Sadly, I didnt get a chance to post yesterday – but what a completely EXCELLENT Tuesday night raiding we had.
We went to Miraguls Planar Shard hoping to get some more exquisite drops from the trash mobs and have another crack at those named. And I am as proud as punch of what we achieved!
We put in a decent showing against the trash, and had some nice drops. Then we set ourselves up for the named in the room to the left hand side as you come in the door (not the “Snow room”)
Armed with some new intel, we hammer pulled the named with Killys hammer. The named broke at the door leaving us with only the trash to take care of. Rinse and repeat until all that remained was the actual named. We knew he had a nasty trauma AoE, and had the raid force joust it. He beat us about a bit and our raid force was definitely a little bruised and bloody – but *cheers* we got him down! His chest had the BEAUTIFUL healer neck item. Unfortunately Killy didnt win the roll for it … but I get a feeling we will be coming back here again in the not to distant future.
Then on to the room that I refer to as the “Snow room”. To take on tuskers and his mean nasty handler :p We followed the same line of thinking to aggro the named, he breaks in the room and so we took care of the adds out in the corridor.
Then it was time to face the mamoth and his ghostly master. We decided to have the MT group take care of the ghost, while we set up an MA group with two tanks to deal with Tuskers mem wipe. First couple of pulls didnt go so well – but that was OK as we got used to the tanks controlling the mem wipe. We also took a couple of pulls to get an idea of good placement for our raid force.
And then if memory serves it was our third or maybe fourth pull – we hit our rhythm. A couple of times Tuskers ran amok and was smacking on my favourite dark elf as well as the ghost, but we managed to keep him up for the most part :p Now I was tired and am terrible at taking in details first time in a new place, so my recollections of what was happening are hazy and sketchy at best :p
I think what we did was “easy mode” when the ghost got to 25% Arisha clicked something and then we were able to damage the Mammoth. While the raid force were taking the mammoth down, unfortunately the ghost was healing up a little … but no never mind. It is what happened next which was dissapointing. We managed to get the Mammoth down to 25% too … but something happened and Tuskers re-aggrod and killed us all. We think that it may have been someones Autoattack ????
So – while we can say that in theory we defeated the encounter, we didnt get aa for it nor a pretty exquisite chest 😦
By this time it was too late for us to keep going. So we wished my favourite coercer a happy birthday as raid broke up and people logged off.
While it was dissapointing not to have gotten a chest from the second named encounter, Pax Fatalis still holds it head high. We were in a new zone, and in theory got down two new named encounters, and had a bunch of laughs while doing that – stunning effort. Not to mention we got some pretty lewt pieces for our raid force.
What was even more gratifying to me was that there was a lot of fairplay when it came to distribution of lewt. I saw people passing up on some very shiny pieces so that they could go to guildmates that would benefit more. I saw people thinking twice about rolling on pieces that were more suited to other classes. Very very gratifying indeed, and makes me proud to wear the tag of Pax Fatalis.
We always seem to have a nice quiet night on Wednesday nights, and last night was no different 🙂 I spent last night tradeskilling pieces for both guildmates and other friends from within Norrath. I think I made 4 or 5 sets of armour, plus some weapons and jewelery and shard gear. While I was keen to take the pally for a wee run, it is awesome to see that my crafter girls are being called apon to use their tradeskills. I see no point in leveling all those tradeskill girls if they are not going to get used!
As I was preparing to log out, someone yelled that the headless horseman was running about, so we quickly assembled in Nek and took care of him with little trouble. By the time we had pottered about doin that, and I had spent time chatting to people, it was time to bid gnite to Norrath
We have a x2 raid on the schedule tonight. Not sure if I will go – would really like to run the pally around some more if we have enough folks to get a group together.
Hope everyone is enjoying their time in Norrath too … Happy hunting and crafting.
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