Apr 27th, 2002 - No updates?! - Desi

Well, an update wasn't justified. We haven't done much. Same old, same old. Multiples kills of N TOV, Cazic, Yelinak, Tormax, Dain, IV, THO, VP, etc. When we do manage to do something new or take the next step .......... like Tunare or Burrower or AoW or Shei I'll post the update. Farming news updates are soooo last year ( yes I used to do them ). Ciao.

Apr 12th, 2002 - NToV ......... almost, and some more stuff - Desi

So we finished our trek in N ToV, well almost. We were unable to best Vyemm. Thanks to /serverfilter not working anymore and his warping tactics. But we did come awfully close.

Soon enough. Too bad we didn't get a shot again after that. The slayings proceeded pretty much in order as they popped for us.

Jorlleag was so much easier and less scarier than last time (hmmm 8 months ago) it was laughable. Flawless and the nice Facesmasher.

Now Lady Neverderia. After we scored the first N ToV dragon on server with Jorlleag we made considerable attempts on the mob back in August.

From the Wraith News Archive

If at first you dont succeed, try try again - Desi, August 11th, 2001

I hope to be the harbinger of good news, of another server first, when we go at this guy again tomorrow. Wish us luck.

Unfortunately that tomorrow never happenend and we could never attempt the mob again as Wraith disbanded soon after. Now......

Pretty much 8 months to the dot. Dedicate this kill to Thuulsa who once inspired us to push beyond the limits on what we thought we could do. We still believe. Cheers to you old friend!

Did suffer one thrashing from this guy before we got a grip on things.

These 2 were rather easy, as expected. Hey, we weren't breaking any new ground here and went informed.

Alzedo's been using his Iceshatter with Va'dyn haste shield to melee a lot recently. As apparently from that ss he still doesn't even know the basics !!! =)

Feshlak was straightforward and a breeze. Though, we were caught completely offguard by kriezn and how easy the encounter has been made

Besides this we bested IV again and had a very very late night run on THO and got this sweet dagger for our effort.

Finally managed to get a shot at King Tormax as well. Not too much trouble, just had to wait a bit for pullers to learn the pull for the first time. First kill for us, yeay.

Also killed the usual offenders Zlan, Dain, Yelinak etc in there somewhere when they popped. Later!

Apr 4th, 2002 - About time. NToV infiltrated - Desi

Finally managed to muscle our way back into N ToV. It's been a long time since we did the first N ToV dragon on the server back in July.

Got to N ToV, first encounter being Ikatiar.

Onwards to Eashen of the Sky !!! The bane of Wraith for a while. After we killed Ikatiar for the first time on the server in May (damn it's been almost a year) we made several attempts on Eashen, all futile. One of the last remaining mobs we didnt finish off this time around. One more to go.

BTW he dropped some good loot

And then finally the fight of the night. The big man himself. The new buffed Aaryonar. We've been taunted by doubters about our ability to best this behemoth.

Although Alzedo and others were of the opinion that we should camp out after killing the pets to avoid hatchling respawn, especially considering this was our first attempt on Aary ever. But I was confident we could handle it all in one go. Alas my plan was foiled, but we came close.

Second try with no pets was a joke.

Think we had 3 deaths or so in end as the main tank went LD. Wait for reports of a flawless kill soon.

Killed the defenders / flurries and onwards to the only dragon up besides the bugged Vyemm.

We still haven't done any armor farming or epics much. I think you can see kunark armor on both Aminos (paladin in the aaryonar ss) and Tanalthasis (bard in the dagarn ss). Keep it rolling !!

2 days earlier we were in ToV in the West Wing. Doing Telk, Keeper, Gozz and we heard that there were 3 dragons up in N ToV. And noone was there !!!! Hmm.....

So went over to try Vyemm, Mirenella and Koi'doken.

Vyemm owns joo !!

This guy warped just about every possible place that he could inside AND OUTSIDE his cave. After getting thrown all over by his AE we learnt a lesson in humility and cursed VI a few while at it.

Here's where he finally warped that night in the back before he finished us off.

We wanted to try him today but right now he's sitting besides Aaryonar's spot !! And the head GM cant do anything to move him. bleh.

So we decided to get some sure shot loots from Koi'doken and Mirenella instead.

Think 1 death each on those. Was really a blast  !

Otherwise we got another Dain kill in there and also several visits to ST.

Cheers Wraith / Revivscence on continuing the progression.

Mar 30th, 2002 - More first timers ........... bring it on ! - Desi

From the Wraith News Archives:

July 22nd, 2001 - Wraith greets Lord Yelinak - Desi
What a rush ! Wraith faced Lord Yelinak today for the first time and unfortuantely due to time constraints we only managed to give this sucker one try, but we did manage to get him to about 30. Look for Lord Gimpinak to fall very very soon. 

Today. First try. 2 deaths. Yeay! Ok so when I said "very very soon" I didnt mean 8 months, promise. We never managed to try again due to the now well known demise of Wraith. He has since been buffed, but that turned out to be a non-issue. I believe the last of Wraith's resurrection effects have worn off.  There are only 2 mobs that I can think of that we attempted back then and since returning haven't returned the favor, only due to availability. I'll mention those tidbits in due time as well. A dose of history now and then! If you scroll down you'll see how remarkably fast the progression has been since we barely managed to kill Klandicar for first time on Feb 18th. Today's kill taught us we still need to realize our potential. Cheers !

Another new mob for us. Hmmmmm............ his guards are frankly stronger than him. I think we were all a bit disapppointed. What a long, boring, long, flawless fight. Did I say long? Saying 'zero deaths' on him is probably a given for any half decent effort. Anyway, atleast for today his loot was gimp even for his difficulty. 1 wiz only staff and 4 spells. lol ! Atleast the walk across the invisible bridge was cool !! =)

Otherwise, we played around with Zlandicar as he popped. So how creative can we get with positioning dragon corpses?! Dragon shade anyone? Nevermind, it's a cave.

Mar 28th, 2002 - Quellious......... transformed - Desi

A week of non-stop carnage! And dare I say, the high-end game on the server transformed again.

Started off Friday by a run in with everyone's favorite one-eye dwarf.

So we headed to try the Dain. Well aware of how frustrating the pull can be as well as the fact that we had the 425 hitter. First pull, we managed to get him to 40% while a lot of ppl learnt the particulars of this unique encounter. Second pull, 3-4 deaths, cleanest Dain fight I have ever participated in. The result:

After that we went for the Itraer Vius again. Becomes easier every fight. Smacked again! Got the ranger sword so Fadamor too can proc snare and die every fight. Picked up a bunch of neat much needed spells.

It was midnight, but Sontalak was up !! And the most screwy risk-reward ratio mob in existence couldnt dispell the slow on him !!!! Thanks disease counters !! So we took what we could over and killed him late night rather easily. Too bad he's immune to slow now. Was such a fun easy fight. Grats Revenger on Key.

LK popped. We were there waiting. LK died. Average life-span: 15 min (how long the fight lasted). Grats Niruhtam on belt.

Saturday started with word from the denizzens in the plane of fear that Boss was up! So we had not tried CT yet but why the heck not!

We proceeded to clear the Plane of Fear in record time as we got a ton of ppl coming in to help out. Excitement was high in anticipation for the encounter. CT drops no crap loot. That might have helped! Along the way we got Broken Golem for Mianiac and Wraith of Shissar for Starlee (now epicc'ed! Cheers).

So we proceeded to engage CT. I fully expected this to be a trial run while people managed to learn and cope with the knockback and snare and agro management. To my pleasant surprise, agro control was pretty good and CT succumbed to the onslaught. Woot !

The night was young. Onwards to Lend the Keeper for another key. Zoned in. Cleared the mobs. She gave up another key for Boldair.

So it was past midnight but there were 2 more dragons up nearby, so why not. CoH'ed to Telk, quick easy kill. Didnt drop anything too interesting that I recall. We then decided to whack Gozz too and were CoH'ing to the West ToV drop off point to clear to Gozz when I used my leet Gimp-ShowEQ (aka Halfling looking through wall bug) and saw a action packed shot with so many interesting observations that I decided to post it here. This is me looking through the North wall in Telk lair.

So anyway, Gozzrem died with like no deaths. The same mob that punished us so bad the last time we were here hardly put up a fight this time around. People are learning. Times are changing. We also got the sweet shovel from her too.

Ask Tunset for some food next time you see him.

Sunday we decided to go and try make the Glyphed and Exiled pop. Unfortunately my plan went limp since I obviously had some incorrect info on the trigger mobs. We'll make them pop next time then. Headed over to ST for another clearing after that. more crap. More bows. Grats Tenalin.

Monday, nothing was up or was already claimed. So we decided to go ahead with Tenalin's 10th Ring War. Always hectic, always fun ! Grats Tenalin !!

Were just exp'ing Tuesday when Itraer Vius popped Tuesday night. A LOT easier this time around with fewer ppl too. Was a blast and he dropped staff and crown. 

Logged on Wednesday with word that Statue was up. We called a early raid 5 PM EST and both Vindi and Statue were dead by 7 with the whole day to go still.  Ran over to Umbral plains. Whacked Rumblecrush and Doomshade and RC was nice enough to drop some sweet loot including his shield.

It was still early and we were debating what to do and then Klandicar popped.

Easier still. Glad we had almost no deaths since we needed the faction hit. Grats Jama on ST key. Now we too can CoH down to FA (ahem!).

Cheers Wraith / Reviviscence !!!

Mar 20th, 2002 - Itraer Vius smacked - Desi

Congrats Kindir on his new FT2 necklace !! And Minnae on the priest staff ! Cheers !

More 'supah seekret'^© stuff in the works !! We will reveal it later. Muhaha

Mar 20th, 2002 - Killed Stuff - Desi

So patch day came about. Huge patch. And you know what that means. Yes. We all knew there will soon be a patch to fix the patch. Unfortunately noone expected that patch to come 2 hours after servers were up. Pathetic. Why not just announce a 14 hour patch in the first place instead of making ppl wait with no ETA.

So we logged on and guess what. The most absolute bizarre and unexpected of things happened. It was a complete shock. STATUE WAS UP !! and NOONE IN KAEL !! Whoa !! so we ran over to finally get a shot at him. Had yet to kill him this time around. Was glad that people got in the groove relatively fast (relative to well.... someone slower, hehehe). Vindi dropped BP for Lotanz and Statue dropped BP for Revenger, Hammer for Shihhan and Scroll for Nysa.

So we also wanted to try the much talked about pull spot. First conceived by some smart tacticians in a guild called Blood of the Spider in Rathe almost a year ago for their Statue and later AoW kills. Later posted by Fires of Heavens in a ss on their website in their 44 man kill. Scroll down and you'll see it. Sorry I didn't take any screenshots (you can also see the pull spot in LC and VM's websites for their AoW kills). Needless to say, the pull spot makes the Statue encounter beyond trivial. It was the fastest we've killed him since we first did him on the server 9 months ago. Any decent 4 grp effort can kill Statue in that spot. We had a bad pull, he warped to camp, killed 6-7 ppl, MT got hold of him, never died and no deaths after that.

Headed to Ssraa after that, killed Rhag2. Got the nice Smoldeshank weapon, the crap and inexplicable Druid root proc sword (which rotted) and some spells.

Quick trip to Umbral Plains after that late night netted some so-so loot from Zaelthiniwhatever and Rumblecrush.

I'll post some ss when someone emails me some. I forgot to take any.

Also did VP over the weekend, and Klan, Keeper, Zland died again. Later folks

Well atleast no one can complain they cant see the Main Tank ! Interesting helm bug

Droz still believes in monarchy ! Absolute Rule !

Mar 16th, 2002 - Dragons, ST, Chardok and The Day of Suck - Desi

So leet guilds like LoS have the day of suck on leet mobs like Arch Lich in Ssra. Not-so-leet guilds like Wraith have the Day of Suck on not-so-leet mobs like Gozzrem in ToV. Our force of 40 which had so easily bested Gozzrem the week before and only came over here to pick up some easy loots from the only dragon up in ToV was forced to suffer through 2 failed attempts and a 4 hour raid to kill Gozzrem. After that experience we were only good for a trak kill and slithered away. Gozz loot consisted of 2 hybrid cloaks

To be honest we have not had that bad a time. Klandicar, Keeper and Zlandicar died again as they popped in a very short time, and Zlandicar raid was also more eventful than usual. Also farmed Chardoks a bit. Some loot summary, Aesir got the Cowl of Mortality, Ittee for Gloves of Superiority, Cabat got the Mask of Superiority, Nysa on Boots of Superiority. Etc.

I'll give a better update next time. Ciao.

Mar 11th, 2002 - K for Klandicar, K for Keeper -Alzedo

Woot. Scroll down and you can read the account of our last go at the Keeper on February 7th. We had 55 ppl. Fight lasted 6-7 min. We got her to 50%. So we were busy doing other stuff since then with a few trips to ST and some higher levels we decided to take on this mob again.  This time with fewer people , approx 45,  we killed her in 4-5 mins. The rooted version of the mob caused healers some problems to avoid the unresistable ae but they did an awesome job to keep their group alive.  I am quite sure people were very glad to hear some loot dropping along with the ST key hehe ;)  since we have been killing Klan/Sonta who drop NONE.  Grats Nemekis on the Boots and Kerowynn on the Ring and ofcourse the ST key, Grats Aesir.

Forgot to take any ss of the dragon but who cares, here is a better one, ENC melee kill shot!

 

Actually it was a rogue :)  Quarr sent me the pic.

Before Keeper, Klandicar spawned and tried to stay alive for more than a day.... rumours have it he was away from his spawn spot and was trying to hide ....... unfortunately he was spotted and killed once again :P Grats Ketel on the key.

Velkator was also killed sometime earlier in the day. Grats Nanelen on the Rod and Herrick on the bracelet  and rot (omg!) to the Crown.

Today, we had our best ST run. MoTG dropped a 2hb for Aesir, Prog dropped a 1hs for Ketel and FA also dropped 1hs for Gurunt! woot Grats guys!

Mar 6th, 2002 - Fun in the peaks ! -Desi

20 vs Silverwing
22 vs Hoshkar <----------------- !!!!!!!! Damn right !
22 vs Xygoz
25 vs Druushk
25 vs Nexona
26 vs Phara Dar !

No manaburn wizards. 3 clerics. Plus a lot of ppl got a UPGRADE in weapons from VP !! Our longest fights on each one of the mobs listed above. Many thought (including me, I  daresay) that we were in over our heads with low numbers and first time pullers. Once more, Cheers Wraith / Reviviscence !!

And if there's one thing worth going to VP for, it's the Robe of the Azure Sky ! Still ! Congrats Alzedo.

Also Klandicar died today. Congrats Claver on key.

Mar 3^rd, 2002 - You have become better at Brief Updates  (255)! - Desi

Zlandicar popped - Zlandicar died.

Sontalak popped - Sontalak died.

ST run - priceless sword, primal bow (AGAIN!!!), primal avatar

Thanks, drive through.

Mar 1^st, 2002 - You have become better at Killing Dragons  (219)! - Desi

Been busy as hell at work. Hardly getting any sleep and definitely no EQ. But the guilds been rolling along without me and I am greeted with one pleasant news after the next when I login at night before sleeping to say hi.

Apparently Trakannon was ganked a few times for obvious reason (No it's not the BPs). Also these guys got together for Klandicar again tonight as he popped, in apparently one super easy victory, without my 2-boxing clerics too ! Excellent news !! If mobs like Klandicar are becoming routine (resulting in the title) it's time to keep upping the potential and see what lies ahead. After all, we do want to raise the skill further and I believe Klandicar becomes trivial at 225 =)

Also Gorenaire was dropped as well in one the shortest fight possible without mana burn using this super strategy: Someone trigger the AE, rush in kill to the point where she starts CHing without even the first AE goes off, finish her before the CH ends casting. 15-20 sec fight. Apparently Trakannon also died without an AE going off, fun fun.

ST Key to Cabat, rest I dont remember, have it written down somewhere for points.

Feb 26^th, 2002 - Sleeper's again and more - Desi

First and foremost an apology is in order for Havlen and DoV. I misinterpreted his comment and should probably have clarified before being presumptuous. I have removed the statement and the matter was cleared up. Sorry again.

Now to the good stuff. So we returned to Sleeper's Tomb after the patch day played havoc with us. 2 more rogues made a world of difference quite. Pulled Master of the Guard and he died in less than 10 min instead of 25. 2HB primal for Droz. Cleared the way to the Progenitor and maintained the streak of a new mob for us every few days =) Kind of. Well Progenitor was a fun kill. He is by far the biggest non-dragon mob I've seen dwarfing the likes of Statue / PoG Trees etc and simply the tallest mob I have seen so far, period. Alzedo's direcharmed pet hit for 291 (hasted ofcourse) and ate all rampages, hehehe which made things easier than expected. And he had the goods too. Primal Spear for Nemekis. Congrats.

In other news Trakannon and and Talendor and Ragefire were killed today. So technically the new Ragefire was another new mob for us. Hehehehe ok I'm stratching this first-timer thing. Congrats Clerigy on epic and thanks to the Lotus folks who came at 3AM EST to lend a hand. Good nights folks. Later.

Feb 25^th, 2002 - Unfinished Business - Desi

From the Wraith News Archives, July 1st 2001:
Sunday, we had a go at Sontalak, the mean dragon who guards the entrance to the Temple of Veeshan. Still undefeated on the server he overwhelmed us by the tremendous damage potential he possessed, although he did go to his lowest HP on the server to like 25ish. I promise his next run-in with Wraith will end in his demise.

Tonight:

 

When I sat down to write this update I wanted to somehow sum up how long some of us have waited for this moment and how much it meant to us. Besides the thrill of the exciting fight itself, there was closure finally for something that a lot have referred to as unfinished business. In our first real try at Sontalak this time around we finally took care of it in our 2nd attempt. Our army of non-epicced melee mowed down this meanie in a relatively clean fight. After we gave him one go, and came close, we refined our strategy and nailed this idiot through and through. 30 Wraith, 20 Reviv and 1 dead dragon. Anyone who has fought this mob would be nothing but impressed given our numbers, our armor and most importantly our weapons. People are learning fast and I am extremely proud to say we are finally coming into our own. All Hail Wraith - Reviviscence !

Before we dropped Sontalak we got together for another Klandicar kill. In retrospect, Klandicar might even be a slightly more difficult encounter than Sontalak in light of our excellent strat on Sontalak. But like I said before Sontalak will hold a special place for Wraith-Reviv's brief history this time around. We've surpassed our expectations, achieving first timers for us on almost a daily basis. We're not taking a detour for armor farming in ToV or epic completions. We're just mowing them down with our limited numbers, even more limited equipment and seemingly limitless enthusiasm and sensibilities =) Best example would be that tonight after we lost 10 melee and 2 clerics after the loss in the first attempt to Sontalak I proposed calling it a night, but I pretty much got vetoed by everyone there who urged me to try the new refined strategy and ultimately resulted in our victory. We're beginning to believe............ and it's a great feeling =)

Congrats Nemekis and Annalyse on ST keys. Hope everyone had as good a weekend as we did. Let the Sleeper's Tomb infiltration commence in full swing.

Feb 24^th, 2002 - Ready or not, here we come..... - Desi

 

So we decided that we had just about enough waiting (well some of us have been waiting 8 months, hehe) and decided to get on with times and see what Sleeper had waiting for us. 7 folks from Wraith / Reviv zoned in, some 2-boxed, and proceeded to participate in one of the most lengthy fights of my career, 25 minutes in which Gurunt used his defensive 3 times. End result: Master of the Guard dead. My first Statue kill, incidentally first on server, was a lengthy 18 minutes, first Vulak kill (with VM) incidentally also first on server, was an equally lengthy 21 minutes. Tonight's fight with Motg was certainly of a different nature but hardly less thrilling. Only fight longer (and definitely the most boring of this set) was the mindless 80 min killing of Bristlebane in PoM, lol also the first on server. So what did Motg put out? Actually we were extremely lucky, since we got only the most rare drop in ST now besides the stupid scale. Yes folks, I refer to none other than the elusive Primal Bow. So what happens to bows with no rangers present? Rogues get to make out. Grats Jagg.

 

 

While we were in ST some of the bored Wraith / Reviv folks went to gank Talendor in SF for a RBB for Moncleared, 100% weight reduction Bag for Guelah and a red scale for Vortok.

 

After the ST / Talendor excursion we met up in GD for another demolition of the 10th war entourage of giants. Much smoother and easier than our last kill, and Quarr quite happily accepted his 10th ring. Temeras was the happy recipient of the superb helm, Vortok received the excellent Lance and Passionate the sweet mask.

 

On Friday, news came that Zlandicar had popped, so scooted over for a quick kill. Unfortunately, due to some misunderstanding, we agroed Zlan prematurely, dragged him out of his room had him gate, we tried to charge the room but he was already out again and gated again........ Ah well. Rez, Re-buff, charge. 2 deaths, our best kill yet. Great job guys.

 

So congratulations are in order for Zaazz on the Cowl of Mortality, Osmar on Frak Tali, Bruner on Heart, Ravenark on Shard and last, but certainly not least, Gurunt on ST key.

 

All Hail the Ratman!

In other news we had some great fun in a Hole experience group where Alzedo's dire-charmed pet's hilarious and numerous comments were very entertaining (not to mention his dmg output very humbling) and even prompted Elof to shift his parental affiliations =)

 

Feb 22^nd, 2002 - Minor update - Desi

What a ride ! So Klandicar popped. You can read our exploits of our besting of this beast below in the last update when we, despite Puvil's evil strategies, won in a relatively messy fight. We went again and after some craziness executed pretty much as good an attempt as a raid with limited experience and a hoard of non-60 melees holding weapons like Defiance and stuff and mostly pre-ToV armor could =) Most definitely it was our most supreme effort on a mob of this caliber and all present there shared in my excitement with our improvement. I think there were no deaths till Klandicar was 30% or so and ~15 deaths of the ~55 man effort after that, all of them to the unresistable AE since the fight kept going on and on and on like the Energizer Bunny ~ 4 min !!! and 15+ AEs. Dmg output still too low. Oh well, the tides are turning =)  Congrats Lotanz on the ST Key

One indication of this was the constant Myga PH clearing finally bearing fruit and Sandyilie is now the proud holder of another Dragonsbane. DB-able Dragons, beware.

Also cleared the Rhags for some spells and minor loot at some point. Finished some epics and waxed Servitor / Va'dyn as they popped with whoever was present. Pretty humble accomplishments. Then again, so was Klandicar =) Everything is relative. Just put in context, that starting the guild from scratch our first raids of Velketor and Gorenaire were only 5-6 weeks ago, the easy besting of Klandicar gives tons of inspiration for lots of good stuff to come.

Take care friends and farewell for now =) Woot Wraith / Reviv ! =) To even better days ahead ! Cheers !

Feb 18^th, 2002 - Narandi, you ARE the weakest link, Goodbye - Desi

Wow. What a hectic weak and a whole host of first timers for us. We've set the targets, set the pace, and meeting exceeding our own expectations so far, and I daresay everyone on board is enjoying the ride ! =)

10th War - Part Deux. So after our last mess with the 10th War we had learnt our lessons..... or so we hoped. We went again today with infact fewer people. ~30 Wraith , ~15 Reviv and after a out of control start with more Dwarves killing us than Giants we took a hold of things and never looked back. Only 1 hero died and the end result was Gurunt getting his ring (congrats man), Clavendale the Lance of Uber Taunt, Shamson the Helm of Uber Envy, Elof the earring (Fear the DA shaman), and Heio the Eye. Everyone had a blast. I'm sure there are more of these in the horizon.

Klandicar - Part Deux. So Klandicar had humiliated us pretty badly in our last go at him. We rearranged the strategy a little and voila, death to the ugliest dragon in existence. Although there were those (Puvil) who tried to foil the uber strategy by pushing the dragon up the wall !!

But it seems despite our best efforts to try and muck it up we won ! Probably our hardest encounter yet and a really sweet victory because of it. Dropped a Matchless BP for Nemekis and ST Key for Lunara. BTW Puvil wasnt at raid, but I bet that's what he would have said was he there =)

Also decided to try Gozzrem in West Wing. Had ~35-40 ppl and had a total blast. We still need better weapons though. Given it's got 100k more hp now ~250 total, the fight still went on far too long, probably 8 min. Actually with the dragon being perma-rooted it's actually fun to go to it's lair to gank it. Desaran (62k dmg from banes) observing his spoils here. Loots include Eye of Rigatorn for Dupri, and Cloaks of something for Leetah and Genix.

Also killed Zlandicar again as it popped. Rather uneventful (besides my train, so we wont dwell on this kill tonight). Cowl to Droz, Frak Tali to Faippo, ST Key to Alzedo, Zlan Heart to Doleiron etc.

Also killed Velk at some point as well as Trakannon a few times when we were bored. Finished some epics including a run in at Chardok. Killed Zlan another time before that as well with drops being ST key to Rumuk, First Brood Talis to Jama and Lotanz, Frak Tali to Claver and Heart to Vilenn.

Droz still learning

Naje still dreaming

And Valkon still likes it rough

Feb 7^th, 2002 - Large update - Desi

My apologies again for the long delay since the last update. I've been rather swamped with work again and updating points (which btw are now updated) is taking precedence and is more time-consuming that I had imagined.

We gave Lendinara the Keeper a shot yesterday. Well, we need better connections for one. 150 ppl in zone and lag sucked. We also need better damage output, forget primals, ppl need to finish epics, lol. So this was our first go on a AE / positioning type mob and I was pleasantly surprised how fast people picked up. First try sucked. we had about 55 ppl, 5-10 went LD, most of the rest were lagging, dragon was in the casters, positioning sucked and we only got her to 40. Second try we had 35 ppl better lag, perfect positioning, Main tank held agro and stayed alive for 6-7 min (including disc) before clerics started going oom ( more rods plz ) and she was only at 50% hp !!! Yes after 6-7 min atleast. Hmmm.......... we need ppl to level up some and get better weapons !! In progress now ! =) All in all it was a great run, everyone had a blast, especially the last attempt and people picked up on the strat incredibly fast. Soon with some more levels and better gear she'll go down.

We also got around to heading up the Plane of Air for some serious blade farming. And when I say serious I mean serious. ~8 hours, 51 Spiroc Lords, 13 blades. I think that pretty much puts to rest any contention on how often the blade drops. The sample size is large enough. It's 25%. The 13 un-epicced warriors were (in no particular order) Heio, Puvil, Puresmoke, Rumuk, Revenger, Tunset, Vortok, Torros, Ragnarz, Timok, Cabat, Inges (Pinga), Naje. And yes it sucked doing this boring crap. We were just way too exhausted to continue to I7 for crown farming but that too is looming in the horizon at some point. Also picked up 2 necro epics cloaks (grats Niruhtam and Vilenn) and finished Anyelle's Paladin FA. On Isle 4 all evil PCs got wiped due to Inadequate Research aka Anyelle =) Here's a pic of the marathon Spiroc Lord action.

Also downed the old hag Zlandicar sometime last week. I wasnt around to witness the fun but I heard it was an easy kill. Stay tuned for more Zlan farming in the weeks to come.

We finally got around to triggering the 10th Ring War for Gurunt and I must admit, it is as much a blast as everyone who has participated in it before has raved about. Truly an event everyone should participate in atleast once. Not to be missed. It was our first time with little prior info. Our start messed up, our forces divided. Yet we managed to get to the last sub-wave of the third wave before Narandi spawns. Next time we will no doubt fare better, and I will hopefully be the harbinger of good news. I think this pic aptly depicts how confused the situation was most of the times.

Some random quotes.

New Alternate Ability for mages while summoning food?

Hmmm....... Most Acute Observation of the Week Award !!

Thanks Chantress!! =)

Jan 25^th, 2002 - Busy .......... - Desi

Sorry for no updates friends. I've been extremely busy and I'm afraid this update will be brief for now. I might spruce it up later.

So what have we been upto. Well actually we're waiting for our friends in Reviv to finish up their ToV farming so that they can switch faction to Giant as well so we can kill some dragons. Soon enough =)

But in the meantime, we managed to wax Rhag 1 and Rhag 2 for a bunch of much needed lev 60 SoL spells as well as gave the Ring of Fire a go. We were doing great with almost no deaths, killed 4th boss, halfway to make 5th pop and somehow the quest inexplicably stops even though we had people in the ring. Oh well. We'll get him next time.

A bunch of ToV farming besides this, and that pretty much wraps it up for now. Ciao

Jan 13^th, 2002 - Gimpicator falls................ - Desi

So we decided to go to Kael knowing that the Statue had already been killed. After all Vindicator was as much a learning experience as any other mob. We all get to Kael, pull Mr. Derakor and after some 4-5 min of some admittedly pretty messy stuff Vindicator was dead. Hopefully now that we have waxed him once we will do it more smoothly next time =)

I am actually getting quite fond of these overhead shots. Too bad they will look the same every time from above. Loot was , ofcourse, a BP which was awarded to Kaesha !! =)

After the Vindicator we decide to go feed Sontalak for some reasons that I forget now because he bashed us so hard =) I think the experience was still fun for everyone involved (atleast I hope it was) and an eye-openner as well. Sontalak > Wraith =) .... for now.

Jan 12^th, 2002 - Lots of stuff and points - Desi

I have been really busy during the past week at work and also in EQ due to setting up the Wraiths points system so my apologies for no updates earlier and the small one now.

Did a bunch of stuff in the past week including epics mobs, a bunch of Va'dyns, ToV farming, and stuff. Va'dyn's been miserly with us giving shit loot and no spells so nothing to post about him.

Got together fast for Velk when he heard the Gimp was up and brought him down with our lowest numers so far (about 40) and least deaths too 5-10. We're getting there =) The great news is Velk dropped possibly one of the best loots ever including a wiz robe for Sandy, enc rod for Alzedo, Velk book for Nandaben and Shield for Genix. And guess what ? He didnt fall in the wall this time !!!

After grabbing Ragefire for Satinsister (woot) we headed to DL to meet the dragon Gorenaire. Considering we had only 1 wiz and almost noone had fought Gore before I was a bit worried. But still we triumphed, though it was a long fight as we just meleed her down through the CHs !!

Loot consisted of a bunch of spells and 2 Paladin books, awarded to Anyelle and Skoria and a stupid bard horn.

Sorry no more quotes for now till I get the points system rolling properly. Still sucking too much of my time =) Later.

Jan 6^th, 2002 - Velketor the Gimp again and some ToV farming -Desi

Yeah Yeah! We killed the gimp again, the drops (as expected) werent too good but it was good practice for some of the new members. We got ANOTHER necro bracer (2/2 now) and the recipient was Tada. Also got the excellent Velk Book for Phypher and some sword for Heio.

After Velketor we went to go kill Va'Dyn in Akheva to get some SoL 60 spells. Along with the spell we also got a pretty sweet 16/28 monk / bst weapon with a 75 pt lifetap proc. The fight with Va'Dyn turned out to be a lot more exciting than  anticipated as he brought all his friends with him, around 7-8 unmezzable mobs plus 4-5 mezzable mobs. 

On Saturday we spend the day farming ToV. Nothing too exciting. Broke in. Sat in octagon room and farmed till we were falling asleep. Routine stuff. Was a pretty successful trip with almost everyone getting something, especially plenty of plate for once =)

Earlier we made an attempt on Vindicator and got our first thrashing of 2002, YEAY !! I think that's an event too =) Actually we didnt do all that bad but it's good to laugh about it =) Was a good experience for everyone there for sure. 

In other news I bring you several new subsections

Tada the Wannabe PVPer

Ok so Tada has been going around challenging everyone to duel him and he remains true to his boasts.

Although I doubt that statement will put him in good standing when it comes to loot award =)

Naje the Dumb Warrior

Self explanatory =)

Droz's private pictures found !!! Thanks Tanven !

Heio the 'Tank' Warrior !!

One of our tanks just broke an AC record I think. Possibly across all servers. Too bad it's in the wrong direction =)

Errr....... Pinga has Issues.

 ???!!! I didnt get it =)

BTW Happy New Year! =) Ciao.