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Night of Shadows – Beta

The Phantom Menace – Luclin Style.

Once again our yearly custom to do the new Everquest expansion as beta came around, we were assigned two slots with a Dev, the esteemed one himself – Ngreth.

With Ngreths accompaniment, we took at look at the Tier 3 raid in Shar Val – Under Siege.

This is an interesting event based around defending the cats from the forces of Akheva.  However, even with our own cat army, it wasn’t too long before Ngreth got to inspect the quieter side of AOU.

(And if you ever read this Absor, please take note that casting root on four mobs every six seconds for half an hour in the dark is not my idea of fun, that is punishment)

Anyway, besides Ngreths directive, we took a look at some other events, two of which also take part in Shar Val.

The first of these was a divergence from the usual style of raids, with it not just being a whole bunch of trash with 30 different emotes to fail with, it involved a teleporting Tony tiger illusionist named Jakarashev, which proved to take my attention away from taking screenshots, so you only get that one.

The other event, in the Pit, gives you a “few” mobs to deal with, we visited this on a couple of occasions to learn quite an amount on how close you can be without accidentally triggering the mobs to fustercluck your unexpecting half afk raidteam.

After learning all we had the tolerance for there, we took a look at what is “currently” an easier event (currently as in its beta, and like an episode of Stingray, anything can happen with it)

This expansion has them luclin screaming insects reimagined, but more colourful and less screamy, this time around they are joined with a gigantic mamajammer boss named Hashiss.

Hopefully, this event doesn’t change toooooo much as I believe as it is, is to be the perfect entry point for the expansion.

We did after a bit of work and learning achieve this.

and without trying, an achievement

Thats it for Beta so far that im going to post about, but ill leave off with this…

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News Raids

Vanquisher of Everything

 – Terror of Luclin, the final frontier –

 

I guess so, it took us long enough…. so then …

After calls of “its impossible, it cannot be done”, “we don’t have the dps for that stupid shit”, “Someone will fuck it up somehow”, I finally stopped moaning, and this week the guild did its thing.

With the “Close the gate: Underwhelming Shadows” finally solved a few days ago, as in we actually understood what needed to be done, we did it, leaving AOU with one final carbuncle of a task –

Don’t get fingered in the Oubliette.

To be grabbed by the ghoulies during one of the more unfair aura dancing events (this bit is safe, but it spawns slap in the middle of the not safe bit) brings out the sweat in me, but it was somewhat easier than not glitching through the floor which happens so so often.

With all that nonsense done, for this type 5 augment.

(Don’t tell the devs they let it be removed without a distiller, a rather boorish money sink that was totally unnecessary)

This expansion was a lot of control the player type bullshit going on, I can see the attraction of the progression servers now, simpler and more enjoyable times.  But if it was easy it wouldn’t have the attraction to play as much.

And a final note, I asked the guild to stand by the loot chest for a group screenshot, there is always that certain someone who insists on being in the center.

Until next time, the next expansion which we are hearing rumours of, keep smiling.

 

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Raids

Terror of Luclin the final chapter’ish

TOL Close the Gate

The gate is closed

Ayy we did it, and on the hardest possible mode (they nerfed headshots/assassinate etc)

A challenging event being the most emote heavy and offtanking trash i’ve seen.

It didn’t help learning to have it locked behind that awful sex tentacle vampire thing which is on my shittest of the shit events list.

Just a shame the Venril Sathir event has gone, that was decent, with perfect RVR.

 

Not a lot else to say, I guess I could go on to make a recruitment post, but recruitment is always open unless you are a class we have a ton of.

“Are you tired of your guild constantly wiping to trivial stuff because the masses don’t follow instructions, or do you think your guildleadership are assholes and have a roster turnover higher than the McDonalds Travis Scott meals on a none school day, then AOU is for you.!”

Blah blah blah, we beat it, its shit lol, now onto the crappy few achievements we are missing, sorry not much else to say, and i’m not well – I won’t go into details, but its messy and smelly.