FAILURE - a rare new and enjoyable experience!!

MageMERC - Harshlands
MageMERC - Harshlands Posts: 1,600 Arc User
edited July 2012 in General Discussion
So I was the weak link I guess but a bunch of faction members and I did Lord of Captivation in SOT yesterday. We didnt have a bm/barb but decided to have a go anyway.

We ended up trying a few different plans but all failed and we squad wiped more than once. We then got a barb and all lived happily ever after.

Anyway, actually having a challenge was good fun and dying didnt detract from that. I'm glad there's still a bit of fun to be had.

Thats all, just saying my bit.

EDIT - just realized what I typed doh.
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  • Baalbak - Dreamweaver
    Baalbak - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,624 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    i call hax on gettin drummer boy into SoT
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    Retired..
  • Euthymius - Heavens Tear
    Euthymius - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,162 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    "Failure is only a detour; not the end."
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  • Decus - Dreamweaver
    Decus - Dreamweaver Posts: 5,033 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    i call hax on gettin drummer boy into SoT

    OP probably meany Lord of Captivation.
    Proving that not only archers do math since 2009. b:victory
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  • truekossy
    truekossy Posts: 7,021 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Failure is always an option.
  • ponyduck
    ponyduck Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I realized that the fun went out of the game for me when other players
    got mad when they died to a mob. And would usually attempt to blame it
    on someone else, lol.

    I noticed it especially in Warsong--once a bm died because he ran ahead
    of everyone, aggro'd the boss & got killed because I hadn't caught up in
    time to set up bb fast enuf for him. He really came unglued. Cussing and
    calling me noob, etc.

    I thought, wow, he didn't lose any exp, the squad didn't wipe, we ended up
    killing boss & everyone got credit . . . . The only reason he got mad was
    because HE got killed, I guess kinda a blow to his ego, nothing else.

    I started noticing that this was fast becoming the norm, players getting
    truly upset if they died, even if there was no other penalty. And even
    tho it's easy enuf to brush off, still, it took the fun out of it for me.

    The fun days were when a squad basically went into an instance expecting
    to be killed, lol. I remember when things would invariably go south, and
    everyone was laughing & telling each other to run. (Remember jumping
    in the lake at Pole? can you still do that?)

    It just seems players now (mostly the high level ones, to be honest), take
    it as a personal affront if they die, like their char is invested with the
    player's own personal sense of worth.

    Yeah, the old failure runs tend to be the ones I remember most fondly, lol.
    Fun times, fun people.
  • Selak - Dreamweaver
    Selak - Dreamweaver Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Failure is a lesson on what not to do next time. b:laughb:laughb:laugh
    There are old Warriors, and bold Warriors,
    but there are very few old bold Warriors. b:chuckle
  • gyroki
    gyroki Posts: 450 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    MageMERC - Harshlands wrote: »
    So I was the weak link I guess but a bunch of faction members and I did Lord of Captivation in SOT yesterday. We didnt have a bm/barb but decided to have a go anyway.

    We ended up trying a few different plans but all failed and we squad wiped more than once. We then got a barb and all lived happily ever after.

    Anyway, actually having a challenge was good fun and dying didnt detract from that. I'm glad there's still a bit of fun to be had.

    Thats all, just saying my bit.

    EDIT - just realized what I typed doh.


    If you like to fail, go to lc server and form a random bh100 or nv squad without asking for weapon. You will have alot of fun.
  • tweakz
    tweakz Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    gyroki wrote: »
    If you like to fail, go to lc server and form a random bh100 or nv squad without asking for weapon. You will have alot of fun.

    -Same on HT.
    Be kind: Help the GMs to depopulate the servers.
  • Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands
    Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands Posts: 7,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    tweakz wrote: »
    -Same on HT.

    Probably on every server.
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  • Zarni - Dreamweaver
    Zarni - Dreamweaver Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    ponyduck wrote: »
    I realized that the fun went out of the game for me when other players
    got mad when they died to a mob. And would usually attempt to blame it
    on someone else, lol.

    I noticed it especially in Warsong--once a bm died because he ran ahead
    of everyone, aggro'd the boss & got killed because I hadn't caught up in
    time to set up bb fast enuf for him. He really came unglued. Cussing and
    calling me noob, etc.

    I thought, wow, he didn't lose any exp, the squad didn't wipe, we ended up
    killing boss & everyone got credit . . . . The only reason he got mad was
    because HE got killed, I guess kinda a blow to his ego, nothing else.

    I started noticing that this was fast becoming the norm, players getting
    truly upset if they died, even if there was no other penalty. And even
    tho it's easy enuf to brush off, still, it took the fun out of it for me.

    The fun days were when a squad basically went into an instance expecting
    to be killed, lol. I remember when things would invariably go south, and
    everyone was laughing & telling each other to run. (Remember jumping
    in the lake at Pole? can you still do that?)

    It just seems players now (mostly the high level ones, to be honest), take
    it as a personal affront if they die, like their char is invested with the
    player's own personal sense of worth.

    Yeah, the old failure runs tend to be the ones I remember most fondly, lol.
    Fun times, fun people.


    Very well said.
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  • __ian__ - Heavens Tear
    __ian__ - Heavens Tear Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Euthymius - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    "Failure is only a detour; not the end."

    Well after we had that Nirvana run that was reset from the server crashing i took i long detour last night b:chuckle This is what happened after our run.
    http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1385531
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  • Euthymius - Heavens Tear
    Euthymius - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,162 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    __ian__ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Well after we had that Nirvana run that was reset from the server crashing i took i long detour last night b:chuckle This is what happened after our run.
    http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1385531

    Okay, maybe some detours lead to dead ends...

    If I had any idea that you'd run into a party like that on the next run, I would have stuck around, just to watch it all burn down~
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  • Flickerfae - Sanctuary
    Flickerfae - Sanctuary Posts: 351 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Some of my most fun dungeon runs have been the disastrous ones.

    I recently went on a BH 69 with two clerics, a mystic, two archers, and a fail tank. Tank quit halfway through nob. After the initial party wipe caused by aggro pinball, we ended up trying it anyway for the heck of it. It took a couple tries, but one of those archers can now say he has tanked nob and pole. b:chuckle
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  • Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands
    Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands Posts: 7,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Flickerfae - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Some of my most fun dungeon runs have been the disastrous ones.

    I recently went on a BH 69 with two clerics, a mystic, two archers, and a fail tank. Tank quit halfway through nob. After the initial party wipe caused by aggro pinball, we ended up trying it anyway for the heck of it. It took a couple tries, but one of those archers can now say he has tanked nob and pole. b:chuckle

    Yeah sometime the most funny part are when it's fail. xD
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