Hellfire Abomination...and the painful new SOT.

OIdpop - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I been playing since day one..try making 1mill when the game first started lol it was a epic thing to do..now coin is thrown in your hands its so easy now to make millions and millions and spend millions and millions...spend over 100 mill in the past couple days mainly on fash(nice fash) and some gear..this isn't counting what else im doing on 9 alts as with repairs,pots..etc.Used to be 10mill im broke..now its up to 20mill I call myself broke.

Psytrac - Dreamweaver wrote: »

(and no, I do not count NW in that gather X money thing. I do do NW and earn money there, that is how I am making my money)

Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »

It's not a challenge for someone too lazy and has some sort of entitlement mentality. It's an impossibility for them because of their attitudes and self-imposed limitations. The only barrier between failure and success in a game like this lies within oneself.

I do not have to do SoT or Aba in tt90 gear that is +2. Why in the hell would I want to do that? I worked hard and farmed WS, HH, set up my catshop to go from r8 to full 3rd cast NV. I invested years into doing cultis to earn enough spirit and coin to buy every skill available for my veno. I'm currently farming to replace the cheap shards for better ones. My challenge was to upgrade my gear so I could go through these instances with better odds of success. What's the incentive of working hard to improve one's skills and gears and gameplay styles if the game did offer challenges that require them to overcome?

Making 1 mil before level 90 wasn't that difficult. In fact I farmed TT (HH for us on LC server) well over 1000 runs and worked a catshop for a year to earn the 200+ mil for my herc and my nix when I was level 74 - 3 and a half years ago.

If one is not willing to work on upgrading their skills, gear (including refines because +2 is stupid lazy) or learn how to make in game coin somehow with all the ways the game offers then they truly deserve to be left behind and weeded out of any type of advancement in the game. You can keep on making excuses with your pathetic demands that I should somehow roll myself back to substandard gear and style of gameplay in a weird attempt to draw some kind of empathy for the lazies who struggle due to their own choices out there but I won't. The fact that people like me worked hard to build our characters into something that can achieve the new SoT and Aba ought to be an incentive for others who haven't to do so themselves.

You can either level up your skills and gear, shadow someone who can escort you through the instances if your char is sub-par or not do the instances at all. People who prefer the latter are moochers and a burden to the rest of us so I'm glad they're being weeded out.

Psytrac - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Yea.. 3 and a half years ago..

Try now.

And yes, I am actively playing the game. level 98 sin and 97 seeker.

I go to nation wars any time I am not passed out in bed, and I am 1-shot by everyone. but I still go

(and no, I do not count NW in that gather X money thing. I do do NW and earn money there, that is how I am making my money)

Haila - Sanctuary wrote: »

lol i'm not very impressed in your making coins skills. All the ppl i know who played pwi actively for over 3 years are running in r999 or r9 +10 at least b:bye

Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »

I am trying now and getting what I need. I get 1 shot in NW too. So what? You have no idea how difficult it was to make a mil 3 and a half years ago. Just to give you a clue gold was trading for 120K each before packs back then. And when anniversary packs came out and gold doubled and tripled in prices in a couple weeks. That made it even harder for me to farm for the herc (which I was doing in TT solo mode during and extended 2x with a magmite). Oh, and there was no dual clienting allowed then either.

I spent 10 minutes near the entrance portal in OHT map 3 grinding those mobs during this 2x event and made 300K and 1K in DQ and that's slow.

Since I got my herc when I was 7x until now I have given away over 3 billion coin worth of mats, gold, coin, and services to my friends for nothing in return. Had I not done that I would have full r9rrr JSOD et al. In the past 2 months my catshops have made over 700 mil just to prove that it is easy to make in-game money and that's considered below average too. I'm satisfied with what I can do with my coin making skills because I've been able to get what I want. It's not that hard. In fact since I evolved my herc and nix and replaced the nix's legendary skills with herc legendary skills I'm going to try a new way of farming.

Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »

To me it's just pixels. I don't take it serious. I actually love helping people out in the game when I'm in the mood to do that. When I came back to the game last march I had to stop and realize just how much I gave away in the past 5 years because with all the changes in gear and NW et al my veno was horribly out of date and far behind the mainstream. I had some discussions with some in-game friends about my 5 years of in-game philanthropy. But thinking about all I gave away really added up.b:shocked

HideYoHubby - Archosaur wrote: »

So let me get this straight, you claim you multiplied your 1m into 70m in 2 weeks? Lets assume you make 10% profit per item. Lets assume you sold your wares completely 3 times a day and obviously re-stocked too.

1m x 1.1 (The 10% profit per sell) ^42 (3 x 14 days) = 54,8m

Yes, wouldnt need much higher profit margin for 70m but you do realize how absurd it is to expect to sell your wares compeltely 3x a day? You sell them twice over a day and you need just under 20% profit margin to hit 70m in 2 weeks. So I still call bs on your merching, those numbers are ridiculous with the capital you started. Granted LC is far bigger server then archosaur is.

Beleni - Dreamweaver wrote: »

5) not sure about this one, have not tried to take it out of the area yet but it should in theory work.!
Go 1st to the Bloody court yard and farm some crystals. they offer a decent damage reduction for one of your team mates and last some time also.

oVenusArmanio wrote: »

How do you think people figured out what was 2-shotting the tank back when POLE was hard? Or how to coordinate Delta before spawn point was really a realistic option? How do you think NPCs were found before auto-path? Or how people handled cube when the explanations in the rooms themselves are lacking and it involves tricks that people might not actually think to do, like the listen rooms?

PWI has always had a learning curve with new content ideas, its just that for a long time now they didn't change things up that much. So the wisdom was passed on. And since most of the squad knew what to do, one person could just derp around looking at the map and not communicating with the squad and figure out what to do by winging it. But that doesn't work when you're not the only one new to the instance, and not one person knows what to do. And the content is fresh so there is no one to turn to ask. Now you are the early adopters.

There is a lot of people saying things like "old players are stuck in their ways," or "hyper babies aren't as bad as people say and are just as good at their class," etc. But when new content hits the floor....now all I see are complaints instead of competition for best guides. Requests for nerfs instead of requests to collaborate on tips and tricks. And people saying things like "well it's probably your gear," instead of asking what the person may have been doing wrong. As if an extra 1k hp (on top of their 5k hp) was going to matter in the OP's situation when he got hit for 15k. 6k or 5k, he'd of still been one shot with that type of damage. So clearly something else was going wrong, and it had nothing to do with gear. People used to know that.

You call it a departure, I call it a return to form. While I do think they shouldn't make it part of the 99 culti if the boss really is too hard for someone in decently refined and shareded tt90-99mix to do. Dunno yet, it's too early for me to really say based off forum posts and I haven't got the chance to experience for myself. Having no characters on HT with that level range. I could go back to DW and do it, but I don't really want to spoil the content. xD That doesn't mean I don't support these types of changes. There is no reason it shouldn't be a BH, or a weekly for 100+. I don't support the constant taking of content meant for sub-100 and handing it over to the 100+ because it discourages new players. But revamped content that forces people to learn to understand why they are clicking x skill, instead of mindless clicking it? Yes, please! Bosses that require teamwork and coordination? Yes, please! New and interesting challenges that require more time spent working together than before? Yes, please. So sick of the only solo mentality, this is an MMO ffs we need more content that forces people to work together.

Joe - Morai wrote: »

Just ran it Yesterday with absolutely no problem. I dont know what your problem is here. Neither the Queen nor Hellfire were any problem at all. Surely I'm a r9 aps barb and can deal some dmg myself on those bossen but besides me we just got a APS BM and 2 small sins with not sooo good gears and they wern't even 5.0. Besides that we got a 99 Veno and a 99 Seeker for culti. They were not a big contribution but they only dies once because they ran into mobs xDDD noone died at any boss.

The rest of the squad was more or less average geared besides the cleric and myself xD (The cleric pulled and AOEed nearly all mob groups just to pick on me because he was faster xDDD)

OK, if you try to do this with a whole 99 group...forget about it, that's not going to work at all. That's mainly a design problem. Average geared 100+ shouldn't have any problem at all cept if your whole squad doesn't know how to play. In that case I suggest you all delete yourselfes or try a little harder next time (: