Chapter 9
Clan Chat: Ikelos Lair
[Faustus]: Rave, you get the invite?
[Ravenweal]: Yep, one sec
[Ravenweal]: Selling a few things then I’ll join
[Ravenweal]: There
Group Chat: 4-Player Party
[Healzzzorz]: Have we all done CON before?
[Ravenweal]: I haven’t
[fireballboy]: me either
[Healzzzorz]: the ****ing tank hasn’t done it yet? This isn’t going to go well
[fireballboy]: how am I going to learn it if I never do it?
[Faustus]: We’ll get through fine. Fire, I’ll lead you, I’ve tanked it plenty of times on my alt
[Faustus]: Just watch out for the pats and don’t pull every mob in the room
[fireballboy]: yeah I got you
[Healzzzorz]: If we wipe more than once, I’m out
[Faustus]: Chill, we’ll get through it
[Faustus]: We all ready to go?
[fireballboy]: yup
[Healzzzorz]: Yeah
[Ravenweal]: Ready
Players have entered CASTLE OF NIGHTMARES.
[Faustus]: Buff up
[Faustus]: I’ll label mobs
[Healzzzorz]: Armor levels low
[Ravenweal]: Whose?
[Healzzzorz]: You and fire
[Ravenweal]: ??? Yeah, that’s why we’re doing this. I need the armor from this instance to level
[Faustus]: Healz, you have rally buff?
[Healzzzorz]: No, why would I have that. It’s suboptimal
[Faustus]: Not in CON, the enemies specifically use fear mechanics. Rally buff protects better here.
[Healzzzorz]: What, you have a healer alt too?
[Faustus]: lol yeah man, I’m also Vivalthas
[Healzzzorz]: Well shit, I’m stupid
[Healzzzorz]: Okay, rally buff on
Private Chat: Faustus/Ravenweal
[Faustus]: Sorry about Healz, he’s actually the best healer in the clan now, he’s just an asshole
[Ravenweal]: The best now? Did the last one leave?
[Faustus]: The last one was Alissa
[Ravenweal]: Oh
Group Chat: Four-Player Party
[Faustus]: Okay, poppy icon is the mob I’m going to tap. Don’t touch it. Skull is the aggro target.
[fireballboy]: got it
[fireballboy]: sorry about that pull guys, trying to get the groove
[Faustus]: No worries, plenty of time to figure it out.
[Healzzzorz]: Anyone have fight tracker?
[Faustus]: Surprised you don’t
FIGHT TRACKER
Damage
Faustus: 58.5%
Ravenweal: 33.3%
fireballboy: 8.2%
Healzzzorz: 0%
Healing
Healzzzorz: 97%
fireballboy: 3%
Faustus: 0%
Ravenweal: 0%
[Faustus]: That’s impressive, Raven
[Faustus]: For not being max level or as specced out as I am
[Healzzzorz]: Yeah how’d you do that?
[Ravenweal]: Dot rotation. Most people hit Mind Crush first, but if you have a few stacks of Fevercleave and then Mind Crush->Retaliate, your agility goes real high
[Faustus]: wtf did they change Fevercleave recently?
[Ravenweal]: Yeah, last major update.
Private Chat: Faustus/Ravenweal
[Faustus]: Was that in Alissa’s guides?
[Ravenweal]: Not that specific thing, but she did encourage people to always read the patch notes closely and not get too settled in their routines.
[Ravenweal]: She said that historically, hunters haven’t seen many changes like this, so I figured there was probably something I could find
[Faustus]: Damn. I’ll have to look into this.
[Ravenweal]: Is this your main?
[Faustus]: Yeah. I have a guardian and medic too but I don’t play them as much.
Group Chat: Four-Player Party
[Healzzzorz]: Careful in this next room, tons of poison. Stay close together so I can heal better
[Healzzzorz]: But DON’T stand in the poison pools
[fireballboy]: no poison pools, got it
[Ravenweal]: Are raids like this too?
[Healzzzorz]: Basically, but longer
[Faustus]: They still have all the weird mechanics and stuff though
[Faustus]: But yeah, they take longer. Couple of hours, usually, depending on how many times we wipe and how well we work together.
[Faustus]: World first raids though take like
[Faustus]: eight to twelve
[Ravenweal]: HOURS?
[Faustus]: Yeah
[Healzzzorz]: No one knows what the mechanics or the answers to the riddles are, so you wipe a lot
[Ravenweal]: World first—so right when the raid opens, you race?
[Faustus]: Yup
[Faustus]: All the big clans race to see who’ll win.
[Healzzzorz]: The team that does it gets prizes.
[Healzzzorz]: In-game there’s a plaque with your character name on it forever right inside the entrance of the raid
[Healzzzorz]: Then Azuregames sends you a real-life jacket and a bunch of in-game stuff
[fireballboy]: I watched the last world first race, it was intense
[Faustus]: We only lost by three min
[Faustus]: Bullshit
[Ravenweal]: We’re going to race for the dreambreaker raid, right?
[Healzzzorz]: Ikelos Lair is, yeah
[Healzzzorz]: You’re not
[Ravenweal]: If I’m fully geared out by then, why not?
[Healzzzorz]: Cause you’re a bopper
[fireballboy]: I wouldnt want to get in anyones way
[Ravenweal]: Who decides who’s doing the raid?
[Healzzzorz]: Zoo does
[Healzzzorz]: And he’s DEF not letting you in
Private Chat: Faustus/Ravenweal
[Ravenweal]: I need to be in that raid party
[Ravenweal]: Who’s normally in it?
[Faustus]: It’s possible, but don’t get your hopes up.
[Faustus]: Last time it was me, Liss, Zoo, Healz, Mox, Leelea, Drum, and Red. Double a normal party size.
[Faustus]: Drum quit playing two weeks after that, Mox swore off raiding, and obviously Alissa’s spot is open.
[Ravenweal]: So there’s room
[Faustus]: You’re REALLY going to have to prove you can handle it. If you want something to do, go watch our old streams.
[Ravenweal]: Done
[Faustus]: Why do you want to be in so badly?
[Ravenweal]: I like winning
Group Chat: Four-Player Party
[Healzzzorz]: This boss coming up is cracked
[Healzzzorz]: When he teleports, get away from where he was
[fireballboy]: go tit
[Faustus]: Go tit indeed
[fireballboy]: okay pulling aggro
[fireballboy]: shit
[Healzzzorz]: Cool, half the room, love it
[Ravenweal]: Get these bats off me
[fireballboy]: webbed can’t move
[Faustus]: Use mindslice
[Faustus]: He’s about to port
[Healzzzorz]: I SAID GET AWAY FROM WHERE HE WAS
[fireballboy]: bro doing my best!!!
[Faustus]: We’re fine, just get back on him.
[Faustus]: Thanks for the assist, Raven.
[Ravenweal]: Welcome
[Healzzzorz]: Second phase starting
[Healzzzorz]: POISON POOLS
[fireballboy]: yeah I got it
[Faustus]: Watch out for the red lines on the floor.
[Ravenweal]: If you stand in the blue zone near him you can hit him without getting hit
[Healzzzorz]: Only outside the lines
[Ravenweal]: No, in the red lines too. See?
[Ravenweal]: Blue zone is safe
[Healzzzorz]: wtf I thought you had to avoid the red lines everywhere
Private Chat: Faustus/Ravenweal
[Faustus]: Even I didn’t know that. You get that from the guides too?
[Ravenweal]: No, I just paid attention right now
[Ravenweal]: Does no one else pay attention?
Group Chat: Four-Player Party
[Faustus]: See? We were fine.
[Faustus]: Good work everyone.
FIGHT TRACKER
Damage
Ravenweal: 60.4%
Faustus: 31.5%
fireballboy: 5.9%
Healzzzorz: 2.2%
Healing
Healzzzorz: 95.3%
fireballboy: 2.4%
Ravenweal: 1.2%
Faustus: 1.1%
[Healzzzorz]: That much more damage just from standing in the blue zone a bit longer?
[Ravenweal]: Over the fight it’s like seven seconds more damage
[fireballboy]: maybe its a bug?
[Ravenweal]: What does it matter if it worked?
Private Chat: Faustus/Ravenweal
[Faustus]: Okay, that’s the kind of perception that gets you a spot in the raid party.
[Ravenweal]: Put in a good word with Zoo for me
[Faustus]: Oh, I already told him.
[Ravenweal]: Was Alissa really upset when you guys didn’t win world first on the last raid?
[Faustus]: She was pretty upset, yeah.
[Faustus]: It was her third one and still nothing.
[Faustus]: And she was like you—was GREAT at figuring out the mechanics, but it never came together.
[Ravenweal]: We’re going to win this one for her
[Faustus]: Yeah? You think that’s going to do it? Dead sister/friend energy?
[Ravenweal]: She loved this game more than anything
[Faustus]: If you want to do it for her, be my guest.
[Ravenweal]: You don’t?
[Faustus]: If she cared that much about it, she’d be here doing it herself.
[Ravenweal]: I’m going to care about it for her.
[Ravenweal]: If you’d like to join me, you know where to find me.
Group Chat: Four-Player Party
[Ravenweal]: Let’s keep going, dungeon’s not over yet