Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Shadow Odyssey - Avatar of Disease Dead


It was a pretty busy night tonight that ended very quickly!

The night started out to clear VP so we could get Bonoman his Ranger Mythical (he betrayed from Assasin), Then we hit Trakanon for probably the last time. Then we headed off to kill The Tangrin and finally off to kill the just Avatar of Disease!

This guy was a a real chump! Other than hitting a little bit harder, (70% of his hits were critical hits!) he was not much different from his previous version. We know a patch is going in tomorrow to "fix" the Avatars so our current spree of killing them will be coming to an end, temporarily, but I am happy that what ever this bug was that temporarilly "nerfed" some of the avatars. We got some decent gear that allows us to progress even faster!

We took him down on our second attempt. Grats Deblin on your evil Avatar Two set bonus and Kaladz on your new wrist piece. I will put up the pictures tomorrow, when I log back in to EQ2.*

*edit, loot pictures posted.

Monday, December 15, 2008

The Shadow Odyssey - Avatar of Mischief Dead!


Avatar of Mischief was not much harder than his previous tiers counterpart. Grats Bonoman and Satarah! I want that belt!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Shadow Odyssey - Avatar of War Dead!


Server first kill of Avatar of War! Grats Ultimmaa and Deblin on your server discoveries!

That is one bad ass helmet, it's going to be huge helping us progress through the content we have yet to beat! Charms that are set pieces, is pretty damn cool. So far I think we are the world wide #5 or #6 to defeat Avatar of War.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

29 Achievement points in 1.5 hours!

So, tonight after our regularly scheduled raids, two groups of DA folks mentored down to level 5o and cleared a T5 and T6 zone. We started with Spirits of the Lost, then we ventured down to The Fountain of Life to kill The God King and his cronies.

It was a blast, I have not done the old raid content since the respective tiers and I am a big fan of the old raid content. I was in a "casual raiding guild" during DoF so I only killed God King once during that time due to the pre-requisites of opening the Fountain of life.

The 1o players who mentored down, got a grand total of 29 Achievement points! Personally I got 3 points, it doesn't seem like a lot, but most mobs were giving 5% a kill while the "bosses" were giving 25%+.

We're going to do more tomorrow and try to hit up some old contested mobs if they are up.

* I did a couple spelling and grammar edits to this post, I wrote the original post at 3 am, so I was not exactly with it.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Shame on you SOE! RMT in EQ2.

I am a firm beliver that RMT does not belong in a fantasy game like EverQuest 2.
Some of you may know, I am very much against bots and plat farmers, I've hunted them down, joined bot guilds collected evidence to have them banned.

Many of us were shocked today to see RMT brought in to EQ2 this morning. We were promised that RMT would never be brought to non-exchange servers. Well, SOE put in a Station wallet in today that will allow players to buy in-game items on all servers, exchange and regular live servers.

So far it looks to amount to AA/XP potions, Fluff pets and aperance slot items, but where does it stop?

How hard would it be for them to put "specials" up where they sell gear, levels, plat? They have already put up AP/XP Potions potions for sale!

I've been a regular lurker on this site for a while but I wanted to step in here and dispel something that's just plain not true - I don't have my name highlighted here, but anyone that doubts it's me can email me at jsmedley@soe.sony.com and I'll happily reply.

We aren't going to be allowing RMT in any way, shape or form on the non-exchange enabled EQ II servers. Period. End of statement.

In any event, I wanted to stop in and at least set the record straight - you aren't going to be seeing RMT allowed on the non-exchange enabled servers.

John Smedley
President, Sony Online Entertainmet"

Here is my E-mail:

Shame on you John and SOE for breaking your promise, you are nothing more than lying fucking whores.