Saturday afternoon, as I was stuffing about trade skilling I saw that the good folk over at Unity were forming up for Fenin Ro. Now we had tried Fenin a couple of months ago and failed due to a lack of Clerics online (we got him to 80% with 4 clerics and 2 bots). I wanted to see how Unity did the kill, just to see if we were doing it radically differently or to see if I could pick up some tips for whenever our next shot would be.
So I headed over to Plane of Fire, joined up with Unity at the picnic tables and Unity did exactly as I expected, They smoothly fought their way past the triggers and named's and took out Fenin Ro the Tyrant of Fire. No real surprises, nothing unusual or innovative in their technique, just a clean take down.
The
Southern Armada's next raid was Tuesday night. We formed up
and the call was for a single ring
in the Elemental
Plane of Earth, then the Arbitor of Earth and finally a few
shots at the Elemental
Plane of Air. So we all headed over to Earth, setup, and begin
to pull and kill the Ring of Dust.
Do
I have some spinach in my teeth?
We
ran through the ring with no major hiccups and quickly downed
a Perfected
Warder of Earth.
I
think someone must have already cleared all the other rings and
thus we only needed to drop the one ring in order to spawn the
Arbitor. We fought our way across the zone until we reached the
Gemmed
Guardians who guard the entrance to the tunnels of the Mystical
Arbitor of Earth.
Finally
we reached the Arbitor and with no fuss we dropped him. This stuff
is getting easier and easier for us. After a bit of a rocky period
post SA reaching the Elemental
Planes, with lots of people stepping off and having a wee
rest from raiding, SA is nearly back to its old self. MOBs like
the Arbitor are smoothly and serenely ganked with no problems.
We are ready to kill Gods now, the remaining farming between us
and getting a shot at RC, Xegony, Fenin, and Coirnav is just going
to make us killing them even easier.
Getting
Funky!
Surprisingly after the Arbitor fell over, the call was not to Air but to the Elemental Plane of Fire instead. So we TL'd our asses out of Earth and headed across to SS1 where we proceeded to lay the smack down on the evil Quavonis Firetail, he was so embarrassed about putting up such a poor showing against us that he was determined to hide his face.
Druav
Flamesinger. What can I say. Dead. Again.
Once
the Raid Leaders had determined that we had cleared Fire of all
available targets, it was time for the Plane
of Air. First named up was Pherlondien
Clawpike, an ugly MOB with a stupid name and phat, phat Lewtz.
Next
up, after several tens of thousands of yard trash MOB's got stuck
with sharp bits of steel, it was time for the Avatar
of Wind. At this point a lot of people were logging and I
think the Avatar was as embarrassed as Firetail, as we killed
him with only about half a raid.
That
was it for me and about 2:15am I logged and crawled off to my
incredibly hot and muggy bed.
The
Trackers of Spawn times had determined that there was a strong
possibility of Fenin Ro popping for us on Wednesday which was
technically a non raid day. I was logged on and running around
in LDoN adventures, many others were logging in and out to check
as we waited for Fenin to pop. It was getting on for 10:30pm and
I was beginning to wonder if it was going to pop early enough
for us to get a decent shot. And then..
*POP*
A
Guardian
of Doomfire is INC and Fenin RO is going to die!
There
are many named's on the way to Fenin. Most of them drop no loot
(except rarely) and yet are every bit as tough as named's in other
Elemental zones. They have been known to trip up over eager or
unprepared guilds. Basically if you cant take out these guys you
have no business attempting Fenin Ro
Finally
we had all the named trash cleared and were into the Council of
Fire. The first to die was Chancellor
Kirta.
Then
came, and fell, Chancellor
Traxom.
The
council fell as smooth as silk. In fact as we warmed up, they
died faster than ever. Finally, close to 2:00am, after a few moments
to explain strat, prep and rebuff it was time. Fenin Ro is inbound!.
With
the crew we had online I had no doubts at all that he would die.
What I really didn't anticipate was how cleanly he would die.
I killed him with Unity on Saturday and they have taken him down
many, many times. This was our first shot at him and I have to
say, if anything it was smoother that even Unity did it.
I
knew we had him at 80%, everything was ticking over flawlessly,
heals were going in smooth as silk, the Necro's were landing everything
and Nuking in between. Even the Wizzies were managing to not get
summoned and keeping focus on the MT. If anything this was, for
us a very conservative kill. I know I was being extremely cautious
about my aggro and was FD'ing after just about every single DOT.
I suspect as we do him a few more times and get a bit more confident,
this kill will get faster and faster.
This
was close to a flawless kill. We lost one Monk on the pull (as
you do) and that was it. Pooby stayed up the whole time, even
after /def expired and we never had to do a tank switch.
/cheer
Pooby
/cheer the Heal teams
/cheer the Pull teams
/cheer Southern Armada
/cheer the Heal teams
/cheer the Pull teams
/cheer Southern Armada
One
God down. Three to go.
The
Final Humiliation
Fenin Ro the Tyrant of Fire as an SA Necro Pet
Fenin Ro the Tyrant of Fire as an SA Necro Pet
So
two days in a row it was an after 2.00am bed time. I need to sleep
now. Friday is our next raid. So its going to be me, Bourbon,
and whatever the Lewt Gods bring us.
The
Southern Armada Fenin Ro Crew
Friday,
there were after work drinkies, then there were after work drinkies drink's, so by the time I got home I was pretty pissed. I logged in, did a quick LDoN adventure for some fast points and headed to the Plane of Earth for the first raid. Beyond Horror, I still haven't actually bought anything in LDoN. The only additional item I actually give a crap about, I am still 200 points short of, I will get there but Im not too worried.
there were after work drinkies, then there were after work drinkies drink's, so by the time I got home I was pretty pissed. I logged in, did a quick LDoN adventure for some fast points and headed to the Plane of Earth for the first raid. Beyond Horror, I still haven't actually bought anything in LDoN. The only additional item I actually give a crap about, I am still 200 points short of, I will get there but Im not too worried.
First
up the Ring of Dust. Many many Devotees
give their lives in the cause of Southern Armada's pursuit of
PhatLewts.
The
of course comes the boss, a Perfected
Warder of Earth. He cant be that perfect, he keeps dieing.
Then
the Ring
of Vine *yawn*. At this point the booze and the fact that
my computer room is small and very very muggy on this night starts
to catch up with me.
Ring
of Mud. A
Monsterous Mudwalker prepares to die. I'm having trouble focusing
at this point.
Ring
of Stone. Peregrin
Rockskull prepares to die horribly. I am consuming vast amounts
of water in an effort to stay awake and fend off my hangover
Coat
and Shoes MoB. Tanitsala
Jaggedtooth the biggest crocodile the world of Norrath has
ever known shows Pooby the soft spot under her belly. She is sick
of dieing to us and figured she may as well make it fast. Luckily
I use EQWatcher
advanced, I have it set to speak to me when DOTS wear off.
So on this raid I was casting all my dots, FD'ing, standing, sitting
to med, sleeping and waiting for EQwatcher to say "Horror
is off" before having to wake up and actually do something
about it.
So
quite literally I can say I have done Earth Rings in my sleep.
That
was it for me. It was only about 1:30am but I simply couldn't
stay awake any longer, hell I wasnt awake anyway, the booze and
the heat were combining to send me off to dreamland. So I made
my apologies and logged while SA headed off to drop the Arbitor
of Earth.
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