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!

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.

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...

Avatar of Growth Deflowerd, Gynok x2 killed!

So tonight was a crazy busy night! We killed the Avatar of Growth tonight (I got the kill shot!)

Grat's Crazzel on the Charm, and Mordrulle on the Spirit Draining Wristguard!

Then we headed off to ToMC to kill Gynok before our timer expired on it and we spanked him on our first pull. We reset our timers and cleared the zone again and took down Gynok again on our first pull. From Gynok to Gynok was took us about a half hour! The zone is officially on farm status! Oh and on our Second Gynok kill Satarah got the server disco Bjorn's Wistle!

Then we headed out to Palace an killed Switchmaster, before the end of our raids.

A couple days ago...

I snagged this screen of Xanadu, I don't think it has 4%heal crit on it I think it's only 2% I will get an updated screen later.

I got me a shiny new purple helm, which brings my TSO Inquisitor set up to 4 pieces. With 4 pieces, they add a nice HP boost to the group as well as a nice chunk of DPS, but I think it is still bugged and wont provide bonuses after 10 meters.


Later that night, I picked up a wrist and with that I was at 100% self buffed heal crit. So I decided to remove the AA's from my heal crit, which drops me down to 86%. I also removed my intelligence line, which I mainly took for the cast speed, but with my items and raid buffs I was already past the point of diminishing returns, the sixteenth of a second I was shaving off my group heal didn't warrant all the ponts spent in the casting speed line.

So I started putting things back in to DPS.

I picked up E:Yalp, Overwhelming Arms and Fanatical devotion as new AA lines although I am going to re-do that tree when I build up some more plat because took the group buffs thinking that the added % to mitigation would be decent, but now I think it's a waste of AA when I can have the points somewhere more important.

I pulled out my DPS gear that had been sitting in my bags unused for almost 2 and a half months and modified my DPS set some to include some new gear, and went to town on some training dummies to test the items I have.

During our raid in Palace, I was in the range of 4.8k to 5.5k dps on "palace trash". Which I was pretty happy with, but with a couple items I know I can improve that DPS.

Oh, Sweet I am #1 world wide for inquisitors on HP! But I don't remember setting my toon to anon.. :)

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 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.

Into the void..

So we've been raiding pretty steadily in The Shadow Odyssey expansion for EverQuest 2. The last four nights have been pretty exiting so far, we've taken down a few names so far in Tomb of the Mad Crusader, Ykesha's Inner Stronghold and tonight we hit The Palace of the Ancient one. The Palace is located on the outer fringes of the Void, and a wonderfully designed zone (I will get more pictures next time).

While in the Palace I picked up a nice little earing, and a server discovery.It's a nice piece, and it needs to be repaired :)

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! :)

TSO: The Avatar of Health - Rodcet Nife

The Avatar of Health does not have 4 feet!

This is the Avatar of Health, the Avatar of Deity Rodcet Nife, The Prime Healer. Yes, he looks like an "Area 51 Alien" that you see in horror and sci-fi movies. He is smaller than all the other Avatars. He isn't an attackable deity, but he does have some combat buffs. I wonder when his enemy, (the Avatar of) Bertoxxoulous spawns on Norrath if the Avatar of Health becomes acttackable.

EQ2I gives this description of Rodcet Nife:

"Rodcet Nife is allied with Karana, Quellious, Erollisi Marr, and Prexus, and his only enemy is Bertoxxulous. Followers of the Prime Healer take a solemn oath to fight disease and death until one or the other finally claims them. They are very generous and humble, asking little more than that the recipients of their aid pass the kindness on to another. They are not content to deal with the effects of disease and death after they occur and vigorously seek to destroy the sources of these evils. Healers and mystics are typical followers but many noble rangers and paladins also have also taken the Nife Oath. They believe that, through faith in the Prime Healer, the wounded heart of the universe shall one day be mended and death's dark shadow will never be seen again."

Tomorrow I will have a screen shot of Norrath's other new Avatar, Anashti Sul.

Anashti Sul, the original Prime Healer, was sentenced to non-existence by the other gods when she unwittingly released undeath upon the inhabitants of early Norrath. Rodcet Nife would be later appointed to take her place. - EQ2I.com

Avatar of Growth - Fertilized! Happy Birthday EQ2

We took down the Avatar of Growth yesterday afternoon. Yet another disappointing and duplicated loot drop, that went for minimum bid. My last count, there are 13 Avatar items have not been discovered on our server, and they are the best items on the Avatar loot table.

Eight days left before the Shadow Odyssey! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?

I seriously hope they have enhanced the delivery system for downloading the content this expansion. I do not want to wait until after midnight to log in to the new content on TSO like I have had on the last three expansions due to the patch times. I really hope they have been on the ball and started pushing content behind the sceenes with the new Station Launcher that is in Beta.

Happy Birthday EQ2.
As long as there are no contested up I will be hanging out in EQ2's Birthday 4th year Event on Butcherblock tonight. Hopefully they spawn some god-like creature that we have to raid and kill... That would be sweet...

Avatar of Justice, Avatar of Disease & where is my Beta Key?

Avatar of Justice was up the other night when we got there The Lost was fighting him, while they didn't get to the 7th hammer, it was nice to finally see another guild forming up for an avatar...
Leadership decided we didn't have the right classes online at the time and there was still a good chance that AoJ would still be up when the right classes came online.

We re-formed and they were still fighting him, we watched them for a few pulls while our raid leaders were refreshing folks on the fight, which is an endurance fight, the second time we killed him, it took 72 minutes (of course it was 11pm on a Saturday night and half of the raid was drunk).

After a few pull The Lost stepped down from the fight and wished us good luck on the fight, which IMHO was really gracious. After a few funky pulls we killed the entire fight in 15 minutes, which makes me really happy.

Avatar of disease was up last night we killed him, it was fun fight, especially when they grouped me with 3 softies, so my heal parse was pretty damn high, I was #1 according to my parse.

RUFFEOO IS BACK! Yay!

SOE, where is my beta key? Most of DA is over on beta, well most of DA's DPS, but not one of our healers!