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Nvm........ UoGuide is on it as usual.
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How many multi-player groups are doing Doom, ML, Cora, etc etc. and NOW andros?
I like multi-player initiatives as much as the next guy but they should be BENEFITS, not mandates. Benefits like a better chance at individual loot for every additional person (loot that auto-spawns in your backpack -- ie: change things like parox dragon that spawns on corpse)
Were you guys partied all the way through or did you drop party at any time before his death?
*Yawns*
I was also wondering if being in a party while collecting the keys helped... ie...... can more than 1 key drop per monster?
We were 8 ppl on Europa, guild and a couple of guests, we always have guests. We collected keys now and then during the day by hunting, crafted some and traded with eachother or gave to eachother.
The boss was a walk in the park. Four of us were mystics the rest mages so tanking with summons and healing was no prob. Not one death robe.
Loot was very nice, 4 drops, armour and scroll and tali, plus some good jewels and armour Shame style on the corpse.
We had a good hunt and the loot made the key hunting worth it. Crafting the Rite uses 5 taint so out of the question. Therefore we have to stick to hunting keys most likely. Atleast if it doesnt show the rite spawns on a certain monster and it didnt look like it. This is something we will do quite often I bet. Taking guests that turns up with some keys .
The boss was a walk in the park. Four of us were mystics the rest mages so tanking with summons and healing was no prob. Not one death robe.
Loot was very nice, 4 drops, armour and scroll and tali, plus some good jewels and armour Shame style on the corpse.
We had a good hunt and the loot made the key hunting worth it. Crafting the Rite uses 5 taint so out of the question. Therefore we have to stick to hunting keys most likely. Atleast if it doesnt show the rite spawns on a certain monster and it didnt look like it. This is something we will do quite often I bet. Taking guests that turns up with some keys .
Stratics is also 'on it'. I announced our Exodus summoning guide in a post on 8th November. I'm sorry you didn't read it
UO Stratics *New* | The Summoning of Exodus
Obviously the scroll is the drop that will appeal to the majority of players. If you can't figure out what a PvM character of any template could possibly do with the scroll, you aren't thinking very hard.
Back on topic, does anyone have any info on wether Exodus has any slayer vulnerability? Or even what his weakest resist is? What are his special moves?
Oh boy, don´t speak as if you were in the possession of all wisdom of this world... There are perfect PVM-players, people much better than me and you who say: Nice to have, but not absolutely neccessary... You shouldn´t doubt my "thinking" as I don´t doubt yours... And there is no "obviously" in these things. How do you know that? I met more poeple demanding the bracers thant the scroll... You will see that the bracers will sell for much more millions than the scrolls...
But whatever, you seem to be much wiser and better informed than me -and your "thinking" is much more elaborate, isn´t it?
What a lovely person...
Nope, no one has that information yet. I'd be delighted to have you provide that for us.
I have been in there now 7 times and I didn't die the last 2 times(very lucky) the best group to kill him seems to be 2-4 greater dragons to tank and then everyone else deals damage from a distance(archers/throwers/mages). I talked to two sampires and they told me the biggest prob was as they ran up the "vortexes" drained all their mana and he has an area effect doing continuous damage. so they couldn't do special attacks. I was also in a group that fielded him in and that worked but if he gets loose and starts running everyone dies.
IMHO the bracers are useless, they look like they are only any good for a parry mage, but wait! they are no use for a parry mage either as the fire ball does not go off if your wearing a shield. So i guess the bracers are totally useless.
We did him last night twice with 2 greater dragons(both tamer mages) and one mystic mage
Easy. We got 3 scrolls and 1 pair of bracers(which i binned) from 2 runs at it
Aye, you,re a star!Score 1 for Petra?
Petra!
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We kept the party through to the end. The main rewards drop in your backpack so we didn't really see a need to drop party and instance the corpse.
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I forgot to check slayers on this version of Exodus - but in the original EM Event version - he was Demon slayer.
As to the weakest resist - you can not animal lore it since it is part mechanical (clockwork exodus). From testing spells - twice he seemed weakest to fire, once to energy and a couple of times I could not tell what was weakest (Maybe cold or poison since my Mage does not do those well).
It's not wisdom, sir. It's common sense and simple observation. You can "meet people" all day long but +5 stats is always going to appeal to a wider range of templates than those silly gimmicky bracers. I'm not doubting your so-called thinking, you're just wrong.
Soloed Exodus Check
[2 accts, 1 players]
[2 accts, 1 players]
How long it took you ? 1 hour ? rofl
Not really the defination of solo, but ok.
Bud we can play word games all day long, it's not gonna change fact. Perspective does not alter facts. The price for the items at this point is equally irrelevant as at the start of a drop set the more rare drops will get a larger price. In a month when the handful of players who wanted bracers have them, there will still be players lining up to get scrolls. It's not a matter of perspective.
Funny how people think that being "entitled" to their opinion mistake it for being entitled to their own reality.
"Bud", there is no such SINGLE reality everybody can rely on. Perspective ALWAYS matter. And I could accept your point, if you weren´t so damn arrogant in your tone...
...and this is my last statement to this issue, we are slightly going off-topic.
...and this is my last statement to this issue, we are slightly going off-topic.
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Relativism for the win"Bud", there is no such SINGLE reality everybody can rely on. Perspective ALWAYS matter. And I could accept your point, if you weren´t so damn arrogant in your tone...
...and this is my last statement to this issue, we are slightly going off-topic.
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We have defeated him Six times now and we used Throwers (100% Cold Weapons) and Mystic Mages (Healers) and no Dragons. My suggestion is to outfit your characters with all the High end Cursed Armor with MR, HR and HPI since the boss does not seem to loot you when you die so why not use Godly armor to take down a Godly creature?
:gun: Uh what bard priority was there he is NOT bardable, Disco, or Peace???? please explain.
Well I got into the fight last night, and although I'd heard claims of superior AI, at least with the set up we had (4 tamers, 1 Mystic, 1 thrower and something else that wasn't a bard) all Exodus did was sit there and tank damage until he died; one person who'd done it many times already knew how to lure Exodus over to the entrance point so I never even saw the "lava you have to cross" that someone on Stratics had mentioned, because we didn't have too. The result was a fight where everyone just sat there throwing heals onto the dragons, and occasionally moved two squares across to shuffle out of his AoE. Extremely boring, but efficient. And then 4 of 7 got items (scroll, bracers, leggings, I forget what but none to me, I looted all the gold with a bag of sending instead, and 3 items that unravelled to a relic)...
After a good few hours grinding the keys over the last week, and still having to share to get in as the Ritual didn't drop, for an event which would only be fun if an item drops and triggers acquisition emotional responses, but possibly wont? Yeah, people just aren't going to do a double grind for that; if the keys have a consistent market for them, they'll probably just do the first part and then spend the gold on the reward they're after.... or possibly not bother at all and continue to hunt as they've always done to raise the gold, and skip the content entirely.
Incidentally, I would have been happy with Dupre's Sword too, simply for the name, to go with the other Ultima Companions items... it's stats are irrelevant to me. Someone was after the Alchemical for their PvP suit for the opposite reason though. As Petra and others have pointed out, people's reasons and values will differ. But apart from the artwork however (which remains fantastic) it doesn't offer anything new in experience, it's just wailing on inflated hit points again until they go to zero, so the responses from the public aren't going to be new either... You're just not going to see a response curve to this over time any different to the way the Awakening grinds were taken up this year, or any of the others from years past.
The one addition that did add something new to gameplay however, the Void Pool, still gets a positive emotional response when ever I hear it mentioned; and the shard and personal high scores allowed it to be engaging even though the loot rewards did not. And Exodus could be so easily tweaked to something new too; why not have not one but multiple Exodus' being created in a factory inside Ver Lor Reg? And instead of getting in via the keys, you use the daggers or rituals to corrupt the circuitry of some of them whilst there, the robes allow you to disguise and enter parts of the factory without Exodus Minions flagging to you ("oh it's just another of our mage mates with the same robe from the dungeon, let him pass") and power down parts of the defence, and ultimately you get them to fight amongst themselves (two daggers stabbed into a control panel are now two joysticks!), destroy the factory and it's staff, and eventually leave just enough of one Exodus for the party to finish off... barding on a grand scale... gigantic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Exodus? That way the keys are tied to roles, and give new content, rather than being a gateway to lock you out of getting in and being bored.
After a good few hours grinding the keys over the last week, and still having to share to get in as the Ritual didn't drop, for an event which would only be fun if an item drops and triggers acquisition emotional responses, but possibly wont? Yeah, people just aren't going to do a double grind for that; if the keys have a consistent market for them, they'll probably just do the first part and then spend the gold on the reward they're after.... or possibly not bother at all and continue to hunt as they've always done to raise the gold, and skip the content entirely.
Incidentally, I would have been happy with Dupre's Sword too, simply for the name, to go with the other Ultima Companions items... it's stats are irrelevant to me. Someone was after the Alchemical for their PvP suit for the opposite reason though. As Petra and others have pointed out, people's reasons and values will differ. But apart from the artwork however (which remains fantastic) it doesn't offer anything new in experience, it's just wailing on inflated hit points again until they go to zero, so the responses from the public aren't going to be new either... You're just not going to see a response curve to this over time any different to the way the Awakening grinds were taken up this year, or any of the others from years past.
The one addition that did add something new to gameplay however, the Void Pool, still gets a positive emotional response when ever I hear it mentioned; and the shard and personal high scores allowed it to be engaging even though the loot rewards did not. And Exodus could be so easily tweaked to something new too; why not have not one but multiple Exodus' being created in a factory inside Ver Lor Reg? And instead of getting in via the keys, you use the daggers or rituals to corrupt the circuitry of some of them whilst there, the robes allow you to disguise and enter parts of the factory without Exodus Minions flagging to you ("oh it's just another of our mage mates with the same robe from the dungeon, let him pass") and power down parts of the defence, and ultimately you get them to fight amongst themselves (two daggers stabbed into a control panel are now two joysticks!), destroy the factory and it's staff, and eventually leave just enough of one Exodus for the party to finish off... barding on a grand scale... gigantic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Exodus? That way the keys are tied to roles, and give new content, rather than being a gateway to lock you out of getting in and being bored.
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Bards masteries song are priority ...
Shrines become the DMV waiting rooms for new boss. While group I was with was waiting (2nd run I've had a chance to go on in that small window prime time rush). One the members bounced around the other non fel shrines. Three other groups twittling thumbs. So for a few hours game has become who can target the shrine that split second to get the next run. Can you say Mel? Back to mining & BODs with what little gaming time I have. I'll catch the community hunt days set for Exodus in a few months for some sloppy seconds fun. Sure I am crying. Could use this information exchange source to point out the problems and come up with ingenious fixes. If they new how their world turned, we spend more our online time in game and not here. Instead I will keep packing snowballs and sticking them in UOHell to feel that warm constant.
Time for RL grind. And it is time a UO veteran won the powerball. Wonder if 425 million is enough to by UO and 2 gaming systems set up in the dark basement corner of my employees workplace. There will be signed understanding when the boss gets a WTF moment. He will rise from the darkness with a paintball gun and go "postal" "classroom" or "theater". Whatever the current term is. And each reload will happen after a failed answer to "why am I in the light without my mug and pipe?"
Time for RL grind. And it is time a UO veteran won the powerball. Wonder if 425 million is enough to by UO and 2 gaming systems set up in the dark basement corner of my employees workplace. There will be signed understanding when the boss gets a WTF moment. He will rise from the darkness with a paintball gun and go "postal" "classroom" or "theater". Whatever the current term is. And each reload will happen after a failed answer to "why am I in the light without my mug and pipe?"
What did you get if we may ask.Yesterday we took 2 full groups several times to Exodus. He had no chance against us but we all had a great time killing him!
Yeah it's quite annoying. At least when the peerles were first introduced there were several to do and duplicates of Mel and Lord P.
But my concern after doing Exodus about 20 times this week is that once the novelty wears off and people become less interested it's going to be almost impossible for the average player to defeat the boss and get their +5 scrolls. Getting your own keys, everyone else having keys, waiting to get in, going through the song and dance of putting the robe on/arming dagger (have to convert to garg sometimes)/stabbing book after using the rite, fighting a boss that can't be discorded or leeched and does about 5 different things to interupt spellcasting & band aids use, then finally getting nothing most of the time.
Was this really what they meant by "readily available" when refering to everyone getting their +5 scrolls?
I'll share.
Done it approx 20 times since it came out. Got 1 scroll, 1 bracer and 1 sword.
Nowhere worth the 40+ hours I spent collecting keys, waiting to get in and fighting the boss.
Have you taken damage everytime from the Boss?
Not physical hits as I stay away from him.
But those fire fields, vortexs, animated weapons and RC's of his have all hit me.
But those fire fields, vortexs, animated weapons and RC's of his have all hit me.
Asclepius (Replica) Gargoyle version and Hygiea's Amulet (Replica).
I only joined 2 rounds and let others enjoy more rounds with the keys we collected during the week.
TY and they imply that stuff is dropping left and right. Sure was a mass of +5 Stat Scrolls you guys got. LOL
2 trips and one scroll. Spent nearly two hours trying to get another dagger last night for another go. Got a robe. Thinking it will be faster to mine BR so bring on the picks and paragon rare ore elementals. As long as I don't have to make the Taint item, looks like crafting better then farming, it ia about time management.
5 rounds with lots of other people . Got legs, bracers, sword and scroll . The others got lots of drops as well. One of us got 3 scrolls on 3 rounds yesterday.