Saturday is looked upon all across the land as the day of reward. We have toiled all week long and we expect to reap the benefits of a day of total slackitude. Alas, this was not to be. Bi had to do father maintenance as the wedding day approaches and his VISA card is still much in demand. My parents decended so my father could help me repair some storm damage on the house. By the time the kids were settles, dinner done, parents sent off, it was 8pm. Time to get a little exp grouping done and maybe an RSS group for runes and stuff.
Well, not so fast. We log in and the guild is in Qvic buffing for a raid. I was pissed. Last Saturday was blown with a full clear of PoTime (where I was whored out of a very rare TimeSpinner drop). It had therefore been two whole weeks since the exp meter had nudged upwards and had, in fact, edged lower with all the raid wipes.
Being a dick, I immediately send a tell to an officer along the lines of, "WTF? Isn't Saturday supposed to be an off night?" Keldora is such a sweetheart and possibly the nicest person I have met in EQ. She indicated that yes, it's supposed to be a night off, but people were begging for a raid. I don't remember what, exactly, my reply was. I was just trying not to kill the messenger. Bianca, also looking for an exp night, asked what we should do. Well, there is nothing for it but go. There are 40 or so Triune on and with one exception (besides us), they were all in Qvic. Raiding isn't manditory, but... we need a tank and a slower to do any meaningful exping and they are all in Qvic.
We arrive just as Mnat is pulled and we jump in and get grouped and buffed during the fight. Then Grish makes an announcement in the raid channel to the effect that is a short raid night to make folks happy and that no one is required to attend, etc., etc., feel free to leave. Well, as I have already observed, it's gonna be real hard to get a group with most of the potential folks here at the raid. In addition, the dick factor we would incure by leaving the raid after that kind of announcement. I think this did have an effect, and possibly, I wasn't the only one to complain. In any case, the target list was the 3 Qvic minis and CBQ before we were cut loose.
Determined to make the best of the situation, I had Bianca put together a group for exping while the raiding was in progress. The raid was done at 10:00pm and we were in camp in RSS at 10:30pm following the inevitable flailing about. We had a pretty strong team: Higgboth, Warble, Dawgrin and Lucman in addition to us, of course. We setup in the Riftseekers camp and cleared the whole area. From there you can get 3 names and we got each one a couple times. In fact the loot started to rot. All of us that didn't already have the RSS signet for the Anguish quest got our ring, I got a greater rune (Howl of the Predator), Higg and Dawgrin both got the 25AC augs (Flameshield Stone), Higg got the Bauble of Aggression Bianca got a priest class charm (Wailing Soulshard) that appears to be better then the PoP charm. Also, this was the first time we had exped in RSS. OMG, the exp is amazing. On the order of 5%AA per kill and we will killing fast. So, we fired up the EQ 6th anniversary quest potion (doubles exp for 36 or so min). Between 10:30pm and 1:30am I got 15AA. Just sick. Now we know where all those ober folk got their 1100 AAs, RSS. Good while you can get it, pity we will be lucky to ever get a group that good again.
About that time, I was falling asleep, as was Lucman and we decided to call it. We ran out the last of the potion time and ported out. About this time, so of the certifiable raiders in the guild decided to go to Qvic and await the mini respawn so we could get in some cheap bonus loot. For reasons I can't fathom in the light of day, I agreed to this. Actually, Bianca is hunting the fairly uncommon Qvic sleeves and wanted another shot at them. I had worked all day, played all night and was past exhausted. So, I told her, fine, go to the raid and when they get ready to pull names come and get me, I will be napping. I know how slow these things come together, so I laid down and was fast asleep. About 2:30, she woke me up and we spent the next hour kill minis and the requisite trash. Fortunately for me, I got the second HP augment in my quest to top the other server rangers. It's a pretty common drop that I have seen run up into the 50-70 neighborhood by INT casters. I refuse to pay more than 20 for something like that, so when Ptav dropped it, I bid 20 and got it. Fortunately, it's lore and probably all the other melee had that already.
So, our night finally ended in a port and /q at 3:30am.
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