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Post by tehlung on Apr 3, 2008 19:27:33 GMT
Well, with exp numbers nowadays, who can say what is good and what isn't. Pstat is no longer choice because if 3 npc's stack right, you are over 1mill with 3 kills. A better option would be to incorporate npc's killed and average exp per kill into pstat. I'd be much more impressed to see a party do 1 mill in 2.5 hours with an average per kill of I dunno, 7k (taking into account guards and mostly 9ks), than with a party doing 1 mill in 2.5 hours and a per-kill average of 35k.
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Post by The Abyss on Apr 3, 2008 21:21:40 GMT
that's something i'd like to see too. a different pstat. the huge stacking potential of the new bigger kills means insane exp in a short amount of time. still, there's a big incentive not to kill them too. there's a fairly high chance of death
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Post by sixclaw on Apr 22, 2008 15:48:44 GMT
Not a "party session" but I was too lazy to make a new thread
It's nothing truly fantastic but not shabby I guess for my first "big exp" run, I went in with no expectations, just to try and see how much exp I could get.. no followers, got purged about mid way through. Killed my lich twice on Sydie too *cringe* that probably wasted a lot of time.. running to kill restful, lich him.. just to have him die (I kept fumbling with the stuff I left on the ground... he'd take all the pots and stuff before he could actually get to the equipment) then I had to go get jush since yosra and restful were dead *grumble*
Anyway,
Session summary: Time: 1 hour and 1 second. Experience gained: 547731 (9126 exp/minute)
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Post by sinister on Apr 22, 2008 17:53:41 GMT
An Excellent performance!
What kind of setup did you have and what kind of heals were you using and did you get any nice stacks.
FYI, I ask this not to downplay but to crib.
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Post by sixclaw on Apr 22, 2008 18:15:45 GMT
I stocked up a bunch of potions (probably 100 or so), boomerangs, bolas, gum, crutch, kniggets. In hindsight, I should've stocked up on elixirs too. Bolas were too much of a hassle because they just broke way too easy.. and I missed a bunch. I ended up just ditching them and stuck to boomers.
had lich of yosra with fine platemail, black gloves, high boots, spc, medallion of night, blackcrown(got skull helmet partway through), fancy shield, starblade, sheaths, blessed what I could.
myself had staff of protection, gammy just for a bit of added protection. I had a +4 permed es on staff(like that helped much but oh well, 63 is better than 59). both lich and I had a permed armour.
For the most part, I wanted to do it with as little interference from other players as possible. I didn't want to grab any ficer stuff or have anyone follow me for this one. Next time I'm definately grabbing a cleric to purge me along the way.. by the end of my run each potion was giving me 10 sps. It took an insane amount of purges to get me clean. During my purge break midway, it took something like 4-5 purifies to get me clean.. at the end it was another bunch of proably 20-25 purges(had 2 clerics purging me).
Before this run I had done a 220k xp/hour run just to warm up. Almost completely from scratch.. had a fine platemail and philip's robe in the room from the day before that and grabbed a few heals, ran up to restful guard, started the timer and started killing. Only used the heals I bought along the way. Not too many high levels.. a handful of level 20s scattered around and yosra. The pstat for that was:
Name : solo Total XP : 222578 Time : 1 Hours 1 Mins
Name Lvl HP SP Line XP Share XP
Leader Sixclaw 26 146 91 ON 100% 222578
Gold gained: 15619 coins.
There wasn't any stacked npcs that I could think of, I think I started ~4 hours before reboot hit so *shrug* .. a few high level monsters though. I did Sydie which was probably a bad idea.. it was the first time I had solo'd her and I neglected my lich a fair bit and it died.. then I fumbled with all the heals and stuff when I brought the 2nd lich and it died pretty fast since I couldn't get the equipment on it. I probably wasted a good 15 minutes on her alone, it was annoying. I had cleared out the high guards before that as well.. and did one more high guard before 60 minutes hit. So that was a good chunk of the exp right there. I definately expect to get a lot better numbers next time.. especially with someone purging me. Maybe I'll try out hungas next time as well. That'd make my fingers hurt a lot though probably.. trying to wave and throw each round *wince* I might just stick with rotting.
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Post by sinister on Apr 22, 2008 21:08:00 GMT
Nice work.
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you disconnected after your run, you are likely higher on the class HOH than me, which means, you're on my $hitlist.
Basically, expect your character to die and perhaps for some reason a decision to suicide thereafter.
I can't tolerate anyone except for Tehlung to be higher than me.
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Post by sinister on Apr 22, 2008 23:41:20 GMT
Sixclaw's original post inspired me to try out a party a little while ago. Here are the results.
Name : Ancient School Total XP : 511278 Time : 59 Mins
Name Lvl HP SP Line XP Share XP
Leader Khamul 23 145 79 ON 48 % 230506 Sigil 28 182 206 ON 51 % 280615
Lich had standard eq, I had iron-shod, and Sigil was dual wielding crossbow + orb. We fought 1 thraxi high guard which was worth about 70k, got a nice area stack and there was some, but not significant competition at the time. Started with a full round of healing (2 chars worth) and went back for another 1/2 round (1 char worth) near the end of the party. The party stopped at 59 minutes because I essentially didn't know where to go after the final kill.
I would say we went full out, but it wasn't intense. In other words, I was willing to wait a couple of seconds here and there to make sure we got all the loot.
The heal management was ok, but not great, because I never did efficiently max out healing and was carrying around unused pots for quite some time. I've forgotten a couple of areas and probably need to expand my circle. All in all, I surpassed my initial expections handily and hope to do better. I didn't post cash because I didn't log what I had beforehand. I assumed we were at or around breakeven, which is worse than most people.
If he ever reaches 1700, I'll see if I can coax Elvenheart into his hands.
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Post by tehlung on Apr 23, 2008 0:25:14 GMT
You'll find that doing the same thing solo will net you that same pstat, but with 100% exp share
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Post by sixclaw on Apr 23, 2008 2:11:12 GMT
I did disconnect and I did check the HoH right afterward and I did make it to the #2 necro exp run slot so... I guess I did make your shit list but like I was saying in my post, I really fouled up in some places, namely Sydie, it should be pretty easy nowadays to break that.. I imagine the only reason why no one hasn't is because, well.. there's pretty much no necros playing anymore
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Post by Pillar on Apr 23, 2008 2:50:03 GMT
You'll find that doing the same thing solo will net you that same pstat, but with 100% exp share laf
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Post by sinister on Apr 23, 2008 13:28:25 GMT
baby steps, baby steps. I look at it this way and its the same issue I had when I tanked for machine calvin and edge on test party runs when they were going for 1600 back in the day. It was a little more stressful because I was worried about accidently killing them during the runs so I always felt like I couldn't be complete reckless and go all out. That may have something to do with it. That's why I always preferred a Machine or Calvin alt, but more likely, it's me. Although you can be break down the exp share into 34.... WTF am i justifying this for ... I'm going to take Pillar's route and just say F - you all!!!
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Post by shelly on Apr 23, 2008 14:57:43 GMT
I guess I've got my work cut out for me against you big boys - though I should hit 19 today and then look out. Realistically I still suck, but I'm getting there. I can easily keep a 1k/min average with just me and my fetch - planning on trying a rev later - but once I'm all maxed out I'll try an all out kill fest and see what I can do. Why am I posting? I don't know...just to let you know there's a new necro in town. And you clearly having nothing to fear yet. At least I'm prettier than you all -Shelly
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Post by tehlung on Apr 23, 2008 15:04:39 GMT
le groan
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Post by sinister on Apr 23, 2008 16:09:18 GMT
You people should join artificers, they're really powerful, have insane carry capabilities and there's this wand....it doesn't break and shoots feudal style laser beams.
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Post by CalviN on Apr 23, 2008 20:47:01 GMT
Bah.... you never have to worry about me dying with Calvin when you're tanking. I come prepared, with a few murkies in keep, and a handy little will power. (especially since I know I'll prolly need em with you tankin.) Besides, I'm the crazy mofo that tanks all the time with a 1700 fighter, and does 1mill/hr+ exp runs, soloing everything from valdy and velox and sydie on down... so feel free to snag me when I'm on and have chain staff if you wanna run up a sick pstat. Oh, btw, I just got my DSL installed at the new office, so.... I'll be around a bit now.
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