Watcher Raid

[Haleabor]

Right...RRU have been pussyfooting around this for long enough....:evil:

Watcher Raid

I'm fairly certain that you can survive in there if you have at least 5/6 Radiance pieces. So if you fit the bill then sign up below.

I have no idea on tactics or group mix (other than hearing you need lots of Hunters and Minstrels!!)....but that's not really the point. Let's go...have fun...die a lot....and see what happens

I hope you are up for it.

Hal

Hunters
Haleabor
Catheriel
Faileon (from 9 o'clock)

Guardians
Giladren
Sdfel
Skelsamu

Champions


Captains
Bothorn
Hirion
Evelynn

Runekeepers


Wardens


Minstrels
Meadlin

Loremasters


Burglars
Bona
Tiermond

[Bino]

Yeah, a brave idea, Hal, im definitely up for it.

Bona, burglar.

[Mortharan]

I would love to , IF I had any radiance pieces :( , but good luck to you all.

[Faileon]

Im affraid I cannot come at 8GTM, availeb only at 9GTM :( Good luck anyway!

[Giladren]

Gil guard

[Raedwulf]

A cunning plan... The flaw, of course, being the 5/6 radiance. "You must sign up", sez Hal to me in-game. Well, you'd better pull yer finger out over the w/e & help me get 2 bits of radiance gear if you want the best LM! I've only 3/6...

Oh, and I for one think it would be nice if we actually worked out how to do it for ourselves. Rather than simply google someone else's tactics.

[Rhyaehar]

Sil and I are attending a wedding, so no go. Also, keep in mind that with 5/6 radiance pieces, you're also going to need destiny point hope.

[bothorn]

count me in

[Tiermond]

Tiermond is up for it

[Sdfsdaf]

Sdfel is up for it

[Haleabor]

...Oh, and I for one think it would be nice if we actually worked out how to do it for ourselves. Rather than simply google someone else's tactics.

I quite agree, however some people have at least been in there (up to second stage) so I think we can use the knowledge of "this happens now"....how we deal with that thing should be our choice :P

[skelsamu]

boh... still at 4 pices so hoping that if got another one by then.

[Hirion]

You have my banner!

[mababa]

finnaly , gl ill be working :(

[Bino]

Can bring minstrel too, if we miss one ;)

[Notiane]

Weekdays are no longer an option for me, as I have to get up at 6 (that's 5 GMT), and besides, the best LM still has no radiance gear at all, eventhough Raed says I'm 3/6 :P

[Rufus]

Maedlin can come so sign me up as a minstrel :)

Ruf

[Joerg]

Since Evelynn aquired her fifth piece tonight, another captain is also available now.

[Catheriel]

Im in... :lol:

If my girlfriend "arrives" unscheduled at monday evening, I give a info few hours before raid begins.

[skelsamu]

btw got still the hope buff from Glofindel;)
if t needed.
im also in.

[Haleabor]

Please remember to bring Hope tokens and lvl 65 pots

Thanks

Hal

[mababa]

hopefully finnish at 9pm tonight or might even try for a half day at work , anyhow if ye need a lm or guard from 9pm onwards , i should be online

[Milgarion]

Milgarion can be a tentative reserve for this, but I'm supposed to be running 16th Hall with Kin for my last radiance piece from 7pm UK.

/tell me in game if you need a champ and I'll let you know if I'm free.

[Faileon]

Please remember to bring Hope tokens and lvl 65 pots

Thanks

Hal

You dont need any pots to kill watcher. Btw: Good luck guys (I killed him at Saturday with fellowship of the song :))

[Marlain]

me = minstrel :)

but probs is we need 2 champs for phase 3

[Haleabor]

For those of you that were not in the Raid I thought I would share our experiences (without spoiling it for you).

In summary we did much better than I expected.

Our group (by necessity) was not necessarily the ultimate group, however we coped very well with the first phases of the fight, and after a couple of "training" runs we had the tactics sorted out to survive with maybe only 1-2 deaths through to the final part against the Watcher.

the main problem was a lack of DPS and control of the Watcher damage (with no Loremaster) for the final stages and we made little progress against him (maybe 5% of his health :cry:)

Altogether it was a fun experience and I recommend that RRU organise some more runs to test our metal further.

Thanks to everyone for taking part and for Giladren for the initial pointers.....

Hal

[Raedwulf]

Thanks for the non-spoliers, Hal! ;) Raed is now 60 & 1 of 6, alongside Ang who is 3/6, so if I get a hand getting radiance gear, you might get a choice of LM & dps!

[Kapi]

i have a captain who is 2/6 (forges/GS) but having done fil gashan and 16th hall about 10 times each i'm so disillusioned of not getting a single decent roll that i'm not sure if i can be bothered getting the full set.

couldn't we just use a balrog or thorog hope to cover us? i can imagine some of us have alts in the 50 region who'd appreciate the rift/helegrod drops

(or wont that work?)

[Haleabor]

When we went in after our "training" runs we popped over to Rivendell first and picked up a Balrog hope buff. So even with this and a full set, and a minstrel using +1 hope..and a captains hope banner...it's still tough :)

Hal :)

Having said that Rhy was trying to run a impromptu rift run last week, so maybe that will happen more :)

[Raedwulf]

No. Rhy was just trying, as usual. The fact that we were in The Rift was merely coincidental... ;)