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.

[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?

[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...

[Vhlad]

Man who took their shirts??? Poor abused employees!

Well, how else is the whip supposed to be effective! Shirts gotta be off!

Anyway, is the current version of the abbot raid supposed to have rest and resurrection shrines upon completion, or is that in development?

If this is legit, it's really a great job, irrespective of how good their connection is. I bow to their determination and perseverance in conquering a retardedly hard raid that nearly everyone else gave up on.

This means Turbine can say we told you it was possible! and then fix it for the rest of us.

[yk49]

http://premiere.ddoblog.jp/image/BA_Clear_item_004.jpg
ok now it is confirmed this is after patch.

[Litz]

Gratz to them, sounds like they got it done but just by the skin of thier teeth. Guessing with the level cap increase we'll get some more people to get it done.

[direwolf33]

Gratz to them, sounds like they got it done but just by the skin of thier teeth. Guessing with the level cap increase we'll get some more people to get it done.

From what I've seen of the raid, I don't see the level cap increase helping much. The main challenge right now is mastering the puzzles, which a level bump won't help.

[Lewcipher]

Actually a Norwegian Grandma on a test server achieved a 40 Gbps speed.. (OC768 for fellow SONET geeks)...but overall yes Japan has the fasted due to the small size of their country. Not that hard to bury single mode NDSF or even ZDSF fiber compared to here.

[Grond]

Congratulations to them, way to stick with it and get it done!

[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.

[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).

[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.

[Strakeln]

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).

Yeah... keep in mind that a lot of "US" groups are composed of people from the other side of the planet...

Here's the thing on the Abbott: I don't doubt that I could create a team that could beat the quest... on a LAN.

[akla_thornfist]

thats some dedication there, props to all in that group i wonder how many runs it took for 1 completion and if they will have the patience to try again.

[Goolann]

How do they get the necessary Hot-Key presses to show on their hotbars?