One of the dubious advantages of moving from one guild to another is learning new ways of defeating old encounters. Delusions of Grandeur kills Venril Sathir and the Overking in entirely different ways than did Clan of Shadows, and I had to suppress my urge to shout “you’re DOING it wrong!” because, hey, DoG gets results.
So I shouldn’t have been all that shocked when we got to Leviathan, the Tier 3 raid that is the gateway to Veeshan’s Peak, and the leaders decided on something different than the slow range game that CoS did while I was with them.
Our way will take some preparation. We’re going to farm fifty explosive vials, and kill him from the inside out in five minutes. But first, we have to farm those vials, which involves being swallowed and killing mobs in his tummy who drop them. Last night we did the farming. Tonight, hopefully, the ‘sploding.
With any luck, we’ll be seeing dead Leviathan in chunks all over the place… and we troubadours will get the second update for our mythical epics.
Speaking of CoS, I met (of all people) their most awesome dirge, Allegro, in Second Life! She invited me to tour an absolutely incredible space station — I wish I could show pictures of it, but apparently the owners don’t want anyone to know about it or to take pictures… it was really fantastic, though. Here we are a little later at a beach resort with a dragon theme, me in my Angel of Death outfit, she in her Easter outfit, chatting about the dragons of Veeshan’s Peak 🙂
The changes to the encounter in GU43 means that the hour-long ranged fight is no longer viable. CoS still handles it in one night, but pretty much similar to what DoG does (using the vials inside the mob).
I’d heard there had been changes, but didn’t know what they were. While farming the vials, we were also figuring out how to keep the raid alive long enough to do the job when the time comes. Seems after a certain time, some nasty AE happens that nearly kills the raid and makes it hard to continue. Not sure just what that is; I hope we’ll get him dead before we have to worry about it. I think we were up to seven minutes of things going fine before the bad thing happened? That should be enough time.
At least we did learn how to avoid having our armor destroyed. That was a good thing. Those mender bot bills came to $$$ and DoG doesn’t pay for repair bills.
I need to work on the lighting to that first screenshot. It was a lot more colorful when I took it. You could see the pink on the inside of its mouth much better. Maybe my work computer just sucks.