Lv8 Besieged = SE's grand design....

[alphacat]

to make us return to old exp areas? My server at least, seems like we can't hold lv8 besieged past the weekend. Generally, we get full attendence during the weekends, then if it happens during early afternoon, we'll lose. Losing astral convenence is really pissing people off. Thing is, our server is actually top 8 in terms of besieged wins, so does that mean other servers are struggling with Lv8 as well?

[BRP]

My server has never reached the 190-200 lvl 8s.

[Stromgarde]

What is this 'losing besieged' you speak of

[Doofus]

What is this 'losing besieged' you speak of

Well played.

On a side note, when the server came up on odin after they added the 200s, i forget if it was undead or trolls, i think undead, anywho, near the end when we had like 1 general left a gigantic cerberus(or hydra, i dont remember!) commenced pwnage of al zahbi, needless to say we lost the astral candescence.

At the time of this post the mamool have odins astral thingy no clue what level took it.

[Wintermute]

I'm pretty sure SE introduced lv8 to force people to raid Beastmen Strongholds/Archaic Mirrors since we were pretty much capable of holding our own before the lv8 introduction. The fact that some mobs/NM can rape generals in two hits and kill 20 players at a time would seem to suggest that SE wants us to slow down their build up or go take out key NMs before Besieged. I've never seen the Carb/Kim/Hydra NM in Besieged personally so I don't know what the rape factor is like for those NM.

Don't think it's designed to get us out of ToAU xp zones and into the old ones, hell, even if it were we wouldn't go; Asura lost the AC a few days back and it was gone for 2-3 days and people just sat in Whitegate whining about it rather than walking to an empty camp or going someplace else. Now they whine about over-crowded xp camps...

[Alibeemac]

Lakshmi was undefeated until Level 8 Beseiged. We managed to beat level 8 often but we have now lost the AC twice. 2nd time a few days ago due to idiot people training Ninja mobs into the Hall of Binding and wiping everyone >.> Now we are currently trying to get our exp bonus back -.- 88exp in Mire with exp band on at level 73 sucksssss >.> I personally would exp anywhere since seeking pt sucks 73-74 since everyone takes a 75 over you however most people are continuing to exp in ToAU for the IS points.

[Rocl]

The one time I fought Gere he wasn't all that hard, we managed to kill him fairly quickly >.> Though he did spam Gates of Hades near the end

[Wintermute]

Lakshmi was undefeated until Level 8 Beseiged. We managed to beat level 8 often but we have now lost the AC twice. 2nd time a few days ago due to idiot people training Ninja mobs into the Hall of Binding and wiping everyone >.> Now we are currently trying to get our exp bonus back -.- 88exp in Mire with exp band on at level 73 sucksssss >.> I personally would exp anywhere since seeking pt sucks 73-74 since everyone takes a 75 over you however most people are continuing to exp in ToAU because they're lazy assholes who've seemingly never been outside a ToAU zone.

Fixed...

I don't know why anyone goes to the Mire. Sure the mobs are squishy and it's good xp from 60-something to early 70, but at the best of times it's a crowded zone, and when the AC is gone people think a boat ride to an overcrowded zone where every would-be Burn likes to go to is more worthwhile than walking to/through Mamook to what tends to be a hassle free camp.

[wyrmtung]

A bazillion Lamia NMs that spam Charmga, Sleepga, and Rising Swell (plus all the ghosts and skeletons that drain 100 players to heal themselves to full) is just plain cheating. Period.

[Apelila]

Before level 8: I get home at 7 am, besieged happens sometime in the next 2 hours either mamool or undead.

After level 8: I've seen 1 besieged, it happened at 2 pm on a day off and was a triple gang fuck of undead>mamool>trolls, all started preparing at the same time.

[Slayzer]

Siren is still undefeated, and has handled 3 back to back level 8's. Mind you it raped the generals, but seeing the Galka solo Khimera made it all worth it XD

[SephYuyX]

People are spoiled.

[razorcat]

to make us return to old exp areas? My server at least, seems like we can't hold lv8 besieged past the weekend. Generally, we get full attendence during the weekends, then if it happens during early afternoon, we'll lose. Losing astral convenence is really pissing people off. Thing is, our server is actually top 8 in terms of besieged wins, so does that mean other servers are struggling with Lv8 as well?

No... I think it was to increase the difficulty of Besieged only. Losing AC and regaining it back is relatively easy. On my server, its usually back usually within 24 hours. I mean seriously, Level 7 was a joke.

Even now with level 8, it can be a joke. Just have to kill off all the lesser mobs then focus on the NMs one by one all while keeping generals and NPCs alive. Level 7 strategy is like that too. I say "can be" because there are idiots on my server who prefer to MPK resting mages by running mobs that aggro them close to people who are healing/resting. What results is a domino effect of resting/weakened/healing people getting killed again and reraising and resting/etc. So basically less people to fight/cure which in the end ultimately results in longer Besieged.

[Metah]

Honestly people don't try that much harder for level 8s in Lakshmi, we probably got too cocky <_<

[Kabbalah]

Nah, AC was lost to Mamools both times. With the ton of cheap ass heavy-damage AOEs their NMs have (yeah, Groundburst, I'm looking at you), I'm not at all surprised.