Pumping Irony

I’ve been distracted with Guild Wars this weekend, so didn’t notice that my server of Thelanis won the Race to the Subterranean to open the new raid in DDO’s Module 7, The Subterrane, housed under the ruins where the Marketplace Bazaar once stood.

That goes a long way in explaining why I was unable to find any low-mid level groups last week, yet the server was quite active! Speculators were giving Sarlona the edge because that server has a reputation as being home to many a power-gamer, whereas Thelanis is viewed as the unofficial role-playing server. Apparently the Sarlonians were too busy power-leveling their new monks to raid, and Thelanis took the lead and unlocked the new raid on Friday! Congrats to my fellow Thelanians, and I hope to some day join the ranks in those raids.

My understanding of the Race to the Subterranean is that it was similar to WoW’s War Effort to open the gates of Ahn’Qiraj. Where WoW took donation of crafted items and such, DDO had tokens in each of the prior raids. Players on each server raided, collected tokens and turned them in to count towards opening the Subterrane on their server. I’m not sure what time frame Turbine had in mind for this event, but Thelanis pulled it off in three days! That’s a crazy amount of raiding, folks!

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