Something brought to my attention & clarification

[Aeolwind]

Something has been brought to my attention. Some folks that, well, have no idea about how the upper end game was played in EQ have made some comments that I want to clear up. I have flash cards, and a hand puppet to help with the break down. My apologies to IB in advance; but I need to curtail the "OMG Cheaters" BS that is being floated.

This is a raid mob
(>'.')> -Rawr!

This is a player
i - Aiee!

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(>'.')> i
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Now, when (>'.')> uses its "Woosh" attack that hits everyone, the people hiding behind that wall are not doing something wrong. What moron would stand in (>'.')>'s "Woosh" when you could hide from it? AE's were timable to allow folks to be able to "joust" the AE.

Mobs have a defense against this, it's called summon. Later, mobs were just rooted to stop the tactic (High priest, Creator, IV, Shei. This tactic was used by everyone under the sun. We used it on, every mob but Hoshkar and Silverwing in VP, Dozekar, Aaryonar, Vulak, all the Warders in ST, IV before they rooted him, Cursed cycle, tower mobs in pop the list goes on. The tactic is no different than standing beyond AE range and using missile weapons to burn the mob down. Which is how Ventani & Fennin Ro were designed to be defeated. Vox was designed against this as was Cazic Thule. Vox would warp all over hell and half of Georgia to catch you, and there were no walls in fear that would block the AE.

Side note: There is one more opportunity for retrieving a title. Whomever manages to kill CT or Inno will get one as well. There is also a title available for taking down Mayong atm, but he will be leaving soon.

[Reiker]

Blocking AEs is very different on emu than live.

On live, AEs could only be blocked in indoor zones. In outdoor zones, AEs go through all ways, you have to range or eat it.

On emu, AEs can be blocked in any zone. Stuff like Dracoliche AE isn't a huge deal, but still, you couldn't block it on live and you can here. Nothing to do about it, either.

[Harazzer]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9719/victoryj.jpg

[Bubbles]

no way imps get that many hps without shaman buffs, too. You're missing a person in the diagram.

[Aeolwind]

Blocking AEs is very different on emu than live.

On live, AEs could only be blocked in indoor zones. In outdoor zones, AEs go through all ways, you have to range or eat it.

On emu, AEs can be blocked in any zone. Stuff like Dracoliche AE isn't a huge deal, but still, you couldn't block it on live and you can here. Nothing to do about it, either.

There is a way around this that I've discovered. Thanks for reminding me.

[Aeolwind]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9719/victoryj.jpg

And this would be an exploit. As the ability for players to attack through walls has been removed this would be an exploit of game mechanics of NPC's and thus a bannable offense.

[karsten]

harazzer why you gotta be so angry all the time brew?

[Skeletonya]

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[Jify]

http://i34.tinypic.com/2s7jtc0.jpg

+1

[Blink]

Over 9000 is a 4chan meme and that, like all 4chan memes, it got stale at most one week after its creation because it's been repeated abusively, if not because it wasn't funny from the beginning. Usage will only make you look like a weeaboo.

[Harazzer]

harazzer why you gotta be so angry all the time brew?

I'm not actually angry I just love ms paint.

To be honest I'm way more of a "kill it however you can kill it, if its too easy its poorly coded" kind of guy.

I just find it funny that its Nagafen, a mob that I 2 box killed on vztz at 50, they killed with 17 people, all got titles from GM's, and now GM's are defending them in two different threads about it.

It is just such an incredibly absurd situation as a whole.

[thrawnseg]

I'm not actually angry I just love ms paint.

To be honest I'm way more of a "kill it however you can kill it, if its too easy its poorly coded" kind of guy.

I just find it funny that its Nagafen, a mob that I 2 box killed on vztz at 50, they killed with 17 people, all got titles from GM's, and now GM's are defending them in two different threads about it.

It is just such an incredibly absurd situation as a whole.

I bet you were in Heresy and had Gronkus and Skirkens help while killing Nagafen!

:cool:

[Takshaka]

Over 9000 is a 4chan meme and that, like all 4chan memes, it got stale at most one week after its creation because it's been repeated abusively, if not because it wasn't funny from the beginning. Usage will only make you look like a weeaboo. (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Weeaboo)

holy crap you need to give warnings with NSFW links...

[Tollen]

holy crap you need to give warnings with NSFW links...

This forum is NSFW.

studies show that productivity in the office place has gone down 75% with the release of P1999 server and forums.

[scumbag]

Cheating is just part of the game
http://ww88.org/scumbag-sig.jpg?project1999

[SamwiseRed]

Cheating is just part of the game
http://ww88.org/scumbag-sig.jpg?project1999

[Grahm]

can some1 plz ban sam....easily worst poster in a while.

[SamwiseRed]

can some1 plz ban sam....easily worst poster in a while.

http://maximsmadness.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/dawson-crying.jpg

[Lyra]

can some1 plz ban sam....easily worst poster in a while.

I look at it this way:

It's nice to have an online forum where a disturbed person can post and fulfill whatever need they have to be rotten, rather than have them looking for negative attention out in public where it could really hurt someone.

For some people, any attention , good or bad, is better than no attention.

Carry on ;)

[SamwiseRed]

bumping an interesting thread is being rotten or negative how?

thats kinda how forums work. sorry you are mad perhaps you should go outside and get some sun.

[Kevynne]

but the sunlight burns.

[Kevynne]

This is a raid mob
(>'.')> -Rawr!
Vox would warp all over hell and half of Georgia to catch you, and there were no walls in fear that would block the AE.



Rofld hard

[Grahm]

can some1 plz ban sam....easily worst poster in a while.