Why were we so bad during live?

[WizardEQ]

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

I had to take my computer casing off and put a fan on my Voodoo 2 or it would freak.

One word: Dial-up!

You were hardcore if you remember that shit.

[Spitty]

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

One word: Dial-up!

You were hardcore if you remember that shit.

Page two, brah. I had a hot-rodded Modem Blaster with the speaker disabled. Made 33.6 on a good day. l33t.

[koros]

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

Avatar of War has the potential to do 1152 x 8 -- 9216 damage in one single round (and thats excluding two kicks and bashes or one kick and one bash -- Its around 9700 without defensive.

With Defensive I think his max hit is around 750 or something, I forgot how to do the calculation with DB/DI. 750 x 8 -- 6000 + kick and bash again (2).

Max damage of around 6400 with defensive on in ONE round. If you thought Bzzt in Plane of Sky was hard quadding, AoW makes the bee look like a chump. You have absolutely no chance of tanking him without Defensive or a similar disc. If your tank dies anytime where it is not preplanned for your clerics to switch your raidforce is fucked and you will die. Ideally you need three to four warriors who are decked out in NTOV shit and all of your melee DPS equipped with Primals.

Half the fight is keeping your tanks alive and actually performing a good transition to the next Warrior without a mishap. The other half is how many times you need to transition and making sure your clerics do not run out of mana. This depends mostly on your melee DPS. This could be as many as three to four if your raid force is not geared in the best velious shit.

I just don't understand how everyone here can think he will die so fast. This guy can drop an entire raid in 30 seconds. He will run your shit over and not look back.

Flurry added 2 hits, not 4.

[Lord Traxor]

Maybe it was harder cause some of us were 12 freaking years old at velious release.

[Treats]

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

Flurry added 2 hits, not 4.

It is a maximum of four extra attacks + kick/bash. I have no clue what determines the exact amount of extra attacks an NPC gets though. It seems to vary between two and four + kick/bash. See below.

[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist hits Raptorshadowz for 231 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist hits Raptorshadowz for 312 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] a lightning warrior staticfist executes a FLURRY of attacks on Raptorshadowz!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist hits Raptorshadowz for 594 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to hit Raptorshadowz, but Raptorshadowz parries!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist bashes Raptorshadowz for 193 points of damage.
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to hit Raptorshadowz, but misses!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to hit Raptorshadowz, but misses!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to hit Raptorshadowz, but Raptorshadowz dodges!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to hit Raptorshadowz, but Raptorshadowz parries!
[Thu Nov 11 22:52:38 2004] A lightning warrior staticfist tries to bash Raptorshadowz, but Raptorshadowz parries!

http://www.goberserker.com/modstorag...rses/11-11.txt

[koros]

I was always under the impression it was an extra round during live, but logs from the AoW that I viewed always showed it as 6 max. Definitely could be wrong tho.

Also Treats, do you have a spdat parser? I can't get those spdat.effs from Velious Nirgon posted to parse correctly on the early 2001 version of Eqcaster that I have.

[pasi]

Kinda drunk, but AoW has a DI of 45 and a DB of 254. With defensive, that gives a max hit of 704 which in combination with Divine Strength, Focus of Spirit, and Glades (300ish more HP)- the top Kunark warriors can survive a full round and flurry of max hits. Add a bit more HP and kicks are fine too. Not that even a naked level 1 would see rounds full-max hits + kicks.

[Gwence]

no one used midnight mallets on live because they never pulled anywhere near as much agro on live as they do here.

aow hardest boss until elemental planes PoP 2 expansions later, no other fight exists where a raid that performs flawlessly can still fail to win, except AoW.

its the 2nd hardest boss relative to era the game has ever seen, that's why it took so long for people to kill it.

[Champion_Standing]

People actually had to figure out how to do stuff during live =)

Also, when a top raid guild found a strat to take down a mob they weren't exactly eager to publish it and lose their recruitment edge.

[Widan]

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

http://www.goberserker.com/modstorag...rses/11-11.txt

this is from nov 2004, 6 expansions past velious, incase you didnt notice