Lost In The Crowd

2nd tier chamber, we have 29 member present with 6 being 2boxed. Yep whole party of 2boxed, I don’t complain hehe some of them are good at 2boxing so they do their part on their 2boxed character like BRD or DRK well. I’m RDM again, I suppose I could just get away with RDM every time unless we are really lack melee. We usually end up with 4-5 RDM including me in every Einherjar run, just about 1 RDM for every party.

I have to say we are lucky again, 2 waves of mob in 2nd tier Einherjar. Last time we got 1 waves in 1st tier chamber now we ge 2 waves in 2nd tier chamber so if this tread continue (which I really hope it does) we will get 3 waves in 3rd tier chamber

First wave is 12 of Gardsvor, spider. We still stick with our general strategy using PLD pull and 2 melee assist to deal with them. First pull bring 3 of spiders but the 2nd pull bring the rest of them, is funny when see the PLD run back and spider army is following him. Spider are supceptible to everything I guess, my debuff and sleep never resist but they happen to have a lot of HP so it takes awhile to bring them down.

Their AoE slow move is sort of annoying too just like normal spider move because it overwrites haste and need to be erased before reapply haste. This is one of reason I hate being a melee when fighting this mob because mage usually don’t pay attention much on erasing these slow and reapply haste right after. Well I suppose I can’t blame them because keeping me and others melee alive is already tough job, but still whacking mob with slow on is really kill my pride (e-peen) in DoT. So I usually just wait until we are done with wave of mob then ask for erase and haste after.

Note : This post is postponed from last week also!

Maybe I should stop posting every time I do Einherjar especially on first tier chamber since all of them are basically crushed down in strategy and nothing left much to discover, well maybe how to make a sheep pop?

Anyway I start Einherjar all over again and pick Grimgerde’s Chamber for first tier feather. We have 35 attendances, 4 of them was 2boxed to get flag, very good turn out indeed. We are lucky again and got 1 wave of monster and boss already popped when we enter, yeah right nothing beat 1 wave of mob first tier chamber and 15 minutes Einherjar. Monster we got is 12 Hazhalm Bat, single bat. Only bad thing about single bat is they are strong to dark element so they resist sleep pretty often, from my experience in this raid they resist my sleep 3 out of 5 tries. On another hand light sleep such like Lullaby lands without any problem. We give hasting BRD priority because this too.

We use 2 melee assist on them and clear them fairly quick. Another important thing is try not to link them all when you are pulling, we usually have 2-4 at camp each pull. I suppose we can speed thing up a little by pull more mob at time so less time spent on pulling but with trouble in crowd controlling more mob can cause I don’t think it worth the risk. If you have competent crowd controller and decent numbers of them, mixed of BRD,RDM and BLM work fine but need to make sure they know their job, I think you better off with more mob each pull. But in my case we usually run with 3 BRD at most and BLM usually focused on DD duty for some reason so this method work just fine with us.

2nd attempt for last flag needed for Odin chamber. I log off at Hazhalm Testing Grounds day before on RDM/WHM since I thought I’m going to need friend to log me in and AFK inside chamber to get flag while he party on his RDM because I’ll be busy in the morning of Mother Day, yeah 12 August is Thailand Mother day!

Fortunately usual stuff I do that day finish earlier and since we enter kind of late last Saturday so unable to enter until 9.30 AM or so. So I log in just in time and found people still gather and figure out party and jobs. I did some search and found that we already have good numbers on melee already so I just stay on RDM, actually we have a lot of RDM show up as well I think maybe 3 RDM/DRK and 1 RDM/WHM already but well more healing support wouldn’t hurt I guess.

I manage to sneak into party with Gjallarhorn in it lucky me and WHM told me she will handle all haste needed in the party so I’ll be handle refresh/heal and usual debuff only, yeah right slack mode there!

First wave is Audhumbla a buffalo and only wave that pop at moment we enter, yay. Buffalo is well, lolbuffalo I just have to keep up with cure plague when it use lowing move beside that buffaloes are cake and harmless. We clear them pretty fast from what I can see no trouble at all, I even land few nukes to speed thing up too! don’t laugh at lolrdm nuke! it actually land on buffaloes well

Special thanks to extended maintenance on August, 4 we unable to do Einherjar on Tuesday as planned and on Wednesday king camp getting so late to do Einherjar after , although I think there is bad management here too. So we do last 3rd tier chamber we need on Saturday instead, Brunhilde’s Chamber.

I woke up and found that we still Aspidochelone camp, I want to bang my head to the wall so much for log off at Nashmue last night. I went to Valley of Sorrow just in time to find out that other LS get claimed and almost killed it already so I warped back to Whitegate and run through sea ruin to get back to Nashmue, yeah this is first bad sign.

We have pretty good turn out, 32 members with maybe only 3-4 2box. But apparently our job combination blows. I was in party with 3 more melee, RDM and WHM, other party has BLM/RDM yeah right sub RDM in Einherjar maybe he should go back to solo some pudding and drool over fast cast and e-peen damage there. This is kind of pissed me off when see people don’t know how to play their job, I don’t say I’m good BLM but hell I know I should sub WHM in raid like this.

First wave is Berserkr, demons which is pretty easy IMO. They cast and get interrupted a lot, virtually zero defense, this wave should be cake unless we position it some what wrong and back line ate a lot of Hecatomb wave, although it get better later. 12 of demons take quite while but I still confident that we will win this chamber.

We got Huginn popped while fight demons too and have a lot of good stuff in create like usual, I took one Max-Potion just in case. After cleared all demons next wave of monster pop and only 1 type there, leeches.