Sunday March 6th

Into Qvic and Inktu'ta.

We got an early start, but AV had an even earlier one. They had just beaten Uqua the first time and are practically beside themselves to farm Qvic. We show up for our usual pre-serious raid mini smackdown to find them sitting on the spawn point of one of the minis. Considering at least half of them are probably AFK and almost everyone in the guild 2 boxes (or more), if the mini did spawn, they would probably wipe on the spot. The usual pissing and moaning ensues and then a mini spawns, not the one they are waiting for, but another one. And they move to take it. After watching them half wipe to trash in there zeal to get to it, we decide to relieve them of the burden and move past them and clear the temple.

At that point, they decide that the right thing to do isn't finish rezzing and rebuffing and move back to their original camp, it's to train us with the name we were pulling anyway and the last 2 mobs in the temple. Needless to say, that really wasn't even a challenging pull and we had that completely under control. So, one of their rogues, whose name escapes me, trains us with about 6 more. This caused a bit more of a stir, but they got handled with a minimum of casualties. Back to the named. A few folks had her in the corner and were applying the beat down, so I joined in. When the mob hit zero health, I took a beat down from behind. Apparently, AV got completely distraught over the fact that we handled the first 2 trains and brought a third right at the end so they could ninja the loot. Too bad they wiped to the train too....

Rezz and rebuff, listening to much more pissing and moaning (both in guild and in public). We let them have that mini, we move to another that had just spawned and kill it, then move to the Inktu'ta tunnels and clear down to that.

Inktu'ta is our current road block, beating it will give us access to Txevu - Lair of the Elite, a bit of a loot zone for GoD and the next to last zone in the progression there. We want to get in there, farm that a bit and then more on to Tacvi, the final zone in Gates to close out that expansion. After which we will have to decide whether to push through the MPG trials and into Anguish or focus on DoN. Frankly, by the time we finish GoD, we may also be done with DoN. Unless there is more content than I have seen or read about, I give us 4-6 weeks before finishing that up.

Anyway, Inktu'ta is a pain-in-the-ass zone. It is really 4 trials linked sequentially. So far we have mastered the first and have that on farm status, but have struggled a bit with the strategy for the second phase. We have beaten it, but it takes too long. I expect we will have that down on the next run though.