I've combined these weeks together for several reasons. The primary reason is that not a whole lot actually happened beyond "The Usual". We cleared Time a couple of Times. We did Ikkinz 4 again (and utterly Ganked it this time) and managed to get a lot further through Uqua.
The secondary reason is that the Omens of War launched finally and its turned out to be quite a lot of fun. I must admit I was beginning to get decidedly bored with EQ. The incessant hunt for the next group (tough as a Necro) and the endless mindless farming of crap AAs was beginning to drive me to distraction. It got to the point that I was in fact finding it hard to log on, even for raiding.
However with the release of OOW I now have a number of things to aim for. Firstly is Level 70. I had forgotten what a great motivator the level Grind can be. Secondly is Epic 2.0. I really really wanted to do my epic back on Karana but was never in a guild capable of killing the requisite mobs often enough to attain the stupidly rare items. I was actually awarded the Slime Blood of Cazic Thule (which was the major item blockage) about a week before I left Karana to come to Prexus.
As I was leaving anyway I held on to it for about a day, just to say I actually once had it, and then handed it back to the guild and transferred servers.
First up we will take a wander through Ikkinz4. We absolutely flew through this on our third run. First up we hit the Altar Wardens and then the Altar Sentries
Once
they are out of the way its time for "the pit guy" otherwise
known as the Altar
Overseer. You will note Pooby as ever taking the pounding.
Pooby likes to take the pounding. Its what the Pooby is for!
Then
comes the Phantasmal
Priest Guardians. These guys gave us a bit of trouble last
time as they are rather hard to split. When they come you have
to be prepared for 2 of them. So off tanking has to be ready and
secondary heal chains ready to keep the off tanks up.
Then
its time for the Oracle
of the Altar. This guy hits like a train but doesn't seem
to have a huge amount of HP. He dies inside of two minutes. Its
the adds that will cause you the pain. We nailed him on only the
second try tho so we were very happy about that. He spawns a random
number of adds. If that number is too big for the Chanters to
control the only thing you can do is take the wipe and try again.
The
final MOB for the trial is the boss. The Keeper
of the Altar is a fairly simple fight compared to what you
have to do to get to him. Its a fairly straight tank fight here,
nothing too special.
We
also hit Uqua twice over the course of these two weeks. We formed
up to head into Uqua and decided to give Pixxt
Suir Mindrider a go as she is on the way. She is actually
in Yxtta
the Pulpit of Exiles but she is close to the zone in for Uqua.
The first time we tried her we prepped and prepped and prepped.
We were so ready for her as we had been told she was really difficult.
So once we were engaged we found it quite surprising how easily
she died.
On
our second attempt I got a phone call just after I layered 3 DOTs
on her. I FD'd popped up and then ran off to answer the phone.
I came back after about 30 seconds to find myself standing nekkid
in Time. According to SOE there is no such thing as Crit aggro,
Strangely my logs show a successful FD, and then a summon immediately
after a Horror crit. Odd that.
Uqua.
I don't know what the Omens of War expansion is going to bring
us in the way of raiding. But after three weeks in this zone if
the raid leaders decided to never go back to GOD ever again I
would be first in line leading the cheers.
On
the first run into Uqua in these weeks we did really well. We
got past the traps, past the Gas Chambers and into the room with
the two behemoths, Construct
of Rage and Construct
of Fury.
We
engaged them and managed to push one through a door (doh) where
he promptly started summoning. The raid wiped and I managed to
FD just inside the door. One thing we didn't know about these
guys is they may physically reset but they don't seem to actually
forget you. Unless you have been deaded, if you enter the room
or even zone back in from a camp out they will come and kick your
ass.
So
along with the magnificent Zarthaz and Genosin, I pulled all the
viewable corpses into a corner so they could be dragged off and
rezzed. I just stayed FD'd until after about an hour of CR the
raid leaders called it all off and we all quit out of the instance.
Not our best moment.
I
also managed to fall asleep during our second weeks run at Uqua.
We had started the raid with only 3 warriors and after some very
bad luck and a number of raid wipes the raid was called off. It
was decided to head off and do Ikkinz 2. I thought yay! maybe
an Aegis
of Black scale will drop! and happily headed out of Uqua and
back to KT. We were clearing towards Ikk2 when I fell asleep.
I remember waking up and finding myself alone in KT and promptly
logged off.
I
also had a bit of a motorcycle accident that i was very very lucky
to walk away from this week so I haven't actually been logging
on a whole lot as i have been in too much pain to sit at a desk.
Next weeks update (well actually its this weeks but forgive me)
includes the launch of OOW and my first DING! in nearly 18 months!.
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