DING! again



After playing EQ hardcore for the past several days I am finally level 56! I'm amazed it didn't take me 2-3 months to level this time. I started going on raids more, too.. I went to 2 Hate raids, didn't win jack, and a raid to Kael.. and boy that place is TOUGH. Today, I'm going to City of Mist for a raid and hopefully I'll get some of my shaman epic done.

Man, the Plane of Hate is so freaky and dangerous.. especially when you're raiding with a bunch of high 40's and low 50's. It even sucks worse when clerics and enchanters start to leave when you didn't have many to begin with. I went on one Hate raid wth one enchanter... the poor guy hate to buff and clarity so many people. There were 24 - 30 of us in the first Hate raid, and at one point we got jumped by 7+ mobs that hit in the mid 100's, and needless to say, we all got killed. The important thing when something like that happens in the planes is that the clerics camp out of the game because who else is going to ressurect us, if the clerics aren't alive to do it? Well... apparently NONE of the clerics camped except for ONE to went link dead (and was going LD all night) so fortunately we had someone to start raising us back from the dead. I only died once that night. The second hate raid was awesome for a while until we tried to kill our first Spite Golem which drops the Shaman armor I so desire. Spite Golems have an amazing magic resistance that hardly allows any spells to stick. Poison and disease dot's seemed to work though, but they had tons of hitpoints. When it finally got down to very few hitpoints left, it started running off... we all tried to snare and root him but he kept running and resisting... so eventually we ran into some other mobs while we were chasing him down.. a Cleric of Innoruuk, a few ire ghasts, a couple revultant rats, and a nasty loathing lich. OMG.. it was terrifying.. so many of us died.. but this time our clerics camped. I died twice that night.. and again won nothing. I need to go to more of those raids.

The Kael raid was definitely a new experience for me. I never thought those giants were really that tough... the worse ones that ever hit me only hit me in the 100's, and I had heard the giants in the Arena area hit in the 200's.. but when I was actually there myself.. I found out they hit up to 360 damage OUCH. We were getting settled into a camp spot, and out of nowhere, a giant called a Protector of Zek came out and attacked one of our raid members. This attack began and ended in 3 seconds! He was dead ... no way anyone could have healed him that fast. Then after it killed him for some reason it went straight back to where it was before.. and didn't attack any of the rest of us. Really weird.


Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 240 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 360 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 165 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 300 points of damage.
Protector of Zek kicks Ravenwood for 67 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 360 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 150 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 195 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 195 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Ravenwood for 240 points of damage.
Ravenwood has been slain by protector of Zek!

Poor Ravenwood.

Now during regular battle... when we would fight the giants as a group, when Protectors of Zek would get low on hitpoints, they would normally become ENRAGED. That means.. everytime someone hits them, they automatically riposte (hit them back)... and that's when it gets scary for the clerics... because many of their tanks keep attacking and get killed or darn near close to it.

protector of Zek has become ENRAGED.
Protector of Zek hits Mosswind for 315 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Eyekwah for 255 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Arnie for 105 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Arnie for 187 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kobartik for 135 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kobartik for 360 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kobartik for 360 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Whynow for 75 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Whynow for 315 points of damage.
Slimyface looks pale.
Protector of Zek hits Mosswind for 360 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kobartik for 345 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Busfalis for 75 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Busfalis for 75 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Busfalis for 75 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Arnie for 67 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Eyekwah for 255 points of damage.
Whynow begins to cast a spell.
Protector of Zek hits Quintox for 135 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Quintox for 255 points of damage.
Knomez begins to cast a spell.
Slimyface beams a smile at protector of Zek.
Slimyface says, 'Ahhh, I feel much better now...'
Ubedyn begins to cast a spell.
Protector of Zek hits Kimo for 345 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kimo for 135 points of damage.
Protector of Zek hits Kimo for 150 points of damage.
Plisken begins to cast a spell.
You tell your party, 'daaamn'

Lots of fun if you've never killed those giants before.