Elder Scrolls Online: When your guild goes completely mad, pt. 2

Exactly one year ago we did a lowbie run of Sanctum Ophidia. This year we decided to do the whole thing again, but up the stakes. Level 5-6 characters in Maw of Lorkhaj, which is generally accepted to be one of the most difficult trials (raids) in the game.

I kind of wanted to try dd-ing again, but I have the most experience healing Maw of Lorkhaj even on veteran (hardmode). In the end all the healer spots were taken so I signed up as dd. Upping the stakes once more as I chose a class I haven't had anything at all to do with before: Dragonknight.

The day finally arrived two days ago and we grouped up and went to MoL. Hilarity ensued almost immediately as half the group had forgotten to add the Mundus buff as well as forgotten to bring pots, buff food and soul gems. With that sorted out we started the trial. It demanded more attention than it usually does on normal, but most of us in the group had veteran experience of MoL and it was way easier than veteran. Still, we decided to go through the trial using as much veteran mechanics and tactics as possible, which helped quite a bit.

We completed Maw of Lorkhaj with only two wipes, which feels pretty alright for a mainly social guild doing a lowbie run for Christmas funzies.

Maw of Lorkhaj was completed in 1½ hours and so we decided to do a quick run of Aetherium Archives as well. That one is quick and easy even on veteran and it was quick and easy even on a level 7 character. Would've been faster if all of us could've just left the bookshelves alone :P

So after Aetherium Archives two of us had to leave but most of us wanted to do an experiment. In the newest trial Cloudrest there is a boss that requires bar-swapping as to not kill your whole group. But since we were level 7-8 and bar-swapping is unlocked at level 15... we simply wanted to find out if we would simply just wipe at this boss or if something different would happen. So we went to Cloudrest with our diminished group and tried out the boss. Funny thing! The bar-swapping mechanic simply didn't happen! So our diminished group killed the boss and then we decided that we might as well complete Cloudrest as well.

So two of us went to Craglorn to recruit the last two people. We said nothing about us being lowbies or that it being a special run. Just that we needed two more dds for nCR. Their reactions were hilarious! But they stayed with us and helped us clear Cloudrest, which was done very quickly.

So now we all have a level 10 character that has completed three trials! xD

Some streamed the event and some recorded it, so here's Luke's video: