have been uber busy with work and such and same with guild mates, finally was able to get over to the Gauntlet this weekend with one guild mate, we thought we would go give the 'new and improved' Gauntlet a run.
rooms where good, with the 2 of us running sampires we made it though them with not too much worry.
couple close calls with cross healing. (ya im getting old!)
but the Dark Father.... OMG!
i have read a couple posts about people saying how hard he is but wowsers!
i also watched that video of the fella doing it solo.
my impression.
out of my pay grade to do anymore.
even with a guild mate.
maybe when another guild mate makes it back from a trip we could try it again but i dont know what that would change.
what i noticed was this.
we would roll in and start up on the DF with our 2 Sampires.
DF would teleport around, popping here popping there, really kinda annoying, we tried to just stand in once spot and make his come back to us (we where right smack in the middle) but that failed horribly when he spawned 7 Ancient Liches with a variety of other baddies - couple blood elementals and bone knights and what have ya.
monochrome screens for both of us.
so that didnt work.
i had planned ahead and brought a tamer in with us and had him parked in the side room to res swampies should it be needed (and it was).
so for interest sake after the 10th time we had dies i took my tamer in.
full 120 disco tamer with a greater dragon.
thought was, put the dragon on him and run off screen and park, let the sampires try to get hits in while the dragon sponge up all the damage from the DF and the spawn, rinse, repeat.
plan failed miserably.
as soon as the dragon hit the DF i was pulled in, no worries, im fast on my feet, run run run run run!
way off screen... pulled back in!
ruh oh!
run run - pulled back in!
run - pulled back in!
r... - pulled back in!
lich spawn, lich spawn, a LOT OF SPAWN casting withers.
dead tamer.
k, so that didnt work.
so we decided to log out and think about it over night.
sunday night.
log back in, go do the room, was fun with the 2 of us, nice little challenge and we made it through ok.
DF up this time there are 2?!?!?!??!!
oh that was not good.
could not drag one off, bounced back.
and double the spawn!!!!
i have NEVER seen so many Ancient Liches!!!!!
i really like killing Ancient Liches, it scratches some deep seated urge of mine back from 1998 when i use to farm liches in the forest of Yew and in the Deceit in the Lich Basement but these guys.... OMG!
we died so many times.
and the DF has barely a sliver taken off his bar.
so now we are stuck.
as far as we can tell there is no way we with our skill sets are gonna be able to do this.
im guessing with maybe 2 other guys??????
but even then the spawn will probably scale up to 3 or 4 DF's, no?
they made this really hard for small shards to do this didnt they?
guess maybe ill go hit some other shards and see what everyone else is doing.
little frustrated.
little sad.
rooms where good, with the 2 of us running sampires we made it though them with not too much worry.
couple close calls with cross healing. (ya im getting old!)
but the Dark Father.... OMG!
i have read a couple posts about people saying how hard he is but wowsers!
i also watched that video of the fella doing it solo.
my impression.
out of my pay grade to do anymore.
even with a guild mate.
maybe when another guild mate makes it back from a trip we could try it again but i dont know what that would change.
what i noticed was this.
we would roll in and start up on the DF with our 2 Sampires.
DF would teleport around, popping here popping there, really kinda annoying, we tried to just stand in once spot and make his come back to us (we where right smack in the middle) but that failed horribly when he spawned 7 Ancient Liches with a variety of other baddies - couple blood elementals and bone knights and what have ya.
monochrome screens for both of us.
so that didnt work.
i had planned ahead and brought a tamer in with us and had him parked in the side room to res swampies should it be needed (and it was).
so for interest sake after the 10th time we had dies i took my tamer in.
full 120 disco tamer with a greater dragon.
thought was, put the dragon on him and run off screen and park, let the sampires try to get hits in while the dragon sponge up all the damage from the DF and the spawn, rinse, repeat.
plan failed miserably.
as soon as the dragon hit the DF i was pulled in, no worries, im fast on my feet, run run run run run!
way off screen... pulled back in!
ruh oh!
run run - pulled back in!
run - pulled back in!
r... - pulled back in!
lich spawn, lich spawn, a LOT OF SPAWN casting withers.
dead tamer.
k, so that didnt work.
so we decided to log out and think about it over night.
sunday night.
log back in, go do the room, was fun with the 2 of us, nice little challenge and we made it through ok.
DF up this time there are 2?!?!?!??!!
oh that was not good.
could not drag one off, bounced back.
and double the spawn!!!!
i have NEVER seen so many Ancient Liches!!!!!
i really like killing Ancient Liches, it scratches some deep seated urge of mine back from 1998 when i use to farm liches in the forest of Yew and in the Deceit in the Lich Basement but these guys.... OMG!
we died so many times.
and the DF has barely a sliver taken off his bar.
so now we are stuck.
as far as we can tell there is no way we with our skill sets are gonna be able to do this.
im guessing with maybe 2 other guys??????
but even then the spawn will probably scale up to 3 or 4 DF's, no?
they made this really hard for small shards to do this didnt they?
guess maybe ill go hit some other shards and see what everyone else is doing.
little frustrated.
little sad.