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[Raid][Ialdir]: Baldur’s Gate 1
[High Theurgist Venric] says: You…are…no…longer…Anthariel.
[Lady Bloodrose] says: Not for many years, but do not worry, my love, I will not let you die…yet.
[Raid][Ialdir]: There’s an enhanced edition out. You should definitely play it.
[High Theurgist Venric] says: Strike now my friends, while I still have strength to aid you!
[Raid][Ialdir]: In a minute, dude, we’re still doing the tacs.
[Raid][Morag]: That’s what you get for pulling without the tank.
“In phase two,” Bjorn went on, “Lady Bloodrose will come down from the ceiling and start to activate the pillars herself. There is nothing we can do about that except DPS her to make her switch. We want her travelling for as much of the fight as possible. There will still be briars, but if we have not cocked everything up, the Veiled Attendants should all be dead. Instead, she will open Nether Portals—”
There was a snigger across Mumble.
“David, I am doing the tacs. You can laugh at the wordnetherin your own time. The Nether Portals will spit out adds, and expand until they fill the entire room and kill everybody. Our portal team, consisting of Magda, Morag, Prospero, and Dave—”
“Woo. Nether Duty.”
“—will dive through the portal and destroy the Realm Heart. The rest of us will be dealing with the adds and DPSing our hearts out. At thirty percent she will go into the final phase, where she explodes into this enormous plant-monster thing and sits in the middle of the room. Then we burn her down really, really fast before we get completely overwhelmed by the buffs from the pillars, which will all be active at this point. Remember, if you are having trouble controlling your Heartsblood stacks, stand near the high theurgist when he puts golden light on the ground, and it will reduce your debuff by twenty. Of course, this will alsolose you precious DPS time, so it is better to just do things right to begin with.”
A readycheck popped up, and when the signal was given, Ella ran towards the middle of the room, triggering the fight.
[Lady Bloodrose] says: Come, pierce yourself upon me.
“Oh man,” sighed Dave. “That just sounds so wrong.”
“You know what else is wrong,” said Bjorn, fifty seconds later, “how quickly we screwed that up.”
It had not been a good attempt. There’d been so much going on, and the chamber was sufficiently large and full of particle effects, that the raid just hadn’t coordinated properly. Nothing had gone down fast enough, and they’d been overwhelmed by briars.
[Solace] whispers: You okay?
To [Solace]: yeah that was faster than i expected
[Solace] whispers:?
[Solace] whispers: Honestly, we’ve only beaten this fight once and that was with a different comp
To [Solace]: oh
[Solace] whispers: But we didn’t have the best geared tank on the server??
The second run was only marginally better. For Drew, this was where you really saw the difference between a casual guild and a hardcore one. Anni had flailed around like this the first time they’d done the fight, but they’d got over it quickly. Lady Bloodrose was complicated enough that they never really had her on farm, but they could pretty much guarantee that if theywiped, it was because something specific had gone wrong rather than because nothing had gone right.
To [Solace]: ffs
[Solace] whispers: This is really bugging you, isn’t it?
To [Solace]: kinda
To [Solace]: i don’t mind wiping but i like to feel we’re making progress
[Solace] whispers: We are. It just takes a little to see it.
To [Solace]: there you go being zen again
