Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread
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The Tunare raid is a sore spot for me. First Petrified Heartwood Flamberge we had drop was due to go to my pally and the Guild Leader ended up gifting it to his German SK pal who fucked off and server transferred a month later. Then I discovered I'd ballsed up my rep for my epic turn-in and ended up spending what felt like weeks handing in fucking muffins.
From what I can remember of our Tunare raids was beginning the break, having to go to work for 7ish hours, coming back and realizing I hadn't missed a thing lol
Ravishing
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I was the raid leader & main puller for my guild. It dawned on me that there was 1 time where we were able to pull Tunare without clearing the zone. A lot of luck was involved because I remember we had a helluva time trying to reproduce it (don't think we ever did do it again, or we might not have done Tunare again after that, I forget).
There was a trick to the linked aggro which you could get around. I can't remember 100% how it worked but I believe it was something like this (This applies to Tunare & Vulak pre-Ring event in particular):
Once you aggro the main mob (ex: Tunare or Vulak), all of the "linked" mobs would run to that creature. Once these mobs made it to the creature, they would go into "reset" mode. Once they were in reset mode, you would then re-aggro the main mob, all of the "linked" mobs would again run to the creature, but since they would be very close (or on top of) the main creature, they would arrive and go into "reset" mode very quickly. Using this tactic, a monk could feign-pull Tunare and/or Vulak solo out of the pack. It was especially easy with Vulak for some reason, but Tunare was more of a bitch because the zone was huge and mobs would all arrive at Tunare at different times, also I believe the Treant bosses had links of their own and they themselves were linked to Tunare, so you were dealing with several layers of linking that could be a bitch to deal with, plus the fact everything rooted, dispelled, etc. (Druids were a bitch).
That aside, there was 1 night in particular I remember we just finished killing Yelinak, we went to PoG and somehow did Tunare in less than an hour (we were expecting to have to spend most of the night there clearing but had an extremely lucky pull), then we went to Kael and did Tormax. Was one of the best nights ever at that time for the guild doing 3 major bosses in less than 3 hours.
There was a trick to the linked aggro which you could get around. I can't remember 100% how it worked but I believe it was something like this (This applies to Tunare & Vulak pre-Ring event in particular):
Once you aggro the main mob (ex: Tunare or Vulak), all of the "linked" mobs would run to that creature. Once these mobs made it to the creature, they would go into "reset" mode. Once they were in reset mode, you would then re-aggro the main mob, all of the "linked" mobs would again run to the creature, but since they would be very close (or on top of) the main creature, they would arrive and go into "reset" mode very quickly. Using this tactic, a monk could feign-pull Tunare and/or Vulak solo out of the pack. It was especially easy with Vulak for some reason, but Tunare was more of a bitch because the zone was huge and mobs would all arrive at Tunare at different times, also I believe the Treant bosses had links of their own and they themselves were linked to Tunare, so you were dealing with several layers of linking that could be a bitch to deal with, plus the fact everything rooted, dispelled, etc. (Druids were a bitch).
That aside, there was 1 night in particular I remember we just finished killing Yelinak, we went to PoG and somehow did Tunare in less than an hour (we were expecting to have to spend most of the night there clearing but had an extremely lucky pull), then we went to Kael and did Tormax. Was one of the best nights ever at that time for the guild doing 3 major bosses in less than 3 hours.
Wait, you were surprised that killing the goddessyour paladin worshippedfucked over your faction? Did you spend a lot of time as a child eating paint chips?
Malakriss
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If I'd been a dandelion-eater maybe but as I was a dorf then I had no real issues butchering PoG. The population of Kelethin on the other hand...
The best part of raiding as an SK during Velious was that you didn't really need to help out other than pulling mobs occasionally.
My favorite part of NTOV was when other guilds would be raiding the Eastern wing. Back then if you stood in front of a wall and used Holgresh Elder Beads to summon an eyeball it would randomly spawn in certain parts of the zone. You'd then have 10-20 seconds?? to float over to the Eastern wing and open the door to chain aggro mobs and wipe out whatever raid was there.
I can't count how many times I did this and no one ever caught on that it wasn't some idiot in their guild opening the door.
Later on in Velious our "competition" zerg alliance guilds were finally able to kill King Tormax. They copied our strategy of pulling him to the Wakening Lands zone to kill him there. This worked out perfectly as I use to train Vindicator and his guards onto them and zone out before they even realized what had happened.
My favorite part of NTOV was when other guilds would be raiding the Eastern wing. Back then if you stood in front of a wall and used Holgresh Elder Beads to summon an eyeball it would randomly spawn in certain parts of the zone. You'd then have 10-20 seconds?? to float over to the Eastern wing and open the door to chain aggro mobs and wipe out whatever raid was there.
I can't count how many times I did this and no one ever caught on that it wasn't some idiot in their guild opening the door.
Later on in Velious our "competition" zerg alliance guilds were finally able to kill King Tormax. They copied our strategy of pulling him to the Wakening Lands zone to kill him there. This worked out perfectly as I use to train Vindicator and his guards onto them and zone out before they even realized what had happened.
Alexzander
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Yup, I was a ranger. You were one of our monks! I seem to remember you being a euro, but my memory from then is a bit hazy.
Intrinsic
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Yeah he did. Was active on the old FOH forums for a while too with his shenanigans. He was actually pretty easy to work with if memory serves on Rathe.
I told that Sol Ro story not long ago to some guys here at work. I was in NO back during POP and the craptastic expansion after that before leaving when WoW launched as a warrior, Tima. I usually kept out of the interguild politicking but couldnt avoid the inter-warrior drama we had. I still make fun of Minet to this day also...
Soygen
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I remember you Tima! Minet.....used to...type...like........this...right? Or was it shitloads of commas? ,,,,,,,,,,,,
Both, but it was always two commas instead of one every fucking time. Ill never forget when he told us, being completely serious, that he named his character Minet because he was from Minetsoda.