Call to Arms: Project 1999!

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by NecroP99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Should be fun trying to pick out all the Awakened alts as well. I have many of your names scribbled down and I will be petitioning those who should not be raiding. many of you are not as anonymous as you would think.

this poster is doing the lord's work.

remember to keep the name petitions flowing as well, young necrop99

[radda]

oh They have time for them, lol. Write it off or join in, that’s the only two options everyone has.
And another thing, I love that some of y’all waste your mind energy on typing useless and tossed aside forum post. You know who you are not.
There will be many guilds raiding come up. Enjoy

[m00r5tuD]

Originally Posted by Naethyn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Offering platinums for booze delivery.

Naethyn bout to pull a Kluwen lol

[Uuruk]

Originally Posted by Naethyn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You farming Dagarn bow? That took me forever on live.

Yeah, never drops

[Baylan295]

Originally Posted by Uuruk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Drugs and dragons

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I'm a little confused why it took 11 hours to clear the content.

I'm assuming you crawled it, with 200 people you should be able to easily clear up to Eashen/Aaryonar and then break the 10-Flurry circuit in NToV before jumping over the stairs and clearing left or right path.

What were the wipes that caused it to take so long and did you kill Vulak in his room?

The short answer to this question is disorganization. Unsurprisingly, when you take 200+ people who have never raided together and stick them in the dungeon with the hardest content in the game, there are issues. There were wipes and there was simply things taking longer because people don’t know who needs to step up for various roles.

Anyone who thought this would take 6-8 hours had rose colored sunglasses on. It was always going to take at least 12 hours.

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What were the wipes that caused it to take so long and did you kill Vulak in his room?

First major wipe during Eashen was due to people running out of the safe area we were in which trained the raid. Running around and not dying in place extended the danger of the train all throughout the hub.

Second major wipe I'm not entirely sure. Aary was going well but we somehow agroed additional mobs that started down the ramp and eventually went after casters. Low health agro caused Aary to run around the corner and AOE the clerics. Coupled with the hatchlings and general chaos from being oom we managed to get Aaryonar down but at a great cost - pretty much a total wipe. We had a hell of a time getting people rezzed back up at first but with some instruction we moved everyone into Eashen's room and got situated and were then stable from there on out.

Lord Koi`Doken and Lady Mirenilla went haywire because push caused problems with positioning (since our mobs are not rooted). This caused the AOEs to become a lot more harmful than they should've been since clerics were getting hit. It's amazing how much push a huge raid can produce unintentionally or otherwise.

The rest of the time (except for Vulak) weren't full wipes but people eating enrage, as someone pointed out. Since this was an open raid not everyone had/used agro clickies etc to tank. Everything would go well and agro was solid until that pivotal moment and a mob would turn with people still auto attacking. Perhaps people were trying to save faction, or maybe they just got caught off guard. Dunno.

"Move up" should have been made clearer as a good portion of the raid wasn't sure where to go a couple of times, so for today's raid we'll be more clear on instruction. I do want to point out that throughout this event quite a few people were AFK, so the 170-220ish numbers we got are a bit inflated. This also caused us to have some stragglers around NToV.

Vulak. Vulak Vulak Vulak..... No, we did not kill Vulak in his room. The first attempt caused a massive desync and consequent wipe. By the time we got everyone up again we would gain agro on a nearby mob and it caused a couple more wipes on the freshly rezzed. At this point we decided to just get the mob down and try to get as many corpses summoned because it was going to become quite costly to keep buffing everyone up. Plus it was late. If there is a next time I would absolutely love to kill Vulak in his room.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by Fifield [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I knew this was gonna be a cluster, but knowing that alot of us still showed up for the experience. As much as it was painful to watch all the low hp aggro people die, watch everyone eat enrage, watch the dragons not get pushed properly, etc etc, It was all worth it experience something like this, and see the excitement of some of those who don't have tov loot.

Like that rogue who got BiS offhand claw. thats what its all about!

Shout out to all the clerics who hung in there and tried to keep people alive during the many hour slog of ToV - I think I heard less than 10 clerics with around 200 people - just crazy. Those are the heroes of this raid, think of the hundreds of cleric epic clicks that were performed yesterday alone.

Clerics - give yourself a pat on the back, well played.

[Baylan295]

Originally Posted by Fifield [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I knew this was gonna be a cluster, but knowing that alot of us still showed up for the experience. As much as it was painful to watch all the low hp aggro people die, watch everyone eat enrage, watch the dragons not get pushed properly, etc etc, It was all worth it experience something like this, and see the excitement of some of those who don't have tov loot.

Like that rogue who got BiS offhand claw. thats what its all about!

It’s incredibly fun to see deserving people get cool loot. I didn’t attend (I’m not quite 60), but it sounds like a lot of people had fun.