Hell yeah! Raging Fury has completed The Buried Sea expansion by killing the 2 gods Mayong Mistmoore and Solusek Ro in an epic battle. For a couple weeks, we have been clearing Solteris event 1-6 in 1 day,
giving us the rest of the week to play with the gods and finally our hard work paid off. I am proud to say we got another serverfirst finish of an expansion, making it 6 out of the last 7 expansions being
serverfirsts for us all the way back to Gates of Discord, only missing Vishimtar by 1 day to make a perfect record. Thats a pretty stable performance by the RF team.
So now it is time for an update with our recent progress as well as a small recruiting speech at the end of the update
Since we have defeated the event twice now, we have gotten alot of different loot which was very nice. I am not sure what to think about the 2 augments we have gotten from the event also. In my opinion it is a wasted lootslot,
but they went for a nice price, so guess it wasn't all bad. Not to mention all he stuff we get from clearing on the way there. Ofcourse the loot itself holds no value compared to the sense of accomplishment when this finally
all worked smoothly. I will not be as bold as to say event 7 is on farm status yet, cause it can still cause us trouble if not 110% focused, but it's starting to look better.
Most of the loot we have gotten from the event so far should be listed below for those interested:
We all know how Mayong and Solusek Ro looks and noone wants to see their ugly faces more than we have to after working on this fight for a while. So instead I present you with yet another guildphoto, complete with the new dwarf
models that noone ever gets tired of looking at! By the way, this is where you have the chance to insert your own character, should you qualify for one of the openings we have in recruiting; standing among friends with slain enemies at your feet.
Gratz to everyone present, both inside instance and those who had to sit outside and cheer. You all bring pride to the Raging Fury guildtag. Now we get a couple day of welldeserved break from Solteris before it starts all over when zone repops!
As for recruiting, I am happy to say we have full raids every night and all classes represented. We do however have a rare occasion where we will accept some exceptional applicants in the following classes:
- Warrior
- Shaman
- Shadowknight
- Druid
Speaking from experience, these openings will be filled very fast, so do not hesitate too long if you have the desire to join us. We have high requirements, but offer alot in return.
Not long ago I have promised the regular visitors of the Raging Fury news section that there would be more groundbreaking totally awesome
news soon. OK, and here at RF we like to stand to our promises so I proudly present the following newsflash:
Raging Fury has entered Convorteum, the final zone of Underfoot!
Before we were able to enter there though we had to hit some sense into Brell Serilis. Now, what is more fun than hitting fat dwarves or
pesky gnomes? Hitting their creator himself for all the ugliness he has brought into the world! I have to admit though that Brell does have
some nasty tricks which can make a raid wipe almost instantly. Anyone else thinks that events like bonus experience weekends are mainly invented
to give raiders a chance to win back their loss from deaths over the last week? Just kidding of course, I know everyone loves those weekends, it
is just the fact that Underfoot has been rather unforgiving and I haven't had to click "yes" to a rezz request so often in one expansion for
quite some time (actually I doubt even GoD killed me that often). I am not complaining, I like hard expansions, it's just an observation from a
tank class in Underfoot, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, after a week of banging our heads against the walls in Brell's Temple we managed to turn the table and bang his head against the wall
until he finally gave in:
By defeating this event we had also cleared the last obstacle on the way to the end zone of this expansion called Convorteum. As has been the case
in all the recent expansions the zone itself is identical to the group version and it even has some trash, but so far nowhere nearly as annoying as
in previous zones like Tower Of Discord or MMM - thanks for that!
After we had cleared the first trash, we were staring at the big golem who is called "The Gatekeeper":
This first encounter in Convorteum can only be described as a "reward mob" for entering the final zone of this really challenging expansion. If you
don't play like muppets (and noone able to enter here would play like that, right? Right!) you can't lose this fight. So after a bit of whacking
the golem fell to the ground and we had our first Convorteum loot.
With the success from sunday everyone could see that RF was gaining momentum towards the final goal to beat the expansion while it is still current,
so on Monday we continued our march through Convorteum. Neither the Stonewarden nor the Unstable Creation could withstand our relentless
assault for long and I am pretty confident that we will be able to overcome more enemies in the next days. Don't expect a long news post every day
though, I might limit this to the final victory message if we continue with this speed!
A last word for this posting: we have entered the end zone and are in the middle of the final rush to complete Underfoot before the next
expansion House of Thule is out. If we keep up the focus and dedication shown in the last weeks then I am sure that we will be through Convorteum
by then. So if you want to be among the very few able to say they have beaten one of the most challenging expansions ever while it was current
now is the last chance to join our ranks before we are done with it. At the moment we are mainly looking for shamans and clerics,
but we have some spots for other classes too, so speak to our recruiters Brilhasti, Illandra, or Nalelini or talk to an
officer.
Expect more news with further victories soon - you know we make good on our promises!
Tonight The First Creation died for the first time on the server Antonius Bayle, beaten by the combined
effort of the members of Raging Fury.
So without any further comment I have the great honor and the privilege to present to you the victorious team
standing next to the body of the vanquished enemy:
The end of an expansion calls for some reflection about the expansion itself and the circumstances, under which
progression through it happened. Let me just say that the last weeks I have felt a drive and a motivation in
the guild which I hadn't sensed for quite some time. After being behind Shadows of Doom on the first events
catching up with them during the end of Tier 7 gave a new motivation and focus to everyone in RF.
We started to add an additional raid day and raid evenings became longer and longer, just because everyone
knew we were close to the end. It felt like a race and that feeling gave invigoration to all our members and
made it possible for people to raid till midnight, although many of us had to work the next day.
The effort paid off in the end,: we were able to take back the number one spot on Antonius Bayle!
Let me congratulate those guilds who have finished the expansion before us in a legitimate way, I leave it upon
everyone for himself to decide what guild to count among those. Let me also thank Shadows of Doom for giving
us such a close race, you pushed us to give 100 percent, I am sure you guys will get it down soon too.
Let me also say "thanks" to our raid leaders, who have worked very hard to develop and improve our strategies
and tactics and to our recruiters who got us the quality people we needed to fill our ranks. But most of all, I
thank all the members of RF for showing the will and strength to overcome one of the hardest expansions in
all the history of EverQuest.
Almost 10 months after its release only 4 guilds on all servers have beaten it and I doubt that this number
will be more than doubled before the next expansion and level 90 will help more guilds to finally push through.
After the playing field got leveled during the all-to-easy SoD, now was the time to show what a guild is capable
of: some new guilds rose to high peaks, some old high end guilds fell deep. Let me take this moment to salute
a final time to Tide, it is always sad to see a once strong and proud guild like that collapse - may the former
members find new homes in other guilds
.Some of those members have already joined our guild and have helped us to once again claim our place among the
top 5 guilds on all the servers in EQ for the tenth time in a row! Yes, Raging Fury has been among those
front runners since GoD and I think that is an achievement shared by no other guild in this game. I consider
it an honor to be leading a guild which has left its footprints in the history of EverQuest for such a long
period of time. I am sure we will be leaving our marks in House of Thuleto.
Until then enjoy the rest as I will enjoy not having to write news until 1:30 in the morning!
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