Avatar of War - Dead

Not much has happened over the past week or so, we've continued to clear every raid instance in a matter of a couple days and have had a few days off. We killed War last night and Ultimmaa got a cool new toy, server disco!


We've started to go back to past expansions on these new off nights to farm (drunkenly) old contested and farm TnT nightly. It's fun, but it's too fast. I can not wait for The Shadow Odyssey.

Avatar of Valor Down & Off night

Avatar of Valor fell to us with only 3 groups today. We did have a challenge though, Immortalis and a few pickups were pulling before we showed up, it's good to see an other guild at least making an attempt at the Avatars, they keeps us on our toes and make contested fun.

Most of RoK content was still locked out so we took an off night and I helped Dom get an epic update for one of his many toons.

Avatar of Disease & VP cleared.

Avatar of Disease died to us again yesterday!

...Yay...

I can't wait for The Shadow Odyssey - at this point instance raiding is starting to get boring, sure there is still a bunch of stuff I want out of ROK, like the damn water sprinkler gloves (plate healers know what I am talking about!) The ward helmet that comes off the same mob and the shoulders off Venril, that would pretty much complete my heal set, to be ready for TSO. I still need to get my Melee set up, It's good now, but I want to start breaking 3k more consistently in VP.

Avatar of Tranquility, Tangrin and Trakanon Dead.

The uncontested avatar farming continues, after a few folks going link dead due to the crazy charm, we got AoT on our second pull. Ratcapone got a nice server disco on these very nice boots.

Then we headed off to Tangrin to kill him on our first pull in record time Ezzmar picked up a shiny new Empowered Talon of Milyex!

We made our way to Trak, I had to leave the raid early to some really odd family emergency, but they killed him.

Really weird real life issue Part 1:

So, my parents are divorced, my father owes a bit of back payment Child support to my little brother and I as a result of the divorce. My father is permanently disabled, he has Parkinson's disease and has no real income, other than Social Security. My Mother who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis took some pity on him and decided it really wasn't worth perusing him for the back child support, but he still has to make a small payment every once in a while to keep the courts off his ass. So my mother received a letter informing her that the case was closed due to his death. My Mom was a little freaked out came over to my house to see if I have seen or talked to my Dad, or knew that he was dead!

She didn't know where he lived so I left with her to go to his house to see if everything was okay. We got to his house and knocked on the door, my father opened the door, shocked to see us. My mother showed him the letter, he was pretty surprised to know that he was dead and confused on how the mistake was made. The only thing I could figure out if someone at the hospital made a mistake and listed him dead, after he suffered a stroke a few months back, when he was hospitalized for a few weeks to recover. It's an odd situation, and he doesn't know how it happened. I will keep writing on it to let you know the outcome of a real life rez as I get the details...

Avatar of Growth and Shard of Hate Clear...

Last night Avatar of Growth was killed and it dropped loot that went to our new recruit Gaige, (Yes the Gaige vs Disso of eq2flames fame) grats dude. We cleared the zone in less than two hours, killing Byzola in less than five minutes.

Avatar of Fear & Trak down!

We took down Avatar of Fear last night, it was a fun fight and we had an audience of both Aftermath and Immortailis, the later, who did attempt to pull Fear a few times, but it looks like they didn't know the encounter well enough.

After a a couple bad pulls, we won! On one of our bad pulls the Avatar and several of our raid members fell through the world, we figure that the Avatar targeted a player that was falling through the world and followed him, causing "bad shit" to happen. Other pulls were just mistakes, because we haven't pulled the mob in quite a long time.

And then Trakanon fell again...

VP opens tonight and if an Avatar spawns, we'll kill that...

Tangrin down t1-3 cleared

We killed tangrin tonight and cleared t1-3 there isn't anything left to kill...

Confirmed Cheaters? 13 Avatars killed in 1 day.

That's right, the rumor on flames is that Confirmed, probably the best guild in the game exploited a bug in Avatar of Tranquility today to have it spawn 13 times in a two hour period of time. For those that don't know, Avatars spawn once every one to three days per server. It seems so far the punishment has been removal of the loot from the Avatar kills, but further punishment has yet to be seen.

Here is the Epic Thread.

Avatar of Justice & Shard of Hate

Yet another Avatar falls to DA! Avatar of Justice, my favorite Avatar fight, he's the most challenging of the Avatar fights because of the length of time it takes to kill him, plus I can have a really high heal parse! The item was given to an Alt... It's kinda depressing, we've killed over 40 avatars in a row and have only seen 1/3rd of the loot table, we've got lots of items we've seen x4 of.

Shard of Hate cleared, nothing exiting dropped another week with out my gloves..

Avatar of Hate, Veshan's Peak and Trakanon

What a quick night, we started an hour early and ended an hour and a half earlier than normal. We killed Avatar of Hate with ease, Atarax walked away with Cyclone Harbinger of Tempest, Damn Yous!

Then off to Trakanonanon for a first pull and a new record time of 5m:58s. Then cleared Veshan's Peak very very quickly, it was under 3 hours. I got my Ring of Forgiveness, finally, at max bid!
We've only seen a few of these, which is pretty pathetic compared to the times we've cleared VP.

So I guess, if Shard of Hate is open, I think we kill that tonight, unless an avatar spawns.

Avatar of Mischief - Dead.

Immortalis showed up and had a whole day to pull and figure out the mob, they couldn't kill it. It is not the easiest of Avatars so I applaud their attempt.

Our raid force is usually the weakest on Fridays, so it took a little while to actually kill the mob, I got home from work about 9:30pm and we killed it on the pull that I joined in.

The Inquisitor mythical is really amazing on that mob.

What is really funny about when the mob died the chest popped in the branches of the tree, just out of reach of a normal players grasp. Using a mixture of growth, jump and float items and "Super Mario Brothers" jumping skill our Ezzmar was able to snag the chest to open it.

A GM responded to a petition sent by one of my guild mates regarding the chest and was amused and impressed that we were able to open the chest.

Byzola & Tangrin Down

So last night we killed Byzola and Tangrin. Byzola is a chump and gave up her last two discos.

Grats Atarax

Grats Foresaken

The Tangrin kill was my first time using my mythical on the big monkey, It works great. Oddly, my heal parse was much lower than I expected, and I think that was because I quickly used my Mythical to cure the trauma, so there was not a whole lot to heal.

Avatar of Flame & Trak down.

Immortalis finally made an appearance at an Avatar, they got it down to 60% then it fell apart for them, it was a good try though. We pulled him, he died, but dropped junk that has been shipped to alts. Off to Trak and got a new record for time in for us, 6:34.

Avatar of Valor & Byzola Disco!

While I was writing my last blog post I guess Avatar of Valor popped, and died to DA. I didn't expect one so soon...

Grats Vega on The Trixy Cane

We killed Byzola later that night and Craz got the disco on a really cool belt.

Avatar of Storms down!

We killed yet another Avatar on an off day, with out even a full raid force on. It's kind of sad that no other guilds are even trying.

Avatar of War - at peace. GU #47, PR, Thugga & Trakanon down.

GU #47 was pretty exciting for me, mainly for my Mythical fix, I am pretty happy about.
The cure clicky is pretty impressive, it makes me feel useful in the raid now and makes group setups more flexible. Aftershock was changed and it now credits the inquisitor as well as triggers 1.5 seconds faster than it did before so its useful. I am not int spec'd so the extra 15% cast and reuse on the heals that was added to Aftershock was noticeable.

They just need to change the text, because it still reflects the old mythical. Other than the cosmetic changes needed to the weapon I give it a 9/10, if they boosted the damage & damage rating just slightly or made penitent smite hit a bit harder it would be a 10/10, Although my damage was slightly better than normal on VP Trash (by trash I mean Travino, Silverwing, Phara Dar ect).

Also Supple Dogwood Staff got a fix (after a month of me reporting it - four times.) They changed the proc to Cold Swelter, which I think overall will make the weapon better than Bonecrusher in Veshan's Peak Trash even though the Top end damage for Bonecrusher is 2k for me and the Staff is almost 1.6k (but it's a faster weapon). I am going to test them, raid buffed BC is capped out at 2.0 delay and the staff should be capped out at 1.4 delay so I could get more hits in with the Staff which would be better for my 90% double attack, More CA's in with BC, but lower hit rate due to it being level 79 .

All of my weapons are situational.

Bonecrusher for T1-3 Trash.

Supple Dogwood Staff for VP Trash although I am going to try it out in Shard of Hate tonight.

Penitents Absolution and Star of Malice for Harder Trash/Named I can melee on, but I need to heal on as well.

I picked up a couple Adornments for my Trakanon's Gaze and Star of Malice, since that they changed the adornments for all damage types and since a couple of our CAs are melee/divine it added an extra 100 damage per swing and they crit.

Avatar of War was up, I used only the cure clicky to to cure my group just to test it out and it did about 90hps. Nothing spectacular dropped, in fact it was the same item as we got from Disease yesterday. We cleared PR & Thugga while we waited on Trakanon to open, I used my clicky to cure Trak's nox effect which worked well.