TenTonHammer: Everquest Hacking

[Kevlar]

Rallos was pretty easy as long as you had an army of druids or chanters with charmed pet DPS, and enough rangers or whatever to kite the adds away.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Yeah, I agree Sssra was actually fun, but outside of Ssra, Burrower and Ring event in AC, that was it. It seems like all efforts on fun raids went into Ssra, and VT was just dropped on top of the pie as the "candy zone" for those insane enough to spend 3 month to get the key, and survive the trash clearing inside. Yeah 4 hours was just for the first floor =)
Without mage-parking, which i personally consider a cheat, there was no way any sane guild would do VP, both floors, in 1 day, even during PoP era, unless you were already over-geared for it.

As much as I loved beauty of the VT zone, the mobs models, and the "candies", PoP was inherently better raiding approach - the progression was based on difficulty of raids themselves, not on mindless grinding.

[Kevlar]

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

Yeah, I agree Sssra was actually fun, but outside of Ssra, Burrower and Ring event in AC, that was it. It seems like all efforts on fun raids went into Ssra, and VT was just dropped on top of the pie as the "candy zone" for those insane enough to spend 3 month to get the key, and survive the trash clearing inside. Yeah 4 hours was just for the first floor =)
Without mage-parking, which i personally consider a cheat, there was no way any sane guild would do VP, both floors, in 1 day, even during PoP era, unless you were already over-geared for it.

As much as I loved beauty of the VT zone, the mobs models, and the "candies", PoP was inherently better raiding approach - the progression was based on difficulty of raids themselves, not on mindless grinding.

You didn't have to park a mage. We did it by training, dragging, and necro rezzing.

[Gwence]

those pit adds during the script were noticeably faster than sow and rs3, kiters usually didnt last too long in my experience anyway

[Harrison]

VT raiding:

Stare at wall, cast CH every x seconds, win phat loot, go solo Velious content with your ridiculous gear.

[Gwence]

VT gear was only about 50 hp more than velious gear and in some case 25, it had better focus effects yes, but I wouldn't call Luclin gear all that OP, certainly couldn't solo velious mobs with it (if you're meaning raid mobs or even mini raid mobs)

[Kevlar]

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

those pit adds during the script were noticeably faster than sow and rs3, kiters usually didnt last too long in my experience anyway

Thats why you needed rangers/sks with snare.

[Gwence]

lol that worked for the first 50-60% of his life, but their wasnt a set amount of them they came in droves, it was very normal for them to overwhelm everyone by the last 10% I think they despawned though when he died, could be wrong.. hence the zerg tactic.

[Kevlar]

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

lol that worked for the first 50-60% of his life, but their wasnt a set amount of them they came in droves, it was very normal for them to overwhelm everyone by the last 10% I think they despawned though when he died, could be wrong.. hence the zerg tactic.

We always kited, and he always died easily. We had him on high priority farm status for a long time, mostly to keep all the other guilds on the server out of the elementals, so we could farm all those bosses at our leisure. This was when I was in Fire and Fury on FV.

[Harrison]

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

VT gear was only about 50 hp more than velious gear and in some case 25, it had better focus effects yes, but I wouldn't call Luclin gear all that OP, certainly couldn't solo velious mobs with it (if you're meaning raid mobs or even mini raid mobs)

It introduced like a billion more DS clickies that stacked with each other, amongst other things.

I would stack DS, and watch mobs melee themselves down while I CH myself over and over while almost never running OOM.

It worked well.