Dragon Flight Raid - Lets talk strategy

[Elthorik]

Talking about GS. My Paladin is the only one above 2500 GS. My CW is next closest with 2350 and SW close behind that. My DC only cracked 2100.

I spent a good amount of time trying to get my Paladin to the point where he would be a fit for any group. I even respecced him to bulwark line to be extra strong and tanky. And now he sits on the shelf collecting dust because he's not really needed.

I could rework my CW to tempest of flame. I think my SW is close to how I want him. I need to work on some equipment for my SW and CW.

Just give me a suggestion on how to proceed. I'm trying to fit into the group where needed. It's a bit frustrating.

[Phelaia]

@Elth, I wouldn't shelf your Paladin just yet, especially not a Bulwark Paladin. Even Tyrandil doesn't like being stuck playing his GF all the time. In fact, sometimes he laments that he doesn't get to take his GWF much anymore...

[Tyrandil]

Or, Elth, you could respec your paladin to Devotion and focus on healing. We have only one "Healadin" player who is on regularly - Kal - and she's really effective. Heal paladins can do things that heal clerics cannot, like [Aura of Life], and they're super-effective at healing if you put your feat points in the Light tree. Or you could be a Devotion, go down the Justice tree with a "minor" in Light, and be somewhat less effective at pure healing but pick up great party buffing abilities.

[Elthorik]

Or, Elth, you could respec your paladin to Devotion and focus on healing. We have only one "Healadin" player who is on regularly - Kal - and she's really effective. Heal paladins can do things that heal clerics cannot, like [Aura of Life], and they're super-effective at healing if you put your feat points in the Light tree. Or you could be a Devotion, go down the Justice tree with a "minor" in Light, and be somewhat less effective at pure healing but pick up great party buffing abilities.

Ahh, sad. I went down the justice tree before. Loved it so much. Well, I'll switch it back to justice, since I really liked that build, but not until next week. Just blew money on respec and a zen to AD transfer that I needed badly to purchase some GMOPs and bought a Coal ward on zen market.

[Kermit]

Or, Elth, you could respec your paladin to Devotion and focus on healing. We have only one "Healadin" player who is on regularly - Kal - and she's really effective. Heal paladins can do things that heal clerics cannot, like [Aura of Life], and they're super-effective at healing if you put your feat points in the Light tree. Or you could be a Devotion, go down the Justice tree with a "minor" in Light, and be somewhat less effective at pure healing but pick up great party buffing abilities.

Ahh, sad. I went down the justice tree before. Loved it so much. Well, I'll switch it back to justice, since I really liked that build, but not until next week. Just blew money on respec and a zen to AD transfer that I needed badly to purchase some GMOPs and bought a Coal ward on zen market.

Hey... I'm always looking to bring my other toons as well but since I'm one of the few tank my OP gets the position.. would be more than happy to run with your OP on my DC or about to be 70 Lock!

[bluebutton]

Late to the party, but a few notes:

I'm building a Justice OP. Did a successful eToS run yesterday (although w Hector and Q, so it was a easier run). I'm enjoying it a lot so perhaps Kermit will sometimes be able to run something else.

About Teamspeak and needed equipment: Hector et al. If the problem is a mic--this can be solved very cheaply. Benn and I use $5 headsets from Discount Electronics (not sure where they have locations), but Amazon has many sub-$20 options that even look nice and sub-$10 options that work.

Amazon link

EDIT: Look what I found! Now you too can have the exact same (cheapo) headset Benn and Blue use!

[bluebutton]

Just give me a suggestion on how to proceed. I'm trying to fit into the group where needed. It's a bit frustrating.

I can see this being quite frustrating.

And then I wonder if this is mostly a time of day issue? I started building my tankadin because for those of us on in the afternoon (Eastern timezone), there's been a lack there. (And my GF frustrates me a lot.)

But for evening dragonflights, I think we'll have to keep generating beefy tanks because we'll be adding dragons til we can get all 4.

And I'll reiterate my NW mantra--if it isn't fun, don't do it.

And finally, finally, thanks for all you contribute to the guild. We're better off with you around.

[RJC9000]

But for evening dragonflights, I think we'll have to keep generating beefy tanks because we'll be adding dragons til we can get all 4.

Hah... I think it's best we stick to perfecting our Green and Red Kills. Sure, the video Tundrra posted a while back had only 20ish people taking out all 4, but it's taken us quite a bit to figure out AND field the guildies just to get our first double kill. Those guys were pretty well geared. I don't think we can match their DPS... not yet, at least.

Can't judge us killing the black one. We'd have to field more people or pray we can get the timing right (or both).

I can talk about the blue one. Even if we could get 30 people (or have such high DPS to whittle a dragon down to 5% within 3 minutes), the blue one is the only dragon to have a (near) guaranteed TOTAL PARTY KILL*. Red and Green have their share of hard hitting attacks, the Black on has its own BS, but I don't think any of those 3 has an option to kill all of us at once if only one of us gets randomly oneshotted.

Better off refining our current strategy to be as best as possible.










* The attack in question goes as this: blue dragon burps out an attack and marks a player (tanks? Melee DPS?) with a blue lightning bolt (think like casting a fully charged Storm Pillar on yourself). If that marked player dies, then anybody who even poked the dragon gets hit with 160K un-mitigatable Damage.

[Tundrra]

It was brought up that it is going to take a while to get all the fangs we need.

So I think on our successful Friday nights we should start planning on 2 runs instead of one. One set of bells gives us 5 charges which will last the guild a month

[nmates]

I have to say that my CW (Spellstorm Oppressor) feels like a useless build for these dragon fights. I'm built for crowd control & containing ads, and there's no crowd. I'm at ilevel 2670 (more once 2x RP hits this week), and I'm doing not much other than dying in the fights. Even the enablers, hitting them with Conduit of Ice (tab) + Icy terrain + Steal time knocks one tick off them, measured during the black dragon run tonight. It takes a very long time for anything to happen to the enablers at that rate -- and I can't move as fast as other classes. If I get closer, the dragons just one-shot me when nearby.