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Game Update 62: Age of Discovery

Game Update 61: The War of Zek

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I would like to apologize to the players on Butcherblock who I grouped with, on Thursday morning, smashed out of my mind. Wednesday and Thursday are my primary drinking days, one of my friends coined those days “Black out Thursday”.  Wednesday and Thursday drinking started innocently as days nights where my college and townie friends would take advantage of the local college/sports bar The Tavern specials, on Wednesday it’s two for one pitchers and Thursday night is A.T.L.A.S night, which means  something like “All the law allows in one sitting”.  Over the years my group of friends have become regulars at this bar, the bartenders have become close friends with us, which usually means a couple of free drinks. :)

Wednesday night we were celebrating something, and I got a little more trashed than normal. After many-many “tick tacks” (shot of flavored vodka and a about 1/3 can of a popular energy drink) and my two pitchers of Yuengling I was wide awake and stumbling drunk by the time I got home. I decided to get on EQ2 and find a pick up group, instead of trying to sleep, this didn’t go well. While my group understood I was drunk, they also expected me to tank, which led to a lot of deaths and some hilarity of me trying to turn mobs, wandering in to huge agro groups of mobs and just plain horrible tanking. Eventually, another tank was brought in to finish the job and I stayed in the group to finish up the zone.

Flame me, whatever I don’t care,  you knew what you were getting in to! :)

 

It seems they took the servers down 11pm PST (2 am EST) time to update GU #52 Monument and Might! It is a little odd to see US servers go down at night, usually they take servers down at 7am PST (10 am EST) in the morning. I wonder why they started early?

Well, see you tommorow in game!

 

We killed Avatar of Fear tonight, only 4 mobs to go so we can complete The Shadow Odyssey! Valor fell tonight as well!

We also killed Gynok and his brothers tonight as well. Yawn.

 

Yeah, so things died and it gave us stuff!

Tranquility, Hate, War… all dead. As much as I love beating up children, Tranquility should be tweaked a bit, It’s by far the easiest Avatar, easier than most instanced TSO content.

Avatar of Fear will die tonight! He’s finally up on the server, I think one of our members force spawned him, just so he’d be up to kill.

What we have left to expansion completion:

  • Avatar of Fear
  • Anashti Sul (Contested)
  • Ykesha
  • Gozok
  • Munzok
 

Flame burns out!
Finally, the Avatar of Flame falls! We killed the Avatar of Flame for a server 1st after two nights of pulling this time, we finally got a lucky pull in at at lucky hour! Grats Ubah & Reddevil on your sever disco’s!

Rune Etched Helm!
WOOHOO! I finally got it! One of the best items in the game for a healer! Crazzel, Reddevil, Gerrod, Seijakuri and myself went in and we killed Dreadlord D’Somni. After a year of waiting it’s finally mine! I am so happy =). Yes, I know there is a new one from Munzok’s Material Bastion, which is way better, but our fury and warden can wear it. If it’s a common item, I guess we’ll all eventually “upgrade”, but I doubt it is common at all.

No Vega NO! :(

 

We started off the night with Tomb of the Mad crusader, and blew through that fairly quickly.

Then to Ykesha’s Inner Stronghold and killed Tyrannus the Dark, which dropped a Templar helm pattren that I scooped up for Grouser. Then we spanked Field General Uktap, earning disco on the Dagger for Foresaken.

We then hit Zarrakon’s Aybysal Chamber, killed him and…

 

We didn’t continue with Munzok’s last night because we needed to keep on track to keep our normally rotating content up to date.

F.U. Void Annihilators!
We started with Palace of the Ancient One did a full clear on that zone in about two hours. I have really become to hate the Annihilators in the zone, these are non-named (which means they drop nothing but junk loot) mobs that look like giant floating stingrays. The giant floating stingrays of doom have a mem-wipe that generally 1 shots anyone they switch too, it feels like a constant rez fest!

Avatar of Mischief
Even though he’s a fairly easy Avatar for us, he’s one that I don’t like to pull. He can be a real pain in the ass, like he was last night. We did get him in one pull, but one of the first AOE’s tagged me dead, reactive up and all. By the time I got up, the group was going low and I didn’t have enough time to get everyone up to green before we went splat. Even with us going down we still managed to spank him well under the time limit.

Avatar of Valor
What ever you do, don’t heal! For us healers with itchy trigger fingers on the heal buttons this mob is bad. =) He punishes heals by disarming, or de-targeting the target of the heal. This is a mob that am very happy to take off most of my healing gear and go DPS, with the occasional spot heal.

Gearing Grouser!
A little while back, I mentioned I had a Sarnak Temlar alt, Grouser. Last night out of Palace, I was able to pick up the T4 pattern for shoulders and gloves. That makes 4 out of the 7 pieces and the shoulders are the strongest piece! Earlier this week I finished the fabled epic quest, which I am impressed with, because I get easily annoyed with long quest lines.

(whine)
Please, stop sucking Butcherblock!
Yes, I just called out the entire server!
I am not trying to be a jerk, or be on a high horse, but the quality of play has really slacked on our server. There are only a handful the players I will group with outside Dracos Argent who I will do a pickup with. That’s pretty sad on one of the most populated servers in the game! I have never been in so many failed pickup groups. I have stopped doing pickup groups… It’s so depressing.
(/whine)

 

Monday, Dracos Argent cleared Tomb of the Mad Crusader, then ventured out to Lesser Faydark to took out Avatar of Growth. We then hit Zek and took down Avatar of War! We spent the rest of the night working on Avatar of Flame and again he slipped through our fingers.

Last night we hit Munzok’s Material Bastion, many of us were un-impressed with the zone design, as it was a copy-paste of Anchor of Bazzul, except with epics! We took out the first three epics in the zone before raid time ran out. So far we’ve seen some a couple pieces of gear, a nice healer symbol dropped with 5 casting speed and 5 reuse for benificial spells. Hopefully we can make further progression tonight, if not clear the zone.

Apr 092009
 

We took out Avatar of Storms last night, Crazzel snagged probably the best healer Breastplate in the game…

 

We killed The Seventh Hammer; Avatar of Justice last night, I dropped my hammer down and got the kill shot on our Server 1st.

We also killed Field General Uktap last night, after a weeks worth of pulling, we changed out strategy a tiny bit shot and got him on the first pull of the night. Another server first kill shot! The loot is so disappointing that a server first breastplate went to an alt.

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