High Lords will host Abbot teaching raid on Saturday, May 30th at 9pm EST

[Vooduspyce]

Our last teaching raid Mark of Death was a lot of fun! CLICK HERE to read about it!

The next raid in our series will be my favorite raid Abbot! (aka Accursed Ascension) on Saturday, May 30th at 9pm EST!

All events in this series are for players new(er) 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. There is no level cap for any of our teaching raids.

If you are new to Abbot, you will need to have access to the Necropolis Part 4 adventure pack.

Flagging for abbot starts with collecting the 8 sigil pieces to complete your sigil of the abbot. Once you've completed your sigil, turn it into the NPC that gives the sigil frame, Sir Rohine in upper Necropolis, and he will grant the quest Litany of the Dead. Sigil pieces are most efficiently acquired from chests in the 4 heroic Orchard of the Macabre quests (Fleshmaker's Laboratory, Ghosts of Perdition, Inferno of the Damned and Desecrated Temple of Vol) but can also drop in rare chests in the orchard (heroic slayer instance only). Any sigil piece can drop from any chest in heroic orchard quests or rare chests, however sigil pieces 1-4 commonly drop in specific orchard quests, while pieces 5-8 are random. See litany link above for more on sigil piece locations. Note that it is not necessary to run orchard quests to flag for litany, as long as you have a completed sigil. You can also carry extra sigil pieces over to your next life.

Once you are flagged for litany, you will need to complete the quest 4 times to kill each of the 4 bosses. Halfway through the quest, you will encounter a black dragon that will ask you a series of questions. Your answers will determine which boss you face. Answers for these questions, as well as solvers for many DDO puzzles can be found at cubicleninja.com. Be careful to answer correctly, you cannot restart the questions and if you answer incorrectly the dragon will breathe acid and instakill you. After killing each boss there is an exit beyond the boss chest that you need to exit through, which will take you to the top of the tower outside of the orchard quest corresponding to the boss you killed. There are 4 crystals that need to be destroyed to complete the flagging for that boss. Do not destroy these crystals until all members of your party are present. Party members not present when the crystals are destroyed will not get credit for that boss. Then re-enter litany and do the same for the remaining bosses. Once you have killed all 4 litany bosses, Sir Rohine will grant the raid.

Abbot flagging requires perhaps more commitment than any other raid but the loot in the raid is among the best in the game, including Quiver of Alacrity, Litany of the Dead (a trinket with the same name as the quest), Staff of the Petitioner, Vile Blasphemy and more! The Litany boss chests also contain some very nice rare items.

Space is limited 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. We hope to see you in raids soon!

Love,
Gingerspyce and The High Lords of Malkier

PS. All are welcome to attend our Tuesday Night Abbotfest (heroic) and our Friday Night Mark of Deathfest. These events aren't as formal as our teaching raids but we are happy to explain how the raid works to new players.

[JacynWindwore]

I've done three of these training raids over the last month. They're great fun. The high lords are very patient and explain the whole raid very well. I'd highly recommend running these training raids, especially if you're a new or returning player. I'm hoping to make another one or two before the summer break.

See you on Sarlona.

[Bolo_Grubb]

Bump for a good cause

[Vooduspyce]

Still space available for tonight's Abbot teaching raid!

[Vooduspyce]

What an awesome run! We had 2 first timers and one more that joined us to learn goggles. We did something a little different this time for our abbot teaching raid. Instead of splitting up like a normal run and putting 1-2 new players in each puzzle, we decided to all go into goggles and learn that. Then we all went into ice and learned that. then we all went into roids. This way e1 got to see and experience all the puzzles. We swam to the end of ice rq and got a bunch of wands so that e1 in the group could have one. Then we came back and alternated between the High Lords and e1 else to shoot the wands and all went across at the same time. I wish I had video of that part, it was a riot! Thanks for coming e1