So, I led a raid for the second time tonight. This time, we to cleared the Taskmasters in a hurry and proceeded to make it to the gladiator pits and clearing two of them before running out of time.

Here is my question:

The first time we freed three prisoners and the prison guard popped. This started a 1 hour timer and we lost, appropriately, an hour later.

This time we did not free the three prisoners but again started a 1 hour timer on reaching the gladiator pits and lost an hour later.

Is there any way around these 1 hour timers?

No

You did it right the first time, just need to be quicker on the second half of the raid.

So, if we manage to make it to the gladiator pits before the first one hour timer expires, it will be replaced with a second one hour timer?

Come on...this is not an earthshattering spoiler.

I just would like to know if one timer overwrites the second or it does not make a difference.

Edit: I will even throw in an idea I had and you can comment on that.

What I was planning on doing is killing the taskmasters and then moving in and fighting down to the gladiator pits. I would start clearing the pits, thus starting the one hour timer. After about 45 minutes, I would head back up to the prison, free the guards, and kill the Prison Guard. This would start the second one hour timer. I would then head back down, and finish clearing the pits.

This would give me 1:45 to clear the pits, rather than only one hour. Edited by: BoldarBloodKB at: 12/9/03 9:43 am

I'm pretty sure there is only 1 timer, no matter what you do to start it. Once it is started, you have 1 hour to complete the rest of the event.

Then why have two timers if you need to do both to win the raid anyways?