Gate went well considering I scribbled notes together for it half an hour before showtime. Major congratz on everyone sticking it out and pulling through to success.

I'd like to be more organized with our next target: Scarlet Halls. Like I said with gate, nothing is more valuable than actually doing the instance and learning where we need to be careful and apply extra caution. We will continue to do a practice / scouting run before we do serious attempts.

This is more or less the outline that I'm going with right now for the next run. I welcome feedback / concerns / death threats.

We -will- be bothering to get healthstones for future Challenge Mode events.

Anyways; here is the actual stuff I wanted to post:

Scarlet Halls Start

As soon as the challenge mode begins the feed buckets for the dogs will spawn. Two assigned players will grab the buckets and use them to kill the guys in the way. The human mobs must be tagged by us before the dogs finish ripping them apart in order to count for our kill credit. We do not have to kill the chained-up dogs. They hit very hard so move by them quickly. While the second guy is getting chewed up we will advance to the archery room.

Elapsed should pop his engineering boots, grab a shield, and book it across the room to begin combat. The fire patches launched by the archers will hurt badly but this should be over soon. AoEing the archers down doesn't appear to be a big deal.

After that, there should be two more buckets. Use these to kill more guys; one is down a minor offshoot of the main path that usually gets skipped. We must go kill him. Not a big deal, but something to remember.

Houndmaster Dudeman

Heroism. DO NOT USE A DPS POT ON THIS FIGHT. Dogs need to be controlled via taunting / binding shot / ring of frost / whatever but aren't to be killed. The fight is exactly the same as Heroic except his knife throwing move hurts more. Doesn't seem terrible but it's worth knowing about. Once he dies the remaining dogs attack the gate -- the amount of time it takes the door to collapse it is variable (depending on how many dogs are up to attack it at the end of combat). If you kill the dogs, it will take them an eternity to eat through the door. We want to avoid this.

Through the Armory

The canon section is a massive pain in the ass that we want to avoid completely. Here is where our invis pots come in. I suggest the following method of organizing invis pots: First our pets need to be dismissed because they won't invis with us. Then we will issue a countdown of "3, 2, 1. Stampeding Roar". Once the roar triggers we will all pot and run together to the end of the armory section.

At the end of the armory area is a stairwell leading up to the Armsmaster boss room. We will stop at the stairwell and pull the group behind us (the final pack of mobs in the armory). We need these for our kill counter. Among them is a mob named Scarlet Defender who we will CC. There may be a patrol in that area so our best bet is to pull this pack inside the stairwell and kill them there. I believe there is a mob named (something along the lines of) Scarlet Evangelist. They cast a Holy Fire spell that will one shot you. Stuns, interrupts, ect will be king here.

Additionally there are "Evokers" who will cast a nasty Flamestrike -- it will leave a patch of flame on the ground that will damage you badly if you stand in it. Shouldn't be a huge problem but it is something to be aware of.

Armsmaster Jerkface

Two differences between this and heroic. One, his spinning Blades of Light attack will one shot you if you get picked up. Like, a single damage tic = you die. Two, the adds he summons are beefier. The best way to deal with them is to keep them busy until he uses Blades of Light, then drag them to the top of the stairs that Armsmaster goes up at the start of his Blades path. Before he approaches we can Frost Nova or Binding Shot to bolt them to the floor right in his way. The super Blades of Light damage will obliterate the adds, negating them as a threat. This fight should not be a huge problem.

Route to the Flameweaver

There is one patrol pack in the hallway right before / after Armsmaster. This is perhaps the most dangerous pack in the whole dungeon. There will be more Evangelists that must be interrupted. There will be more Evokers to cast their special Flamestrike. And more Defenders to soak up damage. Best way to handle this would be to CC the problem mobs and LoS the others around the corner back into Armsmaster's room and obliterate them while they are bunched up together. Then pick off the CC'd ones in the hall one at a time.

Inside the treasury are mobs that randomly throw out stuns. We need to be ready to cover for the potential problem of our healer getting stunned. I say we need to be very careful to not overpull here.

The library section is not noteworthy except for the Scholars that put up that protective field. That's simple enough to interrupt and deal with.

Book Burner Douchebag

Heroism again. This fight should not be hard. Most guides suggest allowing your healer to DPS some here so I don't anticipate this being awful. The only change from heroic is that his Book Burner spell will pretty much kill everybody within the blast radius if it is allowed to connect with a bookcase. It is still stupidly easy to intercept by standing in front of the fire line before it reaches the books -- doing so will probably hurt some but doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Otherwise simply zerg him down for our silver medal.