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...
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...
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...
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...
After Action Review: Sunday Morning Crifting with Varder and the gang. After Action Review: Sunday Morning Crifting with Varder and the gang. Big Thanks to coleader Zoewii for keeping us on track and getting the event updated! Woot!
26 Crafting Rifts Closed!
-Starting at 7am server time sharp, the family formed up to open...
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 AKA SPE's.
Today was tank training day. We systematically went through each fight with two tanks to learn the mechanics...
After Action Review: TD Progression Group The family, lead by the patient and intrepid Eluveittie tackled a coffee fueled Tantric Depths (TD) run. This was a great experience for me personally as I had not even been in the instance and was intimidated to try because of the LFR post in Cross Chat like "TD No Losers 500K+ dps or kill yourself"...
Guild vs Pug Runs: A Knight and Dai difference! Guild Runs vs Pug Runs:
The advantages of running instances such as Prophecy of Ahnket with Guild members vs Pugs can completely change your perspective of the activity. There are many nuances such as routes, order, roles, interrupts, where to stand, where to move, when to blow cool downs and even simple things like "who's going to rez" get worked out by the team through practice...
Prophecy of Ankhket Expert Runs Guild Style DC aka Fiveofseven/Diablotcanine lead an intrepid marathon of Expert with guildies.
A few of the finer points when you do DC blitz runs:
1. In Darkening Deeps - Run to the Bottom - Kill the Sniper mobs on the ledges - Kill the mobs that mass under the bridge - Burn bosses - Run all the way to the back wall of the Werewolf encounter, avoid drawing aggro - Run through the spiders all the way to the boss spider at the end, die in place SW and Rez - Stack on boss spider's behind - Drag all the slugs through their area all the way into the triple boss area, kill in tank order - Burn Scarn
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Crifting We Go Was a great turnout for the June 18th run. 19 Guild members participated and we completed 30 crifts in right at 2 hours. Thanks all for the chance to lead, I had a lot of fun doing it.
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A-Crifting we will go... Varder lead the Gaiscoch family through Ashenfell for a fun and loot filled 2 hours of Crifting!
We closed a whopping 30 rifts of all types!
There was great communication and support through using the Heart icon to mark the next Lure bearer after the 3rd stage of each lift...
Friday Mid level Adventures: Don't forget to say HI to Lady Nessie! The Dendrome offers several activities that the Gaiscioch family tackled this Friday. We had a full 40 person raid for this outing and with Fog laying down waypoints it was a great time and thing flowed right along! As always great help from the group for summons and great cooperation!
Stronghold Raid: These encounters pit the raid against an escalating group of baddies that attack from multiple levels...
Gaiscioch runs love running with Fog as leader, not sure how he keeps up to date on which quests... where they are... which bosses to kill... but he always helps us get them done. Always fun to run with him when he's leding...
First For Me I had just logged on and was invited to the party! I did not know what was going on, but for a few hours we ran around and closed everything we could find. I didn't know it was an "event" I just knew that I had joined the greatest guild and was having a great time.
Planar Anchors: A group XP boon and a fun time in one! Following the Monday evening tradition, friends and family of Gaischioch took to Xarth Mire for a guided tour of the Planar Anchor mini-quest hubs. This group event allows the team to gather significant XP and Planar Attunement as well as respectable take of crafting mats and Planar loot...
First time commanding 6th of June, 2017 changes were good for WvW. Now there are more players running even though many of the players are just hunting pips for reward tracks so they can earn WvW Claim Tickets and some day buy necessary pieces for WvW Legendary Backpiece...
First run through Craglorn Catacombs The reports of an "undead 'infestation'" in Craglorn Catacombs have been greatly exaggerated. Nothing to see here, move along.
HOLY COW FOGMAN ZIFF-POW-BAM Look at those points. That is the most points for any single event I have ever participated in. Fog do you remember any other event that generated that many points?
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Cracking The Skull While being lead my the might MIG thru the lands of the comet, we happened upon the zone event Cracking Zathara's Skull. Many in the raid hadn't done this yet, so it was a great teachable moment. Our raid started this event and as we progressed we gained in numbers...
Kessex Hills Gma served up some delicious food along the way with the Hero Banner to cover all what we needed! She lead us through water, up hills, maybe a cliff or 2 to conquer the hero points, vistas, POIs and Hearts we covered today...
My poor DPS ;) Well.... I felt like I slept thru a lot of this, but I was paying attention and hope to do much better next time. It was good to be with you all and Agdang always has a great attitude and encouragement for all of us (me) that doesn't quite hit the standards yet...
Deadly Premonitions: New Event Record Set! Tonight, we managed to get to stage 150, up from last week, which was 68. A new record was set!
12 Gaiscioch attended to bring paint to Arak's nightmares!
Oh oh oh, it's magic! You know Professor Jairone called the mage students' class to order today, for Jairone's School of Magic and Mystery inside the beautiful Gaiscioch dimension. No Muggle Studies for us as there was much to learn with Pyromancer, Chloromancer, Archon, and more...
Super-sized Saturday! Eluveittie kicked our adventures off deep in the dark pits of despair of Tenebrean Schism. A new brand of elite mobs called "fatties", "potato heads", and "salads" fell swiftly by the hundreds to our merry band of adventurers...
Great Fun! Thank You! Thank you so much for all who put this together. It was great fun with awesome prizes. Big crazy bosses and fights. Also, I have a great appreciation for all that summoned me the whole 10 weeks. Thank you Again!
Happy I could be a part of this!
Not Fractured in Fractals I haven't tried fractals since I came back and I know I never got far in the first place, but Namrie does a great job explaining them and making sure people get achieves where possible.
Do you even crift? Why yes, we do! Shmi and our merry band of crafters headed out to Ashenfell with bags full of lures and our eyes scouring the maps for blue tears. In an orderly fashion our crifters shared lures and celebrated each loot bag filled with crafting goodies and the occasional surprise crafting marks, crafting stations, and the much sought after Celestial Matrix - er, Matrices...
To aid and assist... This day, the intrepid adventurers led by Gma truly showed the spirit of GSCH as they pulled together to aid a new member with her new toon into uncharted lands that held many challenges for the novice adventurer...
It's not about how fast you run but how well you bounce! The Telara Saga crew formed 3 raids to unite against the terrors awaiting us in Planetouched Wilds. We crossed the savage wilds and encountered the wrath of Kahns (Kahn!), including one magnificent T-Rex...
Telara Saga last week Felt bad I couldn't finish up with the Saga last week (3/23/17) but am sure you all had a great time. I can't remember exactly how many I was able to make it to but know I couldn't go until at least the passcode so I hope 4 was ok...
Dungeon runs It was such eye opening fun last night on the dungeon run. I hope I contributed a little bit and will work to increase my DPS and learn how to raid heal. Its been a good long while since I've done anything grouped except open world events, I really enjoyed myself...
Fog puts the FUN in raiding There may not be crying in baseball but there is definitely laughter in raiding - with Gaiscioch guildies. Hitting some old world raiding content gave our giggling group a run past some old baddies who have lost their bite...
3 Way Zerg Fight The best moment of the evening was the three way zerg fight for Stonemist. Our group was barely holding their own, and quite honestly didn't seem to be able to come out on top, but our commander bravely stood in the middle striving to stay alive so that we could cap...
Knowing is half the battle The only thing I try to stay away from more than puzzles - well, is maybe jump puzzles. But they draw me in, I'm just fascinated by them! Well, if you've ever struggled but would really like to learn, then this workshop and Eluveittie's knowledge and tremendous patience is for you...
A nightmare before bed A nightmare raged in Tarken Glacier with a small band of Telara's heroes standing in its path. Fritzl and Teicneo knew if they wanted to banish the nightmare for good, they needed to send a signal to the Gaiscioch...
Kitty is back to TESO! Yippie!! So I logged my character, which is level 50 and there is a weird colorful number going up after a bar fills, so far I have like 70ish of these colorful numbers, they are red, blue and green, no clue what they do...
GREAT NEW ADVENTURE FOR ME ! Having never done a big even in heart of thrones, this was tons of fun. I appreciate that Smitty laid out EXACTLY what was needed in advance (aka need gliding, and where the starting point was). Jay was generous in offering to help get me to the proper waypoint prior to the even starting...
