Does anyone in Heaven's Tear (or anywhere else) do RB quest?

CaitlinDan - Heavens Tear
CaitlinDan - Heavens Tear Posts: 187 Arc User
edited April 2011 in Dungeons & Tactics
I was reading information about things to level - BH, WQ, CS - and I stumbled onto Rebirth quest and was quite excited about trying it out for myself. Granted, I'm a veno, so getting into a squad might be hard, if not impossible, but it seems interesting, and might take my mind off soloing Zimo, Ofotis, Qianji, Drake and Gluttonix. Yes, I solo, cause squads are so hard to come by.

So my question is, do people still do RB quests? Whenever I pay attention to World Chat, I see people asking about BH squads, FF, TT but I've never seen RB, or have I been blinded all this time? Therefore, yes, my question is: is RB still alive, and where can I find squads to do it with? Will a level 79 pure mag veno get into a squad?

Cause one run gives 1.1 mil exp, and that's pretty awesome. I'm not sure why people would turn away from such an opportunity but it seems quite great to me!

Thanks everyone!
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  • LenieClarke - Heavens Tear
    LenieClarke - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,275 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    you see rebirth squads being advertised, still. it's just that nobody seems to run the lower level brackets, alpha through gamma, any longer; everybody just runs RB Delta for their cultivation, chrono, and 10x BH.

    i'd love to try a RB alpha on my wizard before she eventually levels out of the alpha bracket, but i've no confidence i'll find a squad before then. eight more levels to go...

    (sooner or later i'll hit the delta bracket on my veno and get RB quests for my cultivation and such. and it's looking like i'll be going into that first delta totally cold, having no clue what to do or where to go, because it's near impossible to find a RB squad for anything but delta. i'll feel an utter and complete fool, having to learn on the fly with quests to be done.)
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  • CaitlinDan - Heavens Tear
    CaitlinDan - Heavens Tear Posts: 187 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Hmmm, so I guess in a way, it's a no go. But thankfully PW has added a tonne of other stuff to level with, like FF, BH, CS and WQ. I think that makes up for it.

    But still, like you said. It would be awesome to be able to try it, like one time just for the feel of the whole RB process.
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  • Bentus - Dreamweaver
    Bentus - Dreamweaver Posts: 9 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    There are a few reasons why RBs are not being run (save for the 10x BHs and Old maps quest chain and lvl100 Culti quest), and this applies across for all servers. Following would be some of the reasons:-

    1.) Hyper FC and BHs would give you more exp in shorter amount of time. RB runs are fixed time instances where each wave comes at fixed intervals. Not sure about lower RBs but a perfectly executed RB delta (with lvl100 players) takes anywhere around 3~4 hrs to complete. A full lvl100 squad takes like what? 10~20 mins per FC run? Compare the amount of exp gained in 3~4 hrs.

    2.) To succeed in a RB run, every squad member should be decently geared (sometimes extremely well geared). Unlike FC one player lagging in gear cannot be compensated easily. You fail to kill the mobs of one wave fast enough, you can easily be overwhelmed when the next wave reaches.

    3.) A good amount of coordination amongst party members is required to succeed in completing the RB instance.

    4.) APS is probably one thing that plays minimal role in a RB instance and you actually need Barbs and BMs who know how to use/time their skills very very well for this. Something extremely rare to find these days given that people power lvl and neglect many of their skills.

    A short description of the RB instance:-

    1.) You have 10 stages
    2.) Each stage consists of I think 5 normal waves and 1~2 boss waves.
    3.) Each mob wave consists of anywhere from 5~20 mobs (some of which do AoE stun/sleep/freeze).
    4.) All mobs are [?] mobs.
    5.) Bosses are normal bosses which increasing hp (and stats,skills,etc) as the stage increases.
    6.) You have another area where players can dig chests for beans which are then used to activate auras (or buffs) which give you increased atk/increased def/increased mp reco/increased hp reco/increased atk.
    7.) AoE skills are more important in this instance.
    8.) Each player(if multiple players of similar classes exist)/class will have a specific role to perform


    Overall RB is still one of the tougher instances to complete unless youre going in with an experienced squad or a squad where people know their classes very well. Not saying doing the instance is impossible, just saying its difficult to find people for running the instance.

    My Suggestion for RB would be, wait till lvl100, so random people are more willing to take you and educate you on the instance, if youre the loner kind and goes for random squads when need be. However if you have a guild and/or friends, try doing it with them.

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