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Kor-Sha: Assault on Atrebe – The Kar’Zok

Post author By Zaph
Post date March 9, 2017

Here we are, at the top of the hill of this rollercoaster set of raids from Empires of Kunark.
Lceanium was a lot of nonsense, but learnable and beatable in a fair amount of time,
Chardoks Queen and Vault were both steep learning curves …

Then we get to

Kor-Sha: Assault on Atrebe – The Kar’Zok

If Vault was comparable to Benny Hill and a tacky 70s UK soap opera,
then this monster of an event is a full on Monty Python film !

At one point during learning this raid, I honestly felt like dancing spamalot,
it would have made as much sense.

While we understood the basics early on, getting to grips with the finer points took many tries.

No matter how high our corpses piled up, it was a case of Never give up, never surrender!

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy!

Next up is this happy looking fella, I expect he will be unhappy pretty quickly

Then after him is the grand finale of the expansion, and we can get back to farm mode !

Anlaks Corner of stupid comments and stuff

Let me start by saying , this is a

but i enjoyed it ( i think )

lots of love in the guild

lets start with a

and a few emotes

and a few teaser

new raids ahead of us

sometimes i wonder how we win raids ?

ok lets end it here with a

/Anlak

Raids

Atrebe’s Vault Vanquished !

Post author By Zaph
Post date January 26, 2017

A tale of two Bennys.

After all the hate I gave to the Queen raid, I was quite unprepared for what awaited us afterwards.

Im not sure who thought up this event – Atrebe’s Vault, but im going to assume it was a joint attempt between Benny from Crossroads, and the dearly departed Benny Hill.

It has elements of the bumbling simpleton Benny’s with kill everything before we throw a whole load more rubbish at you, coupled with Comedy Benny’s roaming instant death that serves no purpose other than just to get in the way while you deal with 300 adds.

Of course, if that was it, it wouldn’t be a difficult event.

But wait theres more !

Golems that hug, a Elemental that does 50k AE damage a second (no that really is per second, not a tick) and a whole bunch of other comedy, its undoubtedly the funniest raid ive done in a long time

All it took was my finally getting sick of the guild banner and changing it (there are no bugs in EQ, only features)

From This

To this

Top secret strats included :

Updated Banner apperance, and

Klerick Cleric tanking with Durby the Bard offtanking

Resulted in a nice clean win !

Everything worked Perfectly

Thats all from me

Anlak news from the warfront

I must agree with Zaph, this raid is pure Benny Hill

It is more stupid than stupid

Soon this raid will be on farm , and we better start prepare for next round

but still room for a smart comments

lets call it a day , and look forward

/Anlak

Raids

Chardok Queen Defeated

Post author By Zaph
Post date January 9, 2017

Sorry Mario, your Queen is in another castle !

First off, let me say, ive been accused of writing news posts that are lacking in humour, there is a reason for this.

Ive been raiding Everquest a lot of years, more than most, and when something like the above photo brings joy then you know there is a problem.

This Queen raid, even her highness facepalms at how bad it is.

Who thought, lets take a classic difficult raid target, and make it harder for todays standards by adding in random emotes, a whole bunch of adds that AE damage, a mechanic that makes them adds change, oh, and a way to fail the event even if you are doing really well but the zone pathing is so buggy it causes leashing or key mobs not to be targetable !

Well its dead now, no doubt beating it every week will get easier, but it sure isnt a easy event.

At least the loot chest is pretty.