Avesta is god.

[wop]

Whats ironic is, 2 rdms duo'ed him a few months ago with many deaths/reraises. When they posted, they got praised.

When Avesta does it solo, flawlessly, its shot down. Wonder why that is

Wonder where you get that info from, or as usual, just shitting it out of your ass regarding many deaths and reraises.

If you are referring to Cheki and Bron, they did it in a flawless victory.
I myself trioed it several times, and duoed it once.

[Fallso]

What song does he use?

[McTaru]

How come he didn't try some of the sea mobs for a change? or he doesnt have sea lol?

[Fallso]

How come he didn't try some of the sea mobs for a change? or he doesnt have sea lol?

Wooooosh, he has Nashira legs.

[Kyreth]

You have to respect Avesta for not only doing it the right way, but managing to do it the right way -the entire fucking time-.

He makes his mark soloing stuff nobody else does. Whine and bitch about how "easy" it is, but he does it first. And you likely never will.

(Goodness knows I won't.)

[kareface]

In fights like those, 1 mistake can wipe you. Its nuts that he was able to maintain the fight for as long as he did. You got to give him credit.

[ringthree]

We all could be president, but very, very few end up actually being president.

And of course, I do not worship Avesta, it was over exaggeration to illustrate the grand nature of the accomplishment.

[LLK]

If this is something that is done on a regular basis among plds, then I missed it.

PLD/RDM with staff skill can kill any and all of them. Only one I ever try /NIN is lolTitan.

Curious, why do you need /NIN against Titan?

Eh.. I think you're getting it backwards.

PLD/NIN isn't the best combo for actually soloing harder things. PLD/RDM is probably 1000000x better then /NIN for PLD and solo.

Titan is so easy though you can afford to go PLD/NIN and goof around and still kill him.

[Celebrindor]

hey I'm not knocking his accomplishments- I'm merely stating that his bladder deserves as much credit as his strats. I don't have the patience or focus for a 4 hour fight, end of story. I once soloed the Mountain Worm NM in Uleguerand Range as RDM/DRK....took me just over one hour and that sucked to be honest. So I'd say about 1 hr is probably my personal limit.

I give credit where its due, and he is certainly due it. However, I'm not gonna bow down and blow his epeen for it. Good for him, and all the attempts it took to figure it out in the first place. Me, I prefer sunlight. :D

[Sidanoir]

Random fact: Bind/Gravity resistance does not reset until mob returns to an original spawn position and deaggros all targets. Go screw with Sabotender Bailarina if you wanna learn things about that. It's a joke.

Wrong...so terribly wrong...resistances wear with time....and not casting....if you make a mob grav or bind immune and stop casting bind or grav after a short time their resistance will begin to wear until it wears completely.....some mobs also seem to build 1-2 cast resistances...where the fuck did you dream this shit up?
Also not every NM builds Gravity resistance the same....or bind resistance...any debuff can be "learned" to be resisted by NMs but it seems SE chose some mobs to not build immunities as fast or at all..
And good luck solo straight tanking anything with Seiryu's auto TP rate.....you wont last very long...

Long fights like this are about being focused more so than skill....its more of an art..the strategy isn't complicated but the execution can't be done by just anyone...

[Uzor]

hey I'm not knocking his accomplishments- I'm merely stating that his bladder deserves as much credit as his strats. I don't have the patience or focus for a 4 hour fight, end of story. I once soloed the Mountain Worm NM in Uleguerand Range as RDM/DRK....took me just over one hour and that sucked to be honest. So I'd say about 1 hr is probably my personal limit.

I give credit where its due, and he is certainly due it. However, I'm not gonna bow down and blow his epeen for it. Good for him, and all the attempts it took to figure it out in the first place. Me, I prefer sunlight. :D

Why credit his bladder? I can hold it in for over 8 hours >.>

But yeah, I don't have the patience to solo something for 3 hours. especially when it can be done much faster with an alliance.

[Septimus]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think the title of the thread is overdoing it but nobody can deny Avesta's initiative at RDM solo-play.

I'm not going to knock Avesta, but kite killing with bio and poison is not really innovative. His patience is the most impressive thing about his kills. I would get bored after 15 minutes...

[Khamsin]

Whats ironic is, 2 rdms duo'ed him a few months ago with many deaths/reraises. When they posted, they got praised.

When Avesta does it solo, flawlessly, its shot down. Wonder why that is

Wonder where you get that info from, or as usual, just shitting it out of your ass regarding many deaths and reraises.

If you are referring to Cheki and Bron, they did it in a flawless victory.
I myself trioed it several times, and duoed it once.

Cheki and Bron are from Pandemonium. I'm sure there's been plenty of other duos that had deaths/reraises on other servers that he may be talking about.

[Luke]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think the title of the thread is overdoing it but nobody can deny Avesta's initiative at RDM solo-play.

I'm not going to knock Avesta, but kite killing with bio and poison is not really innovative. His patience is the most impressive thing about his kills. I would get bored after 15 minutes...

I didn't say the strategy was innovative; I meant that he takes the initiative to go and solo shit that most everyone thinks is impossible to solo.

Notice that everyone who discredits him says "It's unimpressive" instead of "I can do that".

[Codernaut]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think the title of the thread is overdoing it but nobody can deny Avesta's initiative at RDM solo-play.

I'm not going to knock Avesta, but kite killing with bio and poison is not really innovative. His patience is the most impressive thing about his kills. I would get bored after 15 minutes...

I haven't tried anything that takes over, say 80 minutes or so, but the time flies surprisingly fast in a fight where that much attention is required.

The fights of his that impress me are the one's that have the least margin of error. (like ZM17, and ash dragon - even though friends kill the bombs)

I would even consider Seiryu to be one such fight because if a bind is flat-out resisted he's pretty screwed. Especially so if seiryu gets lucky between recasts. Other than not making any major mistakes, being that lucky with the game's randomness is also impressive -- even if that factor was outside of his control.

Next time one of you pimped red mages fights seiryu, try spamming bind and see if it always lands. It's not *that* reliable even with capped enfeebling skill.

[Septimus]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think the title of the thread is overdoing it but nobody can deny Avesta's initiative at RDM solo-play.

I'm not going to knock Avesta, but kite killing with bio and poison is not really innovative. His patience is the most impressive thing about his kills. I would get bored after 15 minutes...

I didn't say the strategy was innovative; I meant that he takes the initiative to go and solo shit that most everyone thinks is impossible to solo.

Notice that everyone who discredits him says "It's unimpressive" instead of "I can do that".

I think the question is not "could you do it", but more along the lines of "why would anyone want to do it?"

I know there is the "no one has done it before" factor, but there just comes a point where "if" becomes superseded by "why".

[razorcat]

I think the question is not "could you do it", but more along the lines of "why would anyone want to do it?"

Why did Colombus sail the Ocean Blue? Because he could.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Although debatable, its really because the chicken could.

Why does the USS Enterprise boldly go where no man has gone before? Because they can.

Why does Avesta do it? Because he can.

This discussion is a snapshot of society. People praising, discrediting etc etc.

[Elesirdur]

Impressive is probably the best way to call his solo Seriyu. However, I hate the guy for harshly dragging down the price of Ancient Beastcoins. He's perpetually got 20+ in his bazaar for about 3 to 5k less than everyone else.

[qatsi2]

I know there is the "no one has done it before" factor, but there just comes a point where "if" becomes superseded by "why".

I think it boils down to a question of ambition. Before Bannister broke the 4 minute mile, I'm sure a lot of people said, "you know, running at a 4:15 pace gets me places fast enough."

Also, let's face it. 95% of the people saying they can't stop drinking Coke long enough to stay at the computer for 3 hours are really underestimating the focus that something like this requires.

[Skyylya]

I like watching Avesta video's, it's cool to see people simplify things that used to take alliances of people.

As far as avatars go, there's nothing impressive about soloing them, i used to solo them as mnk/whm or mnk/rdm after i lvl'd rdm.