**** OFFICIALLY CLOSED TO NEW ENTRANTS ****
This thread continues a long-standing tradition of challenging stealthy players. Unlike in the past, there are not multiple categories. Just a group of quests to be completed at the character level listed below (or lower) on elite. I have put this in the achievement section because completing any number of the challenges below is a worthy achievement. Note: Cordovan has offered to alter forum titles for successful players and send the toon the rare Shen's Robe, a great twink stealth item with no ML!
This will be open for one year, so do not feel rushed.
There have been great obstacles erected to stealthplay in the past year or so, but such obstacles simply raise the difficulty. Reapers auto-detect stealthed characters, so that setting has been eliminated from these proving grounds.
The Rules
- Teamplay is fine but all members of the team must be at the appropriate level. So when doing the screenies, please place the reticle over your squad member. Since that can only be done with one other player, we can only allow one other.
- if you use something that is not WAI, just boast about it. We are roguish and that is what we do.
- You must use the same toon but you can do it over multiple lives, e.g. if in one life you cannot do it as a ninja, but figure out how to complete one as an assassin, that is fine. No rush! Edit: I am easing this rule since one can cheat anyway if they wanted to by doctoring images. So this is encouraged but not required.
- No other rules
HOW TO PROVE YOUR WORTH
- Create a first post here introducing your character's lethal background. This post you will modify later with successful completions so that they are all stored on one page on the forums.
- create new posts each time you succeed (then cut and paste them to your initial post that collects them together)
- Cruel boasts are encouraged
The Challenges All must be done by the character <= the level listed and on elite.
Level 2: Faux Frozen Fish Sticks of Mystery: Stopping the Sahuagin, 2 kills (Kamimitsu challenge: 0 kills)
Level 4: The Saint: Stealthy Repossession, all prophets alive, 25 kills
Level 6: The Insurrectionist: Irestone Inlet, kill only the officers and free the prisoners (3-6 kills depending on optionals spawns, 3 misadventures)
Level 8: The Assassination of Rowan Watzun from Shadow_Jumper (Hsoftl), 10 kills max, no traps, no prisoners freed. Update: 1 kill only from Spellburst. Update2: no kills from Saekee.
Level 9: The Insurrectionist, Redux: Gwylan's Stand, kill only the officers and complete quest (5 kills max)
Level 10: The Cache Break: Claw of Vulkoor, 1 kill, all optionals, 45 breakables
Level 12: The Bauble Purser: Maraud the Mines, no kills.
Level 13: The Scalpel: Frame Work, 1 kill, no alarms.
Level 14: The Liberator: Blockade Buster, all optionals, kill all captains (no limits on kills)
Level 15: The Fallen Albatross: The Crucible, solo; hirelings permitted. No other conditions.
Level 16: Invisible Stalker: Through a Mirror Darkly, no kills prior to elevator ride.
Level 17: The Wiles Master: The Mask of Deception, 60 misadventure kills. No completion necessary. (the 'fun' break.)
Level 18: Best Intender: Good Intentions, reach end fight with no kills.
Level 19: The Peacebreaker: Schemes of the Enemy, 25 misadventure kills, no actual kills, no completion necessary.
[B]Links to Finishers:
Saekee, The Merciful Blade
Hsoftl, The Shadow Assassin
Cambo, Waylander of the Stolen Blade
Spellburst, Por la Sombria
Zeolite, The Confused
Lurica, The Ghost
Links to the Contestants:
Esephal Drenbirth
Kamimitsu
Tuxedosneak
DYWYPI Shyntrae
Once you have succeeded in all the above, you can post new ones for others to match.
If people participate, then I will add epic challenges, then legendary.
Useful links:
Hosftl above is video-recording his runs, so you can watch them for tips!
Stealth guide. I helped make some of this, a bit outdated
Faster sneaking stacks from multiple enhancement trees (DWS, Ninja, Assassin) and is WAI. See this thread.
My guide to using Flaming Spheres
DDO wiki's Stealth page
DDO wiki's Trapmaking page.
Weave in the Fade: my tips on using Shadow walk including other helpful stuff
Annex's observations about stealth while overlevel in Irestone Inlet
fun screenies: