MONSTER MADNESS Match 1: Drastix Aschtand VS The Guardian of Shan-to-Kor

[SlogUK]

The original stk guardian, and the chain as it was, with rogue much more integral, good caster, tactical play required etc is one of the reasons I stayed here. Ooh, an mmo with a brain. Since then the guardian has been made to look like he felt when he was a fire giant lookalike, but it's such a shame that he hits like a wet fish. Without early challenges and failures nobody learns, as evidenced by the increasing dependency on private channels over pugs at high level. Still, for my memories of how he was, he wins.

Considering how much brain they eat, illithids are depressingly devoid of personality. Like those skinny people that eat fat food. No idea how they do it. Maybe they should stick to yogurt. I like to eat squid too, so I'd feel a hypocrite if I supported them.

[Chefd261]

Brain gone must choose mind?????????

[Rian]

All respect lost for the Guardian of Shan-To-Kor. Back in the day, if you could solo the entire chain people would be "meh..." but if you could solo him they'd be all like "Whoa!" Now he makes kobolds look tough in comparison...

Kobolds are as high as my knee cap, takes 1 to 2 hits (on normal)
The guardian is like 17 feet high, takes 10 hits or so

Bring back the juggernaut of STK!!!! Your brains will thank you.

[StallKross]

My vote is for mindflayers

[HMpuma]

*Drool* .............Mindflayers FTW

[zex95966]

how is the guardian winning this. he's lame... at least the mindflayer has a decent story and is your introduction to the game.

[theodorvistad]

Mindflayer! Dangerous & Charismatic aswell.. enough to win this round!

[arvendel]

Drastix Aschtand is my vote

[Worldcrafter]

I, too, am one who expresses their sorrow at seeing the Treasure Guardian's lose. There is just so much about the loss that confounds me. I mean, here is a staple D&D monster, elevated to boss status; not only do you go wide-eyed at seeing the Box o' Deadly Jell-o sliding along, doing its thing, there are additional hazards to spice up the fight. And you see that treasure chest in it, and you know you're just licking your lips, going, "But if I kill it, there's a chest... I can see it right there."

And then it loses to an over-glorified wanna-be golem. I mean, yeah, there's some shock value to seeing it - there's a huge, looming rocky being that comes charging at you. I never had the honor of fighting his previous version, so I do not have the same awe and respect for what he once was, only contempt for what he is now.

As far as this match up, well, my money is on the illithid. Ol' Squidface might not be someone you interact with, but he's a crafty little brat. He bends an army of sahuagin to his will, who in turn brainwash villagers to do his bidding, and even takes control of a freakin' dragon. True, this is done with a little help from a certain artifact, but still, he managed to do it. Given time, he would have been able to rule Korthos, get a proper army going, and be a major plot for the people of Stormreach - if it wasn't for "those meddling adventurers. And their Summoned Dog, too!"

All the guardian does is stand there, hoping an adventurer comes by while growing patches of moss and spider webs. Lazy bum.

[LordofLaw]

I've got to give my vote for someone who you actually fight, yeah mindflayers are cool, but I like to kill my enemies, not let some ice dragon do it for me

[zex95966]

if it weren't for the mindflayer we wouldn't have "oh no! the saughin found me!"

and you all voting against that? for shame.

[PinkDragonJr]

My tasty dessert lost? Noooooo! Take it to that stupid hunk of stone, Mister Mind-flayer Master.

[morticianjohn]

Some bad seeding here. We're getting a lot of

1 v 1

and

8 v 8 matchups here.

Look at the real march madness. They take the higher seeds and pair them against the lower seeds to get the rif raff out of the way very quickly. Regardless of who wins here we can be fairly confident they won't make it to the final four. This matchup is like the Richmond vs. Morehead state game today. No one even cares who wins that game.

Yet somehow Horoth is gone already..... we're left with candidates like.... Captain Tew, and a mind flayer that we wouldn't even know had a name until you put it into this contest. What's even worse is we've got this "guardian" that we'll (likely) see again next round that isn't even important enough to have a name.

[Shade]

Guardian.

Even tho today he is a complete wimp since Turbines decided that he should be "MOAR EASY!" .. Blah.

We can vote on how he used to be if we want. Well i say we can anyways.

So yea.. My vote is for the guardian.

The prepatch guardian anyways.

The one that actually stood a chance at guarding stuff. The one that kicked major ass. The real guardian us grizzled veterans remember.

Axer remember STK. Axer still hate guardian.

Not that new sissy. Never him.

Prepatcha guardian all the way.