Last night was a little on the brutal side until the end. Guild night was planned to be a farming trip to Ssra. Camp the whole place and get key parts, ore and shards. We got on early and were going to help a friend in GoB get Faydedar for his wife's druid epic. But, he couldn't get the forces together, so we basically sat around in PoK for an hour+ waiting to see. I used the time to organize my spell book (kind of like the sock drawer) and buying the remaining 59 spell and all my level 60 spells since I am looking at hitting 60 this week.

We finally got moving to Ssra around 8pm and we got assigned the group to camp Com1 Left with Vlad, Rokken, Elelftheria, and Kyeneia. That went well until Vlad pulled his famous LD act on us. But, Bi could keep Rokken healed so we did it that way for a while. Then, Krushh wanted me to come to the basement and replaced me with Lilviati, or at least that was the plan...

Bianca didn't want me to go, for obvious reasons, including being short on DPS. But Krushh needed a tracker, so Rokken told to go, "those mobs don't see invis." Oh, yes they do. Bunglage on my part lead to a wipe on the group when Ele couldn't mezz the add and Bi could heal Rokken against two unslowed mobs.

The CR took almost an hour. I got pretty good at Gems, but a little frustrated. Seyah's Com1 Right camp fought over to us and got us up and sent me on my way with a ton of shiny new buffs. I met up with Inyiin and invised us up for the run through the basement. No problem, I am starting to get the hang of the tube thing. Headed to Krushh's camp in the mines, just as we get into the mines, it respawns, all of it. Inyiin, "hehe," and feign's. Dirtnap #2. Consent Inyiin, get drug to camp, rezzed and buffed. OK, that sucked, but I am at camp finally, after an hour. I immediately win an ore used to make bane weapons, so I am starting to feel better.

Time for the first AoE pull. Stand near the casters I am told. "These mobs have the undead UI," say Jaered, whatever that means. Well that means, hide behind the casters like a girl. Because standing next to them, but in front of them gets the everliving crap beat out of you. I was down to 400hps really really fast so I stepped away, and right into some stragglers. $%^@! It's not like I am a punk character anymore either, 4700 HPs buffed and over 1000 AC, poof.

Spiritene clicks me in and the room spawns, 5 sec total uptime on that one. OK, I have lost 2% in the last hour. I don't expect to get a lot of exp on a raid, even inhouse, but after the slow going up stairs, the long CR wait and 3 more dirtnaps, I am about done. Krushh switches groups with me, not real sure why right away. I get Turgut, Laenyel, QCenchanter, Spiritene and Vanelina. He get Jaered and Rokken. Well at least the cleric is in my group even if she will be watching Krushh.

Krushh goes out and pulls 10 skellies. Brings them into the enchanters. They alternate AoE stun which pulls them all in on the enchanters. Then Krushh goes and gets 10 more. Once they are in, he goes, "burn em." And they do. Turgut and Laenyel are criting machines and 22 skellies drop in 20 seconds. Just like that I am halfway back to Bianca, exp-wise. By the end of the night (about 6 AoEs total), I get 4% exp and 16% AA. Amazing.

While we are done there, we do the named Taskmasters as they drop pouches needed for the Emperor key. Usually you get 4 out of 7 and that is what happened here. Laenyel, Spiritene, Turgut and myself all got pounches. I need a ring from Com2 and an ensignia from some second floor mobs to complete the key. I would also *like* to get two more peices of ore. That way I can dual wield bane weapons and have a bow. By the time we are ready to do the Emperor, I should have at least AM1.

So, the evening sucked, but was made good in the end.