Although we have not broken any barriers as a guild lately, after having been thoroughly harassed by guildmates, I was convinced that the option of updating the guildpage despite actually having surpassed a new challenge actually existed.

My original intentions were to await us killing Fennin Ro prior to making an update, and we recently had our first attempts at him, which despite the lack of a corpseshot in this update has left the guild in general more than confident that the first elemental god will not dictate the plane of fire for much longer.

Without further adue, I merely present some random everquest pictures and quotes i found after browsing through my screenshots, though with an editors note, my playing time has been highly limited as of lately due to finals exams and such, thus if the quotes mean nothing to you, they probably do not mean anything to the rest of the world either. (lack of material)

Last but not least, the most contradicting saying ever to be uttered in the guildchat of Raging Fury:

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The cathedral of doomfire lay before Raging Fury once again. We came amply representated for our second encounter with Fennin Ro, more members than have been seen online simultaneously ever wanted to be a part of what was to be our first banishment of an elemental god.

Klavs valiantly stood his ground through the entire fight, and apart from random overnukers (Haillon) failing to prevail, this was definately one of our better performances as a guild post the release of Planes of Power.

We have been prospering quite significantly as of late, Klavs and Karde now weilding their blades of war, Fennin Ro added to our killist, and Xegony soon to find herself in different company.

Loot consisted of Ifir, dagger of fire, Earring of eternal flame and a pair of plate leggings.

Timmok has for this weeks quote galore composed various utterings for our enjoyment, they can be viewed by clicking the following picture

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Post our first slaying of Rallos Zek during the second week of February, Raging Fury has learned their ways in the elemental planes, and a new barrier was breached within the guild as we harnessed our 180th elemental armour piece within the plane of fire today.

During the last couple of weeks, we have in addition to slaying Fennin Ro for the second time completed our key to Xegony, and eagerly await our first attempt on the wench in the sky. In the depths on the plane of water, we have also started learning the Coirnav script, needless to say, we are far from done, though we left the reef today somewhat enlightened, and with anticipation towards attempting once more.

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We are currently seeking a new playerbase to join our guild. All classes may apply through either our application forum, or by contacting Karde in game. Keep in mind that a vaste number of people continuously inquire about the requirements needed and playtimes deemed a necessity to join the guild, thus should you not get an answer immediately, be patient.

Like many a guild, there are certain quaLities we expect from any applicant, though activity is the primary trait we are looking for. Obviously gear and flags already in possession will be a definite bonus, though the guild will help you obtain the gear and flags needed should you be willing to put an effort into your trial period.

Cross server applications are most welcome, and though we realise leaving your home server and friends might be onerous for some, feel free to ask some of our other cross server members how they were received and treated upon moving to Antonius Bayle, namely Thadew, Myrian, Galathorn and Galiaan.

Details concerning requirements, playtimes and similar can be found here and here.

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Having received many an application during the last week, recruitment has been closed until further notice. Reflagging is well under way, much obliged to a joint Coirnav with Magus. One exception to the recruitment status however, those already flagged for Plane of Time might inquire ingame via one of the officers whether or not the possibility of joining exists.

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As many of you might have noticed, our message board no longer exists. Our point system database along with our message boards were both hosted at a former guildmembers work location. While we still remain uncertain as to why this tantrum was thrown, rest assured that we will have a new message board + point system up and running shortly. Thankfully, alot of our newer recruits have IT backgrounds, and as such, I am actually glad we will finally get this over and done with, this has been a "threat" hanging over those of us that still play for far too long. Personally I never expected the people involved to go this far, but times of adversity display the true color of people I guess. Either way, this newspage will be the primary source of information for the next week or two. And lastly, for the worried members, I managed to copy the current point standings prior to the database dissipating, so worry not.

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Overlord Mata Muram fell for the first time on Antonius Bayle tonight, and with his dying wail, the entire continent of Kuua trembled visibly, from Dranik's scar to Riftseekers. Those that have already beaten this mob have more than adequately covered the basics of the fight itself, though personally I will not praise any encounter that ultimately bases the outcome somewhat on mere luck. Certain occurrences throughout the endeavour, based solely on luck of the draw, will render a wipe all but inevitable.

Amongst the favourite excuses used during this encounter were; "I clicked the mask, really, I did!", "I panicked and could not find my dodge button, but atleast I landed a heal instead!" and last but not least, the overall winner; "I was browsing for a cloak upgrade on lucy and missed it". One can only begin to guess who the latter excuse belongs to.

Having completed the Omens of War expansion, there are currently no encounters left unbeaten by Raging Fury, though I am certain we all eagerly await the new and improved Vishimtar event. Speaking of patched events, Antonius Bayle has once again been left behind in comparison to the other servers. Sometime during March, the Eye of Vishimtar was added to the final encounter in the Dragons of Norrath expansion, on all servers, excepting Antonius Bayle. I might be mistaken when it comes to the actual numbers, though I remember seeing a developer mentioning the fact that since the patch, Vishimtar had merely died about 20 times on all the servers. How many of these deaths originated on Antonius Bayle? Eight. Both Darkwind and Raging Fury killed Vishimtar four times each during this period, but the Eye of Vishimtar was never implemented on this server, in other words, we were forgotten anew, highly reminiscent of when Arch Magus Vangl was left unaltered for weeks post being fixed on the American servers. It is pretty disconsolate to witness the lack of attention towards our server time and time again, if nothing else, utilize post-it notes to remind yourselves of the fact that you are actually hosting a European server. One that actually requires your attention every once in a while.

Secondly, but equally important. While I remain uncertain of how this situation is on the other servers out there, Antonius Bayle has had a dramatic increase in regards to the usage of illegal aids. Post the merger with Kane Bayle a few months back, there have been countless incidents involving people warping back and forth throughout various zones, relocating themselves to a safe spot within the zone to heal prior to warping back in and engaging the mob. No drop items are being traded with equal ease thanks to recently added plug ins to Macroquest, these might have existed for some time also, though personally I had never even heard of such until it started infesting the server. What used to define your character, i.e. your equipment, is now available to anyone that is willing to pay the price for it, whether it be rotting items from within Anguish, or outdated Tacvi gear from someone having moved on to better standards.

Other online role playing games have suffered a similar faith, leaving behind a player base consisting of solely cheaters. Do you seriously intend to watch your own product be reduced to such a state while doing nothing? The monthly fees you might salvage through not banning these individuals might seem alluring for now, but rest assured that if the cheating progresses in the same pace it has now, the gaming experience will be all but ruined for most that still enjoy spending time in the world of Norrath.

Condoning the sale of droppable items and characters is one thing, I will not indulge myself in a rant concerning that issue, but these extremes that have been mentioned here needs to be addressed, immediately. It might not be possible to prevent the usage of it 100%, we are all aware of that, but through making a few examples, I am certain the usage will be highly limited. It is sad to behold unnamed players zoning into the Walls of Slaughter, warping to the zone in area of Anguish, and blatantly displaying their ability to do so, confident in knowing that as of yet, those responsible have not deemed this important enough to even remotely look into.

All said and done, we still enjoy the game, and thrive in overcoming the challenges it has to offer, but if your vision of keeping Everquest running for another 6 years bears any semblance to truth, action is needed, and it is needed yesterday.

Lastly, onwards to somewhat more jovial aspects. As many might have read, we recently lost our old message board + point database as those hosting it decided to display their authority in a childish manner. Merely a week later, a new message board and point database has been established, and as such I would like to utter a few words of gratitude to the people that dedicated their time and effort into restoring these vital functions of any raiding guild sans delay. First and foremost, Rigwit, who was responsible for tweaking the forum into a semblance of our old one, utilizing the already existing colour scheme and board functions, definitely easing the transition for many of us.

DeIllusional from Shadows of Doom greatly aided us in regards to implementing a customized item database in the eqdkp system, one that surpasses anything we have ever used in this guild before. On behalf of the guild, thank you kindly.

While displaying such a vast array of gratitude, two people that should have received thorough thanks as last year drew to an end were unfortunately ignored. Anthas and Uren literally led the guild in solitude through one of its toughest periods, having recently lost close to 60% of our older members due to various reasons. If not for the unprecedented display of devotion from these two members, our guild would be nowhere near its current level of progression. Thank you both.

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I am a slacker. I admit it. In our last update I promised you some Theater of Blood news soon and now it has been a month. I am sure you have seen plenty of pictures of the theater mobs Dead by now, so since we have moved on to other stuff anyway, how about we skip that.

Since the last update, we were lucky and persistant enough to find the infamous Sverag mob up and get our access to Razorthorn, tower of Sullon Zek a couple weeks ago. That spawn has now been fixed so it is actually reasonable it seems, so instead of a pointless rant on that topic, I will save my ammo for later

We have been pretty busy lately. Suchun went from a hard event to being a 15 min event without casualties besides a frog once in a while and Ghost rolled over pretty fast too after a couple test runs. Unfortunately we havent been back to Suchun for a while and Ghost is not a good fight to get pictures in, so you will have to do with these

Moving on from Ghost, we met Snowtail and got stuck there for a while. The silly lockout in the zone was not very helpful. I wonder how long it would have taken for people to kill Overlord Mata Muram if they had gotten lockout for all of Anguish as soon as they killed Keldovan. So we lost a few days waiting for lockouts on something we didnt kill. Eventually Snowtail bit the dust and in a way reminds me of Suchun now. The last 2 kills were done on first try and now you wonder why it took you so long to figure out a working strategy. Too bad when you get 2 necks on Ghost and then kill Snowtail and get the exact same neck from him also. Fortunately the kill wasnt about loot as much as getting to try the next mob in the zone

Which brings us to the real thing..Sullon Zek herself. Again, due to lockout, we are not getting as much time to work on the event as we would like. When you run out of time after killing Ghost, Snowtail and a couple attempts on Sullon, you have to wait 3 days for the dogs to repop and then kill them again to get another chance at Sullon. Clever...

I am sure eventually our hard work will pay off though and we have seen some progress atleast. Give us some time to figure out the mechanics of what looks to be pretty unique fight and I will get a corpse for you as soon as possible.

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I have been putting off updating the frontpage cause I felt we were close to having some big news to announce, and here you have it: Raging Fury gets another scalp in our belt as we take yet another serverfirst kill by defeating the infamous Mayong's Mistresses event in Solteris

The Sister event... what can be said about this event. It is mean and unforgiving. It is unlike most other endgame raids cause you did not have alot of flagging to do and no other raids to kill to unlock this event. It has been accesible to pretty much every guild in Everquest that was interested in trying it since the first week after TBS launched. I think it is safe to say that not alot of guilds will be able to walk over this event no matter how easy the flagging for Solteris was. The road has been frustrating for alot of people cause it simply seemed unbeatable for our guild due to lacking DPS. I still find it funny that the first guilds to beat this said it is not about DPS. Ofcourse you cannot neglect your healers, curers, slowers etc but this is not an event where you just compensate by offtanking, kiting and more maintank switches cause the fight takes longer due to low DPS. That being said, I agree with what others have said that the fight is highly customizeable and takes alot of tweaking

If I heard correctly in guildchat last night, someone said he had around 150 entries in his log with failures on this event. Ofcourse that includes attempts where we wiped halfway and even aborting right after starting, but I think this shows the determination we have put into beating this. Eventually we found the setup that works for our guild and the people we have on raids and we found the focus that is definitely needed to execute the tactics you need to win. So I am happy to say that while some events in TSS left the impression that they were too easy and there wasnt really much cheering since it did no feel that much like a victory, this fight definitely gives a sense of accomplishment when you finally beat it

Other guilds have made a big deal out of posting their raidcomposition on the winning attempt. I am not gonna bother doing that. I dont consider us a DPS guild, but pretty balanced actually, so instead I will just show some of the action and a scrapbook picture of the winning team. That team obviously includes members that wasnt online that specific day but came each day and helped us beat this. They deserve a place in that pic as much as anyone else, right next to our secret weapon

Congratulations to Sidarx and Fulast on their new bracers

And congratulations to Illandra and Bebop on each getting a shiny new ring

While we are filling up nicely and are having full raids again now thanks to some nice new additions, we are still interested in hearing from a few more people, especially a wizard, necromancer, paladin to name a few. You are able to see the full list here! Both native AB players as well as servertransfers are more than welcome to apply. Once you make up your mind, please send us your info either as PM or preferably via e-mail here: Apply! and we will get back to you as soon as possible. You can also contact Illandra or Corvard as well as any officer online.

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Big changes this week! I'm proud to announce that we finally came up with the solution to Triality's supremacy, especially in maturity. After only 7 years among the top guilds serverwide, it was clear we were doing something wrong. It has taken us a while to figure out what. How do you compete with someone who can outdps, outtank and outheal your entire guild with just 4 groups?? As usual we just threw together some random people in a group and asked them to come up with a solution, but you know, we just plain suck at figuring out stuff. So only one thing left to do:

We consulted Dr. Zaar over at Triton headquarters. He is the serverwide #1 expert on megalomania and other delusions and one of the few people in the world who had been granted an audience with Quarken the Almighty

Since no single guild could even match up against 4 groups, the solution was simple. A merger! And not just any merger! After talking it over with the other guilds on the server who have beaten last expansion and are far progressed in MMM, we agreed it was futile.

The solution: We have taken the best of Raging fury, Shadows of Doom, Tide and Darkwind to form a new unstoppabble force!

Raging DarkTide of Doom

We have decided its time to stop being so soft, letting people slip by with 75% raidattendance and only 5 days of raiding. Our new requirement will be 95% RA, 7 days per week and if you dont show up, you have to go downstairs in the livingroom and get a note from your mom explaining why. Thats how the big guys play it!

After the merge, our roster has swollen considerable, but we can always squeeze in a few more. Who knows, some guild might tune next expansion to their setup, so we have to be prepared! If interested, check here.

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