Sunday 7 June 2009

What 24 Lore-Masters do when they're bored

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This is what a raid of 24 Lore-Masters looks like. Eye-blinding whiteness. A raid of 12 LMs had tackled The Rift earlier yesterday, and I was lucky to get into the second, larger raid to Helegrod. 24 LMs, 24 pets = 48 players. This story is very image heavy, so be prepared.

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Thus far it still felt pretty tame, but then I remembered I had all combat effects turned off (from playing on my laptop)..

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Fire, lightning, animals, more fire and mayhem.

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We arrived safely (and probably in record time) to the first boss, the giant Storvagun.

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Insane area-of-effect damage madness.

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Then it was time for the dread spider caves.

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...and we even managed to kill the boss before she reached the big spider lair! *flexes mightily*

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Even the might of the great spider Zaudru was no match for our fire. So on we marched to the drake labyrinth.

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The smoke from a dozen sticky gourds was so thick we had to wait for it to disperse before moving on to the drake-keeper, Grisgart..

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..who was, of course, no harder than anything we'd encountered here already. After robbing his chest of any valuables, we headed out once more, to clear the courtyard and face the dragon himself.

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We even made a special greeting for the dragon Thorog.

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I confess, it didn't go too well. But next time..!

13 comments:

  1. Awesome doing Saelinen!!!
    Loved it loved it loved it!!!
    Its Belegadan by the way, and its just... awesome work!!!
    you just made me feel so well by seing all those pictures!! seems like... awesome!! lol
    really had plenty of fun with all of yyou pet lovers :). We'll try it again next week :)

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  2. Many thanks :).

    I really, REALLY enjoyed the raid, and I'm sure as hell going to lurk online next weekend in case there's another raid going :).

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  3. Great stuff, amazing to see so many Lore masters, must have been crazy hehe

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  4. Have to say, I am mightily impressed by some of those shots you have captured. Looks very atmospheric amongst the carnage! Well done to all involved :)

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  5. Just seeing the screenshots makes me feel like a fool for missing all that fun! But kind of glad I did cause I saved my comp from melting down from pure awesomeness...

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  6. Where has this blog been hiding?!?! This was great, I will have to show my wife this particular post as she always wanted to run a 12/24 man LM raid. She will love this. Off to catch up on the rest of the blog now ;)

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  7. Toistan: Awesomeness! Kuvista päätellen ollut melkoista valoloistetta :D

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  8. Very good story and great screenshots :) how you get them when you're fighting?

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  9. Queue a skill -> hide interface -> rotate camera -> spam screenshot button :D. Luckily LM skills are often so slow that I can take several screenies while the induction loads and the skill animation plays.

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  10. All classes should be LMs.....LM server ftw:)

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  11. Just found your blog. My main is an LM and this post is SO awesome. Don't know if there are 24 active 65 LMs on my server Firefoot....

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  12. This is amazing! I love all the pictures. You guys sure look like you had a lot of fun!

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