kavanah
08-20-2010, 11:03 PM
So as most of you know, I like to farm a lot. I rarely sell anything, only enough to pay for my continuous use of pots, not the herbal kind, and either donate the rest to guild bank or for hand-outs.
In the time that I have been doing this I've realized that many people don't know quite exactly how to do this whole "rushing" thing so I figured I would make a guide depicting how it should be done. If anyone has any POSITIVE feedback about this guide then please do post. If you don't agree with me, believe Luck Pot's are a conspiracy the dev team put together to win back the gold people scammed out of them with the free hats, or think that switching up the host of farm groups is going to get you better drops... then please... do not post. Go hit the "create a new thread" button under Off Topic forums.
For those who do want to know how to properly run this map then know that my advice comes from about 500-600 runs of this map, and through trial and error I have learned it well. You may be like my students and think that you won't learn anything unless you fail first at trying, if you have this mentality then like them I will ask you this question... "Have you ever seen someone completely on fire before? Would you like to be put on fire to learn that it isn't fun?" Learn from the mistakes of others who have been set on fire before you...
#1 What are we doing?
Let your team know that you guys are "rushing" at the very start. The term rushing means you are skipping all mobs and heading straight for the boss. Don't kill mummies, don't kill djinns, only kill forums trolls, zmoxx, and preferably zmoxx...
This means you will be dragging a total of 7 djinns with you into the room you kill zmoxx. Just focus zmoxx!
#2 Group Composition:
4 tanks and 1 pally in my opinion makes the most effective group. I don't care if they are all dex spec'd as long as you have ursans.
5 ursans works well too. Any group that has 3+ ursans will be viable at accomplishing this.
*This can be done with any group makeup if you all decide to use Tanker's Elixer and Speed Elixer*
3# Skills for ursans
Don't use taunt unless you have to pull the djinns off of your pally while fighting zmoxx. Don't use beckon unless you have to "un-stick" someone which we will discuss more in depth in just a second.
Do use hellscream on the white mummies as it will stun them and they can easily kill you if enough of them are on you. Do stomp... A LOT! Be careful with how you stomp though... you want djinns prefferably always going backwards. Don't stomp them into your pally... also watch your "push" from stomp on zmoxx. Do not stomp him out into the hall as he can reset after you pass the side corridors. Keep him in the big room if possible, stomped up against a wall. Use your brain on which direction you need to stomp him to get him against a wall.
Do use evade while running. No reason you should die while running with evade on...
Do use iron blood... but not right when you use evade... alternate them. Evade first, wait till it is about 70% off cd, then hit iron blood, pop evade when it comes back up and cycle it.
#4 Spells for Paladins
Do buff your party please...
Do revive your fallen comrades IMMEDIATELY or you will share the same fate. Dawninfinity can teach you lessons on how to without even thinking hit the revive button when someone dies.
Don't go to town with aoe's while your tanks are running in front of you... you will get aggro and die and make these faces =/ :( -_- =P
#5 Un-sticking
Its not a race to see who can get to zmoxx first, and then go *SPLAT* because they are all of a sudden alone with 5 of the 7 djinns beating their corpse into a pulp. Stick together! If you see someone falling behind and they have all these red triangles around them... chances are they are being stun-locked and can't move coupled with lag from the massive mob on them. Turn your speedracing rear end around and go STOMP that crowd. Ask anyone I play with, if you get "stuck" I will come and "un-stick" you with beckon, stomp, and hellscream, and I will not proceed until you are free to run with me and I'm sharing the aggro.
#6 Play Smart!
If you are an enchantress or an avian and you run ahead of your tanks... you deserve that death without rez, maybe even a boot. Don't rush ahead of your tanks. Don't enter into Zmoxx's room without your tank. Let the tank initiate first.
Tanks... don't run into zmoxx's room and not have evade or iron blood up. If you go splat then you risk your pally getting your aggro or the other ursans and it may quickly overwhealm them. I've had this happen several times where someone ran in, died almost instantly and suddenly the 2 djinns beating me turned into all 7 and I died faster than TheLoneArcher buying a half off pink!
Use your brain please =)
#7 Booting
From now on, if you join my PUG (pick-up group) runs of AO2:4 and you run the opposite way of everyone else, it will result in a boot.
If you join the game and you are 1 of 2 already joined avians... you will get a boot. Rejoin with an ursan or pally.
If you rush ahead and die as an avian or enchantress, or even rush way ahead as an ursan, you get a boot.
If you don't revive people when they die and you are an enchantress... you will be booted.
If you leave me "stuck" tanking 6 of 7 djinns while you rush ahead and kill zmoxx, you will get an angry face like this :mad: and then you will be booted.
*This may seem harsh but I do farming groups, not exp groups, not play to learn groups. I spend gold on elixers and I want them to be put to good use. My farm groups are a free-for-all... I will not hold spots, I will not boot to make room for you or your friends. It's first come first serve with the exception of my few officers whom I try to play with as much as possible in which case I will explain before apologetically booting you. Take no personal offence please, you'll be happy later on when I give you the 29th conqueror's plasma that I get*
Have fun! Enjoy the game! Happy Farming! Peace!
In the time that I have been doing this I've realized that many people don't know quite exactly how to do this whole "rushing" thing so I figured I would make a guide depicting how it should be done. If anyone has any POSITIVE feedback about this guide then please do post. If you don't agree with me, believe Luck Pot's are a conspiracy the dev team put together to win back the gold people scammed out of them with the free hats, or think that switching up the host of farm groups is going to get you better drops... then please... do not post. Go hit the "create a new thread" button under Off Topic forums.
For those who do want to know how to properly run this map then know that my advice comes from about 500-600 runs of this map, and through trial and error I have learned it well. You may be like my students and think that you won't learn anything unless you fail first at trying, if you have this mentality then like them I will ask you this question... "Have you ever seen someone completely on fire before? Would you like to be put on fire to learn that it isn't fun?" Learn from the mistakes of others who have been set on fire before you...
#1 What are we doing?
Let your team know that you guys are "rushing" at the very start. The term rushing means you are skipping all mobs and heading straight for the boss. Don't kill mummies, don't kill djinns, only kill forums trolls, zmoxx, and preferably zmoxx...
This means you will be dragging a total of 7 djinns with you into the room you kill zmoxx. Just focus zmoxx!
#2 Group Composition:
4 tanks and 1 pally in my opinion makes the most effective group. I don't care if they are all dex spec'd as long as you have ursans.
5 ursans works well too. Any group that has 3+ ursans will be viable at accomplishing this.
*This can be done with any group makeup if you all decide to use Tanker's Elixer and Speed Elixer*
3# Skills for ursans
Don't use taunt unless you have to pull the djinns off of your pally while fighting zmoxx. Don't use beckon unless you have to "un-stick" someone which we will discuss more in depth in just a second.
Do use hellscream on the white mummies as it will stun them and they can easily kill you if enough of them are on you. Do stomp... A LOT! Be careful with how you stomp though... you want djinns prefferably always going backwards. Don't stomp them into your pally... also watch your "push" from stomp on zmoxx. Do not stomp him out into the hall as he can reset after you pass the side corridors. Keep him in the big room if possible, stomped up against a wall. Use your brain on which direction you need to stomp him to get him against a wall.
Do use evade while running. No reason you should die while running with evade on...
Do use iron blood... but not right when you use evade... alternate them. Evade first, wait till it is about 70% off cd, then hit iron blood, pop evade when it comes back up and cycle it.
#4 Spells for Paladins
Do buff your party please...
Do revive your fallen comrades IMMEDIATELY or you will share the same fate. Dawninfinity can teach you lessons on how to without even thinking hit the revive button when someone dies.
Don't go to town with aoe's while your tanks are running in front of you... you will get aggro and die and make these faces =/ :( -_- =P
#5 Un-sticking
Its not a race to see who can get to zmoxx first, and then go *SPLAT* because they are all of a sudden alone with 5 of the 7 djinns beating their corpse into a pulp. Stick together! If you see someone falling behind and they have all these red triangles around them... chances are they are being stun-locked and can't move coupled with lag from the massive mob on them. Turn your speedracing rear end around and go STOMP that crowd. Ask anyone I play with, if you get "stuck" I will come and "un-stick" you with beckon, stomp, and hellscream, and I will not proceed until you are free to run with me and I'm sharing the aggro.
#6 Play Smart!
If you are an enchantress or an avian and you run ahead of your tanks... you deserve that death without rez, maybe even a boot. Don't rush ahead of your tanks. Don't enter into Zmoxx's room without your tank. Let the tank initiate first.
Tanks... don't run into zmoxx's room and not have evade or iron blood up. If you go splat then you risk your pally getting your aggro or the other ursans and it may quickly overwhealm them. I've had this happen several times where someone ran in, died almost instantly and suddenly the 2 djinns beating me turned into all 7 and I died faster than TheLoneArcher buying a half off pink!
Use your brain please =)
#7 Booting
From now on, if you join my PUG (pick-up group) runs of AO2:4 and you run the opposite way of everyone else, it will result in a boot.
If you join the game and you are 1 of 2 already joined avians... you will get a boot. Rejoin with an ursan or pally.
If you rush ahead and die as an avian or enchantress, or even rush way ahead as an ursan, you get a boot.
If you don't revive people when they die and you are an enchantress... you will be booted.
If you leave me "stuck" tanking 6 of 7 djinns while you rush ahead and kill zmoxx, you will get an angry face like this :mad: and then you will be booted.
*This may seem harsh but I do farming groups, not exp groups, not play to learn groups. I spend gold on elixers and I want them to be put to good use. My farm groups are a free-for-all... I will not hold spots, I will not boot to make room for you or your friends. It's first come first serve with the exception of my few officers whom I try to play with as much as possible in which case I will explain before apologetically booting you. Take no personal offence please, you'll be happy later on when I give you the 29th conqueror's plasma that I get*
Have fun! Enjoy the game! Happy Farming! Peace!