Have you done Domain of Anguish HM?

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

I'm just curious if anyone finished it out there and has a screen shot. I'm even more interested if you did it before Ursan's Blessing, I'd love to see that. I've never actually did DoA, but want to eventually.

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

Just Mallyx himself and not the four generals with consumables + SY. Clearing the four areas without Ursan would be foolish.

Qwertyfied

Qwertyfied

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Ireland

DVDF

E/

I cleared DoA HM many times prior to Ursan, doubt i have screens though. I'm sure lots of others did too however.

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

Got all five of my characters to it, but I've never done it... even in Normal Mode.

No... technically, I've been in the City part NM, but we died thanks to a very "must complain about everyone" attitude of a group leader.

Alleji

Alleji

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

I tried DoA on the day it came out, failed a couple times and haven't zoned into the outpost since.

Gimmicky "run this build or die" areas ftl.

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

The only way I would ever be able to do this mission is with an Ursan team. It says on Wiki at least rank 6+ in lb and norn.

Daenara

Daenara

Bad Romance

Join Date: May 2006

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Grand Matron

Mo/

I've done HM four area runs in DoA heaps of times before Ursan come out, but that was with the old tank n spank build.

kooomar

kooomar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

Pow Pow Pow [myau]

Mo/E

Christ, DoA fails, never do it. I did it just to get my vanquisher of DoA thingy in my HoM. The groups you get there (unless you KNOW someone) are utterly worthless. Heres my DoA annoyed story.

3 monks, 5 ursan, im a monk
monk a goes afk, then eventually leaves, we carry on
monk b goes afk, then says sorry, with 5 minutes left, 5!!!!!!!
monk c (me) wants to shoot myself in the face as the 5 ursans continue to aggro everything like theres 3 monks. 27 casts of rebirth later, we finish the zone and they ask if we should go to the next zone. I leave.

kazjun

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

HoVa

W/N

The above happens more than you like, but at least you finished the zone. Used to be that you had next to no hope getting a group unless you could tank and spank and the associated support (bonders, necros) or went guild group. Otherwise, you were guarenteed that any pug that started would get pwned about 2 minutes in and the QQing would start.

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by kooomar
Christ, DoA fails, never do it. I did it just to get my vanquisher of DoA thingy in my HoM. The groups you get there (unless you KNOW someone) are utterly worthless. Heres my DoA annoyed story.

3 monks, 5 ursan, im a monk
monk a goes afk, then eventually leaves, we carry on
monk b goes afk, then says sorry, with 5 minutes left, 5!!!!!!!
monk c (me) wants to shoot myself in the face as the 5 ursans continue to aggro everything like theres 3 monks. 27 casts of rebirth later, we finish the zone and they ask if we should go to the next zone. I leave.
You just summed it up! That was spectacular. You literally nailed what I totally forgot about.

la_cabra_de_vida

la_cabra_de_vida

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Great Soviet California!

Deputy Glitter's Shoe Squad [ghey]

Me/

Use the famine ranger, 600, smiter build. Can do most parts in hm and yields more drops.

AJD

AJD

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

ME

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by kooomar
Christ, DoA fails, never do it. I did it just to get my vanquisher of DoA thingy in my HoM. The groups you get there (unless you KNOW someone) are utterly worthless. Heres my DoA annoyed story.

3 monks, 5 ursan, im a monk
monk a goes afk, then eventually leaves, we carry on
monk b goes afk, then says sorry, with 5 minutes left, 5!!!!!!!
monk c (me) wants to shoot myself in the face as the 5 ursans continue to aggro everything like theres 3 monks. 27 casts of rebirth later, we finish the zone and they ask if we should go to the next zone. I leave.
That is pretty much every ursan pug group in DoA. Every group I get into is the same.

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by AJD
That is pretty much every ursan pug group in DoA. Every group I get into is the same.
It's a hate it or love it situation. What are your feelings?

Xx_Sorin_xX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

W/

I particularly enjoy the ursan who says he has consumables, only to find out 30 minutes later that I was the only one to bring consumables - the others lied so they could find a group. I did it twice in NM..im never going again.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

DoA HM sorts the men from the boys.

Martin Alvito

Martin Alvito

Older Than God (1)

Join Date: Aug 2006

Clan Dethryche [dth]

Like most elite mission areas, it's fine if you have a group of experienced, trustworthy players. And it's usually epic fail with a PUG.

HA and GvG are the same way. Why should DoA be any different?

Witchblade

Witchblade

Polar Bear Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

Never been there, still need the statue

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

Domain of what?

lol nope don't know exactly where it is. i think somewhere at the end of nightfall.

kobey

kobey

GW Retiree

Join Date: Nov 2005

Sg Unknown [KATE]

W/

Tried it for fun on the day DOA was introduced, never been there after since. (other than to craft hero armor or exchange for torment weapons)

HawaiiGamer

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Desolation Lords [DL]

I use to do DoA lots back when it was still the new hotness (back when Titan gems were 100k/ea). Back then the environmental effects were always present. This was before hard mode. I've only been in there a few times since ursan came out and then I think we were in normal mode. Since the gems are so cheap now it really doesn't pay to do a "4-run" like it did before. Man, I miss those 500k guaranteed profit runs!

MirkoTeran

MirkoTeran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Slovenia

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/

I did it only once. I'm not sure its worth doing it now considering the gem prices.

cebalrai

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2007

Mature Gaming Association

Me/E

Yes I've done DoA HM once with an all-Ursan party.

It was a breeze. Ursan took all the challenge out of it.

pkodyssey

pkodyssey

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

In a cardboard box with Internet

The Order of the Frozen Tundra (TofT)

N/

Yeah!

DoA with Ursan once. It was easy, but the energy drain in City was annoying. The 8 Titans at the end was nice. I finally got an Armbrace which now sits in my vault. I should sell it.

Gun Pierson

Gun Pierson

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Belgium

PIMP

Mo/

I did foundry and the city the first week when DoA got released, before they adjusted DoA for the masses. Those days were hard and we failed at veil and gloom. Took 8 hours to do one area. Trapper teams were popular for doing veil back then.

DoA nowadays is easy compared to the original version (without ursan and cons). Now we steamroll full run DoA in HM within a few hours.

It may be interesting to do it at least once, so you know what people talk about.

zamial

zamial

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2006

Usa

TKC

N/

Yes I have done doa in nm and hm with and without ursan.
I am done with wretched NF and have no need or desire to ever take a toon there.

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

I finished DoA twice on normal, once on both of my 'good' characters, to unlock the monument. I have no intention of ever going there again, much less on HM. The place has no entertainment value for me whatsoever.

Blayza Baygo

Blayza Baygo

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2008

Reign of Judgement

E/A

Full DoA run in HM takes about two and a half hours. Hardest part is the city cause it drains 2 energy per attack or skill usage. We made it through with little to no problems. and got an assload of gems. I am vanquishing and i do doa only to get elixirs of valor and to sell mini mallyx's ive made a ton of money.

romeus petrus

romeus petrus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Urgoz Warren

Legion of Doom [LOD] Home of PWNZILLA http://PWNZILLA.guildlaunch.com

Done many times before ursans in HM when it used to pay well.

Now we do full guild teams quad runs in HM using ursans on a regular basis (1-2 times a week). A guaranteed 24 gems per each full HM run is still worth it even with this economy.

Screens here.

Saint Troy

Saint Troy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

LowLifeScum.:LLS:. MultiGamingClan

Random Factors Aligned [RFA]

Haven't even completed it in normal, let alone hard - never had the patience for it, and have too many other, more fun, things in the game still to do.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

nope not even in NM....though would really like to get the armor thing for my heroes, not a very good player and I dont do ursan so that leaves me playing with my h/h team usually.

El Presidente

El Presidente

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lookout Post #1, Andes Mountains

Custer Was Ganked [7th]

R/

Yes, in both Ursan and non...though I enjoyed the challenge completing it with a non-Ursan group.

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

Done it in NM a lot of times... but I've never succeeded in a HM run, sadly. All the failed runs were due to people who are afraid of the slightest "challenge" (I use quotation marks because with a decent group it's probably nowhere near hard) and people who ragequitted/AFKed in order to NOT use their cons set.

EDIT: Another HM run failed... oveaggro in Foundry after taking more than 10 minutes to recover from an overspawn of Earth Tormentors in Gloom 'cause two guys couldn't follow calls to save their lives. Meh.

Thizzle

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2008

Thank you all for contributing. People have said it has no entertainment value, but to me the entertainment is that it's considered elite, new to me, and end of the game.

The Meth

The Meth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

Lots of people did DoA before PvE skills, but AFAIK it was all lame tank and nuke strategies which take a year and a day to finish the area and are boring as hell. If you really want to do it, ursan is a faster gimmick. DoA gems are worthless now anyways.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

did HM once in the old days
the veil LB farm was popular then
but in ursan no

Sword Liger

Sword Liger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

London

Valendra's Kingdom [VK]

W/E

To be honest, doing DoA HM with ursan team isn't really worth it. Sure you get double drop rate of gems from the chests. But you need to have a really good team of ursans who know how to chain knock downs and keep a wall up to prevent enemies reaching your backline of 3 HB Monks. Doing Foundry and Stygian Veil are a nightmare if your with unexperienced of chaining these attacks. Save yourself time and stick to NM which is easier, takes less time and requires less concentration.

HayesA

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Pennsylvania

E/

I did the City once with my famine Ranger when she was in the height of the crashing Stygian Vale gem price wars. How she got Holy Lightbringer; by doing solo, or group, Stygian Vale trapping runs. Oh how I miss those days, I can still remember spamming town trying to sell Stygian Gems at a decent 2k price. Then 1.5k. Then 500g, and eventually pleading with people just to take em off my hands. :-O

NuclearDope

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Back when it first came out i did a full clear of Stygian Veil with a group of rangers. was one of the most fun times i've ever had in GW, mainly because the whole group was fairly new to it. took us a long time to do but i wasn't bored once. after that i had hopes of other areas but by that time they were starting the whole tank n spank LB (8) groups so i was kinda out of luck.

I still hope to do it some day eventually, as i kinda have an elite mission obsession but looks like it will have to be with Ursan sadly.

IslandHermet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

I have done DoA in every way you can think of (had success with some odd builds and have had some not so successful attempts)

pre ursan HM doa was something I never liked to do useing the oby tank crap (6 hours in a area is no fun even if 1 hour is all restroom,smoke,drink breaks its still to much time)

the profit back in the day when gems could go for 50-100k was beautitful.

now I will only DoA with ursan or guildie team (no ursan and no cookie cutter builds) the times are still up in the air about which is faster.

I have had 1 and a half hour runs with ursan (useing cons) and I have had 1 and a half hour runs without ursan the only difference is with ursan I can be drunk (in real life) and not have to care about messing up. but without ursan I can not be as drunk and have to focus more on what we are doing.



I would post screens but im on my work comp. when I get home I will search for them.

Gregslot

Gregslot

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Me/

Playing drunk is awsome!
Well, doing everything is more awsome!

But it also has its side effects, i CANT interrupt while drunk. It just wont happen.
"Ok-kay, im going to interrupt that Metor Shower... wich interrupt i was going to use anyways? AH-HA! CRY OF PAIN! TAKE THAT Y... sh%#, meteor shower is on me... f@#%... third hit already?! Heal?!... Wait a sec... how come i didint add a monk?"
And that is why i never play alone while im drunk.

Im going to try DoA drunk today.
Ill tell you tomorrow, or while drunk.