Having got Tyrannus below 50% on Sunday we knew a kill was on the cards.  After a few test pulls we got the curing sorted and the adds started dropping like flies.  All in all a relatively easy kill that can be added to the raft of MOBs we would've got ages ago had we not gone into total meltdown.  Shame the same cannot be said of our dear friend the field general.  Uktap is nasty - no two ways about it - just plain nasty.  Our best effort so far has seen us all but annihilate the trash and two epics with him but at severe cost that we could not recover from.  Our raiding is now concerned with farmng Gynok relentlessly, beginning to work on Anashti Sul, getting Zarrakon to farm status and then we might turn our attentions back to Munzok's and Miragul's playgrounds.



Lyssia

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OK so we finally pinned the dragon down and killed him.  A new trophy goes up in the ML guild hall.  Tyrannus the Dark next hopefully.  Congratulations to all who helped to get this kill.

Lyssia

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An evening of working out which coloured shard crumples which add and how to deal with Fae Drakes saw Mythic Legion take down Xaxia Viralus.  All in all a most enjoyable kill in the end.



Lyssia, Zach and Lyysha
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After a flawless first pull, without even one single death all the way down to 12% when someone failed to ground themselves and we all went BOOM, we imagined that getting Mynzak last night wasn't gonna be so tough.  However, nerves set in and we didn't come close to replicating that first pull all evening.  Even when we eventually got Mynzak down at roughly 9.30 pm the fight was nowhere near as clean.  Still a first kill is a first kill so huge congratulations to all.  Everliving shoulders dropped and these went to Shodi for 1300 dkp giving the first guild five set bonus.  Now we need to quickly get Pentaclypse and Mynzak on farm status whilst we get to grips with Gynok Moltor.  Still a way to go to catch up with Harpers and Ascend so lets get busy...



Lyssia and Lyysha

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After a rather torrid last few months, that have seen no small amount of upheaval in the guild, we have finally awoken from our slumber and got our acts together.  Pentaclypse was downed on the Last Pull of the Night^TM and so tonight we tackle Mynzak.  Unsure as to what took us so long with this MOB, though improving our cure strategy was certainly the final nail in his coffin.  Thanks to everyone for a superb effort.  Good tanking, with battered weapons, excellent healing and precuring, good dps jousting and, last but not least, good tornado spotting.  He dropped a somewhat tasty pair of leather healer legs that eventually went for 1400 DKP to Aquarius - congratulations.



Lyssia and Lyysha

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(Lennon/McCartney)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newpaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone

Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...

Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds
Lyssia in the sky with diamonds (fade out)

Lyssia

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Having had our fingers badly burned on the original UBER nasty version of Tythus Tinzok we retired to lick our wounds and to farm critical mitigation gear.  Seems we did this for too long as Tythus has been well and truly whacked round the back of the head with the nerf bat!  The new version is far more forgiving and we killed him first pull the other night.  Not overly impressed with his loot table but he opens the way to the Clypse twins, Mynzak and the deity Anashti Sul.  We sincerely hope Mythic Legion's roster issues lie well and truly behind us now and a concerted effort should see us rise once again to give Harpers and Ascend a run for their money.

Lyssia and Lyssha

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Congratulations to Blackscorpion on being the first member of ML to drop the new Varsoon, however the first guild group to get him was successful on Saturday night.  Charras, Dhiren, Othian, Krilia, Crystaliana and myself spent just over 7 hours in clearing the zone.  Stun stun stun...

Lyssia

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On Tuesday 24th February the Mythic Legion finally got the Xebnok fight sorted.  You can see a video of the fight on You Tube.

Lyssia & Lyysha

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Having come quite close to getting him before, the Mythic Legion finally slays Switchmaster Zaxlyz.  Congratulations everyone on a hard fought fight with the master of portals.





Lyssia and Lyysha

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Having spent another few hours working on coordination of the Thet-am-aua fight we decided to head over to the Palace of the Ancient One.  One dose of cryogenic magic and some full on DPS later and Xythus Aransta and Xythus Davian were slain.



Lyssia and Lyysha

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The Mythic Legion would like to express its sincere gratitude to Heidielle, of the Fellowship, for the donation to our Art Gallery of the priceless EQ1 subscription painting entitled "Winged Glory".  This ages old painting easily dates back to the days of the Age of Turmoil in Norrath.



Lyssia

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It has been a massive effort on the part of the entire guild, involving an unfeasible quantity of time, patience, plat, status points and rare harvests but the Mythic Legion Guild Hall is now nearing a state of complete decoration.  We have tried really hard to create themed rooms and gardens and to resist the urge to over-size things in an attempt to fill this huge space. We have drawn upon inspiration from our own homes, other guild halls (both on Runnyeye and elsewhere) and designs posted in the Norrathian Home Show on the official Everquest II forum.  All of this mixed in with our own creativity has produced something we are proud of. A special mention to Xastia and Angbeleg, of Xanadu, who taught me that mahogany bookcases look so much nicer than the Cellus family ones that currently make up the library in my own home and to Zokkar of Mistmoore for the pool table idea.  We hope you enjoy the tour and feel free to come visit us on the Runnyeye Server.

So the tour begins in The Garden of Tranquility - with seasonal pumpkins guarding the entrance.



On the right hand side of the Garden of Tranquility, within a glade of trees, lies Mythica's druid ring.



As you enter the glade there is a small pool off to the right.



The path turns to the left to reveal the druid ring - part of the hub of the Mythic Legion Norrathian transport system.



A view of the garden from the front elevation.



An arial view of Mythica's druid ring.



We assemble for raids in the Hall of Myth where Legionus facilitates rapid teleportation to our chosen raid target.



Guild finances are maintained at the First Mythic Bank.



We train our DPS in a room we call the Art of War.





Our knowledge and lore is stored in our Great Library on top of the Hall of Myth.



The Dining Hall serves sumptuous meals.



Prepared in our exquisitely appointed kitchen.





The Mythic Legion gaurds are comfortably quartered in our barracks.



We relax in our bar, where members can enjoy fine wines and beers from around Norrath, whilst playing a game of pool, poker or chess.  The Legion's troubadours and dirges put on nightly performances of musical tales of our dragon slaying exploits.









We also have an aquarium...



... and a collection of fine art gathered from all four corners of Norrath, with many pieces dating back to the time before the Shattering.  We are extremely keen to try to complete this collection and would be delighted to hear from anyone who may have a /claim painting dating back to the early days of Norrath in EQ1. These rare paintings were given to any account that had a subscription to the original Everquest or that gained one via Station Access.  Please contact Lyssia / Ellixia if you think you can help us.  We will of course provide full acknowledgement to anyone outside of ML who is able to help us and will consider payment for any such artwork.





Finally we contemplate our place in the Universe within our Chapels of Good



and Evil





This concludes the tour - there are more things to see in the Guild Hall itself, not least of all our Theatre and our Hall of Artisans, but for that you will need to come visit us off the shores of Qeynos on the Runnyeye server.

We have been battling with Trakanon for some considerable time now but last night we got him to 27% and so we knew a kill was on the cards this evening.  We zoned into Trakanon's lair in good spirits but although our first few pulls went well we never really scaled the heights of the previous night.  We suffered from really bad luck in terms of who got hit by mark of repulsion and every pull was let down by a few too many careless deaths.  This of course heals the MOB and reduced DPS.  So we bit the lava...

With one hour of our raid left we got off to another evil start, with one of our MT healers, Othian, being marked early on, but then suddenly everything seemed to click into place.  The DPS was flowing and Trak's health was beginning to seriously fall - we were managing to deny the lava its regular flame and go KB Whoppers.  Then Catclaw (along with her group nox cures) went LD and I honestly feared the worst.  I was just waiting for group four to implode and the dragon's health to go screaming back up...  But it just never happened.  Group four held it together beautifully and everyone that got mark of repulsion reacted promptly and kept the raid safe.  We just kept on burning and Trak's health kept falling.  Below you see an image of Trak in the red, just as he let rip with a tail swipe!



As soon as Trakanon hit the red we opened up with pretty much every potion, spell, God spell and trick we could think of to pour DPS into him and he finally went down!  It really is a fantastic feeling to put down a MOB that you have been working on for such a long time.  Just before looting the chest we took some photos of the kill. 

Sadly, the stupid dragon didn't exactly die in the most photogenic of poses - you just can't get the winged lizards these days!  If you look carefully you can just about see his teeth in the photo above on the left.

SO a huge thanks to everyone who has put countless hours, and plat, into killing this thing.  Especially to Charras who spent 110 pulls practicing to get the sweet spot one evening.  Also to Sneakly, who sadly had to give up his place in the raid, two pulls before we finally got him down, so he could go talk to Rallos Zek on the big white telephone...  Now hopefully we can get Byzola down quickly.

Lyssia and Lyysha

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Having been raiding for many years, we of the Mythic Legion see a lot of exquisite chests, but the truly exquisite ones come along exceptionally rarely...  In this one we found a brilliant cut Sneakly of exceptional colour and clarity!  Shame about the weight in carats but you only really get that with Bolites.



Lyssia

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Kpul D'Vngur has been ousted and a new Maestro has come to the Shard of Hate!  The Mythic Legion has slain the Maestro twice in two days for good measure.  This is quite a fun fight requiring the MOB to be well and truly pinned down in order to avoid his raid busting AOEs.  Healers must really be on the ball with cures and the hassle of being cursed frequently.  The tanks have to work tirelessly to overcome his constant memwipes and the DPS, well has to behave itself!  Having finally got all these ingredients into one workable mix the MOB went down relatively easily.  Adding the Maestro to our farming rotation is great news because he drops some really cool loot.  So we shall keep on clearing Veeshan's Peak and the Shard of Hate, up to the Maestro, for ever better gear whilst working on the big two: Trakanon and Byzola.  I think we may well get Trakanon first.  Still lots down - only two to go!



Another dead vampire!



Group shot of the Mythic Legion raid that took down the Maestro last night with the new Maestro in residence on her organ (Fnarr Fnarr!).

Lyssia

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After two months of purgatory on Nexona the Mythic Legion cleared Veeshan's Peak in three days flat and here is the Matrix of Mythical Weapons collected so far.  Congratulations to one and all for the enormous effort required to get these beautiful weapons. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger image.

Fighter Mythical Weapons

        



Priest Mythical Weapons

        

        

Scout Mythical Weapons

        

        

        

Mage Mythical Weapons

        

  

After two months of working relentlessly on this MOB we finally got it.  I really have no idea what made this MOB so tough for us but Nexona comfortably enters our Hall of Fame as the single most time consuming raid MOB to conquer.  The image below shows a very tired and relieved Mythic Legion.  Now its onwards and upwards for a raft of Mythical weapons.  We shall be running some extra raids this week to try to progress as far as possible with this instance.  These will start with todays raid at 7.00 pm.



Gratz to Jinxed and Chanah on their mythical weapons (images to come very shortly).

Lyssia

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This evening we of the Mythic Legion finally put Druushk down.  After getting him to 8% on our first pull we knew we were in business, and sure enough, on the next pull we killed him. Its funny but having achieved it, like most raid kills, you really do wonder why you found it so hard in the first place.  My feeling is this one boils down, initially at least, to having the raid set up just so in order to drop him and that relies on good raid sign-up.






Congratulations to Lessing on getting his relic tonlets.



Lyssia and Lyysha

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