I had Keir meet me in East Commonlands yesterday so I could slap an
<Anonymous> tag over his head. When he did, I noticed that he did not have his epic. Interesting... I asked him how far he was on his epic quest and he said that he was at Black Dire. After playing around knee deep in remote Velious snow drifts for the last few days, I really wanted to do something more familiar. I asked him if he had time to kill Black Dire right now and he said he did.
So, we checked on him and Black Dire was not up...however...an Advisor was! Even better!
<Anonymous> supplied a small raid force (a ranger, a bard, a druid, and a shaman) and we went to Mistmoore to kill an Advisor.
I entered the castle and killed an Advisor and then I ran back down to Black Dire's spawnpoint...and there he was in all of his wolfy glory! We knew with our diminutive raid force, there was no way we could kill him AND the blood wolves so we used a combination of Harmony and zoning to get Black Dire alone.
The Black Dire may be a spirit wolf but
<Anonymous> tore into him like Cazel on an afk Oasis lowbie. With not a minute to spare, Black Dire was dead! Keir looted his pelt and was off to turn it in for his boots! Congratulations Keir! How was that for your first hour in
<Anonymous>?
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The evening rolled around and after four days throwing of snowballs at each other in Velious,
<Anonymous> wanted to raid! And so did every other raiding guild.
The Planes were taken so we decided to look at our list of epics that people needed help with. Aah! Dekayd needed Kazen Fecae killed for his necro epic drop.
So,
<Anonymous> traveled to Lake Rathetear and set up our forces facing Kazen Fecae and his buddy Emkel Kabae. Kazen is terribly tough and his buddy Emkel is a royal pain, too. We came up with a strategy for dealing with them a few weeks ago that we decided to use last night.
So, we got every pet caster we could find to summon or charm a pet and we positioned them next to Kazen Fecae.
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We put all of the tanks, melee, and healers near Emkel Kabae.
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The two
<Anonymous> teams engaged their mobs. The pet casters kept Kazen distracted while the tanks, melees, and healers killed Emkel. Once Emkel was dead, the tanks, melees, and healers engaged Kazen Fecae and it became readily apparent that the tanks we had on the raid (two pallies) were not going to be able to handle the back to back 1400 hp nukes that Kazen casts.
As we were deciding what to do next, our 56 warrior (Dogofwarjr) logged in. Woot! We rushed his behind to join the raid force and
<Anonymous> engaged Kazen Fecae again. Kazen was quickly dead, followed by a bone golem, then a failed apprentice. All dead!
Dekayd got the necro epic drop and Walse won the roll on the Twisted Bone Earring that dropped! Gratz you two and Go
<Anonymous>!
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Here are a few more screenshots from last night... I love flying sharks!
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