I want to kill a Dragon....

[Chortles Snortles]

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[DeathsSilkyMist]

Let me clarify what I meant in my two previous posts. I was making assumptions of prior knowledge, and I shouldn't have.

Here is a quick guide to casual raiding, where you do NOT need to wait 16 hours in a row, OR worry about batphones.

1. Join a guild that actively raids and keeps track of timers. If you are in a very casual guild that does neither, it honestly won't matter what the raid windows look like, because you guild doesn't really raid.

2. Spend 1 minute a day looking at the timers to determine if a mob you want to kill is in window when you get home from work.

3. If there is a mob in window during your play hours, go to work and come back home per usual. Check the timers again when you are ready to login. If the mob's timer hasn't finished yet, you are probably in luck!

4. Log in and ask the guild if the mob has spawned yet. If it hasn't, sock the mob for howerver long you can, lets say 3 hours from 6pm to 9pm.

5. On a 16 hour window, even a 3 hour sock gives you a 20% chance of seeing the mob spawn while you are online. If you can do these steps for 5 weeks in a row, statistically speaking you should be around for at least one of the spawns.

6. This strategy only needs you to spend 3 hours a week during a time of year where the spawn windoe aligns with your schedule. This is very casual, and should be doable by most players.

I have seen mobs spawn at all points in the window, including 2 minutes from closing. You will get a spawn eventually if you follow the advise above, you just need to be patient.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let me clarify what I meant in my two previous posts. I was making assumptions of prior knowledge, and I shouldn't have.

Here is a quick guide to casual raiding, where you do NOT need to wait 16 hours in a row, OR worry about batphones.

1. Join a guild that actively raids and keeps track of timers. If you are in a very casual guild that does neither, it honestly won't matter what the raid windows look like, because you guild doesn't really raid.

2. Spend 1 minute a day looking at the timers to determine if a mob you want to kill is in window when you get home from work.

3. If there is a mob in window during your play hours, go to work and come back home per usual. Check the timers again when you are ready to login. If the mob's timer hasn't finished yet, you are probably in luck!

4. Log in and ask the guild if the mob has spawned yet. If it hasn't, sock the mob for howerver long you can, lets say 3 hours from 6pm to 9pm.

5. On a 16 hour window, even a 3 hour sock gives you a 20% chance of seeing the mob spawn while you are online. If you can do these steps for 5 weeks in a row, statistically speaking you should be around for at least one of the spawns.

6. This strategy only needs you to spend 3 hours a week during a time of year where the spawn window aligns with your schedule. This is very casual, and should be doable by most players.

I have seen mobs spawn at all points in the window, including 2 minutes from closing. You will get a spawn eventually if you follow the advise above, you just need to be patient.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It isn't bad advise at all. Plenty of raid mobs have windows that end between after work hours (6pm-9pm) at certain points of the year. If your guild keeps track of respawn timers you just need to spend 5 seconds a day looking at the timers to see if any mobs you are interested in fit your schedule. Does this mean you get to kill Dragons every week? No, but if you have a wife and kids, you don't have time to do that anyway, right?[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Works in theory, but you’ll be racing the uber guilds who have a raid of level 51 chars planted at that dragon and also have access to the respawn timer

Until they lose interest, you probably aren’t getting any dragons

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Damn, forgot Rants and Flames doesnt have an edit button lol. Disregard the double post.

[kgallowaypa]

Honestly you dont need to see every single thing on p99 end game to feel accomplished. Just join a casual guild like kittens and you can see most of the end game content anyhow if you just want to kill dragons. Playing since 2015 and I have never set foot into VP or ST...do I lose sleep over it? naw, it would be cool to see those zones...but then there is youtube right?

[AenorVZ]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP also thinks the election was stolen. Low IQ all around

Bob Woodward has a memo Giuliani sent to Lindsey Graham claiming 42,000 people voted twice in Nevada. Most people who are prosecuted for voting twice in a single election own property in multiple states. You can probably count the number of convictions on your fingers and toes because it's incredibly easy to investigate when you HAVE THE PERSONS HOME ADDRESS. Only a vanishingly few people are stupid enough to vote twice. If 42,000 people did it in a single election it would be both one of the largest criminal investigations in history and one of the easiest.

[Toxigen]

Just respond to batphones only if you're around and wanting to play.

Pretty simple.

[Topgunben]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let me clarify what I meant in my two previous posts. I was making assumptions of prior knowledge, and I shouldn't have.

Here is a quick guide to casual raiding, where you do NOT need to wait 16 hours in a row, OR worry about batphones.

1. Join a guild that actively raids and keeps track of timers. If you are in a very casual guild that does neither, it honestly won't matter what the raid windows look like, because you guild doesn't really raid.

2. Spend 1 minute a day looking at the timers to determine if a mob you want to kill is in window when you get home from work.

3. If there is a mob in window during your play hours, go to work and come back home per usual. Check the timers again when you are ready to login. If the mob's timer hasn't finished yet, you are probably in luck!

4. Log in and ask the guild if the mob has spawned yet. If it hasn't, sock the mob for howerver long you can, lets say 3 hours from 6pm to 9pm.

5. On a 16 hour window, even a 3 hour sock gives you a 20% chance of seeing the mob spawn while you are online. If you can do these steps for 5 weeks in a row, statistically speaking you should be around for at least one of the spawns.

6. This strategy only needs you to spend 3 hours a week during a time of year where the spawn windoe aligns with your schedule. This is very casual, and should be doable by most players.

I have seen mobs spawn at all points in the window, including 2 minutes from closing. You will get a spawn eventually if you follow the advise above, you just need to be patient.

I get the essence of what you are saying, but your math is off and thereby your point is moot. If a person dedicates 3 hours every spawn, thats a 13/16 chance of failure to the 5th power (5 spawns/weeks)

So there is a ~65% chance that I will be on during a spawn given 5 attempts. Thats not horribly bad, but you also have to consider that my guild has to be ready and able to down said Dragon. Given the competition, that probably reduces my chance to a 4th of its original.

So we are talking about a 65%/4 = ~16% chance of winning said dragon over 5 weeks. Thats pretty shitty odds given the time commitment.

What is P99 doing to improve the game for casual players? It seems like all that has been done is make the raiding scene more difficult, therefore increasing the barrier of entry for the typical casual. You mean to tell me they are willing to root dragons because that goes against how the game was originally meant to played, but they are unwilling to reduce the spawn time on dragons even though there are 30X the amount of high level players on the server?

[Grumph]

Star with +4 neck dragons.

And keep at it till your killing +5 neck and even +6 neck dragons.

You'll kill whatever quantity of dragons that is possible. Or feasible.