Lord Vyemm  

We had him down again yesterday with low difficulties. Main thing in this fight is positionning. If you are badly positionned, you will be thrown away in lava pit :-( Vyemm's will basicaly throw you in the air backward (like Gravity Flux) so keep the wall in your back to be kicked into the rock instead of lava. Also, as soon as you are back on the ground, move from the corner you've been throwned into or you will stuck other people in your back, making them unable to reach meleers or even Vyemm (out of range). The GFlux thing happens really often so keep in mind clerics need to have fast healing spells loaded because most CH will be interrupted. Vyemm dropped 1 fang and 2 right-eye yesterday so i'm wondering if we should attack him from his left side next time (maybe he won't see us ;-)

Edited, Mon Feb 3 07:32:00 2003

Wow. First guy I've seen that DOESN'T want to bash some newbie heads in, good for you. Sigh too bad ethereal mist *cough* spelling *cough* armor is nodrop, or I'd love some).

i like that little secret message you slipped in there. wonder if anyone other than me can see that. im pretty smart.

Actually only a few 'uber' guild use the DKP system, most uber guilds have officers or a leader dedicated to assigning loot, which is either decided before a raid or people send tells for the item after the mob is dead and it drops it. You still have to earn the item though, because it will be very rare that this officer/guildleader gives the item to a player who makes 1 out of 5 raids than to someone who is there everyday.

Its forbidden according to the dragons. Cause if you go in, youll have to level 75 dragon to deal with. Not to mention some of his 55+ friends he might have in the area.

You don't get it because you have never stared at the belly of a dragon that is 15 levels higher than you, and could rape you in one second. And you have never gathered with your friends to kill a ridiculously hard mob, or had your heart pumping while three clerics and a druid are chain-casiting complete-heals on you because you are getting ripped for 2K+ damage every round. Maybe it isn't so important at level 30 for every single player in your party to work with utmost precision, much less every single player in the next 9 parties. There is no level 80 player around the corner that you can /yell to for help, and you can't SoW your way to the zone for safety.

But, at the moment that dragon goes down, you will feel the immense satisfaction of accomplishing something only a small hadfull of people in EQ have accomplished. You will enjoy revenge for killing something that has powned your guild in the past. You will feel joy that your friends, the people who helped you get your epic, will now be rewarded with nice prizes. Maybe you will be lucky and be one of three SK's in the raid, and the other two already have something better, so you get the no-drop SK only loot.

You don't care that the dragon dropped 50pp and no one splitted it. You don't care that you died 10 times and your party didn't get exp because clerics can rez back most of it anyway.

You do it because your guild reaps the benefits, and becomes stronger. Eventually, your turn will come when you loot one of these obscenely uber items. All the time and work you put in will eventually be rewarded.

Until that time, enjoy endlessly zergning Frogloks in guk. Maybe FBSS will drop in the next 12 hours.

first of all, my highest character yet is 29, so im still wet behind the ears. but i think i can answer your questions.


"if only one of those groups is gonna get the exp for killing the @#%^er"

i dont think raiding dragons is about exp. its about loot and RESPECT. :)


"one person a out of 60 of getting one of the what 5-7 good items he drops is really low"

thats not true. 'Need Before Greed' is the way to go in loot order. so out of 60 players, there might be like..20-30 meleers? and on top of that, some guilds (i believe most of them) have a system with raiding points. the more you aid your guild, the better place in the que to the loot. so depending on the loot, if it's for a meleer type of character, ur odds to get the loot could be anything between 25% (25/100) - and maybe up to 50% if you have high guild points (thats not a statement though).


"only the first person who loots gets the cash unless he/she has auto split then teh people in their group get a small margin"

some groups let ONE person go into the action without carrying any cash. he/she loots _all_ the corpses on money. after a days work out in the fields, he/she splits the plat equally among the players.
on a raid, this could be the corpse camper (the one that sticks his/her head in the corpse to prevent ninja looting)


"you die numeropus times before you succeed"

don't forget that a cleric can resurrect 97% of your exp loss. thats their job after a raid. :)


that should pretty much summon it up.

oh, and one more thing. many parts of important quests are dropped by these giant frogs, and sometimes you have to raid the same mob over and over and over again to get the piece you need for your epic quest or whatever. thats another reason to go raiding.

Fun Fun fight. Well worth it though.

Another pic of the fellow, too large for the page is here:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/monsterpics/lord_vymm2.jpg

nice info, thanx

You laugh a whole whole lot and you laugh hard

pleeeeeeeeease shut up loser! like that hasn't been posted a million times. please try educational and/or social pursuits (like women, wink wink). and pleaaaaase leave me alone

pleeeeeeeeease shut up loser! like that hasn't been posted a million times. please try educational and/or social pursuits (like women, wink wink). and pleaaaaase leave me alone

who cares

who cares

thats great, (shrugs)

more great info below folks, take note!