SunisinuS
07-21-2010, 09:41 AM
The PVP Zerg. For all those that fear or dismiss pvp play...this is for you. No worries about losing or winning and you can be effective at level 1 against a level 20 (or at least you can do damage to them and it is impossible for them to save against it). In fact...the whole point IS to be a level 1.
This used to be an old tradition on Asheron's Call Darktide Server (A full experience loss full loot rights world PVP server ...drool). Whenever the other servers were down for maintenence, everybody would make a new char on the PVP world server and invade it. Typically you have the level 6-7 Newbie Killers trying to camp the spawn portal, but on The PVP Zerg day, so many new chars were coming out of the portal they could not kill them all, and you would see several higher levels going down under a horde of level 1-5 ants who crawled over them and put them down.
I propose (for a bit of fun) that we give the tradition a shot here in DND on Lammania.
The concept is as follows: Make a Level 1 char that can hit straight off the bat (PVP Zerg template provided below) and just head over to wayward lobster and drop in the pit......20 to 50 level 1 chars at a time. Ten to twelve level 1 chars stinging a level 20 can and does make them have to run as the little Zerg Army Ants keep stinging them. That level 18 Bully Archer suddenly finds the Math getting reversed. The key is to have a lot of us.
You will die often, but so? Just hop up, restore your life, and hop right back into the ring....with this build you need no time to regain mana or worry about your level 1 pitiful hp total.
Zerg Build
Level 1 Hafling-Cleric.
Take Luck of Heroes to max saving throws.
Max Dexterity and Wisdom...nothing else matters.
Either quickly play through Korthos starting storyline or (preferably) skip it.
Absolutely Essential: TAKE SPARK OF LIGHT WAND AS YOUR STARTER WEAPON. It is your only weapon that will be effective....and can peel off 300 hitpoints in 60 seconds of any other char at level 3 anyway.
Setup up the Wand in your number one spot, put up your pitiful shield, and head over to Harbor and the Wayward Lobster and hop in. Find a target and hit number 1 until something or somebody bleeds. The wand will recharge every day in the accelerated mode in pvp areas.
If you want to be better prepared:
Run Cannith Crystal Quest 5 times and take braces of assistence reward 5 times to you can clickie your health back each time you rez.. All you need to earn some money is run it once on casual, sell the first one, buy a hireling to help you run it for the next hour and you will have all the money your level 1 will need.
Run Cannith Crystal Quest for enough money to buy a Lesser (Fire, Acid Lightening, ect) Robe so when hit you do a little damage back.
Pick up any level 1 clickies you want (Shield, Mage Armor, Magic Missile) all can add to the fun.
If you want to try another level 1 type, just remember that Spark Light Wand needs either a Cleric or Favored Soul to activate each time.
In Lobster, just keep hopping down and firing to your hearts content (I am aware of PVP's broken targetting in pvp due to DND's lack of pvp expertise, but the point is to have as much fun as you can regardless) Level 1 Gunfights with wands are fun, and again, a bunch of level 1's crawling over a level 20 is a thing of beauty.....
The point is to jump in and have fun in PVP without worrying about winning or losing or DND's Borked PVP Math. Make the Bullies feel it, as they can Comet many, but Mana Runs out and they cannot get all the cockroaches in there. Their intimidation factor in regards to new players is out the window. In addition, this can be used on any server to kill a bit of time with no worries about "status".
So when the servers are down....head over to Lammania and do a little PVP Zerging....you might just learn a thing or two as well....
I expect that some responses will be along the lines of "Yea but my level 20 will own...blah blah blah" as they nay say your little level 1s Don't worry, I guarantee you will drive them nuts before they drive you nuts. And who cares if you die, you are level 1 and you just hop right back in while they waste a 45 mana spell to kill you...? The people that are negative about the approach are more worried about their artificial status than they are about having fun. And this is not a skill based pvp game, it is loot and EQ based....so, game is rigged unnaturally in the first place.../shrug.
Get your Zerg On!
PS: How to Get to Lammania:
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20084
This used to be an old tradition on Asheron's Call Darktide Server (A full experience loss full loot rights world PVP server ...drool). Whenever the other servers were down for maintenence, everybody would make a new char on the PVP world server and invade it. Typically you have the level 6-7 Newbie Killers trying to camp the spawn portal, but on The PVP Zerg day, so many new chars were coming out of the portal they could not kill them all, and you would see several higher levels going down under a horde of level 1-5 ants who crawled over them and put them down.
I propose (for a bit of fun) that we give the tradition a shot here in DND on Lammania.
The concept is as follows: Make a Level 1 char that can hit straight off the bat (PVP Zerg template provided below) and just head over to wayward lobster and drop in the pit......20 to 50 level 1 chars at a time. Ten to twelve level 1 chars stinging a level 20 can and does make them have to run as the little Zerg Army Ants keep stinging them. That level 18 Bully Archer suddenly finds the Math getting reversed. The key is to have a lot of us.
You will die often, but so? Just hop up, restore your life, and hop right back into the ring....with this build you need no time to regain mana or worry about your level 1 pitiful hp total.
Zerg Build
Level 1 Hafling-Cleric.
Take Luck of Heroes to max saving throws.
Max Dexterity and Wisdom...nothing else matters.
Either quickly play through Korthos starting storyline or (preferably) skip it.
Absolutely Essential: TAKE SPARK OF LIGHT WAND AS YOUR STARTER WEAPON. It is your only weapon that will be effective....and can peel off 300 hitpoints in 60 seconds of any other char at level 3 anyway.
Setup up the Wand in your number one spot, put up your pitiful shield, and head over to Harbor and the Wayward Lobster and hop in. Find a target and hit number 1 until something or somebody bleeds. The wand will recharge every day in the accelerated mode in pvp areas.
If you want to be better prepared:
Run Cannith Crystal Quest 5 times and take braces of assistence reward 5 times to you can clickie your health back each time you rez.. All you need to earn some money is run it once on casual, sell the first one, buy a hireling to help you run it for the next hour and you will have all the money your level 1 will need.
Run Cannith Crystal Quest for enough money to buy a Lesser (Fire, Acid Lightening, ect) Robe so when hit you do a little damage back.
Pick up any level 1 clickies you want (Shield, Mage Armor, Magic Missile) all can add to the fun.
If you want to try another level 1 type, just remember that Spark Light Wand needs either a Cleric or Favored Soul to activate each time.
In Lobster, just keep hopping down and firing to your hearts content (I am aware of PVP's broken targetting in pvp due to DND's lack of pvp expertise, but the point is to have as much fun as you can regardless) Level 1 Gunfights with wands are fun, and again, a bunch of level 1's crawling over a level 20 is a thing of beauty.....
The point is to jump in and have fun in PVP without worrying about winning or losing or DND's Borked PVP Math. Make the Bullies feel it, as they can Comet many, but Mana Runs out and they cannot get all the cockroaches in there. Their intimidation factor in regards to new players is out the window. In addition, this can be used on any server to kill a bit of time with no worries about "status".
So when the servers are down....head over to Lammania and do a little PVP Zerging....you might just learn a thing or two as well....
I expect that some responses will be along the lines of "Yea but my level 20 will own...blah blah blah" as they nay say your little level 1s Don't worry, I guarantee you will drive them nuts before they drive you nuts. And who cares if you die, you are level 1 and you just hop right back in while they waste a 45 mana spell to kill you...? The people that are negative about the approach are more worried about their artificial status than they are about having fun. And this is not a skill based pvp game, it is loot and EQ based....so, game is rigged unnaturally in the first place.../shrug.
Get your Zerg On!
PS: How to Get to Lammania:
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=20084