Weekend UpdateFollow

Hehe, nice update Noggy.

Well it was a mixed week for "Forgotten Nemesis".

On thursdays raid night we took our rag tag army of God slayers to Crypt of Decay to attempt to slay the mighty Bertox himself.
For anyone that does not know the Bertox fight is a fixed time length. You have 2 hours from killing the first creature to kill much trash followed by 12 kings and then Bertox himself. You cannot really afk and the fight is hectic
The fight was good, we had a strategy and hoped we would prevail. Being a first attempt on a very difficult PoP god we were treating the event as a learning experience hoping for success but not relying on it, how silly of us
We all worked well, the monks died around 20 times each pulling but we have now slain the evil Bertox and one of our rangers walks norrath with his glowing green club

Friday was aour day off but we cleared plane of fear and even killed Cazic Thule for fun.

Saturday the guild killed the PoV dragging for backflagging in preparation for sundays raid. I was not present but I understand the crystal dragon suffered a quick end at the hands of my guildies.

Sundays raid was another first try for "Forgotten Nemesis", we attempted the great lord Mithanial Marr.
In our attempt and regretable failure we found out a lot about MM . How to pull him, to control his pets and kill him next time. We successfully had him pinned in place but some bad luck and low healer numbers because of flagging issues defeated us.
On our next attempt we will slay him. We have the strategy, we will have more people flagged, we will have revenge And also we cannot win first time on every god

Edited, Mon Mar 8 09:06:03 2004 by JennockFV

The weekend was mostly uneventful...until Sunday. That's when we took an ironic turn for the worst.

A 38 Necro in our guild asked for help on getting the Summon Corpse spell from a named in the bottom of Splitpaw. Great guy (whole group was) so a few of us eagerly volunteer. Group is all guild, 35-41, Warrior (me) 2 Rangers, Necro, Bard and Cleric. Great sub-group within the Guild that works well together. We enter and proceed to own everything in our path...even getting some xp, which is a nice byproduct of the spell quest. Just before we're getting ready to swim under the rock and head to the named room, cleric tells us she has to go for RL problem. No one is mad - she is cool and stuff happens. We figure we'd come this far so easily, not a big deal.

We head in and take down the first bunch of guards. A little beat up afeterward, but the zone is now safe to med and heal. Once that is done, Bard goes to try to lull pull the named. That's when things got hairy.

I see his health dropping and he does not come around the corner. Then he announces "rooted:" /assist Bard. Mezz breaks on the others in the room while we are fighting and they proceed to join in and heal the main. Necro dies. Bard and I are dropping below 30% with the Rangers healing. One Ranger draws low HP aggro and dies. Continue fighting and health is below 20% on Warrior and Bard. Remaining Ranger announces OOM...crap. We never fininshed off the MOB healer, but still manage to get the named to 6% or so before dying. Bard dies...Warrior dies.

Remaining Ranger, in an awesome head's up move, finishes off the named with a nuke and loots the spell, which is what we came for in the first place. He dies trying to get out, but makes it past the bridge at least. We find a Druid, port back to NK, and run to zone. 2nd Ranger runs back to zone as well, cammos, and manages to drag his corpse to the entrance. Now we have the summon corpse spell - yay! Too bad our Necro is 38, and can't scribe it yet.

Its 2am at this point and no one is looking forward ro CR. So, we procure a 39 Necro to do what? Summon corpse. Same spell we were after for out 38 Necro, who can't quite use it yet. Hence the irony. I log 41 Druid, hit bank for 750pp and port/run back to zone to give it to someone in party. Log out Druid, log in Warrior. Necro shows up and summons, and we all head to the Spire for Nexus port.

Sorry so long winded, but hey: it was fun for us despite wiping. Got a little too cocky thinking we could do it without cleric, but in the end we got what we were after, although in a sloppy way.

best weekend ever as i finnaly LEFT EQ. cancled both my accounts and am considering XXXXXX my accounts.

picked up DAoC Gold for the SI expansion, and ToA yesterday afternoon (sunday) and installed them on top of classic. all i can say is if you enjoy eyecandy and think SWG is nice looking but laggy, check out DAoC.

better looking then SWG, and no were near as laggy, nor as much a system hog. classic DAoC with only the first free expansion (player housing 'Foundations') is roughly 575M, with all expansions installed and optional files added to the system i am now at 1.79G in size.

so much lighter on the system then EQ and runs oh so much better.

anyways im very happy with leaving EQ. not that i did not enjoy the game, but i hated the company that much. got tired of paying them for doing such a ****** job at CS and TS for their product that i left.

Friday - played a bit, but not long as i had a long day ahead of me IRL on sat.

Staurday - up early to teach classes, then head over to other side of state (2hr drive) to judge at the FL CTF Black belt testing. was not one of our better testings, and had several NO CHANGES. those are failed to pass their test. 1 from not breaking her boards, sad really as the rest of her test was great, 3 from lack of effort, and 3 from lack of definitions on their verbal skills. so 6 ppl will get a little wake up call between this coming sat, and next saturday. depending on what school they are from. got home at roughly 1am.

Sunday slept in for the first time in 3 weeks, then played with family and kids, took everyone out to lunch. picked up expansion packs for DAoC (way better game then EQ IMHO and better eye candy then even SWG without the system lag) and stayed up to 3am playing DAoC. bad boy i was last night. was almost late to work this morning.

enjoy.

Singdall, why not post your weekend update on the DOAC Alla site then please.

friday: - Son had first immunity injections, not nice..... Plymouth was very nearly down one nurse. oh and of course they made my wife hold him so he associated her with the pain and she was not a popular mommy for an hour or so

/em strangles nurse

saturday: - injections kick in son not well daddy very stressed but managed to distracyt by putting FA cup Semi Finals on TV looks like he takes after daddy.... go Ruud


sunday: - Raid on Saru, took the big fellah down with only one fatality <poor MT 3 fizzles from the 2 Cheal clerics and the patch healer gotta hurt> dropped the BP, FT5 ring and sleeves all went to Guildleaders click no surprise there. still was fun and learned alot.

Got into a group on Saturday morning with my rogue that contained the single most obnoxious person I've ever met in EQ. Some lvl 38ish ranger. In what should have been a cakewalk (two clerics, rogue, ranger, bard, monk in a lvl 35 Mistmoore), he managed to wipe us twice and drive off one of the clerics and the monk because he would rather insult people and try to /duel them than actually do the adventure. After the second wipe I told the others sorry and took my leave. I've never left a group before due to a single person but this guy made it my first.

Played my bard for the first time in several weeks and went back to ******** around in Nadox. Got some bow to drop which may or may not be decent -- I know nothing about bows and what's considered "good". Doesn't matter too much.. I just like looting something besides zombie skins. Was invited into a PoV group by a guildie which was less xp than I was making in Nadox and a lot less loot besides. Still, I stuck with it until we wiped (stupid wipe too, chanter died trying to mez and add, I mezzed it after and then the druid took it upon himself to try to root/rot the mobs which broke my mezzes and we got our asses handed to us). Called it an early night to get some real life stuff done.

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