Thursday 6/22/06

[Erudite]

Good night, finally getting Atty through the Aurora Glade mission/bonus. We did fairly well through the White Mantle rushes with Xellany holding down one to two bases for us while we whittled away at their numbers. As far as I know, we only suffered one death on the mission (mine, sadly). I got to ham it up a bit by equipping the Fiery Dragon Sword that Onnie had given me right before both cutscenes, making me look quite dashing in a Prince Rurik sort of way. :lowrazz:

That should just leave Atty with the Southern Kryta missions (the godawful tower mission and the defend-the-priest-at-the-beach mission) before he hits the desert and we can start work on his Ascension as well.

Having finished that, we loaded up and sloughed our way through Dragon's Lair on our (actually, Raveneye's) quest to meet the dragon. We made it with little difficult, despite losing Xellany to linkdeath during the fifth aspect. We died horribly to the big dragon after we tried to steal her egg, though, as has always been the case thus far. That Jagged Crystal Skin stance is painful.

I was reading about Glint (said dragon) on the wiki last night, though, and I think we can take her out. JCS deals 100 damage to nearby foes whenever Glint takes physical damage. This should be easy to overcome by converting all damage to elemental damage - bring a backup weapon solely for this fight, with the appropriate upgrade to convert damage to one of the elements (i.e., a Fiery Dragon Sword). The henchies will, of course, cause problems. (Gotta get some more people caught up to us.) She stops using this below 50% health and switches to Crystal Hibernation, which heals her when she takes elemental damage, so we'll have to be careful to watch for that and switch back to regular weapons. Holy/chaos damage shouldn't trip either skill, I wouldn't think.

She was moving down slowly but steadily last night until she started up with JCS, though, so I think this can work.

[Raveneye]

Well well, the JCS thing explains why my death(s) to her were sudden and violent, considering I'd hit her about 4 times in as many seconds (which would equate to 400 damage dealt back to me!). I kept trying to intterupt JCS and her other ability, but I couldn't tell if it was working or not. I think it was in the beginning, since she tried using JCS a couple of times and I wasn't dying, but at some point she must have got it off, cause I found myself eating dirt in the blink of an eye...

I need a Fiery Dragon Sword it seems, if only to confront Glint. I have no other elemental weapons or add-ons at the moment. Another thing we'll have to watch out for besides Henchies doing physical damage (mostly Stephan and Reyna) would be minions. Onnie's cat for example, or undead hordes, though they should be long dead by the time Glint is done talking.

Fun night in the dragon's lair. The separate facets were interesting, and I capped two new Elite Skills, one of which I liked very much but forgot to try on Glint. It's a Necro skill : If the mob I'm fighting has more health than me (i.e. Glint) the spell will transfer health from the mob to me up to the total amount of my healh. So if I'm at 150 health out of 500 max, I can suck 350 out of Glint in a single spell. Best of all, it's not physical or elemental, so I can use it no matter what stance she's in.

Loved the falling down world last night! For some reason Erudite and I would randomly SPIN after falling down, which combined with the "pose" our characters do when on the ground made us a cardboard sheet away from a breakdancing contest. :smile: I also had to laugh when Glint was chastising us for dying in her lair as I'm sprawled out on the floor in front of her during the cutscene. You could almost hear my floor-muffled "uh, sorry about that"...

Looking forward to more Dragon fun and exploration of the Souther Shiverpeaks.

[Onnie]

Good gwad.

Geeez, I get booted and what I was thinking.. well, I won't type here. So I relog, what I was thinking again I dunno. To join the fight I would of had to have you guys come get me. Anyways, I'm yacking away and no one is answering me. Someone in Dragons said something so astounding that I forgot myself and answered in guild before switching to ALL to answer.

No reply. I think how ruder than me and strat talking again only to realize I'm still in all. You guys have said nothing yet so I figured, maybe it's a CAPS problem. So I start CAPING. Caps didn't seem to work either so I look at my friends list. It came up but was blank. No reconnect, no text, nothing.

I think I was in some sort of Guild Wars Vortex. The place they send really ticked off Mesmers that they know would destroy any chat fliter anyone could set up to screen bad words. Anyways that happened twice so I figured I was out for the night :(

Am really pouty about that. Missed the screen fun shot and everything because of that. (sniffles)

--Onnie