Avatars killed & Lazy Grump

I am feeling kinda lazy today... So I am copying and pasting my last few days of twitter posts. :)

8/16/09 - Killed C:Anashti & won her charm Charm of Anashti. Cleared YIS, Killed Zarrakon. Then did the DD. Cleared Kurns, and EA! 8 shards!

8/14/09 - Killed Avatar of Mischief and the rest of DA killed Avatar of Growth while I was at work. , I hate SOLO leveling alts, 77 Pali LFG. Ding 198 AA on Grump last night!

8/12/09 Avatar of War down ~3:30. PotAO, cleared start to end ~45 mins! Zarrakon dead. Finished Raids in record time! YiS, MMB open tomorrow.

Did I spew that? I mean spawn that?

Shenanigans!

So Friday, July 10th was my birthday, I turned 30, ugh. We had a party at my house that involved lots of vodka, Redbull and beer (pong), and then hit last call at two bars (Not quite sure how that happened!). It was a black out drunk that night, and even a week after, I am still hearing stories of that night...

EQ2 Stuff

Since my last post, we've killed Avatar of War, Disease, Flame and Growth.

Avatar of Growth and Mischief down!

Avatar of Growth dropped me a shiny new Symbol of the Faydark! Avatar of Mischief died and dropped a bow for Cylock.

Then we went to palace and cleared instance with a bugged Anashti, re-set the zone and cleared the zone again, two Anashti kills in one night and both dropped the same loot.

Off to Zarrakon for the final raid of the night and smashed his face pretty quickly.

Sigh.

Avatar of Growth, Crap loot!

It's Friday and I feel like I havn't done anything, EQ2 wise, I have only seen a little bit of the new content for GU52, which was a hanfull of the Kylong Plains quests and one named mob in Kurn's Tower x2 ding 193 AA & server 1st kill shot on Sir Roland. I guess I am going to have to do some reading in lore to find out how or why "Knights" ended up in the Void and are now gaurding Kurn's Tower.

Last night We killed Avatar of Growth with 3x groups, and she dropped some horrid forearms, the rest of the night was "off" even though I did join in on a couple of raids to help Cylock's and Crazzel's alt work on Mythical updates.

The night before we did Palace of the Ancient One up to Anashti, which completly bugged out on us, spawning multiple Void Annihilators and causing us to whipe. Then the encounter never reset! We are waiting for a server reset to put the encounter back to the way it is supposed to be. As soon as some one would revive handfulls of broken encounter adds would rain down and kill them.

I had plans to do an oppinion post of GU52, before the RL issues crept up on me, since I have not had a lot of time to expirment with the changes.

Things I do like so far;

• GPU Shadows! I can now fully take advantage of my video cards in my system! The game looks totally diffrent! It looks like a diffrent game! Even our lower end machines at the store can display GPU shadows and customers have shown interested in the game, because it looks nice.
  
  
• Research Assistants! With Grouser my alt, I can now grab the last master that needed, Unyeilding Benidiction, sure it will take a couple weeks for them to research it. In the past it was near impossible to find, and if it ever hit the market it would be scooped right up.

• TSO Instanced legendary loot on the market! Well, some. at the beginging of the xpac I was dissapointed to see that all the legendary loot from the instances were no-trade.
  
  
• The sky didn't fall with the proc changes! I was scared that these proc changes would make some of my gear completly unusable, mainly my ward gear. It didn't get raped like Overloaded heal did. While not as good as it used to be, pieces like Rune Etched Helm (lonb line for Faded Black Hood) and Hoop of Vampiric are still amazing.

Things I don't like;

• Proc changes for my "Proc DPS" set, no more 17,500+ dps parses. It was all based off "reverse damage" procs and modifying the base damage amount. While I am sure, the set is still capible of doing damage, it will be greatly reduced. I guess I will be able to tell later, when we fight an un-bugged Anashti.

Three more Avatars dead in one day!

Avatar of Below, Growth and War fall to Dracos Argent!

Even though the fights are easy for Dracos Argent, I hate dancing fights. Brell and Tunare both require you to move while you fight them. Spell, Spell, Forward. Spell, Spell, Back. Spell, Spell, Left, Spell, Spell Right. It gets annoying!

We then went to Ykesha's and cleared up to Ykesha and his minions, which we will try to kill on Sunday.

Avatars Killed, Munzok's Material Bastion!

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.

Avatar of War & Growth Down! Zarrakon Bugged out!

Two more contested down for the count! Growth and War down! I'm pretty sure Avatar of Undeath, Anashti Sul will be the next evil Avatar up, but we're still missing a neutral from the current spawn cycle.

Zarrakon is broken encounter which lead to some comedy last night when only a handful of folks could target him. Which kind of puts a halt to gear progression on him until he's fixed.

Want to buy loot rights to Rune Etched Helm! Only three have dropped for Dracos Argent since the release of Shard of Hate the item is heavily wieghted off the easiest named mob in the zone. We can work out a platinum deal or we could possibly trade items that we would normally mute or sell from current raid zones. PST!

Rumor of the Elements of Corruption will be active on Bristlebane Day!

Avatar of Growth down

Avatar of Growth dead again! Grats to Cylock on his new BP and Lilya on her charm!

Three Avatars down in one night! Growth, Storms and Hate

Tonight was a great night for Dracos Argent! We took down Avatar of Growth, Storms and Hate all down!

Look at my new charm!

Zarrakon Server First, Growth Down!

Last night we had a great raid night! We took Zarrakon down for the server first and I got the kill shot! (I love them kill shots!) What's odd is that he seemed damn near impossible last week, our best pull was getting him to the 50% mark, but this week he seemed much easier. I think because our attempts were before the "nerf". The fight lasted a little over 8 minutes. It's too bad his loot sucks. (for now!)

I belive our Zarrakon kill puts us in the top 10 World wide.

One of the Avatars I hate to the most was up, Avatar of Growth. While Growth is fairly easy, we took her down on the third try, I hate this avatar HATE it. Ultimma got a nice BP off her, that is going to hit the nerf bat soon...

Avatar of Growth Deflowerd, Gynok x2 killed!

So tonight was a crazy busy night! We killed the Avatar of Growth tonight (I got the kill shot!)

Grat's Crazzel on the Charm, and Mordrulle on the Spirit Draining Wristguard!

Then we headed off to ToMC to kill Gynok before our timer expired on it and we spanked him on our first pull. We reset our timers and cleared the zone again and took down Gynok again on our first pull. From Gynok to Gynok was took us about a half hour! The zone is officially on farm status! Oh and on our Second Gynok kill Satarah got the server disco Bjorn's Wistle!

Then we headed out to Palace an killed Switchmaster, before the end of our raids.

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...