These boots were made for healin'

Server Disco!

My new boots! Well, not quite yet, I won the pattern in Yakesha's Inner Stronghold last night off Kultak the Cruel. I have yet to turn them in because I don't have any Void shards.

Heritage Quest Fun!

Yesterday, after Thanksgiving dinner I sat down to play EQ2 with no real agenda, after the horror of a Butcherblock pick up group the night before, decided to wait until we had some guildies on to do a group.

That pick up group I was on the other day was the worst pick up group I have ever been on. There were constant AFKs, no pull warnings, long waits between pulls "KoS "dps from scouts, a shit talking summoner who's dps was barely breaking 1.3k at best and a guardian who couldn't hold agro - A twenty minute zone that took over two hours NOT to finish and two repair bots.

Deblin, Bonoman, Vegaxe, Foresaken and myself teamed up to do the Daily Double. Which was located in one of the Void zones. We soon realized that the Daily Double was one of the first steps in the Signature Quest line, so we started that and we worked on that through chapter five.

Bonoman, left for the day, While the four of us were looking for another group, Genjii, one of our healers suggested that we start the "Mysterious Mark" heritage quest line. The HQ starts in The Ruins of Guk, in the Halls of the Fallen instance he and Deblin already had open and cleared.

Our group adding Genjii and Sequel grabbed the starter, and followed the quest line all the way through to the end. With no walk through on EQ2I we had fun figuring out the quest line, which and we fought some really interesting and tough mobs, which made it fun.

The last step was entertaining for me as takes you through the halls of the Unseen (a copied version of Free Thinkers Hideout one of my favorite raid zones in EoF) located under the Butcherblock docks, it is full of assassins and other shady villains who want to kill you.

We got about 5 platinum and 70% aaxp, a bunch guild status, a few suffix titles; "the Voice" (final), a barrel that is a port device to Butcherblock Mountains and the Heritage reward of Dark Mail Gloves. The whole quest seemed short, but from start to finish it was almost four hours, but it was fun figuring out and spending time with friends. Sequel got the server discovery for the mage gloves, which he was very excited about.

Over all I found the quest entertaining and it did not seem like a grind like most Heritage Quests and Signature quests seem to me.

After we were done with the HQ, I realized that I had 12 Void shards and I decided to look at the Void shard merchant to see if there was anything cool. I found that the Templar/Inquisitor shoulders were pretty interesting with a 5% base healing bonus, it's pretty weak on stats, compared to my Inquisitor set shoulders from last tier, but that healing bonus is cool. The enhanced void shard shoulders have 8% and it will cost 30 more shards to get, It will probably take me a couple weeks to get 30 more shards.

I eventually will get the fabled ones have that 10% base heal bonus, but when the patterns for inquisitors have not dropped yet.

Into the void..

So we've been raiding pretty steadily in The Shadow Odyssey expansion for EverQuest 2. The last four nights have been pretty exiting so far, we've taken down a few names so far in Tomb of the Mad Crusader, Ykesha's Inner Stronghold and tonight we hit The Palace of the Ancient one. The Palace is located on the outer fringes of the Void, and a wonderfully designed zone (I will get more pictures next time).

While in the Palace I picked up a nice little earing, and a server discovery.It's a nice piece, and it needs to be repaired :)

It was all a Trixy Pt. 2

Only a few short hours before The Shadow Odyssey is Online and I can't sleep!

So the Avatar of Justice spawned on Butcherblock the night before and despite our best efforts, server lag and the competition we could not kill him the same night that he spawned. We came back the next day and killed him and I was rewarded for the second time, Trixy Cane of Trickery!

Well, I will see you all online when TSO Goes Live, I am going to try to sleep! :)

Avatar of War and The Tangrin!

We took down Avatar of War with an understaffed raid Yesterday afternoon, it was a long kill!

The Tangrin popped early in the morning. I just arrived home from last call at Skip's Tavern. My favorite bar in town, where the Tiffany the head Bar tender has a Pint of Yuengling ready for me every time I walk in to the bar.

Anyway, with a quite a few of us tipsy, we took the Great Ape down and had a nice 2 master, 2 item chest with everyone getting a split of over 2 plat.

So we're still #1.

Anashti Sul, the former Prime Healer

She is one mad deity!

She has come from the void and brought some friends with her. This deity has some wonderful graphics, this screen shot doesn't do her justice.

Avatar of Flame, toasted!

Avatar of Flame popped this morning, we killed him with less than three groups and boxed characters. The loot went to an alt as it is the 4th time we have looted it.

I will be putting up my screen shots of the former Prime healer, Anashti Sul a little bit later after I get it cropped.

TSO: The Avatar of Health - Rodcet Nife

The Avatar of Health does not have 4 feet!

This is the Avatar of Health, the Avatar of Deity Rodcet Nife, The Prime Healer. Yes, he looks like an "Area 51 Alien" that you see in horror and sci-fi movies. He is smaller than all the other Avatars. He isn't an attackable deity, but he does have some combat buffs. I wonder when his enemy, (the Avatar of) Bertoxxoulous spawns on Norrath if the Avatar of Health becomes acttackable.

EQ2I gives this description of Rodcet Nife:

"Rodcet Nife is allied with Karana, Quellious, Erollisi Marr, and Prexus, and his only enemy is Bertoxxulous. Followers of the Prime Healer take a solemn oath to fight disease and death until one or the other finally claims them. They are very generous and humble, asking little more than that the recipients of their aid pass the kindness on to another. They are not content to deal with the effects of disease and death after they occur and vigorously seek to destroy the sources of these evils. Healers and mystics are typical followers but many noble rangers and paladins also have also taken the Nife Oath. They believe that, through faith in the Prime Healer, the wounded heart of the universe shall one day be mended and death's dark shadow will never be seen again."

Tomorrow I will have a screen shot of Norrath's other new Avatar, Anashti Sul.

Anashti Sul, the original Prime Healer, was sentenced to non-existence by the other gods when she unwittingly released undeath upon the inhabitants of early Norrath. Rodcet Nife would be later appointed to take her place. - EQ2I.com

104:1 Contested streak comes to an end!

Our contested streak came to an end today, Immortalis took down Avatar of Mischief on Butcherblock. Congrats Guys and Gals, I don't know what you looted, but I hope it was a good piece, 'cause we've been getting the ass end of the stick most of this expansion. We have regarded Immo our only challenge on the server for a while now and they have finally positioned themselves as a threat.

We took down The Tangrin earlier this week and that made #104 straight for contested kills!
That is one hell of a streak for Dracos Argent members past and present! Does any other guild, other than Confirmed or Strike have a streak that long? I would seriously like to know.

Avatar of Growth - Fertilized! Happy Birthday EQ2

We took down the Avatar of Growth yesterday afternoon. Yet another disappointing and duplicated loot drop, that went for minimum bid. My last count, there are 13 Avatar items have not been discovered on our server, and they are the best items on the Avatar loot table.

Eight days left before the Shadow Odyssey! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?

I seriously hope they have enhanced the delivery system for downloading the content this expansion. I do not want to wait until after midnight to log in to the new content on TSO like I have had on the last three expansions due to the patch times. I really hope they have been on the ball and started pushing content behind the sceenes with the new Station Launcher that is in Beta.

Happy Birthday EQ2.
As long as there are no contested up I will be hanging out in EQ2's Birthday 4th year Event on Butcherblock tonight. Hopefully they spawn some god-like creature that we have to raid and kill... That would be sweet...

102 Contested Avatars and The Tangrin Down

Still owning the server!
It's been a few days since I posted, We killed Avatar of Hate, Avatar of Valor, Avatar of Disease and The Tangrin.

That's 102 contested kills in a row...

FLURRY IS BACK!
The dev's caved in and gave Templars and Inquisitors our Flurry ability back in the TSO Beta, something I am excited about!

A change to the Inquisitor AA Spec

No more flurry attack... Double Attack instead? WTF!

RAID BUFFED, I have 115% double attack and that's not sacrificing to find Double attack gear...

Trick or Treat, Immortalis!

So at about 10pm on Halloween night, The Tangrin popped and we dispatched him pretty much immediately. After killing him we decided to borrowed a page from The Tribunal vs. Strike era and left our campers there, to pretend to watch for it to spawn. While I went out to the Bars and REALLY enjoyed my weekend, members of Immortalis spent almost 2 days there waiting for The Tangrin to spawn. It is a little evil, but in the spirit of the holiday, I found it entertaining.

Avatar of Valor Spawned a little earlier in the day on Friday, I don't have the details of the fight other than we killed him. I was at work when he spawned.

This makes the 99th Rise of Kunark contested in a row, between Avatars and The Tangrin the longest streak in all tiers of contested mobs ever killed on our server.

I would like to welcome a long time real life friend to DA, Honcho! I have known Honcho since he was a young kid playing in Magic: The Gathering at the local gaming store I manage. :) See, we've considered having him join our club house for a while, but really didn't have space for him in our raids. He's been in both AM and Immo so we know he's a decent player and since Melladee left us for the loosing team, a spot opened up, so we brought in Honcho from the loosing team to the winning team!