The login servers were fubar'ed for the first couple of days of the week, but we didn't let that stop us from another guild first.
Monday and Tuesday were extremely slow for us. The login servers were causing grief for most guilds. So we took those 2 days to goof off and catch up on some much needed xp. After SOE fixxed the servers, we got right back to work.
We accomplished another guild first this week. We killed Bert on our first ever attempt. It wasn't a pretty kill, it wasn't a flawless kill, and it wasn't even a fast run through the script (I think we dropped Bert with around 2 minutes left on the timer), but by god it was a kill. To top it off, we had members logging in for the raid out of nowhere, and we ended up flagging 72 Underguild members. That means we're just down to two more mobs for Sol Ro access. With any luck we'll have those this week.
Our turn was up for the VT rotation, so we spent another long day in there farming loot for everyone. This was by far our best VT clearing. Not only are we getting faster with each turn in the rotation, but we managed to finally get the rest of our coth bots parked for our future runs.
We also had another AD kill and Carprin run in an effort to help some of our members get caught up on backflags.
Other than that, there really wasn't much more from us in terms of raids this week. After VT our members usually take a day off recovering (wussies!). Couple that with Easter weekend, and we're lucky to get enough on to form a single xp group!
And now for the loot...
Other News
Plans are underway for this summer's guild picnic. The picnic is open for all of our friends, and not just reserved to Underguild members only. Activities will include a LOT of drinking, a lot of bs'ing, A LOT more drinking, some tattooing, even MORE drinking, and using Fanya as a human pinata as he does some more of that whacky suspension crap.
Contact Teluas in game for more info if you think you'd like to attend.
It's a bi-weekly entry again, simply because of the DX9 patch. With all the troubles caused by that patch, the first week was slow on raids. After the "fix" patch, things picked up for us.
We tried raiding our "regular" mobs on patch day. Needless to say there were a ton of collision bugs that needed to be fixed. It did make for an "interesting" Emp fight though.
After the "emergency" patch to fix the untested DX9 patch, we were able to start raiding some. We hit a few of the Ssra mobs that we normally go after, then we started concentrating our efforts on flags for elementals again.
We knocked out a few "guild first" mobs: Saryrn and Tallon Zek. Saryrn is definetly the funnest encounter we've done so far, but my god the pita to clear to there. Not to mention the lack of coth in Torment. Our first attempt was a failure. Our second attempt was a feeble effort to try to salvage the raid after people had started camping for the night, so we had another failure.
After the raid, we discussed our strategies for our next attempt and finally agreed on one for our next Saryrn raid. That raid came a lot faster than we thought, and the very next day we were back at it again. Everyone stuck to the strategy we discussed, the fight went very smooth, and we soon found her laying at our feet.
Tallon wasn't nearly as fun as Saryrn, mainly because she's hawt and he's nawt. Nevertheless we went after him anyway and we soon found ourselves looting his corpse.
Those 2 kills leave us just 3 mobs short of Sol Ro access now, however we still have a lot of backflagging to do simply to keep the rest of the guild caught up. Hopefully we'll have our slacker crews logging in a little more regular in an effort to get their flags so we don't leave them behind in the very near future.
Other than those 2 kills, the rest of the mobs were the same old same old. I don't think I can find another way to even try to describe those fights to make them still sound interesting, so I'll just list em here: Blood x2, Emp x2, Cursed, XTC x2, Grummus, Carprin, RD, and Terris (I guess Terris is still a lotta fun, but I don't wanna sit here and talk about waves of butterflies!)
That's about it for this week. I'm using a new format for the lewt pics. Just click on the zone banners below and it'll show ya what loot we pulled outta there since the last update. I'll prolly start posting kill shots in here eventually, but screenshots on raids are usually boring as hell from a cleric's perspective.
Til next update, taker easy fuggeroos
Gaeaan