Well, this is the day many in the Elven Elite and Gathering of Banners at large has been waiting for, leaving the Claws of Veeshan faction and hunting in the rest of the Temple of Veeshan. A lot of people now have complete sets of Skyshrine armor, or at least all the peices that are upgrades from the two months of hard farming in the Halls of Testing. Too bad that didn't work out as well for Finavar...but, that is another story. I am sick of that place, I am ready to take on bigger dragons. We met at the WW zone line at 8pm, grouped up and buffed. Our target was NToV even though none of the named dragons were up. The theory was that even killing trash will help us learn the pull points and give everyone a feel for the zone.

So, off we go to the Temple of Veeshan and arrive more or less enmass and zone in. I am fairly certain we scared the piss out of the guild that was at the zone in room buffing up for the Halls of Testing. All of a sudden 36 peeps zone in, lagging the crap out of the zone to boot, open the door that shouldn't be opened until you are ready and pulling the CoV friendly drakes in the gallery outside.

They came two at a time, of course, due to the way they are clumped together on their spawn points in the gallery, but they were no harder than their counterparts in HoT, so this raid had no trouble with 2 at a time.

Then, we started pulling the hub. Get this, nearly every other dragon in the hub dropped Kael quest armor (vaguely equivalent to the SS quest armor). We must have gotten at least 10 drops in half an hour. I won the chain legs I had never seen in 20 runs to HoT.

Of course, that is really a quest too. In Kael there are two types of giants: KromRif and KromZek. Right now, well before Friday night, I was max KoS to both. Killing dragons will improve your KromZek faction and eventually you will be able to turn in the quest armor. Unfortunately, these guys are a scandleous lot and they hang out with KromRif giants. The only way to improve that faction is to kill dwarves, a big no-no in the Elven Elite, even if I was so inclined. So, to do the turn in, I am going to need a friend to kite away the KromRif giants (killing them would be faction hits :(). Nothing is ever easy...

OK, so, back to the action. NToV is an awesome sight. A mixture of halls and a huge cavern (complete with a lava filled basin; take care on the walkways). Truely a worthy place for the elite of the dragon kind. None of those elite were up, they are on a 7 day spawn and usually die the day they spawn to one of the high end guilds. Still, we killed the unnamed gaurdians and named guard drakes. No loot and little exp, but good practice learning the zone and the safe spots and such.

To reward ourselves for trashing our faction to no good loot, we decided to zone into the Plane of Mischief. It's portal is in the back of NToV for some reason. After getting there through a bunch of 60+ guardians and, if they are up, 65+ level dragons, you get to this zone. Mostly low to mid 50's. What is it like? Imagine Alice in Wonderland on crack. I know, that sounds redundent, but trust me, it isn't. We didn't get much time to explore the zone because the run to the zone in agroed a couple of drakes and a bunch of people died outside. Of course, the zone out takes you to Cobalt Scar, not back to NToV, so there is a long CR ahead :(. We will be back.