Not to whine...
So last night after we realize again that Running with the Devils is the hardest of the shroud pre quests. We did Ritual Sacrifice on hard and Coalescence Chamber on normal with no deaths. I leveled my bard to 16 and we went to do a normal Running with the Devils the quest wasn't bad at all. Got to that glow ball before the end fight and we just rolled over. He was so close so many times we were crying. But his tons of Hp and massive spaming of heals it just made me want to be on someone else.
Looking at the LFMs I see Tobril in a DQ raid group and a guy that says flagging for DQ at end fight going to raid after. Alright! I start to head out to the 6man. Fell at the jump, because I am not wearing my featherfall all the time. But as I am running back I a still looking at the lfms for like an Abbot or something and I see Hard Shroud. Highlights: Gemstone, Popo, Henry, Onecler, and many more. So I was going to do that! I start to say something to the 6man, but I am told to get in so X can finish. Okay. Step in and ding complete. I should have lied. I should have said I forgot to talk twice. Anything but the truth would have been less conflict.
I said sorry, I am being called away. I tried to say something earlier but I really I am sorry. The leader began to bitch. I said again, I am sorry. I joined with the intention to run the raid I even had a guildie in X raid that I thought you were flagging to group with. And he begin to bitch, more. I let him know I didn't care about his feelings about raid leader X but I really was needed else were and dropped with him still cursing.
Turns out that we ended up running on Elite. Was very smooth. There were a few deaths in part 2 and one or two in prt 4 and 5, people taking off with out their healing ready to go mostly. But it was more or less 5-6 mins in part 2. Only one person was not able to do their puzzle. It was a 4x4 and once I opened the door, Onecler went in and showed (not did) the puzzle. Give a fish, Teach to Fish.
Post looting I said, “I will fire and Gh” and the bard said he would FoM and that was the buffs. So great.
In part 4 I asked about clouds/web and what the leader liked. And he said dealers choice. So a mind fog, Ball and a web later we ran everything in to the ball and in a min or two I was making cloud kill on Harry. Round 1 was about 40% down when he ported. Round 2 about 90%. Round 3 I was able to kill the knolls before Harry died, but not by much. I think I got 2 rounds of magic missile off as he died. Oh large boned in part 4, I will take it. :)
Part 5, Gemstone went to kite. I again said fire and Gh bard went Fom and that was the buffs. There was not a lot of waiting for people to get SP back Mobs were killed and damage was to be avoided. And down came Harry. I will admit 2 things. 1, I died when I went in. 2, I forgot to waves him. /shame But I had at least 4-5, 600+ point spells many in the 400s but a lot of 350s. When I went in I was watching my life bar and knew I was going to die. I warned the healers I was heading in, But I sat at 110 hps for 4 or 5 seconds.
Final pull was a shrapnel I think. So a fair run. But it also was my 20th. All +2 tomes, a +3 wisdom, my cleansing, and a 50 point deeds. Wow that was a nice selection. I took my cleaning stone, but I took a pic so you all can see.
I pulled 2 1000 point renown, 2 or 3 500 point, and a 50 or two. And there was lots of mobs dropping renown. In fact there was a lot of talk elite shroud for renown farming. I will say that is the way farming should be.
Well that is it, just wanted to get that one guy out of my head. What do you think should I have dropped his group sooner? Let me know below.
