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.

Avatar of Disease, Avatar of Justice Dead.

We killed Avatar of Disease Saturday night. I won the Charm of Bertoxxulous, I took it mainly for the reuse and cast speed along with the 3% trigger chance bonus for my gear.

Last night, we cleared Palace of The Ancient One, Zarrakon's Abysal Chamber, cleared up to Munzok in Munzok's Material Bastion (Apparently, Munzok is still unkillable, months after the zone has been released, wtf is up with that?) and finished the night off with Avatar of Justice.

My alt Grouser won the Hoop of Vampiric Celerity off Zarrakon, puting him steps closer to being the best equiped Templar alt on the server. :)

I posted on twitter a while back asking if anyone knew the lore on Zarrakon and his Abysal chamber, which is by far one of my favorite zones. Who is Zarrakon?

And Boom goes the raid!

So tonight we killed Avatar of Health, Flame and Hate. On Health we had a comical kill! At 2% of Grummus's health I cast Verdict an Inquisitor spell, which an Epic mob down to 1hp, Grummus died and at the same time, the faliure effect triggered and killed most of the raid. We also cleared Ykesha's Inner Stronghold, killed Zarrakon and killed half of Palace of the Ancient One, which we will finish tommorow. At this pace we'll have a couple days off this week!

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.

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 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)

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!