Wednesday was Patch Day again (we just had one last week). The plan was to get on early (for the guild) and head to NToV, we need a few more full clears of that place to achieve our goals there. Got on as planned, about 5:30 and DBed Bianca through to ToV while she cooked dinner. As I half expected, we didn?t really get moving until after 8pm. Only a small group of AS got in to NToV ahead of us. They killed Ikatar and Eashen and then decided to try Aaryonar (with 23!) before heading out. They wiped and bid us goodbye as we CotHed in behind them. Nanbkek and Jaered did a good job of getting peeps out to NToV, setup and grouped. Mallo showed up just as we were ready to start on Aaryonar and got things moving.
Aary went perfectly. We had a clean pull, good positioning, and smooth engagement. I was on chicken duty, which is fine with me. Heck, I can even tank them if they are slowed, LOL. Went down by the numbers with NO DEATHS! He dropped Hand of the Master, Katana of Pain and Circlet of Summer.

The named Drakes were dropping stuff like mad tonight. They often don?t drop anything. We had Shield of Thorns (Kyenia), Runed Fang Necklace, Silent Fang Necklace (Jotaro), Bow of the Silver Fang (rot!), Shield of the Protector (Smekal), and Ring of Superiority all drop.

Then we set off around the ring to the right. Lord Feshlak was first on the menu. He was a push over, again, no one died. I brutalized him with my regular pull arrows and no Trueshot. He dropped Boots of the Dread Dream, Amulet of the Storm and Staff of the Silent Star.

Dagarn the Destroyer, however, lived up to his name somewhat. We actually lost 3 or 4 people on that one and it looked touch and go for a minute. I used Trueshot with the Silver-Tipped Wooden arrows, but it was ineffective. I think his AC is a lot higher than Feshlak. So, I ended up in CC with him.

Next, we had a long pull up and over the hump and down to Lady Nev. Easily the most annoying dragon in the whole place. That 600 hit point spinning AoE is a PITA. Fortunately, with my acylia arrows, I could stay out of range and use Trueshot to wreak havoc. Unfortunately, I used them all up halfway through and had to go to summoned arrows (much shorter range).

Lady Nevederia is holding a Cloak of Thorns for me. It is the only piece I am looking for from NToV and there are only 2 or 3 better ranger usable cloaks in the game. I have enough points saved up (73+) to beat almost any ranger/druid on the raid at this point since people have been claiming shit left and right. Unfortunately, she didn?t drop it tonight. /sigh. She did drop Nevederia?s Horn, Nevederia?s Claw and Nevederia?s Left Eye. I won the claw, I nice 17/11 1HS item. I need to parse some log action to see if it bumps my DPS over main handing Disembowler. If it does, then I need to figure out what to do with Disembowler, it is a really cool sword and highly sought after, so it has some prestige. And, it is droppable. I would never sell something like that though, but I would hate to give it away either. I may save it for Balinvar or leave it in the bank for some special person/situation and make them really happy.

After that, we pulled the two members of The Triplets that were up. First was the badass: Zlexlak. First of all, you got to love the name and the similarity to Exlax. Then the 1250 hit point AoE is special. We lost a few here, but not many. He dropped a Dragon Skin Bracer? I think. I wasn?t going to claim anything and I had won a roll, so, honestly, I stopped paying so much attention to loot.

We pulled Cekenar next and after Zlexak, he is such a pushover. A 125 hit point AoE (with mana loss), eh. He had a lot of HPs though, so it took a while. He dropped Meljeldin, Bane of Giants (which, curiously, isn?t bane damage) (Vlad) and a sticker that isn?t in the loot table I am looking at that defaulted to Pochette (who had won something earlier, I think the Runed Fang Necklace) since no other rogue wanted it. Been a good two EQ days for her as she just got her epic yesterday.
Edit: It was the Dragonspine Rapier.

Mallo was almost beside himself that stuff this good is starting to rot. But it is a sign that we don?t need more than 3 or 4 more clears of NToV before we are at the point of diminishing returns here. The only other named up was Vyemm, but we were an hour from him and it was already after 12:00am, so we called it a night.

So, we are talking 6 big named, 6 named drakes and a boatload of trash in a 3.5 hour romp. Easily, this was the fastest GoB has ever moved through NToV. Palou, Mallo?s preferred puller didn?t even die once. By the end of the run we had 61 people with an average level of 61. And, frankly, if we take 5 people out, that would have gone to 63 or 64. NToV wasn?t designed for teams this strong. Group chat, I mean group boom were KSing monsters. Laenyel and Spindley were both criting for 6K all night. They might try to get more tonight, but frankly, we got the cream of the crop. And, Nev is my target so next week is the earliest I am headed back to that zone.