Galka Style

Wow I can't believe it worked. The summoner burn went very well. I expected the Einherjar to be mired in delays with slow people forcing us to wait on them to come to Hazhalm or delaying party and alliance formations, but everything was fast and successful. Heck, I expected the plan to fail and we would wipe on the first pull. The strategy is similar to a manaburn situation, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Our basic party set up was refresh, paladin, four summoners. This seemed to work well. We had fourteenish summoners, a handful of melee, four or so paladins, and bards and red mages. I had a hard time keeping refresh on my party. Between so many avatars and mobs dying at once and the spam from spells being casted I don't know if I caught all the refreshes wearing off. That is pretty much all I did.

Our mobs turned out to be dark elementals, krakens, and the oboron boss. The casting from the dark elementals was no problem. I admit I forgot poison potions, but I didn't end up needing them. The first pull had so many avatars, players, and mobs in the area that I could barely do anything with the lag. I managed to get a few sleepgas off, so all the better. After some hectic confusion of poorly located avatars on the oboron it went down steadily but had too much hp for us. The summoners started with Ramuh. Apparently Garuda did better damage. Some of the summoners sounded confident that if they had started with Garuda we could have won. We timed out at 23%. Very good for our first try. I think everyone has a better idea of what to expect now so we will do even better next time.

Early in the fight. Some rear trigger aoe rocked some summoners.

The strategy needs to be refined a bit and with a little more experience we will do even better. A minute or two can be shaved off between entering and pulling the mobs. It felt like we spent too much time running or resting after the astral flow rush and before engaging the boss. Depending on the boss we get and their aoe usage it is hard to determine how we will fair against other bosses. The marlboro will cause problems with bad breath. Second and third wing bosses may be even more of a problem.

Not all visible, but the obligatory "I've never seen so many summoners at once."

I'm glad Rakshaka started this and invited me. I hope we will be even more successful in future runs. He is confident people will continue coming on time and expects a few more people for next time.

If you read this post hoping I would write about Ehrgeiz I'm sorry to disappoint you.

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