Deadly Apocalypse: Possible Strat

After watching the lemming rush attempt Champion made at the Deadly Apocalypse this afternoon, I've come up with a couple of ideas that might help tune this event in for everyone and remove some of the chaos.

1. One person needs to take the role of director/leader/head monkey. This person would simply coordinate which zone is next and which banner in the current zone is attacked.
2. Two groups form in a zone. Each team splits evenly, with one half going with one group and the other going to the other one.
3. One group, one banner. Once the first two banners go down, the second two are targeted.
4. Finally, both groups reform on the GM and take it out.
5. If necessary or desired, the head monkey calls the next zone and the two groups swap out their banner assignments.

I prefer zerging it

The big issue I ran into last night (other than mapserving from a second zone instance as the last banner goes down, timing out, then being unable to log back into that toon), was inconsiderate people zerging the GM as soon as the last banner goes down before people can arrive from booting downing distant banners.




Faultline is ESPECIALLY bad for this. As one of the banners spawns on the far side of the dam, and you have two door transitions before you're back in the main area. So it can take a LONG time (relatively speaking) to cross a zone.

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That will always happen, Hyper. Unfortunately, you're not going to get people to stand aroun and be courteous in that endeavor.

That's why the suggestion was made in test to increase the hit points of the GM (who seems to go down incredibly easy). An increase in the time between banners falling and the GM spawning have also been made.

(On that note, why is it CoX takes in so much feedback and yet doesn't utilize some of the most important stuff. Dozens of people told them what would happen with MA, and it happened that way......only to be a black eye for everyone. Every test event like this important notes like this are said, and way too many aren't put into place. If you're gonna take feedback, then you need to take all of it into some account and not just code created bug issues. The players tend to have a good idea on how things will go, particularly in the area of exploiting a commodity).

It depends on if you have alot of people, or a single team of 8.

With a single team, you need 2 at each station until you can attack them, then you need to regroup at 1 and take them down 1 at a time.

With large numbers you dont need that level of precision.

Another strategy would be to have a teammate with Assemble the Team hanging back somewhere in the middle of the zone (if there's plenty of other folks killing banners). As soon as they find the Aspect, they TP their team to the GM and make sure that at least their team gets the badge.

After finding out that it took the 10% team damage to get the badge after the first run, I used this strategy the second time and it seemed to work fine. There's so many events happening during the two weeks that it's tough to not get those badges eventually.

Standing around waiting for everyone to gather around the Aspect sounds good, but there's always gonna be one team that starts fighting earlier than the others. Might as well make sure that team includes you.

I have to agree with PK! I experienced a lot of problems during the event too. I noticed a lot of people wouldn't "listen" to a leader if one tried. I myself tried several times and could get maybe half the zone to listen and follow some sort of a strategy. It would be wise to appoint somebody and follow their lead. PK's strategy is great and makes complete sense. It's just the matter of getting others to listen and follow... especially when people start heading to only the banner they need. Which is rediculuous and quite greedy considering the fact the badges are easy to get and no matter you will get them within a couple hours. I do hope more people will step forward to lead and that more people will listen. Failure to not work together will result in you not getting your badges as quickly and easily.

Haha, if only I knew what that meant.

My work here is done.

I found that with not many in-zone, the issue was making sure all banners were being assaulted. (redside.) When teams came through, they were all on one banner....no progress happened until we had people attacking every banner's spawns. After that, taking the banners down was a matter of all zone teams coordinating to hit one banner with all fire at at time.

"Deadly Apocalypse
As if our Heroes and Villains didn’t have enough foul-smelling fiends with rotting flesh to deal with during a zombie apocalypse, this year Heroes and Villains have to come up with new strategies to tackle a new terror. When Haunted Sigils appear, destroy them quickly and prepare for wave after wave of relentless foes. Only after all the foes have been defeated will you be rewarded with a ghoulish surprise. It’s a trick and treat!"
~ Dev's Blueboard post

Early morn for 6 hrs and have picked up 16 Event badges already lol.... Banners, GM killing, ToT'ing, couple Zombie attacks..... and led the first and successful Banner event this early morning. The first attempt failed cuz none of us knew what the hell we were doing and figured it out towards the end. The second attempt successful w/ about 10-12 peeps.

Starts with Zone event notice -
"Supernatural activity detected in (zone)"
Head to that zone and you have 5minutes to organize a team, and formulate a battle plan before the Banners become active.

You'll wanna have at least an 8man team to start with. Its possible to do it with a very powerful 4man team, but no sense in doing that for a zone-wide event. This event operates very similarly like RV's bases event, and also have a time limit, of 15minutes, which counts down.

On your compass, will be the 4 banner waypoints that you can click on and get an immediate heading, the Banner vulnerability bar(which starts out red), and the countdown of how much time you have left to defeat all 4 Banners. These are the Banners -

Banner of Fiends - Red waypoint
Council & Redcaps

Banner of Mayhem - Purple waypoint
Shivans

Banner of Terror - Green waypoint
Ghosts & Apparitions

Banner of Scorn - Blue waypoint
Praetorians & Witches

What is required is for the participants to attack all 4 waypoints jointly, in order to make an increase on the Banner Vulnerability bar. This will be visually shown by a blue bar overlapping the established red bar, from left to right, as you make progress. Attacking the waypoints is basically killing the continuously-spawned mobs, the more killed the faster the bar will move. So, for an 8man team, generally you'd split into pairs and each pair would take on a waypoint, and defeat there till the Banner Vulnerability bar is completely filled. You will be notified when that happens.

When the Banners become vulnerable, they will be targetable to be attacked. These Banners would be classified as GM class w/ their attributes. They do have massive regen and 40k+ HP. So you MUST have at least 1 -regen defender, or at least 2 -regen controllers. Remember, you're being timed and so this event WILL fail if the Banners are not dropped fast enough. Gather all the participants and Focus Fire on one Banner at a time, and they will drop fast if you got 2 -regen'rs.

After successfully defeating the Banners in time, you will search for the GM next. Locate the Giant Monster (think you got a 20min count to locate and defeat him) by looking at your compass. You will see a 3-4 digit number that will increase/decrease as you move. Use that number to locate the GM cuz its waypointed to him. Generally, there's gonna be enough players at this point to overwhelm him easily. He kind of reminds me of a Adamastor. Make sure those -regen'rs debuff him and you'll drop him quickly.
SUCCESS!

You get more badges and a choice between 4-5 1hr temp powers or a medium inspiration(lawlz). The Defense temp isnt a toggle and will become a temp inherent....

WOW! Pure genus Phire! Did you figure that all out by yourself ;D lol!

Anyways... I think we got THAT part down bud! It's the working together to accomplish all that we may need help with!