Category: Raids

This is where the fun begins !

With Tier 2 of the Outer Brood there is a noticeable step up in difficulty to the raid, coupled with the additional changes since testing in Beta, it was a welcome feeling of challenge when facing these raids.

The first of these, something something cannons something, is another “fight dragon/avoid cannons” with the same enjoyability of melee get to stare at a dragons arse for a percent of the event.

assuming you can even see the dragon in the mass of players.

Anyway, quite a fun event with lots going on that we got super unlucky with on the first day wiping at 3% (and a few other attempts that otherwise went pear-shaped due to some bad luck)

And anyway, onto the next event, the one with the flying whale and rolling boulder (is there even a explanation in the event about that boulder?, I missed it if there is).

A slightly easier event than the previous one in my opinion, still difficult, and again we got so close to beating it first try.

Highlight of the event was the endboss floating in midair above the pit for a while and warping all over, before leaving his corpse there being as active and as threatening as he was alive.

more soon…

Tier One of The Outer Brood.

Once again, it was the time of year for the new expansion, with the Outer Brood launching in December 2024 and new raid early in January 2025.

AOU did extensive beta testing for this expansion, and while I attended a majority of our raids, the screenshots I took matched my enthusiasm for playing and updating the news.

Not taking anything away from Everquest, its still going strong considering its now in its 26th year, I have not been as committed as much as the past, but my annus horribilis is a whole separate story.

Anyway, a reasonably smooth launch with so far few problems (I did win the impromptu “whens the first patch going to be” guess held in our discord.

The two Tier One raids went live as expected, and also as expected AOU beat them both the first night back raiding.

The first one of the pair of raids I cannot say i’m all that keen of, or as Yinla said to me “shit raid”, it seems to be overly complicated with a ton of aura emotes that get pretty much ignored, but I do like the couple of adds that spawn during the event to chase players.

The second raid I didnt see live, as I benched to allow a player chance of raiding, but it was another we had beta tested several times (this one seemed slightly more interesting and for once I wasn’t expected to lead the Hokey Cokey to an emote dance move), ill get to see it next week, so assuming I remember here is a screenshot I took afterwards ..

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This is the boss of the other raid, as he starts with the simon says colour discs, looks great.But unfortunately, my view of the event for the majority was just his foot,Perhaps a better raid than the previous one, but that is due to there being 3 focus points, although most the raid, you get the foot.

So, special shoutout to the MVP of this whole event – Wonderdog, just doing his thing, at the foot, a mild distraction during the 20 mins of toe sniffing.

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Getting back on the subject of Beta Testing and while as I said, I took a bunch of screenshots during beta, a majority were not great, and I was otherwise not that committed to doing a news report everyweek, heres a selection of some pics in no particular order I took showing we attempted (and beat) a whole bunch of them.

BTW, welcome to the Manglers to their first beta with AOU, you know who you are

Thats all for now …