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  • KazuKazu
    You honestly have to be a masochist to make it to dragon.  I did it as a monk, and I can't imagine how horrible and grueling it must be as a serpent or such.  You really just have to buckle down and grind out the areas. Great hunts and double xp helps though. I also recommend finding someone to race you.

  • CahinCahin
    The one chance I finally get to feel important with my spyglass. D:

  • CooperCooper
    Dragon isn't even that difficult anymore.

    We (sort of) get double experience a lot now, which never used to happen.

    Greathunts are double xp weekends.

    Occasional double xp Thursdays, critical hit Tuesdays, truefavour Mondays or w/e.

    Traits made everyone do more damage and become more tanky.

    Critical hits made high end bashing go twice as fast.

    Special things such as the clover that gave people extra crits, the double xp orb, etc. make it faster.

    There are tons more mobs that are worth more xp now (addition of vertani, tweaking of dun fortress, mhun knights/keepers, underworld/annwyn, LHG, etc)

    Dying costs less xp now, praying is irrelevant.

    IRE elite gives a bonus to xp. (this is huge with pk. If I kill Tanris and Tanris kills me, we both end up with 25% of the kill experience. In the past we both would have been even)

    No experience loss for dying in your city.

    House/mentor bashing was buffed a little bit.

    Lots of classes have had their mob damage increased.

    If you roll that all into one, bashing to dragon now will take you less than half the time it used to if you get in some good bashing on double xp days/weekends.

    The only negative thing I can think of is that Hermes/Lupus can't/don't give out truefavours like candy anymore.

    Yet people still bitch about how hard it is ;)

  • CahinCahin
    Iocun said:
    I'd argue that dragon is extremely difficult right now, as difficult as never before.
    Nigh impossible, if not.

  • JacenJacen
    Not to say its harder than before, because I'm sure its not, and I didn't do a lot of bashing pre traits. But its damn hard to do now, if you're not gung ho about mindlessly bashing for hours everyday. I can't even script or handle house business while bashing, because of having to move to the next room every 15 seconds.

    Not to mention bashing is extremely frustrating. I lose an hour and a half worth of bashing in a death. I lose 5+ hours of bashing everytime we get raided or we raid. 

    When you consider that 30 minutes of RP/PvP/group conflict which is good for Hashan and the game, can wipe out 5 hours of solely performing a menial task, then yeah, screw dragon.
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  • CooperCooper
    You're a str monk. It should not take you an hour and a half to bash back the xp you lose from one death. It should take a third of that time if you're doing it efficiently.

  • NellaundraNellaundra
    Not everyone has the Iron Elite thing, TFs, mentor/protege bonuses, or anything like that.  Add that to being limited to what I hunt due to RP (No innocents, no Mhun, no civilians or other untrained things) and my gains are sloooow.
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  • JacenJacen
    Grand Father Jacen Rousseau (male Human Champion)
    You are level 83 (3rd Circle of Celestial Power) and 28% of the way to the next level.
    Health:       4498 / 4241     Mana:         3825 / 3985
    Endurance:   19490 /19490     Willpower:   18245 /18245
    Strength: 13  Dexterity: 11  Constitution: 14  Intelligence: 13

    Why does everyone think I'm an STR monk?
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  • CahinCahin
    If you don't have at least 16 int you are a strength monk.

  • CooperCooper
    Okay, sorry, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you set up your stats relatively all right, and not just about the worst you could possibly do as a monk. My bad.

  • JacenJacen
    I spec'd for bashing, since at the time of race changes I was still in the 70's range and knew I wanted to get 80 at least. 

    Besides, when I kill people, its gratifying to correct them when they accuse me of dishing out loldamage because of arties/spec. Talisman and lvl2 knuckles are the only damage altering arties I have.
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  • AlysseaAlyssea
    Serpent bashing still massively sucks no matter what benefits you have.
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  • KatzchenKatzchen Mhaldor
    @Cooper not bitching about dragon being hard to get, I actually think it's very reasonable, and wouldn't want it made any easier. I was just commenting that it really slows down after 80.


                   Honourable, knight eternal,

                                            Darkly evil, cruel infernal.

                                                                     Necromanctic to the core,

                                                                                             Dance with death forever more.



  • DarrothDarroth
    You guys are most likely all doing it wrong. Camp the spawn times of the best bashing areas and watch/listen lots of tv, movies, music, podcasts whatever. Food and drinks help too. Try to get at least 3-5% an hour. 
  • NaminoNamino
    I remember when I was doing pretty good getting a level and a half every week.
  • SkyeSkye The Duchess Bellatere
    Melodie said:
    @Ruth, looks like you had a fun adventure! Seen lots of citadels, but never a sea monster. As for who did it... c'mon, it's the ocean, I'll give you one guess. ;) Worst part is knowing things and not being allowed to explain them hnnngggh.
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    At least that's what I keep telling myself. >_> *still optimistic*


  • RuthRuth Singapore
    edited January 2013
    MY INTEREST IS PIQUED.
    "Mummy, I'm hungry, but there's no one to eat! :C"

     

  • MelodieMelodie Port Saint Lucie, Florida
    That guy in the background is totally Neraeos. Why are you posting such a disturbing picture of him, @Skye?!
    And I love too                                                                          Be still, my indelible friend
    That love soon might end                                                         You are unbreaking
    And be known in its aching                                                      Though quaking
    Shown in this shaking                                                             Though crazy
    Lately of my wasteland, baby                                                 That's just wasteland, baby
  • SkyeSkye The Duchess Bellatere
    Because it was hilarious rofl.

    I'm fairly certain it's Neraeos' Evil Twin though.


  • EllodinEllodin Hawaii
    Idelisa said:
    shear hilarity.

    Waltz, tango, scissors. You've never heard of
    the scissors dance? It's, well, where you dance with scissors. If you 
    fall, that's just the breaks.
    @idelisa hey, not bad yourself
    And as he slept he dreamed a dream, and this was his dream.
  • IdelisaIdelisa
    Hehe.  After I put it in there, I realized most people would probably just think it a typo!
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  • AchillesAchilles Los Angeles
    dragon is easy, just hunt off plane in places like Mysia, Meropis so people will leave you alone more.  Set a daily goal of say 10%, you'll level 3-4 times a RL month then.  
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  • BalazarBalazar
    Big rave for @Arador, @Tirac, @Katzchen, and @Calaurn for helping make knight combat a little easier to deal with and understand.

    Mini rave for baby steps at combat. Raves to @Vadimuses and @Mudlet, I still have nightmares about trying to build my own system from scratch on zMud.

    Additional rave for @Jurixe for the little interaction to encourage me to participate in the city project before it ended, and reminding me that RPing Evil isn't just blood and gore.

    And just for @Mhaldor in general. I like it here.
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