<Trinity Knights> Official Thread

[ilhanna]

So many reasons to get excited and busy this weekend and next month!

First off, a new upcoming world event where the Upper Hauntlet is transformed with more challenges and rewards. Read what Remiem said said HERE:

And! Coming up tomorrow, there's extra special new world event coming your way! There will be more details announced along with tomorrow’s update. The Hauntlet is under new management and for a limited time has been transformed into The Gauntlet. This isn’t your mother’s timed run. In this particularly dangerous encounter you’ll have to face multiple world bosses to earn points and climb your way up the leaderboard to receive prizes like an event banner, tradable respec scrolls, or if you’re one of the best of the best…a Courage the Lion egg!

In other news, Kalizzaa's Tour of Arlor is due to start on February 2, 12pm EST. On top of the prizes for most actively running guild, gold prizes await top scoring runners, and STS has also hinted at a present for everyone who completes all the maps assigned in the challenge.

Just check out the prizes:

PRIZE POOL
TOTAL PRIZE POOL: 30,000,000 gold + 12 Grimm Eggs NEW!
Candylicks has donated 5 million and 12 Grimm eggs to the prize pool
Thanks to a generous donation by Twoc, the prize pool has doubled to 30 million!

Top Guild of the Week by points scored: 1,000,000 gold
Weekly payouts at the end of the contest will total 4,000,000 gold

FINAL RESULT (after 4 weeks)
1st Guild: 3,000,000 gold
2nd Guild: 2,000,000 gold
3rd Guild: 1,000,000 gold


TOP SCORING PLAYER PRIZES (Weekly): NEW!
1st: 500k gold + Grimm Egg
2nd: 250k gold + Grimm Egg
3rd: 100k gold + Grimm Egg
4th - 25th: 50k gold NEW!

TOP SCORING PLAYER PRIZES (Final): NEW!
1st: 1m gold
2nd: 500k gold
3rd - 25th: 100k gold NEW!

RANDOMLY CHOSEN PLAYER PRIZES! NEW!
At the conclusion of this event, we will choose 5 players of each class (15 players total) at random based on screenshot entries.

Each of these 15 players (5 of each class) will receive 500,000 gold


Guild Prizes will be paid to the Guild Master of the winning guilds. How the Guild Master chooses to distribute the winnings is strictly up to him/her; though it would be nice to use the proceeds to fund a private contest.

THIS IS NOT FINALIZED! If anyone is willing to contribute to this prize pool, I will update this post and come up with additional prizes, but as of now, this is all I can afford to put in.


SPECIAL STS PRIZE NEW!
STS (Remiem) has told me that they will have a small surprise gift for ALL players that complete all four weekly challenges. This means, for those that successfully complete every elite map all four weeks, they will receive a little bonus for their effort at the end of this contest

And rules:

GENERAL RULES

1. To receive points, you must post a screenshot with all players on screen
2. The boss must be dead on screen and/or loot visible on screen or chatbox. If I can't find the dead boss, nor the loot in chat or on the ground, no points will be awarded.
3. Your guild tag must be visible. If I cannot see your guild tag, I will not award points to you since this is a guild based challenge!
4. Each week, I will have a catch-phrase that must be spoken and visible in the chat box. No catch-phrase, no points for anyone! Only one person needs to say the catch-phrase.
5. No duplicate posts - duplicated entries will be discarded.

Additional rules will be posted with each weekly contest, so please review the weekly thread (which I will link in the next post).

Concerns with Tindirin
I'm sure that you are aware there are no timers in Tindirin, so you're probably thinking how will I know if someone ran elite or normal. Well, to a point, I must trust in fair-play, but I am very well aware of the junk epic loot that drops from the elite bosses of Tindirin. If cheating is suspected, the players involved will be banned, and any points earned will be forfeited. This means you lose all points that have ever been earned for your guild. Further, I will post a section with the names of the cheaters for all to see.

Cheating will not be tolerated! This contest is designed in good will and, while I don't think it will happen, I just want the warning put out there in case there are any concerns.

So, we need to:
1. Learn and practice taking and uploading screenshots on forum;
2. Level up to 40 - 41;
3. Stock up on damage, protection, luck elixirs. Buy some ankh kits;
4. Respec for elite if necessary. Since this is a competition we want to have as many runs completed as possible. So anything that might slows us down, including wrong build that leads to low damage or inefficient skills or too many deaths, should be fixed before the event started.

I'm super excited about this and I hope all of you are too!

[ilhanna]

The Upper Hauntlet is temporarily under new management and is now called the Gauntlet, which offers some new challenges, from an op Jarl to the deadly combo of Arachna and Krunch. There's an event leaderboard with some reward, but loot for individual runs will only start dropping on January 30. More info here:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...a-Limited-Time!

Apparently, though, the new management forgot to close the back door to the Hauntlet. So I got to play around there a bit.



My rogue soloing the Gauntlet.

[Azapauele]

The Upper Hauntlet is temporarily under new management and is now called the Gauntlet, which offers some new challenges, from an op Jarl to the deadly combo of Arachna and Krunch. There's an event leaderboard with some reward, but loot for individual runs will only start dropping on January 30. More info here:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...a-Limited-Time!

Apparently, though, the new management forgot to close the back door to the Hauntlet. So I got to play around there a bit.



My rogue soloing the Gauntlet.

Thanks for info great job with solo

[TW84]

Webbed + Long club smash red cone = Nasty combo

[ilhanna]

Webbed + Long club smash red cone = Nasty combo

But it's perfectly soloable by rogues so long as you don't lag, Vig. Use speed+dmg or speed+crit pet (at a pinch grab McCraw). Circle and shoot keeping both bosses together for nox poison. Krunch red zone has a grace period where you can pass it and don't get clubbed. Keep at middle distance because if you stray too far from Arachna she pulls and cocoons you. And even if she throws a net you can step aside quickly. I did the above solo run in my mythic set, then tried it legendary gear (expedition potency bow, icescale potency set, frostbitten brutality ring, elondrian security amulet) with Blinky and it worked too.

[ilhanna]

Get your weapons ready, knights! Tour of Arlor elite challenge is about to start in 24 hour. On February 2 12pm EST start running Brackenridge and Ydra elite maps and post the screenshots on this thread:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...allenge-Week-1

Please read the rules carefully. Remember we are fighting for our guild, for our family. Fight hard, fight right, fight with honor.

[ilhanna]

Guess which one is me and which is Aza.

[abhi]

elite interguild event....
must be fun (y)

[abhi]

right one is hanna
and left is aza

[Azapauele]

elite interguild event....
must be fun (y)

Yep! lets show our best :3
Good luck TK!

[TW84]

Keep at middle distance because if you stray too far from Arachna she pulls and cocoons you.

Oh, thought it was a bug that Arachna could cocoon me from very far away. *Facepalm*

And even if she throws a net you can step aside quickly

Sometimes when I'm at the opposite end of the "circle", Arachna can still cocoon me without warning!?

[TW84]

Guess which one is me and which is Aza.

The one in dead center of the screenhot is Ilhanna. Because Ilhanna took the screenshot. Clue: Look in top left corner and look at the name.

[ilhanna]

The one in dead center of the screenhot is Ilhanna. Because Ilhanna took the screenshot. Clue: Look in top left corner and look at the name.

I was also still wearing my archon ring. *facepalm*

[Starkinea]

Yep! lets show our best :3
Good luck TK!

We have already strated!! :P come come

[Azapauele]

I was also still wearing my archon ring. *facepalm*

Lol it will not help, very easy to find you and without ring just need check rogue in center how told Alxe

[alxe]

i heared my name...what did i do? D:

[ilhanna]

So here we are on the second day of Kalizzaa's Tour of Arlor elite challenge. Good job, knights! I'm very proud of us. But the battle isn't over yet.

Week 1 of the challenge covers elite Brackenridge and Ydra. Week 2 will take us through elite Dead City and Kraken Isles. These four zones are the easiest to run. We have to take this opportunity to get as many points as possible to boost Trinity Knights on the guild standing.

Unfortunately Week 1 will be cut short, ending not on the weekend but this Wednesday, February 4. This means we cannot rely on players who only log on on weekends to help get us scores. We have to maximize efforts till Wednesday and run as often as everyone can.

So those who have run the eight maps for 100 points, keep running. If you have more than one level 40+ character in guild, complete all Brackydra elite with all of them. Then run again. Take screenshots. Post here:

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...allenge-Week-1

Then repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

I especially urge warriors to run the eight assigned maps often because you get us 2 points per completed map. Trinity Knights rely on you, warriors. I know you won't let us down. Skysmash, windmill, split chests, and throw that axe, wreck those elite bosses for us. This is your moment.

Back into battle, knights. Don't lay your weapons down until the very last moment.

[ilhanna]

These are some very basic ideas on how to run easy elites faster for Tour of Arlor:

1. Instead of fighting mobs group by group, pull several groups together. While one pt member hold one group's attention, another run forward and make other groups follow them to where the first group is.

2. Once you have mobs grouped together mages can drop clock (timeshift) in middle of mob, rogues can keep firing noxious bolt (for poison damage over time) and drop veil to debuff mobs and raise the dmg of everyone inside the smoke ring, while warrior can keep the enemies there with horn/windmill until all the mobs melt away.

3. Use pets that give crit to everyone like ribbit, gyrm, talon, and take turns using their arcane abilities. Critical hit delivers more damage, which means faster kills.

4. Warriors can use vengeful blood to increase their damage. Magma claymore and wild talisman str procs help as well.

5. On these easy elite maps mages can use fire, lightning, clock, ice. No need for shield and heal at all.

6. Run to boss about 75% into the map. You will have killed enough mobs (more than 50%) to make boss appear, so no need to kill every enemy.

Do you have any more tips to share so everyone can run elite faster?

[ilhanna]

Thank you so much, everyone who took part in Week 1 of Kalizzaa's Tour of Arlor! So many runs! So many screenshots. And I checked all of the screenshots and saw us asking for parties, thanking each other for parties. Great job!

Let's use the time between now and next Monday to prepare for next week's challenge, elite Dead City and Kraken Isles. Let's plan to do it better.

Thank you again, knights, from the bottom of my heart. You have made me very, very proud.

[yamonga]

gooooood gamee