Raid Preping

[Aoiren]

When the raid begins there is always a large out-pouring of water for casters and all the healing food you could want. There are also enough buffing going around to make two rows of icons. However, I have noticed that there are very few potion/oil/food buffs being used. Seeing this I have been working on getting my cooking and fishing skills up to snuff.

I can now create the following. Nightfin Soup which is a 10 min buff that gives 8mana/5secs. Poached Sunscale Salmon which is a 10 min buff that gives 6health/5secs. Monster Omelet which is a 15 min buff that gives 12 Sta and 12 Spirit.

The Soup and Salmon buffs do not stack but I think the omelet buff will stack.

In addition, I am also an enchanter so I can make the buffing oils for casters. Granted that while I still have not maxed out that skill, I can make the lesser mana oil which is a 30 min buff that gives 8 mana/5 secs.

Again I have not tested all of these buffs out to see which stack, but I will be experimenting tonight. Something else I am not sure of is wheither these buffs will be over-ridden by cast buffs that do similar effects. I will post my findings under this topic or if someone knows please give me a heads-up.

Now granted that getting a large enough quantity for a 20man raid will take some time, but I am going to try to make as much as I can for this coming Friday.

If you would like to help gather resources for this purpose. Fishermen and fisherwomen I need Raw Nightfin Snapers and Raw Sunscaled Salmon. I also require Purple Lotus for the oil which I think can be gathered by Herbalists or I think it drops off Tar Lords in the Crater. The dream dust for the oil I can get by disenchanting my tailor-made items. Finally Giant Eggs for the Omelet which drop off readily from the Owlbears in the Hinterlands.

I will be gathering mats today and tomorrow so as to try to supply enough for everyone for the raid. It might be a tall order, but I want to try to help make us more succesful with the raids by reducing combat losses, repair bills and downtime.

**UPDATE 6/08/06

If you can get your fishing skill up to at least 375 to 380 with buffs try fishing in the lake at Strathome in the eastern plaguelands. Any less than that and you will constantly be losing fish. At 400 I did not miss a single fish when casting.

I now have 40 Nightfins and 26 Sunscale Salmons which I will try to add to tonight.

Mike

[Magdalena]

I too have been working my fishing/cooking, just got cooking up to 300 last weekend... I have 22 Nightfin Soups made... these will be primarily for boss battles of course, but nightfins do take a while to fish up enough... so any bored people, work fishing... this is something everybody can do 20 people getting 5 each doesn't take too long and will give us enough for several attempts. Best spot at my fishing level so far has been western plaguelands with a bauble...

Also, gathering tender wolf meat (tanaris, brd) I can make us more wolf steak 12 stam & spirit... there's also one for 10 int I have but can't remember name of it.

Food effects stack with buffs, some potions dont though, so that's trial and error...

Thanks for taking the time on this!

[lili]

The oils I have and I'm working on rep to get the higher lvl oils. The problem with the high end oils is that it takes a lot of enchanting mats and they are kind of high end. I haven't had the chance to farm for mats for the guild enchant bank for a while so I'm buying some mats when people need the enchats, so the oils are kind of the last on the list to be made. Also the oils just fyi should only be put on after you go into the instance. Like anything appiled to a wheapon when the game loads like going in and out of the instance or going on the boat. Which also means that if you get resed in the instance without releasing you get to keep the buff. I also have 300 cooking and 300 fishing so I can fish for what ever people might need. The wolfstakes (thank you to chris who's been sending the wolf meats) I've trying to pass out some to everybody at the begging of each run for the bosses since that's really when we need them, sorry if I missed you.

[Aoiren]

Ok due to the server crash last night I was not able to farm for too much more. My final tally is as follows.

45 Nightfin Soup
28 Sunscale Salmon
30 Omelets
2 potions of lesser mana oil (5 charges each)

I guess the thing to do would be at the beginning of the raid figure out the total of supplies from all our gormet cooks and divy up according.

Hmm steak and eggs.

[requiemdreamer]

Hmm steak and eggs.

Let me just get my ale brewing skills up to 300 and we'll have a party. 5g cover charge. And I'll leave entertainment to Trixster.

[Aoiren]

Ok from the raids on Friday and Saturday it looks like that the sta & spirit food buff does not stack with the mana or health regen food buff. I will concentrate then on the regen food items for the boss fights to maximize my farming time.

[Gamakun]

The mana oil will be something definitely that will benefit all casters. Also I am herbalist so I maybe able to help ou with those purple lotus .

[Aoiren]

Thanks to Gamakun's l33t herbalist skills I now have enough purple lotus to make 20 lesser mana oils. Currently I only have enough dream dust to make 7 of the oils, but will be adding to that thru out this week.

Thanks again Gamakun.

[Aoiren]

The raid supplies for this weekend are as follows:

45 Nightfin Soup
42 Poached Sunscale Salmon
0 Omelets
12 Lesser Mana Oils (Thanks again to Gamakun for the Purple Lotus)

I will handing these supplies out at the beginning of the raid.

[Gamakun]

Np

[Aoiren]

Hi once again everyone. I know that we are going to try out the new improved ZG tonight for all of the crazy epic drops. However, I have been busy this week with PvP and the new stuff to do in EPL.
That being said I have not got any fishing done this week. I do however have enough mats to make 7 lesser mana oils for the raid, so I will not be arriving empty handed.

[Brandonheat]

Yes, I am really want to see the new ZG loot.

[Aoiren]

Ok I have stocked back up on mana soups and health fishes for the group. I have not been able to make any wizard or mana oils of late, but I will try to start back with production soon to have some available for next week.

I would like to announce that I can start making +20 strength buff food now that lasts for 15 minutes. This will not stack with any other food buff, but if you feel that it would be a worthwhile buff for our raids let me know.

[requiemdreamer]

I would highly suggest people get ahold of Greater Fire Protection potions for the MC raids this weekend. They are fantastic for boss fights requiring fire resistance.
Check the crafting list to see who can make them for you and what the mats are.

[Brandonheat]

I can make Greater Fire Protection Potions there mats are:
1XDreamFoil
1XElemental Fire
1XCrystal Vial

[sakuragi]

should also mention, it's helpful for casters too but not really neccesary (sp?)...for melee it's a must....

[Yukirina]

uhmmm.. after talking to aoiren yesterday... and the praise he has given to us.. i'd like to praise him for his work on providing these soups and nice healings ... everybit counts as i rely on the health replensihing soup... it's nice to know u're continuously regening health... that i hope he is not alone in his making of these supples... as it's a task you shouldn't take up on yourself... and on a side note i've made a few elemental stones... but is it restricted to giving it only to rogues?... and whether i should make them...? for it seems elemental earth is expensive and i don't have too much time or patiance to farm.. but still willing to grind some stone monsters a a few times a day to get a nice supply or whether they're needed... i've also been trying to get my fishing up... but i hate it when fish gets away elusive creatures...

[sakuragi]

one thing i have noticed with rogues...
u can actually use instant poison in mc....cause it doesn't take a slot on the buffs..it does an instant poison to the mob of like 150 nature damage on hit....so then u can use the elemental stones on bosses or something....

well, that's one trick i learned recently.....that instant poison doesn't take a slot on the mobs which means more damage for the rogues...

[Magdalena]

We should still have some elemental earth in the gbank I believe Yuki, also this is something easy anybody can help farm for no matter what your profession... stone elementals drop them. Warriors/rogues are the main classes I believe they are used for. I also have some dense stones in my bank you can use for these too...

For the time being since you're the only person with the recipe, KoA guys may be asking you to make these for their guys as well, but they should be farming the mats for theirs.