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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rerednaw" data-source="post: 5691926" data-attributes="member: 8902">We tried it for the first time last weekend.  First group was a PUG and made of a melee druid, a melee rogue, my human hunter, and a warlord.  The group was not very experienced and we got bogged down trying to break down the wall and ran out of time due to bad luck (rounds 9-20 were spent trying to break the wall down.)Second group played a pre-made group I had created the other week.  I went with all-humans because I didn't want to fuss with trying to remember all the various race quirks.  I kept it simple: hunter, 2 ranged thieves (superior xbows for the hunter, sbows for the thieves), shaman (elemental), and a warden (earthstrength).  The warden and hunter had at-will slows and the ranged rogues had vicious advantage.  That plus the shaman buffed the party with resist all 5 and granted extra attacks to the rogues.  My hunter scored a kill by proning a flying bat and killing it with falling damage.  One of the thieves scored a crit with his ranged basic for 49 points. By the end of the encounter everyone except the warden got the glory award for not spending a healing surge.  Other than the warden the next most wounded character was down 3 hp from max.  Key elements that made the session go easier:Armor of Sudden Recovery-the DM (who watched me play a character with the same armor in the first session ran the second) did not have the elemental attack us, guess Asmodeus told the monsters about our special armor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Hunter L2 - Bridge of Roots.Shaman Daily Protective Roots (con 20 = resist all 5, until end of encounter.)Half the party had effective ranged attacks. 15(thieves with short bows) 20(hunter with superior xbow).Shaman Spirit of Vigor feat (free temps when spirit summoned).I think we killed the boss on round 12 or so...we were going to then try to get the rest of the doors/monsters for the glory points but we didn't know the game ended with the boss being dropped.If we had not had the armor, the majority of the party would have been bloodied.  But considering that between our shaman, healing pots, and other items we have about 12 surges worth of healing we still would have made it.  Bridge of roots also helped, but half the party already had a climb speed with an at-will so it ended up almost being redundant.  We don't know what the secret glory awards are so we're going to try a few other runs, but overall I did not find it to be that bad a run provided you have a organized group.</blockquote>

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