Southern Armada Everquest Raids Week Seven

14/04/03 Week Seven

Well the early week didn’t go well for SA. First off we headed to Akheva Ruins to have a go at our old mate Shei. Of course the Itraer Vius died on the way and kindly dropped the monky thingy.

We did a lot better than last time but still got nailed. As my guild Leader put it so eloquently in a wrap up discussion of the fight: “I (Kezlar) will personally spit on his corpse when we drop him” and I (Ulaa) will clear the way and polish up the corpse so you can mate. This little bastard is going down next time!.

So then it was off to POTactics for a charge against Tallon Zek. I really like the POTactics zone. Its one of the best looking zones in the game in my not so humble opinion. The new mobs in there are cool as well. Here are a couple of mobs we ran into on the way to TZ. Diaku Elite Sentry, Diaku Elite Guard, Hendin Deathbringer, Hendin Assassin and Gindan Flayer. Its a pity those weapons they are carrying have such crap stats cause they look cool!.

Now we only had 32 people at the time so the actual chances of us dropping him I think were slim to none. But it was our first run at him, so as a learning process it was great. I died early on in the first attempt * Damn that AOE is NASTY!!* and had to log. SA went at him a second time with about 28 people and took him down to 80%, so he is definitely doable by us.

The following raid day was a lot better. We headed off to POTactics again cause the Diaku Overseer was up. Again it was our first run at him, the AOE rampage caught us by surprise a little and we wiped the first time. The second time he fell over like he never engaged at all. Bloody AOE got me twice. I couldn’t back up any further or I would have been outside and aggroing the wanderers *BAD idea*. However he was kind enough to drop the Blood Bladed Dagger for me. I don’t think anyone else wanted it *grin* Thank you Kez!

So after the Diaku Overseer bowed before us we went off to the Deep for a warm-up against the Burrower.
All the wizzies were away, we have no mages, he still died. I think we could do this with about 20 people!. Since we were in the zone and he was lolly gagging around and stinking up the place, the Thought Horror Overfiend was next on the list. Of course a lot of Elder Thought Horror’s decided to get in the way. We convinced them this was a bad idea.

We smacked the Elders around and soon enough the THO was in the process of snuffing it.

I still think he is one of the coolest looking Mobs in the game!. During the fight it was announced that Prexus was coming down in 30 minutes. So we killed him, looted and were on our way out when the damn zone crashed. It looked like we were in danger of losing all the PhatLewtz! that he dropped due to a roll back. But the Prexus GM/Guide staff did the right thing and everybody got their Loot back.

That was kind of the end of it for the night. We had one more impromptu raid on Saturday evening. We decided to have a go at the Ring of Slime event in Cazic Thule. Basically you kill 3 triggered MoB’s one of which is an Acidic Mass. If you ever want to do this ring, bring along a LOT of DPS. We did it with 2 groups. This fat swine has a LOT of hp. I have seen it estimated at 1 million points and I would be tempted to agree.

I had to log after this kill. I was buggered, buying a house is a long and stressfull process. So I just needed sometime way from it all. Everyone was out on Saturday night, so I calmed myself with a few Rum and Cokes and watched crap TV for a few hours. It was a very pleasant evening. Sunday I was doing some XPing in the Pit (Plane of tactics) with some guildies (thanks for the group guys its fantastic XP in there) and got a few more Screen shots of some cool looking MOBs, so here they are. A Warboar is first. Anyone who has ever been pig hunting will appreciate just how nasty these things can be.

And a War Wraith.

Now the Little Red Fire Engine has taken to calling this unbiased, well written, well researched and perfectly accurate web site – “www.ulaaslies.com”. Now since he is claiming I am lieing, I am going to have to PROVE that the little red fire engine still knows he can, and one day will survive a fight with an orc camp. So from now on I will try and get screen shots of any Little Red Fire Engine deaths I am present for. And so, thus is born the Deaths of the Little Red Fire Engine web page!

Southern Armada Everquest Raids Week Six

04/04/03 Week Six

Quote of the week from Burrower raid:

Kezlar tells the raid “Pooby behind Gar, assume the position”
Kaalana tells the Raid ” methinks gara be assuming the ogre cockwarming position then :)”

Thanks for that Kaalana, I think my monitor will still work after having a mouthful of coke sprayed all over it!.

Well the week started off really well. Normally I am the only SA member playing on Saturday day. So it was really nice to get a tell from a member of Unity (who shall remain nameless) along the lines of “If any of you guys want to join us for a raid today, join this channel”

So of course I promptly joined the channel and learned that Unity would be doing the PonB hedge maze run and then dropping TT for flags for their members. I asked most politely if it was ok if I came along (as I don’t have the flag) and was most politely invited to join. WOOT! A Flagging! *Insert rude Python-esque word play here*

For those who have never done it, basically the PonB (or Crypt of Terris Thule” flag battle involves keeping this guy alive as he walks through waves of nasty monsters.

Now, he’s not very bright and my level one pet could take him, so you have to be awfully quick on the Crowd Control and good DPS to make it to the Boss Mob. The final battle is against A Construct of Nightmares. Now this is one seriously weird and ugly looking Mob. Not tough but a buttload of hit Points!. But he died, I ran back to POT and got my Flag!

So since I now had my PonB flag it was kinda logical to join up with a Unity raid to go and kill Terris Thule. Now as those of you who have been following the continuing adventures of Ulaa the Necromancer are no doubt aware, I have failed against my last 2 tries against TT. The people I have been with haven’t failed, I have. First fail, wiped and had to go to bed *Boo, hiss, you big girl!*, 2nd try went LD and got ported out *Sad*.

So joining up with Unity to do this seemed a good idea. Now, a couple of other SA had logged in at this point so there were now about 4-6 of us on this raid. We formed up in PonB and headed to TT. Unity bitch slapped her and I got another flag!. Two in one day, woot!. Thank you very much to Unity. They rock!. Im going to try and hook up with them again this weekend, if they will have me.

When GOOD textures go BAD!!.
Running through Lavastorm the other day, something went very very wrong with the ground.

We have had another Server transfer, a 65 Pally called Kemdal came across. So we organized a wee raid on KD to Kill us a Vindicator and get Kem a shiny new BP. Now this goes to show that even the bestest, tightest group of people can have an Off day.

Attempt 1: 15 people. Vindi pops with a buddy. Wipe
Attempt 2: 20+ People. Vindi pops with a buddy. Wipe.
Attempt 3: 25+ People. Vindi pops with a buddy and adds, at one point we had 5 giants in camp. Wipe.
Attempt 4. 35+ People. Vindi comes alone. He dies.

Now, SA is MORE than capable of taking Vindi with 15 people even with adds (Particularly the people there at the time) but for some reason we kept dying a lot. Like I said, every guild has an off day, that was ours. It was still a lot of fun though and Kem got his BP in the end. 🙂

So, now its raid day. First call is BOT for a Tower Boss. So we start to form up, then the call is changed, A Burrower Parasite is up! head to The Deep. So off to the Deep it is, my second time there and I remembered the way!, well pretty much, only got lost once. We fight our way in (I managed to NOT fall off the bloody bridge this time) , start the Ring and away we go. It seemed to go down a lot faster this time.

Maybe it was cause we had 5 Necros there!, Ive never been in a raid with that many Necros!. In fact Ive never been in a Guild with this many Necro’s. On the way in there, Wolfe also was kind enough to let me have my 63 pet! So now all I gotta do is power to 63 this weekend and Ill have 2 (count em) 63 spells to scribe !. The 63 pet cant tank at all, but for Guild Raids its an awesome damage dealer if positioned behind the mob.

So it was all going well, we had a real tank, everyone is rocking along, Rangers chugging out arrows, Nec’s Dotting and Nuking, Tanks smashing, Wizzies Nuking, Clerics Healing etc etc. Then, suddenly, a tragic loss!. Just before the Burrower took a dirt nap, The Little Red Fire Engine went to his god in the sky. *Sad*

Much Good Phat Lewtz, was had from Burrower (We got another Robe woot!)

Then, one of my favorite things, a Flagging!!. Behemoth is up. Everyone heads out to POI and forms up. We run into the Factory and head out to Behemoths room. Now last time, we had a fail, I still don’t know why, but we were determined to take him this time. CC groups are doing their thing and suddenly I go LD *sigh* *FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck*
Zone back in to find out Im just in time *phew*. Behemoth becomes targetable, tanks and clerics race in, casters head to back wall.

Nukes go in, 20 seconds later, dead Behemoth. A Flagging!!.A Flagging!!. So I am now flagged for PoTactics!, woohoo!, doesn’t mean Im going to get groups in there of course but at least I can join the guild for raids!. 🙂

More Good Phat Lewtz from the Behemoth. Hopefully next raid day is either Grummus or AD (Neither of which I have killed yet, and I want to see em die) or a Mini in Luclin (Drop my damn spell you swine). I still want to kill Shei Vinitras as well cause he wiped us once and we need Vengeance!

Little Red Fire Engine 0
MoBs 2

Well this update has been a little late, but I am in the middle of buying a house so its all been a bit frantic.

First off we headed to Plane of Valour to visit Aerin’dar the crystal Dragon. Now I havent gotten to kill a lot of Dragons so every one that goes down is still a real thrill for me. It was a bit messy (did they Up the power of his AOE?) but he still died good and proper.

Since he went down so quick (and dropped the Phat Lewtz!) and I got flagged to Halls of Honor! Kez made the call that we were off to HoH to do the first two trials. We couldn’t do all 3 because Rydda’Dar wasn’t up. So off we went, Im not going to go into too much detail here suffice it to say both of these are damn fun fights. Kudos to VI for going beyond the Pull MoB and kill it type of combat. I particularly liked the Village people fight.

Basically you clear a bunch of MoBs until you only have one left. You kill the final mob when you are ready and the trigger mob spawns. Kill the trigger to start the event.

Once a Custodian of Marr is dead the flag fights start. Once you have killed a butt load of nasty multi spawning MoBs ( you need damn good crowd control for these fights ) you then get a bunch of nameds spawn.

Once you complete the combat phase you hail the Planar Apparition and you get 2 of the 3 Character flags for the Temple of Mithaniel Marr. One of the nameds in the 2nd flagging was also kind enough to drop an Ornate Silk Robe Pattern. I think Kez was embarrassed that one of his Necro’s was still wearing a Bonecasters Robe and he was kind enough to award the pattern to me. For those who don’t know, 500pp and a lot of help from a high level tailor and brewer you end up with this.

Holy Shit it is a nice robe!. There are better robes out there, but not very many and most of them drop off MoBs like the Emperor or in VT. I remember reading up on this robe and the other Ornate stuff while I was on Karana and thinking I would never get to see any of it. Now I am wearing the Robe!. /Hug SA. The only pieces I have left that I still need to return to people in SA who have loaned them to me are, one earring, both bracers and I still need to find me a pair of Boots and Im wearing all my own gear again!

So after we got 2/3 flags for Mithaniel we headed off to BOT for some tower killing. Two tower bosses died in rapid succession and dropped Nada
/rude VI

Next week our raid night is immediately after the Patch! so there should be LOTS of good targets up WOOT!

Little Red Fire Engine survived all the fights cause he wasnt there 🙂

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

We got to the boss, we pull heem, we keel heem. I sleep now.

And the final score for the Night:
MOBS= 3 Little Red Fire Engine= 1. (Yes he survived the last one!)

Southern Arnada Everquest Raids Week Four,

21/03/03 Week Four

Tuesday Night seriously sucked. Raids into HOH and COD. Neither of which I am flagged for. So I sat around waiting for enough people to logon to get above the 32 limit so I could zone in. Never happened, so that was 3 hours wasted hanging around. I did however manage to get into a good all SA XP group.

Damn I wish I could do all SA groups all the time. I am sick of getting killed or just generally fucked around by some of the people I have grouped with recently. Some of them have been great, others….. I wonder how the hell they ever managed to get above level 10. Friday was a much better raid night.

First things first, we formed up in POK and the call was made to head to WL as Tormax was up. Now personally I think that killing giants is the best thing you can do with your clothes on, so I was rather happy to be seeing Tormax die for the first time!. So after a few problems (Someone sowed Tormax before we got there so the pull was tough) Genosin, and the best pull team on Prexus had him inc.
He came with a friend or two, But what the hell, they all died just as fast.

And BAM one dead King O’ the Giants! Since we were there, and he was there and he would have felt left out, well you know, Vindi.

I would have loved to have killed AOW as well and made it a hat trick, but he wasnt up /cry.

So next it was off to AR to nail the Itraer Vius again. The Va’Dyn wasnt up and the IV didnt drop Funeral Pyre (Gimmeee my damn spell you swine, he’s dropped Zevfeers Theft of Vitae three times in a row tho grrr)so we just ran in and zerged him. At this point most of the guild had left so we killed him with about 25 people or so, Im fairly sure we could do him with a lot less.

Southern Armada EverQuest Raids Week Three

15/03/03 Week Three
Well we started off Monday night with an attempt on Behemoth!. This was my first try on him and SA’s first try solo. Up till this attempt we had apparently always duetted him with Unity.

Unfortunately we failed. We had him at 30% when I got summoned. I’m not sure why the fail, we had him well under control, no spideys got in the room and I definitely wasn’t over nuking. Ah well next time he dies. After Behemoth we headed off to see some of the BOT Tower Bosses. (Must get a damn Key for BOT) A couple of MOB’s decided to object…

but they didn’t last long. So at the end of the night…

Some very damn nice melee weapons drop off these guys.That was the end of the night for me and I needed to log.

Friday was a lot longer night. It started when we heard that Junk Beast was up, so a couple of us decided to give him a hard time. We formed up and got ready for the pull. Just before the pull, a group in front of us (we were leapfrogging them to get to Junk Beast) aggroed him…

We thought, “what the hell!” and engaged. This was the EXACT moment that both our tanks went LD. Typical Pally behavior!. So a few seconds later I saw…

For a caster that is NOT a good image to see. We reformed, moved up, pulled,

fought,

result.A good way to start the night. Once we had him down the raid was called and off to Akheva Ruins we went. First to fall was The Va’Dyn.

He went down like a blondes knickers. Unfortunately he didn’t drop my spell. That’s ok, he will die again, and so will many other Luclin Bosses Im sure. If Im very lucky and very good, maybe I will get one AwardedAfter the Va’Dyn and a little bit of fighting, came the Itraer Vius. Now this is one cool looking mob.The little red fire engine blocked my view and we engaged shortly after so I have also grabbed this image from Allakhazams.A bit more running and a lot more fighting (Damn Worm traps) we got to Shei Vinitras place.

This little punk wiped us. But it was our first run at him, he will die next time. We learned a lot about what to do in the next fight and I have no doubt he will be nailed shortly. Unfortunately they announced a server down just after we wiped. I managed to summon the last raid member and we got everybody rezzed and BAM “You have been disconnected” so that was the end of that.

During the weekend I also did a bit of killing in groups in POI and PON.I have to say I really like the look of these two mobs!. Excellent design from SOE.

Southern Armada EverQuest Raids Week Two

Southern Armada EverQuest Raids Week Two
10/03/03
Unfortunately I had to miss a day of this weeks raiding as I had to goto a wedding on Waiheke Island, so this update is a little short. But Tuesday we formed up in Dragon Necropolis and ran down to kill Zlandicar.

I took a day off to kill Zland once, we ran in tonight and he was dead in 5 minutes. He is a warm-up for SA!. He was also kind enough to lend me his heart again. Isn’t that nice!, I come all the way from Karana and Zlandicar realizes how much I miss his heart and gives it back to me!

After Zland we decide to hit the Manaetics again

They died fast again, but not as fast as the little red fire engine!, so we headed off to spawn the POI Dragon!. The gnome was spawned, Xanamech Nexmithafen came to life and promptly died.

He was also kind enough to let me have a Pulsing Phase Emitter So basically by the middle of the raid I was doing really well for drops! (Thanks Kez!!)

So now we have a few more people flagged and are nicely warmed up we head out to Bastion of Thunder and fight our way up to Brynju Thunderclap.

He of course died. SA went on to nail another 2 of the tower bosses. At this point it was 1.30 in the morning and I was working the next day. I had to go to bed so I missed the final kills. Never mind there is always next time!

Southern Armada EverQuest Raids Week One

24/02/03
Well I logged into Prexus for the first time and after nearly going LD from all the “Welcome to Prexus” and “Welcome to SA” Spam, which was really nice of everybody. Because I landed on Prexus naked people were donating stuff to me and I was running around all over the worlds picking up from them. I really really appreciate the donations and I kept a little log of who donated what so I can return it all back to them.

So there I am, equipped in relative newb gear and some one says “Want to go on a raid?” WOOT! absolutely!. So within an hour of landing on Prexus I am on a raid with SA. Now one thing they don’t tell you when they move you is that all of your windows get wiped back to Zero. So my custom UI is OK, but the way I had my windows and filter set is fucked. So there I am in the middle of an SA raid, trying to reset my windows, trying to contribute, and trying desperately not to fuck up and get the raid killed. First place we went was POI and the Manaetic Prototypes XI, X, XI.

They died really fast, fucking impressively fast. You have to remember up till now I haven’t been in a guild capable of even AOW. The best TSW managed was NToV. SA know their shit, they know what they are doing and when raiding they shut up and LISTEN. I am in heaven!! Once the 3 of them were dead we headed off to kill Terris Thule. A couple of Mobs got in the way, but they didn’t last long.

So we got to TT and after some deliberation we attacked.
First time we wiped and I had to log soon after the CR as it was about 1230 and I had to work. But we got her the second try. I know I will get to see her again, and again, and again……

A day later I log in and Genosin sends me a tell “Want to help kill Vhaksiz the Shade?”. Do Monkeys throw their own crap?, does the countryside smell?, are we going to win the next Bledisloe cup?, do I want to raid, OMW!.

So 20 minutes later he is dead (so am I because I am so fascinated with seeing this mob and taking an SS that I forget to FD, DOH!) and we are looking for something else. So we head to Ssra as the cursed cycle is up. We were largely made up of under 60s and we only had 2 clerics but we went anyway.

First dies the Glyphed.

Next is the Exiled.

The Cursed unfortunately evaded us. Not cause he is too hard, simply cause we only had 2 Clerics, he will die next time.