I
hate Coirnav.
Big
fat fishy swine that he is. Its not the fight I hate, the fight
itself is a hell of a lot of fun. Its not the difficulty of maneuvering
in the water,
its not the lag, its the 2 hours setting up to actually start
the fight. I hope, I pray that we will never ever be doing this
fight again.
It
went well and I think was possibly the fastest kill of Coirnav
we have ever done. I believe that he died inside 1 minute this
time.
Squiddy
waiting to die
Dead fat Squid bastard
Coirnav
died fast and dropped some decent Lewtz for once. I think we were
still waiting on our Time instance to time out so instead of heading
to Time we headed to Ferubi
to try out the Smith Rondo event. Now this is a kind of bypass
for the first 1-4 Trials in the Gates of Discord expansion. If
your guild can complete this event, you can hail the ghost and
you don't have to do the first 4 trials.
Now
I've been told that most of the other Time Guilds on Prexus have
wiped against this guy when trying him for the first time. We
had a few hiccups but it really didn't seem that tough a kill
to me. The only real problems we had were keeping the non-Mezzable
add under control. But the off tanks stepped up, secondary healers
kicked in and it was all good. He hits hard yes, he has lots of
HP yes, but I couldn't see why he was considered to be tougher
than an elemental God?.
I
have spent the rest of the week trying to organise a run through
Trials 5 and 6 to complete entry into GOD Tier 2. So far I am
having no luck with multiple fails under my belt. The biggest
problem I have is that these trials take 4-6 hours, I start to
try and organise a trial group when I logon. But the people I
need to make a successful trial group don't login till 9-10pm
my time. I cant start a 4 hour trial that's going to finish at
2:00am. So I'm going to do my best to set one up for a saturday.
Anyway,
I didn't get any shots of him as he is a relatively boring model
of a male Erudite. That was it for me for the night. It was a
relatively early logoff, being around 1:30am but there really
didn't seem to be anything else up.
Now
Weapon
Master Vtiink Vzaan is one of the named's that pop during
the Smith Rondo event. The big bitch was kind enough to drop a
Muramite
Plated Bracer and the officers were kind enough to award it
to me!. Now this is a truly awesome bracer for a necro with both
HP and Mana Regen and I am as stoked as I can be with it.
I
am however going to have a rant. I have been trying to replace
two things for ages. My Legs
and my Robe
both suck ass. They are easily my weakest pieces. Now I have kind
of being holding off on loot lately hoping for a silk legs drop
and then maybe a break into Time tier 5 and a Miraguls Robe. I
have passed on cloaks, necks, primaries etc etc all in the hope
of a Robe and Legs.
However
now that I have broken down and requested and received the bracer,
there is a little known piece of code buried deep in the Everquest
executable that will run.
If
Ulaa (received).Lewtz < Date.Week
GuildMob.Kill (next)
Drop *.Legs
Drop *.Legs
Now
I dunno why but it seems to work. Every time I go for and receive
a great item, virtually the next thing to drop will be legs!.
Ah well. NOTE: Plate Legs dropped in Tier 3 in Mondays
Time run. See the code does exist!
Friday,
which I was looking forward to in a big way just turned into absolute
shite. At first I thought it was just us being crap again, but
subsequent events led me to believe that it was in fact shitty
international links. Basically we crapped our way through the
Tier 1 events with several of the groups wiping, fire wiped twice
in fact. We had to abandon the Tier 1 trials in the end and simply
waited for the reset.
Second
time round we were still lumpy but but we slowly made our way
through. Finally we dropped the last mob in Tier 1 and Tier 2
opened up for us. That's when it all really turned to shit. We
had groups wiping all over the place, mobs warping to us, bad
pulls, "Ghosts" pulling mobs on top of groups. It all
culminated in literally half the guild going LD at the same time.
I didn't go LD at this point (unusual for me I know!) but I was
getting massive lag with my meter redlining for minutes at a time.
We
were about to clear the last mobs in Tier 2 when the mass link
death happened. That was pretty much it for Time as I don't think
the raid leaders figured this was going to be worth it. The guild
was forming up at ZI and discussing where to go next when I went
LD. I still don't know what caused it. I could reach any server
local to me IE in New Zealand, but I couldn't see anything beyond
the international routers. I think someone tripped over the plug.
I
gave up about an hour later when I still couldn't get to the eqservers.
SA went on to clear out POEb and had a reasonable loot night.
It was still damn disappointing tho
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