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!
Showing posts with label Fun stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fun stuff. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Valor & Disease Down!
Last night we took Avatar of Disease and Avatar of Valor down with ease and earned some decent loot. I picked up Valor's charm for minimum bid, simply to complete a set so I would get +10 base heal and have an additional lotto heal proc when I am in DPS mode. Also I know I am going to be one of the last of the healers to complete the amazing Avatar of Growth and Avatar of Health charm combo, it's my own fault really. I went nuts early on to get my 6 piece TSO set and have replaced almost every slot in my inventory except for an earring and my Weapons, Trixy Cane and Star of Malice.
From Valor I also picked up a Master 1 Repent for my 80 Templar alt Grouser. Yes, I have two clerics. Why? Grouser who is a Sarnak was originally intended to become the Inquisitor for DA and was named Curmudgeon. Due to time constraints it would have been easier to betray and level Grump than Curmudgeon.
Sometime in October of last year I got a visit from a GM while sitting at the broker, some one Butcherblock petitioned the characters name as "a sexually offensive act" and when it means an "irritable and complaining person". I was more amused than anything that some one thought it was offensive and a GM bought it, I picked Grouser as Curmudgeon was hard for some to spell anyway.
Down, Down, Down we go, no where to stop...
I finally decided it was time to buy the Ethernaught's collection for both characters, I figured that I could get away spending at least 500 plat and had a nice chunk left over. So I bought two sets at roughly 180 each. After that I decided to go hunting for blue shinies, and I picked up quite a few, but I needed a bunch more and even though most blue shinies are pretty plain jane my completest addiction kicked in and I kept spending platinum until I was down to a meager 10 plat on each toon.
From Valor I also picked up a Master 1 Repent for my 80 Templar alt Grouser. Yes, I have two clerics. Why? Grouser who is a Sarnak was originally intended to become the Inquisitor for DA and was named Curmudgeon. Due to time constraints it would have been easier to betray and level Grump than Curmudgeon.
Sometime in October of last year I got a visit from a GM while sitting at the broker, some one Butcherblock petitioned the characters name as "a sexually offensive act" and when it means an "irritable and complaining person". I was more amused than anything that some one thought it was offensive and a GM bought it, I picked Grouser as Curmudgeon was hard for some to spell anyway.
Down, Down, Down we go, no where to stop...
I finally decided it was time to buy the Ethernaught's collection for both characters, I figured that I could get away spending at least 500 plat and had a nice chunk left over. So I bought two sets at roughly 180 each. After that I decided to go hunting for blue shinies, and I picked up quite a few, but I needed a bunch more and even though most blue shinies are pretty plain jane my completest addiction kicked in and I kept spending platinum until I was down to a meager 10 plat on each toon.
Friday, February 6, 2009
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.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Butcherblock lag & Reverse Damage
Surprise! You're lagged!
Something needs to be upgraded on Butcherblock, the constant server end lag is getting almost unbearable. I can understand high populations area having lag, but when you are in a raid instance for example Palace of the Overlord and another raid enters a separate instance causing the whole server to stop for over 5 seconds while they enter the zone, it's just annoying.
Another lag area that needs to be fixed are mobs that actually create lag, until the other day I have rarely seen this happen, but with less than 50 people in The Thundering Steeps including our raid, fighting The Avatar of Storms was almost impossible. During the fight he summons several mobs that are "Storms" at the same time, I have seen 20 of them at a time spawn during the encounter. In the previous tier they were trivial annoyances that are killed as part of the encounter, they usually die in less than 10 seconds after they spawn. But on Sunday it was a diffrent story, as the waves of the storms would spawn, the server would just lag out, causing several people to go link dead or lag out the zone to the point where the mobs have free reign on the players while they were still waiting for the clients to catch up. When a mob causes a a packet loss during an encounter there has something to be done on SOE's end. Please ftlog upgrade your servers!
Reverse Damage!
Was originally inspired by our fury Vegaxe's addiction to DPS. He found during Trakanon that he could do 7k+ dps on the mob using his AA ability and gear that has reverse damage procs on it. The gear specifically is what I am going to discus here, some of it can only be obtained on raids, but there are options you can use outside of raid.
In a raid setting you need to proc the gear, a way of taking lots of damage little damage, fast, to accomplish this you need a fight that has lots of AoEs (Such as Trakonon) or you need something like Mortal Coil.
I put on a player in my group who is going to take a bit of damage and since I am usually in the mage group, I put it on our "20k Warlock", Mordrulle, our Wizard, you look at him funny and dies Argenteyes or Gerrod an illusionist who fires off spells like a machine gun. These guys are pretty much the best when it comes to blowing shit up, they make healing a challenge.
Sometimes I am placed in the off-tank group during Gynock Moltar in Tomb of the Mad Crusader, which I place it on Onra our almost un-kill-able Shadow knight (Deathknight for you WoW folks out there, which btw have been in EQ2 since launch).
While the actual share pain proc will very rarely save players from being one shot killed, it does help ease the healing of a player who spikes or takes lots of damage over time. Now that you are sharing their pain, you need a way to protect yourself, while taking this damage. I use Soul Shattering band which will stone skin the incoming damage, as long as it procs, which it does constantly. You can also use gear with "Dispersion" or "Templar's Dispersion" these are generally on the market you can do a search for those in the ability field of the broker, most of the Dispersion pieces are mage wearable only, while the "Templar's Dispersion" pieces are for Pali's, SK's, Templars and Inquisitors.
So now that you've got your source of damage, and protection from that damage, now it's time to redirect that damage, the easiest way to do this is with a couple consumable items. One is a food called Magma Fish Reduction it will do 50+ damage every time you are hit, for 30 minutes. Another consumable item is Thorns potions, they can be expensive and only last for 2.5 minutes, but they can do a simmilar amount of damage to Magma Fish Reductions if you keep them on auto consume during that big fight.
Next you'll need some gear, Items with Mutagenic Burst are a good to start with, as the damage increases for each piece you equip. Divine Light items such as the Signet and Buckle of Light and Darkness are decent as well, but the ring being level 69 will get resisted more on mobs higher level.
Make sure to bring your spell critical damage up and base spell damage up because the damage on items and procs from the consumable items can critical! Items that increase spell damage are like the Bloodthirsty Choker. There are others out there, check the Void Shard brokers up in Moors of Yakesha as some classes may have shoulders that have spell bonuses of up to 8%
With only using one Mutagenic Burst Item and the two consumable items described above, my DPS from the procs has been over 1.3k dps on some fights!
Something needs to be upgraded on Butcherblock, the constant server end lag is getting almost unbearable. I can understand high populations area having lag, but when you are in a raid instance for example Palace of the Overlord and another raid enters a separate instance causing the whole server to stop for over 5 seconds while they enter the zone, it's just annoying.
Another lag area that needs to be fixed are mobs that actually create lag, until the other day I have rarely seen this happen, but with less than 50 people in The Thundering Steeps including our raid, fighting The Avatar of Storms was almost impossible. During the fight he summons several mobs that are "Storms" at the same time, I have seen 20 of them at a time spawn during the encounter. In the previous tier they were trivial annoyances that are killed as part of the encounter, they usually die in less than 10 seconds after they spawn. But on Sunday it was a diffrent story, as the waves of the storms would spawn, the server would just lag out, causing several people to go link dead or lag out the zone to the point where the mobs have free reign on the players while they were still waiting for the clients to catch up. When a mob causes a a packet loss during an encounter there has something to be done on SOE's end. Please ftlog upgrade your servers!
Reverse Damage!
Was originally inspired by our fury Vegaxe's addiction to DPS. He found during Trakanon that he could do 7k+ dps on the mob using his AA ability and gear that has reverse damage procs on it. The gear specifically is what I am going to discus here, some of it can only be obtained on raids, but there are options you can use outside of raid.
In a raid setting you need to proc the gear, a way of taking lots of damage little damage, fast, to accomplish this you need a fight that has lots of AoEs (Such as Trakonon) or you need something like Mortal Coil.
I put on a player in my group who is going to take a bit of damage and since I am usually in the mage group, I put it on our "20k Warlock", Mordrulle, our Wizard, you look at him funny and dies Argenteyes or Gerrod an illusionist who fires off spells like a machine gun. These guys are pretty much the best when it comes to blowing shit up, they make healing a challenge.
Sometimes I am placed in the off-tank group during Gynock Moltar in Tomb of the Mad Crusader, which I place it on Onra our almost un-kill-able Shadow knight (Deathknight for you WoW folks out there, which btw have been in EQ2 since launch).
While the actual share pain proc will very rarely save players from being one shot killed, it does help ease the healing of a player who spikes or takes lots of damage over time. Now that you are sharing their pain, you need a way to protect yourself, while taking this damage. I use Soul Shattering band which will stone skin the incoming damage, as long as it procs, which it does constantly. You can also use gear with "Dispersion" or "Templar's Dispersion" these are generally on the market you can do a search for those in the ability field of the broker, most of the Dispersion pieces are mage wearable only, while the "Templar's Dispersion" pieces are for Pali's, SK's, Templars and Inquisitors.
So now that you've got your source of damage, and protection from that damage, now it's time to redirect that damage, the easiest way to do this is with a couple consumable items. One is a food called Magma Fish Reduction it will do 50+ damage every time you are hit, for 30 minutes. Another consumable item is Thorns potions, they can be expensive and only last for 2.5 minutes, but they can do a simmilar amount of damage to Magma Fish Reductions if you keep them on auto consume during that big fight.
Next you'll need some gear, Items with Mutagenic Burst are a good to start with, as the damage increases for each piece you equip. Divine Light items such as the Signet and Buckle of Light and Darkness are decent as well, but the ring being level 69 will get resisted more on mobs higher level.
Make sure to bring your spell critical damage up and base spell damage up because the damage on items and procs from the consumable items can critical! Items that increase spell damage are like the Bloodthirsty Choker. There are others out there, check the Void Shard brokers up in Moors of Yakesha as some classes may have shoulders that have spell bonuses of up to 8%
With only using one Mutagenic Burst Item and the two consumable items described above, my DPS from the procs has been over 1.3k dps on some fights!
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