Mmmm...We're All Wet

As usual, we've been extremely busy since the last update. Since our Xeg kill we've managed to slap on 2 more guild firsts.

Following our Xegony flagging, we decided we better get the show on the road and start working on our remaining ele gods for Time access. So we've spent all the time since then doing nothing but Earth Rings, Water clearings, and some Coirnav attempts.

First off, the Earth Rings...

We've killed these things before, but they were never a high priority target for us. But since we decided we were going to start our Time push, we decided we were going to start working on our POEb flags. So we ran around killing all the rings and triggered Arb.

The next 30 min was the most hectic chaos ever. Rushing to get everyone into Arb's chamber to kill Arb was madness. There was no "hurry up and wait", it was just plain "hurry up". Once we were there, we didn't really have a decent strat set up, and we didn't have the time to waste trying to find one. So we winged it. And we winged it bad...

It was a sloppy raid. We finally realized what it meant to "zerg" something. What a huge cluzterphock! But in the end, we prevailed and had our first Arb kill under our belts.

So then we started working on Coirnav. This is possibly the funnest encounter we've ran to date. It's a controlled chaos. One simple little mistake from anyone can mean the difference between winning and losing.

Our first attempt, we triggered Coir and actually got him down to around 80%. Yay us. So we wait three days to try again. Same thing. Okay. We made some adjustments and came back for a 3rd attempt 3 days later. Still the same thing. More adjustments, and another attempt 3 days later. On the 4th attempt, we had to let the event fail early due to some extremely bad luck on the pulling end, but we would be able to try again the next day! 5th attempt. We managed to get Coir down to 6%. We cried. We screamed. We cussed. So we go make a few more adjustments and try again 3 days later.

6th attempt. We go in with the last change to our strat that we can think of. The result? Practically flawless. We had 2-3 deaths the entire event (with the exception of Coir himself), and we had Coir dead with almost a full 3 minutes to spare. Everyone in the guild let out a collective sigh of relief. This was the first mob that had kept us stumped for any length of time. But everyone did exactly as we had planned, and the result was a ton of UG members getting their new shields, and a few members finishing up their Time keys.

Now for some random pics. Not the best quality since Water's so dark, and they're all just pics from after the raid (during the event, we were too focussed to think about taking screenshots). There's no witty banter, cuz it's friggin 3am! So suck it up and just enjoy what ya got!

Dead squid crab guy!

Dead squid crab guy again!

Dead squid crab guy yet again!

And another pic of dead squid crab guy!

Shields!!!

Shields from another angle!!!

And even more shields!!!

With Coir out of the way, we're down to just needing Rathe Council for Time farming goodness. We'll be doing one more Arb kill in the very near future to make sure we have more than enough POEb flagged, and after that look for us to be living in POEb until we beat RC.

Here's all the loot since the last update. It's really not too bad of a list when you consider how much time we wasted in Water on Coir.

Til next update, taker easy fuggeroos

Gaeaan

Posted by Gaeaan at April 19, 2005 02:55 AM