Nexus dinged guild level 80 the other night and I decided to pickup one of the new shiny nightmare worgs. I’ve been trying to use it while raiding in order to maintain the +75 CA damage and piercing improvement, although it isn’t possible with every fight, and in particular in VP with the myriad of tricks you need to watch out for!
We’ve been working on perfecting our Nexona strat, just as Druushk was made a bit more challenging some game updates ago, Nexona was also modified. Lady Nexona rests in the most glorious chamber, she sits at the top of the chamber, where the green lava waterfall flows, surrounding this lava waterfall are several undead specimens under her control.
Roldor and I have been sneaking in a few screenshots together when possible. It’s more difficult for me to do so as it involved bumping up my graphics (which takes its time) to balanced to get a better screenshot (most of my raid photos are sucky since I have to raid in extreme peformance).
We first pulled Druushk the other day which was a satisfying kill, it goes to show you how much those mythicals help in VP!
I was browsing through some old screenshots and found this screenshot of a younger Wydow in North Freeport which I absolutely loved. I remember saving up all the coin I had to buy that mastercrafted set of armour (this was back when I was in Order of the Silverflame on Antonia Bayle early 2007).
I’ve been listening to alot of God Module lately while raiding, it really gets you in the mood for stabbing things HARD! Here is one of their best songs - “The Source”.
I’m still quite happy with my mythical weapon although have seemed to hit a stump for my DPS, I can parse upto 9K at the moment (being in the main tank group). I’d love to try the the mage group (feral, wizard damage procs, illusory arm and rapidity) to see what I am capable of. I guess I’ll see in time they may want to switch me around. I think I could pull out some wild numbers in that group.I have most of the masters that I need (I am really only missing Execute, Slate and Masked Strike) to up my numbers. While a few of the other masters I am missing will add a bit to my parse, my stealthed attacks are where the most of my damage is done now, since my mythical dagger increases the amount of damage my 30%.
I was putting some more thought into my offhand weapon, and the damage spread and melee crit are basically the same as throatripper. Sure, throatripper would be a slight upgrade, but there are much better weapons out there to drool over (Empowered Talon of Milyex, anyone?).
I think I want to focus on getting some better melee crit/+CA damage jewelery and my set gear which will help me tremendosly. I think I am at a stump not because lack of masters (I pretty much am raid mastered), but because of gear. All which will come with time and raiding.
I’ve also setup another little hotbar box on my screen with all of my power trinkets (manastones, signets, potions and power roots) as well as some other bits and pieces (Healthstones, heal potions, anti stun signets and anti stifle signets.) which I have found useful in helping maintain my power and health in raids.
As I write this, adrenaline is pumping through my body. I’m in absolute shock because I killed Druushk in Veeshan’s Peak tonight, which finished my Mythical Epic quest. I really enjoyed the fight, many small things that need to flow, if one thing isn’t done it equals a raid wipe.
I was also promoted to a Knight in Nexus which I am paritcularly proud of. I have tried my best and really enjoy the company in Nexus.
Now, all I need is Throatripper from The Temple of Kor’Sha or the Empowered Talon of Milyex for my offhand. Although I suspect we will be on our way to clear the rest of Veeshan’s Peak before we farm lower tier raid zones which is ok with me, I’m looking forward to seeing what numbers I can parse with my mythical. I didn’t have a proper chance to test it out since the server came down for maintenance.
Trakanon/Avatar quality loot drops are coming from new raid content that can be killed with one group. What ever happened to risk vs reward? Ever since RoK, fabled epic weapons can be obtained with a group of guildmates. I believe that there should be some form of risk (i.e. a raid) to obtain an item of that quality.
The zone itself was beautiful (from what I could see, I had to run in Extreme Performance mode), although the lag was terrible. Clicking on a combat art, only to wait 15 seconds for it to register in game was a nightmare.
People that encourage this kind of free loot are the same people that thought that the Claymore reward should have been awarded by just speaking to a NPC - i.e. not having to run Deathtoll.
Its frustrating, but I suppose I will wait and see what happens. The loot/difficulty of the mobs is sure to be nerfed.
Tonight I will be raiding Veeshan’s Peak for the first time and while I’m looking forward to it, I will be hitting my head against the wall because of the current issue with melee hit rates being broken.
Any mob that is orange means on average a 40% hit rate, compared to a caster’s hit rate of 100% which is unbalanced.
I already had a taste of this in the Chamber of Destiny, it was a struggle keeping up on the parse. The mobs in CoD are orange and I had trouble figuring out why my DPS was slacking. I had all of my poisons up and crit potions running, it was a puzzle. I then noticed in my combat log how often I was not hitting the mobs which explained it all.
I’ve done some research into this on EQ2 Flames and now understand the problem in detail, luckily GU44 will (fingers crossed) improve melee hit rates. Because a large portion of my DPS comes from auto attack damage and if I can’t autoattack properly, I can’t provide enough hate to our MT which ends up wiping the raid force. Especially with casters nuking like crazy with their 100% hit rate.
Trakanon is next on our kill list as well as the new raid zone yet to be released, Shard of Hate. Once everyone has their mythicals it will be on to avatar farming.
Oh, and did I mention that I ONLY need Druushk for my mythical weapon? I’ve heard that he is on the first floor in VP so if all goes to plan tonight, I may infact have my mythical!
