DeepScar Overseer and Big Bynn Beaten !!! Well with The Serpent's Spine behind us and having successfully beaten half of Solteris we're always on the lookout for new encounters. With Octa being on farm status, we turned to two other encounters needed to finish "The Search for the Ultimate Story." The first of these is DeepScar Overseer who happens to be a giant Minotaur. How many remember the good old days of hunting Minotaurs in the Steamfront mountains. Trying to get a Minotaur Axe, or the +10 Charisma Minotaur Hero shackles or for you Bards the infamous Minotaur Horn. Well Deepscar Overseer puts them minotaurs to shame. This guy is one mean SOB and has lots of friends. The encounter starts of easy enough with him hanging out in his cave. We charge him and engage and actually seem to be doing some damage to him. But that is where the simplicity of the encounter ends. This is when his friends start showing up, in the form of crystalline's including the much hated Saffron Crystalline who starts nuking folks for 6k a pop repeatledly until you kiss his rear end. |
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If that wasn't enough, he invites some more of his Minotaur buddies to the fight
The golems did not stop us, his Mino buddies didn't stop us and in the end he couldn't stop us either.
Our next encounter of interest was Big Bynn. Now this is also a cool unique looking NPC, basicially a metal dragon. We talk to the designer of said dragon and he asks us to test out its fighting capabilities. This is a fun fight with many AoEs going off, killing crystals that heal the dragon, fighting your way out of his belly once he swallows you and in the end killing some more golems.
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Once we learned the quirks of the encounter, it was pretty easy enough beating the dragon down and getting lewts from the owner.
All in all the months of April and May have been very good to Pak. The end of the month we slowed down a little bit Mother's Days, Memorial day, graduations, BBQs, etc. In true Pak fashion, I'm sure we will get back on track in June and look to finish up Solteris and vigorously delve into SoF.
Shady's mistell of the day and other fun Kinky
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Escape Goat
-Asif
Pak train rollin' !!!! Rollin', rollin', rollin', Keep them doggies rollin' is what comes to mind with the tear we've been on as of late. Now kids like Maereax and Tnail probably will have no idea what I'm talking about but for the rest of us it feels like an unstoppable stampede with no end in sight. There were many in the guild who resented the time we spent doing Fabled PoP, the tracking of the mobs, the spontaneous raid calls, visiting old hated zones but in the end all the gear that we got definitely helped us push past encounters a lot faster then we probably would have done if not for this farming effort. Now obviously this doesn't take away from tactics and preparedness and general paying attention during raiding as some of our wipes have proven, but it improves our margin of error with the much needed extra dps and overall improvement in gear. Enough of the spiel, now for the update. As you saw in the last update, our first win during this timeline was the mucho difficult encounter of Aprosis (4/15), but we did not stop there. Our next win was even more special, but I will go into that more at the end of this update. The 3rd encounter beaten in a 2 week span was
Octa the Collector (4/21). This was a pretty fun fight,
with lots of adds that we basically kill before they have a
chance to be at one with Octa while at the same time beating
down Octa. Easier said then done, and we had tried this a
few times pre PoP fabled but were finally able to take it down.
But wait! There’s more! Our 4th encounter, was Rear Guard Captain Balreth. This is a very touchy encounter, and one wrong move and you wipe from a gazillion Golems charging the raid, like so (new red robe, same difference):
First there was one Then, there were two.
(Click image for larger picture) Then four. Eight.
And eventually when we thought, we could handle no more, there were sixteen !
But after Pak'Cafan was done with them, there were zero(4/24). Yay !!!!!
Think we are anywhere near done, of course not!!!! Two more encounters taken out this week were Astire(4/28) and Bloodmoon2 (4/29).
Now if that wasn't enough, on to the main part of the update, lol. I'll let DC chime in here with her wonderfull words. Ashengate. Tall corridors washed in
faded grey echo with the soft footfalls of red robed menders and
sages. Flapping of delicate drake wings in huge rooms at the end
of the corridors hint at bigger things to come. At first glance,
an insignificant black clad figure stands proudly next to the
iridescent blue-winged DRAGON. Both are motionless, transfixed
it would appear by the mysterious mosaic of a glittering dragon
on the opposite wall.
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-Asif Pak'Cafan is recruiting exceptional like minded raiders of certain classes, Please click here for more info.
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