Welcome to T4, new Destro. Now DIE!
OMG Tier 2 was not happening at all on Skull Throne. Riamin instead checked Gorfang and for once, there was a significant Destro force running around. Woo!
But just as we logged in, we found our alliance warband was leaving the zone. Boo! They said there were too many Destro to fight. It makes me wonder if any of them remember how we fought when the server was new, Destro was overpopulated and Order was demoralized?
My bright idea to attack them when they were in the tunnel didn’t go as well as I planned. Instead we rushed to the north keep to take it. We waited for a minute or so, and once I thought they were well on their way to Gromril Junction, we started in on the door.
The Destro took Gromril Junction and we continued working on the door, sweating as the timer on the battlefield objective ticked down. Meanwhile I was trying to get the alliance warband to return. They showed up when the door was about 10 percent and we started in on the second door (at this point the keep flagged for the first time. Bug maybe?).
We took the keep. Destro finally showed up and basically stopped dead. I noticed a slew of names I had never seen before, and it seemed most of them had just arrived in T4. They got wiped at the north keep and we pressed south to Dolgrund’s Cairn, wiping Destro as we went. I ordered my WB to press on the south keep, while the alliance warband stayed to get the BO.
A quick note: Destro had at least two warbands, although the members were rather low level. We had Blazeric’s full WB and my three groups, plus a few stragglers here and there.
Once we bashed down the two doors, we set up under the lord room. My oh my they had a lot of Sorcs!
We wiped twice or three times to the Destro at this keep. I will admit the two warbands did not communicate as well as we could have. Charges, for instance, were sometimes announced in shout instead of region. Shout has a limited range. I also strongly suspect that the other warband did not have enough healers, or that the healers died first for some reason. I say this because my warband’s two groups that had two healers each all lived until the other warband died, then my warband was eventually wiped as well.
Oh well, live and learn. It was the first time I’d RVRd with my Archmage in at least two weeks. I was glad to be on her again. I also thank the Order for listening to me. I hope you all don’t think FotF has abandoned you. Far from it. We just want to give Destro a fighting chance so they will fight us another day.
Despite wiping so many times, I still had a blast. I hope Destro did too 
Tags: keep defense, keep siege, RVR