BDA to Phinigel

[dafier]

Loved playing in PoW. Didn't like the over all Coirnav event though. It was very stupid and there was way too much death because of dumb ass adds.

[arsenalpow]

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

I heard rumors that petitioning for it would get you a free exp potion or something???

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

Ya, you just get a 50 pot...no res

We've had some people get rezzes, no pots though. It just takes 4-5 days.

[Daldaen]

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

Loved playing in PoW. Didn't like the over all Coirnav event though. It was very stupid and there was way too much death because of dumb ass adds.

Coirnav was a lovely event, you take that back!

All of the EP Gods are actually great events. They each challenge different aspects of your raid force.

• Fennin is a lazy clear that eventually tests your ability to split minis, and in Fennin handle a hard hitting boss that is a 100% positional fight. Fail to position properly and you lose.
• Coirnav is a great fight that tests your overall raid DPS and ability to CC some minis while you kill the trash, then Coirnav himself is a straight burn.
• Xegony is a total control fight. Slow and steady wins the fight. Have a plan for handling each set of adds and keep Xegony debuffed and your CH chain rolling.
• Rathe is a planning control fight. You need to assign roles for mezzing, tanking and healing. If you just try to faceroll in and figure it out as you go, you're probably going to have a bad time. The way this fight forces you to stretch your force so thin it shows you which members in your guild can't stand on their own and will be a true liability in later expansion.

[dafier]

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

Coirnav was a lovely event, you take that back!

All of the EP Gods are actually great events. They each challenge different aspects of your raid force.

• Fennin is a lazy clear that eventually tests your ability to split minis, and in Fennin handle a hard hitting boss that is a 100% positional fight. Fail to position properly and you lose.
• Coirnav is a great fight that tests your overall raid DPS and ability to CC some minis while you kill the trash, then Coirnav himself is a straight burn.
• Xegony is a total control fight. Slow and steady wins the fight. Have a plan for handling each set of adds and keep Xegony debuffed and your CH chain rolling.
• Rathe is a planning control fight. You need to assign roles for mezzing, tanking and healing. If you just try to faceroll in and figure it out as you go, you're probably going to have a bad time. The way this fight forces you to stretch your force so thin it shows you which members in your guild can't stand on their own and will be a true liability in later expansion.

HAHA! Ya, it was all really fun over all. BUT! Xegony and Fennin were my favorite. Rathe was long (at first), then turned in to a literally few minute event.

Fennin ...the fight was boring for a caster, but I just like PoF. It's a beautiful zone that makes everyone look like ants. The ramps, the courtyards and the thrones (I call the spider/phoenix area a throne), just gorgeous.

Water was really fun to because it was SO dark. It was like scuba diving in the evening,(not midnight) around dusk.

[dafier]

Blah....I forgot to mention Blazzaxx the Omnifiend. Because of the name alone, it's one of my most favourite NPCs.

[nhdjoseywales]

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

I look forward to hanging out with you pals in the Elemental Planes.

In other news, I heard 4 guilds were in Earth B last night contesting Rathe Council. Sounded like a total clusterfuck with the biggest neckbeards on the server trying to kill it even though they are already flagged. Sounded like neckbeardism was victorious too.

Sucks a few people blew their Earth B instance and had to wait a week to try again. The actual challenging content is here finally. I can't wait to watch Phinnykills on progress once they start updating it.

Lemme give ya the scoop on that.....

IVAS was getting ready to do RC and Entendre was there planning to contest/wait for wipe/whatever. AOS shows up and ooc's to the zone that they intend to kill the avatar no matter who kills RC and the people in zone can either help them and get flags but no loot or not help them and fuck off. This didnt sit well with a lot of OGC so attempted to get IVAS and Entendre to work together so both of them got some flags/loot and we would provide extra dps for the race at no cost. Entendre turned down the offer but IVAS accepted so we sent a shitload of deeps to sit in poeb and ensure AOS didnt ks IVAS. AOS wilted at teh show of force and left giving IVAS their shot. Well almost, AOS had a person drop guild and repeatedly break IVAS mezzes on RC until IVAS left. We have screenshots of the person guilded then unguilded a half hour later.

I have to believe if i were half as shitty a person as the average AOS member i would have killed myself long ago to spare the world my existence. Oh wait, shitty people dont care.

[nhdjoseywales]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ Anyone that thinks AoS and OGC are equal levels of scumbags very clearly doesn't know what they're talking about

Absolutely this. I'm an asshole. I am not a bottom feeding sack of scumshit that gets off on making other people unhappy.

[booter]

Shots from the last week of bad BDA raiding:

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[Daldaen]

Those screenshots are all anyone should need to consider Phinigel.

@The Rathe Council story, just gives you more motivation to never screw up your crucial instanced flag raids that are open world. Plan ahead, plan ahead, plan ahead. That's the name of the game on TRC. Now granted if you are rolling with a guild of 72 ballers with a competent raid leader you can just lay out Raid roles as you go, but for your run of the mill guild you needa set up groups for CC, offtank order and associated healers in advance and you should win pretty handily so long as Chanters don't fall asleep and your pullers don't blow.

AoS is what P99's raid scene would be like without GM intervention. Makes me want Sirken to step away and only deal with reimbursement and stuck petitions just so that we get some quality RNF material.

If you think having your Rathe Council fucked with for 2-3 hours sucks, I can only imagine the nerd rage to have your Tunare kill sniped after a 7 hour PoGrowth clear. Would actually force guilds into some suboptimal engages and put challenge back into the raid scene when you can't Slow anymore with spam dispelling from an opposing guild and constant trains $$$.

[Bazia]

that content was beyond trivial to complete on phinny, I mean if u just wanna see content for the sake of seeing content there are many avenues available that dont involve lining daybreaks pockets (whose continued existence stifles any hope of a new p99 server)