The 9 Trials

monkeysir35 wrote: »

Yeah...heard on WC that Legendary was 1st to finish the 1st round a day or 2 back. Makes me wonder how the other 2 big TW Facs are handling it.

i have no idea about vindi, but we haven't started up the second set =/ too late to try now. Mostly ppl fighting over not having set times, and then the set times being bad so meh

Yeah...heard on WC that Legendary was 1st to finish the 1st round a day or 2 back. Makes me wonder how the other 2 big TW Facs are handling it.

We are at 2nd 9 trial now and don't seem to have enough people to finish in time.

I don't need *proof* of this. It's just common knowledge. Example, the first trial..easiest of them all. Trial #6 I believe, with the mobs running around in a giant circle. Also the second trial. If you can work together well enough all three of these trials are easily completable.

Also not to mention the last trial can be cleared by a single squad. Mind you you need people who don't lag like hell. Notice how all the mobs swarm in one giant cluster? Have one BM lure them all to one small circle and stun HF with 5 hard hitting DD's with Ironguard up and they will all drop in one go.

I just covered 4/9 trials off the top of my head.

Edit: No I have not been to 2-9 yet. I heard the trials got harder as you go along throughout the week but after we did 2-(1-4) I had noticed no change, and assumed nothing did change.

To be honest, the trials I talked about in my previous post can all be done without charms. Apoth is another story, but a not so costly endeavor nowadays.

I'm just waiting for the massive flames now from people who don't know how to play the game.

Northern - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Sure-I will give you that 1-2 squads could do (some) of the nine trials...However several require much much more.

I'd say 4-5 of the 9 trials can be done with 1 squad. The rest can be done with about 3.

The ones that are soloable are: 1, 2, 6, 7, and maybe 8
Actually given enough time some of these can be done by 1-2 people.

While trial 2 has a timer, the mats you are asked to collect do not. You can restart trial 2 as often as you like until you have 200 of every mat. You can also dig 200 of every chest before you even start. I don't usually dig though since the aggressive mobs drop a lot. Solo I can farm about 75 of every mat just killing the mobs that spawn so only have to restart it twice. You can definitely do it with 2 people.

For trial 7 if you're chasing the mobs around you're doing it wrong. Just have 1 or 2 archers stand in the center and barrage... the barrage moves with the mobs. Even easier you can have an archer duel a BM and open barrage on him. Have the BM walk with the mobs and HFing. That one has been done with 6 but you only need 2 or 3.

It may be possible to do some of the trials with very few people, but only some. The amount of extra time and effort required would make it unprofitable, to say the least.

2.5 hours to solo trial 2? Sounds real fun. Since you're soloing I assume you mean without cleric/barb/bm buff as well? Hope you brought a lot of IG. I'm also assuming you mean soloing 1-2, not 3-2 (this thread was originally talking about how far people had gotten as factions, not the possibility of soloing the low level trials). The difference between the 1-x set and the 3-x set is similar to the difference in TT 1-x to 3-x, mobs have a buttload more hp, hit a ton harder and the bosses go all kinds of crazy.

Because of the god buff, barrage can actually do decent damage to the phys-immune mobs, especially with elem apoth, frostblade, etc. Can it reach the mobs all the way against the wall though? Some archers were saying those mobs were out of range. Can it take down the ones that come in waves of slow and fast mobs moving in opposite directions? Done by 6 people doesn't mean it can be done by 2. There is a time limit to kill mobs, if it takes 3 times as long would that still be under the limit (nevermind that a balanced squad of 6 can output more than triple the damage of any 2, due to combined status effects)?

The other thing I wonder, is how you get to solo trial 7 (or make it to 2-x or 3-x, which is what I'm really talking about, 1-x is easy) without enough people to pass 1-3. Do you have 10-20 faction mates who aren't interested in coming to the easier trials, but willing to help you pass the hard ones? Do you just not allow them to come? I think this is what's really bugging me here. This instance is obviously meant to foster teamwork and build faction unity, and already we have our best thinkers devising ways to maximize their own profit.

Speaking of profit, let's discuss boss drops briefly. My squad was the highest DD squad in our 3-2 (all r8/nirv, sage/vit barb, mystic, psychic (me), cleric, archer, 5aps g13 bm; friggin love that god's buff.....) and I picked up the drops so I actually noticed what we got for once, lol.
3-2 boss dropped: 3 Adamantine, 2 Platinum Ore and 3 Round Shields. In 2.5 hours anyone capable of soloing this could make far more from TT/Nirvana and already has gear that cannot benefit from r8 recasting anyway. The rare mats from the faction treasure chest cannot be sold/traded outside faction, they are bound on opening and disappear entirely if you leave base with them still in tradeable form.

The ease and prevalence of soloing instances killed much of the fun of the game for many people. PW actually noticed this and built an instance that is most profitably and easily run as a group.

I want to see a video of an archer soloing 3-7. Not because I don't believe you can, just because it would be epic and I enjoy watching people push limits. Go now, make video!

In that case, more power to you. Taking down a boss with 300mil hp solo to help your guild see the later trials is quite admirable. (my heart breaks for your poor charm though, lol)

PlzDontPKme - Lost City wrote: »

Are you sure of this? What mats are you referring to specifically from the faction chest that are not tradeable?

Oricalcum ore, Hepatizon Whetstone (and, I believe, Damascene ore)

They can also be obtained by trading an obscene amount of medals at the forges, but this is probably the main way they will enter the game, and what will prevent those without a faction from recasting their r8 gear.


Update (or lack thereof): Regenesis still trying to get enough people on to attempt 3-3, got it planned to start in a couple hours. Congrats everyone who's made it to round 3-x, and good job Golddiggers (however that's spelled, lol) for getting so far. Feel free to pm me any tips for 3-3 and 3-4. <.<

Took us 38 minutes to complete trial 9 on round 2 with 40 ppl. I think its a pretty good result... Atm we finished 1st trial on round... Mobs are going ham, boss was going crazy on last 10% of HP... I hope 3-2 will go smooth... Im scared of 3-3 bosses... Well lets see how far we can go tonight...

Zarni, my original point was that it could be done, and you called bull ****. After Asterelle and I basically told you how to do it you were resorted to "oh..well there's no money in it, so ha!"

You can't try to argue against someone on a point they weren't even addressing.

If the trials get more difficult as you go along then that is something I did not experience first hand. Also keep in mind people might think it's harder due to different, less geared members partaking in the trial, thus giving a clouded image that the trials are getting harder. If they do get harder though that would be neat.

It's not a clouded image, it's fact that each cycle of trials gets progressively harder: HP increases for sure, not certain about mob/boss dmg yet, didn't test for that.