Elite Dungeons

[Aldric]

Now that several people in the cabal have gotten to lvl 50, I was thinking of perhaps making two days in the week our "Elite dungeon" days. You know, people who have reached level 50 and want to gear up through elite distillates (up to 1,6k xp per distillate) could come together and do a couple of rounds.

Sure we can keep on trying to group on a spontaneous basis, but assuming we could get a team together already, we could perhaps actually start gearing together more reliably. Because as of now, there really seems to be nothing happening in the cabal at all (23/24h at least).

As for me, I'm available on Eu later afternoons and evenings fairly consistently during the weekdays, and sometimes during the weekends. Currently playing a pretty powerful DD char on an item power level of ~145.

[LeMort]

I'm up for that!

LeM:)

[Uragon]

Kate and I are halfway there, so will definitely join you in a few weeks / a month or so. Still taking it slowly to re-watch cutscenes and stuff.

[Mellified]

I'm around 41ish so when I get to 50 I'll be there!

[Pilgrim7]

I'm in !!

I am still learning the layouts in the Dungeons ( didn't do them in TSW ), but have done each of the 5 available in Elite 1 at least once.

My schedule can be a bit unpredictable now that RL is catching up after my time off, but see myself as being available most evenings NA times (CST)

[Gebbeth]

L43, and moving slowly now that vacation is over, but I am interested for sure - will probably see if I can get a group going US evenings... (CST)

[BrokenPieces]

Do E1 have any requirements in stat except level 50? If I join as DPS what stats should I have? Or tank, or healer?

[Shock G]

E1 has no requirement beyond level 50, and what stats you need as a healer really depends. I PUGged an Ankh elite where the tank took little damage in any fight, and that prompted me to throw on all my DPS gear save one talisman and use my AR instead of fist, and only use heals when absolutely necessary. I also PUGged a DW elite where the tank was getting chewed up in practically every fight, and Fist/Blood was a necessity at the final boss.

I can't tell you anything about what stats for DPS. My DPS junk is generally good enough to put me as the second best DPS in the parse despite being AR/Blood and dealing with the lack of resources. I guess you probably want to have at least one purple gear item is the best way to put it, but it's not mandatory, and FC seems to want players to have to run a whole lot of E1 dungeons if they're not going to spend real money to speed up the upgrade path. Distillates are what provide the best item xp gains, and the ones dropping in E1 are much better than the ones in story mode.

Most of the time they feel like story mode dungeons, with a handful of exceptions (Like HR 5- Recursia. The encounter has been made into a real DPS check because the rakshasa move toward the center much faster than they did even in TSW NM dungeons, and it's no longer a situation where you just take a big chunk of damage. It was an insta-kill at 3.7k health, and I think it was insta-kill for the tank, too).

[Yuriksha]

Level 50 but not rushing into Elites yet. Still working toward at least getting my Ashes to purple before that. Got at least three heal talismans in blue also but perhaps not enough to be a serious Elite healer yet, but my attack talismans are all blue.

Also haven't even finished Egypt yet, but I'm close.

[Reviled]

Level 47 now, will be 50 by the weekend, I figure.

Will probably go DPS until I have a good set of healing talismans built up.

EDIT: Yep, 50 now, item power 151 after upgrading gear with the distillates I'd saved up.