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.

I guess it is time for another overdue update to replace the april's fools one. At first we didn't really have much to report since we were just farming MMM for more flags until we could safely enter Crystallos. So originally I was just going to make a small update that everything was going as planned and we now had MMM down to a one day farmstatus and post a little lockout picture

But before I got around to that, we had already started our first raids in Crystallos, so I figured I might as well delay the update a little and wait until we had some nice screenshots and hopefully a victory in Crystallos to show instead. So we ended up clearing Fire wing after playing around with Tjudawos for a couple days

And not only that. We progressed a little in Earth wing also and I decided I might as well wait until Earth was down also instead of having to make an update soon after again. Ofcourse we ended up taking down Kildrakaun and clearing Earth

Next up was Ice wing. Again we rolled over the first event and then needed a bit of tuning and learning on the final dragon in this wing, but he went down eventually

Now we have started working on what seems to be the major hurdle in the zone; Vyskudra in the Air wing. He seems to be quite challenging at the moment. Then again, so does most stuff until you figure it out, so Im hoping it wont be too long until we can present you with a screenshot of his corpse. Crystallos has given us quite alot of nice items, so I will end this update with a selection of some of the loot that we have gotten in the zone so far in addition to the armor core upgrades.

Feel free to check back frequently. There should be another update coming soon hopefully

After tearing through the other wings, we needed a little time on the Air wing. Not so much rethinking tactics but more a finetuning of our execution.

So I am proud that I did not promise too much when I said we would have an update soon with a Dead Vyskudra. Some will say we just finally got our act together, while others will say it was Misse's promise to talk less if we won that made all the difference. The result remains the same, Vyskudra is down and we are on our way to Kerafyrm!

Just a brief update on our progress. After clearing the other wings, we have now entered Kerafyrm's domain and on the way there disposed of this little wyrmling. After that we took a brief visit to see Kerafyrm, but we were already past our normal raidhour so we just stopped by to let her know we are coming. Soon...

In other news, I find it worth mentioning that Darkwind has decided to close its doors and disband. Regardless of any differences there might have been, you can only respect their accomplishments over the years and be saddened when one of the older raidguilds in Everquest calls it a day.

We have in the past received some high quality people from Darkwind and although we have limited room at the moment, I do welcome those that we can offer a spot. I am sure you will be wellreceived and make a good addition to our team and I hope you will find a home with Raging Fury that matches what you had. To those venturing to other guilds and servers, best of luck to you all and hats of to Darkwind past and present.

Tonight Raging Fury has put the mighty prismatic dragon Kerafyrm the Awakened back to sleep as the first guild on Antonius Bayle and fifth serverwide.

It has been a long way for us. We started our first real attempt on Kerafyrm on may 27th and early june we reached the 50% mark. On june 10th we reached 21% and the goal was in sight after spending 7 full days working on Kerafyrm when lockouts on the rest of the zone and patches allowed it. It was a challenge to adjust to the AE, but we have kept improving our tactics and alot of different approaches have been tried, while in the meantime our execution got better and better, eventually ending with this:

Once again we confirm our position among the best in EQ. We can only regret that we didnt get the chance to kill the same pre-patch version that we had been working on and came close to killing. However we are ready to take on the challenge if/when the encounter gets retuned in difficulty again. After all, its not just about winning, but winning with style!

I will try to get some screenies of the loot as soon as possible

Unfortunately there will be no new kills to report until next expansion is released since we already killed everything in SoF, including the various versions of Kerafyrm, so instead we will give a few select people the chance to join our team before Seeds of Destruction comes out

We are looking for some new people in the form of good and high attendance rogues and berserkers, a bard and finally a shaman. More info can be found here: Recruiting status

As always, we tend to fill our open spots rather fast, so send Illandra a tell in game, PM her on the forum or send her a mail

I will see if I can dig up some quotes for the next frontpage update while we wait