A Kiwi in online worlds: Southern Armada Everquest Raids Week Five

26/03/03 Week Five

This isnt strictly a raid but we spent Monday night killing the nameds and various Giants in POS. It was a hell of fun and I got flagged for BoT!! I only got two pics so here they are. First is the Desert boss. These bosses in POS are nasty and there is no way (no offense guys) that TSW could have killed them.

Second one is the ocean boss.

Tuesday night was a blast!. First off we headed to Ssra to join up with Unity to take out Vyzh'dra the Cursed. Now I have to have a bitch here. I HATE the run to Ssra. I have to stop and camp out as soon as I enter The Twilight Sea. The run through from the Nexus is OK, then into Fungus Grove and I start to get really bad video lag. As soon as I zone into TS Im in a slide show and I HAVE to log completely out in order to be able to move. Its only TS that does this to me. Crap coding as far as Im concerned and a real pain in the ass.

Anyway, enough bitching. The Glyphed goes down like a cheap hooker on the Little Red Fire Engine.

He was also kind enough to let me have a Dusty Blue Shawl. He could have cleaned it up a little, but what the hell it was damn nice of him. Shortly afterwards or course Vyzh'dra the Exiled had a wee accident with the Warriors of two guilds and died in a most unpleasant and messy fashion.

And finally, the little bastard that eluded us last time. Vyzh'dra the Cursed fell to Unity and Southern Armada and a great time was had by all!. I know the question that's preying on your mind right now, did the Little Red Fire Engine Survive?, sadly no.

After that Unity decided to go and kill Emperor Ssraeshza as he was up and we headed off to nail Terris Thule again. We got there...
we fought and this time we nailed her. Not without the obligatory death of the Little Red Fire Engine of course!.

Now every now and again I start to have REALLY bad connections during the game and I will begin to go LD on a regular basis. This usually lasts for a couple of weeks and will get really bad for a couple of days (LD every 20 minutes) after a while this problem goes away and I go back to a rock solid connection again.

Unfortunately I am in the middle of one of those periods. I have tried talking to Telecom about it, but as the problem is intermittent and Im not a business customer, they don't give a fuck. This is despite my having proved once before that it is a line noise problem and not my PC.

So last night went a little like this for me:
Ssra Temple, all good no problems.
Run to PonB, LD outside.
Zone into PonB and start the run in, LD
Get to TT and start to Buff, LD
Fighting TT, LD

I got back from the last LD and TT was about to go down, unfortunately I am not flagged for PonB. So I got the "join a raid within 3 minutes or be ported out" message. TT went down and Kez told me to come to TT's body, just as I realized that the 2nd copy of TT that was standing over TT's corpse was the "Planar Projection" that I have to hail to receive the Flag, I was ported out to POT. Fuck.

So at this point it was midnight and I had to log. Oh well 3rd time lucky I guess. I sure hope SA decides to do her again at some point. What happens if you get flagged for a Tier 3 plane if you don't have the flag for the previous plane?. I.E. I am not flagged for PonB but if we drop TT again I could get flagged for Torment?.

Thursday was a long night, but a lot of fun. First off everything we checked was dead. That kind of sucked. The scouts were out, and they were coming back with nothing. Well almost nothing. The call went out. Head for The Deep!. So off we all went. I have to say, as a zone, the Deep sucks ass. I went LD crossing the stupid invisible bridge and fell in the pit. But we finally got to the Burrower Parasite area and started the ring. Eventually the fat bastard spawned, and then he died. We didn't have any real tanks so the Little Red Fire Engine was playing MT.
MOBS= 1 Little Red Fire Engine= 0

He actually drops some very very nice loot. But he didn't drop the Robe. I was kinda looking forward to that as I would very much like to replace the Froglok Bonecasters Robe I have borrowed.

The parasite died (of course) and we pushed further into The Deep to find the Thought Horror Overfiend. Now this is a cool looking MoB!. Whoever was designing him and his buddies was obviously watching Predator at the time!. We were all on the lookout for a mob named "Ahnuld" but we never found him. Its a long fight but worthwhile as he drops some very nice stuff!.

MOBS= 2 Little Red Fire Engine= 0
Then we were off to BOT to kill the only two things still alive on Prexus. 2 Tower bosses. This chap decided to object, so we keel heem!

Then of course Auliff Chaoswind fell over.

MOBS=3 Little Red Fire Engine= 0

I was going to log at this point, but then we went to a Tower I had never been to, so I decided to hang around. There are a BUTTLOAD of Vann Krigers and other Vann's in this tower. Not tough just bloody annoying to kill