Author: Zaph

The Outer Brood – BETA

Post author By Zaph
Post date October 16, 2024

Its October, and its beta time.

Once again this year, AOU was invited to assist with Beta raiding for the new expansion – The Outer Brood.

Our first raid, extremely early on into Beta testing (just a few days after it opening) was headed again by the nice guy of DPG Devs – Ngreth.

Our turnout was good this year, and Ngreth informed us that the event we would be testing would be the entry level raid of the expansion.The raid named “Herald of the Outer Brood”, set in Hodstock Hills, designed by Absor (as it seems are most raids this expansion) features some new graphical NPC models unique to this expansion.

In the quick heads up about what we might expect, the boss was described as an “Angel” model, so I was expecting a classic catholic blonde Adonis with big old feathery wings…. However….

Being a educated man, I recognised this flying nightmare for what it is, and top marks to the art team for producing this thing, an actual angel.

The event itself was perhaps slightly easy, but being this early into the testing I expect Absor to change a few aspects of it, otherwise it was pretty much ready to go out the box with most things working as intended.

From what ive seen so far, I really like the new creatures, and looking forward to our next Beta encounters.

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Laurions Song Tier 3

Post author By Zaph
Post date March 19, 2024

<- Bonus Anniversary content also ->

But before we address the Anniversary trashheap, we get to pour over the final 3 events of the current expansion – Laurions Song.

The first event we beat of the three was the one we covered the most in beta testing with Ngreth.

I skipped leg day when it came to reading up on the lore of this event, but its something along the lines of “we went for a walk and met an ogre army, lead by Captain Kar”

A lot goes on, but it seemed an easier one to learn.

The next event is the one with the big spider and some nutty elf.

I am sure the lore on this is interesting also, let me know.

I’m part of the team that deals with a weird mechanic in this, which seems very unneeded, but unusual.

I love the spider part, and the other bits before that.

But the final phase of the event is a colossal mass of crap, not very visual and just happens.

The final event of the expansion we tackled is, in my opinion anyway the hardest, and by quite a bit.

The spell effect does give a satisfying loony toons bullseye which I captured quite by chance, which is probably the most positive thing I can say about this raid, not my favourite.

But that’s it, Laurions Song completed, overall, quite a fun expansion, nothing spectacular, but far more enjoyable than some other more recent ones.