Avatar of Flame Down, New toy & Post #50!

Avatar of Flame went down this morning, #60th Avatar killed! Immortalis showed up with some new folks on their roster some long time members of Aftermath. After a couple of failed pulls on their part, we killed the AoF and I got myself a new toy.

Avatar of Justice, Avatar of Disease & where is my Beta Key?

Avatar of Justice was up the other night when we got there The Lost was fighting him, while they didn't get to the 7th hammer, it was nice to finally see another guild forming up for an avatar...
Leadership decided we didn't have the right classes online at the time and there was still a good chance that AoJ would still be up when the right classes came online.

We re-formed and they were still fighting him, we watched them for a few pulls while our raid leaders were refreshing folks on the fight, which is an endurance fight, the second time we killed him, it took 72 minutes (of course it was 11pm on a Saturday night and half of the raid was drunk).

After a few pull The Lost stepped down from the fight and wished us good luck on the fight, which IMHO was really gracious. After a few funky pulls we killed the entire fight in 15 minutes, which makes me really happy.

Avatar of disease was up last night we killed him, it was fun fight, especially when they grouped me with 3 softies, so my heal parse was pretty damn high, I was #1 according to my parse.

RUFFEOO IS BACK! Yay!

SOE, where is my beta key? Most of DA is over on beta, well most of DA's DPS, but not one of our healers!

Trakanon, Some Avatars and other stuff.

So, we 3 grouped Trakonon last night, no deaths, another mage belt dropped! Trakanon was by far one of my favorite fights, but he has become trivial as we've progressed. Trivial meaning, that with some common instanced drop gear and I can hit over 2k dps and I am sure I can hit over 3k with a few minor upgrades. It's too bad I have to wait 4 days between every test to see how I can improve. Last night I was solo-healing and curing my group so I had to sacrifice some of my dps, to group heal the softies. :)

Then we went off to Shard of Hate and I picked up a Ring of Rage to test out in my spell and melee dps set. The 10% bonus only effects one of my melee abilities and it doesn't bring it up 10% since in my melee DPS set +CA is near cap (~400). So Ring of Rage will be put in my Spell DPS set, simply to for the +4 crit and reduction of cast speed. GDI another week with out "Water Sprinklers". Gaige is right, I die a little bit inside each time the Gloves don't drop. We didn't finish the zone, mainly because we need somthing to do on our next raid day, as we'll still be locked out of everything.

War and Storms were up this week and both died shortly after they popped. War died just over the five minute mark and dropped another pair of Fur-lined Slippers of Al'Kabor which Pigul picked up, he's a tank chanter! Ultimmaa got a nice shiny pair of boots, the Lord Planeswalkers Boots.

Grats Gaige, Just Sayin'. I'm a slacker & Holy Avatar Kills Batman!

I am a slacker - I have not been updating in a while; We're still raiding and owning Butcherblock. Although one of the other raid guilds on the server finally took down Trakanon - The Lost, Grats.

Speaking of Trakanon; he finally gave up his mage belt, which Gerrod looted and the server disco. What is kind of funny, we've killed Traknon every time it's open and this was the first time we got the belt! The Lost on their second kill of Trak, a day after Gerrod get his, they loot the belt as well!

Avatar of Valor was up on the server this week for less than Ten minutes before we killed him he dropped some nice boots for Atarax, he also scored The Tenth Stone of Zen, dropped from Avatar of Hate a few days earlier, loot whore!

I got myself a nice helm off The Tangrin the other day. Yay! The Tangrin's loot table is a joke, there are 5 pieces total, pretty soon the guild will be equipping alts with his loot.

Grats Gaige! on getting Midnight Mantle of Secrets off Avatar of Mischief.


Just Sayin' - Gaige

It's been a few days - Avatar of Flame.. Avatar of Justice!

Saturday night we killed Avatar of Justice The longest fight EVER! After 70+ minutes of LDs, zone lag from everyone doing the new Everfrost quests we finally got him. We had an almost wipe at 13% on the 7th Hammer, which we recoverd from, but it added additional time to the fight. One of our tanks died, his corpse would bounce around or even disappear under the content to the point were ressurection spells were impossible, he had to revive and make the long run back while taking the ZONE WIDE AoEs!

Sunday, we did a partial Shard of Hate run with alts, and a full run with our mains, and continued a VP run that we started earlier in the week that was stalled.

We took Avatar of Flame down Monday afternoon and Cylock grabbed a server disco on The Pauldrons of Good & Evil:
A special thanks goes out to you know who, maybe next time... ;)

Tuesday, we killed Trakanon, we have still yet to see that Mage belt! We then cleared T1 &T2 to gear up some alts and get some plats.

Tonight barring an Avatar spawn we will clear CoD and Veshan's Peak, we still may clear VP, since most avatars are ez-mode except for Justice, who is easy, but take a long ass time...

GU48 = The Good, The Bad and the Really Ugly.

Game Update 48 was patched on the live servers yesterday, here is my mini-review of it.

It was a relatively short patch only taking about 4 minutes to install, the first thing I inspected was the build #, which was 5075T, which meant that some one forgot to patch the live FIXED version to the servers.

Broken Items and Veshan's Peak: Sigh, I did not fall for this one, since I don't generally have the public channels on, since Butcherblock is full of retards, although guildies were trying to crash me, I resisted and only clicked on Guild broadcasted links. I am so glad we did not run VP last night, it doesn't unlock till friday night. (boo.) Word of broken wingbeats and mobs, zone crashes spread across the Inquisitor world wide channel and from a RL friend that is AM.

Veksar: The very first thing I did after logging on was hit Veksar with a group of guild mates, we cleared it after figuring out how the doors work, we cleared it pretty fast, and was disappointed that the zone was so easy and short, I know that it's only a preview of what to come
but we were hoping for a little challenge.

Everfrost: I always liked Everfrost to solo in it, pretty large zone, could xp forever with out seeing another player, I got my first fabled piece off the contested shark back in T5. They revamped it and made it a little better, if there was housing avalible you would have almost everything you need for a starting zone!

I wanted the healer boach for all my healers, I have 3 - Two Inquisitors (I created a second inquisitor at the begining of the ROK expansion because I wasn't sure I wanted to betray from a templar - This one will betray to a templar as soon as I get to 65) and a Fury (for transportation).

The Quest line for the broach is fairly easy, the only real difficulty is ALL the rewards were pretty decent for all classes, so when I was running the quest line, there was 99+ other players doing the same thing, which made finding "Big Horn Sheep" hard to find, I spent two hours on that part and almost gave up for the night until 3 popped right in front of me and I completed the quest.

Storms & Tangrin Down

Had a fun "off night" We killed both Storms and Tangrin and strangely, Storms dropped the same exact chest that war did just a couple days back. Not that it's a bad thing, but this isn't the first time it has happened, we had 3 avatar kills in a row that dropped the same items in the past.