Posted by gnomtrix on August 27, 2006 – 12:37 am
It was a grudge match. Only one other mob has eluded our grasp as many times as Battlemaster Rhorious. It was time for him, and his hangers on to meet the blunt end of a TNF shaped Wedgie. We were light on clerics when we started the move, but a few more bolstered our numbers by the time we arrived. We had more necromancers than a goth party in a morgue, enough DPS to handle just about anything, the time was right.
But hell was it ugly. BMR tanking was fine, he died as he should, carefully, well managed, until his golem buddies rushed the raid. And all hell broke loose. The golems started their fun little knockback. Casters got thrown into the path of Snakes-on-a-Dress, and the goat just kept chasing down our ranger and kicking their ass. It was messy. We nailed BMR, killed the golems next, struggled with the snake but finally got her flattened and then just did the goat from afar. Awesome work from everyone, I’d like to think we can tidy it up in future, but hey the loot rocked and we had FUN!
After beating Ikkinz 1 in the week, and beating BMR, we felt it was time to step into the Muramite Proving Grounds and take on a trial. The MPG Trial of Hatred to be precise. Holy chaos in a bucket batman. The short summary is that we ‘learned some lessons’ and ‘made some valuable tactical progression’ which means we got our asses handed to us *but* not because we don’t have the power, skill and tactics to beat the trial, just because it was new and we had to deal with some new situations. We can beat that trial, we will beat that trial.
To round off the evening we took out Ritesmaster Verok in the Ruins of Illsalin and boy does he drop some nice loot 
Overall a great evening, grats to the 4 people who got level 70 spells, grats to the winners of the loot from BMR and from RV and grats to everyone for a sterling effort in MPG.
Posted by gnomtrix on August 25, 2006 – 1:02 am
It started as a scouting mission. To see how long clearing into the temple in Kod`Taz would take. To see what the trash inside Ikkinz hit like. To see how few hitpoints the priests had and how bad they hit. To get a feel for how many people we’d need to beat the pit. Just to put our toes into the water.
We discovered we don’t need to paddle, we can swim. TNF beat Ikkinz 1 with 25 people. It was a challenge, it was fun, it was a learning experience, and most importantly, it was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who turned up and put in the effort. Thanks to the folk who grouped with myself and Siddhaya over the previous months to allow us to farm the pieces needed to trigger the raids. Thanks to everyone who’s run Tipt runs to get people flagged. For some people this was a return to Ikkinz raiding, for many this was their first experience, and for some it’s just another raid in a long series of raids. For me, it’s just amazing that we’re back in Ikkinz and beating it with friends.
And of course, no trip to Ikkinz would be complete without loot. The bosses in the Ikkinz raids tend to share similar loot tables, and the loot in Ikkinz 1 is very nice.
Grats Simes and Rabbe on their new legs – Runed Flesh-Banded Leggings (sorry for the picture)
Grats Lessi on her new aug (Blackstone of Radical Thought)
Grats Rowenna on her new sword (Darkglint Blade)
And last but not least, grats Runenblastem on his new mantle (Mantle of Mending)
Posted by admin on August 3, 2006 – 7:56 am
Yes indeed welcome Lightkeepers.
I’ll just concisely say, that Zorblag asked me to consider whether TNT could provide a home to the members of LoG. He felt that it was the best decision that he could make to ensure that those of LoG who wanted to stay together could do so in a viable guild. I believe that he felt that the number of active LoG members was getting too low to enable LoG to continue as a viable guild
I was positively inclined to the suggestion, it was something that we had done very successfully before with our friends that came from the Rejected guild. I consulted with our officers and they agreed that it was a positive thing to do both for TNT and for the LoG members.
I’d like to invite Zorblag to perhaps make a post in here to comment from his perspective. Zorblag has joined the TNT officer council – an important part of this process in my view to ensure that our new LoG family members know that they have a voice they know and respect at our council table.
Again, my heartiest welcome to all coming to TNT from LoG.
Simes
PS. Apologies for my tardiness in making this post, but real life is keeping me more than busy at the moment.
