We
had cleared all the way through from Tiers
1-4 last week so we only had two targets in 5 to clear. We
headed into Tier One and encountered a wee booboo. I was doing
the Fire event and we were doing OK till the named spawned. Then
we encountered a small problem, you sort of need a Chanter to
help debuff the named so the poor little Necro's can actually
land any sort of spell. More importantly you need them to help
keep the adds under control. So after wiping in Fire, (my first
Tier One fail actually) replacing with a new group set and just
scraping through under the time limit we headed up to Tier 5.
We
had to clear out the remaining God's armies, which we did in our
AOE Chanter killing style. Once we had the trash clear it was
time for Mr Cazic Thule.
Mr
Thule really isn't a challenge anymore, we didn't even Sacrifice
a Pally to him!.
Next
up was our current bugbear, we have been very hit and miss with
Innoruuk.
However, much like Rallos Zek, being able to corner him made all
the difference. It wasn't a perfect kill, it wasn't flawless,
but it also wasn't even a close fight.
The
Lord God of Hate is now on the Pharm list. He will be dropping
Lewtz for us for some time to come.
With
Inny down, that really only left us one remaining challenge in
the whole Planes of Power. Quarm.
The
last time we tried him we got him to 78%, which to me was a definite
proof that he is killable by us. This time we spent a lot longer
forming up and getting ready. The strat was tweaked and we had
a much better idea of what to expect going into the fight.
With
very little further delay we launched into it. The First head
went down fairly fast, shortly after I got summoned and nailed.
I'm still not sure if I just missed an FD fail or what but with
Quarm smacking me with hits of 3400 I didn't survive long at all.
I popped in the Plane Of Tranquility and ran back in. I timed
my entry to just after the AOE DD which gave me enough time to
get my corpse, loot my HP gear and throw myself back into the
fight.
By
then Quarm was at under 50%, 2 heads were down and although DPS
appeared to be slowing it was still there. 40%, 30%, 20% At this
point we were dropping like flies. Tanks and Clerics were going
down. I was OOM and meddling just to be able to run out and Tap
Quarm.
The
last tank went down, I got splatted again at 18% and that was
that. We were so damn close and it was so frustrating to walk
away from him but we didn't have a choice. It was just after 1:00am
and we would have had to wait at least an hour for MGB's to repop.
So we all quietly logged off, knowing we would be ready to go
again the following day.
Tuesday
night we initially thought we were going to have to go through
Tier 1,2,3 again, but we had the timing a little off and we headed
straight up to Tier Five after clearing Tier One. This time we
prepped a lot more thoroughly, we waited for all Discs to be available,
we waited for more people, we waited for all MGB's to pop. All
up we sat outside Quarm's lair for about 35 minutes.
The
strat was called, rehearsed and called again. Groups were rebuilt
and everyone was completely aware of their job.
It
was go time. We burnt him fast. Even with 500 resists across the
board I still got hit with that stupid Poison mana drain DOT.
I was OOM at 50% and medding to even be able to cast taps to be
able to stay alive. That DOT needs to be cured fast. He lost a
head, then another, then another, he hit 15% and just hung there.
I was OOM and at 50% health. I had one thing left to throw at
him. So I kicked off a Life Burn. I was only going to hit him
for about 3500+1500hp or so from the DOT but with no mana it was
all I had left. The LB landed, I hit FD and went down hoping that
the recourse DOT would kick in before he did another AE.
After
checking to make sure the FD was successful I looked at his hp
just as they ticked over from 1% to 0%. Up till this point I had
been relatively calm, just trying to stay focused on taking him
down. Now the adrenalin kicked in and I was utterly focused on
that little hp bar. We have lost against MOBs at 0% before (Ryda'dar
being a good example) so even now it felt like we were balanced
on a knife edge. People were throwing everything they had left
at him. This was SA zerging at its finest!
Tick,
tick, tick and his hp rolled from 0% to -1hp and he went DOWN!.
I present to you Quarm the dead 4 headed Dragon!
Southern
Armada has now officially beaten the Planes
of Power expansion! I have to say its an expansion I have
thoroughly enjoyed. Its probably the first expansion I have personally
experienced from the beginning to the end game and I have loved
every second of it. The story line was good, it was complex and
difficult and gave a good sense of satisfaction for having completed
it.
Hell
my heart is still racing just thinking about beating Quarm on
Tuesday.
I
have to say the final piece of the story is pretty naff. After
going through all the Gods and Quarm, you free Zebuxoruk,
he walks away, Druzzil
Ro shows up and resets the path of time to just before you
got your Time Key. Its the "Bobby Ewing" ending to a
story and is a bit weak.
In
Revenge for the crap ending Nym was sent in to punch him in the
Bollocks, a mission which she duly carried out.
We
had very cleverly set ourselves up to have a full pop (-CT, Inny
and Quarm of course) on Thursday. So once again we formed up and
blasted through Tiers 1,2,3,4 and 5. We left the Elemental plane
of Time completely empty at the end of Thursday night.
Tallon
Zek waiting on us
I
think we proved that Rallos is on the Pharm list good and proper
last night. We dropped him with the loss of one tank, which is
as close to flawless as you are likely to ever get with him. To
thank us for coming to see him again he was happy to drop not
ONE but TWO Elemental
Plate Breastplates!
I've
never heard of that happening ever! Grats Alone and Nymeria the
Pink Tank on your New BPs!
We
also had a drop of the Symbol
of Ancient Summoning, this seems to be an extremely rare drop
and it makes every Necromancer, Beastlord and Mage in the game
start to drool. Grats Xardan!, see I told you!.
Next
week is looking very like we will drop Quarm, Inny and CT and
then start in on GOD. Rondo will die again, and then on to a Tier
1-5 clear on the next raid day.
I
am still utterly amazed at the Phat Phat Lewtz that flows into
the Guild with every clearance of Time. Pretty much every raid
is 30-40 drops of fantastic Lewtz, IE on average people are getting
Time level lewtz once every two raids. Hell even if people don't
want to do GOD raids and just want to help clear Time, if they
keep showing up for Time raids we will be kitting people out in
fantastic gear for months yet. That is just utterly fantastic,
SA has begun to take a huge leap up the ladder in power and strength.
I think very shortly we are going to qualify as an Uber Guild.
Time will definitely be a one day clear within a month and I can
see us taking on the early GOD raids in the same time frame.
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