GLOCKGLOCK said:
I think you might be one of the few west coasters here. Did it save the checkpoint? I looked at the website and it still shows my progress in both raids and my vanguard marks from last week. Did it even reset or does it normally take a while to show up? Also did they sneak in Iron Banner? It is showing as the Live event on the website.
So, yeah, no one was on so I lost my checkpoint. I jumped out at around 1:15 (and by the way saw the Iron Banner notice immediately when I went back to orbit at that point). Then I went back in and I was at the start. I wonder if I should have triggered the Oracles and then died and maybe that would have kept it but probably not.
BUT... All is not lost. I went into my level 30 Titan character and sat in the Tower hoping maybe I could find someone to do Nightfall. Instead I got invited into a group doing Hard Raid. They were a group that has run it 6 or 7 weeks and were missing a member so they invited me since I had a maxed Ghallajorn (and was level 30). Most of them were 29.
Anyway, it took us THREE hours to get past the conflux portion to get to the Oracle checkpoint. After about half that time some of the other guys switched to their level 30 characters (since there are no rewards from the confluxes anyway). Then they switched back and I also switched to my Hunter. So I have the Oracle checkpoint back on my Titan.
We did the Oracles/Templar super quick and I got yet another Fatebringer (my third in like 4 days). I also got ascendant energy which I guess was my "normal" reward. I can tell you that these guys were doing it strictly for Raid gear drops and they were pretty sure Hard mode gave you he normal+hard chances.
Then we managed to get through the Gatekeeper/Relic portal portion after another hour or so. At some point the game froze on me (first time that's ever happened actually) and when I came back in I used my Warlock. So I think I have the Gatekeeper save on my Hunter, though it might have been after that I'm not sure.
In any case, we got through that and it was like 5:30 AM and we were on Atheon. We were not able to finish that before me and some others had to leave. So I have the Atheon checkpoint on my Warlock. At first the party leader was trying some trick where people jump off at various times and it is supposed to freeze Atheon so the remaining people can kill him. We couldn't get that to work. Then we tried pushing him off the front and we came agonizingly close.
So, Gotdott, I think with our Warlocks we can do that so we should definitely try for that some time this week. Here is a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9RNKBnvVw
Anyway, Hard mode was so agonizing at the confluxes that I am looking forward to breezing through the Raid on Normal with you guys. Then maybe afterwards we can do the Atheon push and the oracles/Templar. I want to do Atheon first since that is on my Warlock who I also want to do oracles/Templar with and I'll lose that checkpoint if we do it in the other order.
We should also probably pass some of these checkpoints to peoples alternates this evening too just in case.