We
had a wee issue with entering Time
on Monday in that another guild's instance was still in effect.
So we had to wait for it to Time out. This has happened to us
once before and we ended up being completely unable to enter Time
at all. So we headed over to the Elemental Plane of EarthB and
cleared it.
We
still couldn't wall any MOBs due to the usual high level of SOE
patch quality control so we had to keep all the MOBs including
the Boss out from all walls and pin them. It certainly makes EQ
harder that's for sure.
TimeB
boss
With
TimeB out of the way and the phat Lewtz just beginning to flow
we headed back to Time. The first attempt at zoning in wasn't
successful so Kez called a five minute time out and we all went
and had a bit of a break. The second attempt was fine and we headed
into Tier One.
I
love these Models.
I
would love if my 65 Pet could look like the non cavalry version
of this. Having one of these giant bad boys standing at my right
shoulder would look very very cool.
That
was really about it for Monday. We cleared through Tier One, Two
and Three and left it it that.
Thursday
rolls around, we zone in, clear Tier One and head straight for
Tier 4. Shortly before zone in I found out that I have blown 15k
worth of Tribute points. I must have forgotten to turn them off
after the last raid and I've been playing all week. So 20 minutes
before raid start I find I cant run any tributes at all damn it.
So my resists were a little lower than I was happy with, but ah
well, nothing to be done.
Saryrn
died first.
Followed
closely by Terris
Thule.
Then
it was time for the Zek Brothers. The last patch apparently had
fixed some of the Time wall warping issues but not all of them
so we were forced to be extremely careful in how we engaged and
positioned MOBs. Tallon
didn't give us many issues..
but
Vallon
did. We just couldn't get one of his adds under control, the swine
just wouldn't snare and was racing around throughout the raid.
I actually thought we were going to wipe but he eventually did
go down with about 20 people still attacking. I got summoned and
splatted with him at about 2%. He died, it was sad.
Straight
through to Tier 5 and after clearing the Gods "armies"
we set up for Cazic
Thule. I had all my fingers and toes crossed for another Robe
drop. I want all of the casters to get one of these and Cazic
is the most likely to drop it. Unfortunately he snuffed it but
refused to cough up another Robe.
So
with the disappointment of no Robe under our belts we headed over
to Rallos
Zek. The Raid Leaders decided to not corner him and see if
we could just keep him in position in the center of the room again.
We were doing really well up until about 50%. I had the misfortune
of failing to notice two failed FD attempts in a row and ended
up on his AOE rampage list. Faster than i could blink I was dead.
He hit me for around 2950, 2680, 2560 and that was it for me.
I have to say Lightning Reflexes 5 at 15 AA's was obviously worth
it. <-- Sarcasm
So
after the reset we pulled Bertoxxulous
while waiting for the Warrior disciplines to reset. After the
Rallos fight we had quite a few leave and we engaged Berty with
64 in the raid. The difference those 8 people made was huge. Our
DPS was noticeably lower and at this point I really began to notice
the lack of Tributes running.
Normally
we would find Berty not a huge problem but this fight seemed to
drag on forever. Eventually he snuffed it but it was an ugly messy
fight.
So
we headed back to Rallos.
We
have dropped him once (twice?) and we are suddenly having problems
with him. Usually once SA has mastered a target we never really
have problems with it again. But Rallos has defeated us over and
over. We can handle his adds, we have enough DPS but there is
a point at about 40% where we begin to lose it. The fight doesn't
collapse and we suddenly wipe, it just starts to go all wobbly,
we hang on and on but never quite get it back together.
So
after the second wipe I logged. It was a little early, only about
1:45am but that was pretty much it for the raid. Its odd, we are
definitely getting better at Tiers 1-4, we can clear everything
in there with no issues. Cazic Thule and Bertoxxulous are definitely
on the farm list but Inny and Rallos are still managing to evade
us regularly.
I
had a little bit of a spazz on the SA boards a week or so ago
that I feel I should apologize for. The issue arose during a discussion
of the GOD trials. Now I have tried these trials over and over
and over. I have tried them with pickup groups, I have tried them
with Uber Guilds members I have tried them with all SA groups
and I just have not been able to get past the damn things. The
revelation this week that the entire GOD expansio was tuned for
level 70 suddenly make's a hell of a lot of sense to me.
But
during the course of this discussion I went off. All I can attribute
it to was stress ( Come back Boss all is forgiven! ) . My apologies
to those who were forced to read it.
I
have in fact (Thank you Feranis and all those who were in the
Trial 6 group on Friday night) passed Trial 6 and I am now simply
trying to get past Trial 5. I put a group together on Saturday
afternoon, which after 4 hours wiped umpteen times and we were
only half way through. There was nothing wrong with the group
per se, they were all good players, it just didn't quite gel for
some reason. Ah well onward and upward and I shall try again this
weekend.
The
frustration for me over these Trials is having to find at least
4-6 hours of time to do them. Hell I leveled to 65 and 200 AA's
on 4 hours a night. The weird thing is that once I have done them
and got them under my belt, I am more than willing to do them over
and over and over again to flag all those who need them. Much
like Time flagging, I hated the hanging around for the Coirnav
event, RC plain sucked for everyone, but once flagged for those
kills I continued to show up for all of them so that everyone
else could get theirs too. I just like having them done for myself,
then I can "relax" I guess.
To
be honest I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to continue doing
these. I am guessing that we will be farming Time for some time
to come, at least 6 months. There really isn't a whole lot of
excitement to be generated or written about when doing instance#156
and Time_God#199. I will possibly have to change the format of
this weekly missive somewhat and see what other EQ /SA related
stuff I can come up with. Haven't decided yet. Stay Tuned!.
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