Deja Vu

Amazingly the zone stayed up long enough to loot. . .

In case you you cannot tell, I am facing San Diego in the above picture. . .

So as you probaby gathered from the pictures, we headed into ToV for a little dragon keeling action last night (AGAIN).  We weren't alone though.  Our European friends decided to wax some leezurds as well.  At one point we even had a little "race" to see who would get to Koi Poosae first.  Personally, I don't enjoy any competition in this game against something I cannot lay my spear and dagger into however if someone issues LoS a challenge, well, let's just say this bull has some very large horns.

Koi dropped a net, a bracer and a dagger.

Oh speaking of Koi, the night before we had a truly classic Koi encounter.  We all left our keyboards at the exact same time and simultaneously let trained chimps take over the raid.  Look what happened!!

Earlier in the week we did the Ring War again.  It's always fun prepping for the Ring War.  You get to deal with the 30 or so people who hang out in Great Divide doing experience who hate your guts because you start the Ring War every week.  Here's this week's Quote of the Ring War:

In any event, we had far fewer people than for our previous war yet we still prevailed.  Many thanks go out to all the people who were in GD and rather than complain, picked up their weapons and joined the battle.  I've said it before and I will say it again, the Ring War is one of the funnest encounters in the game.  And to top it all off, I got my 10th Ring of Dain Cacksugger!!

Once again it's time for a new feature.  Recently we added a new member named Dada Artist.  Seeing that Dada Artist is an Artist, well, it just seemed obvious to feature his work.

Dada's Art

Kill Shots of the Week

Falis saves the day with his timely disc use.

I was um. . .controlling my agro.

Stalkers, Wanna-be's and Unoriginal Bastards

Quotes of the Day

Words cannot express how angry I am.

So we're sitting in North ToV after having just killed Lord Vyemm, the hardest dragon there, trying to decide who to award the ownage GLOVES and the nice DAGGERS (2 daggers I might add) when all of the sudden we go conveniently linkdead.  Upon trying to log back in I receive the, "This Zone Unavailable" message.  Uh oh, I think.  This cannot be good.  Sure enough, I finally log back in and get raped by Lady Miranella and her two pets.  How odd. . .I could remember killing Lady Miranella just a few hours before. . .Of course it's in my log files, we even have the loot fresh off her corpse.  As is the Vyemm kill.  ALL the other dragons but Vulak were dead.

Well, sure things seem shitty at that point right?  But of course there is a GM staff to handle such problems.  Easy enough right?  But WAIT!! That would involve a GM actually being present on The Nameless.  Well, after about 30 minutes of bitching in chat we finally get a GM to show up.  How is Verant's FINE customer service going to fix this problem?  They decide we're all entitled to a GM res at the zone in!!!!  How fucking SWEET of them.  We have 2 hours before another patch (way to fucking go QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT on that awesome test of the Patch!!!! Wow lasted a whole, what, 9 hours?).  So we're fucked.  We're supposed to re-kill the entire North Wing Spawn for the Vulak loot we had just worked all that time to get?  Un-fucking-believable.

Am I pissed that 3 items of Vyemm loot (good fucking loot for once too) poofed with the rest of the zone?  Hell yes.  Am I pissed that we were 10 minutes from killing Vulak and instead of getting 3 GODLY items we all got GM resses?  Fuck yes.  Am I pissed that I got kicked out of chat for asking for a GM to show up in the first place? You bet your ass.

We have proven that we are some of VI's top supporters through the amount of time we spend playing this fucked up game.  Not only that but our website and our exploits are 100 percent free PR for VI and their game, Evertest.  Well fuck you VI.  Anyone who is reading this who has never played EQ -- DON'T.  VI has no fucking clue how to treat it's most hardcore fans.  They don't deserve a dime of your money.  Loyalty and dedication apparently amounts to spit in the eye from Verant.  Way to fucking go.

Ring War!

Congratulations Ariel on Ring 10!

Dorfs and Giants dying. . . does it get any better than Ring War?

Yesterday evening we started the Ring War again, in hopes of getting Ariel her long overdue Ring 10 from Dain Cacksugger.  We get better at this war each time and last night was a truly amazing effort by all those involved.  I want to express a sincere thank you to Shock of Swords for bringing a few groups to help out.  I also want to thank all the guests in the zone who stayed not just to watch but to put forth their best efforts to help us win as well.  Everyone there made a huge difference and all the help was greatly appreciated.  Look forward to seeing you all in Great Divide again real soon.  That is, if you don't crash trying to zone in. . .

On another note, we had top secret plans to off Tunare this week.  I zone into Plane of Growth with my sloot-twink to check out what spawns were up and was horrified when I saw this:

Ok VI foolmans. . . .Tunare had weaps that could be disarmed, right?  How about just removing those weaps?  Or do you have to /kill the freakin mob?  There isn't much left to kill, amigos.  Each day that "free day" appears on the schedule we seem to lose 2-3 to DAoC or windows pinball or masturbation or anything more exciting than EQ with no uber mobs.  Maybe it's time to think about increasing some spawn times?  Or how about just not being retards and making sure mobs like Tunare are ready to kill 1 year after an expansion comes out?  Or did you think we were all gonna camp Stormfeather and let Tunare live?  The game is called EverQUEST not EverTEST.

Stalkers, Wanna-be's and Unoriginal Bastards

Misdirected Conversation of the Day

To give some background, Makochan is a Wizard from LoS.  Malluas is one of Shock of Swords warriors. . .

Quote of the Day

Terrifyingly Appropriate Quote of the Day