Talk:Pretender to the Throne

119SMN & 119DNC; no Trusts
You know the old saying: when it rains, it pours. This fight was one issue after another and as the party leader, I take full responsibility for not having us fully ready for the fight. The first issue was my thinking this was a battlefield fight. I'm not sure why I thought it was a battlefield and we'd have time to call the Trusts and buff before engaging, but we didn't. The fight occurs immediately after someone clicks the flashing blue light. (Thinking back on it, I suspect with finishing Zilart, CoP, and Treasure this week it just seemed this guy deserves his own battlefield. After all he's a creator of some of the coolest places in the Seeker expansion (per the myth).)

We came as a 119SMN/49RDM and 119DNC/49WHM with reraise 3 for both of us (from a book). After getting over the initial shock of my mistake and our situation, I called forth Fenrir and started buffing with Ecliptic Howl (what I call Sushi for the similar benefits) and attacking with Eclipse Bite. Taking direct hits, I went down and stayed down till the DNC moved Balamor far enough away. (NOTE: SMN should not try to melee Balamor.  Yes, getting some licks in and MP (from Spirit Taker and/or Myrkr) is great, but not worth the hits.  This, of course, assumes you're without Trusts to cure you.)

The DNC realized his macros were missing. As we logged in for this fight, we figure he lost them the night before when his system crashed. He's been having issues with his Dell laptop. Yes, we should have had some fights before this one to warm up and for not doing those I take responsibility. The DNC used the menu system for all of his activities. I asked him for details, but he said any DNC worth his salt would know what abilities to use and when to use them. But let me be clear, it was Ramrat (the DNC) who won this fight. (Yeah, I helped and he ssys I was critical to the victory, but DNC rules!!! Plain and simple, DNC rules!)

Once free of Balamor, I got up and using Fenrir continued the attack, but this time the attack was Impact and it really helped take a bite out of Balamor. At some point the DNC also went down and I used Fenrir to move Balamor, so the DNC could get up. With Balamor down to less than a sliver on the HP meter, the DNC did Evisceration and we won! Yeah, just the two of us without Trusts, we won!

==IBHalliwell (talk)