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July 10 2017
Varder Posted a Battle Recap: Crifting Event 7/9/17
Thanks all for joining me for another great run. A thank you goes out to INTP for a great recap of the mornings events. Looking forward to next weeks run already. Tokens are always appreciated. da V
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July 10 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Mage Tank Training
Big appreciation to Syl, Muppet, Mal, Zoe and moral/tactical support from LD :) for their epic patience and helping me learn Tanking through the Temple of Ankhet experts. -We ran Temple, Fortress, Darkening Deeps. -I had major crashes on the Temple Pillar boss. Depsite this the team was able to survive long enough for me to relog and complete the boss! I had run this instance dozens of times, even on the Ultra graphics settings with no problem, but I had recently added the KBM (King Boss Mod) add on...
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July 09 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Varder's Crifting and Coffee = Crofting runs!
Q: What could be better than Coffee, Crafting and Rift? A: A Crifting Fellowship with the Gaischioch family in Ashenfell for fun and loot! The Stats: Crifts Run: 25 Motes with no IRC's: 5 Motes with IRC's: 64 Celestial Matrix with no IRC's: 0 Celestial Matrix with IRC's: 4 Marking Tip: As part of the raid management we mark ourselves if we have a lure to let the leadership know we have one. A suggestion is to put the a number indicating how many Lures you intend to use you can easily change this as a countdown as you use your lures e...
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July 09 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: El's TD Grinds: Getting the gear!
LD was our apprentice "Tank In Training" for this run and did a great job and is sharpening his skills on the 3rd Encounter! We are getting very close to completing this with this group! Sustains: -Steadily increasing single target DPS on the dragon when it is on the ground. -No wipes due to standing in red on the first boss, generally way better raid awareness for the entire group. -Adds are getting mowed down as soon as they come out, great target phase shifting by the group. -2nd Encounter, Tarjulia, the Spider boss...
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July 08 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Shady lead us into a Nightmare...Rift that is!
Shady lead us into a Nightmare...Rift that is! We got up to at least level 157! This put us half-way through the Guild quest to kill 1200+ Nighmare rift. We found a randomly spawned Nightmare rift and milked it for all it was worth! This gave tons of planarite which are needed for the Tennebrean Amenders, which are needed for Celestial Crafting and upgrades! Great job Shady! -INTP
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July 07 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Full Guild run of TD on the spur of the moment! Exciting times!
DC and LD tanked us through TD. DC provided guidance and tips for LD as he progressed through the encounters and he did great. We had some issue on the 3rd encounter that resulted in some instakills. LD and DC are working on figuring out what's going on with that. -What I liked is we had Guildies who don't always come out join us to help fill out the raid, even those who had no more Individual Charges and a self proclaimed "Dimensioneer" who still did a good job and will be even better prepared if they decide to come out again...
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July 07 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: LD Dungeon Tank Runs
LD tanked for us, I struggled with heals and cleanses with coaching from Syl. We were able to farm Fortress twice which many needed for their upgrade. We burned down Scarn. Muppets new spec was cranking his DPS! Jarren was cranking out consistent dps as usual. -Had a Bleed on tank in the Tower stage one instance, need to look up if that can be cleansed someway. -Had a great time learning, we were running in roles that we weren't necessarily in our comfort zone and everyone did a great job in their role...
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July 06 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Thursday Night TD Runs with DC: Slow but Steady - Keep On Progressing.
Slow but Steady: Wow, what a difference some practice can make. For the most part, other than some off tank coaching on the 2nd encounter, DC was largely able to just tank while the raid followed through on the mechanics and dps with little need for a explanation of the fights. However, if you are new into the raid group, please ask for any clarifications that may improve your dps or survive-ability. After Action Review: -1st Encounter: When the dragon is on the ground, that is the priority targets...
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July 03 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Have Event Bosses: Will Travel
Fog and Varder led two nearly full raids across Telara for Open World events and bosses! Before the fight we assembled and here were a few items we discussed some mechanics and the website (market section). We got started in Dendrome with the Open World Bosses: 3 Zone Bosses (with Weekly Quests): These 3 weekly quest bosses offer a fun challenge and the following rewards: -450 Infinity Stones -Dendrome Raider’s Cache that contains approx 200-300 Empyreal Slayer’s Marks + a rare chance at gear that is Expert/Tier 1 level...
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July 03 2017
Varder Posted a Battle Recap: Crifting Recap 7-2-17
Holiday weekend crifting saw 19 guildies ban together, coffee-in-hand to complete 26 crifting rifts. Rift tears seemed a little light at the beginning but increased with time. The new mark-yourself system for lures is working great. Discord chat was lively as always and as this is a casual run is always encouraged. IF YOU ARE LEVEL 65-69 this is a great run for experience, level 70 Zone, with summons to each rift. And then there is the bonus of the loot drops. As always no lure was/is required. I am making this run a reoccurring event, so mark your calendar for Sunday mornings if you need crafting mats, experience boost or you just want to hang out...
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July 02 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: New Tanking Experience
Great grinder runs for the upgrade quests.
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July 02 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Tantric Depths Short Hand Recap with DC
Tantric Depths Dragon avoid front and back Newbies stack on healer cause need cleanse and where to stand Tank will pull boss, dps a bit, he takes off, kill adds, he comes down, dps, fly, adds, dps, dps and kill Spider boss one hander glove maybe engine, when spawn will be mummies, dps mummies fast, two person on boss, off tank needs rebuke or similar aoe pull, two closest persons take damage, off tank stay on tank, 3 spires, one with cobwebs adds will spawn there, one pull then the other pulls, hit rebuke and they will glitch under the rock and boss won't kill everybody, one person fire through another such so they can focus target down mummies, don't worry about cleansing dps, cleanse tanks...
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June 29 2017
Terafer Posted a Battle Recap: Home with Henge of Denravi
Thank you all for coming out to WvW tonight. It was a lot of fun. Hope to see you all again next week.
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June 27 2017
Varder Posted a Battle Recap: Onslaughts
was another fun night running with the guild. Thanks Fog. da V
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June 26 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Community Event: An Onslaught of Onslaughts!
Fog and the family gathered for our weekly Community Event. This week's adventure was Onslaughts! Onslaughts are an open world event that you can trigger by charging up cannons and life wells. This draws planar invasions for you to dps down for xp, pa and loots. -Charge up the cannons and lifewells first, then the middle. -Keep an eye on the map for where the invasions are coming from so they don't over run and kill your lifespring. -Cannon don't have to be charged and in fact can kill steal from the group if they kill mobs before they are tagged...
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June 26 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Syl Zone Event Boss Runs
Syl helped a number of the family get some Colossi kills done for the eterneal weapon quest. The zone events are also nice for dropping Tower Fragments. -Getting to the zone, locating the bulk of the group can be helpful in getting to the bosses in time. -One of the last stages is usually the closing of the rifts (but sometimes it's the invaders) when you are closing the rifts it makes it easy to summon guildies to you to help finish the last rift and then on to the boss in a nice group. -Zone event bosses are not a dps race, as long as you hit the boss you are good...
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June 25 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Sharpening the Ax: Q&A with DC Gear, Stats, Rotations, Planars Fragments...
It is easy to get into a rut on a game your are comfortable with. You go to the places you always go, you do the things you always like to do...and there is nothing wrong with that. However, if you aren't progressing because you are not confident in your build, your dps, your rotation, your gear, instance/dungeon/raid mechanics or generally don't want to make a fool of yourself...don't feel alone. The biggest debuff in this game, or in life for that matter, is fear of failure. Couple that in a high troll density environment like a pug and most of us would rather bang our head on the wall than have that kind of stress in our life...
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June 25 2017
Varder Posted a Battle Recap: Varder's Disapperance during the crifting run
First off, thanks to everyone for coming and to whoever took over the reigns after I disconnected. I got hit with an A.R.P. bomb. Address Resolution Protocol, that wiped my DNS file. I couldn't log on to the internet until I reset my DNS designations. I have a bundle with the cable company and it also took out my phone!!! Good news is I'm back up and running and protected now, hoping to take the lead again next week for "coffee and crifting" Good Hunting da V
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June 25 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: After Action Review: Sunday Morning Crifting with Varder and the gang.
After Action Review: Sunday Morning Crifting with Varder and the gang. -Starting at 7am server time sharp, the family formed up to open...and close crafting rifts aka Crifting! -This week saw the addition of a simple but effective control measure to help keep the operational tempo flowing: Mark Yourself! -Each raider was asked to put a Raid Mark over their head by right clicking your own picture and selecting "Mark Target" and picking an overhead Icon to appear if you had a Lure to use...
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June 24 2017
Intp Posted a Battle Recap: Old School Dungeon Crawl
DC had us rolling like a freight train, picking up Guildies who needed to gear up or even their first trip into an Prophecy of Anhket Experts. Today was tank training day. We systematically went through each fight with two tanks to learn the mechanics. Even for a non-tank type, these tutorials are a great learning experience that can help you understand the "why" of a specific encounter. Saifon rocked the instance with great pulls, aggro management and positioning initially with DC's step by step instruction, followed up with a more hands off phase of coaching and lastly a triumphantly independent tanking of all of the instance encounters! Saifon did a great job and continued the Gaiscioch tradition of "quick tips" for critical mechanics and coaching through the encounters...
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