Ready to go <Anonymous>?

[Carkle Jackson]

Yesterday, I logged on Carkle in an unusual place. Carkle was in Nurga facing a sleeping ogre's spawnpoint and he was spawned! I quickly remembered that we had killed Trunt the previous evening for Dogofwarjr and I had left Carkle there so we could kill him again for Woton's epic.

I checked and Woton was on and so was one of our big tanks so I announced to the guild our intentions and I requested a raid force. In no time flat, there was a Raid force facing a sleeping ogre all with the <Anonymous> guild tag above their heads. Well... all but one. Dog's friend, Braq, came along for the kill. Thanks Braq!

This kill was much easier than the one the night before and we murdered him so so so fast! Woton looted Trunt's head amid the cheers and well wishes of the entire guild AND Dog's friend, Braq!

A while later, Ademi mentioned that Phinigel Atropos was up and requested a raid force to kill him. <Anonymous> assembled in Kedge mind-numbingly fast. It was probably our fastest assemble ever! And in Kedge of all places!

So, we all made our way to Phinny's room and prepared for the kill. I am not sure what happened. We tried to kill him 3-4 times and we died every time. We initially tried to engage him toe to toe. That was a massive disaster. Then we tried several times to have a lucky volunteer engage his seahorses and then gate to zone. That failed, too. I have been the puller several times and have never failed. But we failed every time yesterday. So weird!

<Anonymous> had a date with <Bregan D'Aerth> for Sky so we had to leave Phinny up to go and meet them. <Bregan D'Aerth> were fantastic hosts and we got lots and lots of drops! Thanks so much to Chest and the rest of <Bregan D'Aerth>! We had a great time!

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Go <Anonymous>! Go!

[Carkle Jackson]

Woton was ready for his epic kill so <Anonymous> gathered in Lake of Ill Omen and prepared for the fight! Deep and Vorash were spawned. The battle was fierce but in a short amount of time, Vorash was dead and Xenovorash was spawned!

He didn't last long either. When <Anonymous> decides something needs to die. It doesn't live long. And Xenovorash did not live long!

Gratz Woton on your Demon Fangs and epic!

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That big gorilla keeps popping and <Anonymous> keeps having enchanters who want to see him dead. So... The call went out that the Tangrin had been sighted in the Field of Bone. Several Anonymites made the trip out there to help Tsenor kill the Tangrin and claim the Sands of the Mystics.

They pulled the Tangrin off of his island and engaged him and in a very short amount of time, he was dead! Go <Anonymous>! And grats Tsenor!

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Ademi checked on Phinigel Atropos and that slimy fish man was spawned! Just about every pet caster in <Anonymous> gathered to kill him. And me, of course... I just enjoy epic kills.

After our failed attempt at killing Phinny on Friday, I had come up with a slightly modified strategy for this attempt. Calyan (one of our druids) charmed a shark. From the entrance to Phinny's room, he sic-ed it on one of Phinny's guardians and then Calyan gated to zone line. After Phinny's guardians killed Calyan's pet, they took off towards the entrance to destroy Calyan. In the meantime, Maori (monk of <Inglourious Basterds>) engaged Phinny and pulled him to our position.

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We murdered Phinny good but unfortunately he didn't have the mage staff, wizard staff, or the bard epic drop. Poop!

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Thanks Maori! And nicely done <Anonymous>

[Donruss]

Darn it! I would have loved to be there for the successful phinny kill. Thanks for having me this weekend, I had a blast! See you guys next weekend.

[Carkle Jackson]

<Anonymous>'s 56 warrior, Dogofwarjr, got an idea in his head to start a monk and outfit him with an epic at an absurdly low level. He mentioned the idea to me and I was all for it. Dog is one of those folks who raids all of the time with us but rarely every asks for anything.

So, over the last month or more, <Anonymous> has been killing epic monk mobs and letting Dog (the warrior) be one of the lucky recipients of their loot. He looted the Robe of the Lost Circle off of Brother Qwinn. He looted a Charred Scale off of Eejag. He turned that in to a presence in Sky to spawn Gwan and he looted his Breath of Gwan. He turned that in to the sleeping ogre to spawn Trunt and he looted Trunt's head. He turned that in to Astral Projection (in the Overthere) to get Eye of Kairen.

We did it perfectly so that everything was on Dog except for the Demon Fangs from Xenovorash.

On Sunday, Dog noticed that Astral Projection (in Lake of Ill Omen) was spawned. He ran his baby monk over to his spawn spot and camped him out. Then he logged on Dog and let us all know that he was popped.

We assembled a mighty enclave of mostly Anonymites (that is what I have started to refer to us as) and also a friend or two from another guild. We only had one cleric (me) which made me nervous but we had an absolutely massive amount of DPS! Go <Anonymous>!

Dog turned in the Eye of Kaiaren to Astral Projection. He despawned and was replaced by Deep and Vorash. Our bard, Drona, ran Deep off while we put the beat down on Vorash. Once Vorash was dead, Xenovorash spawned! We tore into him like a middle-aged bald man tears into a bag of Teriyaki flavored Beef Jerky and he was gone about as quick as that Beef Jerky would be gone!

One of our guys in the exp group locked down the corpse while Dog logged off his warrior and logged on his level 18 monk, Stilton. Stilton looted the corpse and got the Demon Fangs!

Dog went to Trakanon's Teeth and did all of his turn ins and then did the final turn in on Stilton to get his epic! Woot Dog / Stilton and woot <Anonymous>!

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Forgive us... we forgot to get screenshots again...

[Carkle Jackson]

I know the title of this post sounds poetic. Romantic. Wistful even. Well, the event it is describing wasn't. It was raw, dirty, sweaty, and it all went down for <Anonymous> in the Oasis of Marr...

See... This is what happened.

One of <Anonymous>'s enchanters, Mylen, was traveling through the Oasis of Marr one day when she saw Cazel lumbering by. And he was carrying a spoon. That sparked a memory and Mylen remembered that she needed a spoon for her epic.

Now, a normal person in that situation would just go to the nearest inn and give them a few coppers for a spoon. Or just not return the spoon after eating their food. But not Mylen, she decided to make this way harder than it had to be. So, she called up her guildies in <Anonymous> and told us that Cazel had something she absolutely needed and begged us to kill him. Which we did. Then she pulls a spoon off of him. Needless to say, we were a bit miffed. I personally felt about as annoyed as I did when I found out that celebrities are giving their children names like "Apple" and "North".

Here's a family photo of us before she showed us the spoon... We were so happy... Then.

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Go <Anonymous>! <Grumble><Grumble>

[Carkle Jackson]

The server respawned the other night and since then every time I pass by Neriak, I see Kirak Vil (Paladin Epic mob) spawned. That would be great but <Anonymous> never has a Paladin on at the time to loot him if we did kill him. Yesterday I told <Anonymous> in Guild chat that he was popped. This was primarily to see if we had any Paladins logged on but in hiding. None responded however somebody suggested we kill him so we can MQ the drop.

GENIUS!

So, <Anonymous> quickly assembled a small raid force (that was all we needed). While we were assembling, Quaan logged on. He is a high level Paladin. We asked him to come and loot the drop once we killed Kirak Vil. So, we waited a couple of minutes for Quaan to arrive.

Once he did, we attacked Kirak Vil. The fight lasted longer than I remembered it taking but we took him down with no problems and Quaan got his loot. Yay!

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It was raid night. We had heard that Europa had mostly cleared Fear but that there were still some mobs spawned. So, <Anonymous> gathered at Fear and cleared it. The only mobs left were the ones that drop the SK gear and the ones that drop the Pally gear. The SK Breastplate dropped and rotted and the Pally boots dropped and rotted. What a waste! But a fun time!

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We still had some time to kill and a desire to raid so we looked for another target to kill. I checked and neither the Advisor nor Black Dire were spawned in Mistmoore. So, <Anonymous>'s Shaman, Ardg, will just need to wait for another day.

Southpaws mentioned that he still needed to kill Gwan in Plane of Sky. We checked with <Divinity> and they said they left Gwan alone and that we could have him. So, <Anonymous> sent a single group to kill him. Gwan had more HPs than our cleric had mana and the group wiped. So, I brought up Carkle and on our second attempt, we wiped him.

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So... Gratz Quaan on your Paladin epic drop! Gratz rot on the SK Breasplate and the Pally boots! Gratz Southpaws on the killing Gwan and looting the Monk epic drop!

And Go <Anonymous>!

[Carkle Jackson]

Last night, <Anonymous> felt like getting our Fear on so Oteso ran to the Feerrott and jumped through the Fear portal to see if it was popped. Within seconds, Oteso was back at his bind spot but without all of his gear. Fear was popped!

We put out the <Anonymous> assemble and Guildies started traveling from the Four Corners of Norrath to meet us at the Fear portal. Before we could all get there, <Divinity> had assembled at the portal. We called a raid cancellation but we were a little down because our shaman, Feldust, is only lacking his Iksar Tear off of one of the golems in Fear before we can do his epic.

I contacted Drakakade of <Divinity> and asked him whether they needed the Iksar Tears because we had a shaman who needed it. He said, they did not need it and that we could send our shaman with them to loot it. He also agreed that we could loot the gear that dropped for SKs, Pallies, and Wizards.

So, Feldust, Oteso (wizard), Kiithsa (wizard), and I on my Shadow Knight accompanied <Divinity> into Fear. Banindor (paladin) was going to come but he was close to 46 but not quite there yet.

<Divinity> was AOE clearing the zone and within minutes, Feldust had his Iksar Tear! Yay Feldust! Yay <Divinity>! And Go <Anonymous>!

Wizard loot dropped and Oteso and Kiithsa decided between them who got to loot it.

Another Iksar Tear dropped and <Divinity> awesomely allowed Oteso to loot that second one for a future Shaman epic MQ! Yay <Divinity> and Go <Anonymous>!

Banindor told us in Guild Chat that he had just dinged and asked us if he could still come to Fear. We told him to hurry!

Banindor showed up just as the pally gear started dropping and he got the Valorium Greaves and Valorium Bracers!

Thanks for allowing us to be your guests <Divinity> and thanks for the loots!

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I logged off for a while and when I logged on later, I logged on a ranger to check on Black Dire for Ardg. Tracking in Mistmoore said he was up! I got really excited and I checked to see whether Ardg was logged on. He was! I sent a message in Guild Chat asking for Ardg and others to come to Mistmoore so we could kill Black Dire for Ardg.

Right as I was pressing the ENTER key, my eye glanced at Tracking and I noticed that several high level guildies (including Ardg) were already in Mistmoore. I waited for the inevitable and <Anonymous> didn't let me down. I spent the next few minutes listening to Guildies playfully mock me because Ardg and other high level guildies had just killed the Advisor to spawn Black Dire and were about to engage him.

Guild Leaders get no respect these days.

So, I ran over there and got there in time to help kill Black Dire. Gratz Ardg on your new killer Shaman clickie SOW boots and Go <Anonymous>!

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[Carkle Jackson]

Last night <Anonymous> was ready to hit the Plane of Hate except we were down one tank. This whole server has a tank shortage... Where are you guys?!?!?!

So, we contacted our former guildie, Foggon. He is a level 60 Warrior (now in <Divinity>) and we asked him if he'd like to head with us to Hate. He agreed to come so we issued the <Anonymous> Assemble request. In a very short time we had a 4 group raid force assembled. We organized the groups so the highest level healers, CC, and Foggon were in the first two groups up.

We ported up and we were almost immediately besieged by two spite golmes and several other mobs. It is extremely rare to encounter two spite golems at zone in. The clerics desperately tried to camp out while everybody else tried to kill and mez. Trixsie and Honorability made it out, but the mobs were on me so I gated to my my bind spot in WC.

I was ported up and died. Then rezzed and died. All of the clerics up there were dead. Things were looking bleak when one lone voice says, "I'm FD and I have an Essence Emerald on me." It was Notepad! Our trusty Necromancer. Hurray!

We had Notepad stand up to see if anything aggroed on him. Nothing did. We had him keep standing there a while to see if any roamers would aggro on him. Nothing did. So, we had him pull my geared corpse to his exact location and rez me.

I showed up in Plane of Hate expecting instant aggro and instant death. Nothing happened, so I quickly looted my clickie, started summoning corpses to my location, and started rezzing them. In no time at all, I was surrounded by a raid force again. Woot!

We recovered and <Anonymous engaged the enemy again.

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This time, we were the ones in charge of the situation and loot started dropping.

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Enchanter pants, Enchanter head, Rogue pants, and Rogue...bracer, I believe. Two pieces of Mage gear dropped and rotted. Where were our mages?!?!

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It started to get late and this Guild full of <Anonymous> casual raiders started to get sleepy. So, a little while later we called it a night.

Thanks to Foggon of <Divinity> for tanking for us and Go <Anonymous>?

[Carkle Jackson]

A few days ago, <Anonymous>'s shaman, Feldust, got an Iksar Tear. Thanks again, <Divinity>! Tonight we decided to kill Lord Rak'Ashiir and claim Feldust's epic!

So, <Anonymous gathered at the moat in the City of Mist and started pulling mobs out of the castle. We worked our way through Black Reaver after Black Reaver. Mob after mob. Until finally, Lord Rak'Ashiir himself spawned. Feldust turned in his Iksar Tear and as often happens, he was splattered by Lord Rak'Ashiir.

Dogofwarjr, our warrior, immediately grabbed aggro. We engaged Lord Rak'Ashiir and put the beatdown on him. I was playing a ranger at the time and I played my role well and died very quickly. Those ranger epics grab aggro like nobody's business!

<Anonymous> killed Lord Rak'Ashiir and got Feldust rezzed in time to loot his Iksar Scale.

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Then Feldust left to claim his Spear of Fate!

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Sometimes we have nights where we start working on epics and we just can't stop! We decided to take this raid force on the road and go finish off some other epic mobs.

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Our first stop after Lord Rak'Ashiir was Southern Karana where we prepared ourselves to kill Brother Qwinn. Our monk, Rrobur, needed his robe for his epic.

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We wiped a couple of times due to miscommunication and mistaken keypresses. These are things we need to work on, I guess. The good news is that we got Brother Qwinn killed!

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And then Rrobur looted the Robe of the Lost Circle and posed for a great picture with the light of the dying day as his backdrop ...

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We thought we'd do Brother Z so we could claim his Robe of the Lost Circle for another monk but Hasten Bootstrutter was spawned instead. Who in the world wants that dude spawned?!?!?!

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We decided to kill one more epic mob, so we teleported to Southern Desert of Ro and ran north to the Oasis of Marr. <Anonymous> assembled at the gypsy camp and we pulled Cazel. And we killed Cazel. Fast! He went down faster than an epic ranger does while fighting Lord Rak' Ashiir!

Kickinback looted A Spoon for his Enchanter Epic Quest!

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Gratz to Feldust, Rrobur, and Kickinback! And Go <Anonymous>!

[Carkle Jackson]

<Indignation> was kind enough to invite <Anonymous> to go to Plane of Sky with them so up we went!

I was unable to attend but we had several <Anonymous> guildies in attendance and they all said they had a great time and that <Indignation> very generous with the loot.

Banindor sent me some screenshots from Plane of Sky...

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Thanks <Indignation> and Go <Anonymous>!