Since it had been started three weeks ago, my Lost Vale runs never got further than the last boss of the first wing due to people dropping offline when we were ready to turn in for our torches and also a bug which only gave us 9 shards one week.
Well this week was going to be THE week!
It started well, with everyone online in good time, even our Magus who said he was going to be 15 mins late was only off by 2!
We zoned in and got down to it, the Darkpromise Beast deciding to crit me for 5k on the first hit wasn’t nice but we got past him and proceeded to bitch slap everything we had been clearing for the last two weeks.
First boss down and its……. DoK loot and a nice 2 hander for our Choppa (He was the only one able to use, so may as well)
We carried on, had a freak wipe on a pack when I managed to pull 2 packs instead of 1 but got to the second boss.
As usual our Choppa died when he kept standing in the pink clouds, I let him tank for a bit when this happens as I don’t want to constantly be taking stacks of the cloud myself. Anyway dead boss and its…… DoK loot.
Speeding through the spiders to the third boss we drop her/him/it without incident! And to cap it all off it was……… DoK loot…. Im seeing a trend here……
Now we got to the point of no return and we start using crystals, “Bobs offline” someone pipes up, “STOP USING CRYSTALS!!!” I yell in party, Bob was lucky, we had used 8 of them before we noticed his crash. Soon he was back and we all had our quest update.
The spider boss took 3 tries to learn, 1 to re-adjust tanking position, 2 to tweak a tactic and 3rd to down em. No DoK loot this time, but we did get Shaman. Grats to our Shammy on that one.
Finally we had progressed further than we had before, into the second wing. It felt good that I had managed to lead us into here. Now this was the wing I was most worried about as some of the bosses I have read and they sound solid.
First up, the boss who “throws you down the cliff” I was worried about this one as I didn’t know the layout of the tanking area and didn’t know if I could safely tank it near the cliff and ranged still get LOS if they get thrown off.
Well it proved to not matter as our dps shredded him before he threw anyone down.. Score one for us. The loot? DoK all the way and a nice 1 hander for our Choppa!
Next up was the optional boss, Larg the Devourer, the only reason I remember his name is he can drop my shield. He didn’t, he dead. Moving on.
Two words… BUTCHER GUTBEATER. Holy crap I had seen so much whine about this guy, about how you need two tanks, or a good kiter, move out of the spew.
Well I must admit we wiped 6 times on this guy, trying a combination of what people recommended, in the end we did it our way? How was this then?
Well basically I tank everything and don’t move. Our supreme dps burn the butcher, when the gnoblar dies, he dies doesn’t matter when.
YAY! DoK loot!
I caused another silly wipe on the stone bridge after this fight as I didn’t bother taunting and was typing tells… sorry!
Finally we were confronted with Gorak, I had read he hits like a truck, he does, I took the 4.5k cleave no sweat, but failed to block/parry the melee hit and got smished in half a second. It was late so I had to call it there but I did check some videos out about tanking this and im confident we can drop him.
The next run on Lost Vale is on Sunday night, tonight our Zealot is away and tomorrow both me and Mrs B aren’t here.
So grats to us
Chosen – Borgeo
Zealot – Bobcki
Shaman – Zugzig
Sorceress – Mrs B
Magus – Raizen
Choppa – Fermenpattat
(Can you say AOE heavy!)
