Off with their heads!

Poor logic.

1) They weren't lured. The guards at no point left their little pad where they normally live.
2) Luring = to tempt, to attract. If simply 'luring' a guard was a bannable offense, anybody who has ever been red-named and unwittingly ran past or flown over a guard and thus pulled it into archosaur is liable to be banned. Plausible? I don't think so.
3) Presumably the danger in luring a guard is... (? It might frighten somebody ?!). There is really no logical connection between luring being an offense, and killing the guard being an offense.
4) Others have killed the guards before with no repercussions.

/

Go dump your rain on somebody else's head.

;D

Azzazin

K, I asked a few sage and demon venos this, and I'm not sure if you guys are right. Sage/demon venos are one of the few classes I don't have a lot of experience with using personally, so I can't just go test this stuff out myself. (Also, surprisingly a lot of venos don't actually know for sure what their skills do.)

Here is the information I have about the veno skills, and why I thought what I did. If anybody can tell me more information, please do so.

Ironwood Scarab skill description:

lvl 10: Throw a splinted bug at the enemy inflicting Wood damage equal to
base magic damage plus 300% of weapon damage plus 1327.7.
Reduces enemy's physical defense by 30% for 10 seconds. Requires 25 Chi

sage: Throw a splinted bug at the enemy inflicting Wood damage equal to base magic
damage plus 300% of weapon damage plus 2770.0. Reduces
enemy's physical defense by 40% for 20 seconds.
Sage version increases physical defense reduction to 20 seconds.

demon: Throw a splinted bug at the enemy inflicting Wood damage equal to base
magic damage plus 300% of weapon damage plus 2770.0.
Has a chance to reduce enemy's physical defense by 40%.
Demon version only has a 20% chance of success,
but will reduce physical defense to zero instead.


Myriad Rainbow skill description (fox or standing, doesn't matter):

Launch a shimmering chromatic scarab at an enemy.
Your target has a chance to be affected by various status ailments.
Bleed: 4500 physical damage over time.
Poison: 4500 Wood damage over time.
Armor break: Physical defense reduced by 100%.
Mind break: Magic defense reduced by 100%.
Lasts 9 seconds.


Alrighty. A quick perusal shows us a few interesting things which may be skill description errors, or may be more.

First, note that lvl 10 ironwood lasts 10 seconds, sage ironwood lasts 20 seconds, and demon ironwood... why, it doesn't say. We have to assume 10 seconds.

Second, note how demon ironwood explicity states that the defense is reduced TO ZERO.

Thirdly, note that myriad rainbow says there is a 100 PERCENT reduction.

So the question is, in the world of PWI math, do those two things mean the same thing? I know of other skill effects that 'reduce by XXX %' (eg, one genie skill that reduces attack rate by 135% for 5 seconds) that does NOT reduce my attack rate to zero.

Given that I wasn't sure if myriad actually reduced physical defense to zero or not, I went with demon veno, where the skill description was quite explicit about it. Also, one person asked: time to use ironwood then myriad? No, not enough time. We had to kill the guard inside the span of ironguard powder (no pun intended).

Initially when I tried solo-dding the guard, I got its hp down to 40%. I have some of the best dd a sin can get outside of r9, so I doubt anybody can solo-dd a guard without at least the help of one more dd. The veno I was squadded with had a bm who was free, so he came to help along with the assassin I found via world chat. It would undoubtedly have been more impressive to solo-dd a guard; alas, it was not to be.

Now lets see you guys go & try to kill a guard, eh.

;o