post patch abbot down in japanese server

[yk49]

Guilds called "Himawari" and "Mottenai Storm" on japanese server took down the black abbot.
Abbot in there is the exact same version to ours (all 3 puzzles are mandatory).

http://premiere.ddoblog.jp/article/29633.html#more (japanese article)

only one raid loot dropped

Shroud of the Abbot - Robe: Armor Bonus +4, Natural Armor Bonus +4, Boon to Undeath, Greater Fire Resistance, Superior Void Lore, Superior Lightning Lore

uum at least this item havent changed...

(translation of the article)
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Jan 17 - Ascension Chamber solved

From Dec 26th '07, we've been tryin this quest about 150 times (7 times a day in average it is).
I really appreciate all the group members for not givin this up.
Sry for some who could not come home in time but, finally, finally we get this really difficult quest done.

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Alas we've been fighting the guy for 25 days including runs before the patch!
This screen shot is really a treasure for me.
(* the patch he mean is the 5.2 patch, jp servers first saw mod5 as 5.1 patched version.)

Below this contains spoilers about quest, be warned. Go ahead if you wanna proceed.
Screenshots, impressions and item informations etc...
(*ppl in jp servers are really sensitive about spoilers for some reason)

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Party is hitting the Abbot like fanatics, bearing his brutal attacks.
Each time inferno comes everyone gets into intense mood.

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Sir Lezard's disintegrate took him down.
Even the Abbot gets disintegrated, woot really his nuking is best in the world!!
(*this sentence is some kind of joke cannot be translated)

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This is XP report. Didnt even catch up with XP we lost. But we got something else.

... I dont mean loot, loot did really suck.

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Here are the things contained in the chest.

We only got single wired armor, this is very usual to us <Himawari> and <Mottenai Storm>. Thank god for that!
(*grp were joint force from 2 guilds.)

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Tought this wasnt so bad initially but...

This item could shine but Boon of Undeath spoiled everything. If you wanna use this, deathward will be always needed.

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And looks like this. I think this is the exact same one to what Abbot was wearing.
Looks cute huh? If you take a closer look, design is based on bones...

Impressions about the quest... All of us concentrated on the fight really intensely and was workin like machines, in good meaning.
This aint joke at all, we could have not beat him without all members movin like fine machines.

In fact, we beat all 3 puzzles at once for the first time in Jan 16.
On first run today (Jan 17), incapped member got teleported to one of the puzzles and could not even try it. That was our start of the day.

Second run, we happened to make all route but failed Ice wanding when inferno was comin, thats it.
Just a minor mistake can spoil entire run in this quest, really tough one...

We succeeded in third run of the day. Third run, we made all route perfectly, at this point all members started concentrating on this.

Deathes could not be avoided, but each spoke situations up correctly and we got rid of them real fast. Did really good job and kept avoiding inferno waves.

Infernos are nasty but good thing is we can take time and get buffs such as bard songs.
Each time it went close to wipe but we kept attacking Abbot little by little, then finally took him down. This is the story.

After 3 route have done, really severe playing skills are required.
We made it well so far by following reasons;
we have done the best we could each time, we havnt given any run up, and all were involved in discussions, tracing it with imaginations.
I really appreciate entire group members for tagging along entire time.

<Mottenai Storm>, <Himawari> menbers, really nice job guys.

Im goin to update about trinket rewards next time.

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(evidence of this being after patch)

shrines spawns as abbot is defeated
http://premiere.ddoblog.jp/image/BA_Clear_item_004.jpg

[KoboldKiller]

Grats to them!!!!!!

[Kerr]

Good for them. Doesn't Japan have the fastest internet services in the world with lowest latency too? Wonder if that could have made a difference.

[Gornin]

Good for them. Doesn't Japan have the fastest internet services in the world with lowest latency too? Wonder if that could have made a difference.

That is correct sir. Exactly what I was going to say. Most other countries have a better infrastructure than ours due to smaller size and government intervention.

[Kerr]

I think you mean China.

But in all seriousness, does that Japanese text describe HOW they did it? What technique?

[Strykersz]

Is that guy really named Shortsword of Ykesha?

[TechNoFear]

Good for them. Doesn't Japan have the fastest internet services in the world with lowest latency too? Wonder if that could have made a difference.

Yes. Japan has an average broadband speed of a staggering 61Mb/s, compared with the US at 4.8 or 1.9 Mb/s (depending whom you believe).

[maddmatt70]

Gratz to them. Too bad I don't speak or read japanese otherwise I would consider transferring a character over to their server. My server quite frankly is lame...

[lostinjapan]

I live in a very rural area of Japan, near a US/Japan military base but not on it.

While the people on base are offered really horrible internet service, off base it is now actually cheaper to go fiber optic (up to 100Mbps...my average is about 30Mbps) than to purchase DSL. Fiber is still being installed in this area, but considering they started just 2 years ago and most places can now have it hooked up, they are moving along quite quickly.

And as I said, I live in a -very- rural part of Japan. In Tokyo/Yokohama area, people can get much faster speeds due to a tighter infrastructure.

[Dimz]

If this is Post Patch.. wheres the shrine on the platform to prove it? Not doubting but seeing it hard to believe coming from me, someone who tested stuff out in there for 3 days.

[Rog]

we cant tranfer over to there server but we can repost this on there server to let them know we think they did a kick *** job killing the abbot
lunarsong

[Shima-ra]

Surely it has nothing to do with connection.
The hardest part of the riad is gathering a group of all ppl who are good and practiced at every puzzle.

[Dimz]

Surely it has nothing to do with connection.
The hardest part of the riad is gathering a group of all ppl who are good and practiced at every puzzle.

Wrong. Our puzzles are currently bugged.. Ice is alright cept the missle thing.. where it shoots off into nowhere. Asteroids is messed up too with random asteroids hitting from bottom... Goggles is just messed up in the first place for thinking two people can do it!

[Ringos]

/hats off

[Serpent]

I would just like to be the voice of reason and say gratz to the team that did this but we have to remember, this does not prove its easy. If anyone can get a good translation of what they did up a lot fo us will appreciate it.

[Shade]

lol so robe - one of the very worst items in the raid wasn't updated?

.. Youd think theyd maybe fix up the **** items to get us lazy US/Canadian players interested in the raid at least. Oh well maybe they can beat it again to show us some uber updated items and get interested in some real attempts.

[Kerr]

If this is Post Patch.. wheres the shrine on the platform to prove it? Not doubting but seeing it hard to believe coming from me, someone who tested stuff out in there for 3 days.

Are you serious? It's right there. In the picture. At the bottom. It's got pink flames on it.

[Qzipoun]

Are you serious? It's right there. In the picture. At the bottom. It's got pink flames on it.

He's talking about a rest/rez shrine. The thing with the pink flames is the altar to upgrade your trinkets.

[Dimz]

Are you serious? It's right there. In the picture. At the bottom. It's got pink flames on it.

Thats not a shrine genious.

[Aranticus]

Gratz to them. Too bad I don't speak or read japanese otherwise I would consider transferring a character over to their server. My server quite frankly is lame...

just transfer everytoon over, i'll chip in some for the jap-english dict that u'll want