Quests: Trial By Ice (Shiva Prime)

Saturday night, we decided to tackle another one of the prime avatar fights (our fight with Garuda is the only other one Grym, Kiki, and Elbo had done). We had Kiki PLD69, Grym THF69, Elbo BRD69, Itera MNK69, and Wendell WHM67. Wendell's in the process of collecting whispers for his Moon Bauble, and could only fight Ramuh, Shiva, and Garuda. He needs Ramuh twice, so we thought that would be a good one. Unfortunately, Itera was a bit lacking in fame in Mhaura and wasn't able to get the Tuning Fork of Lightning. So we opted for Shiva.

There wasn't really anyone available to recruit for the sixth spot, but we figured we'd be fine with just the five of us. Wendell gave us a Teleport-Vhazl, and we ran and ran and ran and ran to Fei'Yin and the Cloister of Ice. Elbo and Wendell got their macros set for Ice Carol and Barblizzara, while we waited a few minutes for Fireday. Then we ate our food, buffed up, and headed in. We had decided to fight up top, since Wendell was the only mage in the group (rather than bring Shiva down the ramp and have Wendell up above the fight), so Kiki ran up to the top, provoked Shiva and got into position for the fight.

Things went quite well until we got her down below 50% and she hit us with her first Diamond Dust, just as Grym was about to close our light skillchain, and Elbo was about to re-sing Ice Carol, with Soul Voice active this time. Grym and Elbo were both hit for about 1350 damage, which is several hundred more than their max HP. The rest of us took less than 200 damage each, and we continued the fight and won, thanks to Itera's 100 Fists. Kiki at least was pretty well drained of MP by the time we were done. The fight took just over 6 minutes, and aside from the deaths, it was fun to fight our second avatar.

Wendell's R2s for Elboron and Grymalkyn eased the sting of death a bit, and we headed to San d'Oria for our reward. Itera chose Shiva's Claws, with +attack and a paralysis effect that seems to process quite a bit, while Elbo, Grym and Kiki got their pact with Shiva. We headed out to Ronfaure to play around with them for a bit before turning in for the night.

New title: Heir of the Great Ice