Thread: Sure, I wiped the raid, but I got this awesome screenie!

Okies, now that the NDA for RoI has been lifted, I can post screenies I took from the Ettenmoors and from the new raid here. Yays!

First up, the NIGHT OF EPIC LAG. Ahhh, good times in the Ettenmoors, all.

And now for the uber-cool and AMAZING looking new dragon raid!

The dragon called us "little mice" and was searching for us...



Eeeep, I hope he doesn't see us!!!



Uh oh, I think he caught and roasted someone over there...



UH OH, HE FOUND US!

I thought this screenie from inside Tol Ascarnen came out very nicely.

is this some kind of mega barrow? i saw sambrog-type dudes in one of those pics

Originally Posted by Elangr

is this some kind of mega barrow? i saw sambrog-type dudes in one of those pics

The Sambrog-type mobs are inside of Barad Guldur, the fortress of the Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, second in power among the nine Ring-wraith only to the Witch-king of Angmar himself. They are nasty suckers... Sambrog is their baby cousin. (Barad Guldur is a level 65 raid in Mirkwood.)

Waiting for the creeps to come in (again). Heeeeeere creepies!

Waiting for my raid to catch up to me inside TA... my, I sure do a lot of waiting in PvMP, don't I?

Helegrod! Again! Wow, over four years of running the same raid... and it's still pretty.

Dragon raid! He calls us "little mice" hehehehe. <3

Hmmm, odd, post order seems to have been mixed up. Weird. Anyway, on with skirmishes...

More skirmishing!



Awww, look at all those cute little happy hobbits we saved!


Yes, Candaith, we know.

Skirmish raids are the new thing to do on raid night, I guess. My kinship reserves a different campaign to do together each week. This week we had two 12-man groups simultaneously doing Trouble in Tuckborough, Siege of Gondomon, and Stand at Amon Sul.

Look at the two Lore-master bears, in melee range LIKE A BOSS.



Eeep, he's looking at me! BUBBLE TIME.



Poor dead dragon...

After all that skirmishing, our two 12-mans combined into a big zerg ball to go Gatecrashing. If you kill the two big trolls guarding Isengard, you get a hidden deed.

And then we went and killed Thorog. As you do.



See that Captain running round (while the rest of us are afk)? He's totally explaining the fight. Note our uber-leet positioning skillz.


Ahh, Thorog! My old friend! Good thing you're undead, because I'm about to kill you again!

Very nice

Er, here's something a little less exhausting to consider, if I may:



No finer way to relax after all that exhilaration and excitement!

Fishing is fine... but wouldn't you rather be fighting a dragon!?!?

Raiding on creepside can be... silly.

Remember, folks, the words of the great Heinlein: "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!"

Tower of Orthanc! Fun raid, even though some of the trash clears are as difficult as the boss fights themselves, ugh.





This is me. Alone. Running back to rez people. SIGH. Well hey, at least it's a pretty tower to run up and doesn't take quite as long as BG did to get to the top!

Nice variety in the wings of this raid, too.



Ignore the dead Lore-master in this pic... TOTALLY not my fault, really!

Lots of interesting flavor background in Orthanc, which makes a nice change from both BG and OD, in my opinion!



(Yes, I'm totally sight-seeing while my raid is off killing things.)

Yeah, Wintershadow! SO THERE!



I really like this boss room. PRETTY CEILING FAN FTW!



Look at that near-perfect Trucido positioning. Boo-yah~! My kin rocks.

This boss is a pain in the patooty. Almost no chance to screenshot him because I have to watch for my name to be called for the chain-lightening. Boo.

Then there is the Saruman fight. This fight, unfortunately, lags out my computer something fierce, so I had to turn my graphics waaaay down. I have a few screenshots from it, but yeah, ugh.

On the other hand, I get to wield the Ring of Frost! Which is cool!

Here is my pretty ring. My precious!



Saruman. Pretty scary dude.



Like I said, I had to turn my graphics WAY down.

(...but shhh, I did turn them back up briefly to take lag-inducing screenies. Don't worry, we were in a stage that totally didn't require a lot of healing, yeah.)





EPIC FLYING MOUNT!

Originally Posted by Cloudie-wan

This boss is a pain in the patooty. Almost no chance to screenshot him because I have to watch for my name to be called for the chain-lightening. Boo.

Hmmm, what's happening in that last picture? Are you guys all Chain Lightninged together after the boss is down and the chest is up? Nice picture!

Originally Posted by Rhino-Man

Hmmm, what's happening in that last picture? Are you guys all Chain Lightninged together after the boss is down and the chest is up? Nice picture!

Yup, that is exactly what happened in that pic. We're not sure exactly what circumstances causes the chain lightening to remain after the boss dies, but it has happened when we kill the boss while a light is still up, so that might be it.

Here is another pic of it happening again!

I want a new raid!



Also, this is what happens when the Minstrel (who also happens to be the raid leader) is afk when the tanks decide to pull. JUST SAYING.

I've never raided, and it still looks far too hectic for me to ever enjoy, but...

I've been bitten by a heraldry bug lately. And I've never recovered from the language thing. And now I'm just drooling at your screencaps and all those locations with the murals and the carvings and the flags and the tengwar and... yeah.

Any raiding group willing to take one way too curious nutjob along?