So there's two things before the Warpriest…

Because we didn't notice the sync plates, we explored all over the side of the room for what must have been a half an hour at least. We left Old Fire Thief up there in the door to see what would happen. Half of us left, completed the jumping puzzle again to get back to the tombship, then while I was spectating Zero, I noticed the sync plates. Facepalm. We activated, the door activated, Thief walked though.

"There's a chest here."

Then we spent about 2 minutes figuring out how we would all get it, which was absurdly simple as well, and we got moldering whatevers, except for Battymatt who was so tired of that raid already by then he quit caring and skipped the chest.

That stuff aside... wow. WOW. What an amazing night! This was my first time going into a raid totally blind, with an equally blind group. I'm so glad I got to experience it with you guys. I had so much fun!

LOVE the new raid so far. Perfectly captures the feeling of going on a journey or adventure together. Each set piece so far is just great. Love the flow of it, too. Plenty of action, but lots of quiet stretches. Loved every single moment.

Is it Sunday yet?

God the whole raid had me feeling like a tool. Even the tombships confused me.

Did not know that. Hot damn that would have been useful. We thought it was a straight-up DpS race. Had no idea you could extend the timer

The person with the buff will notice 2 new things on their HUD:

* A countdown timer that starts at 10 seconds
* A ticker that is set to "5"

The countdown is telling you how long you have until your buff runs out. But the person with the buff can reset the timer by killing an add. You can only do this a limited number of times. That's what the ticker is for: it tells you how many more times you can reset the timer before the buff goes away.

So the person with the buff wants to let their timer get as low as possible, then kill an add to reset the timer. Their ticker will go from 5 to 4. Do this again. Ticker goes from 4 to 3. Repeat, etc.

The other mechanic in play is that if the person with the buff dies, the buff gets passed to another player. They start with a fresh 10 second timer, but moving the buff does seem to remove from your ticker count. So keeping everyone alive is ideal, but if someone dies it's not a total write off.

Crew B got to the first boss. We just felt like we couldn't do enough damage, so we decided to go try to level up more.

Combine Nightstalker supers with Weapons of light. Use Snipers. Make sure you keep the buff as long as you can by killing something with 1 or 2 seconds left.