Well its been a damn long 10 days or so. For those of you who live under a rock there is a rather nasty Worm running about the place that uses a Microsoft exploit to attack its victims. NAI says that within 3 hours of it becoming known to them they had seen it on 5000 servers, within 24 hours it had affected 250,000 machines they were aware of. The reason I am telling you this?, well sometime in the last 2 years I became the default Anti Virus guy for my company, so this whole issue has management panicked and keeping me really busy. However happy to say not a single virus has managed to make it through our systems.
That's why I am really, really late with this update. If I get the order of kills wrong or otherwise stuff it up, well the mistakes are all mine.
First up was last Monday. This was an "Impromptu raid" so we only had 71 level 65's in the raid and 1 level 64. It was a very disappointing turn out *grin* <--- Sarcasm by the way for those who have a problem recognizing it. A very, very quick run to Akheva Ruins and a fast drop of the Itraer Vius (a question was asked "Is he hard?", I nearly went blue from laughing so hard.)
After ganking and then abusing the corpse of the IV it was on to our old friend Shei Vinitras. I used to sit and dribble about the PhatLewtz on Shei, now I own pretty much all of it!. Is Shei a he or a she?, I've never been too sure. He is still a damn fun kill tho, especially when I get to kite off some adds, snare, run, summon, *smack*, run, summon, *smack* hehehe it's fun.
After the ease at which we blew thru the caverns we decided to have a go at something really hard. Agnarr was up, so we all headed over to the Bastion Of Thunder. This time the 85/15 thing worked and we actually managed to get the non flagged into the zone. Now after the mess we made of this last time I was a little apprehensive, but a comment was made in the Necro channel "Last time I did this with Unity it took just over an hour, we will take ages". So this time I started a timer as soon as the first MOB was engaged.
Of course the first name to go down was Evynd Firestorm.
This swine resists Funeral Pyre and for no other reason do I hate him. We dropped him fast, with a little rezzing and reorganization we powered up to the second level. I don't know what Mr Emmerick Skyfury is like for other classes but for Nec's he is one of the "fun" kills. I basically get to LOAD him with DOT's. I switch out all other spells and just load him up and do what a Nec is supposed to do, massive damage.
He fell over like a Girlie at schoolies. I don't think we even managed to sacrifice a Pally. So it was quickly up to the 3rd level. Now this is were we came unstuck last time, I needn't have worried, we were on Form!!. Gateways were downed in rapid succession by the Wizzies, adds were off tanked (Go the Pallies!) and the rest of us just savaged Jolur Sandstorm!
Agnarr's ass was parked against the wall, after a really fast round of rebuffs we engaged and just GANKED the bastard. Of course there is the little matter of a few adds that spawn while killing Agnarr. Not a problem for Genosin the Uber Shadow Knight!!.
51 minutes from first zone entry to the death of Agnarr and That's including about 10 minutes of dicking around.
The real raid was on Tuesday night and we went straight at Rallos Zek in the Plane of Tactics. Hopes were high after the performance the night before. The initial run was a little rocky, partially our fault with a few silly mistakes being made, but due largely to the damn buggy script again. We zoned in, killed all the yard trash and gathered the triggers.
We get into position, drop the triggers and in comes Tallon Zek.
Gimp Boy
He died efficiently and in rapid succession we had Vallon incoming.
Unfortunately due to a bit of confusion amongst the off tanks and some weird pathing on the pull, he came with about 5 friends. A quick wipe, a quick reform ( Talionis spies were hanging about the place ) and back to the triggers again.
Soon to be dead trigger MOB
Tallon Again
Vallon Again
The second time round the whole sequence took about half the time of the first. People calmed themselves, we had our little shake down run and we were ready for Rallos.
We made it up to the fake Rallos room and pulled him.
Back to the ZI and down into the pit for the real fight. Rallos Zek the Warlord is INCOMING!!
This was one of those fights that just balanced on a razors edge. If one or two things had gone our way we would have taken him. Unfortunately those things went the way of Rallos and at 2% health we wiped, We really wanted to be the first guild to drop him on our first run. That honor will have to go to some other guild unfortunately. But the fact we got him to 2% puts him on the "not yet, but soon" list. The night we got Rydda'Dar to his death walk but we wiped, we knew the MOB was definitely killable by us. Rallos Zek the Warlord will die to Southern Armada and soon.
To make up for the disappointment of Rallos, the Lewt Gods smiled down on us and the Emperor Ssraeshza was up and good to go for a third round with SA on Friday. A quick run to Ssraeshza Temple and a little quiet key farming on the third floor we zoned into the Emperors chambers...
Prepped...
and nailed the Emperor.
To quote our illustrious leader <---- NOT sarcasm, there will be a test on this later so I hope you are paying attention.
"Well it certainly felt like pharming to me...well timed, lavish pharming."
The Emperor has definitely gone on to the "Farmable's" list and will be providing us with the PhatLewtz for many moons to come. There was much other killing this week, BOT Tower bosses, the XTC fell to our power and several others I wasn't around for. As I said at the top of this missive, this week was rather busy and being on training Wed-Fri meant I kind of needed to be vaguely awake in class, so I dropped out a bit early for a couple of the kills.
However a screen shot of the Plane of Fire was promised. It's only the zone in but hey it's a Screenie :)
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