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So Watcha Watcha Watcha Want? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tuesday, January 23, 2001 --  tigole

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Yesterday was Quest Mob Day.  Or at least it was supposed to be.  We got off to a good start.  Chon is nearing the end of his Ragebringer quest so we got to wax General Viagra in Kithicor as part of the fun.

Kisila General Viagra

General dropped one of these for Sexy Joboba

After the General died, the plan was to head to Dreadlands and kill Gorenaire.  Tork still needs a white scale to complete his SSS quest.  We port right from Kith to DL, head to our buff spot.  Everyone is grouped and buffing.  Suddenly, YOU HAVE BEEN DISCONNECTED.  Apparently the whole zone came down.  When I was finally able to log back in, I was back at the wizard port in my regular armor (not the resist gear I had on at the buff spot).  We send people out to track Gorenaire right away.  Of course he's not up with a zone repop.  I am beginning to think we are capable of poofing any mob in the game.  I like the idea of these outdoor dragons you can go beatdown on at your leisure.  But why in god's name would they put one in Dreadlands?  There were 100+ people in the zone last night.  It's a major port zone. . .people hunt there for exp.  Why not stick the freakin dragon in Swamp of No Hope where virtually no one ever hunts?  Well, that ranting aside. . .I petitioned the GM at this point to see if there was any hope to get the dragon spawned.  A guide responded that the GM was on his lunch break and would get back to me soon. . .

Sooooooo with a whole gang of people ready to keeel, we had to come up with something fast.  Trak was dead.  Venril was dead.  The Dain was poofed.  Velketor was dead.  Yelinak was not up.  Zlandicar was not up.  Gorenaire was MIA.  Chardok. . .well Chardok sucks.  So to Emerald Jungle we went. . .off to keeel the leezurd.

Severilous Dead -- 0 Casualties

Loot was some crap we don't need.

. . . still waiting for the GM's response on Gorenaire. . .

Talendor Dead -- 2 Casualties

Talendor actually dropped some good stuff.  A Dragon Hero Bracer went to Cyni and a Torbin's Eyepatch went to the Wizard of Ozus.

At this point the GM gets back to me, "How can I help you."  I explain the situation. . .40 people sitting buffed for a dragon. . .getting ready to pull in the next 5 minutes. . .zone comes down. . .blah blah blah. . .can you please spawn the dragon for us?  GM tells Tigole, "No."  Now I realize that it might go beyond the GM's abilities to make a mob spawn. . .especially a mob like Gorenaire that's on a spawn timer.  But I ask anyway, "Out of curiosity, why can't you?"  No response. . .

So that was yesterday.  We also killed that ape in Field of Bone for Phalinn's snake quest.

By the way, all you random stalker-cacksuggers who bugged me about updating the page the past two days. . .I clearly said in the last update there would be no freakin update.  Well, just to fill everyone in on what I might have missed we checked out Veeshan's Temple for the first time.

(note l33t spelling "contimplation")

Ozus was later disappointed to learn we were doing the "Testing Area"

What did we get out of our trip to Veeshan's Temple? 13pp and some knowledge of what NOT to do.  We also got rather owned by a nasty faction bug.  We are all warmly to the CoV mobs in the Temple.  But if you get ressed near them, there is a chance your faction doesn't "register" quick enough and you get killed.  Luckily, GM Valdelmar showed up to check things out.  It was good to know that someone from Verant was there to witness a bug-in-action and hopefully help to get it corrected.  I keep telling you all, Legacy of Steel is a walking Quality Assurance department for Verant if they wanted it. . .follow us around for a week. . .we'll show ya what's up. =P

Random Pic of the Day:

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The plan of the night was to go to Necropolis and keeel Zlandicar.  Everythng was going smoothly.  We even ran into our old friend, Vaniki.  Here's us giving him a big LoS-Hello:

And here's the proud new owner of Vaniki's Willsapper:

Congrats to Cowboy!

So getting the Willsapper for Leick was good news.  But then I went to check on Zlandicar.  I was hoping to need to be CoH'd outta there with a big dragon on my ass, or else end up dead leaving a pain in the ass CR for one of my guildmates. . .then we could regroup and do some dragon-ass-kicking.  Instead I found myself in a very empty Zlandicar's Lair.  One thing I did find interesting, I set off nine traps scouting the place. . .not a single one did damage or break invis.  And yes, I was using Sense Traps but the damned refresh time is too long for me to stand around waiting for it to pop each time.  Oh well, I guess I should STFU and not complain.  Knowing Verant they will patch in impossible-to-sense, deathtouching traps if they read this.

As you can guess, we were pretty bummed that there was no fuggin dragon to beat down.  But, you might also say, well why didn't that dumbass halfling go check earlier?  Actually, don't say that please.  Or else blame it on Desp.  Desp said Zlandicar was up.  WTF Desp. . .wasting all our time there.  Fuggin Desp.

Disappointed yet still eager to keeel, we headed over to Dorf Town to lay our blades to that cacksugger, The Dain.  For those of you who follow our exploits, you'll remember that we have never gotten to fight His Shittyiness the Dain.  Each time he has poofed on us.  Well, I hate to say it but when the Dain declared this last night, he wasn't joking:

Yup, he was right

4 Dain Attempts, 4 Poofs

Now for all you critics sitting at home I'd like to point out the following.  Each time we have pulled the Dain, we have used a different method.  We have attempted him in multiple spots.  It's not like we enjoy getting everyone to Dorf Town, killing a bunch of high-hit-point-crap-loot-dropping-dorfs only to Poof the Dain because of our Dain-pulling-gimpyness.  I'd like to think we have a very decent record of not doing dumbass-gimp things. . .just look at the mobs we have killed time and time again.  I seriously hope VI takes a look into this problem or else issues some kind of statement that the Dain is poofing as intended. . .in which case. . .why the fug would you make a mob that poofs for 7 days?  Please Verant -- log in and send me a tell.  It's obvious your Quality Assurance guys are far too busy making sure the fire beetle pathing in West Commons is working right to spend any time on one of the main mobs of your new expansion.  LoS will gladly give you some QA time if you'd like to witness your programming at it's worst.

Well, aren't I just a big cacksugger?  Don't answer that please.

So no update for tomorrow because I won't be playing EQ at all today. . .this gives you more time to stare at Cowboy and wish you were half as cool as he is.

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Another patch, another Trakanon.  Or as we like to call it, The Donals Breastplate Lottery.  Of course, our luck with Donals drops is amazingly shitty.  We did get a Singing Steel Breastplate that was awarded to my Fijian roommate as well as a Manna Robe that went to Sunmoontw Foolwizard.  Here are some pics:

We also cleared Fear so that Magosian could have a shot at Cazic's skin.  Of course the cacksugger god didn't drop it.  There are moments when I realize how amazingly lame some of these epic quests are.  Anytime I am in the Plane of Fear could qualify as one of those moments.  I just hope and pray it doesn't take 22 CT's for each one of our wizards to get the damned thing.

So that's it for today's brief lunchtime update.  I need to go get something to eat anyway.  I'm freakin starved after yesterday.  Around noon I decide to grab a quick bite to eat.  I drive to Carl's Jr.  The place is crowded as hell (it's right next to Pasadena Silly College).  After about 30 minutes I finally get my order and drive home.  I open up my burger wrapper and there is a goddamn BITE taken out of the burger.  So I'm thinking what did those cacksuggers at Carls do?  Bite my hamburger then wrap it up?  Or worse, did someone get the wrong order, take a bite and send it back?  Well, either way I figured fuck it and threw the thing away.  F Carls. . .F Trak. . .F CT. . .F Desp

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Tenaj once again proves that LoS has a perfectionist attitude: