Sentinel's Fate - Raid Kills Update!

I know it has been a while since I have posted anything on this blog! Sentinel's Fate has been out for almost two weeks and our guild Dracos Argent has progressed quite well through content.

• We killed Waansu for a world wide #7th kill. (Hard Mode)
• Roehn Theer was killed for a World wide #3 kill (Easy Mode)
• Toxxulia Server first kill! (Hard Mode)
• Oxdaxius Server First Kill! (Easy Mode)
• Perah'Celcius World Wide #4 kill!

You can see Butcherblock's raid progression thread on EQ2 Flames to see all of our kills!

Come on Death Proof, I thought you guys were going to"own" us this expansion! :)

Dracos Argent has been having fun thrashing peeps from other servers in Battle Grounds. SOE's new cross server PVP arena. Members from the EQ2 Flames community have nicknamed us Dracos Von Guild.

Flawless...

We (finally!) gained our flawless charms last night!

To gain these charms your guild must kill 19 of The Shadow Odyssey Raid bosses with out dying. Our final mob was Ykesha, and after several attempts, we killed him to get our flawless charms!

Feldon has a blog post of the Flawless Charms here, you can see the stats.

Grats to everyone in DA who worked hard to pull off these flawless kills!

Munzok's loot!

I was so excited about the Munzok kill last night, I forgot to post our winnings! I was showing off the Shadow Robe in the dressing room and Onra FD'd me as I was taking the screen shot!

Munzok Down! The Shadow Odyssey Cleared!

Dracos Argent Killed Munzok the Corrupter tonight! The Shadow Odyssey has been cleared!
Just over 21 minutes of fighting I dropped the hammer down for the kill shot!


Post #150!

Avatars D.E.D. DEAD!

We killed Valor, War, Mischief this past week. We also killed Ykesha and Anashti in PoA!

We got our monthly plat split, thanks DA and Butcherblock for the 840pp!

Avatar Kills!

The summer has made me lazy! We've killed a bunch of Avatars since my last update.
We killed; Anashti, Mischief, Fear, Valor, Justice and Tranquility.

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.

Contested Anashti Down!

We killed Anashti tonight, first pull on an off night!

Wow, Dracos Argent is ranked WW #6...5....

According to Guild Progress, Dracos Argent is ranked WW#5 and of course #1 on Butcherblock!

That's pretty pimp!

Anashti, Ykesha, Avatar of Valor & Justice!

My computer hated me last night!

Right at the beginning of pulling Anashti in PoAO, my computer crashed. My UPS apparently failed and started beeping like crazy and it shut my computer down.

No record dps for last night on Anashti last night, Boo!
Right at the end of Avatar of Justice my computer decided to crash again. Fortunatly, it was right as the chest was opened so I was able to get the gold! I placed a minimum bid on and won the Charm of the Tribunal to complete my neutral charm set, which will be added to my melee and spell DPS sets.
The only two other charms I would like to get my hands on would be Rodcet Nife (Health) and Bertoxxoulus (Disease), but I am going to wait untill they go to minimum bid.

We headed to Ykesha's Innerstronghold to finish off Ykesha. With that done we headed off to Valor.

We struck down Valor easy and for near minimum bid I got the Server disco on a new BP.

Tonight!

Tonight, we reset and cleared Ykesha's Innerstronghold again, 1st pulling Ykesha!

We then went to Munzok's Material Bastion and cleared up to Umzok, we will clear the rest tommorow night and hit any Avatars that might be up and probably do Palace and Tomb of the Mad Crusader. After raids we hit up Ward of Elements with some of our alts.

TSO CLEAR! High Parse! War and Mischief!

We killed Ykesha tonight!

We also killed Avatar of War and Mischief tonight!

NEW HIGH PARSE ON ANASHTI SUL!

17.5K+ DPS!

Check out Dracos Argent's websites for more updates!

Lots of Avatars dead!

Seek and Destroy!
Since my last post Avatar of Health, Avatar of Disease, Avatar of Storms died, all on the same night. Avatar of Flame gave us no problem last night which he usually does due to Lava Storm's lag. Instead Anashti Sul's pulls seemed to be at the mercy of server lag, it took a while to kill her, but we did. Tonight a good avatar should spawn, if it does, it dies.

I love the Vudo that you do! :)
New record! I hit just shy of 15k DPS sustained on instanced Anashti, I was at over 24kdps before I died to agro, I tanked Anashti for about a whole second before falling over dead.

WTF, Yes, we're selling loot!
I've been getting a lot (8 today alone) of PMs both positive and negitive about us selling raid loot. We farm instances quite a bit, generally it's only for a couple of items. If we don't have a use for the gear, it goes up for sale. If someone needs the gear and is willing to make a bid, great, if not it's muted, which is IMHO a waste.

Some of our starting prices for end game gear may seem high, but there is no other guild on our server killing end game mobs, which means the gear is fairly rare. For the folks asking about a reserve list of items please send a tell to Gerrod, Onra or Vudo about this, I don't know if it's possible, but it never hurts to ask.

That platinium goes in to funding our guild hall, all potions and poisons and masters. The remaining amount is split among the raiders at the end of the month.

Avatar of Valor, Avatar of Storms & Pimp DPS!

We killed both Avatar of Valor and Storms and then headed to kill Anashti in Palace of the Ancient One with our quickest kill yet! I hit my highest DPS parse tonight on Anashti...

I was second on the DPS parse!
11,000+ DPS!
Unbelivable?

Check out the screen shot below!

Of course you'll have to figure this kind of DPS out on your own! :)

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.

Avatar - Anashti Sul - DEAD!

Avatar Anashti Sul dead to Dracos Argent!

Only Ykesha remains for completion of The Shadow Odyssey, not counting the last two names in Munzok's Material Bastion.

We killed a bunch of stuff.

Yeah, so things died and it gave us stuff!

Tranquility, Hate, War... all dead. As much as I love beating up children, Tranquility should be tweaked a bit, It's by far the easiest Avatar, easier than most instanced TSO content.

Avatar of Fear will die tonight! He's finally up on the server, I think one of our members force spawned him, just so he'd be up to kill.

What we have left to expansion completion:

• Avatar of Fear
• Anashti Sul (Contested)
  
• Ykesha
• Gozok
• Munzok

Avatar of Flame Down! Rune Etched Helm FTW!

Flame burns out!
Finally, the Avatar of Flame falls! We killed the Avatar of Flame for a server 1st after two nights of pulling this time, we finally got a lucky pull in at at lucky hour! Grats Ubah & Reddevil on your sever disco's!

Rune Etched Helm!
WOOHOO! I finally got it! One of the best items in the game for a healer! Crazzel, Reddevil, Gerrod, Seijakuri and myself went in and we killed Dreadlord D'Somni. After a year of waiting it's finally mine! I am so happy =). Yes, I know there is a new one from Munzok's Material Bastion, which is way better, but our fury and warden can wear it. If it's a common item, I guess we'll all eventually "upgrade", but I doubt it is common at all.

No Vega NO! :(

Mad Crusader, Ykesha's, Zarrakon and Pimp loot!

We started off the night with Tomb of the Mad crusader, and blew through that fairly quickly.

Then to Ykesha's Inner Stronghold and killed Tyrannus the Dark, which dropped a Templar helm pattren that I scooped up for Grouser. Then we spanked Field General Uktap, earning disco on the Dagger for Foresaken.


We then hit Zarrakon's Aybysal Chamber, killed him and...

Avatar of Mischief, Avatar of Valor and Palace of the Ancient One

We didn't continue with Munzok's last night because we needed to keep on track to keep our normally rotating content up to date.

F.U. Void Annihilators!
We started with Palace of the Ancient One did a full clear on that zone in about two hours. I have really become to hate the Annihilators in the zone, these are non-named (which means they drop nothing but junk loot) mobs that look like giant floating stingrays. The giant floating stingrays of doom have a mem-wipe that generally 1 shots anyone they switch too, it feels like a constant rez fest!

Avatar of Mischief
Even though he's a fairly easy Avatar for us, he's one that I don't like to pull. He can be a real pain in the ass, like he was last night. We did get him in one pull, but one of the first AOE's tagged me dead, reactive up and all. By the time I got up, the group was going low and I didn't have enough time to get everyone up to green before we went splat. Even with us going down we still managed to spank him well under the time limit.

Avatar of Valor
What ever you do, don't heal! For us healers with itchy trigger fingers on the heal buttons this mob is bad. =) He punishes heals by disarming, or de-targeting the target of the heal. This is a mob that am very happy to take off most of my healing gear and go DPS, with the occasional spot heal.

Gearing Grouser!
A little while back, I mentioned I had a Sarnak Temlar alt, Grouser. Last night out of Palace, I was able to pick up the T4 pattern for shoulders and gloves. That makes 4 out of the 7 pieces and the shoulders are the strongest piece! Earlier this week I finished the fabled epic quest, which I am impressed with, because I get easily annoyed with long quest lines.

(whine)
Please, stop sucking Butcherblock!
Yes, I just called out the entire server!
I am not trying to be a jerk, or be on a high horse, but the quality of play has really slacked on our server. There are only a handful the players I will group with outside Dracos Argent who I will do a pickup with. That's pretty sad on one of the most populated servers in the game! I have never been in so many failed pickup groups. I have stopped doing pickup groups... It's so depressing.
(/whine)

Avatar of Storms down!

We took out Avatar of Storms last night, Crazzel snagged probably the best healer Breastplate in the game...