What happened to all of the guilds on Blue, and what is Fuse?

[Ripqozko]

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

Kittens competed totally fine in ToV with rooted dragons. They and Riot would commonly be racing around the ring. Kittens got their fair share of Vulak and Doze, etc.

Sucks that smaller guilds can't compete, but we don't need cheesy pulling tactics that eliminate doing the zone/raids as designed. I don't remember people using these pulling tactics on live and if they'd become widespread you can bet the EQ devs would've shut it down or done something like rooting the dragons.

Nah, kittens came to tov on quakes and we stayed out of the way when y'all would go right and we went left. Kittens didn't exist on big natties.

[cd288]

I was talking about quakes...

[cd288]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

From Allakhazam (and even p99 wiki has this)

"Aaryonar guards the entrance to the main ring of the northern wing. He will come to the aid of any other dragons if aggro'd before he is killed except the five in the very northern hall. "

Yeah, if he pops while youre killing any inner ring dragons, he should come after you.

That's a cool mechanic.

Is it definitive that that doesn't exist on P99? I would wonder if Aary basically just never spawns naturally during other natural spawns just due to the windows and on quakes he's killed first.

[zelld52]

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

That's a cool mechanic.

Is it definitive that that doesn't exist on P99? I would wonder if Aary basically just never spawns naturally during other natural spawns just due to the windows and on quakes he's killed first.

I've been on a Vulak encounter when Aary spawned on p99 - he does not aggro. Vulak goes Invulnerable, but no engage on Aary

[WarpathEQ]

Aary is rooted, Vulak is rooted. The reason Vulak becomes invulnerable when a "blocker" spawns is because the blocker is rooted and can't come to Vulak's aid like it would have in classic. Otherwise yes, Aary would come to the aid of the other dragons including Vulak if not killed before them.

It would really be a non-issue since the non-rooted dragon meta would be to pull them to the entrance and kill them, with Aary being the first pull/closest to the entrance of the inner ring.

[cd288]

Good point

[zelld52]

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

It would really be a non-issue since the non-rooted dragon meta would be to pull them to the entrance and kill them, with Aary being the first pull/closest to the entrance of the inner ring.

need less quakes to spread out the spawns a bit.

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

need less quakes to spread out the spawns a bit.

I've actually found that to be a pretty reliable metric when a natural vulak spawns and there are other blockers in window or one spawns during a vulak FTE the liklihood of a quake soon becomes very high.

[kjs86z2]

rat claw hands and grown men who pretend to be cats dominating 2025

[knottyb0y]

Fuse is home to the majority of the raiders on blue.

Riot was pretty uncontested at #1 for a while after scrapping to get there for years.

Between quakes and drafts and FTE lockouts now, it seems smaller guilds get their share of raid encounters.

Fuse really has an edge due to leadership, coordination which is augmented by numbers.

In reality smaller guilds can AND do get raid mobs that Fuse contests. But their margin for error is smaller (though FTE lockouts help).

In my experience, most the Fuse folks are rather chill, helpful and respectful. Merging with kittens definitely increased Fuse's non raiding membership significantly, but many of the Kittens Raiders are playing critical roles in our major raids so it works out.

Fuse gives raids to the majority of the active players who raid on Blue.

Competition from other guilds exists. Some of us want to be a on a crack team of 20 elites who share the pile of loot. Others enjoy being a part of a big organization. Play your way.

Loot distribution in fuse isn't as bad as rumored. Major Vulak drops go for a lot, but gearing up a main or alt toon is very viable even without a huge raid attendance if you spend your dkp wisely.