Vex Thal and Srra Temple + AA's

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

The events had varying respawn times. The Phase 1 trials were 12 hours and the Phase2/3 were something really weird like 5 days I think (maybe it was 7, but I think they were a little less) and the Phase 4/5 gods were 7 days.

So... the zone did limit you to 72 players in zone and would prevent a 73rd from zoning in. You could also bind in PoTime B at this point in time. Due to classic PoP raid window (which only allowed for 10 group leaders, I.e. Raids of 60 max) you could still have 12 people out of your raid in the zone with you. So different guilds could zone in but once you had 72 zoned in, anyone else was prevented from zoning in.

Al'Kabor, which had the alpha of alpha versions of PoTime would have Phase 2 trigger once you zoned into the 5th Phase 1 trial (rather than when you defeated it). Which would cause mobs to aggro through the time dial while you're still fighting Phase 1 which was fun. Also there was no walling of AEs, the gods only dropped 2 loots per, and Quarm had absolutely ridiculous AEs. Look up Quarm's 8 AEs on Lucy and then look at the history tab to see the changes made around July of 2003. The week following this update TR/Afterlife finally downed Quarm, for good reason. Some of the AEs were just ridiculous. My personal favorite was the 300' Range PBAE 18 second stun, unresistable with a 35 second recast time. Lol...

Yeah, that is sort of refreshing my memory. I guess it was that 72 man lockout thing that people worked out the rotation for. I think the gods were on a 7 day timer like you mentioned which is what the rotation was based on. Your guild basically had 2 days to clear everything before the next guild got their turn. It wasn't ideal for those that came later to PoTime (like us) because only getting 2 days initially to learn the encounters when others got the full week was a bit rough but we managed.

I do remember the phases getting jacked on us one time. There was some sort of spider that got stuck under the world and we couldn't hit it so we couldn't complete that phase and couldn't continue.