On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ryan Honeyman wrote:
> piece of the puzzle in the big picture. While most people only
> know people on their server, I have the privledge of speaking with
> many people (including their tactics) on several other servers.
There's an official alliance between LoD and FoH on Veeshan. Many
of our members started their original characters on the Cazic Thule
server, so we have contacts there too. I am also the cleric administrator
for Casters Realm, so Baelish is my link to the Povar people. If LoD
didn't have contacts on other servers, if we didn't do our research, we
would not be where we are today. Oh, and I also read this mailing list,
which in and of itself is a wealth of information.
> cut damage factors. I've noticed that since day one. With eq and
> spell buffs, you can bring your cold resist to the 120's - 150's
> for Vox. Someone said that 125 doesn't have any impact, but 225
> does. heh. It's my opinion, as I have seen with every single other
> mob in this game that regardless of resistance, you are gonna be
> LoD had one bard (blue to me, poorly equiped) Sagnaria (sp) and
> Weadeneye... that was it. And your crew had their plane gear on
> from what I saw, no special cold resist stuff, yet you still
My CR/FR without a bard singing when I go fight naggy or vox is
around 150 to 160. With a bard song, well, you can do the math. You're
right, experience with dragons does make a big difference. That's where
I'm drawing what I say from.
> clobbered Vox swiftly. Level/experience is clearly better than
> resistances. Hell, you all were doing dragons without bards at
> one point. And you still won easily. (Gotta be the rogues ;p)
>
Well, "easily" is definitely a relative term. If we lose 12 out
of 30 people on a Vox raid, to us that was a "hard" Vox run. For another
guild, that may have been "easy". Honestly, I think the reason is because
of our guilds class makeup. We have tons of warriors and clerics, and
we're short on hybrids. That doesn't happen very often, as you can see
from the makeup of most high level guilds.
For most people though, bard resists will make the difference
between winning and losing. I know we've definitely cut our losses down
with bards in the primary groups. I've done Vox with only 1 death among
all the people who were there (level 40 druid died), and that time we had
Weadaneye and Tokisada there.
BTW - you're wrong about our equipment, we trade out everything for resist
equipment.
Miriana 50 Cleric
Kalera 35 Bard
Legions of Darkness
Innoruuk Server