Weekend UpdateFollow

well done on dinging 62), but you need to update your sig...

Friday: /gasp. Roommate didn't pay the cable bill so no internet. So, rather than let it bother me I headed off to the bar with some friends. After many pints I am shoved in a car to return home.

Saturday: Sleep until 3pm then hangover food. Watched a couple movies, went to sleep.

Sunday: Joy. Internet's back up. Went to Kedge to camp the seahorse with a druid buddy then did an EC adventure. Logged the alt for a while and worked fletching.

Monday: Work. :(

This weekend saw much happiness for Shards of Chaos.

Saturday
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It was decided to spank the dragon Xanamech in the Plane of Innovation for the factory flag and upgrades. He died with only a few sacrifices (summoned slowers ). Some lucky Shards received his 41% haste choker and his caster ring.

Next Target was Banord Paffa in the Ruins of Lexi(thingy) (oh come on, you cannot expect me to remember how to spell it!). The fat man died to our first attempt to kill him and was a easy fight. He dropped a nice FTII mask for one of our plethora of chanters.

Sunday
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I attended as a guest on a raid with my old guild "Forgotten Nemesis". We killed Tallon Zek once more, this time he dropped his bow as well as a Wizzie or two. It seems loot for FN is directly proprotional in quality to how many wizzies die .
I then joined them for most of a fight in the Ruins of Lex(thingy).
Much fun was had in one room. We killed a nasty but the room he was in has an amusing property. Every time a person on the raid dies, 3 or 4 level 60 or so skeletons pop on the raid. These kill more people ... more skeles pop. Needless to say it is a chain reaction. I personally ended up tanking about 70 skeletons on weaponshield disc while taking a few glugs of my thurg gate potion. I lived! I was told that 132 skeles were on track in the end.
In the course of the raid I realised I miss my old guild a LOT. However I just cannot make their raid times anymore. I hope to keep on guesting sometimes when I am available I FN

So, to the SoC raid!

Scouting showed that nothing was up in norrath but for Vindi and Rumblecrush. These are only snacks so we decided to kill Xanamech once more to flag a few more guildies and take his loots. He died to us even with no bards for resist song in a near flawless fight. The 41% haste choker and a nice caster weapon dropped for us.

Next was a mess. We ran to Kael with Vindi spanking in our minds for faction to find that while we were busy in Plane of Innovation that another guild was inhabiting Kael. So we run to Umbral Plains to take a quick shot at Rumblecrush to find another guild had only just setup to attempt him We ended up crawling in Griegs end and taking some minor loots from named there. Upgrades were had but the risk was missing. How dare other guilds kill OUR targets! *pout*

Edited, Mon Jan 26 08:59:57 2004 by JennockFV

Friday - No EQ, played board games at a friends house.

Saturday - Did some minor messing around, xp grinding then took wife out for some much needed R&R. Guild decided to do AD in Valor for backflagging.

Sunday - BOOYAA! Rallos Zek went down on our second attempt. Too bad he only gives out 72 flags - too bad I was watching a play while he was preparing for his 3 day dirt nap. Later went to Sol Ro for some xp grindage.

Edit: I just read a post about Saryrn and the elemental/time guilds. There's 4 guilds in PoTime rotating through with an additional 5 guilds in the elementals. Gonna be very slim pickings in the elementals.

Edited, Mon Jan 26 09:36:48 2004 by Madahme

Bah, Hippo's a farmer. Always has been, always will be. I pride myself (such as it is) in my farm-free post count

Friday, did a couple Everfrost LDoN's, trying to get my ranger friend his chain tunic. On the second one, I made a bunch of eBay mistakes and we called it quits. Sometimes you're in the groove, sometimes you just suck.

Saturday, spent a couple of the suck-boring-est hours of my EQ career in a kite group in Halls of Honor. Eventually recruited a friend into the group just to have someone to exchange snarky tells with about how dull it was. Yeah, I made 3AA in a few hours, but it drained the life right out of me.

Sunday, took my 62 bard slumming with a LDoN pick-up group of lvls 55-57. It was pretty funny to do, and I gave up on any pretense of lull or crowd control about a third of the way through and we stomped all over it. Went with a friend and we did some 3-person LDoNs in Ruj Hills (he two boxes a ranger and a druid) which we won without much trouble. Only made about 90% of an AA, but it beat the hell out of chasing Guardians of Marr around.

Friday - Get HoH group with some guildies and Ding 60....

Saturday - Read Jennocks Post.

Sunday - Jennocks post again but with some epic farming around there somewhere. got the HG and the Mamoth easily enough but the Aquagoblin is being a *****.... wont spawn for me. i think imma sit there for a few hours next time im on.... wont get distracted bu the grind.... after about an hour of gobbie camping i jumpped to another HoH basement group which ended up in me hitting 61....

Friday:

Went to a Hockey game with some friends, got drunk and had a great time.

Saturday:

Work…Bla!

Did some farming that night, nothing to exciting.

Sunday:

Made a guest appearance at the SoC raid. We win; I believe it’s all because of me being there. God, are they ever lucky to have me.

I rock

/nod

Saturday:
Go on PoI raid with SoC and learn that casting Rune near Xana immediately before the fight starts is a good way to be on the top of his **** list. Got one rounded and had the lesson pounded into my Enchie skull. Got rezzed in for Factory flag nonetheless. Helped with CC on the Paffa prefight and fight. I had forgotten what it was like to be the low enchie on the totem pole. Sorta felt like excess baggage. Too low to mezz, slows to low to be useful, buffs to low to be of use, nukes for laughable amounts of dmg.

Sunday:
Revist PoI and this time lived through the whole fight runing the MA and the clerics as needed. I was useful really I was! The romp in Griegs was nice to see the zone since the revamp. I've been out of it for awhile, I miss those mobs that shapechange everyone, it made it amusing for part of the journey there at least.

Installed EQWatcher since the guild uses it to call slows nowadays. Downloaded extra voices to get rid of Microsoft (Sam/Mary/Mike). Switched to the Jarlo standard set of triggers to cover BL/Necro slow calls and dinked around with a tash trigger in the spells section. Want to add other resist debuffs as well but haven't got tash working 100% right now it annouces "mumble is tash'ed" instead of "a fire beetle is tash'ed". Perhaps I will add cripple in as well, but there are other debuffs that go in that cripple doesn't stack with and it would get difficult to have them all announced.

Not too much to add to the other SOC reports, although I did get that 41% haste item RARRR. Also managed to ding 65 before the weekend 8)

Did some super fun LDON with Twinkletoes and co. No CC no Paci. War, Rng, Pal, Nec, Shaman, Clr-- The warrior would just run into a room and come back with 3-4 on him-- ae slow and i would peel off the shaman while the necro put dot's on all of them. Was INSANELY fun and of course we won with plenty of time to spare. God I love playing in good gorups without a chanter, just makes for crazy fun times.

Got in a nice tactics group pre-raid on Sunday with a good bard. Pounded out to Natural Durability 1 and got Aadyn a tact bulwark off the piggy and he later won an ornate silk bracer pattern that he gave to me for my RL necro friend. I love this guild 8)

Overall I am having an amazing time with pally. Pretty easy to get in groups and easy to pull a group together if I need to. Group heals are the bomb for AE mobs.. 660 hp for alll my friends!