Thursday, March 11, 2004

Everquest Southern Armada Raids Week Fifty Five

11/03/04 Week Fifty Five


Another week, another series of runs at the Rathe council. We had two shots on Monday. The first went bad when an unnoticed resist slipped by a Chanter and a Rathe Councilman got lose. End of Chanters. So we reset, had a wee rest, waited for the RC to regen and went again.
I timed this one, it took us a little over an hour to get the 10 RC under control and to pull the 5th for killing. Now depending on whose timer you listened to, we failed to kill the 6th and last RC by 7-30 seconds.
I was sitting in front of my PC all hunched over, punching the air and yelling at my monitor at 2am as I really thought we had it and were about to finally succeed against the RC. Alas it wasn't to be and I logged, disapointed at just after 2AM.

The last attempt was made with 66 people as we had a full group of people leave after the first fail. The ironic thing is that if any one of those people has stayed and contributed DPS, I believe we would have succeeded.

We were so so close. Thursday (Tonight) the RC dies, and then it's on to Coirnav. The thought of dropping both Coirnav and the RC in one night just gets me hard.
Next weeks update will include screenshots of a dead Avatar of Earth and a dead Coirnav.

Well thanks to SOE's complete inability to correctly test anything, we had 3 days of "emergency" patch's. It was widely reported by the people that play on the Test serve, that the pet haste bug had been /bug reported for some time and SOE pushed it to the live servers anyway.

If you aren't going to pay attention to the people who are supposed to be the ones who test stuff, then why bother having a fucking Test server in the first place?

Well we never had enough people online to make an attempt on the RC anyway. I don't know if people read about the patch and decided to not log on or what, but it was a pretty piss poor turnout for what would have been a major kill for SA. So instead of a shot at RC we headed into Fire and POEb and did a bit of Fast farming. Much much Phat Lewtz was handed out and we managed to clear out POEb in less than an hour.

First up was Babnoxis the Spider Bitch in the Elemental Plane of Fire. We were so pissed about losing our raid time to another patch we just out and out ganked her.
Since he was up, we were in zone, and we didn't have a lot of other targets we pulled and killed Druav. Yay another Mezzbreaker. I think the first Elemental item we will ever have rot will be that sword. If I could get Garakk into Fire it would be an awesome twink weapon, but I'm fairly sure all of our mains have it at this point.
Then it was off to the Elemental Plane of Earth and a fast kill of the Mud Ring. We always seem to do Mud, maybe cause its closest and it's a quick kill with decent Lewtz for its difficulty.
We are definitely getting better at POEb as well. We cleared the whole zone of Giant named's in slightly less than an hour.
That was it. Hugely frustrated we all gated out and logged as the servers came down for the 3rd three hour patch in a row. RC dies next Monday!.

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