Thunder Head Keep

[Sckoarn]

Ok,

This is one of the first in a series of "tough" missions. This one is the last on this contenent and it only gets tougher from here.

I know Chubbs has been there, for a couple months, wanting to do it. Not sure if he has tried to get a group or not, but regardless, this is usually a place where players find a problem progressing. As we all know GW is full of poor / stupid players, which will make it very much harder to complete this mission.

As a guild and as a organized group this mission is doable, I have put 4 characters through it, half of them with guildies + pubs, and half with only pubs. My success rate is about 15%, so this is not easy.

Ok, so what I would like is to have players post up that they need to do this mission and when they could be available. Once enough have posted up I will try to pick a time that all can meet to do this one. I suggest trying it with pubs to get a feel for the lay out and what is all involved. The times which I have been able to implement the method which I know works, I have made it through. I know there are at least 3 that need to do it now, and a few which are almost at the point where they need to do it.

[Nebula]

damn...

I am sure it is one I am yet to do myself... with all of my characters (more specifically my ranger and warrior)

although I am swamped tonight, and will be gone until the 6th in California...

perhaps I could meet up with you after then, Sckoarn.

[Sammie]

i think i have a character that needs those missions

im available most of the time

just hit me up on vent

[sylverarrow]

Well I want to help/go. My ele/necro hasn't been there yet but has been to the Grotto so I could easily run up there with her. But I need to Thunder Head Keep as well. I agree about the pubs, they are stupid and just pain retarded imo. Most the time they'll leave not even halfway throw a mission. I don't even use pubs anymore I just use henchmen which sometimes are better but they are just as stupid at times.

Neb, Carth, and I played a bit last night. Didn't do any missions but finished some Shiverpeake quests for my monk. Had a good time, thanks again Carth for the help. Another thing is, we need to help Carth out to get ascended (sp?). Well we don't need to but I did mention to him last night that I would help him do so. I'm pretty sure Snk, Neb, and myself along with him could do it since Sckoarn/Zzala/Chubbs/Snk helped Neb and I through the missions the last time.

Anyhow, count me in. Not sure what is a good time yet. I won't be on much tonight or tomorrow evening (I think, not for sure). Sunday is good up until 9PM EST. and Tuesday evenings perhaps.

[Sammie]

i have another character that needs to do the desert missions and ascend. she has already done all the missions in the shiverpeaks but i never did the desert missions. i just skipped them.
She also needs her extra attribute pts

[sylverarrow]

my ele/nerco needs the extra attribute pts as well. aaarg... that pic is annoying sammie... =P

[Sammie]

haha

that was the point :)

[Nebula]

lol!

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[Sammie]

hahaha!

HELL YES!

[McTucket]

this weekend is out for me.

perhaps monday before the cal match we could do it.

definitely not tuesday because of the state of the union address.

wed-fri is a possibility as well.

[sylverarrow]

Nebula.....die a slow horrible death my friend. I know when and where you sleep..BUDDY!

[Nebula]

Nebula.....die a slow horrible death my friend. I know when and where you sleep..BUDDY!

lol
SHIT!

....I had no idea... :neutral:

Wherever you are... I'll find where YOU sleep one of these days and... kill you FIRST!!!

[carthage]

I cant tell if that's hasselhoff, or Landon, but either way it hurts my poor little brain...

Yeah, i'm in the desert right now. I've done Elona Reach sans bonus, and Skoarn gave me a run to Thirsty river last night (thanks again Skoarn).
I've made it to just outside the door of the dunes of despair until a sand worm went Fremen (Dune) on my ass and capped me and my group of henchies tremors style. So, I need to do Thirsty and Dunes still.
I had some fun giving Sylver and Nebula a hand in the shiverpeaks, I actually had a few quests to finish up there myself. All ettins must die, and I learned an important lesson about carrying chest keys!
I agree, pubs stink.
Always availible to help others, even though I havent quite ascended yet...
Bug me on vent, or in game.

[Snk]

Skoarn I would like to do this. I am already there just cant beat it lol.

[JimbobSS]

ya I still need to beat it with my warrior *sigh*

[sylverarrow]

Perhaps we can do this tomorrow or wed evenings? I have a CS match tonight @ 8:15 so I have no time to play GW tonight... =(

[Angel]

i'll help with things once I'm back in germany. 8th of Feb for me.

***thunder posting btw***

[Sammie]

mmm thunder, you look good in drag :wink:

[Sckoarn]

Ok,

Lets try for Wed Feb 1, Starting at 8:00 pm, for those that get home late.

This mission takes at least an hour.

At 8:00 I will begin inviting pubs, that is, unless there are less than 4 of us. If there are less than 4 of us, it will be cancelled. At which time I will post up another date, trying for the weekend day / eve.

Lets see how this goes, see you all then.

[Snk]

Ok,

Lets try for Wed Feb 1, Starting at 8:00 pm, for those that get home late.

This mission takes at least an hour.

At 8:00 I will begin inviting pubs, that is, unless there are less than 4 of us. If there are less than 4 of us, it will be cancelled. At which time I will post up another date, trying for the weekend day / eve.

Lets see how this goes, see you all then.

Awesome.....I have 3 chars that need that done.....which one do you guys think would do better in the ring of fire?

W/Mo
Necro/Monk - (MM)
Ranger/Mes

Im thinking my warrior cause I dont know how many corpses are in that area for my MM

[JimbobSS]

I'll be there skoarn

[sylverarrow]

Count me in as well. I'll have my Ele/Nerco.

[Sckoarn]

Ok,

There are a couple things about this mission that make or break the effort. First off your skills have to be set up for damage or healing. We need 2 preferably 3 healers, 2 War, 2 Elem and (Necro mana pump, or Mezmer interrupter). The beginning of this mission is not too bad, but is a little tough if you do not act like a team. A lead tank will be named, and that player calls targets. Everyone kills that target that can.

There are usually many War wanting to do this mission, and support like Nec or Mez. We should have no problem getting a group together even if we play our casters. I plan on playing Monk.

The trick of this mission is at the end. As the title states Thunder Head Keep (Thunders home) is what we have to take and hold. It is a relatively big and fully functional Keep, with Catipolts included. There are 4 Cati's, which are part of the winning plan. The group of 8 split into a group of 5 and a group of 3 with the 3 on the east and the 5 on the west. The casters, healer and Ele, man the Cati's, and kill stuff, hurt it bad as it approches the Keep. The ones that get by, and there will be a few, are killed by everyone. The War holds them under the gate, and the healer and Ele do thier thing from above. (there is a walkway above the gate, which the casters try and do thier thing from.) Returning to the Cati's is important, the more you can kill or hurt on the way to the keep the better. One healer has to be ready to change sides moving to the group that needs the healing. Elemental should be set up to do instant damage and instant AE. Not rain of fire like stuff, as it makes things run. The Catipolts kill most of the stuff on the East side, this I know as I have manned it many times. The west seems to have a problem with too many incoming. Not sure as I have not played that side yet. The Catipolts play a big part in this mission.

The defence of the Keep lasts about 30-45 min, so it is a test of team work for sure. The more damage you can put out in a short time the better. I find that heal party reaches most of the way accross the Keep, so it is handy.

If there are any Q's or comments about the plan, please feel free to post up.

[LadyZzala]

Whatever night you want to do... I'll be there. Just let me know :)

[McTucket]

i will bring my elem/mes since my monk is nowhere near there yet. skills are set up as damage/interrupt/poison giver(the pink shit)

i am free to do this wed-sun

[JimbobSS]

why don't we run outside the keep before the attacks start and kill of few of the lingering groups? another reason why henchies are useless on this mission is the lack of armor imbuement.......soo I've been through the mission 20 - 30 times with full henchies and died misserably(at the keep part of course).

[McTucket]

i think the catapults are our key to win.

fuck em up or kill them as much as we can before they can even touch us.

[Sckoarn]

Well,

Jimbob, I think the doors are closed untill after you kill the main dude in the Keep. In fact I know they are as I tryed to do this the last time you suggested it.

[Sammie]

dont we also need infused armor?

i can bring a monk or elementalist. i think i have them both infused but i will have to check to be certain

[Sckoarn]

Sammie,

Why does that discusting Sig always end up at the end of the thread hehehe

Thanks for removeing the other ones!!!!

Ok, Yes you have to be infused. The mission can be done with henchies if you need it.

[Sammie]

you know david is sexxxxaaayy! :wink:

[sylverarrow]

Sckoarn,
What's Instant AE? Okay so I'll change out Firestorm and Meteor Shower, I'll have to look on what I have. I still have yet to find an elite fire skill. I'm going to play tonight and if I have a free moment I'll take a look at my Elem. My monk is not that far yet, she is almost to the Amnoon city, by a few missions. Coming along tho.

[Snk]

Instant AE means Instant Area Effect

I will bring my warrior :surprised

[Sckoarn]

Metor shower is ok, as it at least has knock down. Fire storm is almost a useless spell now that mobs run. Things like Fire ball, Phinex (sp), ... are good. Instant damage and some area of effect (AE) at the same time. If you are looking to help protect yourself Lava Font is good as it is AE around you and has a 5 sec duration. Makes them run away from you, if you getting beat on.

And, Dave is NOT Sexy. NOT NOT NOT

[sylverarrow]

Gotcha Sckoarn. Thanks as well Snk. Yeah I don't leave home without Lava Font, that damn skill has saved my ass some many times it isn't funny. Meteor Shower and Meteor are two different things. I know for a fact just Meteor will knock them down, perhaps the shower does it as well, just haven't see it and if I didn't I didn't think it was the shower... O'well, plus it does nice ammounts of damage.

[JimbobSS]

meteor shower does knockdown, I know that for a fact.

and I'll be bringing my warrior as my monk is still sitting in the gates of kryta

[sylverarrow]

cool.

[Snk]

Skoarn let me know what we need

I would like to bring the warrior but I do have my minion master there and my ranger all lvl 20 and infused of course

[Sammie]

And, Dave is NOT Sexy. NOT NOT NOT

lmao

oh the denial :rolleyes:

you know its almost impossible to pull your eyes away :lol:

[Sckoarn]

Good Try guys.

Two tries and two times beaten. Is there any comments about what went wrong and what could be done better?


Very encouraging that we had to have one member drop out because we had too many show up. Too bad that the groups can not be bigger but nice to see the turnout!! Thank you Zzala for choosing to step asside.

[sylverarrow]

Only thing I can see what happened the second time, which was bullshit, is we need to pull those groups away from each other. Something/someone got close enough to the others, which I didn't see what, they were _way_ down in the center, and they all came running up. That was that... About those perfected armours, perhaps I can bring the necro -20 armor skill?

[Sammie]

We going to try this again tonight?

[GraffiXX]

HELLZ YEA GUILD WARS FOR TEH WINZ!@#!@#!#!@#!@#!@#:tongue:

[sylverarrow]

HELLZ YEA GUILD WARS FOR TEH WINZ!@#!@#!#!@#!@#!@#:tongue:
Suck me beautiful!

[Snk]

Suck me beautiful!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Get off my koolaid motha fucka

[carthage]

I take it, it went better last night?

[Sckoarn]

Nope,

We got killed again. But this time we did better got to the first wave of Mursat and other nasties.

Im not sure if they changed this mission or not. I know that I used to be able to kill 85% of everything comeing to the East gate with Cattipults. But it seemed the East side had many mobs, and with both sides going at once we could not keep up. I think it was the first of 3 waves.

Regardless, we had our Pub Monk drop out on us. I am sure he didnt purposely drop out, as he was so happy to have another Monk in the group. I think if we would have had him with us, we would have done it.

All in all a very good effort for the 7 players we had. The plan is to continue to try to do this when ever we can get together again. Not sure I would like to specifiy a time on a weekend. So I will call that we do it again during the week on Thursday Feb 9th. There are enough players needing to get thier characters through this that we could plan a couple weeks worth. We will get all your toons through, not to worry.

[Snk]

Nope,

We got killed again. But this time we did better got to the first wave of Mursat and other nasties.

Im not sure if they changed this mission or not. I know that I used to be able to kill 85% of everything comeing to the East gate with Cattipults. But it seemed the East side had many mobs, and with both sides going at once we could not keep up. I think it was the first of 3 waves.

Regardless, we had our Pub Monk drop out on us. I am sure he didnt purposely drop out, as he was so happy to have another Monk in the group. I think if we would have had him with us, we would have done it.

All in all a very good effort for the 7 players we had. The plan is to continue to try to do this when ever we can get together again. Not sure I would like to specifiy a time on a weekend. So I will call that we do it again during the week on Thursday Feb 9th. There are enough players needing to get thier characters through this that we could plan a couple weeks worth. We will get all your toons through, not to worry.

I agree, we did great but might have pulled it off if we had a full team of GNG. I think the more we stick towards people in the guild the better. But even with 7 people we did almost as good as we did our first try on Wednesday.

As far as planning anouther I think we should stick towards weekdays. Since most people are busy doing random things on the weekend and will pop on GW only for time passing.

Funny thing is though, even with us getting owned all the time at the end its still alot of fun to run with everyone!

[sylverarrow]

Yes it is. Finally a point in the game were the guild is seriously needed and a lot of fun to work with everyone.

[carthage]

I beat the Ice caves mission with pubs the first time through. I almost have the full collectors set from the crystal desert. Working towards infusion at the moment.
Is there a reference text you guys have read for this mission?
I've only really read about it over at Guildwiki.org. Is there a better one?
I should be ready by next Tuesday!

Can someone invite a friend of mine to the guild? "Czar Folian" and or "Ivory Prisoner". He's a high school friend of mine whom i convinced to buy this game. I spent a few years with him playing final fantasy xi in his guild.
He's a veteran of counterstike, and a veterean of the iraq conflict as well. (the US side) I think he'd fit right in.

[McTucket]

im inviting him as we speak... u can explain to him the details, ok?


i invited the Czar Folian name.

[carthage]

Thanks man!
See you at thunderhead soon I hope!

[carthage]

Any plans for TK this week?

[Sckoarn]

This week I will be busy on Wed. doing my regular game testing.

Lets plan for a Thursday eve attempt.


Also if we can get the attendence, we could try tonight, Feb 7th. I will be on about 7ish.

[McTucket]

um... tomorrow im good. thats it.

[Nebula]

um... tomorrow im good. thats it.

Shouldnt you be playing Counter-Strike or something? :wink:

[carthage]

Gonna poke my head in around 7ish.

If anyone ever needs an armor infusion run, let me know. I've done mines of moladune at least four times trying to capture barrage from Markis at the end. What a pain in the ass.

I ran Thunderhead with pubs last night, I can see where teamwork is crucial.
Looking forward to working with everyone.

[Thunder]

I am so back and ready to get playing. I want to complete the PvE quests with my monk/ele. I'm in Europe so week nights are out for me, but weekends are great! Chuckachu and I will be doing some runs soon as we get our act together.

[Sckoarn]

I will be going out for supper this eve, Thurs 9th, but should be home by 7:30 PM est. Thing about gaming so much, when the wife askes, you have choice but to say yes.

[McTucket]

il be ready for some keep tonight too.

[JimbobSS]

I am also going out to eat, not sure when I'll be back. last night I got home around 9ish but this time should be more like 8ish.

lol thought I would be back, but alas the service was slow as HELL! oh well didn't get back till 9 again.

[Thunder]

So, how'd it go?

[McTucket]

im not sure we did anything at all.... throughout the night, i noticed gdub players in cs:s.

[sylverarrow]

im not sure we did anything at all.... throughout the night, i noticed gdub players in cs:s.
I was fixing a co-workers computer that I work with and I do not have another keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc... So I had remove my desktop and work on it. I worked on it for a few hours time I got off it was around 8:30ish and saw CS was happening... Perhaps another day.