Once upon a time in Norrath there was a guild called Raging Fury. It was among the most daring guilds existing in all of EverQuest and
so one day it ventured into a cold and desolate place in the domain of Brell Serilis called "The Cooling Chambers". Down there our guild
found a gargantuan beast resting on an island in the middle of the cave:
Daring as our guild was, it attacked the fierce beast with all its might, learning by pain and suffering, that for some victories you have to
labor hard and long. During the fight the guild found out many details about its fearsome foe, not the smallest of it being about the female
gender of the giant creature:
Many an attempt was made to strike down the gargantuan enemy, until on a glorious night the valiant guild didn't succumb to the claws of the
Beast, its mate or their hungry children. They stood strong and finally stroke down the last of their foes, so that a mighty cheer of victory
arose:
'The harder the foe, the bigger the triumph' can be said, and truly, a formidable foe the Beast had been! So all assembled on the spot,
where once the Beast had had its lair to see which treasures it might hold:
There was much rejoicing when Raging Fury could behold what was hidden inside the creature's lair apart from two sets of gauntlets: a precious
ring and a mighty sword
So much for this week's 'Fairie Tale Hour', in a historical context I can just say that this raid was the hardest I had to work on for
quite some time, so keep up the good work on those raids in Underfoot, SOE!
And now a final word from our research department:
That's all for now folks, next update when we got enough flags for the next tier raids!
What a start into the new year: today Raging Fury defeated the The Return of King Xorbb, the final event in Rain of Fear, the latest expansion of EverQuest.
Before I come to anything else, here is the traditional picture of the victorious Raging Fury force:
This is another shot, including the Evil Eye King Xorbb himself - not so evil anymore:
And here is the loot we got from Xorbb (sadly no Bag of Sewn Evil-Eye, that would have rocked!):
So this was the final event, beaten one month after the release of the expansion, including a time of reduced raiding for the holidays?
Well, at least this is the status of that event for now, but there are strong hints towards some additional content before the next expansion comes out (you may have noticed the additional three portals getting raised in Shard's Landing if you play the game) and most certainly we in Raging Fury are looking forward to additional content, more specifically raid content, because otherwise this will have been the shortest expansion raidwise since LoY...
Seriously, the first guild (Realm of Insanity) finished the last event one week after the release of RoF with the second (Machin Shin) only a week behind, followed by 4 other guilds before christmas - kudos to all of them.
And what about Raging Fury? As usual RF started a bit slower than other high end guilds, but got into gear pretty well in the end. Sadly, given the fact that this expansion was more a sprint than anything else, we couldn't make up for that slow start and thus finished it only after our small christmas break as the seventh guild serverwide, still quite a respectable result I would say. Nonetheless I hope for additional raid tiers so that maybe in the end we can still maintain our spot among the top #5 once RoF is really finished...
As the expansion was so short, I didn't post any news before, so I will give a few pictures of other raid events for you to enjoy:
This is from The Madness of King Tormax (and yes, that's Yelinak, I know)
Danella's Stand:
Zeixshi-Kar's Shard:
The Queen's Decree:
A Feast for Zalikor:
Guardian of the Gate:
That last event (also known as Xorbb #1) was actually the hardest in the expansion, not so much because of the complexity itself, but due to the fact that it is extremely poorly tuned and as such can only be beaten other than the obviously intended way.
Or to put it in other words:
Aren't we all a bit like Rambo sometimes?
Well, I guess you can't be afraid of dieing when you do events like that, even when you try to avoid certain dangers:
The event brought evil ideas into people's minds (totally un-RF-like!)
Normally the members of Raging Fury are well known and respected across the server!
But also some of the other events had surprises, especially for our RLs. I remember Insaneox asking Queen Grelleth happily to be sacrificed for her dinner table (sorry, I laughed so hard I forgot to take a screenshot), and also Odysias had an accident:
Nonetheless I am very proud of my guild, because during the last few events I have once again seen the drive and passion which seemed a bit lost after such a long farming time (the fact that the first events were beaten that fast didn't help either, I guess).
I want to thank especially our raid leaders who have done a really great job together with our whole strategy team.
I also want to express my gratitude towards our recruiters for the excellent work they have done during the long months of farming to keep the guild in a healthy state, well done, Ladies!
Thanks also to the rest of the officer team as well as to all those trailblazers who got through the quests fast so we could request the raids - especially in such a short expansion people like you are a tremendous asset to any guild!
Last but not least I want to thank every member of Raging Fury for making this guild the way it is: a hardcore raiding guild with a generally relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
Congratulations, Raging Fury, well done again!
Just a small update: today Raging Fury has beaten the ruler of the Corrupted Temple of Veeshan, the mighty Vulak'Aerr himself as first guild on AB and fourth serverwide
After our victory over King Xorbb we finally had our hands free to turn towards the revamped version of the old Northern Temple of Veeshan, which brought back many memories to the old raid players. Although one could clearly see, that raiding back then was far simpler (tank and spank), nonetheless it felt relaxing just beating stuff up and not having to worry too much.
Vulak himself though proved to be quite a bit more challenging and so the fight was indeed complex enough to get a feeling of accomplishment after downing him and being able to call ourselves "Vanquisher of Rain of Fear":
I guess we will add NToV to our farming plan now and then, was OK to do :)