PVP in Silithus - Page 2

♦ Praetorian · 02/13/06, 1:03 AM

Originally Posted by Praetorian,February 12th, 2006 @ 11:21AM

Come back here tomorrow morning and tell me whether anyone had any clue what they were talking about when they talked about "claiming" a hive.

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♦ Praetorian · 02/13/06, 1:04 AM

And no, none of them died, mainly because of the server crashes. The knowledge that if you were to invest hours and multiple deaths into wearing a colossus down, odds were in favor of a server crash erasing all your progress prior to its death, kind of put a damper on things.

diospadre · 02/13/06, 1:20 AM

I'm really at a loss as to what exactly Blizzard was thinking when they designed this mess.

Torael_7 · 02/13/06, 1:40 AM

Originally Posted by diospadre,February 13th, 2006 @ 1:20AM

I'm really at a loss as to what exactly Blizzard was thinking when they designed this mess.

Medivh killed all the colossi.

Conclusion: Medivh runs on better hardware.

♦ Praetorian · 02/13/06, 1:44 AM

Not really. Just that Medivh had no prior knowledge so they focused on the Colossi more. If you'd seen 3-4 Nef-farming guilds work together on each Colossus they would all have died.

But knowing that there was no pressing reason to kill them except like 800 rep and some blues/purples that we could get just as easily from the crystals, combined with demoralizing colossus-resetting crashes, left little reason to make them a priority.

Zellyn · 02/13/06, 9:44 AM

Originally Posted by Praetorian,February 13th, 2006 @ 1:44AM

Not really. Just that Medivh had no prior knowledge so they focused on the Colossi more. If you'd seen 3-4 Nef-farming guilds work together on each Colossus they would all have died.

But knowing that there was no pressing reason to kill them except like 800 rep and some blues/purples that we could get just as easily from the crystals, combined with demoralizing colossus-resetting crashes, left little reason to make them a priority.

It was a lot of fun running up to the Collosus of Zora, getting hit by its "massive attack" for 10,000 damage, lagging out for three minutes while I wait for my spirit to release, running back, waiting another three minutes to resurrect only to get nailed by the next "massive attack" before the server even recognizes that I've been spamming Sinister Strike underneath it for at least 30 seconds.

Also, who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to make a raid mob who is designed to be zerged, but can unleash a titanic AoE that will kill 75% or more of the people attacking it? I know I only have 3333 HP unbuffed at best, and 1.5k armor, but I cannot believe that most BWL geared people wouldn't get fucked by that. It was recommended to me to use my Duskbat Drape to reduce the damage from knockback, but if there was knockback, then I never saw it because by the time my computer registered that I was knocked back, I was already in the graveyard.

♦ Praetorian · 02/13/06, 9:57 AM

Well, the Colossi were actually doable. When we pulled the Regal Colossus to a manageable spot, our whole raid was able to survive the AoE (until he started doing two at a time, back-to-back). We took off like 8% with one trial run as a 40-man group.

If we could've been assured that the servers would not crash, or if the Colossus' HP status persisted through crashes, they would've died. But screw racking up all those repair costs just to have the server crash when he's at 20% or something.

hellsoap · 02/13/06, 9:59 AM

this is better than pvp

Shin · 02/13/06, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Bad Luck,February 12th, 2006 @ 11:32AM

Originally Posted by Vesperia,February 10th, 2006 @ 8:23PM

i get bad memories of crawlers nest in FFXI.�* Id get so pissed off id move my group over someones and pull ontop of them.�* fuckers.

I was a Beastmaster, if you took my spot I just released an Exoray on your group. :)

RED MAGE FOR LIKE SUCKA

Savage Blade Savage Blade Savage Blade

On the subject of FFXI - SE just banned 2,000 CGFs and took 300 Billion Gil out of the game. Fun stuff.

Zellyn · 02/13/06, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Shin,February 13th, 2006 @ 10:04AM

RED MAGE FOR LIKE SUCKA

Savage Blade Savage Blade Savage Blade

I used to hang out with a RDM. I always closed our Light SCs with Hexa Strike. That bitch never closed once with crappy-ass Savage Blade.

subscience · 02/13/06, 10:15 AM

So I was on a boat to Menethil Harbor and somehow the boat ended up next to Dalaran stuck in the land.

Exciting event.

Shin · 02/13/06, 4:49 PM

Originally Posted by Zellyn,February 13th, 2006 @ 10:06AM

Originally Posted by Shin,February 13th, 2006 @ 10:04AM

RED MAGE FOR LIKE SUCKA

Savage Blade Savage Blade Savage Blade

I used to hang out with a RDM. I always closed our Light SCs with Hexa Strike. That bitch never closed once with crappy-ass Savage Blade.

RDM/NIN is that leet shit

Edit - Bad you are sick for killing the poor noobs. Sick I tell you.