Random Question Thread VII: I Find Your Lack of Research Disturbing

[Kaylia]

Can any Aerns outside of the room with the ??? inside it be used to gain animosity to pop Ix'aern DRK? For example, the ones in the hallways adjacent to the main rooms at the northern locations.

While we can't prove it, statistics make it very unlikely. Many groups try that, and none ever reported a pop.

It's not clear if fighting the aerns in the wrong corner could trigger the message, but I know you can get it before the "???" despawns, and run to another corner to pop it.

Unless you're going for ultra rare ghrah chip or xp, kill the 3 aerns and wait for repop.

[drwaffles]

The reason he asks is that an ex-LS member who was previously in NiN said they used to farm hallway Aerns for animosity, and we'd no reason to doubt him.

[pchan]

lol

[drwaffles]

lol

You thought Ix'DRK was affected by Treasure Hunter, you can go back to your cave right now.

[pchan]

You thought Ix'DRK was affected by Treasure Hunter, you can go back to your cave right now.

hmm, what ? Clearly.

[Mazmaz]

Getting popped on is the worst part. Its really about luck though. Sometimes you'll end up with 3-4 waves of campaign mobs and some lame NPC group. Other times you will end up with 1 wave of mobs to start and 2 groups of NPCs.

I dont think kiting is really effective in la vaule. In my opinion it just sounds dangerous due to all the mobs that aggro level 75s. Just do your best to keep the NPCs alive. A group of support jobs to buff/cure/assist them would probably prove effective. Some NPC groups can survive a wave of mobs popping on them with the right support.

Again, it really comes down to luck. There isn't much you can do if you make it to the fortifications and 2-3 waves of monsters show up immediately. From my experience if you see that Valaineral and his crew are on the way you should prepare for a good campaign

Does attacking a fort make units pop up on top of it to defend it? I swear everytime I've gone to attack the fort a unit has just popped up on top of it as soon as I start doing some damage to it.

[Trauma]

Does attacking a fort make units pop up on top of it to defend it? I swear everytime I've gone to attack the fort a unit has just popped up on top of it as soon as I start doing some damage to it.

Not that I know of. They pop as a whole with many minions and one leader of the pack.

[Mazmaz]

yea that's what I meant by a unit. A leader and many minions. I think everytime I've gone to attack the fort in La Vaule they popped up on top of it and killed me.

[cdgreg]

Trying to cap merits before applying for a new endgame shell. I'm done with blm, rdm, and rng, but stuck a little bit on COR. Group 1 seems fairly straight forward as I'm going with 5/5 phantom roll recast and 5/5 QD recast but group 2 is a bit foggy. My current group 2 looks like:

Snake Eye - 1
Fold - 1
Winning Streak - 3
Loaded Deck - 1

Which leaves 4 more possible increases.

In my previous LS I was *never* on COR so I actually have little endgame experience with it at all. I primarily used it as a DDCor merit whore on birds, but who knows a new shell may need me on COR often. What do you guys recommend for the rest of group 2? I'm not really one to push the limits and bust too often so I'm wondering if capped snake eye or capped winning streak and then 2 more into snake eye would be best?

[Corresapolonia]

i have Dynamis - Bastok today. will we clear this time?

[Windfoxster]

Guess the jps on my server are more hardcore, they actually clear those campaign mobs even when there is no campaign going on in La Vaule.

However, its been a long time since they organise an attack. Maybe once in last 6months, managed to take La Vaule. But while we take control of the other areas in the 2nd week, La vaule was taken back by the orcs. Thought it is immune to campaign battle though after you took la vaule, is it because we lost Jugner forest?

[cdgreg]

i have Dynamis - Bastok today. will we clear this time?

My sources say no.

[Byrthnoth]

Trying to cap merits before applying for a new endgame shell. I'm done with blm, rdm, and rng, but stuck a little bit on COR. Group 1 seems fairly straight forward as I'm going with 5/5 phantom roll recast and 5/5 QD recast but group 2 is a bit foggy. My current group 2 looks like:

Snake Eye - 1
Fold - 1
Winning Streak - 3
Loaded Deck - 1

Which leaves 4 more possible increases.

In my previous LS I was *never* on COR so I actually have little endgame experience with it at all. I primarily used it as a DDCor merit whore on birds, but who knows a new shell may need me on COR often. What do you guys recommend for the rest of group 2? I'm not really one to push the limits and bust too often so I'm wondering if capped snake eye or capped winning streak and then 2 more into snake eye would be best?

4 Snake Eye, could remove Fold if you wanted and put it into Winning Streak instead.

[Thorny]

i have Dynamis - Bastok today. will we clear this time?

can we ban people for acting like city dynamis is hard yet

[Aurara]

no, windy is hard as fuck, so is bastok yo

[Cream Soda]

How exactly does haste samba work?
Like if you miss a hit w/ drain samba you don't drain that round. When u get haste samba when landing a hit, is it only good for the next attack round? if so, let's say haste samba is on

Hit hit hit hit. haste will be gained on the first attack round and be active during the second third and fourth.

hit hit miss hit. Haste will be gained on the first attack round and be active during the second and third, but since it wasn't reapplied during the third, it is not active for the 4th.


Is that how it works?

[Karbuncle]

Been trying to do it that way, but so far haven't had enough luck to clear the whole field. Once we got really close and had only 2-3 orcs left when another entire unit just popped on top of us. I've been watching JPs pull mobs AWAY from the area and try to kite them away so that the NPCs can reach and attack the fort. Is this a successful strategy?

The way my friend does it is, he kills Campaign mobs while campaign is -not- going on.

You know when mobs show up to defend and just sit there with their finger up their ass. Basically by doing this you drastically lower morale, so when the NPCs do arrive they kill 1, maybe 2 orcs and the entire wave retreats, making Orcs lose influence and San'd gain it
That, and the Morale lowering actually stays in effect for a few waves.

This is basically the best way to take any zone, the risk is of course losing exp, but if you want that BCNM bad enough then this is your best bet.

[Marcicus]

How much MAB do you need for HQ Staves to beat Dorje?

[Corresapolonia]

can we ban people for acting like city dynamis is hard yet

can we have a forum that only consists of people like you who like to rip off people who don't have yet the full endgame experience? that would be a sad place

[Dramafinderftw]

low man tininn strategy? and is 1 aegis pld enough to tank?