Greetings Fellow Inquisitors-
Up until last night, the best gaming fight I had ever had was doing PvP during Star Wars Galaxies. The imps raids my guilds home town and me and this one guy went at, both of us almost dying multiple times, for almost 20 minutes. In PvP, 5 minutes is a long a battle! But last night beat even that.
I completed the Red Templar quest on the Storm Coast when I notice a little boat, so ok, cool- lets see where that boat might take me and my inner circle of warriors. My main is a KE mage, plus I had Blackwell, Cass and Varic. Im level 17, they are all level 16. We had 10 of 12 healing pots left, Cass had 4 Regen (tier one, no upgrades), Varic had one Regen pot, Blackwell had 3 and I had 3 healing mist grenades which have like a 30% failure rate, Ive noticed.
Low and behold, we end up facing a level 19 High Dragon and it was on like Donkey Kong. The lovely beast dropped Varic instantly. He never got into the fight. Not sure why. He has almost a 50% crit rate, so maybe that is why she targeted him so early. I probably should have held him back until Cass had good aggro.
So it was my KE who was hitting for 2 to 2.5K, once over 3K by combining the cloak ring with KE cloaking. The three of us all stayed rather healthy and got her down to about 50% health. We bleed heavily one of her legs. Then all of sudden, things started going south. My KE has an amulet, EPIC, Kitty something or other, that I didnt get the value of until that fight. The dragon started jumping around a lot so I could keep my barrier up for myself. I must have died 4-5 times and that amulet would pop me back to life with 50% health. Unfortunately, this resulted in me burning through lots of pots. By the time I ran out of amulet timing (you have to stay alive a certain amount of time or it wont rez ya), this is where I stood:
I had never, in any of the DA's played a tank or warrior character, so no time like the present to learn! LOL Blackwell did well, but he never got anywhere near the numbers my KE was getting. The best would be like 600-700 damage, most being in the 100s and 200s. But he and Cass lasted some time whittling the majestic beast down. To frame this, the battle up until my mage died - had gone on for about 25 minutes, that slow but, as you could see, a fair amount of damage. But once the mage went bye bye, progress was painful and slow. I had to pause countless times because my hand was in SO MUCH PAIN. At one point, the dragon jumped to an area and Blackwell briefly got stuck on a tree stump. Thats all it took, he started taking on some heavy damage and eventually, he too, went bye bye- resulting in this:
What you're not seeing is my foe was down to 20% health and Cass had 4 regen pots. So I thought, I can do this. Cass fought a very long time, countless armor resets, and whittled him down to 10% health. But in the end, she ran out of regen and so, the dragon with just 10% health dropped Cass. The total fight time was just under 80 fracking minutes, EIGHTY!!!
I think we've all had moments when a game transcends being a game and in that moment, I didn't get angry. My respect for the dragon only rose AND I felt like in my little world of make believe, I had truly fought a dragon. Games rarely rise to the level of execution. Its a battle I will never forget.







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