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Tacvi: Instanced For Her Pleasure
First of all, folks, I think we can all agree we’re through with this uncreative tongue twisting naming system. It started slow, peaking around Vex Thal, and it’s not going away anytime soon. You’ve heard it all before and I’m just a redundant bastard but…it’s bad enough having to think about it when typing this business but you also have to train your fingers to go to these odd character combinations to get the names right. God forbid you make a typo on one of these words, you’ll have a gaggle of know-it-all-nazis racing to spell it correctly in guild chat just to make you look like a silly goose.
Which is why I’m so happy we’re in Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver. You can almost say that word in English and have it sound natural! Oh ya, we’re in Tacvi now. Don’t you like how I just nonchalantly mentioned that? Truth is, I’m writing this just after we finished getting into Tacvi and I’m still jacked up from kicking Zun’Muram Tkarish Zyk‘s ass but I just wanted to sound like an egotistical bastard; mission accomplished.
On a serious note, we really are steamrolling content. We haven’t had any major setbacks yet and we’re running like a machine. A good machine too; not one of those shitty generic machines. But, as always, we need to be bigger, stronger and faster. So, if you’re a cleric and you meet our requirements, you should really think about dropping an application. We would love to have you! /smilez
Ok, let’s get down to the brown. Aside from mauling the assorted content that is in Txevu, Lair of the Elite (see below), we absolutely demolished Zun’Muram Tkarish Zyk tonight. Let me lay out the events of tonight with chronological pictures as a visual aid.
Our very first Tacvi kill! It was a touching moment. /sniff They grow up so fast. Zun’Muram Tkarish Zyk loots were:
I know we haven’t had a front page update in a while but we’ve been too busy tearing the ‘phonetically challenged’ zone that is Txevu into pieces. Let us show some Before & After pictures of some stuff we’ve killed as of late. As usual the After pictures are much more sexy.
Here’s some assorted shots of the loot we’ve gotten from Txevu and such. I kept it organized for a while…then I slacked. You can play some sort of matching game where you match the loots with the mob that drops it. Email me your answers and the first person to get them all right gets a big prize of absolutely nothing. May the best man win.
So that is all for now, I promise I’ll be putting better and more frequent updates up on here.
Now, this is the part of the update that I write something to take up space when I have nothing else to write. If you care, I’m going to complain about Almond Joys, the ‘candy bar’.
Have you ever heard the expression, “Like a kid in a candy store”? Of course you have. That expression can suck it because children are poor and the only thing I picture when I hear that is a depressed child surrounded by aisles of candy that he/she can’t buy. On the other hand, I’m rich and live a luxurious life. So when I went food shopping I happened upon the candy aisle and the little kid part of my brain kicked in and for no apparent reason, except for because I can, I bought a whole like 60 count box of Almond Joys. I don’t even like Almond Joys. It was just the first thing I saw and I had to have them. Not unlike that horrible expression, Almond Joys are deceitful and false when it comes to their name. They should be called, ‘Borderline FDA approved chocolate covering TWO fucking almonds swallowed in a sea of coconut…Joys’. Not only were these not Joyful but they were barely Almond. I’m pretty sure I have pancreatic cancer now because of ingesting these bastards. Try playing EverQuest all jacked up on AJs (that’s what we call them on the street: AJs. You gotta be down to know that). Your eyes will be the size of hubcaps and your leg(s) won’t stop shaking until you puke and pass out. I hated them but I couldn’t put them down. It’s the Devil’s candy, don’t give in. In conclusion:
Originally posted by qxx • Jul 31, 2004 11:56
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Noq, Noq, Noqing On Txevu’s Door
Summer is here and that means nothing, but I couldn’t figure out a better way to start this update. What’s in the news? Sadly, Ronald Reagan passed away. Never to be outdone, the Pepsi loving singer/songwriter/pianist/blind prodigy, Ray Charles had to ‘one-up’ Ronnie by dying only a few days later. I guess we know who was a closet Communist.
Moving right along, the word on the street is our News author has moved on. Thankfully, she didn’t die like our beloved ex-president or Ray ‘Iron Curtain’ Charles. So I’ve been lucky enough to be granted the responsibility of updating the front page of the website for now. I’m already slacking though, I didn’t know I’d be doing an update so screenshots and moneyshots might be in short supply, next time I’ll have more…but don’t quote me on that.
So since the last update, we’ve killed Vrex Barxt Qurat a bunch in the wonderful land of Uqua, the Ocean God Chantry Russian roulette *on*. We’ve been spending ample time in Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling just checking it out. In Qvic, we’ve done some slapping around of those half woman-half water buffalo? things and we’ve been getting an ass ton of Muramite molds and some neat augments (90hps/90mana) from them. We’ve killed Cynosure Kvanjji and the Zoo ring event (Iqthinxa Karnkvi) a few times; got some loot, shown below.
Beyond that we spent a few days lollygagging around Inktu’Ta, the Unmasked Chapel. Oh the fun times we had, it was splendid. We killed us a Kelekdrix, Herald of Trushar a few times. Then, it happened. What happened, you ask? Stonemites happened. Everywhere.
Let me tell you something about stonemites and Inktu’ta. Stonemites are pretty much the fat girl of Inktu’ta. I know I probably just insulted 90% of the female EverQuest population but it’s OK, I’m sure you all have fantastic personalities and are wonderful conversation. Let me explain. You know when you go to the bar, and you work your way through the crowd and all the bullshit to the bar for a drink, and you eye this cutie just across the way. After you drink yourself beyond cirrhosis of the liver, you walk over and go to talk to her. That’s when the fat, ugly, over-possessive friend shows up (who was probably in the bathroom futilely applying makeup to her behemoth face) and does everything in her power to cockblock you. You’ve got your eye on the prize, but you can’t get it until you get past her. It usually ends up the same way every time: You standing naked back where you started, surfing for porn while you wait for your rez…I mean, until you go out again. So in Inktu’ta, you see your goal, you go for your goal but before you can get there a million fat girls, I mean stonemites, fall on you saying things like, “Oh no girl, you came here with me, you’re going home with me”. Eventually we got our friend drunk enough that he would take the stonemites back to his place and
fuck themkill them.Then, much like picking up a random bar whore, we got death touched…a lot. When we finally got to the clinic, we had our shot at Noquifel on Monday, Jun 7th. We smoked him down right quick and got our little token into Txevu. I hate to throw roses at ourselves, but it was a Vazaelle 1st. Actually, I’m more than happy to throw roses at us, pat our own backs and suck our own dicks…metaphorically speaking…not actually, you know, nothing, never mind.
Txevu is a fun place. I was in high hopes that it would be 6% xp per kill, alas, it is not. We were plowing through looking for a fine bitch to get loot from and we found a room with a few sexy Ukuns in it: an event! Forgetting what happened to us just one night ago, we smoothly, strutted on over across the bar to work our magic but wouldn’t you know it: stonemites, by the millions.
Unfortunately, our friend learned his lesson the first time and he wouldn’t take them home tonight, no matter how drunk we got him. So, we had to pass this event by for now and find some girl who was alone, follow her to her car and then…erm, ya so we found some other named to kill. I actually have some
alibisscreenshots!Well, that’s our status for now. I’ll try to keep updates coming regularly and remember: stonemites need lovin’ too.
Originally posted by qxx • Jun 11, 2004 18:22
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Barxt Dead – Hello Qvic
Congratulations to Mica on the sword, Zebedar on breastplate and Grinderroth on the earring!
Originally posted by Adarii on May 16, 2004 21:05
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Uqua aka “OMG and Update” (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Apr 30, 2004 18:59
Uqua.. the zone guilds love to hate. Pre-nerf Uqua was classed nearly impossible; killing a mob was a great achievement, killing a mob without a death was as good as instant uber status.
Post-nerf the zone is manageable, the AEs can be dealt with, the mobs actually give you a chance and even though most of the loot so far has been average, the zone is at least now beatable.
First on the menu, Tqiv Araxt the Enraged.
With his fight being an anti-climax, we were pleasantly surprised with these tasty pieces of loot, as well as a couple of Taelosian Geomancy Stones
Congratulations to Rallron on a shiny new staff and Fenlaorn on the augment.
Next up, Tqiv Qukret the Furious.
Mr Furious yielded more Taelosian Geomancy Stones and this Ikkinz-like shield.
Other loot off these two has included +70 mana and +70 hp augments.
Once the two mini bosses were down, it was time to start hunting for Mr Bossman Barxt. This did not prove too difficult, although he had a few surprises to throw at us yet, including this lovely construct, who yielded a very nice mask in return for his death.
Are we there yet? Almost! At this point our lovely npc guide informed us that we had two choices. Win, or die, there was no retreat. Obviously the choice was simple, we must win.
Unfortunately it wasn’t to be the case, with no foreknowledge of the encounter, we made a valiant and heartfelt effort but it was to no avail. Death took us and it was all over, this time.
Since Uqua makes the Plane of Time look like a kiddies playground, we decided to make Time more challenging, lets just say this unscheduled experiment was met with little enthusiasm although I’m sure the Bertox enjoyed the nibble on our corpses after we fell Cazic Thule. I give you Plane of Time – Triality Style !
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Two Feet Firmly Planted (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Mar 11, 2004 00:38
Triality has jumped firmly into the Gates of Discord spending the majority of our time pushing ahead wherever possible. The Ikkinz one group trials and the limited number raids have been keeping us busy, along with the afore mentioned Kod’Taz and Yxtta mini bosses and ring events.
The Ikkiz raids have proven to be fairly easy although the third raid trial was quite fun and interesting involving a situation that kept us thinking, and the fourth raid trial was just plain annoying.
While the maps of the trials are less than interesting, and the mob models themselves could have been slightly more inventive than the run of the mill models you can see in Barindu, there have been some quite fun things that have we have discovered.
The Spirit of Tunik Tamuik seemed to have a slight race identity problem and changed his race to whoever he currently had aggro on. Here you can see him imitating our MT Grap (shrink please!!)
Apparently Sony decided on a revival of ToV and VT days and threw in a gflux mob. It’s quite amusing to see 50 people flying through the air.
Much Time level loot has also been acquired along the way.
I leave you with some interesting stats on our loot received from the Plane of Time since we started farming back in November 2003
Edge of Eternity – 10
Shawl of Eternal Forces – 7
Songblade of the Eternal – 6
Vanazir, Dreamer’s Despair – 5
Boots of Despair – 4
Bow of the Tempest – 3
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One Foot in the Gates of Discord (posted by Yackov)
Originally posted by Yackov Feb 22, 2004 16:58
Triality has been wipe-free in Plane of Time for months. We’ve gotten the plow down to one quick 5-6 hour day. Needless to say, the good loots in quick order is irresistible every week, but we’d been getting restless with little to do on off days. February 10 marked the release of Gates of Discord, though, and gave (is still giving) us plenty to keep busy.
On the first day of GoD’s release we played with Zun Muram Votal, who looks like he could use an attitude adjustment:
For a week or so after that we aimed at flagging our guild for Kod`Taz, the zone that’s the hub for raiding progression for time-geared guilds. Since then, we’ve barely had an opportunity to play in the new zones as a guild. Some of the scripts are still a mystery, some are buggy, there’re some frightfully difficult raid instances.
Yxxta, off Kod`Taz, has this named which is a great example of what makes GoD enjoyable. A quick one-pass moderate-number raid yields a dead named:
It’s fun to rush headfirst into battle, not knowing what to expect because it’s new, seeing what new nuances enemies have to offer. She dropped these Plane of Time-ish loots.
They’re practically promising much better goodies in the end tier of this part of the game.
That sums up what we’ve gotten of GoD raid content so far: a sampling. We’ll have more screenshots and loot pics soon!
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Triality at its Best (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Jan 23, 2004 16:51
Congratulations Darkun on the Timeless Breastplate Mold, Majestry on the Shroud of Eternity, Grap on the Silver Hoop of Speed and Sepha on the Shawl of Eternal Forces!
Phase 1
Gevar – Pulsing Emerald Hoop
Aeranae – Ring of Force
Khareth – Ring of Force
Zebedar – Ring of Force
Naturalhealer – Mask of Conceptual EnergyPhase 2
Thynn – Tiny Jade Ring
Armew – Cudgel of Wrecking
Steepcrawl – Cloak of Ferocity
Aarson – Tiny Jade Ring
Lomiondil – Shield of the VortexPhase 3
Midasa – Faceguard of Frenzy
Zebedar – Timeless Coral Greatsword
Scryris – Necklace of Celestial Energy
Lendiwen – Elemental Leather Pant Pattern
Thalya – Elemental Leather Pant Pattern
Pandora – Elemental Chain Pant Pattern
Moelle – Necklace of Celestial Energy
Zebedar – Cloak of WishesBertoxxulous
Kerena – Leggings of Furious Might
Xyzruhl – Leggings of Furious Might
Tiket – Timeless Leather Tunic PatternCazic Thule
Senytnomad – Timeless Silk Robe Pattern
Shortywiz – Zealot’s Spiked Bracer
Lomiondil – Wand of Impenetrable ForceInnoruuk
Jarsace – Shroud of Survival
Dextro – Girdle of Stability
Nuntius – Gloves of Airy MistsRallos Zek
Aarson – Sandals of Empowerment
Lendias – Visor of the Berserker
Bzuk – Platinum Cloak of WarSaryrn
Tempeer – Edge of Eternity
Cudly – Runewarded Belt
Lomiondil – Gloves of the UnseenTallon Zek
Shylah – Amulet of Crystal Dreams
Aggiemarie – Circlet of Flowing Time
Kandrak – HopebringerTerris Thule
Aina – Cape of Endless Torment
Nuntius – Coif of Flowing Time
Seedlix – Hammer of HoursVallon Zek
Aarson – Cord of Potential
Kruze – Globe of Mystical Protection
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Random Update (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Jan 14, 2004 23:33
Triality is back up and running after a short break over the Christmas and New Years holiday. We started our new year with a 2 day flawless clearing of Time, and 5 days later did it again…. and then once again.. you get the idea.
Phat Quarm Lootz have included:
Shawl of Eternal Forces (Shortywiz) || Talisman of the Elements (Tiket & Bubbette)|| Bracer of the Inferno (Grinderroth) || Prismatic Ring of Resistance (Filya) || Wristband of Icy Vengeance (Armew) || Shroud of Eternity (Astaren) || Stone of Flowing Time (Cudly) || Whorl of Unnatural Forces (Orenth)
This time around we managed to finish the script and have Druzzil Ro wipe our memories. (ie, free port back to PoKnowledge)
What was I talking about again?
Various back-flagging raids have been on the agenda with The Rathe Council and Xegony dying smoothly as always. Xegony died in a super fast 27 minutes this time around, a new record for us, down from out last fastest kill of ~40 mins.
With PoP bosses being killed faster than they can spawn, the empty zones have seen us dabbling in some hard LDoN raids and although we have not yet successfully completed one, it will not be long before we do.
The places peoples’ minds go when fighting in a lag filled Plane of Water.
Randomness
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Merry Christmas Triality!! (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Dec 23, 2003 23:45
Everyone said it couldn’t be done. Triality kill Quarm before Christmas? Not possible!
Very possible!
Congratulations to Mierin on the Ethereal Silk Leggings, Dalnoth on the Hammer of the Timeweaver and Sepha on the Earring of Influxed Gravity!!
The whole guild has put in a huge effort to get this far, with every single person giving it their all. Words fail to describe the huge sense of acomplishment so I will just let the pictures do the work.
Other than paying Mr Quarm visits, we have been romping through the Plane of Time like it is a children’s playground, scoring a few rare and coveted items in the process, including three Time Robes.
Phase 4: Saryn, Terris Thule, Tallon Zek and Vallon Zek
Shroud of Provocation || Edge of Eternity || Ring of Evasion
Time’s Antithesis || Cap of Flowing Time || Runewarded Belt
Gloves of the Unseen || Girdle of Intense DurabilityOrb of Clinging Death || Talisman of Tainted Energy || Coif of Flowing Time
Cudgel of Venomous Hatred || Armguards of the Brute || Vanazir, Dreamer’s DespairCloak of the Falling Skies || Band of Prismatic Focus || Winged Storm Boots
Hopebringer || Tactitian’s Shield || Cloak of the Falling Skies
Serpent of Vindication || Amulet of Crystal Dreams || Mantle of Deadly PrecisionWand of Temporal Power || Temporal Chainmail Sleeves || Shoes of Fleeting Fury
Hammer of Holy Vengence || Cord of Potential || Bow of the TempestPhase 5: Cazic Thule, Bertoxxulous, Rallos Zek and Innoruuk
Earring of Unseen Horrors || Wristband of Echoed Thoughts
Staff of Transcendence || Timestone Adorned Ring -
Time for Time (posted by Adarii)
Originally posted by Adarii on Nov 25, 2003 17:25
After the excitement of killing Coirnav and making it to the Plane of Time, Triality has spent it’s time learning and exploring the zone. With that learning has come many deaths, but the deaths are more than paid for with the quality of the rewards. Even the Phase 1 loot is well worth the effort:
Phase 2 of Time is much like Phase 1, but with, you guessed it, better loot!
Phase 3 of Time is when the fun starts! Several waves of mobs + Named + Evil dying repeatedly = phat loot!
With all the gnome sacrifices, good things were destined to happen. And they did! It was not long before we hit Phase 4 and it’s four gods. Of course, we had to figure out how to open the door first….
With the first hurdle crossed, it was on to some god killing, Saryn, Terris Thule, Tallon Zek and Vallon Zek to be exact. Saryn, Terris and Tallon have all fallen and at three drops a piece, it’s a loot whores delight. Unfortunately Vallon Zek and his lackeys still elude us but that will be changing very soon!
Now with all this loot we’ve been getting, stuff is bound to rot, right? WRONG! Unbeknownst to all, Evilgohanz has been whoring this loot to make sacrifices to his gnome gods. I was lucky enough to witness the mass tribute and took a few snapshots for posterity.
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