Holy hell it's been a long time.

Yep, I am a slacker. I haven't posted in a long time... So I'm going to give cliff-notes..

• I hit 90 the first day of Sentinal's Fate.
• Had my upgraded mythical with in 3 days.
• We killed almost everything with in a month of the expansions release.
• We cleared Icy Keep the first night of its release, apparently only 8 minutes behind first.
• Raiding really kinda sucks this expansion.
• Dracos Argent is dead, due to one of the leaders was blinded by love, DA disbanded and reformed as Dracos Reborn, the guild reformed and we are stronger. That link leads to EQ2Flames, so you shouldn't read it if you are easily offended.
• Did I mention raiding really sucks this expansion?

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!

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!

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.

Avatar of Storms down!

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

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!

Valor Down, Post #100!

Post #100!

Valor down, Server 1st!

I was able to get my Set Shoulder on Thursday, which made my 6 piece set!

Avatar of Hate down again!

We took down Avatar of Hate again last night, Cylock picked up a pretty cool helm for minimum DKP. Then went to give Avatar of Health a try while we waited for the timer on Zarrakon reset.

The nerf on Soul Shattering Band from a 10% stone skin to a 5% was noticable, for the first time on a Zarrakon fight, I was running low on power and had to use some tricks to stay at my comfort level of power. Previously, just wearing Soul Shattering Band would keep me and my group at full power during the entire fight and it was a constant flow of power.

Watch out Below!

Avatar of Below down! It is a couple days late reporting on taking down the "giant dwarf", we took him down and scored some more nice tank loot for Cylock. It is Another server 1st, World wide 6th and another kill shot for me. Unfortunately we really did not get any decent screen shots so there is nothing to post.

Disease down yet again! Gynok gave me new loot!

Disease Cured?
(ugh these titles get worse every time)
Last night we killed disease, to our surprise we found that SOE ninja'd in a new AOE which we didn't expect, or we would have killed him on our first pull! After we figured out what needed to be done to beat him, we took him out with ease. Another Avatar killshot for me and a new BP for Onra!


Tomb of the Mad Crusader!
We took down the entire zone in less than an hour, they really need to put smart loot on Xebnok and Gynok pattrens ffs! Alts that don't get much play have helms already! Anyway I picked up a new belt and server disco from Gynok. (image coming soon)

Ykesha's Inner stronghold!
After a silly bumpy start in YIS, we cleared up to Tyrannus the dark to try to figure how to kill him, we spent a couple of hours trying to figure him out and I think we may be able to get him tonight.

Yeah, we rule. Avatar of War and Tranquility defeated!

War and Peace?
We beat both the Avatar of War and Avatar of Tranquility last night. The former was a server 1st and yeah, I got the kill shot. Both of these kills earned some nice loot and further our goal as one of the (EQ2Flames) top world wide raiding guilds for this tier.


I just hope some of the more unique avatars start spawning so we can get some time on them to kill.

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!

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.

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.