The fall of the Shinning Way

So, today, we had the very first fortress take on the Phoenix Throne server. Whether legit or not Destro took the Shinning Way. Many sieges, I sat and seen the fort lord reset to the bottom floor, and many times I’ve seen order assault him and loose. The same thing happened to Destro, but first, the whole story.

I joined up with the group for main tanking the lord. We had outstanding leadership. Our assault was strong and hard. We pushed through the doors and pushed up to the lord in minutes. Me and three others were swapping the lord amongst ourselves tanking it. Although I’m guessing it updated slow for me, I seen it at 60%, others said we had it at 50% before some random reset. We quickly taunted it back, and started in again. The second attempt we got it to 60% before it randomly reset again. We taunted again. With each reset and pull, it would fire off an AoE that would thin our numbers even more than the last.

I died at about 90%, but the other tanks and DPS managed to get it to below 80% before order showed up and finished us off. Destro regrouped and pushed in two groups. I was not there yet, but I picked up what happened from guildies in that push on vent. The first group was pushing up to the order shield wall when the Fort lord spawned on the bottom floor with the champs in the middle of the second group. They had order behind them and a Fort lord in the middle that AoE’ed then started attacking. The second group rushed down, and dropped the lord. Many didn’t even know that the lord had spawned amongst them, and even if they did, it was them vs the lord and order, only other option was to die. The second group was also being pushed down by order in hopes to stop Destro from killing him. In the end, it was a victory, bittersweet as we should have had it earlier, on better terms.

Now the kicker is, on the Alliance forums, order players that I have seen attacking the fort lord on the bottom floor (see, it is a fairly common occurrence, even for keep lords), crying that Desto purposely exploited him. Jealousy that Desto was the first? Or that they could never do it? Dunno, but, but there was no exploiting involved.

Now that leaves the question, should Destro give it up, should the devs reset it, or should Destro halt on the next fortress assault? I feel the win was deserved. All’s fair in love and WAR!