So we're doing a run.. everything is going surprisingly well... torches were fast and clean, nobody yanking the wrong one out of order in a compulsive panic...

We beat down Strahd to about 2%, work down the brides.. get the signal to kill. Strahd drops....

... and the guy with the Sunsword dies...

Mind you, Strahd is in his coffin.... and nobody is picking up the sword....

I'm in the far corner, was raising people as they lost the marker... and nobody is moving to the Sword.... time is ticking... lag starts RIGHT FUCKING THEN.. I manage to make it to the coffin, grab the sword.. and frantically start stabbing him....

... with my stack of Resurrection scrolls....

He hops up.. the brides hop up.... the party wipes..

We actually recovered... TWICE... but folks started leaving the group, or just finding a nice corner and going AFK.. we ended up throwing in the towel.

*sigh*

I've only got about 600 Strahd Runes, but 950ish Hut Runes

Still trying to get Bell, Strahd's Invis Cloak, Coat of Van Richten & Dusk

Dusk dropped last night, but someone beat me on the roll

There are still quite a few Guilds doing high R runs, but they tend to stay exclusive and USUALLY won't let non-Guild members in.

I've done both Raids a few times now and am learning as I go..  Problem is, I really kind of enjoy crowd control, am decent as a tank.. and do you REALLY want some idiot with a pet skelly trying to control the crows while I'm doing puzzles?

Same with Artis who go in with the defenders.. FML.. yer godamn dog is fucking up the agro douchnozzle!!

Makes me crazy when I'm trying to reaquire Ago after some dickhead runs up behind my crows and throws a few casts and their dog keeps biting them in teh ass.

I've also noticed that the Crows arent focusing on agro as much. They are running around randomly attacking anyone and everything, none of it having anything to do with gening agro.. its like their AI has been fucked with again.

Sometimes the doorway trick works, sometimes it doesn't... just frustrating to have an easy Crow set where Im sitting on the door sill and the crows are on the other side trying to get me thru the wall, and some fucktards pet feels the need to run up and start attacking.... soon to be followed by the fucktard themselves.

In any case.. the wipe I was talking about above was probably destined.. the lag was preventing swaps, so I couldn't get the fucking scrolls out of my hand to use the Sunsword, and when i finally had my sword and board out I couldn't swap back to scrolls to get people up..  was fucking ridiculous. Kind of important to be able to turn my aura off after I've got agro so I don't kill the brides or Crows when I have them as well.

There really weren't that many folks in-game @ the time either.. so no idea why the lag started. Sure.. everybody knows when Lam is up Main runs like shit.... but no excuses for this weekend.

Lava Divers on Khyber is running in the R5-R7 baba and strahd range these days.

Asheras wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 11:12am:


Someone twitching?

goldgolem wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 10:10am:


Yeah, arise is doing in r5 range for both 6 and 12 man. Solid core there just need a couple more to hit full potential.

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 8:14am:


Cannith has a dozen or so legitimately decent players and another dozen or so mediocre to bad players who you'll encounter in high skulls that have no business being there.

The player base is also extremely fragmented; GODS has a bunch of the people who are useful in high skulls/reaper raids, but they also have a lot of players who range from mediocre to bad, can't contribute much, but end up in the group anyways by virtue of being in the guild (GODS is not a skill-based guild). Most of the other decent players are the only (or one of the only) useful players in their guild.

Cannith could really benefit from a skill-based guild filled with only decent players to help turn the multiple small cliques of decent players into a more cohesive unit, but it isn't likely to happen since most people have been in their guilds for long periods of time and are pretty entrenched there. The only guild on Cannith that I can think of with only decent players has 2 players in it which isn't exactly enough.

There you have it, the breakdown of Cannith's endgame reaper scene that nobody wanted. You're welcome.

As a perpetual mediocre pug participant on Orien, I can say the legendary raid runs can be super exciting because of folks that don't know what they're doing or doing the opposite of helping.  Guess that is one reason I keep TRing.  More fun to TR than to pull whats left of my hair out with capped raiding.

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 2:52pm:


Yeah, there was an open call for a Twitch streamer group that runs weekly in the Sarlona subforum on the mains a couple of weeks ago.

Only R2 for the pug raids, but they run high skull legendary stuff regularly on their streams.

Pseudonym wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 1:51pm:


I assume you are one of the useful and high skilled member of GODS? am i right?

OkSub wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 8:09am:


You are not.

RolyPoly wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 10:24am:


When I say "decent", I'm referring to players who are legitimately useful in high skulls. There are (obviously) a lot more than a dozen or so players who can pass for ok-ish in easier content, in addition to a handful of players who suck but get carried through high skulls often enough that they probably think of themselves as useful.

That's not who I'm talking about.

RolyPoly wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 10:24am:


The problem isn't finding people, it's finding useful people. Pretty much every public chat channel in Cannith history has been been abandoned by decent players because their existence became public knowledge which resulted in a flood of bad players joining. To that end, a password-protected reaper channel was made a bunch of months ago. It never really caught on.

Pseudonym wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2018 at 1:51pm:

Did not want. Thank you.

Khyber has a good volume of competent raiders so that you can find challenging runs and a decent volume of runs.  There are at least 3 guilds that are strong end game raiders doing reaper raids.   Then pug/other guilds doing weekly LH/LE runs successfully.

If you wanted to keep multiple characters on timer, you would be able to do so.

goldgolem wrote on Jul 6^th, 2018 at 9:43am:


Part of it might be play time.  I know Khyber is strong in the 7pm US eastern to about midnight.   There is a smaller but active Euro crowd and mid-day American crowd, but it is not overly large.   If you are doing high skulls at cap reaper runs or speed/optimized reaper TR runs, you should be able to find some steady running mates.  I don't know about an asian/australian crowd for what would be overnight and early morning hours in the US.  Khyber used to have a decent showing there years ago, but it seems like that time slot is pretty spartan now days.   I'm not on during that time, though, so I could be wrong. 

I don't know about G-Land and what their heavy activity times would be.