We logged on
full of anticipation. The final impediment on our trip to the
Elemental Plane of Time was going to die tonight. Coirnav was
up and he was on the menu. We did a fast clear (and I mean fast,
this stuff just gets mown down by us now) of the Elemental
Plane of Earthb. We just hammered Ginlotaken
and his buddies.
But
that was just the warm up. We flexed our muscles, stretched, stocked
up on caffeine and headed down to the Plane
of Water for Coirnav.
Now I have to admit there was a certain amount of pessimism being
felt in the Necro channel as we were forming up.
There
were a large number of Non SA with us and there was quite a lot
of stuffing around going on while strats were being called. Personally
I had this one marked down as a fail. Just goes to show how much
I know!. We formed up, got set up and everyone in place, I had
my DI's up and was set up in the entrance to his lair good to
go.
The
pull was on. Everything was coming in smoothly, in fact we had
to wait about 30 seconds for the 2nd wave spawn as the first one
died so fast!. The AOE teams were doing a brilliant job. Root
teams had their shit together and the pullers were bringing it
all in a nice steady flow. Real names inc, down, move to the entrance,
trash away, GO!.
I
threw everything I could at him. Not a whole hell of a lot landed
(I died before I could learn what did and did not land on him
last time). So I managed to get Horror and Blood of Thule on him
before he hit 60%. At that point I checked my health (full), hit
the LB button and waited. WHAM. 6.2k of damage (damn I wish Life
Burn critted). After that he was about 20% and I just started
to chain tap him. I think I got to my 5th or 6th Mujaki when his
health hit Zero and he fell almost directly at my feet!
Well
we confirmed the first Coirnav kill last week wasn't a fluke.
We not only nailed him on our second run, it was as sweet a kill
as anyone could have managed.
So
that was it for Water. After the Lewtz (and they were decently
Phat
this time) had been distributed we headed out to the Elemental
Plane of Fire for some named clearing. Quite a lot of people
logged out at this point. I was close to it myself but I really
wanted to hang out a bit more and keeeeeeel a few more MOBs. I
knew there was no way I was going to get to sleep so I figured
I may as well be online a bit longer.
First
to die was Quavonis
Firetail. We only had about 40 online so the kill was a bit
slow but what the hell he died.
Next
up, my not favorite spider in the whole world, Babnoxis
the Spider Bitch. In fact almost all of the spider mobs in
EQ are stupidly hard to kill, what's up with that?. It was messy
but hey, she died in the end and we didn't, which is a good thing.
That
was it for me and I gated and logged. SA went on to clear Fire
with Magmaton
and Druav
also dieng before they too began to log.
Wednesday
we logged in and headed to the Plane
of Time for the culmination of a years work.
We formed up
in the Plane and kicked off the Trials. Now we have absolutely
no idea about the Trials so it was literally "Zone in and
see what happens". I was assigned to a group and we headed
to the Fire trial. For those who don't know the you have to complete
5 different Trials in Phase One, in one hour to move though to
Phase Two. First time through I believe we got 3 out of the 5
trials complete before we timed out.
We
got ready again, a few people left (for gods sake, be sitting
at the Time zone in ready to go and in the raid channel, not on
a bloody alt when we need you) We ran through the Trials again.
We got 3 down again, just different ones. So that was it. Our
first run through the Trials wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad
either. I have to say the time trials are actually a hell of a
lot of fun too, they are certainly fast paced!. I've only seen
Fire and Air so far but I'm sure I will get a run at all of them
over the next few months.
Inferno
Mephit
Now
at some point during the night I was waiting on the call to zone
in to a Trial and the GF came into the room and wanted to chat
with me. So I turned away from the screen for a few moments. When
I looked back, I nearly died of fright as I was confronted with
close to the ugliest sight I have seen in 5 years of EQ. There
it was covering my entire screen, hanging there. A close up of
Pooby's ass!
One
of the weird graphics glitches that have been happening after
the switch to DX9 is this two tone effect on Xardans Robe. Apparently
others see him in completely different colors entirely. He has
also been told he is dressed in Green and White.
Xardan
Next
week, more time Trials and I am reasonably confident Southern
Armada will make it into Phase 2!
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