, I'm guessing the experiment was (almost) a complete success?

It was freshly fried bacon. The amount of aura healing was so great that we stood through the blades for a bit. We coulda prolly just stayed in them. Now the lag on the other hand... After part four there was a good 30 seconds of heal/damage scrolling.

We then got cocky and decided to run VoD elite. That had a slightly different outcome, lol.

[TheDearLeader]

Judging by the death count, I'm guessing the experiment was (almost) a complete success?

He got earthgrabbed off the get-go trying to go into form in part 5. Stuff happens, people roll 1s.

Yeah, success.

It was freshly fried bacon. The amount of aura healing was so great that we stood through the blades for a bit. We coulda prolly just stayed in them. Now the lag on the other hand... After part four there was a good 30 seconds of heal/damage scrolling.

We then got cocky and decided to run VoD elite. That had a slightly different outcome, lol.

I still think nixing the Ice Storm (and maybe Acid Fog) would have made the "lag" in part 4/5 better. Scrolling numbers happens for a lot of my toons, without that sort of bog-down effect.

VoD Elite (wipe) and VoD Hard (wipe), well.. I still think it had something to do with a couple of our pugs connecting via tin can + string. I'd be game to try it again with 12 people whose computers and modems weren't registered antiques. I think we'd have a good shot at success.

[DarkForte]

Would we need to nuke the CK as well?

[madmaxhunter]

We'll run it again elite Monday, same time. Not going to create a new post since those who ran this one have dibs. If anyone can't make it, which will probably be the case, I'll post the LFM around 7 p.m.

[TheDearLeader]

We'll run it again elite Monday, same time. Not going to create a new post since those who ran this one have dibs. If anyone can't make it, which will probably be the case, I'll post the LFM around 7 p.m.

I def. won't be there. I have night classes on Monday, and that's smack dab in the middle of them. Best of luck, though.

[TheDearLeader]

I decided to do a little "highlights reel". Sorry about the poor quality. Just a couple of clips from part 1, 3, 4, and 5. Approximately 8 minutes.

Enjoy.

[TheDearLeader]

I def. won't be there. I have night classes on Monday, and that's smack dab in the middle of them. Best of luck, though.

So true story. Apparently my classes are cancelled on account of President's Day. This is what I get for forgetting Holidays.

I should be able to attend tonight.

[madmaxhunter]

So true story. Apparently my classes are cancelled on account of President's Day. This is what I get for forgetting Holidays.

I should be able to attend tonight.

Sweet! Wouldn't have been the same without ya! Yay for dead presidents (being solemnly honored of course, I'll even throw in a moment of silence).

[BladeTricks]

I decided to do a little "highlights reel". Sorry about the poor quality. Just a couple of clips from part 1, 3, 4, and 5. Approximately 8 minutes.

Enjoy.

I appreciate you posting a video, it's cool to see all those auras stack.

A surprise though: in part 5, where you show Harry's info page, I don't see 22 DoTs going from the other people in your party. Anywhere from 4-7 Eladar's and 6-9 Niac's. So some people elect not to use them (gasp!), while others are not refreshing their stack in time... I'm curious what "spec" they have chosen to justify not using them.

[Grieve]

A surprise though: in part 5, where you show Harry's info page, I don't see 22 DoTs going from the other people in your party. Anywhere from 4-7 Eladar's and 6-9 Niac's. So some people elect not to use them (gasp!), while others are not refreshing their stack in time... I'm curious what "spec" they have chosen to justify not using them.

I suspect that it may be combination of a lack of knowledge of the power of DoTs (some people still don't know about them), getting too caught up with the fun of spamming "free" damage (Necrotic Blast, Bolt & Touch), and other players being overly concerned about using their Negative Energy Burst to keep the party alive due to the amount of lag we had.

I personally slipped up once or twice with my own DoTs, but yes I agree there should have been many more DoTs piled on.

[Kages]

Well if there is room on account of someone not showing hit me up on Kages. Depending on what timezone you are going off of. (figured east coast) I'm central and get home about 6 so should be plenty of time before yall go up. I'll look for the lfm if it goes up otherwise half the people in the party know me or are guildies so we'll be in touch.

[CheeseMilk]

I gotta ask... how long did it take you argue as to who would destroy the crystal?

[Kages]

haha probably asked who had the most lag during part 1 and sent them up lol

[TheDearLeader]

I appreciate you posting a video, it's cool to see all those auras stack.

A surprise though: in part 5, where you show Harry's info page, I don't see 22 DoTs going from the other people in your party. Anywhere from 4-7 Eladar's and 6-9 Niac's. So some people elect not to use them (gasp!), while others are not refreshing their stack in time... I'm curious what "spec" they have chosen to justify not using them.

Beats me. Of course, there's always a chance that they had spell failures due to ASF (I have 5% when using Light and Darkness), or Facing Error/Concentration Failure/etc. Or, some people just don't understand how awesome they really are.

[madmaxhunter]

I gotta ask... how long did it take you argue as to who would destroy the crystal?

That got broken a bit. The plan was to take the lieutenants to 0 hp in south/central. Have three members assigned to each one, if the Orthon and/or rocky was in the mix, they would get separated first, killed, then the members assigned to them would go north to get the crystal. They would have plenty of time to get there.

Instead, one of the PMs (out of habit, I'm sure) ran up in the beginning. All worked out anyway.

[madmaxhunter]

Well if there is room on account of someone not showing hit me up on Kages. Depending on what timezone you are going off of. (figured east coast) I'm central and get home about 6 so should be plenty of time before yall go up. I'll look for the lfm if it goes up otherwise half the people in the party know me or are guildies so we'll be in touch.

There's a pretty good chance that we'll be short at least one. One of the party is a firefighter, he's on rescue this evening. He plays at the station, but could have to leave at a moment's notice.

You're at the top of the list Kages.

[Kages]

There's a pretty good chance that we'll be short at least one. One of the party is a firefighter, he's on rescue this evening. He plays at the station, but could have to leave at a moment's notice.

You're at the top of the list Kages.

K, I'll be around.

[TheDearLeader]

So... Eleven Liches and one guy walk into a Shroud...

Another solid run, guys. Good work on Elite!

[Lazarus8]

That was the second run, the first run was a little more dramatic....

ONE of our party members respecd his toon before shroud, forgot a certain form that is quite usefull for PM's

Of course I promised not to say anything so I won't elaborate any further...

[madmaxhunter]

That was the second run, the first run was a little more dramatic....

ONE of our party members respecd his toon before shroud, forgot a certain form that is quite usefull for PM's

Of course I promised not to say anything so I won't elaborate any further...

I shoulda booted the bast... wait, I wouldn't be able to boot myself, and I have two happily married parents.

(In my defense, I was in a hurry and wanted to respec elec to avoid the DR, thank all that's good in this world that I had one point left!)

Thanks to the great group for reforming after such a newb mistake.