Hero Cathedral of Pain, 8-16, 9:30 Eastern, hosted by @Cannonfodder

Meet in Pocket D starting at 9 pm Eastern.

Levels 35-50, prefer 50.

Need two more team leaders to step forward and join my SG to help lead.

I'll lead Team Gloom - Ellen Akres, Lvl 50

I'm in, cannonFounder you better save me a spot!

Great run, Cannon! We got close!

Interesting run, very instructive.

Another group from Victory attempted it after us and succeeded in about 15 minutes.

Thanks to all who came out. Apologies to all who wanted to join, but we didn't have room for.

Gives hope I will see this. Envisioned a long ordeal both to set up and run. Will watch for future runs.

I set up the run. From the entry into the raid computer to the end, it was around 15 minutes. The setup took a lot longer because it was later at night and finding people was stuff, plus a few people did nuke or shivan runs.

Things that helped:
1. Having all team leaders on vent (or some kind of voice chat). We were able to easily communicate where our teams were at and when to attack or pull back. We then communicated directions to our individual teams via team chat.

2. Balancing the teams. Gave each team a tank, some damage, and debuffs. Bubbles/sonic definitely helped to give squishies some mez protection. Having a good amount of debuffs was definitely important for the final challenge.

3. Shivans, nukes, and heavies. I think we had about 4 nukes, 2 heavies, and a handful of shivans. You could probably do the whole thing without them, but to do it so quickly, a little prep is helpful.

It was a lot of fun! After the first run, I wanted to complete it really bad. Being on the first run definitely helped us know what to do to complete the second.

There were at least 10 Vanguard Heavies. I had 4-Bio nuke buffs at the end of it all and I think there were 1 or 2 Chems that got dropped.

Heavies put out amazing damage when buffed with Bio nukes.


Also stopping at the door to group buff rather then just charging and splitting into three groups helped with surviving the alpha of the mobs.

I was on the second "15 minute" run with my grav/ff troller. I wasn't on Vent, but it seemed pretty well coordinated between Vent and the local channel. It was, for lack of a better term, a flat-out steamroll job.

I think Rularuu got knocked down to about 30% on the first attack before the next summon, and after that got wiped out, just melted. i thought there were more than two heavies though, because I had one out, and thought I saw at least two others.

Thanks to all that participated!!

I did both runs on Monday and although I think the first part can be (relatively) easily coordinated with decent players, the AV was very frustrating in the first run. We could get his shields down but he would heal up entirely before we could get them down again.

It's simply a matter of an inverse relationship between debuffers and "props"

I thought the second run was amazingly fun because we were all so coordinated. The team leads were stellar in both runs but I think there was better listening going on in the second.