Quite a few things to report on the Rift side of ED again. First off – and kind of late – we have reached the max guild level (30)! Grats ED! Thanks to everyone that contributed by doing guild quests!

We have had increased interest in achievement hunting lately and warfronts were being terrorized by our groups more often as well lately.

Raiding’s been going well, too. During the summertime low we were mainly focused on 10mans but we have officially made our return to 20mans two weeks ago and meeting up with this little guy again:

Yes, it’s Yoghurt (Yrlwalachakdjf)!

It went fairly well, we’ve had a few new members and raiders join us and it was great seeing so many together at once again. Time ran out before we made it to Threngar but the other four bosses bit the dust at least!

We had Hammerknell planned for the week after that but since we had quite a few people absent that day it unfortunately didn’t work out – we did a CoA EM to gear up new members and alts though!

With CoA getting nerfed a few days ago our regular NM on Sunday turned into a HM progression run! We had given Duke Eblius a few tries on HM sometime ago already but this time we actually killed him, too! There were a few more mechanics compared to NM of course but it wasn’t much more difficult with the nerfs though.

Azaphrentus backstabbed us with his fire waves from behind though. Sneaky guy. We made sure he paid for it.

Hericius, also known as shroombro, also known as Venusaur, was a little tricky as we had to figure out how to handle the weirdly spawning adds. We had a couple of wipes while getting the hang out of it and had to continue the next day as time ran out but we eventually got him down as well by taking the safe path and slowing down our dps so much that we could get the adds down before pushing the boss into the last phase and having the adds that were hiding near the mushrooms we had to burst down sneak up on us and murder us. People got used to jumping the waves quite fast, too.

Fionn wasn’t much of a challenge after. The transition from NM to HM made the messy fight even more messy but apart from that it went very well and we killed it after only a few tries.

So we’re officially CoA 4/4 in HM now! Even though the nerfs took out most of the challenge it still feels good to have completed it! Grats everyone that worked hard for this.

In the meantime…. our dear guild leader Malbec is still busy studying some boring stuff posting boring books of boring contract law or something boring (with the occasional mandatory wine and juice picture thrown in between) making us reminisce our raids together with him. So our guild Bot Master (no, not the harmful ingame bots but the fun Discord chat bots) was testing a Rift addon that reads boss mechanics out loud. He combined it with his wisdom (and he has a lot, he’s a cleric) about Discord bots and long story short: Enter Malbina, our friendly raid assistant bot. Malbec is raiding with us in spirit always. <3 WE MISS YOU MAL

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The guild’s been a bit quieter over the summer but as summer holidays are coming to an end the activity’s bouncing back up with people returning sun burnt for some relaxed gaming time.

We had people coming and going and a lot of new members joining (welcome again!), ranging from people new to Rift still leveling to veterans ready to kick some boss arse in raids.

Everyone’s pretty excited about the new expansion, too! Looking forward to be newbs again and explore new stuff.

With the usual summer time activity drop (we’re actually happy to see people doing other stuff during the long days) our HK progression is sort of on a hold at the moment. The guild’s successfully killed Inquisitor Garau though which takes us to 5/11 in HK!

CoA is going smoothly, too. We pretty much got easy mode on farm which gives us a good way to gear some more people with T2 items along with the stuff we get from IGP (which we completed on hard mode a few times as well now).

So we’re currently working on CoA normal mode and made quite some progress today actually with our very first guild kill of Hericius (aka Venusaur)! After wiping to him for quite a while for random reasons we actually killed him on the first pull today. It was almost unreal, especially the part when we didn’t drop dead after Shroomageddon. It was like “Okay, left shroom is dead.” – “Right one, too.” – “Wait, what, all of them are dead…? Oh right, move to the safe spot!!”. We didn’t hit enrage either and had a very clean first kill.

Killing Fyragnos (aka Charizard), the really blind dragon that doesn’t seem to mind if you stand INSIDE his mouth counting his teeth, took a few tries but after a few wipes we got him down as well. Even had the time to share some poems.

Our Fionn tries unfortunately weren’t as successful, even though we made some improvement. So he has to wait until another day as it got quite late already and we called it a day.

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