Being as though our last Rathe kill was almost exactly 3 months ago, we were a little rusty on the encounter. With lots and lots of new faces, in fact, upwards of 40 people who had never even seen this encounter before, we knew we had our work cut out for us. The summer of 03 really took a huge toll. With a couple huge game titles released, lots of players feeling the usual July-August burnout syndrome, a fairly large chunk of the W/R officers taking leave of absences, vacations, the new school/college year beginning, etc., etc., it just seemed like time dragged major ass. Even after Coirnav went down, given the structure of this flagging system, we knew our work was far from over.

In a 3 day crunch, with over half the attendance not having any experience with this encounter at all, we completely owned it in around 3 hours. All those long, late night, snoozefest backflagging raids seemed worth it.

We brought our A-Game and the traditional Wraith/Rev perseverance paid off yet again.  I was very impressed with the way so many people showed up ready to learn one of the hardest encounters in the game. Given our very lenient uber-guild/alliance posture, non-mandatory raids and huge casual player crew, we've proved again we can accomplish anything the die-hard  strict raiding guilds can. Many good updates to follow, as we press on to meet a multi-headed dragon somewhere in Plane of Time B.

/Stretcher pls   - September 24, 2003 - Desaran

 

Before we actually pulled The guardian of Coirnav my arms turned to jelly, and Droz told me he was bouncing up and down in his seat with excitement.  Moments like this is why we put up with all the bugs and frustration that come with high-end EQ raiding - there's simple nothing else like it in PC gaming, give or take a red hot game of mindsweeper.

The fight itself can be done several ways, but we chose the traditional method of keeping all 75 of Coirnav's little helpers distracted by Gurunt shouting "FOCUS"!

Maybe it was the numbers we had online, maybe it was because everybody was actually focused on the task at hand, but at no point during the fight did the outcome seem in doubt. Its been a while since we have jumped around like complete and utter dickheads, but tonight people defied the law of gravity and put Michael Jordan to piss poor shame.

Grats Wraith and Reviviscence on a MUCH deserved first kill. We had exasperated every strat we came up with, trying this event from every single angle we could possibly see. The kill was very much in our grasp months and months ago, but being given 1 shot at this fish every 12-14 days, made it alot more drawn out then it should have been.

In any case, welcome this fat uncle fucker to stretcher status. Grats Jama on some nice shoulders, and grats Daakistmare on a nice haste item. With the avatar of water dead, that leaves us with 4 new backflag mobs, yay?

/Jeopardy Music  -August 14th 2003 - Desaran

Planes of Power elemental gods for 500 pls.

Question: Of each elemental god encounter, which one did SOE put the least amount of thought into?

Answer: What is Coirnav, The fagatard of Water.

So whats Wraith/Rev been up to lately, no updates, nothing new. Well, besides waiting for blowable encounters to spawn, we've been kicking it back and doing some ever-so- boring farming for the bling bling. Blowable spawns are rediculous, and you'd have thought Verant learned this back in the Emperor Ssra days. Oh well, wishfull thinking.

On our recent attempt on Coirnav, (4), we goofed some pulling, almost made up for it but lacked the strength to trod threw the last thick fog of shit the encounter creates. Needless to say, we are still learning this encounter and we will be jumping around like complete dickheads with fried calamari in hand much sooner then later.

Let me sum up some of the highlights of our thumb-twiddlingfest.

I voted not to kill it.

That about sums it up. Ciao.

Is it Time? -July 22nd 2003 - Desi

3rd Attempt:

Blowable spawns with 3-4 day repops SUCK! But I guess that's the only hard part about this fight. Hopefully the 'Time' shall be upon us soon.

I wanna get ya home, and Uhhhh..

 

Double up, Uhhhhh.

 

Uhhhh!

I ain't talkin bout Playboy, Those silicon parts are made for toys.

The Rathe Council, my friends, is Dead. Thanks goes to Sir Mixalot for gracing us with his presence. After 1 full week of preparation, determination, and mud wrestling, we prevailed. Everyone showed up and threw down their "A" game and we proved once again that persistence > all. We all became better at jumping around like complete dickheads...in the MUD!

Grats Ragnarz on a shiny new breastplate, and Gurunt on a new sword of bitchslap. Its funny how most elemental guilds these days usually down Coirnav before tackling the Rathe, like its some kind of unwritten rule or something. Now the only thing holding us back is...you guessed it, a retarded blowable spawn.

So I was flipping threw my SS's the other day, and I found this gem. Some of you old timers might remember.

Grats Wraith and Reviscence on another challenge bested. Many hard nipples and fishy stories to come, if you catch my drift.

You pay hard for small oversights here.

It's all about execution and having the bodies to sustain control.

Home of the 12 most pitifully overrated Jolly Green Giant look-alikes in the world, I welcome you to Rathe Council Island.  Our first and only stop will be the Council itself.

Four more to go.

Hmm, Lace boots, butterfly wings, purple thong...who could it be? Hmm, lets take a closer look shall we?

Hmm, still don't know huh? She's mean, she's purple, and she digged this halflings manhood. No jumping and screaming like a dickhead today, I had a big bitch of a woman to please.

Xegony, Version 3949030949034.0 finally bites the dust.

That about sums it up folks. Grats Droz on a new 1hb, Grats Sarasate on Tunic of nipple-show, and Grats Dwarvenale on plate legs, that makes 3 plate legs all together for us. More ownage to come thx to Wraith and Reviviscence!