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.

Palace of The Ancient One cleared! Anashti Sul is dead!

Palace of The Ancient One cleared! Another Server first for Dracos Argent!
Anashti Sul is dead to Dracos Argent. Her deity quests are now unlocked on Butcherblock!


Currently, I am just starting the third quest line for Anashti, hopefully I will be completing it tonight!

We then ventured to Ykesha's Inner Stronghold and killed Tyrannus for a server first and I earned yet another Kill shot!

Grats BB and Good luck on the deity quest lines!

Yeah... Happy Erollisi/Valentine’s Day!

Crazzel in rat form and Onra in the Purple Void Armor!

Avatar of Hate Down Server 1st!

Another avatar down, this time we killed Avatar of Hate. We got him just before magic hour and got some good loots. A server 1st for DA and a world wide kill #8, putting us on EQ2 Flames's list of awesomeness once again! Earlier in the day we ripped up Tomb of the Mad Crusader killing everything in record time, Gynok is officially a wuss at this point.

Tonight we take on Zarrakon once again, it's going to be fun!

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...

Gynok Moltar Dead to Dracos Argent!

It's a couple days late posting this news, but we took down Gynok and his brothers in the Tomb of the Mad Crusader Tuesday night, it was a server first for DA. I got the kill shot with Verdict!

Wow, it's been a while! TSO - Avatar of Disease Down, Again!

I hope everyone had a happy holiday season! I haven't posted in quite a while, I am going to post a little more often now that the holidays are over. Anyway, we killed the Avatar of Disease last night and look what Mordrulle discovered:



He seemed a little bit harder this time, not because he was harder, but things (his script) seemed a random this time. We wiped a few times to odd bad luck, for example when his big failure AoE hit on the pull before the curse was applied or when the curse would disappear off people and was not being re-applied, but it was still a fun fight. We also made it on the EQ2 Flames world wide progression list at #6 (Although we had already killed him on December 16th, 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.

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!

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 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.

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!

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!

Correction! I miscounted!

I miscounted our total Avatar kills; we are actually at 77 Avatars and 20 Tangrin kills!

Avatar of Flame is a wuss.

AoF dead, again! This makes 74th consecutive avatar killed by Dracos Argent!

Recruitment
Dracos Argent will be recruiting some folks in preperation to the new expansion. If you think you can be a part of the best guild on Butcherblock head over to the Dracos Argent's website and app!

Avatar of War & The Tangrin

It was a busy off night as both Avatar of War and The Tangrin popped with in a couple hours of each other, killed them both on first pull. Avatar of War dropped nothing spectacular an item that we've seen a half dozen times already, while The Tangrin dropped another Empowered Talon of Milyex.

Avatar of Mischief & Avatar of Fear

Avatars have become a lot more exciting! Immortallis has shown a presence at the last three Avatars. If not for a few mistakes at the end of the fight we would have lost AoM to them!

It's still a fun fight, but the loot wasn't that great, infact it was the same exact loot as the Avatar of Storms kill, Censer and a master. I think this could be the 3rd AoM kill with the same exact loot as the previous Avatar kill, I think somthing could be wrong with AoM's loot table, I have bugged it, although this late in the expansion I doubt anything will be done to fix him since the tables are going to be stripped next expansion anyway.

Avatar of Fear's 3rd and most likly final showing on our server was fun, because it was a totally new encounter from the Avatar of Fear in June, the old one was a constant fear power drain fight which was challenging, but kind of sucked because I was litterally jammed in a corner casting group buffs to trigger power items and the heal off "convert ally", it was a fight just like the original Byzola where it seemed casting group buffs was the only way to heal and feed power to my group.

The "new" fight included some actual running around outside of being chain feared and kicked like nerf footballs. I enjoyed being able to run in and melee an Avatar encounter even if it was just for a few seconds to apply my CA-Debuffs.

Avatar of Storms, Avatar of Tranquility

Avatar of Tranquility was up Saturday morning, we killed him with a tad over 3 groups. Melladee grabbed Wristplates of the Dark lord. A pretty impressive piece.

Avatar of Storms Died today giving Satarah a server disco on Censer of Celestial Alignment. While I am not a huge fan of the item, I am considering bidding on the next one that drops and adding it to my heal set gear mainly for the Heal crit chance. 4% which would put me at 90% self buffed chance, but at the moment there are far better items out there to spend my dkp on.

This makes 71 Avatars killed in row by DA! I guess there is a chance to see up to 12 more spawns on the server before The Shadow Odyssey is released.

It was all a Trixy (Cane of Trickery)!

So Avatar of War was up yesterday, we killed him #69 (woo) Avatar in a row. The Trixy Cane of Trickery dropped, which has the coolest game graphic (and some pretty cool abilities), other than the Inquisitor Mythical. I really like the item, in fact I bid on the item and won the item but after some officer discussion it was deemed more useful to another class and I was asked to rescind my bid. I wasn't happy about it at first I almost said no. But after promise of sexual favors, souls and the naming of a first born child I decided it was better for the raid as a whole. Maybe next time!

The Race of the (Protectors) Realm.

Raiding T8 is getting so f'in boring, to spice up raiding PR (which now drops masters from 71+ on Smart loot.) we decided to split the raid up to run two groups in each instance, we both finished under 20 minutes.

The raid that I was in lost the race, but not by much. I blame Crazzel for not getting the shard fast enough, plus Sequel went link dead which stalled us up a bit. We got 5 smart loot masters - Deblin got Dispatched, which the raid collectivly cheered. Two Vyx Crest lockets (which went for min dkp and one to alt) last week I paid max dkp because up until last week, a I think total of three dropped for us since the begining of the expansion. We all walked away with over 12 pp each and I think we fully equipped two mage alts!

Trakanon's a joke.

At one time Trak was one of my favorite instanced encounters, now he's a complete joke. Even becoming the hour glass I parsed 1.9k dps on him, I am sure I would have broken 2.2k if I didn't become the hourglass.

I am almost a master!

I am almost fully mastered out, I lack Smite Corruption a level 71 spell, if anyone has it I'll pay up to 40pp for it.

Avatar of Flames Down.

So we killed Avatar of Flames this morning, with a less than optimal raid force, which makes Avatar kills really challenging and fun, Still getting lots of duplicate loot, 68 Avatar kills and still 10+ items on the loot table not discovered is kinda irritating, I hope they fix the loot in TSO so it is a little more evenly spread out.

I am going to go through and tag all of my blog posts today. I am not a wiz with blogs but one of my friends said that tagging my posts will allow better placement in some search engines, while I don't really care how many visitors I get, it would be cool to see if I get in to search engines.