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Karlos · Dec 27, 2006, 10:50 AM // 10:50

Yes! We did it tonight! We completed all four sections of the Domain of Anguish in one run.

(If you know what the Shard of Brilliance is, and you know how to get to the Veil from where you get it, you know all 4 quests are done) :P

We completed the run in 8 hours and 35 minutes. We nearly lost our monk at the exact same spot we lost our ranger last time, and we think it has to do with too many objects being left on the ground (after about half an hour in the place, no one picks up white and blue items). We had to have the monk drop out (disconnect himself) and reconnect while we picked up every crappy white item in radar range and deleted it.

Still, it was a very worthwhile and fulfilling experience. I am sure others will come and do this whole thing in 5 hours or less. but for now, it feels good to be the first group to have successfully completed this.

Other than the extra drops from the chests, there is no bonus towards fighting Mallyx himself. i.e. you do not get to fight him right away or skip the hordes that attack the priest before the Citadel door opens. In fact, you need to go back to the Gate of Anguish and speak with the priest to advance the quest.

Special thanks to the crew: Sal, Spardas, Hawks, Victor, Miriel, C and Fable. Also special thanks to the guys who have been helping me figure this out. They know who they are. Josh, Sky, Slim Shady and Kier to name a few.

duncan99 · Dec 27, 2006, 11:15 AM // 11:15

grats to your team

Drop of Fear · Dec 27, 2006, 11:18 AM // 11:18

gratz. all that is needed now is to tweak the build to split the teams in 2 groups doing different quests

gul dan · Dec 27, 2006, 11:45 AM // 11:45

congratulations ^^

i wish i had a good group to do this =[

Thallandor · Dec 27, 2006, 11:58 AM // 11:58

congrats to the OP

Symon · Dec 27, 2006, 12:00 PM // 12:00

Was fun... but not sure i'll be doing that in a hurry again ^_^ Bonding for that long starts to numb the mind xD

jbwarrior · Dec 27, 2006, 12:09 PM // 12:09

Gratz m8....

Could and would u share, with us what chars where in your team and with there builds, i think it would help a lot of people, that tries DoA a lot of times.???

Where did u start? City?

Nice work man, gratz again

gul dan · Dec 27, 2006, 12:42 PM // 12:42

i think they started at Gloom, then went to Foundry, City and Veil...

and as he said on the other post, with the stygian/foundry build they posted on guildwiki

there's a post for that somewhere here

hey, tell me this: it's easier to do Foundry from Gloom? i tried it one time and spent 7 hours to get nothing there ¬¬ (maybe the party was bad, but i thougth we were doing fine...)

Spadas Datum · Dec 27, 2006, 12:46 PM // 12:46

I guess not sleeping for the nite and getting it done by 4:30AM in the morning wasn't that bad even though I did have to get to work by 6:00AM. Anyway, time to plan our next trip, haha. By the way, Lamees, I tried my luck with 2 coffers and guess what, I got 10 elixirs, woot. As for where we started from, ehhh, we started with Gloom.

arcmaster23 · Dec 27, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

Congrats to your team. Even with a well oiled team that is an amazing feat.

Do you recall roughly how many of each gem you got in the whole run?

Maybe armbraces aren't unatainable.

Congrats again.

Kern Wolf · Dec 27, 2006, 03:30 PM // 15:30

Excellent...congrats.
Did your theory bear out, about the drops improving if you did all 4 quests consecutively? If I remember, that's what you thought the pattern might be...

fgarvin · Dec 27, 2006, 05:06 PM // 17:06

Eight hours...if only...my wife won't let me sit in front of my PC for more than two.

Grats on the run.

Cygnus_Zero · Dec 27, 2006, 05:11 PM // 17:11

What is a shard of brilliance?

gul dan · Dec 27, 2006, 05:39 PM // 17:39

it's an item needed to finish the quest Deathbringer Company in Gloom

Stockholm · Dec 27, 2006, 06:22 PM // 18:22

Well done, Nice job figuring it out.

Spadas Datum · Dec 27, 2006, 06:44 PM // 18:44

To answer Arcmaster:

Well, let's see, about 15 torment gems total, at least 20 titan gems, about 30 margonite gems, and about 45 ish stygian gems, and the green weapons and primeval armor, lots of gold from chest as well as monster drops, =) in a run.

MirkoTeran · Dec 27, 2006, 06:59 PM // 18:59

Grats.

ps: take me with you next time!

gul dan · Dec 27, 2006, 07:18 PM // 19:18

i want to go too!!!

wanna make a team? =P

Karlos · Dec 27, 2006, 07:36 PM // 19:36

I personally got 16 gems, 1 Tormented, 3 Titan, 4 Margonite and 8 Stygian.

We started from Gloom because until now we have not found a way to do the quest at the start ("To The Rescue!") without having a serious risk of wiping. So, we do it first so that if we wipe we can start over quick (takes about 15 minutes to try) as opposed to wiping after completing an area or two.

Ideally, we want to start with City, then do Veil, then Gloom and finish with Foundry (to get 4 yummy Titan gems each). But the roadblaock is that quest in the Gloom.

And yes, the theory is not a theory any more. We got 1 Tormented Gem each from the Ravenheart Chest, we got 2 Titan Gems each from the Foundry Chest, we got 3 Margonite Gems each from the Torc'qua Chest and we got 4 Stygian Gems each from the Stygian Chest.

Ras Kass · Dec 27, 2006, 07:51 PM // 19:51

I'm jealous T.T