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[Group][Burnzurfais]: i cud solo this on my main
With what seemed to Drew like an air of visible reluctance, Solace resurrected Burnzurfais.
Then she jogged to the centre of the room, where the streams of lava met and plunged down into the furnace below.
She teetered on the edge for a moment, her silver wings shining in the red glow from the final boss waiting in the depths.
[Guild][Solace]: Woah, that nearly went really badly wrong
[Guild][Dave]: Wut
[Guild][Solace]: I nearly fell down the middle of the furnace
[Group][Burnzurfais]: go
[Guild][Dave]: I did that once
[Guild][Dave]: Had num lock on
Ialdir and his pet owl, which seemed to be called Small Mangy Owl 16 , went to the ledge and sat down next to Solace.
[Guild][Heurodis]: Once I jumped down because i was trying to show there was an invisible wall and you couldnt fall off it
[Guild][Solace]: I know. I was there
[Guild][Heurodis]: I was getting mixed up with the oubliette in FK back in vanilla
[Guild][Jargogle]: Oh, have you been playing since vanilla, Bjorn? I didn’t know because you never mention it.
[Group][Burnzurfais]: gogogo
[Group][Solace]: I never get tired of this view
It had been a while since Drew had even bothered looking at it. He sent Ella to join the others and tilted his mouse so he could see right down into the fiery chasm.
[Yell][The Forge Master]: MORE STEEL, MORE FIRE, MORE SERVANTS FOR THE GREAT MACHINE!
[Group][Burnzurfais]: gogogo
[Group][Ialdir]: you’d think he’d have enough servants by now
[Group][Solace]: I love how it’s the Great Machine. Like, how good is this machine? Pretty great.
[Yell][Ialdir]: MORE STEEL, MORE FIRE, MORE SERVANTS FOR THE ADEQUATE MACHINE
[Group][Orcarella]: lol
[Group][Solace]: Well you wouldn’t want to worship a machine with self-esteem issues
[Group][Burnzurfais]: what the fuk is wrong with u fukin noobs
[Group][Solace]: Just taking time to smell the lava 17
[Group][Burnzurfais]: ffs
[Group][Orcarella]: Ok, lets just finish this. If we skip Gabraxis and Irontongue and go straight to Pyrite we’ll be done in about 20 mins.
[Group][Burnzurfais]: kk
[Guild][Solace]: But I like doing the optionals. I don’t feel I’ve had a good day unless I’ve been impaled by Irontongue’s mighty shaft.
Ialdir ran around in circles, very nearly falling into the furnace.
[Yell][Ialdir]: IMPALED!!!
Drew’s Dr Pepper was suddenly all over his keyboard.
[Group][Orcarella]: shit, sec
He cleaned up after himself, still grinning and not sure why this wasn’t the worst dungeon run he’d been on in months.
Then he settled back down, marshalled his merry band, and led them deeper into the furnace.
The next few packs of mobs went down fairly smoothly.
Burnzurfais was still bad at avoiding damage and worse at keeping quiet about it, but he’d stopped pulling and hadn’t actually died again, so it seemed like they were making progress.
The party turned left into the rough-hewn cavern where Pyrite stood around waiting obligingly for adventurers to come and kill him.
The entrance was swarming with tiny golden rocklings.
Drew knew from experience that they exploded when they died.
When the patch had first come out, you’d had to take them down one at a time so the damage didn’t spike too much, but a tier and a half later, Orcarella had enough health to eat it twice over.
[Group][Orcarella]: r
[Group][Ialdir]: r
[Group][Solace]: r
He waited a second or two for Burnzurfais, who bounced about impatiently but didn’t actually say anything in chat. Then he slapped down his Circle of Corruption and charged. The little rocks swarmed round, glittering and glinting as Ialdir’s exploding arrows landed neatly amongst them.
Suddenly, Burnzurfais was standing right on top of Ella, lightning coruscating around his body. It was the one time Drew had seen him cast a spell that wasn’t Fireball or Shroud of Mist.
The rocklings dropped dead with the precision of a synchronised swimming team, unleashing a massive chained explosion. Ella’s health plummeted, stabilised, and then began to climb steadily.
Drew remembered to breathe.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a halo of golden light appear around Burnzurfais, which probably explained why he lasted three whole seconds before keeling over.
[Group][Burnzurfais]: ffs
[Guild][Ialdir]: is Mike around?
[Guild][Ignatius]: he’s making me a sammich
[Guild][Ialdir]: is there any reason for a fire ele to use that pb aoe lightning thingy
[Guild][Ignatius]: I’ll ask
[Guild][Ialdir]: thanks Helen
Solace was standing over the perennially incapacitated Burnzurfais, slowly bringing him back to life.
[Guild][Heurodis]: there isnt
[Guild][Heurodis]: fire aoe rotation should be fb to proc rof, then conflag til everythings dead 18
[Guild][Ialdir]: do you even play an elementalist
[Guild][Heurodis]: i had one back in RotU before they got nerfed
[Group][Burnzurfais]: heal me
[Guild][Ignatius]: Mike says Eye of the Storm is mostly a threat generator for the tanking tree
[Guild][Ignatius]: fire normally waits until Reign of Fire is up, then spams conflagration
[Group][Burnzurfais]: heal me
[Guild][Heurodis]:
[Guild][Jargogle]: I thought it was against the rules to encourage Bjorn.
Ignatius has now been demoted to Guild Peon
[Guild][Ignatius]: hey, I was out the room, doing you a favour, Jacob
Ignatius has now been promoted to Guild Mascot
[Group][Orcarella]: mb before boss?
[Group][Solace]: please
Solace curled up on the floor and began sipping what was probably a delicious mug of [Fermented Cave Mould].
[Group][Burnzurfais]: heal me
[Group][Ialdir]: Dude, you’re an elementalist.
[Group][Ialdir]: not only do you have your own healing spells
[Group][Ialdir]: you can make your own food for free
[Group][Burnzurfais]: is healers job to heal
[Group][Burnzurfais]: stupid ffn noob healer
Drew gave up, right-clicked Burnzurfais, and initiated a vote-kick.
Burnzurfais vanished.
[Group][Solace]: Thank you
[Group][Solace]: Sadly, I can’t heal dickhead
[Group][Orcarella]: Want me to requeue?
[Group][Ialdir]: I think I’m done with randoms for today
[Group][Solace]: We can three man
[Group][Solace]: And now Mr Likestodie has gone we can go back and down Irontongue too
[Group][Orcarella]: God do we have to?
Solace shuffled up so close to Orcarella that the sleeves of her robe were clipping through the dread knight’s spiky armour, and performed a winsome little animation.
[Group][Solace]: Please?
[Group][Solace]: Please?
[Group][Solace]: Please?
[Group][Solace]: I’ll heal you real good baby.
Drew was glad he was sitting on the other side of a chunky orc in a skull-shaped helmet because he thought he might be blushing.
[Yell][The Forge Master]: MORE STEEL, MORE FIRE, MORE SERVANTS FOR THE GREAT MACHINE!
[Group][Orcarella]: Well, since you put it that way.
[Group][Solace]: Yay
Solace boinged happily around the cavern, just out of reach of the towering rock giant.
[Group][Ialdir]: If you pull, we’re letting you die
[Group][Solace]: gogogogogogoggogogo
[Group][Orcarella]: sure we can do this?
[Group][Ialdir]: course we can, we’re the most progressed casual guild on the server
[Group][Solace]: I’ve 3-manned this with Morag and Bjorn a bunch of times
[Group][Orcarella]: you must kick a lot of randoms
[Group][Solace]: No, no, we fly in the door
[Group][Ialdir]: Omg retro
[Group][Orcarella]: Um why 19
[Group][Solace]: It’s fun
[Group][Ialdir]: Omg crazy
[Group][Ialdir]: Having fun in the game
[Group][Orcarella]: right, lets do this
[Group][Orcarella]: Ill turn him to face the back wall
[Group][Orcarella]: Ialdir you’re on rocklings
[Group][Solace]: Let me switch to Glory
[Group][Solace]: It’s got slightly better DPS
[Group][Ialdir]: You know what else is really good DPS
[Group][Solace]: Bjorn
[Group][Ialdir]: *cries*
Drew carefully put what was left of his Dr Pepper out of harm’s way. He caught a glimpse of the time on his minimap and realised they’d been in the instance for over half an hour. Normally, he could blitz this place in twenty minutes, and it still felt like forever.
And, shit, he was meant to be meeting his mates for the ￡5.95 lunch deal in the Slug and Lettuce down the road. Well, it was only the pub, he could be late. They’d take the piss, but, hey, what were friends for?
He checked his buffs, made sure Solace had mana, and ran straight for Pyrite’s crotch, dropping CoC somewhere under his big toe.
He strafed round, and Pyrite wheeled after him, waving huge rocky fists and paying no attention to the arrows thunking into his gold-encrusted arse.
It was a pretty straightforward fight most of the time, and Ella had nothing to do except swing her maces at the boss’s knees and occasionally get slammed on the head.
Now that Drew thought about it, tanking wasn’t exactly a dignified role a lot of the time.
He basically spent his evenings staring at a series of monstrous packages and being chewed on by irate minions.
Unless it all went wrong, and then he was running around like a headless chicken right up to the point where he dropped dead.
But things were a bit more tense with only three.
Every so often, Pyrite would stop and encase a member of the party in something called Fool’s Gold, and they had to be broken out by the DPS.
20 Since Ialdir was the only one there who could do anything remotely approaching damage and Drew had to keep the boss against the wall in case his cone attack squished the whole party, sometimes it was up to Solace to smash Ialdir out of a rocky prison.
Which was bad for Ella’s health and Drew’s nerves.
But the most progressed casual guild on the server triumphed in the end, and Pyrite slowly collapsed into a pile of rubble, dropping a pair of bracers that would have been useful a tier ago and a set of spiked knuckles nobody had ever wanted.