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big brawl in da club

Something new to get used to: Tuesdays are short days. I’ve grown accustomed to spending the time from around 10:30 pm to midnight walking (while reading Kindle books, playing Artifracture, etc.), and then after midnight I catch up on work, do my remaining Habitica dailies, and head to bed past 2 am...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 19, 2022

the great return II

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 4, 2022

there is but one master in asphodelos

“Fuck, I forgot to review the doc,” said newbie as we convened for raid last week. “Me too,” said numbers. We’re down to one raid day a weekend, since Silver can’t make Saturdays (not sure if this is a short- or long-term thing). Last Sunday we were at enrage on Hesperos I, but all our deep runs wer...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 2, 2022

achievers and ornaments

I’m still enjoying Flight Rising, although the gameplay makes me appreciate Wolvden more. In Wolvden, your wolves matter: your pack leader fights enemies, your hunters bring back food, your pupsitters take care of pups, etc. In Flight Rising, your dragons are mostly incidental to the gameplay. It’s ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 18, 2022

pan-de-mo-ni-um

We’re all geared up and ready to fight Hesperos, final boss of the raid tier. “I have 600 legs,” announced Kyle. “That’s a lot of legs,” said numbers. (But first, reclear zone: ONE PULL, ONE KILL on Phoinix. “We’re so good at this game!!” said newbie. Sadly I ate a pie and died and wound up with a 6...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 10, 2022

the triumphant return of hgr

IT’S RAID FEATURING HGR WOO (We were anticipating him being out for weeks. So glad he’s okay!) Silver/Luis couldn’t make Saturday, and Sunday was mostly a re-clear day. But hey, parse redemption arc! On Eric, the whole party parsed blue except numbers, who died. I tied my best with 54%. On hippo, I ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 4, 2022

final exaltation

We finally did it. We killed a bird. Last week was supposed to be the week. We came close: we saw our first enrage at 3%. On the very next run, we wiped at first tethers. “From the alpha to the omega,” said HGR. We later got another enrage at 10%, but no clear. This Saturday was destined to be a fra...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - March 28, 2022

flight rising

A bunch of people have been talking about Flight Rising lately, so I decided to try it out. A few thoughts: Pros of Flight Rising:Colorful! Even your starting dragon can be decked out in jade and denim (like mine). The auction house is a riot of color; every pup is bold and vibrant. It’s not like Wo...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - March 23, 2022

life's agonies

“This weekend we shall kill a bird,” said numbers when he sent out the roll call for this weekend’s raid. Spoilers: we did not kill a bird. Saturday was another backslide arc, which is honestly redundant/poor plotting and smacks of filler. It took us nearly an hour to re-clear P1S. We just forgot ev...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - March 14, 2022

mits, more like

Raid went well this weekend. We agreed that we’re “basically” progging enrage (we haven’t seen it yet, but we did see devouring brand 2), and our damage is high enough that we should be able to win with a clean run. Next morning, HGR was poring over our fight log to determine our mitigation strategy...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - March 7, 2022

I just lost the ark

HGR quit Lost Ark last night. I really didn’t expect him to be the first to drop it (though, to be fair, he’s clocked 300+ hours which is assuredly longer than I’ll wind up playing). There were a couple reasons. First, he was bummed there were not enough people to do high-level world content with hi...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - March 2, 2022

firestorms of asphodelos

Not much to say about last week’s raiding. Silver and GANON couldn’t make it on Saturday. On Sunday, the re-clears went well (I got 39% on P1S due to a damage down on temperatures 2, and 33% on the hippo), but our Phoinix pulls did not. We were all just tired, I guess. We only saw fountains of fire ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Feb. 28, 2022

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