Sydney 3 guild raid review: first attempt (18 March 2016 11pm UTC)

....23 minutes.... 'nuff said. ;-)

Longer version:

I thought we could probably do it, if enough people helped. Others were more confident than me - Ace thought he, Briezh and I could probably manage it alone (not sure on that account still ;-) !) and Yersinia said he thought we could do it in half an hour (over-estimated by 7 minutes).

So that's another raid we can comfortably do. Well done, team!

(Sorry I didn't take screenshots)

Dubai IV Raid Review: First run through

After a month of planning and boot-camping, the weekend of March 12-13th marked the date for Dubai IV.

Getting ready had been a bit of a marathon in itself: I had taken every opportunity to encourage and support as many people as possible to be able to participate. While I was confident it would all come together, I also knew things would go wrong. And they did: Breizh (king of Dubai III) got sick. Jifferlaar (previous MVP) went AWOL to a darts' contest (Jifferlaar, you have a month or so left of teasing from me about that until I get over it). John Burtt mysteriously disappeared..... (Where are you, John Burtt? Come back: I miss you and your dodgy schemes!!!!).  I spent most of my Sunday playing on a sporadically working 3G mobile connection with worrying waits of more than a minute after most fights while the loading icon churned......

However, in the end more things went right than wrong and we completed Dubai IV with more than 10 hours to spare.

 

Most of the credit goes to the following people (Thanks to The Maelstrom for taking the screeenshots)

 

Lots of people surprised themselves with how well they did, which was great. Special shout-outs to Walker (who was aiming for 100k and got nearly 200K) and Maelstrom (who got 9K more than he thought was a stretch goal for himself).  

Sadly, I was asleep when Dubai IV was won, with newcomer Ace taking first place (Congrats, Ace!)

If you want to be like Ace, here are a few of his playing tips for Dubai:

• A team of a level 41 Dreadnought, level 33 Patient Zero, and a level 20 Mortician is enough to get a perfect score on expert
• Have as many teams as you can (Ace has 12 teams that can beat Dubai on Expert)
• Learn to play on fastforward

We did a random draw raffle for the three guild legendaries with the people who had got at least 54K (1/50 of 2.7 million) being entered. The lucky numbers, according to random.org, were 14, 6 and 7: The Maestrom, Yersinia, and Wayne. Congrats!

Lastly a thanks to the Dubai IV planning team: Breizh, Yersinia, and .Wayne. Thanks guys!!

Dubai Three Review (Third completion)

Our third successful attempt at Dubai Tier 3 started on Saturday 13th February at 7am UTC and took 16 and a quarter hours to complete.

Breizh won again, taking his count to 2/3 and mine, sadly, to 1/3. You are the champ, Breizh! Best out of 5?

Well done, Breizh! Proves I shouldn't sleep when we are raiding Dubai ;-)

However, the real winner of Dubai was perhaps Jifferlaar, who not only got third place, with an impressive 120K + of trophies, but also went from being level 26 at the start of the raid (i.e., not actually able to play) to getting to level 44 and scoring three epic packs! All with this guy:

Octavia's Doomsday. Isn't he dreamy??

And providing ample evidence that NEKO's method is the way to go, if you don't have heaps of high powered teams!

And what did we get?
Breizh got the legendary pack and the guild legendary pack for beating me fair and square.

He took screenshots of one of the openings:

Who's that pokemon ...er World Zombination unit?

It's Shade!

He also got Maelstrom, but was so unimpressed he forgot to take a screenshot.
Here she is anyway:

Never mind, Breizh. You can't always be lucky!

Here are my three epic packs.
The first one I got excited when I saw this:

An orange glow!

I was so excited I immediately forgot to take a picture of who it was.

It was this guy:

My third patient zero - now helping the first one on his way to level 30!

Here are my next two packs:

All and all it was a pretty good raid, with lots of good chatter at the end.