High Lords will host Epic Demon Queen teaching raid on Saturday, June 7 at 8pm EST

[Vooduspyce]

The next raid in our series will be one of the most popular raids in the game: Epic Demon Queen! (aka Zawabi's Revenge) on Saturday, June 7 at 8pm EST.

As with all of our teaching raid events, the raid is for players newer to the raiding scene or players that are looking to learn raids better. First timers welcome! Dbags not welcome. Please have sound and be willing and able to follow instructions.

The goal is to welcome newer players into the raiding scene, to teach people how raids work, to get players more comfortable with raids, and to enhance the Sarlona community.

If you are new to the DQ raid, you will need to be flagged by running 3 quests in Menechtarun: Offering of Blood, Chains of Flame and Chamber of Raiyum (wiz king). You will need access to the Demon Sands adventure pack. We will be doing the raid on epic difficulty but you can run the flagging quests on epic or heroic to flag just the same.

Each quest will give you an item that you need to take to the quest giver when you pick up the end reward, and then take to Zawabi the djinn, who is located up the hill from the mailbox in Zawabi's Refuge. The 3 items you need to give to Zawabi are the Orb of the Efreet, Blessed Blood Offering and the Phylactery of Raiyum. Once you've given all 3 items to Zawabi, talk to him again and he will grant the pre-raid quest Against the Demon Queen.

After running the 3 flagging quests, the pre-raid Against the Demon Queen must be run before the raid. AtDQ must be run every time before running the raid, but the other 3 flagging quests just need to be run once per life. We will run AtDQ together, so you will just need to have completed the other 3 quests prior to Saturday's event. Make sure you have turned in the quest items to Zawabi and he has granted you the quest Against the Demon Queen.

Usually all spaces are spoken for by the time of the raid, so reserve your spot ahead of time! If you would like to reserve a space in this Saturday's event, please contact me in game on Gingerspyce.

Thanks for all the support and special thanks to DDOCast and DDO Chronicle for mentioning our events. You can also read a review of one of our recent teaching raids on DDO Gamer HERE! We hope to see you in raids soon!

Love,
Gingerspyce and The High Lords of Malkier

[str8nger]

Hello again! I would LOVE to learn this as I have NEVER run it once in all my lives...please save me a spot if you can, and I will begin the flagging requirements right away.

[Vooduspyce]

Hello again! I would LOVE to learn this as I have NEVER run it once in all my lives...please save me a spot if you can, and I will begin the flagging requirements right away.

Cool, you are now signed up! We'll start forming at 8pm EST on Saturday. I'll save spots until 8:10 and give away any no-show spots at that time.

Still a couple spots left folks!

[Farayon]

Hi guys,

I'll most likely join if there's enough interest to form the group this time around but can't guarantee my participation 100%.

[Munkenmo]

There is only one monster in this raid who has Damage Reduction :

Queen Lailat: To bypass her DR, bring a weapon that has the properties Coldiron & Good.
It's also worth noting Queen Lailat: is immune to electric damage, and has resistance to fire / cold damage, but takes full damage from acid & sonic damage.

Due to the nature of the raid, a ranged and a melee weapon are required for optimum efficiency. However if your resources are restricted, just bring either a melee or ranged weapon depending on which suits your build better.

Lastly during the flagging quest there is a riddle, for those of you who don't like riddles, here is the wiki guide

[Ultz]

That was a great pre-raid and raid. Learned a few new things in the pre raid and in the raid. We ran the pre-raid on EN and it went pretty smoothly with a good chunk of XP.
When Gingerspyce suggested we try the raid on EE (only 6x of us in the Raid party) I was a little concerned but with Gingerspice tanking and Puremouse(?) healing us the raid couldn't have gone any smoother.
That was my 1st EE Raid ever and was very happy that it went soo smoothly.
I run mostly quest, and am efficient at questing. I have been in lots of raids, but I am hoping to join more learning raids and at some point learn them well enough to lead raids on Saralon.
Again a big Thank you to Gingerspyce and The High Lords of Malkier for hosting and taking the time to actually teach us the Raid and the Raid mechanics.
See you in the game

--Ultz
Alt: Vlov