High Lords will host Riding the Storm Out teaching raid on Saturday, April 28 at 9pm

[Vooduspyce]

Last Saturday night was a lot of fun to introduce some folks to one of DDO's epified classics Legendary Shroud. We had one newcomer to our events and another couple who attended our teaching raids for their third time. You can read about it and watch the live stream here.

With most of the newer raids still in front of us to finish off the 2018 teaching raid season, now is a great time to get involved if you're newer to raiding and missed the first half of the season. Every week I bring along about a half dozen guildies who are experienced raiders to help make things smooth, which takes the pressure off the new folks and helps to create an easy going environment where we can focus on teaching raid mechanics instead of stressing about trying to stay alive. Even if you've never raided before or you think your build or gear isn't good enough to raid, we show how everyone can be a part of a successful raiding group and most importantly, having fun doing it.

Next in our teaching raid series will be one of DDO's newest raids Riding the Storm Out on Saturday, April 28 at 9pm EST!

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 but you must be at least level 27 to enter Riding the Storm Out.

If you are new to RSO, there is no flagging required!

There are a couple things you should do to prepare for the raid:

1. Twist in Energy Sheath (electric version) - we will continuously be struck by lightning throughout most of the raid, so Energy Sheath is very important. The lightning cannot be evaded. Energy Sheath is a tier 1 enhancement from the Draconic Incarnation epic destiny.
2. Bring an electrical absorption item if possible - with the massive amounts of electrical damage that we will encounter, an absorption item is helpful to wear in addition to having Energy Sheath. You can craft absorption items using Cannith Crafting or you can find randomly generated items with the descriptors "Electricity Absorption" or "Insulated". You can also use named items such as Ring of the Djinn or Prismatic Cloak. A list of named electric absorption items can be found on DDOwiki here.

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.

This event will be live streamed on my Youtube channel.

Thank you to the community for all the support and special thanks to DDOCast for mentioning our events. We hope to see you in raids soon!

Much love,
Gingerspyce and The High Lords of Malkier




PS. All are welcome to attend our Thursday Night Abbotfest and our Friday Night Raidfest. These events aren't as formal as our teaching raids but we are happy to explain how the raid works to new players.

[Vooduspyce]

Wow we had 7 signups for last night's RSO teaching raid, all of whom were first timers! Big thanks to my guildies Bologrubb for great tanking, Mickydees for heals and turning the undead, and Tooruk and Mennen for helping with puzzles so the new folks could focus on learning the mechanics and the layout of the raid. RSO can be a really stressful raid for newcomers due to the constant lightning strikes, but we did our best to keep things focused and to show how even a group of mostly first timers can be successful in this endgame raid. If you missed the fun, you can watch the live stream below...




Only 6 events left in the 2018 teaching raid series! In no specific order, the remaining raids will be Defiler of the Just, Old Baba's Hut, Curse of Strahd, Fire on Thunder Peak, Temple of the Deathwyrm, Caught in the Web, Mark of Death, Fall of Truth and Hound of Xoriat, so work on getting flagged and we hope to see more newcomers to our events soon