Ankyrean Anguish - Aetolia-based RAGE

Illikaal

Calipso said:

Seir said:

Okay, this is kind of stupid that I'm getting bashed to death by someone just using the same attack and the same venoms.

[spoiler]Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
Health Lost: 566, cutting.
Hmmmm. Why is everything so difficult to figure out?
You are afflicted with stupidity.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
Spinning a bardiche deftly in both hands, Xiuhcoatl brings it about for another strike.
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
You jerk your body to the side, lessening the blow.
Health Lost: 480, cutting.
A prickly stinging overwhelms your body, fading away into numbness.
You are afflicted with paralysis.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
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[Citadel]: focus
[Citadel]: focus
[Citadel]: outc bloodroot
[Citadel]: eat bloodroot
[Citadel]: clot 3

Xiuhcoatl yells a command and a mire hound leaps towards you, biting into your left leg and ripping it open.
Your hardened bones resist some of the damage.
Your left leg has taken 1.87% damage.
Health Lost: 194, cutting.
<3960/5200h 4240/5800m 23156e 24854w <eb --> <cspdb>>
Mana Lost: 250
You focus your mind intently on curing your mental maladies.
You aren't such a complete idiot anymore.
You have cured stupidity.
<3960/5200h 3990/5800m 23156e 24779w <eb --> <cspdb>>stand
hamstring Xiuhcoatl left
hamstring Xiuhcoatl right
Mana Lost: 250
You concentrate, but your mind is too tired to focus.
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You remove 1 bloodroot, bringing the total in the cache to 1041.
<3960/5200h 3740/5800m 23156e 24704w <eb --> <cspdb>>
You eat a bloodroot leaf.
Your muscles unlock; you are no longer paralysed.
You have cured paralysis.
<3960/5200h 3740/5800m 23156e 24704w <eb --> <csdb>>
You exert your superior mental control over your body and will your wounds to clot before your eyes.
Mana Lost: 240
<3960/5200h 3500/5800m 23156e 24668w <eb --> <csdb>>
[Citadel]: clot 1

You must possess balance in order to do that.
<3960/5200h 3500/5800m 23156e 24668w <eb --> <csdb>>
You do not have a free arm to do that.
<3960/5200h 3500/5800m 23156e 24668w <eb --> <csdb>>
You do not have a free arm to do that.
<3960/5200h 3500/5800m 23156e 24668w <eb --> <csdb>>stand
hamstring Xiuhcoatl left
hamstring Xiuhcoatl right

You exert your superior mental control over your body and will your wounds to clot before your eyes.
Mana Lost: 80
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23156e 24656w <eb --> <csdb>>
You have recovered balance on your left arm.
You have recovered balance on your right arm.
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23156e 24656w <eb lr> <csdb>>
Your mouth fills with slick saliva.
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23156e 24656w <eb lr> <csdb>>
You are not fallen or kneeling.
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23156e 24656w <eb lr> <csdb>>
You spring forward lithely and lash at Xiuhcoatl's left leg!
Xiuhcoatl parries the attack on his left leg with a deft maneuver.
[Enemy Status]: Xiuhcoatl parried your attack!
Left Hand Balance Used: 2.32 seconds
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23136e 24656w <eb -r> <csdb>>
You spring forward lithely and lash at Xiuhcoatl's right leg!
You nimbly smack into him with your paw, cuffing him.
Right Hand Balance Used: 2.32 seconds
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23116e 24656w <eb --> <csdb>>
[Enemy Status]: >broken_left_arm|broken_right_arm|broken_right_leg<

Xiuhcoatl takes a salve of mending and rubs it on his right leg.
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[Enemy Status]: >broken_left_arm|broken_right_arm<

You may eat another bit of irid moss.
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23116e 24656w <eb --> <csdb>>
[Citadel]: outc moss
[Citadel]: eat moss

You remove 1 moss, bringing the total in the cache to 1602.
<3960/5200h 3420/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You eat some irid moss.
Health Gain: 520
Mana Gain: 580
You feel your health and mana replenished.
<4480/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You may eat another plant.
<4480/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
(Dion an Duir): Illidan says, "If people want to be part of the wolfpack because its where all the cool kids are, that's fine with me."
<4480/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
Health Lost: 570, cutting.
Hmmmm. Why is everything so difficult to figure out?
You are afflicted with stupidity.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
Spinning a bardiche deftly in both hands, Xiuhcoatl brings it about for another strike.
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
Health Lost: 570, cutting.
A prickly stinging overwhelms your body, fading away into numbness.
You are afflicted with paralysis.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <cspdb>>
[Citadel]: outc bloodroot
[Citadel]: eat bloodroot
[Citadel]: outc bloodroot
[Citadel]: eat bloodroot
[Citadel]: touch tree
[Citadel]: touch tree
[Citadel]: clot 3

"Uh," you say with little discernible meaning.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <cspdb>>salivate
mangle left arm of Xiuhcoatl
You eat a bloodroot leaf.
Your muscles unlock; you are no longer paralysed.
You have cured paralysis.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You remove 1 bloodroot, bringing the total in the cache to 1040.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You eat a bloodroot leaf.
It has no effect.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You touch the tree of life tattoo.
You aren't such a complete idiot anymore.
You have cured stupidity.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You touch the tree of life tattoo.
Your tree of life tattoo glows faintly for a moment then fades, leaving you unchanged.
<3340/5200h 4000/5800m 23116e 24678w <eb --> <csdb>>
You exert your superior mental control over your body and will your wounds to clot before your eyes.
Mana Lost: 240
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Health Gain: 104
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Your mouth is already full of saliva.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Xiuhcoatl takes a drink from a simple black and red vial with gold trim.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
You must regain balance first.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>salivate
mangle left arm of Xiuhcoatl

You have recovered balance on your left arm.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb l-> <csdb>>
You have recovered balance on your right arm.
Your mouth is already full of saliva.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23136e 24642w <eb lr> <csdb>>
There is no point in trying to mangle an unbroken limb.
Balance Used: 0.43 seconds
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23111e 24642w <e- lr> <csdb>>
[Enemy Status]: >broken_right_arm<
stand
rend Xiuhcoatl left
rend Xiuhcoatl right

You may drink another health or mana elixir.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23111e 24642w <e- lr> <csdb>>
[Citadel]: sip health

You have recovered balance on all limbs.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23111e 24642w <eb lr> <csdb>>
You are not fallen or kneeling.
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23111e 24642w <eb lr> <csdb>>
You tear at Xiuhcoatl's left arm, awaiting the exhilirating snap of bone.
You nimbly smack into him with your paw, cuffing him.
Left Hand Balance Used: 2.32 seconds
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23091e 24642w <eb -r> <csdb>>
[Enemy Status]: >broken_right_arm|broken_left_arm<

You tear at Xiuhcoatl's right arm, awaiting the exhilirating snap of bone.
You nimbly smack into him with your paw, cuffing him.
Right Hand Balance Used: 2.32 seconds
<3444/5200h 3760/5800m 23071e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
You take a drink of an elixir of health from a plain wooden vial.
Health Gain: 968
The elixir heals and soothes you.
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Xiuhcoatl takes a salve of mending and rubs it on his left arm.
<4412/5200h 3760/5800m 23071e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
[Enemy Status]: >broken_right_arm<

With a sinister grin, Xiuhcoatl's body seems to repair itself before your very eyes.
You discern that Xiuhcoatl has cured the effects of a broken right arm.
<4412/5200h 3760/5800m 23071e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
You may eat another plant.
<4412/5200h 3760/5800m 23071e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Your moon tattoo tingles as it regenerates your mana.
Mana Gain: 116
<4412/5200h 3876/5800m 23071e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Your boar tattoo tingles as it regenerates your health.
Health Gain: 312
<4724/5200h 3876/5800m 23101e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Your mind is able to focus once again.
<4724/5200h 3876/5800m 23101e 24642w <eb --> <csdb>>
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
Health Lost: 576, cutting.
Hmmmm. Why is everything so difficult to figure out?
You are afflicted with stupidity.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
Spinning a bardiche deftly in both hands, Xiuhcoatl brings it about for another strike.
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
Health Lost: 576, cutting.
A prickly stinging overwhelms your body, fading away into numbness.
You are afflicted with paralysis.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
<3572/5200h 3876/5800m 23101e 24642w <eb --> <cspdb>>
[Citadel]: focus
[Citadel]: focus
[Citadel]: outc bloodroot
[Citadel]: eat bloodroot
[Citadel]: clot 3

Xiuhcoatl yells a command and a mire hound leaps towards you, biting into your left leg and ripping it open.
Your hardened bones resist some of the damage.
Your left leg has taken 1.87% damage.
Health Lost: 198, cutting.
<3374/5200h 3876/5800m 23101e 24642w <eb --> <cspdb>>
Mana Lost: 250
You focus your mind intently on curing your mental maladies.
You aren't such a complete idiot anymore.
You have cured stupidity.
<3374/5200h 3626/5800m 23101e 24567w <eb --> <cspdb>>salivate
mangle right arm of Xiuhcoatl
Mana Lost: 250
You concentrate, but your mind is too tired to focus.
<3374/5200h 3376/5800m 23101e 24492w <eb --> <cspdb>>
You remove 1 bloodroot, bringing the total in the cache to 1039.
<3374/5200h 3376/5800m 23101e 24492w <eb --> <cspdb>>
You eat a bloodroot leaf.
Your muscles unlock; you are no longer paralysed.
You have cured paralysis.
<3374/5200h 3376/5800m 23101e 24492w <eb --> <csdb>>
You exert your superior mental control over your body and will your wounds to clot before your eyes.
Mana Lost: 240
<3374/5200h 3136/5800m 23101e 24456w <eb --> <csdb>>
[Citadel]: clot 1

Your mouth is already full of saliva.
<3374/5200h 3136/5800m 23101e 24456w <eb --> <csdb>>
You must regain balance first.
<3374/5200h 3136/5800m 23101e 24456w <eb --> <csdb>>salivate
mangle right arm of Xiuhcoatl
You exert your superior mental control over your body and will your wounds to clot before your eyes.
Mana Lost: 80
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24444w <eb --> <csdb>>
Your mouth is already full of saliva.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24466w <eb --> <csdb>>
You must regain balance first.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24466w <eb --> <csdb>>salivate
mangle right arm of Xiuhcoatl
Your mouth is already full of saliva.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24466w <eb --> <csdb>>
You have recovered balance on your left arm.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24466w <eb l-> <csdb>>
You have recovered balance on your right arm.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23101e 24466w <eb lr> <csdb>>
There is no point in trying to mangle an unbroken limb.
Balance Used: 0.43 seconds
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23076e 24466w <e- lr> <csdb>>
[Enemy Status]: ><

You have recovered balance on all limbs.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23096e 24466w <eb lr> <csdb>>stand
rend Xiuhcoatl left
rend Xiuhcoatl right

You may eat another plant.
<3374/5200h 3056/5800m 23096e 24466w <eb lr> <csdb>>
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
You jerk your body to the side, lessening the blow.
Health Lost: 494, cutting.
Hmmmm. Why is everything so difficult to figure out?
You are afflicted with stupidity.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
Spinning a bardiche deftly in both hands, Xiuhcoatl brings it about for another strike.
Xiuhcoatl strikes out at you with a bardiche, ripping you wide open.
You jerk your body to the side, lessening the blow.
Health Lost: 494, cutting.
A prickly stinging overwhelms your body, fading away into numbness.
You are afflicted with paralysis.
Knifing pain rips through your being as Xiuhcoatl's weapon hungrily devours part of your soul.
[/spoiler]

reminds me a bit of Sentinel combat. Darts + paralysis + impale spamming.

If you die to a Sentinel using paralysis darts and impale spam, then.

Sentinel impale/gorge does absolutely no damage worth mentioning, and is easily outsippable. What you SHOULD be worried about in darts is how quickly you can get hardlocked by a Sentinel. Anyone who dies to repeated impales/gorges probably deserves to. 

Anyhow, it's very possible to stick anorexia as a lycanthrope. That's why you roar paralysis/stupidity/anoreixa. 

They won't be able to eat or touch tree to get out of it. Instead, they'll have to focus off the stupidity, apply epidermal to remove the anorexia, and then eat bloodroot to remove the paralysis. There's also renew, but it'll only be up every other set of roars. 

I also don't know why/where/when roars got nerfed from ticking every 12 seconds to 15. It was already tough fighting as a lycan even with the 12 second roars. 

Angwe

Most people writhe out of my noose/impales. It's not hard to do. @Calipso you're the only one who still dies to that, and I'm sure it's an issue with yr system. A few triggers should fix that right up!

Also, it's a good idea to keep Disperse up at all times. Your city should have it, try to DISPERSE. If you can, add it to your defup.

Illikaal

She's also the only one that died to the best catapult chain NA XD. And it was then said from that point on that Catapults will only be chained up to three times, and so we wept. We wept and wept, precious. 

Daskalos

I'll point out that because of the mechanics behind Carnifex, I can't readily beat Xiuhcoatl. I can tank his damage all day long, and in fact did, but because once I hit below a certain level of soul I start getting knocked uncon, it gives him a guaranteed win. The Carfniex class -requires- you to turtle and for any slowbuild class, turling -kills- our momentum. As far as I'm aware, there's no other class in the game that does this. If the uncon once soul gets too low would be removed, it might not be so bad, but nothing is more annoying than having 8 affs on a person, overwhelming them twice, and then suddenly you're uncon because of a mechanic that is obviously flawed.

Toz

Psst, Dask. There's a thread for talking about Carnifex now. >_>

EDIT: http://forums.aetolia.com/discussion/464/the-state-of-carnifex

Seir

I think a change for the Hunting Grounds is in order. People are just going in there to lure other individuals in and then refusing to fight. I should be allowed to leave if they don't want to fight.

Edit: Gallop and Dash definitely shouldn't be possible for sure.

Calipso

Angwe said:

Most people writhe out of my noose/impales. It's not hard to do. @Calipso you're the only one who still dies to that, and I'm sure it's an issue with yr system. A few triggers should fix that right up!

Also, it's a good idea to keep Disperse up at all times. Your city should have it, try to DISPERSE. If you can, add it to your defup.

The noose isnt the problem, as anyone on the shadow side can agree, it is the constant passive firing of paralysis plus Dhuriv combos that makes for a very easy and trigger-able impale then gorge. I feel almost all my sentinels fights have been:

hitting sentinel
sentinels runs around
sentinel places traps galore
sentinel uses chance to charge + drag victim -into- a trap (still do not know how that works)
darts firing left and right, hidden darts fire too.
Impale impale
???
profit.

Calipso

Illidan said:

She's also the only one that died to the best catapult chain NA XD. And it was then said from that point on that Catapults will only be chained up to three times, and so we wept. We wept and wept, precious. 

You know something is broken when after just 1 use, it gets nerfed. Im  somewhat proud in a way that I was able to bring some balance to the combat mechanics.

Arbre

Who was it that chained catapults from NoT to Eno?  Weedy?  Or was he the one who got catalocked?

Xiuhcoatl

All secondary moving for MAYBE besides tumble should be moved in all honestly. 

Illikaal

Calipso said:

Angwe said:

Most people writhe out of my noose/impales. It's not hard to do. @Calipso you're the only one who still dies to that, and I'm sure it's an issue with yr system. A few triggers should fix that right up!

Also, it's a good idea to keep Disperse up at all times. Your city should have it, try to DISPERSE. If you can, add it to your defup.

The noose isnt the problem, as anyone on the shadow side can agree, it is the constant passive firing of paralysis plus Dhuriv combos that makes for a very easy and trigger-able impale then gorge. I feel almost all my sentinels fights have been:

hitting sentinel
sentinels runs around
sentinel places traps galore
sentinel uses chance to charge + drag victim -into- a trap (still do not know how that works)
darts firing left and right, hidden darts fire too.
Impale impale
???
profit.

........lol. "As anyone on the shadow side can agree." Let me school you kids. 

If a sentinel runs away, you're either going to chase them and run into traps, obviously, or you can choose to stand still and not move. If a sentinel drags you into traps, you can EASILY walk away. In the case of dart traps, trigger them, and then let the traps keep on firing while you walk off. 

They're using nothing but paralysis darts and gorge? Sip through it, writhe, and walk out. If you die, refer to my previous post. 

Edit: @Calipso you're the only person who's died to that big of a catapult chain in ages. I suppose everyone else has sense enough to walk around with mass up constantly. 

Arbre

Xiuhcoatl said:

All secondary moving for MAYBE besides tumble should be moved in all honestly. 

That was not a sentence.

Serrice

I've fought against some of this game's finest as Sentinel, and it still surprises me sometimes who will and won't fight in darts (and inevitably lose if they fight in them).

Xiuhcoatl

All secondary moving(flying, tumble, swinging, leaping, fording, and the like.) should be removed in hunting grounds for  besides, and that's is a maybe on the besides, tumble. 

Seir

I've fought Xiuhcoatl outside of darts in the Hunting Grounds and he burrowed and ran away. He refuses to fight me in them and out of them and I'm stuck in the Hunting Grounds because he refuses to fight. This is a little ridiculous and an administrator won't respond to the blatant abuse of the fact that I can't leave when he refuses to fight.

Edit: His solution is to go into the Hunting Grounds, solve the box, and then refuse to fight.

Ezalor

BEGIN NECROSIS is always an option I guess. There probably should be a time limit in which if nothing happens (deaths, claiming of items) everyone is booted out though.

Seir

I had to do that last time because he spent fifteen minutes galloping around in a circle. I shouldn't have to necrosis because he refuses to fight.

Eleanor

Arbre said:

Xiuhcoatl said:

All secondary moving for MAYBE besides tumble should be moved in all honestly. 

That was not a sentence.

But has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Moirean

Serrice said:

I've fought against some of this game's finest as Sentinel, and it still surprises me sometimes who will and won't fight in darts (and inevitably lose if they fight in them).

Eh, for my time as Sent (when we had fewer darts and we were barefoot and we had to walk uphill in the snow to summon dinosaur pets) you never just hoped someone would be nice and walk into your darts for you. You had to force them to get there, which meant firewalls, pushing salve balance, etc, until you could move them. Or lulzy charging, but that became more of a thing when dhurive was first introduced and the skills were pretty lacking in synergy. Or if you were fighting someone with stability. And we (me) used swordfish dragging. Le sigh, afk, rolling a Sent in Achaea. 

Serrice

@Moirean: We should talk more sometime. I'm always interested in hearing about stories of how things used to be. And to be honest, we do have it easier now. Darts fire faster, there's an in-room slot, and dragging only requires trueprone. I don't usually hope people walk into darts either - though, I can usually rely on more hotheaded/arrogant players to do just that.

Illikaal

Tbh, I think the entire traps mechanic is stupid cool, but they're not realistically viable in their current incarnation. 

Sentinels need the traps to fight at full strength, but only a complete idiot, or someone who doesn't know what traps are at all will set foot into them. I would gladly fight a Sentinel in traps, if darts didn't spell instant hardlock into spinecut. 

Sents can viably drag people into traps now, but nothing stops someone with common sense from just walking out of them. They're just so...ew. 

Haven

Aren't Sentinels supposed to be losing traps in favor of some dart gun in their final revamp?

Moirean

As Seir is (very) fond of evilly reminding me, WRIST MOUNTED CROSSBOWS.

Totally ditching this darkie thing and coming back to harass you guys.

Haven

New Sentinels?

Illikaal

I'll be the Lulu to your Vayne any day. 2v4 all the things.

Rivas

Arbre said:

Who was it that chained catapults from NoT to Eno?  Weedy?  Or was he the one who got catalocked?

That'd be Kikon playing the role of "projectile PC". Sweet, AFK, derpy Kikon.

Calipso

Haven said:

New Sentinels?

Helllllllllllll no, that'd most likely be new Syssin. New sentinels would be this:



A club and wearing a loincloth, fits the criteria :P.

Seir

I wouldn't be surprised if we kept traps in some form, but I'd honestly be in favor of them going away at this point. They're incredibly difficult to balance and they're now functioning as a deterrent for fighting the Sentinel. People outright refusing to fight in darts.

While things are better than what old Sentinel used to drastically be. I mean, if I knew Serrice had a room with darts set up, I'd just walk in and leave because the darts continue to run out even when there isn't a target to fire at.

Angwe

...So, Teradrim? New Sentinels should be Teradrim. Gg.

Swastan

Expanding upon my previous rage: it's been like...four IRL days where I've been consistently looking at these two same guilds for someone to inguild my characters, even having sent the GM of one a message (the HoN stated that I would need their permission, just in case).

Finally got lucky and was able to talk to an actual person that wasn't afk, who proceeded to ask me where I was, and THEN proceeded to never respond again.

Graaaarrrgh.