ToH: Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 11:00 AM (EST)

[Snowhawk]

Will ToH restart after the server is back up? I would really like to participate for once in my life on this server.

[Former-GM-Nara]

No, but due to the problem and it going boom for several hours right as mass pvp was to start, we have decided to award both sides mass pvp points for just this month.

Aside the incident I hope you all enjoyed this months TOH and didn't find it too easy or impossible.

If you are curious about the theme I chose, it was based on holidays of this months or special events:

Alarm (Save the Light) Day light savings
Tamruan (Forever Soldiers) Veteran's Day
Gryphon (Turkey's Revenger) Turkey day
Cat o' Nine (Remember Me) Guy Fawkes Day
Banshee Master (I love Cookies onomnom) Cookie monster's birthday

[Rurouni Kalain]

Mulberry it's for the best. Maybe the next one you can and should enter, but not this one. Maybe the one after that, but don't worry about it right away.

And yes thank you for that Nara, clever indeed.

[Shinigami l0_0l]

no one got waper discount this month

[Trapper]

Alarm (Save the Light) Day light savings
Tamruan (Forever Soldiers) Veteran's Day
Gryphon (Turkey's Revenger) Turkey day
Cat o' Nine (Remember Me) Guy Fawkes Day
Banshee Master (I love Cookies onomnom) Cookie monster's birthday

So this time all monsters were damn 2 easy 2 kill.
Like a walk in the Park.
There Should have been Some monsters who Could nuke all Classes.

[Firenza]

Easy? I disagree. The 5th level OHKOed me with the DSS. I don't think many people could do that level without an ED(or bathory?) armor... But my RO knowledge is lacking so I could be wrong.

@Nara: Awesome stuff with the theme!

[Namine]

5th level is meant to kill and only a very small amount can even survive it, let alone kill it. The fact that the most common pvm armor can wall off that unit completely down to its normal attack only, makes it a relatively easy monster for 5th round, compare to older likes of bio units who will OHKO but their OHKO spell cannot be walled by any armor of convenient access.

(not to mention, it's also greatly biased against casters again with not 1 but 3 banshee, but their super low def/vulnerability to trap then DS to pick off 1 banshee slave first, and 1 vit for essentially guaranteed stun/silence makes them cakewalk for everyone else. Gryphon being high wind is also mage murder, and tamruan takes half dmg from spell's forced elemental, again with higher mdef than physical def by significant mount. Tamruan was quite a difficult round unless mages are prepared with pest/sasquatch armor to throw their bodies out to help with speeding up the process of getting rid of that shadow property. Cat o has a huge mdef too but fire elemental certainly neutralized it so that was good news to the casters~)

[Firenza]

ED armor is THAT common? Dear me I'm way behind in terms of equipment then

[Jens]

Probably meant Bathory.

Looking at the mobs, I have to agree that this ToH was even more unbalanced towards physical classes, discouraging the mages way more than usual.

A half-moron with not even decent gear, just a lot of pots can waltz through while mage has to be more than fairly skilled and high end equipped.

[Aaronock]

Round 3 on Gryphons...that's 5 of them in 2 mins for mages? Jeezus, I could do that round 4 no probs, but I'd be pushing it in round 3 hoping to god as a prof my double casting imps+web are one shotting each of them. That's putting me up to lady luck being on my side (which with double cast it WILL pick the worst moments to not activate). But hell that's just insane I'd need that much gear to pass it when a hunter or knight can finish it in seconds with minimal gear.

Don't even get me started on Tams, that's even worse for lady luck to be on my side with FD and SC.

Alarms can't be one shotted either by profs with normal gears, no idea if Amped SG would handle it either.

I still wonder do you guys read those ToH polls you give us? Because it feels like your not when you pull out ToH's like these. Definitely easy for the melee classes, crea, and sniper, but hellishly near impossible for Mages to complete.

Please just outright ban mage class from ToH. While you're at it, ban the priest class unless they are battle build using a custom hat (mystcase hat) to go with it. This will actually make it so these players don't wind up wasting 3-6 hours of their lives trying to make it through.