Rift Jan 17, 2008 five or six days

[Varda]

Rift of Nurz Ghashu raid starts this Friday:

EST:
Fri 1/18: 9pm -12
Sat 1/19: 6pm-9pm, also 10pm - 1 if enough interest
Sun 1/20: 8-11pm
Mon 1/21: 7-10pm
Tues 1/22: 9pm - 12
Wed 1/23: 9pm-12 pending sanity check


Black Lion contacts: Genessa, Elliphaz.
Valar contacts: Niequi, Fainan

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[Ulmo 1997-2011]

Friday raid and the first 2 bosses went down.

Saturday raid one was canceled but the late one went off as scheduled. I was low roller and thus designated to wear the arrow as official raid scapegoat. The evening went so smoothly finding stuff to blame on me was difficult. Boss 3 is highly bugged, but we killed him on first try anyway. Boss 4 has flying dragons as minions, was a very cool fight script. It took 2 tries to kill him.

The schedule continues tonight as posted. First dibs on slots goes to those who have been coming already to this round, but there will likely be a slot or 2 open to newcomers. So far only Varda and I have been attending, I really hope more try to come. It is a lot of fun, and the graphics are amazing. Our raiding allies are some very courteous and fun people to play with. Come see flying dragons and much more!

[Varda]

Sunday raid:

We had four Valarites: Lilyblossom (Dis), Fainan (Varda), Gorlim (Aeronwy), and Niequi (Ulmo). This was Gorlim's first time raiding or in the Rift and our birthday present to him.

8-11pm: Next set of bosses, all new to us.
We killed the fumaroles and their guards.
Then we killed the Over-seer and his seers and his darklings (kill the darklings before they reach the purple splat aka hole where they become elites) and Naz.
Then we made it to Stone-Eater and Stone-Biter, killing Stone-Eater, but he respawned and we had to stop for the night. If a group fights in front of the gate, it is standing over the hole and the darklings are in it immediately as elites. We tried two tactics and will try something different Monday, maybe using the long hallway.

[Varda]

Monday:

We killed Stone-Eater and Bone-Biter and their minions, by keeping them well-separated. Ancbeard tanked Biter while we brought Eater down to almost dead as he had the most hit points. Then we tried to kill them at about the same time. Eater went down slightly ahead spawning Darklings which we killed. If they had made it to Biter, they would have become elites. This was our objective for the day.

We went on to see about Thrang. Ancbeard tanked the giant with Niequi as his dedicated healer. The rest of the monsters came down the steps possibly from near the door we had come in. We took out everything until the two Summoners arrived. One died but the other did not go down so well. Fumaroles showed up on the ground floor to which we were supposed to kite Thrang. But since the second Summoner was not down yet, the kiting was tried too early by at least one member. We expect to do better after this scouting run.

Valarites present were Ancalagon's Ancbeard, Dis's Lilyblossom, Ulmo's Niequi, and Varda's Fainan.

[Varda]

Tuesday: 9pm - 12 midnight EST.
We came very close to killing Thrang and should be able to next run. Pulling the Summoners to opposite sides of the terrace where they came in at the door works well. We learned not to have the dedicated healer on the bottom floor with the tank on the Giant, but to heal from up high.

[Varda]

Wednesday: 9pm-12 EST
We needed one more person to do the run, so rather than bring in a stranger or going in to make a huge repair bill, we did not start. We did wait a while to see if anyone would show up, perhaps confused by the time zone, but no one able to run showed. We plan to run again probably in two weeks.