Brainstorming Challenges.

[Hawkmoon]

Hey Fox,

I can't see the pics! All I see are little boxes with question marks; clicking on them just takes me to the Imageshack front page.

[ajaxfetish]

I've got plenty I haven't done.

Sorrow's Furnace
Urgoz
DoA (Gloom & Veil)
Slaver's
Rragar's Menagerie
Shards of Orr
Frostmaw's Burrow

Successful completion of the Deep (got to Kanaxai, failed to kill him)
Full clear of FoW or Underworld

[Hawkmoon]

This weekend's activity is scheduled to be a full UW run (unless that has changed).

I am totally excited about doing this, since I've only done a bit of UW, and would really like a whole mess o' ectos!

The only potential problem for me is the Saturday night timeslot - on this particular Saturday, I have to attend a 5-hour-long preparatory class for my upcoming 2nd degree black belt Tae Kwon Do test. It's supposed to last from 2-7 pm, and if it's anything like the one I had to do before my 1st degree test, I just know that I'm going to be exhausted after it. I really doubt that I'd be physically able to stay awake for an entire UW run.

Would you guys be amenable to doing the run on Friday night, rather than Saturday? I can be available by 8 pm on Friday.

Pretty please?

[Seijin]

Do it friday night and even I can go.

[WarBlade]

And I would miss out.

Again.

[FoxBat]

Either time works for me.

Edit: we could also delay the full UW till next week, and find something less ornerous to do this weekend. For some ideas, I have a bunch of characters I need to get through fire islands, have most dungeons and HM areas untouched, could trek out for titan source, or get some Alliance Battle games going (double faction this weekend!!! )

[Hawkmoon]

And I would miss out.

Again.

Hey, WB - that's not fair! You were in on the FoW extravaganza; you can't accuse us of leaving you out all the time!

As for you not being able to make it on Friday, I have only one reply: WAAAAAHHHHH!

We need you to be the awesome werebear tank for us! C'mon, ditch work on Saturday!

Maybe we'll have to do two runs...

[WarBlade]

Ditch work? I'd love to ditch work. As in kick it in the nuts and get a new job.

My latest problem there is I have 14 shifts to fill, I have time for 4 myself and I've lost two staff in the past month, with a third becoming a student...

4 Me
2 Student-Man
1 Reliable Saturday Guy

OMFG, I'm 7 shifts short of staff. Let's load me up and drag in the Technical Manager.

5 Me
5 Tech Manager
2 Student-Man
1 Reliable Saturday Guy

Now I just need to drag a projectionist in from another site for one shift, pretend the two new trainees can take less than three weeks to get competant enough to hold a shift on their own (LMAO, yeah ri-iight) and try to relax enough to avoid heart failure.

As for not being fair, trust me when I say it's a real sore point that the weekly guild activity has been consistantly organized for the one day (American Tuesday, my Wednesday) that is just too much of a soul munching experience at work to hand off to anyone less than a film-handling expert. Suddenly, out of the blue we start doing a regular event on a day that I can probably attend at maybe a 50% attendance rate or more and I'm overjoyed, then a week later this "Can we shift the day?" suggestion pops up to bite me.

And I'm still burned from that first free access to UW/FoW event weekend. :mad:

Sorry about the ranty tone, but I'm in a really ranty mood right now.

[Hawkmoon]

Suddenly, out of the blue we start doing a regular event on a day that I can probably attend at maybe a 50% attendance rate or more and I'm overjoyed, then a week later this "Can we shift the day?" suggestion pops up to bite me.

I officially withdraw the motion to do UW on Friday night as the Official Event. And I really don't want to shift the weekly events to Friday as a rule, it's just that this particular Saturday I know that I'd be more of a hindrance than a help even if I did manage to drag myself online.

[FoxBat]

These events are proving quite popular; we had 8 guildies and that wasn't even everyone on at the time!

The roster was:

Xyn, Warblade: Ursan warriors
Drasca: anti-spellcast mesmer
Zedf: splinter barrage
Docval: terra tank
Mucco: SS nuker
Hawk: Spellbreaker prot
Foxbat: Healer's boon

We went straight from the reaper's monument out to the chaos planes, taking on the dreaded mindlbades. After drasca learned the hard way not to leeroy them , we managed them thanks to a combination of a good number uselessly attaking the terratank, clumping together to get AoEfarmed, drasca's array of caster hate, and me staying far back and using heal party or the occasinal run-in-heal. Sometimes rough but we managed them every time.

Then we were preparing for the infamous Four Horsemen quest. This quest sends two groups of six dryders/two horsemen each to attack the reaper at the end of the maze. Our plan was to have Doc and his terra tank keep one side busy with his spell and wand-damage immunity, while the rest of us fought the other side. He happened to lose connection just before starting the quest though, and then after I noted the irony of the situation, he was thus cursed and could not reconnect until his character was long dropped. We tried to improvise with hawk keeping Xyn up under spellbreaker while healing the others, but it was not to be, as I found myself too split between the parties to heal each other. (Maybe a hybrid heal/prot could've kept him up? I don't know.) There are some other approaches we could try, but I think the Terra Tank would've worked fine if fortune was on our side.

On the bright side, we had a good number of ectos drop; I didn't know the mindblades held onto them. Forget smite farming!

The question is whether we want to try this again next week, or if we can decide on someting else and return to this later.