And the lord of the Phat Lewtz Looked down and he sayeth:
"The devoted mendicants of Southern Armada have sacrificed many Pallies and allowed the death of many many Shammies, thus I shall reward them!"
Ssraeshza Temple crashed minutes before the raid was due to start. *BIG Evil Grin!*
I'm not sure why, but for some reason Alltear was very very happy during the Ssra raid, maybe it was the positioning of Laurwen?. I knew there had to be SOME advantage to being that short.
Raid was called and of course we all headed straight for the Temple. First target was the Emperor. Kez says "Bring me Snakes" and we did. Straight in, no muss, no fuss, dead snake.
As you do during a raid, we were discussing the physical attributes of the fairer members of the species and wondering whether Halle Berry or Lucy Liu's forward weapons were in fact real. The conversation was on a reasonable level right up until this popped up out of nowhere!.
Simis gets the official title of most Politically Incorrect lizard in the guild!!. I just about fell off my chair laughing at that!.
A quick run downstairs and I completely failed to get screen shots of a Glyphed serpent, Vyzh'dra the Exiled and Vyzh`dra the Cursed. Even tho I don't have screen shots you will have to take my word that they died. I promise they did!. I know, I'm crap, hey we were killing Snakes! I got excited!. I was hoping for a shot at the High Priest, I've been carrying Star Rubies around for 4 months ( I may forget my resist gear, or coffins, or EE's or my head if it wasn't screwed on, but I ALWAYS have the Rubies on me ) just in case we could get another shot at him.
Lord Mithaniel Marr, Lord of Goody Two Shoes Poofy Pally boys had popped, we have been having some trouble actually finding him up so we abandoned Ssra for the minute and headed to the Temple of Marr. We zoned in and for once the 85/15 thing worked for us, instead of against us and we quickly had a full raid.
The Emperor had been kind enough to drop a Kodiacs Robe of Heightened Focus and it had been awarded to a filthy Gnomie Wizzie.
Anklebiters, just say no.
Then it was discovered we had Twin Gnomies! Identical in every respect!, well with the exception of their Ugly faces! (Comes from all that ankle biting!) Mithaniel isn't quite as annoying as many of his contemporary bosses, in that there aren't 10 bazillion trash MOB's on the way to his room, there are however several rather nasty named's in the way.
and finally Mithaniel's body guard with the stupid froggie model, damn he takes me back to the Days of Guk!
I don't know what it is with MM, SA can drop Bertoxxulous in 1hr 20mins, we can take out Agnarr in 51 minutes, we dropped the HP with 24 people, but for some reason we have real trouble with Agnarr. I wonder if its the same for other guilds? With a little clever pulling, some extremely fast healing and CC we managed to pull MM alone.
Once we get him alone we can kill him easily. Its singling him out that is the tough part. I still think he is the best looking Boss Mob in the game so far. Although I have been told the Sol Ro Tower Mini Bosses look awesome I have yet to see them. Mithaniel died *sad* and for the second time in a row he dropped the Uber Belt!
At this point the rest of the raid headed out and back to Ssra. It was 2am for me so I decided to go and have a wee lie down. SA went on to drop Rhag 1,2 and the Arch Lich.
During the week I was also very kindly invited to join a POEarth group. (Ok I begged, whined, pleaded and generally made myself irritating) My first ever Elemental Planes group woot!. The Elementals are awesome fun and fantastic XP and the MOB models are all new and interesting. We set up on one of the Platforms and proceeded to pull everything we could see. Hopefully it wont be my last!
Despite being knackered due to getting 41/2 hours sleep and then being incredibly stressed by false reports of a worm inside my systems I wasn't going to miss the Guilds first Vex Thal raid. Apparently something needed to be done on the Prexus server so SOE decided to drop the server for 15 minutes or so and kindly fully popped VT for us!.
We zoned in and got a quick reminder to never take anything for granted with a near wipe. We sorted ourselves out, started to take VT a little more seriously and moved a little deeper into the zone. I kept thinking to myself "I'm in Vex Thal!, I'm IN Vex Thal, I'm Raiding VT!" Another first for me and another one I never thought I would ever achieve!. *Hug* SA.
I have to say this has to be one of the best looking zone's I have seen so far. The architecture is just awesome. After clearing the same number of Trash Mobs as you need to to get to Saryrn we got to our first Named, he looks just like his cousin the Itraer Vius and died about as easily.
Lewtz, Phat, Phat Lewtz. Oh Lordy I hope we get to hit this place a few times. I can see why guilds stayed here and just farmed the place. We continued to move through the zone and made it to the second boss, a big blob. The pic is crap but what can you do with a flat grey mob on a grey background?.
Hopefully one week soon we will get to hit this place hard and go all the way through to Aten Ha Ra and completely clear Vex Thal. I logged after Puddle Boy, after the previous nights raid I was falling asleep at the key board. One more raid this week, Thursday and a mini raid against POEarth Mini's (hopefully) Friday night as well. The GF is going to hate me this week.
Well Thursday came and went, no Rallos Zek the Warlord for us. *Sad* The bastard just refuses to pop for us, we just need one successful run at him and we can move past him. We just need to drop him once to "prove" we deserve to be in the Elementals, then we can move to Sol Ro Tower Mini bosses and into the Elemental planes themselves. Elemental armour *droooool*. OK I don't know if that's the case at all, but that's what I am hoping anyway.
I managed to get one quick Plane of Earth group before the raid on Thursday and proceeded to knock off a bunch of MudMen, Goddamn Dillo's and these guys...
But since Rallos wasn't up and she was, we headed to Terris Thule's house and smacked her. She was hanging about the place like a bad smell anyway.
Come and play SA...
She fell over dead, it was a bit of an anti-climax really. You spend all that time prepping, fighting to her, setting up, and she just falls over. She dropped so fast and easy we decided that we needed some punishment to remind ourselves that POP gods are NOT easy to kill. So it was off to the Plane of Torment and Saryrn for the night for some serious self flagellation.
Now I really like the Earring she drops (why is it that all the decent focus items pre Elemental planes are Pri/Sec or if not pri/sec drop rarely off insanely annoying to kill Gods?) So there was much killing of yard trash, hours and hours and hours of it.
Even more Trash...
And another named...
and another...
One thing I would like to complain about. Stealth fixes!. I know how Sorrowsong was supposed to work, he was supposed to path around the room casting AE silence on everyone and making it hard to heal, nuke etc etc. Well he has never worked this way. He either sits in his little corner and/or paths around the room and casts nothing.
Well some time in the last couple of weeks the "kind" people at SOE fixed him. He now acts exactly as he is supposed to. Where was the patch message?, where was the information that Sorrowsong was now acting as intended?. When were they planning on telling us?.
Didn't matter, we ganked the pair of them anyway after the initial surprise (WTF?, I'm Silenced!) but it would have been nice to know ahead of time.
Saryrn
Unfortunately Saryrn picked that night to not drop her marvelous little earring and the collective howls of the Necro's could be heard across Norrath. That was pretty much it for Thursday. Hours of wading through Trash and then 5 minutes of fun killing Saryrn. Kind of like the average first date I guess.
I took Friday off as I had a wee chest infection and needed to sleep. So I spent the day XPing ( Garakk is 6% from Level 52 and struggling to get further. I HATE pickup groups grrr ). One thing that is interesting about being a lower level and grouping with people is to get the perspective of the lower end again. Very rarely when playing Garakk I will meet someone who knows the
They are really happy that their guild has just started to kill in Kael Drakkal or are about to go to Plane of Hate or kill Grummus for the first time. It really brings you back down and gives you perspective on the game again. Its not all about the high end and the endless grind for AA's, Uber items and the next MOB on the path to Time. Its about fun and meeting new people and sometimes its about the little guy, not about Uber_Guild_57. It makes me think it would be huge fun to tank a Dragon or some other Uber Mob for some lower tier guild, after all its something I have never done!.
Saturday I logged in to find I was too late for Rallos, the good folks over at Unity were waiting for Talionis to pass. There were about 90 people in the raid channel so I figured I would wait for the next target. In the meantime I went down and ganked the Pained Soul for an hour or two. Hunting the Soul kind of like picking at a scab, you know it isn't going to do you any good and its vaguely painful but you just cant stop. So after an hour or two of that, watching Unity nail Rallos and then sort loot/flags etc they called the remainder of the raid to the Plane of Air. Woot! a new zone!.
We zoned in and started to clear through the trash.
I have to say I this is another zone I cant wait for SA to start hitting, some of the MOB designs are just beautiful.
This zone is a Necro's heaven. NOTHING I cast was resisted. We cleared through the zone to a boss MOB whose name I missed. He cant have been too tough as I don't even remember the fight. It just seemed like a guard with slightly more HP. We then ran quickly back to beat the re spawn and had a go at the Avatar of Smoke.
This guy spawns 3-4 adds with a 600point lightning AE each. Very nasty, we managed to get him to about 10% or so before we wiped. It was a first run though so I'm sure Unity will do far better next time. That was then about it for Saturday.
Now I would like to take a moment and philosophize on the color co-ordination of Tanks. In General they don't have any. Now most classes took the addition of custom colors into EQ with a grain of salt and with the exception of Pink Power Rangers and the odd Pink Pally *Cough* Unity*Cough* most classes stayed in relatively normal colors. Not the Tanks, as a class they just went hog wild. Now normally I don't like to generalize about classes and the people that play them but in this case I can fairly safely say that all Warriors are color blind.
I can honestly see the point of the lime green, and the blue kind of works, but isn't the pink hat just a LITTLE over the top?
No comments:
Post a Comment