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Postby Gormal » Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:55 am

Its WAY too difficult with the new dragon code, !track, and combat luring stuff roaming everywhere. There's just too many mobs and far too many drakes.
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Postby Gormal » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:58 am

The final fight is just disgusting.... 6 dragons? I was taking 800 damage just on entry.. plus they spam fheal on themselves? Cripes its worse then tiamat was.
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Postby Gormal » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:05 am

This is with one dragon dead.... this is what I see as a tank...


< 973h/1577H 172v/172V >
< T: Gormal TC: few wounds E: magma EC: small wounds P: std > A magma drake underling recognizes you, and charges to attack
you!
A magma drake underling spreads its wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
A magma drake underling's attack only grazes you as you dodge aside!
A magma drake underling barely claws you.
A magma drake underling misses you with its claw.
Your image is no longer displaced.
A magma drake underling misses you with its claw.
A magma drake underling breathes Fire!
A magma drake underling burns you.
OUCH! That really did HURT!
A magma drake underling lashes out with mighty tail in a broad arc!
You reel backwards in pain as the massive tail smashes into you!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
You dodge a magma drake underling's vicious attack.
A magma drake underling breathes Fire!
A magma drake underling burns you.
A magma drake underling slashes you brutally with a fearsome claw!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
You barely slash a magma drake underling.
Your strike passes through a magma drake underling's fireshield in a shower of sparks!
You barely slash a magma drake underling.
Your strike passes through a magma drake underling's fireshield in a shower of sparks!
A magma drake underling misses you with its claw.
A magma drake underling misses you with its claw.
A magma drake underling misses you with its claw.
A magma drake underling flings its mighty tail into you with tremendous force!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
Dresk'akla's attack only grazes you as you dodge aside!
Dresk'akla barely claws you.
Dresk'akla misses you with his claw.
Dresk'akla misses you with his claw.
Dresk'akla launches into the air and streaks toward his foes!
You are smashed into a boneless heap as Dresk'akla crashes down on top of you!
With a final blow, you feel yourself falling to the ground.
Your soul leaves your body in the cold sleep of death...
The world starts spinning, and your ears are ringing!
You lose a level!
Your form stops blurring.
Your form stops blurring.

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Postby ssar » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:27 am

Nog, soo much blood!
Almost all of it ours!
Those drakes as they are are insane....
There'd wanna be a real good stash of real good goddies for the loot when/if they are killed! REAL good stash.
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Postby Thilindel » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:37 am

*boggle* And magma used to be pretty damned hard prior to dragon changes. Maybe they have 5/5 eq :P
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Postby Sarell » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:24 am

A Large Wooden House
Exits: -N
There is a portal here shimmering in a rainbow array of colors. (magic)
Corpse of Sarli is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[2] Corpse of Sarli is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Weylarii is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[2] Corpse of Ifin is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Ifin is lying here.
[3] Corpse of Ifin is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Nomosolol is lying here. (magic)
[2] Corpse of Aristan is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Kirya is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Gormal is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Pidibeple is lying here. (magic)
[3] Corpse of Nomosolol is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[3] Corpse of Xetes is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[4] Corpse of Kazur is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[4] Corpse of Sarli is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[3] Corpse of Aristan is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
Corpse of Cah is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
Corpse of Elun is lying here.
Corpse of Kirya is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
Corpse of Pidibeple is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[2] Corpse of Gormal is lying here. (magic) (glowing)
[4] Corpse of Aristan is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Gormal is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Weylarii is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Nomosolol is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Pidibeple is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Ilashi is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Katra is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Flib is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Ilashi is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Katra is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Gormal is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Pidibeple is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Nomosolol is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Weylarii is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Dorgh is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Ilashi is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Nomosolol is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Flib is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Gormal is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Pidibeple is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Katra is lying here. (magic)
Corpse of Weylarii is lying here. (magic)
Kazur (Barbarian) stands in mid-air here.
Kirya (Barbarian) stands here.
Gormal (RP) (Dwarf) stands here.
Nomosolol (Gnome) sits resting in mid-air.
Aristan (RP) (Human) stands in mid-air here.
Pidibeple (RP) (Gnome) stands, inches above the surface here.
Xetes (Human) stands in mid-air here.
Cah (Barbarian) sits resting.
Ifin (Human) stands here.
Lililithen (Grey Elf) stands here.
Branthur (Dwarf) stands, inches above the surface here.

< 481h/481H 98v/137V >
< P: std >
Gormal twirls around gracefully.

< 481h/481H 98v/137V >
< P: std >
Branthur completes his spell...
Branthur utters the words, 'candusgjfcandusqh'
Branthur completes he chant, and stares rapturously into space. his
body seems to shimmer as a great Power enters the room, and a divine
radiance engulfs the body at Branthur's feet. After a brief moment, Ifin's body
twitches and convulses, before shivering into a final stillness. The
radiance dissipates, leaving Branthur standing disoriented and concerned.



.....bout 10 more corpses layin round the place.......
we got PWNED on end fight..
We actually were very tight, very solid, took us 8 hours including time to CR at end, we didnt win in the end. Kiryan going to have a crack at it tomorrow I think, last day of holidays for me, nuts! I think it could be done with just the right group combo on last fight. I know I wont be doing it again tho hehe :) was fun once! was harder than tia ever was, harder than BC, that's a LOT of dragons in one day hehe.
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Postby rylan » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:45 pm

That looks like a BC corpse pile.
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Postby kiryan » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:24 pm

i'd say try it with 4 rogues/rangers, more than 1 shaman, and a couple of paladins next time. spell damage is a horrible idea for several reasons... MR, dragon procs that knock you down.

however at this point, id say dresk fight is at least comparable to bel and if not harder, requires a group specifically designed for it (no caster damage). You have too many dragon area / bash procs going off for a group to stay in more than 10 rounds. With the insta healing, your hard pressed to make any headway on the fight even if you can get spells off and/or bring your run cycle time down.

The mobs wandering causes logistical headaches and prevents the players from getting in a grove. The fight being fleeable perhaps makes it more difficult than if you were going in with the mentality that you're willing to spank to kill 1 mob which is how we used to approach bel when we brought invokers and we pretty much only managed to kill 1 mob per run. I remember one trip to BC where we killed one mob for the first 2 runs (which should make the fight easier) then spanked on the next 4 runs because people started fleeing out when they felt like it.
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Postby Yasden » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:51 pm

I had some thoughts on this fight, and I came to realize our one critical failure.

We had no elementalist.

Sending in a spelled fire elemental, then doing feeb/blackmantle runs (with the casters having wimpy max and a good set of abort/flee trigs) would've been our best option at that point, I think. We only killed that first drake because a feeb was landed. PC tanks are not disposable like pets are, and if the tanks die, it just makes for a longer lag time between runs.

Of course, even this strategy is risky due to area procs, the possibility of the elemental getting roared out on entry, the mobs wandering, and even by some stretch, if the areas staff decides to make it even harder later on by making those mobs !aggro to pets.

Either way, I strongly feel feeb/blackmantle runs on the 5 drakes would work best. We had to do devourer fight that way once due to lack of invokerpower (tm).

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Postby Llaaldara » Mon Apr 04, 2005 5:38 pm

Yasden wrote:I had some thoughts on this fight, and I came to realize our one critical failure.

We had no elementalist.


Who was the lich/necro btw?
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Postby kiryan » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:56 pm

We had an elementalist.

and I don't think you got it worked out yet, because even if the mental could take some of the damage (which it can't), you still would have to actually get a spell off.

I heard several complaints about being killed/bashed and forced to flee before getting even 1 spell off. I noticed a couple instances of people dieing 2-3 rounds after entry when they weren't even tanking.
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Postby Gormal » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:20 pm

Its not just the final fight... The sheer number of mobs in that zone is insane. Clearing takes forever because you can't just mosh through and smite at will.
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Postby Ruxur » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:58 pm

rylan wrote:That looks like a BC corpse pile.



not even, we have reduced bc to minimal casualties, i had 3 deaths as gilphi last time. Mages had even less, lots didnt die at all.
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Postby Ruxur » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:07 pm

its great that we have hard zones agian

all hail magma and ic2
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Postby selerial » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:45 pm

< 717h/667H 167v/168V P: std >
Kiyile attacks a magma drake underling, landing two hits.
Lanele attacks a magma drake underling, landing a single hit.
Kirya partially blocks Dresk'akla's attack with her shield!
Kirya deflects Dresk'akla's blow, and strikes back at Dresk'akla!
Dresk'akla attacks Kirya, landing a single hit.
Dresk'akla breathes a stream of corrosive acid!
Yog is splattered by the sizzling acid!
You are splattered by the sizzling acid!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
Kiyile is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Elusia is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Someone is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Lanele is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Nihole is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Kaln is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Kirya is splattered by the sizzling acid!
Toarn is splattered by the sizzling acid!
A magma drake underling lashes out with mighty tail in a broad arc!
Yog staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Yog is knocked down on his knees!
You reel backwards in pain as the massive tail smashes into you!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
You're busy spellcasting!
PANIC! You couldn't escape!
Kiyile staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Kiyile is knocked down on his knees!
Elusia staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Pava staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Lanele staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Nihole staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Kaln staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Kirya staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Kirya is knocked down on the ground!
Toarn staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
A magma drake underling lashes out with mighty tail in a broad arc!
Yog staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
You reel backwards in pain as the massive tail smashes into you!
YIKES! Another hit like that, and you've had it!!
PANIC! You couldn't escape!
Kiyile staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Kiyile is knocked down on the ground!
Elusia staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Elusia tries to flee, but cant make it out of here!
Pava staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Lanele staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Nihole staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Nihole is knocked down on the ground!
Kaln staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Kirya staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into her!
Toarn staggers in pain as the massive tail smashes into him!
Toarn is knocked down on his knees!
Kirya blocks a magma drake underling's attack with her shield!
A magma drake underling breathes Fire!
Yog is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
The spell cast by a magma drake underling is partially absorbed!
A magma drake underling burns you.
YIKES! Another hit like that, and you've had it!!
You're busy spellcasting!
PANIC! You couldn't escape!
Kiyile is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Kiyile is incapacitated and will slowly die, if not aided.
Elusia is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Elusia attempts to flee.
Elusia leaves north.
Pava slumps to the ground.
A magma drake underling turns Pava to ashes.
Pava is dead! R.I.P.
Pava slumps to the ground.
Your blood freezes as you hear the rattling death cry of Pava.
Pava has left the group.
Lanele is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Nihole is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Kaln is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Kirya is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.
Toarn is partly turned to ashes, as a magma drake underling breathes fire.

< 43h/667H 168v/168V T: Kirya TC: pretty hurt E: dresk'akla EC: few scratches P: std >
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Postby Vaprak » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:20 pm

A zone that isn't easy? I cry foul too!
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Postby Yasden » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:23 pm

There's a big difference between hard and stupid.

Hard requires players to be at the top of their game and have a diverse knowledge of tactics.

Stupid is being unable to stop or prevent certain events/procs from happening, no matter what, resulting in repeated death. Throwing bodies at a fight imho is not strategy, it's just an exp sink.

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Postby Gura » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:23 pm

how about a new word....unbalanced.
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Postby Gormal » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:38 pm

[Edited to remove flame]

Seriously, magma needs areas changes and dragon code needs to be fixed so that the same dragon can't proc 7 things at the same time (yes i do literally mean 7 things). I volunteer to playtest zones if that's what it takes to get things put in that aren't so blatantly broken.
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Postby Gormal » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:05 pm

This is from my POV and I didn't even catch it all...


< E: magma EC: few scratches P: std >
A strange and mystifying dark magic begins to surround Nihole as his
an enchanted khanjari dagger suddenly pulses, infusing him with rage.
A magma drake underling spreads its wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
Nihole attacks a magma drake underling, landing two hits.
Dresk'akla spreads his wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
Lanele attempts to flee.
Lanele flies south.
Dresk'akla breathes a stream of corrosive acid!
Yog slumps to the ground.
Yog's flesh is melted away by the corrosive jelly!
Yog is dead! R.I.P.
Yog slumps to the ground.
Your blood freezes as you hear the rattling death cry of Yog.
Yog has left the group.
Dresk'akla spreads his wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
Kiyile's flesh is melted away by the corrosive jelly!
Kiyile is dead! R.I.P.
Your blood freezes as you hear the rattling death cry of Kiyile.
Kiyile stops following you.
Kiyile has left the group.
Kiyile has quit the game, consent lost.
Dresk'akla spreads his wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
Dresk'akla rears back and buffets his wings violently!
Nihole slumps to the ground.
Nihole is slammed by the powerful blast of air!
Nihole is mortally wounded, and will die soon, if not aided.
Dresk'akla spreads his wings and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
You are slammed by the powerful blast of air!
YIKES! Another hit like that, and you've had it!!
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Nihole stops following you.
Nihole has left the group.
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Postby kiryan » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:04 am

ok...

i'm going to change my opinion after our 2nd attempt on this Dresk fight.

you must feeb and do runs on the fight.

If rogues and rangers are going to be effective they need to be 800 hps with vit, there is just too much area damage for a 500 hp player to survive long enough to do damage.
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Postby Ruxur » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:45 am

and kiryan i think your comment about mage damage doing nothing needs to be retracted. With the drakes debuffed, voker damaged seemed to be pretty sweet.
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Postby Dalar » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:02 am

It's quite stupid and mundane to have to rely on 1 spell that makes or breaks a fight. Not talking about heal. MC is fun btw.
It will be fixed in Toril 2.0.
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Postby Sarell » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:50 am

I really don't think sending pets would be useful, A: they would get roared instantly, drakes do 6 roars on entry usually, fat chance of a pet staying in. Second, the mentalist would have to risk being next to the room with the drakes more often, they move around A LOT.
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Postby Disoputlip » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:39 pm

Why aint the dragons healing eachother? They are one group. I think they should be changed so the dispel eachother on blackmantle. Or mabye make some special proc on blackmantle so you can't do tricks like that, but have to do fight straight up.
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Postby Pril » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:27 pm

Dude diso, try that fight w/o them healing eachother and w/o a black mantle proc see how hard it is and then try to make it harder. I love that people complain about things that they don't do. 7 breathing roaring buffeting dragons in 1 room doesn't need to be made harder.

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Postby selerial » Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:06 pm

I didn't grab an actual log, but I know one time when I sent a pet in it was like...


of w
A fire elemental blazes west.

A fire elemental blazes in from the west.

The tanks go west.

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Debuffing definitely seems to be the strategy for that fight. The thing that's scary to me is that, in my own personal experience, feeb has an annoyingly low land percentage... but then I think it's a "spellcast enchantment" so it's probably best suited for chanters to land.
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Postby Maedor » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:31 pm

The best part, si that after 50+corpses, you got a 60hp mage only ring and 2dam pff boots to show for it.

People wouldn't complain about the craziness of that fight if they'd actually get a good item from it.

The boots should be put back to 2/2 imo..or 3dam.

And I know the fight has rare load eq-but unless a rare item loads, you spend 8hours for two items that are pretty much 2nd tier...if that
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Postby Llaaldara » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:59 pm

< 973h/1577H 172v/172V >
< T: Gormal PowersTC: few wounds E: liquid hot magma EC: small wounds P: std > A liquid hot magma shark underling recognizes you, and charges to lazer you!
A liquid hot magma shark underling spreads its fins and ROARS, filling your heart with terror!
A liquid hot magma shark underling's lazer only grazes you as you dodge aside!
A liquid hot magma shark underling barely fin-slaps you.
A liquid hot magma shark underling misses you with its fin-slap.
Your image is no longer displaced.
A liquid hot magma shark underling misses you with its fin-slap.
A liquid hot magma shark underling shoots fricking lazers from its fricking head!
A liquid hot magma shark underling zaps you.
OUCH! That really did HURT!
A liquid hot magma shark underling lashes out with mighty tail in a broad arc!
You reel backwards in pain as the massive tail smashes into you!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
You dodge a liquid hot magma shark underling's vicious lazer.
A liquid hot magma shark underling shoots fricking lazers from its fricking head!
A liquid hot magma shark underling zaps you.
A liquid hot magma shark underling bitch-slaps you brutally with a fearsome fin-slap!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
You barely slash a liquid hot magma shark underling.
Your strike passes through a liquid hot magma shark underling's lazershield in a shower of sparks!
You barely slash a liquid hot magma shark underling.
Your strike passes through a liquid hot magma shark underling's lazershield in a shower of sparks!
A liquid hot magma shark underling misses you with its fin-slap.
A liquid hot magma shark underling misses you with its fin-slap.
A liquid hot magma shark underling misses you with its fin-slap.
A liquid hot magma shark underling flings its mighty tail into you with tremendous force!
OUCH! That really did HURT!
Fat Bastard's blubber-bash only grazes you as you dodge aside!
Fat Bastard barely pimp-slaps you.
Fat Bastard misses you with his porkchop.
Fat Bastard misses you with his porkchop.
Fat Bastard launches into the air and streaks toward his foes!
You are smashed into a boneless heap as Fat Bastard crashes down on top of you!
With a final blow, you feel yourself falling in to Fat Bastard’s belly.
Your soul leaves your body in the cold sleep of death...
The world starts spinning, and your ears are ringing!
You lose a level!
Your form stops blurring.
Your form stops blurring.

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Plz change the Drakes to Sharks with Fricking Lazers.

Thnx
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Postby Botef » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:29 pm

Llaaldara wrote:
Plz change the Drakes to Sharks with Fricking Lazers.

Thnx


Now that was funny. Oh man it hurts.
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Postby kiryan » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:43 pm

with wail, curse, hex, and flux spell damage becomes plausible... however, you still have to remain standing or 2-3 rounds (or alive in rogues case) to actually do damage. This is of course much more difficult until the first couple mobs are dead.

Best case, I doubt you could do just the dresk fight alone in less than 1 hour and 25 corpses with lucky paras. Average I bet your looking at least 2.5 hours and 50 corpses.

its a good fight, don't downgrade it...

but getting 2 equal (or probably better) pieces off the grid then getting 2 (3 if you count orb) not so great pieces off the end fight seems backwards. move the belt to dresk, move the anicent ring of liquid rock to grid. move orb to grid, move bag of engulfing doors to dresk. make the crown and ring load. that might make it worth it.
and tonights winner in the Toril EQ lottery is demi belt and skull earring!
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Postby teflor the ranger » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:54 pm

Heh heh heh. Leave magma as-is for difficulty :D
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Postby ssar » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:42 am

Llaaldara wrote:< 973h/1577H 172v/172V >
< T: Gormal PowersTC: few wounds E: liquid hot magma EC: small wounds P: std >
Fat Bastard's blubber-bash only grazes you as you dodge aside!
Fat Bastard barely pimp-slaps you.
Fat Bastard misses you with his porkchop.


rofl!
That f**king rules!
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Postby Sarell » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:47 am

I noticed the 'rares' (not very rare at all) on magma plane have been getting assassinated even after they were upped in level. This has to be stopped at once before a select group of people have 20 of the best belt in the game before it is changed AKA magma ring. I know since I've posted it I'm going to have a go, I really don't want to miss out on the opportunity to have the best belt in the game so easily, specially since I couldn't get it leading the whole zone. Won't be on my conscious so bad since we have made pretty clear for a few weeks that those mobs are so seriously nerfed and design flawed. It isn't like someone has been first to put in some hard work and find khanjari quest or something, it is blatant almost bug (cept you can't call it a bug as it was put in on purpose) abuse and takes no skill whatsoever.


Suggested action = make a group of magmas and 2 gargauntuan drakes follow the mobs, and make the mobs !assass.

Remove the items from game completely and make all or at least 3 drakon items load at end to balance magma in terms of rewards.
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Postby Marthammor » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:38 am

First, if you follow the story of magma, or at least this is how I came to understand it, the magma elementals want the drakes gone. The invaded their home plane and just don't want them there, so you wouldn't see them in a group.
Second, you wouldn't see those rare mobs being all chummy with the elementals or drakes, so grouping them up wouldn't look right.

Now that being said, we know magma is messed up. The last round of changes were my fault as I ran it through the eq calcer and followed what it said things should be. Obviously its not right and we're looking at how to get the rares and the end rewards in line with what they should be. Hopefully the next time its changed will be for the better.
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Postby Maedor » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:27 pm

It would be nice if the eq from magma didn't get toally pwned...since some of us have spent 6+hours up there earning it.
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Postby Gormal » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:57 pm

You wuss greg, you left the zone hella early when you won the belt:P
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Postby Maedor » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:18 pm

I put in more than enough time to warrent the current stats on the tattoo.

Hell, if you changed magma's name to 'izans' or 'musp invasion', the belt would be 50hp 15ac prot all, and the rogue ring would be like 8dam at least!

This zone is crazy hard-which is fine. I like the idea of a zone having the potential to spank us all over the map:)

But the eq is crazy lame in comparison to simple zones with very little spank potential that take 1/4 the time. Downgrading the grid items isn't going to make anyone happy...they just need to be made so that you cant twink them, or moved to the final fight.

Or maybe the grid rares only pop after killing x number of drakes..or after dresk dies or something

Or give the grid rares a proc that eats sneaky hidden rogues.
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Postby kiryan » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:32 pm

Maedor wrote:It would be nice if the eq from magma didn't get toally pwned...since some of us have spent 6+hours up there earning it.


how can a piece of eq that was pocketed in the first 25 minutes of zone justify the current stats.

while its regrettable that about 2 people spent more than 4 hours getting the belt, everyone else spent less than 1 hour.

wouldn't be the first time you got screwed *whistle*
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Postby Marthammor » Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:19 pm

Update: Changes to magma have gone in. Hopefully its a bit more in line with what is expected.
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Postby Maedor » Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:43 pm

Marthammor wrote:Update: Changes to magma have gone in. Hopefully its a bit more in line with what is expected.


From what i've seen, i give a big thumbs down to the changes,

There are hardly any tattoos in the game, and all or most of them were earned when the grid was packed with nasty roaring dragons.

I just about died when I saw the complete crappiness of the new stats. i was, however, informed that the number of grid mobs was drastically reduced. if that's the case, I'll give it another thumbs down.

Hard zones are awesome. Just make it so people have to do the zone as intended to reap the equally awesome rewards.

I'd *much* rather see nice eq loading in a hard zone than more mediocre eq loading in zones that got downgraded.

All that needs to happen here is to make the rares !assass, and in some sort of squad so that they cant be twinked. Or move the rares to dresk. Or hide them on a random drake. Or make the rares load hidden so that you have a hard time getting them vis to twink them...

What didn't need to happen was to horribly downgrade an item that used to be quite good and sought after into a 2nd tier piece of eq that 90 minutes in izans owns once again.

Even though magma was hard, I really enjoyed it. Dresk could have used a little downgrade, but the grid itself was challenging, and not very predictable. The problem with so many zones is that they become cookie cutter (izans for example). Any zone that presents a completely different challenge every time it's led has much more replay value.

It's also frusterating to rearrange your eq around new eq you get, only to have stats get changed.

I'd strongly recommend a different fix to magma than the one presented.

(edit: I'm not trying to discredit your work marth, I just am sad to see this zone get downgraded in difficulty and rewards)

It also seems that dresk's eq got some much needed love (assuming dresk/grid retained the badassedness that they had last run). Unfortunatly, out of all the dresk eq available, only 1 person earned the new stats by doing the new fight.

Maybe I'm just being bitter, and not seeing the flaw in my logic, but it seems like a different approach to this situation would be in order :)
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Postby Ashiwi » Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:54 pm

Is it wrong of me to suggest giving it some time and thorough exploration before faulting the new changes?
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Postby Maedor » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:21 pm

The eq might be balanced for diff/reward currently, but let's compare a few things...

the tattoo as of when I wrote this had lost-
66% of its ac
36% of its hp
40% of its saves

from a 6hour magma run for a mage only belt

izans belt as of when i wrote this has-
22% more hp
250% more ac
!bit flag (which should be worth a lot imo)
and the same saves than the current tattoo


from a 90minute zone that also yields more items per run, and has *far* less spank potential.


That just doesn't make sense. I know some people 'twinked' their grid rares, but the staff could have nipped that in the bud *months* ago. instead, they are punishing people who explore tactics and take risks by downgrading what they earned for the efforts when it's really the staff's fault in the first place for allowing this 'twinkage' to go on for so long. Hell, how many magma bands were done when dresk was killable with 2 people? Does that mean that the band isnt worthy of it's current stats? I'd say no.

Ok, i'm ranting. Hopefully something in here makes sense-cause it's all perfectly clear in meh head :)
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Postby Marthammor » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:30 pm

The Dresk fight hasn't changed at all since the zone first went in. He's always had the same number of followers, always been the same level, ect.

The number of mobs on the grid hasn't changed. It was something that was being discussed and then tossed out as more people posted that they liked the difficulty.

While there were one or two people that actually did do the zone and managed to get a rare piece of eq, there were many more who simply either assassinated the mob when they were messed up, or waited till the mob was alone in some quiet part of the zone and solo'd it. Sadly, the many outweigh the few in this case and the items were changed. The rewards on Dresk should now make the zone worthwhile to do rather then just hunting the rares for some of the best gear in those slots and leaving.
Moving the rares to Dresk would look silly, imho, and would take away some of what the zone has to offer. Do you really see a drake holding a marionette? Do you see him wearing a tattoo of snakes? Didn't think so, they just plain fit the mobs they are on.

Now, the rares might get looked at and bumped up a bit, but I really wouldn't look for them to be anywhere near what they were previously if they do.

Also, please don't compare zones that are currently undergoing changes to bring them inline with how they need to be with zones that are obviously in need of being looked at (Izan's, ect).
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Postby Ashiwi » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:33 pm

Sorry Maedor, but this is one of those situations where they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. They've tried all kinds of solutions when restatting gear, but it never fails to piss off somebody, no matter what tactic they use.

I'd still like to see a thorough exploration of the changes so that people can register experienced issues with Magma before the flaming begins.

The issue with Izan's is a completely separate topic. Almost everybody has stated an opinion on it so far, and instead of holding other zones up to it for comparison, Magma should be reevaluated in its own right. I'd hate to see the game lose a bloodfest of a zone if Magma was made nicer for the masses, though. I'd rather see a zone kept hard and the rewards match the challenge.
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Postby kiryan » Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:13 am

i'm happy and very thankful that a change was made.

waiting to criticize until i do the zone a few more times =)
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Postby Sarell » Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:08 am

Nice work Marthammor! :) Bigger items at the end, little ones at the start *hi5*

I agree mightily that reducing number of mobs on the grid wouldn't work. It would then be sparse as opposed to hard. The actual balance between size of the grid and number on mobs on it really does make a fun challenge :)
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Postby kiryan » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:50 pm

the crown seems to load now thats a nice step in the right direction.
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Postby Sarell » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:11 am

Someone smote magma again and crown loaded?!?!?!?!?!
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Postby Diel » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:57 pm

no comment :P
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