Taxes Piss Us Off

Americans have quite a history of not enjoying paying taxes to the government.  In fact, it was basically tax anger that ultimately caused the original colonists to rebel against England, leading to the formation of the United States.  But we soon discovered that even when the government was our own, paying taxes is no fun and tends to cause resentment and anger.  Perhaps its because we don’t like funding bridges to nowhere or paying $600 for toilet seats or $1 million for washers, but come tax time most Americans are pretty edgy and even angry at discovering how much they owe in taxes or how much of their hard earned money they have given to the government the past year.  And so it was that on April 14, the eve of the 2009 Tax Day, the American contingent of Undivided Faith found itself in a foul, murderous, even genocidal mood.  If only we could find a target for our rage…

The Beast Volunteers

Although we got Fippy down quite quickly and easily in pretty much his original form and were finding him a joke after the first round of dev nerfing, the Beast was another matter.  He did not get nearly as sizable a nerf as Fippy got, but we kept working on him over the last few weeks, and we really felt like we were making some progress.  When we got him to 20% this past weekend, we figured his days were numbered.  However, he got nerfed again (and much harder this time) with the patch earlier in the day, so we’ll never know if we could have beat him in his previous form.  This did not make us any happier, so we got his instance to see how much easier he had been made.  I’d like to think our weeks of practice and wiping helped us, but he’s so much easier now that its hard to say that for sure.  We did wipe on our first attempt of the evening thanks to some random linkdeaths courtesy of Another Stable Patch by Sony ™.  Even though we lost almost 20% of our raid force to link deaths, we almost beat him.  Needless to say, these link deaths did not make us any happier, so when we killed him on our second attempt, we killed his mate and their entire unholy, interdimensional brood for good measure.  And in rolled the spam from another Drinal first…

We gathered for some group shots to see what loot rolled in…

Even though a monk killed both Grunkuck and his mate,

the chest provided us with the wrong weapon…

Grats, Axedragoon!

Grats, Sarouzek!

Grats, Jolakaz!

Grats, Hador on the legs and Bono on the wrist!

Even with the major nerf, it was still quite a satisfying kill, and we became only the 21st guild to beat this event serverwide.  We’re still pretty pissed about our taxes though…

What’s Next?

Farming Fippy and Beast for coins and loot, and this weekend we’ll see if the nerfs to Unburrowing have made it beatable for us, so we can get into T6.5 soon and hopefully leave that godforsaken Tower of Discord soon!

PS – Thanks to Draedon for supplying some images for this update.