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I will put them in my 5.

Strakeln wrote on Sep 12^th, 2011 at 9:24pm:



We did beat it on Lama, but that was before they updated it.  So I would still count Aliclan's completion on epic as the World First.    We did however beat TOD ELite on lama with 6 guildies and 1 pug  the first day.  Yes we drank pots up the ass, but we had 7 players so it was expected.

Strakeln wrote on Sep 12^th, 2011 at 9:46pm:




Umm well the changes introduced have made a huge impact with how hard the raids are.  When we originally ran these, we thought they were pretty tough.  We were short manning them though and had unlimited pots.  After a lot of time invested in these raids, we were able to come up with a good strategy for beating both raids.  Then they updated and tweaked the raids.  TMA didn't get a lot harder overall.  Yea it sucks not being able to raise for 2 minutes, and the Titans now get rezzed at 50% each time you take them down instead of what was 5%, but its a bit irrelevent.  Its pretty easy to dodge their attacks and is pretty much a straight forward beat down.  It was a lot harder learning it all from the unknown but once you get it down, your good to go.  ELOB got drastically harder.  We've attempted it a few times and haven't beaten it yet.  We got close, but its rough restarting the raid after a wipe, when you spent 2 hours fighting balls to the fucking walls and ding.  I completely agree with you on the whole 50 meter head start thing, but Id also say that this situation is an exception.  They did make them harder and the worldwide completion your seeing I would deem true.  As far as I know nobody has beat ELOB yet so it will be a world first.  I hope that makes any sense heh.

Jenovaa_Project wrote on Sep 12^th, 2011 at 10:05pm:

I understand what you're saying, but fail to see how making things harder does anything but exacerbate the point I'm making.  Sure, yeah, now they're harder, which means the folks who have no experience whatsoever in the quests will have an even harder time learning what you already know.

This is less a worry about who claims what first and more of a complaint about the entire idea of a preview server.  Those who really want to be first will spend the time to learn it on preview servers - I just feel it (the preview server) detracts from the competition by removing some of the fun.

OMGBIZZY did all the flagging quests on normal. Now that we can see each others HPs, we felt normal was the best course of action.

We 3/4 manned 2 of the quests on Normal tonight.

I keep getting my ass handed to me on Smrti...damn those Deconning Artificers!!!

Felgor wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 12:30am:


They made me fight the optional golem in the first one (Blown to Bits i think).

I died so fast to a charge and had no clue what was what.

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You know what you can do on epic?

Strakeln wrote on Sep 12^th, 2011 at 10:54pm:


You know you have a great point.  This is why I wish Lama wasn't up.  Sure keep Mournlands, but ditch Lama.  I know I know I sound like a hypocrit here hehe, but I honestly dislike that there is a Lama.  I do go there though because I can't help my power gamer blood but it is what it is.

New Weapons Shipment is fun.  It's faster more interesting and challenging.

Jenovaa_Project wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 1:14am:


I've been lazy in researching what drops on which diffifculty (Only that final tier is elite/epic).

Do you think that once the new and shiny fuss wears down, even the people capable of completing Epic will look for the most optimal grind (X number of norms + X number of Epics) to make the items they need?

Jenovaa_Project wrote on Sep 13^th, 2011 at 1:30am:


I like the sound of that then.  There was the possibility I suppose of complete segregation between people doing norm and doing Epic.  If even the hardcores are going to do be doing norms as well from time to time (and assuming that some of those Norm runs are PUGs), I guess this will become the new shroud eventually (Just harder).